ASAFOETIDA [Asaf]
ASAFOETIDA uses [Asaf uses]
Note: Wherever it is found, "<" denotes aggravation (worse by), ">" denotes amelioration (better by), "<->" denotes alternation (alternates with) and A/F is an abbreviation of, "Ailments from"
Globus
hystericus. Flatulence and regurgitation of liquid
Diarrhoea, extremely offensive, with meteorism
Caries of bones. Ulcerations. Extreme sensitiveness
Pains from within outwards, with numbness. Nightly pains
Mammae turgid with milk in the unpregnated. Deficient milk
The
plant Narthrex asafoetida is used as a condiment for flavoring sauces and
food. The product used for the preparation of the tincture is the gum-resin
obtained from the living root and has a very offensive smell
| - | Suddenly
suppressed discharges |
| - | Persons,
most often women, who are hysterical; with a plethoric appearance; puffed
face; bloated, even dropsical, puffed; venous purple, a very troublesome
face suggesting cardiac disturbance and venous stasis
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| - | Intolerably nervous and oversensitive
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| - | Irritable, constantly complaining of her troubles, fickleness, cannot
persevere in anything, wants a new thing and then another
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| - | Magnifies her symptoms, craves sympathy
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| - | Fainting during pain, faints almost without cause, clutches throat
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| - | Dissatisfied with oneself
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| - | Changing moods, fits of joy and then ill humour
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| - | Hysterical restlessness and anxiety
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| - | Hysteria after suppression of discharges |
| - | Sensitiveness
and violent throbbing
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| - | Pains - extend outwards, are associated with numbness, are > touch
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| - | Pains pressive, sharp, stitching, aching, and boring in bones
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| - | Head - Vertigo with vanishing of sight
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| - | Single, deep, penetrating stitches in left frontal eminence
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| - | Headache < evening, rest, sitting > moving in open air > touch
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| - | Eyes - Ulcerations of the cornea
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| - | Syphilitic iritis with burning, pressive pain, boring near the eyebrows
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| - | Nose - Ozaena; discharge of very offensive greenish matter from nose.
Scrofulous affections; syphilitic ozaena
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| - | Ears - Discharge of thin, offensive pus
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| - | G.I.T. - Hysterical flatulence with regurgitation of liquid and forcible
eructation of gas
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| - | Pulsations in the pit of the stomach
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| - | Eructations; flatulence extremely foetid, gurgling and rolling of wind;
difficult, loud expulsion
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| - | Flatulence pushing upwards towards throat
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| - | Globus hystericus rises from the stomach to throat, must keep swallowing
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| - | Bursting feeling in abdomen as if everything was coming up to the mouth
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| - | Reverse peristalsis, bowels feel knotted
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| - | Foul, dark, watery diarrhoea with griping pain and flatulence
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| - | Male genitalia - Needle-like stitches in penis with faintness, worse after
emission
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| - | Aching in testes < touch
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| - | Female genitalia - Excessive sexual desire in females with labour-like
pains in the uterine region
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| - | Leucorrhoea - profuse, greenish, thin, offensive
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| - | Mammae turgid with milk when not pregnant
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| - | Milk increased or diminished
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| - | Extremities - Neuralgia of stump after operations
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| - | Pathological fractures, caries of bones with swollen, enlarged, painful
periosteum
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| - | Ulcer affecting bones with this ichorous pus
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| - | Skin - Ulcers painful on the edges
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| - | Suppressed eruptions causing nervous disorders
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| - | Varicose ulcers; discharge much foetid, offensive |
Flatulence troublesome, expelled with great difficulty; loud and explosive.
As concomitant to most complaints
Undulating twitching of single muscles where the patient first sees,
rather than feels them
Breasts turgid with milk when not pregnant
Pains going outwards with numbness
Pains disappear on touch, but appear elsewhere
| - | Nervous,
hysterical, flatulent females
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| - | Bloated children craving sympathy; oversensitive
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| - | Flatulence hysterical, with great difficulty in expulsion, loud, noisy and greatly offensive
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| - | Much offensiveness of all discharges, destruction, syphilitic affections
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| - | Pains associated with numbness, extending outwards |
Hysterical flatulency; pressing upwards
Great offensiveness of all discharges and secretions
Pains directed outwards with numbness
| - | Bone
caries, Corneal ulcers, Deficient milk, Flatulence, Globus hystericus,
Hysteria, Periosteal pains, Regurgitation, Reverse peristalsis, Ulcers |
Follows Well: Calc, Lyc, Merc, Phos,
Sep, Sil, Sulph, Thuj, Valer
Compare: Cic, Con, Kali-i, Merc, Sil, Sulph, Thuj
Similar: Arg-n, Aur, Caust, Cinch, Croto-t, Hep, Ign, Merc, Mosch,
Phos, Puls, Thuj, Valer
Antidoted By: Camph, Caust, Cinch, Merc, Puls, Valer
It Antidotes: Merc, Puls
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