Other names and synonyms
sumb, ferula sumbul.Description Source
Concise Materia Medica - S.R. PhatakPharmacological Group
Common symptoms
Musk root, as its name implies closely resembles in its odour to musk, therefore like Moschus it is the remedy for hysterical and nervous affections. It affects heart causing nervous palpitation. The patient is nervous, irritable and sleepless. Tendency to faint from slightest cause. сhorea; constant jerking of the head and limbs with protrusion of the tongue. As of a hot water flowing through part. Yellow tenacious discharges. Numbness; on becoming cold, on left side. Neuralgia. Early senility. Sclerosed arteries. Flushings, climacteric.
Modalities
Motion. сlimacteric. Music. сold. Thinking of symptoms. Inspiration.
Gentle motion. Warmth.
Gentle motion. Warmth.
Mental
Emotional and fidgety. Weeps and laughs by turns. Faintness from hearing music. Fear of becoming insane.
Head, face, and ears
Tenacious yellow mucous from nose.
As of a hair or cobweb on face. Neuralgia. Idiotic expression.
As of a hair or cobweb on face. Neuralgia. Idiotic expression.
Mouth and throat
Tongue feels rough as if scraped.
Choking constriction; constant swallowing; hysterical.
Choking constriction; constant swallowing; hysterical.
Gastrointestinal tract
Burning waterbrash.
Full, distended and painful.
Full, distended and painful.
Urogenital system
Oily pellicle on urine.
Sexual excitability. Ovarian neuralgia. Pulling like a string in breast (right). сlimacteric flushes. Screwing pain in region of uterus (left side).
Sexual excitability. Ovarian neuralgia. Pulling like a string in breast (right). сlimacteric flushes. Screwing pain in region of uterus (left side).
Chest organs
Short breath on any exertion. Asthma; cardiac; hysterical. Oppressed tightness in left chest, as if clogged.
Cardiovascular system
Nervous palpitation; in hysterical subjects or at climaxis; worse least exertion and thinking of it. As if heart beating in water. Neuralgia around left breast simulating angina pectoris. сardiac asthma. High blood pressure due to arteriosclerosis.
Limbs and spine
Trickling along spine.
Left arm, ache, heavy, numb, weary.
Left arm, ache, heavy, numb, weary.
Sleep
Dreams of falling; of coitus; followed by profuse sudden emission.
Skin
Pale; cold. Internal itching.
Dif. diagnostics
Asaf; Mosch.
Lact-v.
Lact-v.