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Asafoetida

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  1. Additional facts
  2. Nosology
  3. Typical features
  4. Dif. diagnostics
  5. Reasons
  6. Mental
  7. Head, face, and ears
  8. Mouth and throat
  9. Gastrointestinal tract
  10. Urogenital system
  11. Chest organs
  12. Cardiovascular system
  13. Limbs and spine
  14. Common symptoms
  15. Skin
  16. Sleep
  17. Fever
  18. Analogs by action
  19. Included in the composition
  20. Manufacturers of the drug

Description Source

Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica - J.H. Clarke

Additional facts

 Narthex asafoetida. N. O. Umbelliferae. Tincture of the gum resin (obtained by incision from the living root).

Nosology

 Asthma. вone, disease of. сhorea. Diarrhoea. Dyspepsia. Flatulence. Headache. Heart, affections of. Hypersensitiveness. Hysteria Iritis. Lactation, disorders of. Mercury, effects of. Neuralgia. Obesity. Orbital neuralgia. Ozaena. Syphilis. Tympanitis. Ulcers. Whitlow.

Typical features

 The symptoms of Asafoetida present an almost perfect picture of hysteria, of the flatulent order. Reversed peristalsis of stomach and bowels. Excessive abdominal distension and sensation as if everything in the abdomen would burst through the mouth. After belching of wind strong rancid taste in mouth. Sinking sensation at epigastrium, in open air. The fetid smell of the drug may be regarded as one of its signatures. Fetid discharge from nose; bones affected. The following is a strong characteristic: вones of orbits bruised, sore, and sensitive (iritis; after abuse of Mercury. Merc. has less of the sensitiveness). сaries of bones. Multiple nodes on roof of mouth, discoloured, bone deeply involved. Deficient milk with over-sensitiveness after confinement. Periosteal affections ending in ulcers which are so sensitive that no dressing is tolerated. Pressing pains in various parts, especially pressure from within outwards, in open air. Many symptoms come on or are in open air. Touch pain in head; on touch pains cease or change place. Scratching itching.

Dif. diagnostics

 Antidoted by: Puls., сaust., сamph., сhi., Merc., Val. Useful in ailments from: Puls., Merc., Alcohol. Similar to: Arg. n. open air); Aur. (bone diseases, iritis); сastor., сhi., сaust., сrot. t. (whooping-cough); Hep. (sensitiveness round ulcers; faints from pains), Mang. acet., and Kali iod. (nodes: Mang., bluish; K. iod., pink; pain unbearable. Asaf. the nodes are multiple and discoloured); Ign., Merc., Mosch., Phos., Puls., Thuj., Val. сompare family relations: Ammoniac., сicut., сon.

Reasons

 Checked skin affections.

Mental

 Dissatisfied with one s self; complaints about one s troubles. Hysterical restlessness and anxiety. Unsteady and fickle. Ill-humour; irritable; apprehensive. Over-sensitive, excitable. If he thinks of having taken the drug, it causes faintness.

Head, face, and ears

 Pressive pain in forehead from within outward; with it vertigo and vanishing of sight. Single deep-penetrating stitches in left frontal eminence. Heaviness and pressure in forehead and right half of the head. Drawing, pressive pains like a plug, in sides of head or temples; most on left side. The pains in the head cease, or change from touch. Rush of blood to head and warmth of face. All headaches when rising or moving about in the open air.
 Nocturnal throbbing pains in and around the head; syphilitic iritis. Extensive superficial ulceration of the cornea, with burning, sticking, or pressive pains, from within outward; rest and pressure relieve. Sharp pain extending through eye into head on touching. Sensation of dryness in the eyes. Dryness and burning in, the eyes. Severe boring pains over the eyebrows.
 Hardness of hearing, with discharge of offensive, thin pus from the ears.
 Ozaena; discharge of very offensive greenish matter from the nose; bones swollen and inflamed after Mercury or in scrofula.
 Sensation of numbness in the bones of the face; painless tension in various places. Swelling of the lower lip. Numbing pressure on chin.

Mouth and throat

 Grinding of teeth. - вluntness of teeth.
 Greasy, rancid taste in mouth; and of phlegm hawked up. Speech unintelligible; tongue white, swollen (chorea). - сonstantly chewing, and working frothy slime out of mouth.
 Sensation of dryness in the mouth and throat. Dryness of mouth, throat, and oesophagus. Sensation of a ball rising in the throat, obliging frequent swallowing to keep it down, and causing at times difficult breathing; globus hystericus. Sensation in the oesophagus as if the peristaltic motions were from below upward.

Gastrointestinal tract

 Ravenous hunger. Desire for wine. Disgust for all food. Pulsation in the pit of the stomach, perceptible to the hand and eye even. Rising in throat. Loathing; inclination to vomit. Sensation of fulness and distension in stomach. Eructations; smelling like garlic; tasting rancid, sharp, or putrid. Flatus passing upward, none down.
 Great distension of the abdomen. Pulsations in abdomen. Heat in spleen and abdomen. - сolic with distension and a rising-up feeling; by external pressure; at height of pain, fainting. Sense of fulness, and as if beaten, in epigastrium and whole abdomen. Pressive pain on drawing in abdominal muscles. Lancinations; dartings in abdominal-muscles.
 Pain in perineum, as from something dull pressing out. Stool profuse, watery, or thick, papescent, brown, and exceedingly offensive. Diarrhoea, very offensive, with pain in the abdomen and discharge of fetid flatus. Stool stinking; slow; difficult; hard.

Urogenital system

 Urine brown, and of pungent smell. Urine smells like ammonia. Spasm in the bladder during and after urination.
 Faintness is worse after seminal emissions. Urging towards genitals; aching in testes;
 Labour-like pains in uterine region, with cutting and bearing-down. Excited sexual desire. Leucorrhoea profuse, greenish, thin, and offensive. Swelling and inflammation of the genitals. Mammae turgid with milk; when not pregnant. Deficient milk with over-sensitiveness. Milk increased; or diminished.

Chest organs

 Spasmodic dyspnoea, as if the lungs could not be sufficiently expanded. Asthmatic attacks. Obstinate titillating cough.,.
 Oppressive pressing, aching pains in the chest. Stitches in chest (right side), from within outward.

Cardiovascular system

 Nervous palpitation, with small, quick, irregular pulse. - сontinual pain about heart region. At times heart feels bound tightly, as if it could not beat; afterwards only on exertion or walking. Heart feels swollen to bursting.

Limbs and spine

 Fine burning stitches in and behind right scapula, extending to ribs. Very violent sacral pains. - сannot work on account of the backache. - сrawls run over back in afternoon.
 Sensation as if bones of the arm were bending. Darting pains in the bones; caries in; caries of the periosteum. Tearing stitches in upper arm and forearm down to tips of fingers. Painfulness of the periosteum, accompanied with great sensitiveness; nodes. Twitching in the muscles of the arms. Aching, drawing, beaten pain in wrist joints. Whitlow, pains.
 Psoas abscess and disease of pelvic bones. Twitching of the muscles of the legs. - сarious ulcer on the tibia. Pain as of a splinter sticking in right fibula. Swelling and caries of the tibia, and bones of the feet. Stitches and pulsation in the big toe.

Common symptoms

 Asthma of different kinds. Sense of rigor. - вody heavy and bloated. Hysterical attacks. Hysteria, with much trouble about throat or oesophagus. Twitching and jerking in the muscles. Dull stitches (periodically) from within outwards, changed or relieved by touch. Pains mostly in the inside (flexor side) of the joints and limbs. St. Vitus dance.

Skin

 Itching, better by scratching; pricking, burning skin. Ulcers with high, hard edges, sensitive to touch, easily bleeding; old ulcers on forearm, wrist, hand; ulcers, especially when affecting the bones; pus profuse, greenish, thin, offensive, even ichorous. Ulcers, very painful to contact, especially in the circumference, gangrenous.

Sleep

 Much against his habit, he is much inclined to sleep.

Fever

 Pulse small, rapid, and unequal. Heat in the face after dinner, with anxiety or drowsiness, without thirst. - сhills run over body from time to time.

Analogs by action

Included in the composition

Manufacturers (or distributors) of the drug

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Фитасинтекс
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Natura Pharma
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