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Asafoetida

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  1. Description
  2. Additional facts
  3. Mental
  4. Head, face, and ears
  5. Mouth and throat
  6. Gastrointestinal tract
  7. Appetite and food preferences
  8. Urogenital system
  9. Chest organs
  10. Analogs by action
  11. Included in the composition
  12. Manufacturers of the drug

Description Source

Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica - TF Allen

Description

 Common name (German), Stinkasand.

Additional facts

 Ferula Asafoetida, Linn.
 Natural order: Umbelliferae.
 Preparation: tincture of the gum.

Mental

 Mind.
 Very irritable in disposition, and yet indifferent to everything.
 Fretful and apprehensive mood, which seems to arise from the abdomen; it is however, not difficult to fix his attention (second day).
 Ill-humored, and dislike for work (thirtieth hour).

Head, face, and ears

 Head.
 Vertigo Slight vertigo.
 Turning in the head (third hour).
 Confusion of the head, with pressure in the temples (first day).
 Dulness of the head.
 Head dull and confused.
 Heaviness, fullness, and confusion of the head, followed by aching headache over the whole brain.
 Heaviness of the head.
 Headache.
 Aching in the brain.
 With steady heat and pressure in the head there was a sensation of momentary unconsciousness when sitting and reading.
 Continued headache, becoming alternately more severe and slighter.
 During the night when awaking, and in the morning, some pains in the joints and bones of the head.
 Weakness in the head (three-quarters of an hour).
 Headache, like an emptiness in the head, which attracts the attention (first day).
 Fullness in the head.
 After sleeping well, awoke with fullness of the head, which gradually changed to periodically recurring pains, lasting more or less into the next night.
 Fullness of the head, changing gradually into an aching and pressing pain, as if the whole brain were compressed, attended with dizziness, increased heat of skin, and some quickness of pulse.
 Fullness of the head, with frequent stitches of pain in the forehead and temples.
 The brain seems to be tense.
 Rush of blood to the head, and warmth of the face (first day).
 Congestion of the head, with heat of the face and headache.
 Severe pressure on small places of the skull.
 Pain in the forehead.
 Frontal headache.
 Headache, more particularly on the left side of the forehead.
 Heat in the forehead and face, with chills in the back, and cold hands off and on (three and a half hours).
 Sense of tensive confusion and burdensome heaviness of the forehead (after frequent smelling it).
 Frequent drawing in the forehead.
 Drawing wavelike pressure, through the left half of the forehead, which ends in a dull pressure on the frontal eminence.
 Pressive pain in the forehead (sixth hour).
 Pressive pain in the forehead from within outward (fifth hour).
 Pressure externally in the forehead (first hour).
 Especially hard to bear is a pressure in the forehead and maxilla.
 Pressive pain in the right side of the forehead from within outward (one hour and three-quarters).
 A slow, intermitting ache (like a pushing out) beneath the right frontal eminence.
 Pressure on the forehead in different places, sometimes combined with stitching pains.
 Pressure in the forehead, with weakness in the whole body (two hours and a half).
 Tearing pains in the forehead.
 Find needle stitches in the left frontal eminence.
 Single, sudden, and deep-penetrating stitches under the left frontal eminence, like shocks, followed by some sensitiveness.
 Swashing and gurgling sensation in the brain, beneath the upper part of the frontal bone (second day).
 Near the frontal eminence externally, continued burning stinging, which disappears on touch, and pains as if ulcerated, but immediately disappears (second day).
 Tearing in the right temple.
 Pressing asunder in both temples, sometimes very severely.
 Pressure in the right temple (one hour and a quarter).
 A transient dull pressure over the right temple, suddenly.
 Pressure in the left temple, from within outward (sixty- eighth hour).
 A sudden pain in the left temple, like an inward-pressing pointed plug.
 Intermitting pressing-inwards in the left temple, almost like a pushing inward.
 Slow, successive, dull stitches in the left temple.
 Single, deep stitches in the left temple.
 Sensation of pressure on the vertex.
 A pressure exactly on the vertex, and on the forehead over the right eye.
 Pains in the left side of the head, extending to the eyes, and changing into intermitting, severe, and slight fullness of the brain.
 Stupefying tension in the head, especially in the left side.
 In the right side of the head above the ear, a drawing, which changes into a simple sticking.
 Pressive pain on the right side of the head (thirtieth hour).
 Pressure in the left side of the head from within outwards (forty-fifth hour).
 A suddenly beginning, rapidly increasing pressure on the left side of the head, as from a dull tool being pressed in; it suddenly goes away.
 Pain in the right parietal bone, as from a deeply penetrating plug.
 Aching pain in the occiput, gradually extending over the head, as if the brain were compressed by a cloth thrown over it.
 Drawing pain in the occiput.
 Drawing and pressure in the occiput.
 Pressure on the left side of the occiput (nine hours and a half).
 A couple of fine, superficial stitches on the right side of the occiput.
 Eyes.
 Causes trouble in the eyes.
 Troublesome dryness of the eyes.
 Periodic burning in the eyes, and pressing together of the lids, as if overcome with sleep (twenty-sixth hour).
 Pressure in both eyes (second day).
 Aching over the eyes, as if from great sleepiness.
 Burning stinging in the left eye (two and one-quarter hours).
 Rough feeling of the eyes, as if sand were under the lids.
 Itching in right eye (forty-ninth hour).
 Burning in the left brow (sixty-second hour).
 Severe boring pain above the eyebrows.
 Pinching drawing across the supraorbital region (first hour).
 Dull pressure on the external margin of the left orbit.
 Twitchings in the left upper eyelid.
 Often a twitching movement in the upper lid.
 Frequent burning in the right eyelid.
 Burning in the edges of the right eyelid.
 Burning in the inner corner of the right eye.
 A transient, dull pressure in the middle of the upper lid.
 Stitching and itching of the eyelids.
 Stitching and itching in the edges of the eyelids.
 Itching, stitching and burning in the lids, especially the right.
 Burning in the right ball (twelfth hour). Tensive burning in the right ball (twenty-sixth hour).
 Burning in the left ball, as from within outward (five and a half hours).
 Burning stinging in the right ball (sixty-second hour).
 Some dilatation of the pupils.
 Dimness of sight.
 A kind of dimness of the eyes; on writing, the letters become darker, as from a slight veil over them; disappears after some blinking.
 Muscae volitantes.
 Ears.
 Strong heat of the ears, which burn, and are very red.
 Drawing behind the left ear.
 Slight transient drawing on the outer rim of the concha of right ear.
 Drawing and stitches around the left ear.
 Repeated short drawing in the meatus auditorius.
 Pressive pain in the right ear (forty-nine hours).
 Pressure in the left ear (two and a half hours).
 Dull sensibility, especially dull hearing, forenoon; he hears nothing distinctly, must always ask a second time (first day).
 Clear ringing before the ear.
 Nose.
 Violent sneezing several times a day.
 Coryza (thirty-sixth hour).
 Pressure in the nose, as if it would burst, especially in the right wing (thirty-one hours).
 Face.
 Heat of the face and ear continues, and with hot hands, chills run down the back.
 Heat in the face, even the ears feel hot.
 Pressure in the right side of the face from within outward (half an hour).
 Heat in the cheeks.
 Severe heat in the cheeks, perceptible to the touch.
 Frequent flushes of heat over the cheeks, afternoon (first day).
 Heat of the cheeks and forehead, with heaviness.
 Stinging burning in left cheek (four and a half hours).
 Itching in the right cheek (seventy-two hours).
 Stitches in the skin of the left cheek, then on the right.
 Pressure on the zygomatic bone.
 Drawing pain in the left cheek.
 Pressure in the left cheek (twenty-four hours).
 In various places in the face, on the malar bone, the nasal bones, painless tension, with a kind of numb sensation.
 On the left angle of the chin, in a small area, a numb pressure, which extends into the tooth right above it.
 Pain in the maxillary joints.
 A transient pain, like a continuous pinch, on the ramus of the lower jaw.
 Drawing in the left lower maxilla.
 Drawing in the right lower maxilla, then in the right forehead.
 Pressure in the maxillary joint.
 Severe pressure in the left corner of the maxilla.

Mouth and throat

 Bluntness of the teeth.
 Severe drawing in the lower incisors.
 Soreness of the gums.
 Great dry sensation in the mouth, though he has moisture enough (first day).
 Burning in the mouth, throat, and stomach.
 A biting burning pain on the point of the tongue, frequently repeated.
 Stitches in the point of the tongue.
 Accumulation of spittle.
 Accumulation of saliva in the mouth.
 Salivation.
 Continual running of saliva in the mouth. Insipid taste.
 The taste (of the drug) is not only nauseous, but also harsh and hard, and hard to be got out of the mouth.
 Fatty, rancid taste in the mouth.
 Rancid taste in the mouth, as if the stomach had been disordered by rich and fatty food.
 Throat.
 Dryness in the throat; while swallowing, tension in it (twelve hours).
 In the evening, a hysterical rising in the throat, as if a ball or large body ascended from the stomach to the oesophagus, or even pharynx, obliging him repeatedly to attempt to swallow it.
 With constriction of the throat, pressure in the chest (sixty-three hours).
 Drawing along down the left side of the throat, on motion (first day).
 Spasms in the oesophagus.
 Spasms of the oesophagus, like that of hysteria.
 Hysteric rising in the oesophagus.
 Sensations as if the peristaltic motion were reversed, and, in the oesophagus, were being driven from the stomach up towards the throat.
 Aching and burning in the oesophagus and throat, resembling heartburn, like that after eating too much fatty food.
 Eructations.
 Frequent offensive eructations.
 Eructations followed by nausea and disgust for food.
 Frequent garlic-like eructations.
 Frequent eructations with the garlicky smell of the remedy.
 Frequent eructations.
 Eructations with profuse accumulations of saliva.
 Disgust and nausea.

Gastrointestinal tract

 Appetite increased.
 Hunger with nausea.
 Hunger, with desire for strong cooling food.
 Nausea.
 Distension of the stomach and bowels, with a feeling as if the peristaltic motions were reversed, with much spasmodic working in the oesophagus.
 Pain in left side of the stomach.
 Increased warmth and aching in the stomach, toward the left side, not at all to the right, but more up into the oesophagus, like the globus hystericus.
 Continuous and acute pain in the stomach.
 Stomachache in alternating exacerbations and remissions.
 Stomachache in intermittent paroxysms.
 Aching and distending pain as if from flatulence in the stomach and oesophagus, extending more toward the spleen than the liver.
 Feeling as if the stomach had been disordered by indigestible fatty food.
 Intermittent pains in the stomach and abdomen.
 Burning in the stomach and diaphragm.
 Burning in the stomach.
 Aching in the stomach.
 Sickly sensation in the pit of the stomach, like pressure, not exactly painful.
 Aching and drawing pain in the stomach, extending first toward the spleen, and afterward in the direction of the liver, increased on full inspiration.
 Perceptible pulsation in the pit of the stomach (first day).
 Pulsation in the pit of the stomach, even perceptible to the finger (second day).
 Violent pressive pain in the pit of the stomach, extending towards the liver-region, when sitting (first day).
 Pressure in the epigastric region shortly after eating (first day).
 Pressure in the epigastric region, with great dejection after eating (second day).
 Abdomen.
 Griping (into a ball) pain below the navel when standing (first day).
 Pressive pain at the navel, extending outward (twenty-one hours).
 Burning sticking in the umbilicus (twenty-nine hours).
 Crawling sticking in the umbilical region (four hours).
 Fine pointed stitches in the navel (two and a half hours).
 In the flanks a pressive pain on drawing in the abdominal muscles (first day).
 Abdomen distended.
 Great distension of the abdomen.
 All the symptoms disappeared in the evening except the distension of the abdomen.
 Great distension of the abdomen, notwithstanding frequent discharges of flatus.
 Remarkable distension of the abdomen, somewhat after a hard, dark, very pungent and offensive stool, causing pain in rectum.
 Rumbling in the bowels.
 Violent rumbling in the bowels.
 Rumbling in the intestines (eleven hours).
 Painless rumbling in the intestines (one and a half hours).
 Bellyache, with violent movements and rumbling in the bowels.
 Discharge of flatulence.
 Increased passage of flatus.
 Easy, sometimes almost or quite involuntary passage or flatus, which is scarcely noticed.
 Many expulsions of offensive flatulence.
 Much very offensive flatulence, with retained stool.
 Much retained flatulence, which only passed off the following morning, with a half-diarrhoeic evacuation.
 Relief from time to time, by discharge of offensive flatus.
 Sensation of the greatest illness in the whole abdomen, with great heaviness and pressure in the sides (second day).
 Pain in the upper abdomen, as from taking cold, and as if diarrhoea would ensue, with a kind of ravenous hunger (second day).
 Drinking disagrees, causes immediate heaviness, and chilling sensation in the intestines (first day).
 Burning in abdomen.
 Flatulent pain in abdomen when walking after dinner (first day).
 Tension in the abdomen, after eating, as if he had overfeed (second day).
 Pinching in the intestines (six hours).
 Gripings with flatulence (one hour).
 Intermitting griping in the upper abdomen.
 Violent cutting pains in the bowels.
 Cutting pinching in the intestines (twenty-three hours).
 Cutting in the abdomen when walking or sitting.
 Sticking gripings in the left side of abdomen (twelve hours).
 Violent colic pains, with rumbling in the bowels.
 Pinching drawing across the abdomen, when sitting, with dull stitches in the left side of the abdomen, extending outwards (second day).
 In the morning, sensation in the epigastric region, and in the whole abdomen, as if it were all beaten, with sense of fullness in the former, and eructations (second day).
 Itching in the skin of the abdomen, below the navel (five hours).
 Stitches extending from within outward, in both sides of the abdomen, while sitting, after eating; disappears on pressure (second day).
 Sticking from within outward in left side of abdomen (seventy hours).
 Sudden, jerklike, violent stitch from the right side, of the abdomen from within outward, toward the parietes (first day).
 Stitches in the left side of the abdomen, when walking (first day).
 Pointed stitches in the left side of the abdomen, externally, which go away completely on rubbing (three and a half hours).
 Clucking stitch in the left side of the abdomen, extending outwards, with flatulence (sixty-two hours).
 Attacks of slight griping in the lower abdomen (half an hour).
 Labor-like cutting and forcing pains in the lower part of the bowels, in the region of the uterus.
 On the left side of the lower abdomen, violent sticking and drawing, which extends along the inner side of the ilium, when sitting (second day).
 Violent stitch in the lower abdomen (two and a half hours).
 Itching sticking in the skin of the right side of the lower abdomen (five hours).
 Stool and Anus.
 Tenesmus.
 Pain in the perineum, as though something dull pressed out there (first day).
 Constant dysenteric feeling, as if a stool would take place.
 Persistent but fruitless urging to stool.
 Fruitless urging to stool.
 Frequent urging to stool.
 More frequent stools than usual in twenty-four hours.
 Causes diarrhoea.
 Watery stools.
 Mushy stools, with much flatulence, without pain, but with feeling of fullness and heaviness in the abdomen.
 Small, partly hard, with partly mushy stools.
 Profuse, thick, papescent, brown, and very offensive stool.
 Very solid, dark-brown, nauseously offensive stool.
 Hard, dark, offensive stool.
 Fluid stools, with violent pressing down on the rectum.
 Thick, papescent stools, light yellow.
 Symptoms relieved after a blackish-brown, very thick, papescent, and exceedingly offensive stool.
 Watery stools, without bellyache, but with profuse discharge of flatulence, which did not remove the great distension of the abdomen.
 Diarrhoea, with pains in the bowels (two and a half hours).
 Diarrhoea, two to three times daily, with bellyache, for three days.
 Diarrhoea, three to four times daily, for four days in succession, with bellyache.
 Flatulence with diarrhoea (five hours).
 Two stools without pain, but some rumbling, and leaving heaviness and distension of the abdomen behind.
 Constipation.
 Constipation with almost constant tenesmus.
 Constipation for two days, then a difficult hard stool.
 Constipation and much tenesmus, with distension of the abdomen.

Appetite and food preferences

 Loss of appetite.
 Appetite poor.
 Aversion to beer, it tastes slimy (first day).
 Constant eructations of air having the taste of garlic.
 Frequent eructations tasting of the drug.

Urogenital system

 Severe slight stitches in the urethra.
 Stitching and burning in the urethra, but not when urinating.
 The urine is smaller in quantity and darker.
 The urine smells strongly of the drug.
 Urine acrid and pungent, though lighter colored. Urine brownish yellow.
 Urine brownish-yellow.
 Urine brownish-yellow, ammoniacal, but without sediment.
 Urine dark, and ammoniacal.
 Easy discharge of dark-brown urine, which deposited no sediment, but which smelled very strong and pungent.
 Sexual Organs.
 Peculiar pressing toward the genital organs, with pains in, and tenderness of, the testicles.
 Drawing in the glans penis while urinating.
 The drawing pain in the glans penis alternately disappeared and returned.
 Pointed stitches close to the penis in the mons veneris (second hour).
 Needle-like stitches, externally, on the penis (sixtieth hour).
 Swelling of the scrotum.
 Increase of sexual inclination for several hours.
 Swelling of the female genitals (so great, that antiphlogistic remedies had to be used).
 Nymphomania in a plethoric woman (from large doses).
 Violent laborlike pains in the region of the uterus, intermitting.
 Menses ten days too soon, scanty for three days, then became natural.

Chest organs

 So smothered in the air-passages that he must back repeatedly; the tone of the hacking cough is not clear, but hoarse (from smelling the strong tincture).
 Dry irritative cough, excited by tickling in the larynx.
 Frequent cough, with slimy expectoration.
 Slightly quickened respiration.
 Quickness of breathing, interrupted by coughing and yawning.
 Chest.
 The breasts swelled as large as if she were in the last month of pregnancy, and a milky discharge escaped from them.
 In the region of the short ribs, right around across the back, a jerk like constriction.
 Spasmodic tightness of the chest, as if the lungs could not be fully expanded.
 Spasmodic contraction of the chest, so severe that the pulse became small, contracted, irregular, and slow-60 or 65.
 Oppressive aching feeling in the chest, relieved by mucous expectoration.
 Severe pressure in some dorsal vertebrae.
 Drawing pressive pain, with contraction of the chest (half an hour).
 Pressure here and there in the thorax and in the muscles of the back.
 Pressure on the chest, with constriction of the throat (sixty-third hour).
 Pressive pain in the left intercostal muscles, from within outward (thirty-seventh hour).
 Pressure in the left intercostal muscles, from within outward, which is worse during inspiration and expiration (fifth hour).
 Decided oppression of the chest.
 Slight oppression of the chest. Spasmodic oppression of the chest.
 The oppression of the chest increased to an agonizing degree, preventing respiration, and driving the patient about in a restless manner.
 Great oppression of the chest, with pressure and throbbing in it, when lying, soon after a meal (second day).
 Burrowing sticking, from the diaphragm out to the left ribs, continues on inspiration and expiration (sixty-seventh hour).
 Penetrating stitches in the chest after hawking, when standing and sitting (sixty-fourth hour).
 Needle stitches in all the intercostal muscles, when sitting.
 Stitches and pressure in the chest, when lying, with very difficult sighing, sobbing inspiration; on pressing with the hand on the chest, or on sitting up, it disappears (second day).
 Weak movements in the left intercostal muscles (four and a half hours).
 When stooping, severe pain back in the region of the left short ribs.
 Burning drawing in the right intercostal muscles (sixty- first hour).
 Pressive sticking in the right cavity of the thorax, then fine stitches, with pressive pain, in the ribs near the spine (fifth hour).
 Pressure under the left front edges of the ribs.
 Pressure in the thorax, to the right side, extending outward (sixty-ninth hour).
 Lasting pressure behind, in the region of the left short ribs.
 Pressive pain in the right side of the chest, from within outward (twenty-sixth hour).
 Pressure in front, below the edge of the left ribs.
 Oppression of chest, especially on left side.
 Drawing sticking pain in the left side of the chest (four and a half hours).
 A pressive sticking pain on the lower ribs of the right side, which extends into the abdomen to the flank of the same side (half an hour).
 Stitch in the right ribs (sixth hour).
 Tensive stitches in the left intercostal muscles (fifty- eighth hour).
 Dull stitches in the left ribs (sixty-third hour).
 Pinching sharp stitches in the right inner side of the ribs (twenty-seventh hour).
 Boring stitches in the left cavity of the thorax, from within outward, continuing the same during inspiration and expiration, вoring dull stitches in the left side, extending outward to the ribs, continuing during inspiration and expiration (forty- seventh hour).
 Stitches in the region of the diaphragm, on the right side (twenty-fourth hour).
 After a meal, stitches in the region of the last true ribs, right side, and oppression of the chest.
 Pressure in the sternum.
 Pressure in the sternum and on the right side of it.
 On bending the thorax forward, a pressure on the lower part of the sternum (first day).
 Even on compressing the abdomen, pressure on the lower part of the sternum, and nausea, with fullness at the pit of stomach (second day).
 Pressive pain in the middle of the sternum, with a kind of nausea rising up from the chest (thirty-fourth hour).
 Dull pressure in the sternum; passes off on inspiring and expiring, but returns on writing (three-quarters of an hour).

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