ARALIA RACEMOSA
American Spikenard
This is a treatment for asthmatic conditions, with cough aggravated on mendacity down. Drenching sweat at some point of sleep. Extreme sensitiveness to draughts. Diarrhoea, prolapse of rectum. Aching in rectum extending upwards; worse mendacity on aspect lain upon.
Respiratory.–Dry cough coming on after first sleep, about center of night. Asthma on mendacity down at night time with spasmodic cough; worse after first sleep, with tickling in throat. Constriction of chest; feels as if a overseas physique have been in throat. Obstruction worse in spring. Hay-fever; general sneezing. Rawness and burning at the back of sternum.
The least cutting-edge of air reasons sneezing, with copious watery, excoriating nasal discharge, of salty acrid taste.
Female.–Menses suppressed; leucorrhoea foul-smelling, acrid, with pressing-down air. Lochia suppressed, with tympanites.
Modalities.–Worse about eleven pm (cough).
Relationship.–Compare: Pecten-Scallop (humid asthma. Quick, labored breathing. Constriction of chest, mainly proper side. Asthma preceded by way of coryza and burning in throat and chest. Attacks ends with copious expectoration of tough, frothy mucus. Worse at night). Ars iod; Naphthaline; Cepa; Rosa; Sabad; Sinapis.
Dose.–Tincture, to 0.33 potency.
