ASARUM EUROPAEUM
European Snake-root
(ASARUM EUROPUM)
A treatment for fearful affections, loss of energy, with immoderate erethism. Scratching on silk or linen or paper unbearable. Pains and spasmodic muscular actions. Nervous deafness and asthenopia. Cold shivers from any emotion. Feels as if components have been pressed together. Tension and contractive sensations. Always feels cold.
Mind.–Thoughts vanish, with drawing stress in forehead. Sensibility increased, even from mere imagination.
Head.–Compressive pain. Tension of scalp; hair painful (China). Coryza, with sneezing
Eyes.–Feel stiff; burn; sense cold. Better, in bloodless air or water; worse, daylight and wind. Darting pains in eyes after operations. Asthenopia.
Ears.–Sensation as if plugged up. Catarrh with deafness. Heat of exterior ear. Noises.
Stomach.–Loss of appetite, flatulence, eructation, and vomiting. Desire for alcoholic drinks. Smoking tobacco tastes bitter. Nausea; worse after eating. Clean tongue. Great faintness. Accumulation of cold, watery saliva.
Rectum.–Strings of odorless, yellow mucus pass by from bowels. Diarrhoea of challenging mucus. Undigested stools. Prolapse.
Female.–Menses too early, lengthy lasting, black. Violent ache in small of back. Tenacious, yellow leucorrhoea.
Respiratory.–Nervous, hacking cough. Short respiration.
Back.–Paralytic pain in muscular tissues of nape of neck. Weakness, with staggering.
Fever.–Chilliness, single components get icy cold. Easily excited perspiration.
Modalities.–Worse, in bloodless dry weather; penetrating sounds. Better, from washing; in damp and moist weather.
Relationship.–Asarum Canadensa-Wild Ginger (Colds, accompanied by means of amenorrhoea and gastro-enteritis. Suppressed colds). Compare: Ipecac, specifically in diarrhoea; Silica; Nux; China.
Dose.–Third to sixth potency.
