Homeopathy Remedy Asparagus


Asparagus homeopathy drug symptoms from Handbook of Materia Medica and Homeopathic Therapeutics by T.F. Allen, of the homeopathic remedy Asparagus…


      Asparagus officinalis, the well-known garden perennial, contains an active principle (Asparagine), which also occurs in Convallaria, Paris, Robinia, etc. A tincture prepared from the young sprouts

General Action

      This substances is a marked diuretic and sometimes an emetic; it depresses the heart, produces profuse mucous secretions, nasal and bronchial, and causes weakness. Its allies are Convallaria, Squilla, Paris, Digitalis, Apocynum, etc.

Generalities

      Most symptoms (<) on motion. Pains (>) throwing chest forward and head backward.

Mind

      Serenity. Peculiar anxiety, with palpitation and ill humor.

Head

      Confusion and vertiginous us staggering. Forehead, aching, with confusion; aching in brain near eyes; confusion; heaviness in sinciput; stupefaction in sinciput, then aching in temples, (<) l.; vertigo in sinciput, then aching in temples, (<) l.; vertigo in sinciput. Temples, pressing pain, (<) pressure.

Eyes

      Stitches and crawling. Vision acute.

Nose

      Sneezing; irritation to. Coryza, with profuse thin whitish fluid from l. nostril, then from r.; C., with aching extending from root of nose over forehead to fore part of head; C., with beginning dryness and swelling of internal nostrils, then impeded entrance of air; dry C. Smell lost.

Face

      Pale.

Mouth

      Painless cavity and exfoliation of a carious molar. Saliva diminished; increased; sweetish, as if mixed with blood. Talking through nose. Taste coppery; T. sweetish, insipid.

Throat

      Hawking almost constantly, with rough feeling in throat; inclination to hawk and cough, rising from deep in throat; and inclination to cough, the mucous is not readily loosened, but is brought up by paroxysms of cough; H. of mucus. Copious tenacious mucus from throat.

Stomach

      Thirst. Eructations. Retching while coughing. Nausea on waking before 5 A.M., and vomiting of the food eaten in the evening, with bile and mucus, then fecal bilious diarrhoea, then frequent vomiting with increased effort. Wind.

Abdomen

      Discharge of much wind. Distention. Colic, with bilious diarrhoea. Griping in region of navel, which is painful on touch. Pinching below navel in evening. Drawing pain in groins.

Anus and Stool

      Burning and soreness at anus (Itching in anus.) Peculiar desire for stool and somewhat difficult hardish stool.

Urinary Organs

      Burning in urethra; and cutting; burning after urinating, with sensation as if there were more urine to pass. Urging to urinate. Urinating frequently, with fine stitches in orifice of urethra. Frequent scanty discharge of urine, preceded by sticking in urethra, with burning. Urine scanty and cloudy; decreased, beer- brown, without sediment; a little straw-colored urine, becomes turbid immediately. Diuresis; with thirst and increased of appetite. Urine of peculiar odor. Turbid urine after dinner; turbid when passed, but became clear and formed a white, flocculent sediment. Fatty coating on sides of glass after the urine was shaken out and the glass well washed. Urine kept over night formed a reddish deposit on sides of vessel.

Clinical Cystitis, out and mucus, tenesmus, weak bladder, enlarged prostate or inflammation of the neck of the bladder from cold, with pus and mucus.

Sexual Organs

      Swelling of penis, with erections and urging to urinate. Stitching on r. side of glans. Excitement of sexual passions. Menses one day longer than usual.

Respiratory Organs

      Tickling and inclination to cough. Cough towards evening; remitted after breakfast; straining, with inclination to vomit, and also forcing tears into eyes; distressing, with oppression of chest and copious mucus. Expectoration difficult. Mucus is more readily loosened upon each turn of coughing. Breathing difficult when moving or ascending stairs. Is obliged to sit up in bed to believe the breathing.

Chest

      Stitches in l. on inspiration; in various parts on inspiration, especially about l. scapula. Pressure in, after breakfast. Sudden darting pain through r. at 10 A.M. Oppression. Constriction; (<) writing. Tension when taking a deep breath; tensive sensation on inspiration, as if hollow. Hollow sensation, with external heaviness.

Heart and Pulse

      Stitching in region of heart after eating. Palpitation, (<) after motion and ascending stairs, with anxious restlessness; with oppression of chest; while sitting, so that the leaves of the book he held trembled. Pulsation of heart perceptible to touch and hearing; on moderate motion. Irregular, quick, twofold stroke of heart. Heart’s beat hardly perceptible. Pulse small, compressible. Pulse accelerated; when sitting.

Clinical CArdiac affections of people with weak pulse, pain about the left shoulder. Palpitations and pains about the heart, with troubles in the bladder.

Back

      Rheumatic pain between scapulae. Pain in small of back, at beginning of lumbar vertebrae. Shooting pains through loins, in region of lumbar vertebrae while sitting.

Upper Extremities

      Shoulder. Pain in region of, on touch. Rheumatic pain in region of r.

Lower Extremities

      Thigh. Pain as from dislocation in neck of r. bone while walking; in forenoon while walking, preventing rapid motion and sometimes causing limping. Bruised pain in muscles in stairs, with sore pain on touch. Sore pain in upper surface on touch and on bending hip and knee-joints, making it difficult to walk. Stitching above r. knee, then below l. side of knee, evening when sitting. Indication of cramp in calves. Cramplike pain in l. calf while stretching on walking, (>) rubbing. R. foot more painful than l. R. foot weaker than l. Drawing in l. toe, which he had cut with an axe when a boy, at 10 P.M. before sleep.

Sleep

      Drowsiness and yawning; in morning.

Fever

      Shivering, with weary sleepiness. Warmth increased. Febrile excitement at 3 P.M., with weariness. Heart of face. Burning of cheeks.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.