Asafoetida

COMMON NAMES:

      GUM OF THE STINKASAND; DEVIL’S DUNG.

Symptoms

      Hysterical attacks (Ignatia, Nux-M., Sepia)

Hysteria where the throat symptoms predominate, with all kinds of spasms and nervous irritability, such as fits of great joy and laughter, or anxious sadness; constant change of position; flushes in the face, etc (Bt.).

Leucorrhoea; profuse, greenish, thin and offensive (G.).

Menses scanty and too early (G.).

Hysterical spasms, with much trouble about the oesophagus (G.).

SENSATION OF PRESSURE, AS IF A BODY OR LUMP WERE ASCENDING IN THE OESOPHAGUS, OBLIGING FREQUENT DEGLUTITIONS (G.).

Caries of nasal bones (Arsenicum, Aurum, Calcarea fluorica., Hepar, Mercurius, NIt-Ac., Silicea). (Br.).

INTOLERABLE SORENESS AROUND THE ULCER (Hepar). (F.).

Bluish ulcers, with high edges (Lachesis). (B.).

SYPHILITIC OZAENA (Aur-M., Calcarea, Hepar, Kali bichromicum, Kali-I., Mercurius, Pulsatilla, Sepia, Silicea). WITH VERY OFFENSIVE, PURULENT DISCHARGE (Br.).

Is employed as a galactagogue, in sensitive, hysterical females (Bl.).

Fetid or purulent discharge from the ears (Calcarea, Calcarea sulph., Hepar, Mercurius, Silicea). (G.).

Sometimes indicated for iritis following mercurialization; extreme soreness of the bones around the eyes (F.).

ERUCTATIONS OF GAS, SMELLING LIKE GARLIC OR FAECES (Bt.).

Pulsation in the pit of the stomach (Aconite, Ant-T., Calcarea, China, Cicuta, Ferrum, Gloninum, Kali carb., Nux vomica, Phosphorus, Pulsatilla, Sepia, Silicea) (Bt.).

Painful inflammation of the bones (Aurum, Hepar, Acid nitricum). Caries, with thin, offensive pus (tibia).

Swelling of the glands (Calcarea, Merc-I., Tuberculinum).

Sense of rigor.

Greasy taste in the mouth (Pulsatilla). (D.).

Body heavy and bloated.

St. Vitus’s dance (Agaricus, Ignatia, Nux vomica, Sepia).

Dark red and hot swellings.

Pains on the inside of the joints of the limbs.

TWITCHING AND JERKING IN THE MUSCLES (Belladonna, Hyoscyamus, Ignatia, Lachesis, Nux vomica, Stramonium).

Pricking, stinging and darting pain, which is periodic from within outwards; by touch relieved or changed.

SYPHILITIC IRITIS (Merc-C., NIt-Ac., Silicea,) (Br.).

Sensation as if peristaltic motion were taking place from below upwards (G.).

An empty gone feeling in the stomach at 11 A.M. (Sulphur). (F.).

Particularly adapted to syphilitic patients, who have taken much mercury, or to be nervous, hysterical individuals (C.).

Extreme sensitiveness around the diseased portion of bone (F.).

Painfulness of the periosteum, accompanied with great sensitiveness; enlargement of bones (G.).Nervous palpitation (Cocc.), like a tremor when sitting, with small, quick, irregular pulse (C.).

Spasmodic tightness of the chest, as if the lungs could not be fully expanded (Crot-T., Ignatia, Laur., Phosphorus,) (C.).

Hysteria arising from the sudden suppression of discharges.

A burning feeling upwards, as though everything in the abdomen was coming out at the mouth (Argentum nitricum) (F.).

Burning in the stomach and oesophagus (Carbo vegetabilis, Iris-V., Sulphur) (D.).

AGGRAVATION:

      While sitting; at night; during rest; from warm application; and from dressing the wound.

AMELIORATION:

      In the open air; from motion and from pressure.

RELATIONSHIP:

      Similar to: Aurum, China, Mercurius, Mosch., Nit-Ac and Silicea

ANTIDOTES: China, Mercurius

Adolph Lippe

Adolph Lippe (born near Goerlitz, Prussia, 11 May 1812; died in Philadelphia, 23 January 1888) was a homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. Adolph got a legal education at Berlin. After completing his legal studies, Lippe became interested in homeopathy, and emigrated to the United States in 1837 to further his study. In 1838, he enrolled in the North American Academy of Homeopathy at Allentown, Pennsylvania, from where he graduated in 1841. He settled in Philadelphia, where from 1863 until 1868 he was professor of materia medica in the Homeopathic College of Pennsylvania. Besides some essays and treatises from the French, German, and Italian which became standards, Lippe was the author of:
Comparative Materia Medica (Philadelphia, 1854)
Text-Book of Materia Medica (1866)