Asarum Europoeum


Asarum Europoeum symptoms of the homeopathy remedy from Keynotes and Red Line Symptoms by Adolph von Lippe. What are the symptoms of Asarum Europoeum? Keynote indications and uses of Asarum Europoeum…


COMMON NAME:

      EUROPEAN SNAKE ROOT.

Symptoms

      Hyperaesthesia of the senses (Belladonna, Coffea, Nux vomica, Opium Phosphorus) (Bl.).

OVERSENSITIVENESS OF THE NERVES; THE SCRATCHING OF LINEN OR SILK IS INSUPPORTABLE (Ferrum, tarent-C.).

Cold “shivers” from any emotion (A.).

Nervous irritability and exaltation. Asthmatic breathing, worse from odour or cold (B.).

Sensation of tightness in the limbs; when she walks she thinks she is gliding through the air.

When reading, sensation in eyes as if they would be pressed asunder or outward; relieved by bathing them in cold water. (A.).

Great faintness and constant yawning (A.).

Vomiting, with violent retching and anxiety (Arsenicum, Cuprum, Ipecac., Tabacum).

It is of service in gastric derangements, such as mucous colitis, when the patient craves alcoholic stimulants. There is loss of appetite with eructation and vomiting, while the stools consist of undigested food and strings of mucus (Bl.).

Eructations putrid or sour, setting the teeth on edge. “Horrible sensation” of pressing, digging in the stomach when walking in the morning (after a debauch) (A.).

Menses: too early, long lasting; black; with violent pains in small of back (Br.).

Tenacious, yellow leucorrhoea (Hydrastis). (Br.).

Smoking tobacco tastes bitter (G.).

Unconquerable longing for alcohol; a popular remedy in Russia for drunkards (A.).

Chilliness single parts get cold. Easily excited perspiration (Br.).

Prolapsus ani during stool (Podo).

Gelatinous or shreddy mucous stool (B.).

Cold air or cold water very pleasant to the eyes; sunshine, light and wind are intolerable (A.).

AGGRAVATION:

      In the evening; in cold and dry weather; and from penetrating sounds.

AMELIORATION:

      From washing the face in cold water; from wetting the affected part; and from damp, wet weather.

RELATIONSHIP:

      Similar to: Causticum in modalities, and to Aloe., Argentum nitricum, Graphites, Kali bichromicum, Mercurius, Podophyllum, Pulsatilla and Sulph-Ac., in stringy, shreddy stools.

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)