ASPARAGUS


ASPARAGUS symptoms from Manual of the Homeopathic Practice by Charles Julius Hempel. What are the uses of the homeopathy remedy ASPARAGUS…


INTRODUCTION

ASPAR. See “Hygea” of 1840. Very little known.

COMPARE WITH

Arnica, Cann., Digitalis, Spigelia

ANTIDOTES

Coffea Asparagus is said to antidote Coffea

HEAD, EYES, AND FACE

Giddiness in the forehead; dullness of the head like giddiness; stupefaction in the region of the forehead, followed by pressure in the temples; pressure in the forehead. Pale face. Burning of the cheeks.

STOMACH

Increased thirst. Nausea, early in the morning on waking, followed by vomiting of food, bile, and mucus, afterwards diarrhoea, consisting of bile and faeces. Feeling of repletion in the abdomen; pinching in the umbilical region, in the evening, with painfulness to the touch; distention of the abdomen. Bilious diarrhoea, with burning and soreness of the anus, colic, and drawing in the groins.

URINARY ORGANS

The urine is straw-colored, scanty, becoming speedily turbid, with a white pellicle on top, and a white, flocculent sediment; the urine deposits a fatty substance; clear urine of bad smell. Urging to urinate; frequent emission of a small quantity of urine, succeeded by burning; diminished emission of urine. Burning in the urethra; also cutting; with drawing in the groins, colic, diarrhoea, and pain in the anus.

GENITAL ORGANS

Excitement of the sexual instinct.

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

Hawking, with irritation, inducing cough with inability to detach the mucus. Violent cough, with oppression of the chest, and expectoration of a quantity of mucus; violent cough inducing a desire to vomit. Oppression of the chest, particularly in writing; labored breathing, during movement. Pressure in the chest after breakfast, with tightness during an inspiration. Palpitation of the heart, which can be heard and felt; frequent palpitation of the heart, with anxious restlessness when moving about; violent palpitation of the heart when sitting; irregular, quick, double beats of the heart; the beats are scarcely perceptible. Stitches in the region of the heart, after dinner.

BACK

Pain in the region of the shoulder when touching it; rheumatic pain between the scapulae.

LEGS

Pain as if sprained in the hip-joint. Pain as if bruised in the thigh. Painful soreness in the hip and knee-joint when bending them.

Charles Julius Hempel
Charles Julius Hempel (5 September 1811 Solingen, Prussia - 25 September 1879 Grand Rapids, Michigan) was a German-born translator and homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. While attending medical lectures at the University of New York, where he graduated in 1845, he became associated with several eminent homeopathic practitioners, and soon after his graduation he began to translate some of the more important works relating to homeopathy. He was appointed professor of materia medica and therapeutics in the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia in 1857.