Asafetida.
CHARACTERISTICS.
Hysteria, hypersensitiveness, tympanites.
TOXIC EFFECTS,
Giddiness. Headache with flying pains. Mental and physical depression. Nervous and hysterical phenomena. Gastric uneasiness with frequent alvine dejections.1.
DOSE.
Tinctura asafoetidae, 1/2-I dr.
Pilulae asafoetidae, (3 gr.). I-3 pills.
Emulsum asafoetidae, 1/2-I oz. (I-3 oz. may be used in an enema).
A very disagreeable remedy.
THERAPEUTIC USES.
Hysteria accompanied by tympanites.1. (Large enema of asafoetida).
Hypochondriasis with tympanites and other hysterical phenomena.1.
Sympathetic cough of nervous mothers.1.
Constipation or diarrhoea, with tympanites, in persons of a feeble and nervous habit.1.
Nervous exhaustion and partial in hysterical subjects.1. (Forty drops of the tincture in a suppository).
Chorea in nervous girls at puberty, accompanied with tardy or irregular menstruation.1.
Flatulent colic of infants.1. (One-half dram enema of the emulsion).
Tympanites of typhoid fever.1. (Enema of from one to three ounces of the emulsion).