Asarum europaeum
par Henry N. Guernsey — Key-Notes to the Materia Medica
General Characteristics.--For chilly persons who are always shrinking from the cold; for example, literary men who are addicted to a sedentary life, and are sick and chilly. After operations on the eye, for a darting pain which remains. Mucous stool. Sensation as though all the body, or a part of the body, were being pressed together. Symptoms are generally on the left side. Vexatious dreams.
Mental.--Great nervous irritation. Feels as if just falling off to sleep, a gradual vanishing of ideas--and so all through.
Head.--Dull and stupid; feels the pulsation of arteries in occiput.
Eyes.--Inflamed, with burning in the lids, especially the canthi. Sunshine and wind are intolerable. Cold ameliorates all sufferings.
Ears.--Dulness of hearing, as if the meatus were partially closed; a sort of tensive pain in the ears continually.
Face.--Warm feeling in face; all symptoms disappear on applying cold water, but return soon after.
Taste.--Smoking tobacco tastes bitter.
Worse.--In cold and dry weather; in clear, fine weather.
Better.--From washing; in damp and wet weather; on wetting the affected parts.
Remedies following:--Caustic., Silic., Pulsat.
Antidote:--Camphor.