ASAFŒTIDA.

Ferula Asafœtida, Linn.

Nat. order , Umbelliferæ.

Common name (German), Stinkasand.

Preparation , Tincture of the gum.

Authorities.

1 , Franz, Collection Archiv., 1, 3, 195 (provings by Stapf, Gross, and Hahnemann); 2 , Voigtel, ibid. (from Syst. d. Arzm.); 3 , Provings by Jöerg and his class (Jöerg Materialien), symptoms obtained from the crude drug; 4 , Lemke, N. Z. f. h. Kl., 13, 129, proving with crude drug; 5 , Dr. Boas, Casp. Wach., 1841 (external application in a plaster); 6 , Jahr, A. H. Z., 15, 63.

MIND

Very irritable in disposition , and yet indifferent to everything, 1.
Fretful and apprehensive mood, which seems to arise from the abdomen; it is, however, not difficult to fix his attention (second day), 1.
Ill-humored, and dislike for work (thirtieth hour), 1.

HEAD

Vertigo, 1, 2, 3.
Slight vertigo, 3.
Turning in the head (third hour), 1.
Confusion of the head, with pressure in the temples (first day), 1.
Dulness of the head, 3.
Head dull and confused, 3. [10.]
Heaviness, fulness, and confusion of the head, followed by aching headache over the whole brain, 3.
Heaviness of the head, 3.
Headache, 3.
Aching in the brain, 3.
With steady heat and pressure in the head there was a sensation of momentary unconsciousness when sitting and reading, 4.
Continued headache, becoming alternately more severe and slighter, 3.
During the night when awaking, and in the morning, some pains in the joints and bones of the head, 4.
Weakness in the head (three-quarters of an hour), 1.
Headache, like an emptiness in the head, which attracts the attention (first day), 1.
Fulness in the head, 3. [20.]
After sleeping well, awoke with fulness of the head, which gradually changed to periodically recurring pains, lasting more or less into the next night, 3.
Fulness of the head, changing gradually into an aching and pressing pain, as if the whole brain were compressed, attended with dizziness, increased heat of skin, and some quickness of pulse, 3.
Fulness of the head, with frequent stitches of pain in the forehead and temples, 3.
The brain seems to be tense, 1.
Rush of blood to the head, and warmth of the face (first day), 1.
Congestion of the head, with heat of the face and headache, 3.
Severe pressure on small places of the skull, 4.
Pain in the forehead, 4.
Frontal headache, 1.
Headache, more particularly on the left side of the forehead, 3. [30.]
Heat in the forehead and face, with chills in the back, and cold hands off and on (three and a half hours), 4.
Sense of tensive confusion and burdensome heaviness of the forehead (after frequent smelling it), 1.
Frequent drawing in the forehead, 4.
Drawing, wavelike pressure, through the left half of the forehead, which ends in a dull pressure on the frontal eminence, 1.*
Pressive pain in the forehead (sixth hour)*
*Pressive pain in the forehead from within outward (fifth hour), 1.
Pressure externally in the forehead (first hour), 1.
Especially hard to bear is a pressure in the forehead and maxilla, 4.
Pressive pain in the right side of the forehead from within outward (one hour and three-quarters), 1.
A slow, intermitting ache (like a pushing out) beneath the right frontal eminence, 1. [40.]
Pressure on the forehead in different places, sometimes combined with stitching pains, 4.
Pressure in the forehead, with weakness in the whole body (two hours and a half), 1.
Tearing pains in the forehead, 4.
Fine needle stitches in the left frontal eminence, 1.
Single, sudden, and deep-penetrating stitches under the left frontal eminence, like shocks, followed by some sensitiveness, 1.*
Swashing and gurgling sensation in the brain, beneath the upper part of the frontal bone (second day), 1.
Near the frontal eminence externally, continued burning stinging, which disappears on touch, and pains as if ulcerated, but immediately disappears (second day), 1.
Tearing in the right temple, 4.
Pressing asunder in both temples, sometimes very severely, 4.
Pressure in the right temple (one hour and a quarter), 1. [50.]
A transient dull pressure over the right temple, suddenly, 1.
Pressure in the left temple, from within outward (sixty-eighth hour), 1.*
A sudden pain in the left temple, like an inward-pressing pointed plug, 1.*
Intermitting pressing-inwards in the left temple, almost like a pushing inward, 1.
Slow, excessive, dull stitches in the left temple, 1.
Single, deep stitches in the left temple, 1.
Sensation of pressure on the vertex, 1.
A pressure exactly on the vertex, and on the forehead over the right eye, 4.
Pains in the left side of the head, extending to the eyes , and changing into intermitting, severe and slight fulness of the brain, 3.*
Stupefying tension in the head, especially in the left side, 1. [60.]
In the right side of the head above the ear, a drawing, which changes into a simple sticking, 1.
Pressive pain on the right side of the head (thirtieth hour), 1.
Pressure in the left side of the head from within outwards (forty-fifth hour), 1.*
A suddenly beginning, rapidly increasing pressure on the left side of the head, as from a dull tool being pressed in; it suddenly goes away, 1.
Pain in the right parietal bone, as from a deeply penetrating plug, 1.*
Aching pain in the occiput, gradually extending over the head, as if the brain were compressed by a cloth thrown over it, 3.
Drawing pain in the occiput, 4.
Drawing and pressure in the occiput, 4.
Pressure on the left side of the occiput (nine hours and a half), 1.
A couple of fine, superficial stitches on the right side of the occiput, 1.

EYES. [70.]

Causes trouble in the eyes, 2.
Troublesome dryness of the eyes, 1.*
Periodic burning in the eyes, and pressing together of the lids, as if overcome with sleep (twenty-sixth hour), 1.
Pressure in both eyes (second day), 1.
Aching over the eyes, as if from great sleepiness, 3.
Burning stinging in the left eye (two and one-quarter hours), 1.
Rough feeling of the eyes, as if sand were under the lids, 3.
Itching in right eye (forty-ninth hour), 1.
Burning in the left brow (thirty-second hour), 1.
Severe boring pain above the eyebrows, 4.* [80.]
Pinching drawing across the supraorbital region (first hour), 1.
Dull pressure on the external margin of the orbit, 1.
Twitchings in the left upper eyelids, 4.
Often a twitching movement in the upper lid, 1.
Frequent burning in the right eyelid, 4.
Burning in the edges of the right eyelid, 4.
Burning in the inner corner of the right eye, 4.
A transient, dull pressure in the middle of the upper lid, 1.
Stitching and itching of the eyelids, 4.
Stitching and itching in the edges of the eyelids, 4. [90.]
Itching, stitching and burning in the lids, especially the right, 4.
Burning in the right ball (twelfth hour), 1.*
Tensive burning in the right ball (twenty-sixth hour), 1.
Burning in the left ball, as from within outward (five and a half hours), 1.*
Burning stinging in the right ball (sixty-second hour), 1.
Some dilatation of the pupils, 3.
Dimness of sight 3.
A kind of dimness of the eyes; on writing, the letters become darker, as from a slight veil over them; disappears after some blinking, 1.
Muscæ volitantes, 4.

EARS

Strong heat of the ears, which burn, and are very red, 4. [100.]
Drawing behind the left ear, 4.
Slight transient drawing on the outer rim of the concha of right ear, 1.
Drawing and stitches around the left ear, 4.
Repeated short drawing in the meatus auditorius, 1.
Pressive pain in the right ear (forty-nine hours), 1.
Pressure in the left ear (two and a half hours), 1.
Dull sensibility, especially dull hearing, forenoon; he hears nothing distinctly, must always ask a second time (first day), 1.
Clear ringing before the ear, 1.

NOSE

Violent sneezing several times a day, 1.
Coryza (thirty-sixth hour), 1. [110.]
Pressure in the nose, as if it would burst, especially in the right wing (thirty-one hours), 1.

FACE

Heat of the face and ear continues, and with hot hands, chills run down the back, 4.
Heat in the face, even the ears feel hot, 4.
Pressure in the right side of the face from within outward (half an hour), 1.
Heat in the cheeks, 4.
Severe heat in the cheeks, perceptible to the touch, 4.
Frequent flushes of heat over the cheeks, afternoon (first day), 1.
Heat of the cheeks and forehead, with heaviness, 4.
Stinging burning in left cheek (four and a half hours), 1.
Itching in the right cheek (seventy-two hours), 1. [120.]
Stitches in the skin of the left cheek, then on the right, 4.
Pressure on the zygomatic bone, 4.
Drawing pain in the left cheek, 4.
Pressure in the left cheek (twenty-four hours), 1.
In various places in the face, on the malar bone, the nasal bones, painless tension, with a kind of numb sensation, 1.*
On the left angle of the chin, in a small area, a numb pressure, which extends into the tooth right above it, 1.
Pain in the maxillary joints, 3.
A transient pain, like a continuous pinch, on the ramus of the lower jaw, 1.
Drawing in the left lower maxilla, 4.
Drawing in the right lower maxilla, then in the right forehead, 4. [130.]
Pressure in the maxillary joint, 4.
Severe pressure in the left corner of the maxilla, 4.

MOUTH

Bluntness of the teeth, 4.
Severe drawing in the lower incisors, 4.
Soreness of the gums, 3.
Great dry sensation in the mouth, though he has moisture enough (first day), 1.
Burning in the mouth, throat, and stomach, 3.
A biting-burning pain on the point of the tongue, frequently repeated, 4.
Stitches in the point of the tongue, 4.
Accumulation of spittle, 3. [140.]
Accumulation of saliva in the mouth, 4.
Salivation, 3.
Continual running of saliva in the mouth, 4.
Insipid taste, 3.
The taste (of the drug) is not only nauseous, but also harsh and hard, and hard to be got out of the mouth, 4.
Fatty, rancid taste in the mouth, 3.
Rancid taste in the mouth, as if the stomach had been disordered by rich and fatty food, 3.

THROAT

Dryness in the throat; while swallowing, tension in it (twelve hours), 1.
In the evening , a hysterical rising in the throat, as if a ball or large body ascended from the stomach to the œsophagus, or even pharynx, obliging him repeatedly to attempt to swallow it, 3.*
With constriction of the throat, pressure in the chest (sixty-three hours), 1. [150.]
Drawing along down the left side of the throat, on motion (first day), 1.
Spasms in the œsophagus, 3.
Spasm of the œsophagus, like that of hysteria, 3.*
Hysteric rising in the œsophagus, 3.
Sensations as if the peristaltic motion were reversed, and, in the œsophagus were being driven from the stomach up towards the throat, 3.*
Aching and burning in the œsophagus and throat, resembling heartburn, like that after eating too much fatty food, 3.

STOMACH

Appetite increased, 3.
Hunger with nausea, 4.
Hunger, with desire for strong cooling food, 4.
Loss of appetite, 3. [160.]
Appetite poor, 3.
Aversion to beer, it tastes slimy (first day), 1.
Constant eructations of air having the taste of garlic, 4.
Frequent eructations tasting of the drug, 4.
Eructations, 3.
Frequent offensive eructations, 3.
Eructations followed by nausea and disgust for food, 3.
Frequent garlic-like eructations, 3.
Frequent eructations with the garlicky smell of the remedy, 3.
Eructations, 3. [170.]
Frequent eructations, 3.
Eructations with profuse accumulations of saliva, 3.
Disgust and nausea, 3.
Nausea, 1, 3.
Distension of the stomach and bowels, with a feeling as if the peristaltic motions were reversed, with much spasmodic working in the œsophagus, 3.*
Pain in left side of the stomach, 3.
Increased warmth and aching in the stomach, toward the left side, not at all to the right, but more up into the œsophagus, like the globus hystericus, 3.
Continuous and acute pain in the stomach, 3.
Stomachache in alternating exacerbations and remissions, 3. [180.]
Stomachache in intermittent paroxysms, 3.
Aching and distending pain as if from flatulence in the stomach and œsophagus, extending more toward the spleen than the liver, 3.
Feeling as if the stomach had been disordered by indigestible fatty food, 3.
Intermittent pains in the stomach and abdomen, 3.
Burning in the stomach and diaphragm, 3.
Burning in the stomach, 3.
Aching in the stomach, 3.
Sickly sensation in the pit of the stomach, like pressure, not exactly painful, 4.
Aching and drawing pain in the stomach, extending first toward the spleen, and afterward in the direction of the liver, increased on full inspiration, 3.
Perceptible pulsation in the pit of the stomach (first day), 1.* [190.]
Pulsation in the pit of the stomach, even perceptible to the finger (second day), 1.
Violent pressive pain in the pit of the stomach, extending towards the liver region, when sitting (first day), 1.
Pressure in the epigastric region shortly after eating (first day), 1.
Pressure in the epigastric region, with great dejection after eating (second day), 1.

ABDOMEN

Griping ( into a ball ) pain below the navel when standing (first day), 1.
Pressive pain at the navel, extending outward (twenty-one hours), 1.
Burning sticking in the umbilicus (twenty-nine hours), 1.
Crawling sticking in the umbilical region (four hours), 1.
Fine pointed stitches in the navel (two and a half hours), 1.
In the flanks a pressive pain on drawing in the abdominal muscles (first day), 1.* [200.]
Abdomen distended, 3.
Great distension of the abdomen, 3.*
All the symptoms disappeared in the evening except the distension of the abdomen, 3.
Great distension of the abdomen, notwithstanding frequent discharges of flatus, 3.
Remarkable distension of the abdomen, somewhat after a hard, dark, very pungent and offensive stool, causing pain in rectum, 3.
Rumbling in the bowels, 3.
Violent rumbling in the bowels, 3.
Rumbling in the intestines (eleven hours), 1.
Painless rumbling in the intestines (one and a half hours), 1.
Bellyache, with violent movements and rumbling in the bowels, 3. [210.]
Discharge of flatulence, 3.
Increased passage of flatus, 1.
Easy, sometimes almost or quite involuntary passage of flatus, which is scarcely noticed, 1.
Many expulsions of offensive flatulence, 3.
Much very offensive flatulence, with retained stool, 3.
Much retained flatulence, which only passed off the following morning, with a half-diarrhœic evacuation, 3.
Relief from time to time, by discharge of offensive flatus, 3.
Sensation of the greatest illness in the whole abdomen, with great heaviness and pressure in the sides (second day), 1.
Pain in the upper abdomen, as from taking cold, and as if diarrhœa would ensue, with a kind of ravenous hunger (second day), 1.*
Drinking disagrees, causes immediate heaviness, and chilling sensation in the intestines (first day), 1. [220.]
Burning in abdomen, 1.
Flatulent pain in abdomen when walking after dinner (first day), 1.
Tension in the abdomen, after eating, as if he had overfed (second day), 1.
Pinching in the intestines (six hours), 1.
Gripings with flatulence (one hour), 1.
Intermitting griping in the upper abdomen, 1.
Violent cutting pains in the bowels, 3.
Cutting pinching in the intestines (twenty-three hours), 1.
Cutting in the abdomen when walking or sitting, 4.
Sticking gripings in the left side of abdomen (twelve hours), 1. [230.]
Violent colic pains, with rumbling in the bowels, 3.
Pinching drawing across the abdomen, extending outwards (second day), 1.
In the morning, sensation in the epigastric region, and in the whole abdomen, as if it were all beaten, with sense of fulness in the former, and eructations (second day), 1.
Itching in the skin of the abdomen, below the navel (five hours), 1.
Stitches extending from within outward, in both sides of the abdomen, while sitting, after eating; disappears on pressure (second day).
Sticking from within outward in left side of abdomen (seventy hours), 1.
Sudden, jerklike, violent stitch from the right side of the abdomen, from within outward, toward the parietes (first day), 1.
Stitches in the left side of the abdomen, when walking (first day), 1.
Pointed stitches in the left side of the abdomen, externally, which go away completely on rubbing (three and a half hours), 1.
Clucking stitch in the left side of the abdomen, extending outwards, with flatulence (sixty-two hours), 1. [240.]
Attacks of slight griping in the lower abdomen (half an hour), 1.
Laborlike cutting and forcing pains in the lower part of the bowels, in the region of the uterus, 3.
On the left side of the lower abdomen, violent sticking and drawing, which extends along the inner side of the ilium, when sitting (second day), 1.
Violent stitch in the lower abdomen (two and a half hours), 1.
Itching sticking in the skin of the right side of the lower abdomen (five hours), 1.

ASAFŒTIDA. STOOL AND ANUS.

Tenesmus, 3.
Pain in the perineum, as though something dull pressed out there (first day), 1.*
Constant dysenteric feeling, as if a stool would take place, 3.
Persistent but fruitless urging to stool, 3.
Fruitless urging to stool, 3. [250.]
Frequent urging to stool, 3.
More frequent stools than usual in twenty-four hours, 1.
Causes diarrhœa, 2.
Watery stools, 3.
Mushy stools, with much flatulence, without pain, but with feeling of fulness and heaviness in the abdomen, 3.
Small, partly hard, partly mushy stools, 3.
Profuse, thick, papescent, brown, and very offensive stool, 3.*
Very solid, dark-brown, nauseously offensive stool, 3.
Hard, dark, offensive stool, 3.
Fluid stools, with violent pressing down on the rectum, 3. [260.]
Thick, papescent stools, light yellow, 3.
Symptoms relieved after a blackish-brown, very thick, papescent, and exceedingly offensive stool, 3.*
Watery stools, without bellyache, but with profuse discharge of flatulence, which did not remove the great distension of the abdomen, 3.
Diarrhœa, with pains in the bowels (two and a half hours), 1.
Diarrhœa, two to three times daily, with bellyache, for three days. Diarrhœa, three to four times daily, for four days in succession, with bellyache, 1.
Flatulence with diarrhœa (five hours), 1.
Two stools without pain, but some rumbling, and leaving heaviness and distension of the abdomen behind, 3.
Constipation, 3.
Constipation with almost constant tenesmus, 3.
Constipation for two days, then a difficult hard stool, 3. [270.]
Constipation and much tenesmus, with distension of the abdomen, 3.

URINARY ORGANS

Repeated stitches in the urethra, 4.
Severe slight stitches in the urethra, 4.
Stitching and burning in the urethra, but not when urinating, 4.
The urine is smaller in quantity and darker, 4.
The urine smells strongly of the drug, 4.
Urine acrid and pungent, though lighter colored, 3.
Urine brownish-yellow, 3.
Urine brownish-yellow ammoniacal, but without sediment, 3.
Urine dark, and ammoniacal, 3. [280.]
Easy discharge of dark-brown urine, which deposited no sediment, but which smelled very strong and pungent, 3.

SEXUAL ORGANS

Peculiar pressing toward the genital organs, with pains in, and tenderness of, the testicles, 3.
Drawing in the glans penis while urinating, 3.
The drawing pain in the glans penis alternately disappeared and returned, 3.
Pointed stitches close to the penis in the mons veneris (second hour), 1.
Needle-like stitches, externally, on the penis (sixtieth hour), 1.
Swelling of the scrotum, 5.
Increase of sexual inclination for several hours, 3.
Swelling of the female genitals (so great, that antiphlogistic remedies had to be used), 5.*
Nymphomania in a plethoric woman (from large doses), 6. [290.]
Violent laborlike pains in the region of the uterus, intermitting, 3.
Menses ten days too soon, scanty for three days, then became natural, 3.

RESPIRATORY APPARATUS

So smothered in the air-passages that he must hack repeatedly; the tone of the hacking cough is not clear, but hoarse (from smelling the strong tincture), 1.
Dry irritative cough, excited by tickling in the larynx, 3.
Frequent cough, with slimy expectoration, 3.
Slightly quickened respiration, 3.
Quickness of breathing, interrupted by coughing and yawning, 3.

CHEST

The breasts swelled as large as if she were in the last month of pregnancy, and a milky discharge escaped from them, 5.
In the region of the short ribs, right around across the back, a jerklike constriction, 1.
*Spasmodic tightness of the chest, as if the lungs could not be fully expanded, 3. [300.]
Spasmodic contraction of the chest, so severe that the pulse became small, contracted, irregular, and slow-60 or 65, 3.
Oppressive aching feeling in the chest, relieved by mucous expectoration, 3.*
Severe pressure in some dorsal vertebræ, 4.
Drawing pressive pain, with contraction of the chest (half an hour), 1.
Pressure here and there in the thorax and in the muscles of the back, 4.
Pressure on the chest, with constriction of the throat (sixty-third hour), 1.
Pressive pain in the left intercostal muscles, from within outward (thirty-seventh hour), 1.
Pressure in the left intercostal muscles, from within outward, which is worse during inspiration and expiration (fifth hour), 1.*
Decided oppression of the chest, 3.
Slight oppression of the chest, 3. [310.]
Spasmodic oppression of the chest, 3.
The oppression of the chest increased to an agonizing degree, preventing respiration, and driving the patient about in a restless manner, 3.*
Great oppression of the chest, with pressure and throbbing in it, when lying, soon after a meal (second day), 1.
Burrowing sticking, from the diaphragm out to the left ribs, continues on inspiration and expiration (sixty-seventh hour), 1.
Penetrating stitches in the chest after hawking, when standing and sitting (sixty-fourth hour), 1.
Needle stitches in all the intercostal muscles, when sitting, 1.
Stitches and pressure in the chest, when lying, with very difficult sighing, sobbing inspiration; on pressing with the hand on the chest, or on sitting up, it disappears (second day), 1.
Weak movements in the left intercostal muscles (four and a half hours), 1.
When stooping, severe pain back in the region of the left short ribs, 4.
Burning drawing in the right intercostal muscles (sixty-first hour), 1. [320.]
Pressive sticking in the right cavity of the thorax, then fine stitches, with pressive pain, in the ribs near the spine (fifth hour), 1.
Pressure under the left front edges of the ribs, 4.
Pressure in the thorax, to the right side, extending outward (sixty-ninth hour), 1.
Lasting pressure behind, in the region of the left short ribs, 4.
Pressive pain in the right side of the chest, from within outward (twenty-sixth hour), 1.*
Pressure in front, below the edge of the left ribs, 4.
Oppression of chest, especially on left side, 3.
Drawing-sticking pain in the left side of the chest (four and a half hours), 1.
A pressive sticking pain on the lower ribs of the right side, which extends into the abdomen to the flank of the same side (half an hour), 1.
Stitch in the right ribs (sixth hour), 1. [330.]
Tensive stitches in the left intercostal muscles (fifty-eighth hour), 1.
Dull stitches in the left ribs (sixty-third hour), 1.
Pinching sharp stitches in the right inner side of the ribs (twenty-seventh hour), 1.
Boring stitches in the left cavity of the thorax, from within outward, continuing the same during inspiration and expiration, 1.
Boring dull stitches in the left side, extending outward to the ribs, continuing during inspiration and expiration (forty-seventh hour), 1.
Stitches in the region of the diaphragm, on the right side (twenty-fourth hour), 1.
After a meal, stitches in the region of the last true ribs, right side, and oppression of the chest, 1.
Pressure in the sternum, 4.
Pressure in the sternum and on the right side of it, 4.
On bending the thorax forward, a pressure on the lower part of the sternum (first day), 1. [340.]
Even on compressing the abdomen, pressure on the lower part of the sternum, and nausea, with fulness at the pit of stomach (second day), 1.
Pressive pain in the middle of the sternum, with a kind of nausea rising up from the chest (thirty-fourth hour), 1.
Dull pressure in the sternum; passes off on inspiring and expiring, but returns on writing (three-quarters of an hour), 1.
Pressive stitches in the sternum, from within outward (thirty-second hour), 1.
Fleeting but very painful stitches under the breast-bone, with aching and burning in the chest, and frequent inclination to cough, 3.
Pressive throbbing in the thorax, extending to the fauces, on standing and sitting (sixty-fourth hour), 1.

HEART AND PULSE

Congestion and distension of the heart, attended with smallness of the pulse, and followed by loose stool, 3.
Slight palpitation of the heart, more like a tremor, several times, when sitting, 4.*
Aching pain in the region of the heart, as if from overfilling, 3.
Quickness of the pulse, 3. [350.]
Fulness and quickness of the pulse, 3.
Pulse small and frequent, 3.
The beating of the heart and pulse became somewhat small, quick, and irregular, 3.*
Pulse small and rather slow, 3.

NECK AND BACK

Twitching in the muscles of the right side of the neck (twenty-third hour), 1.
Clucking in the muscles of the left scapula (forty-second hour), 1.
Drawing pain in the muscles of the neck, right side, 4.
Drawing down along the left side of the neck, on motion (second day), 1.
Pressure in the right side of the neck (second hour), 1.
Attacks of pain in the back, especially below the scapula (sixth hour), 1. [360.]
Pain in the back, especially in the right scapula (twenty-ninth hour), 1.
Repeated transient drawings in the left scapula, 1.
Pressive pain in the right scapula (two and a half hours), 1.
Cutting pain below the right scapula (fifty-fourth hour), 1.
Dull stitches externally in the left scapula (twenty-fourth hour), 1.
Fine burning stitches in and behind the right scapula, extending toward the ribs (second and third hour), 1.*
Under the left shoulder-blade, when stooping, severe stitches, 4.
Itching on the right scapula (forty-second hour), 1.
Twitching in the muscles of the lower half of the back, when sitting, 1.
Cannot work on account of the backache (thirtieth hour), 1.* [370.]
Pain in the right side of the back (sixth hour), 1.
Perceptible sensation of heat along the back, 4.
Burning in the vertebræ, more on the left side, 1.
Severe pressure in some of the costal vertebræ, 4.
Pressing pains, sometimes very severe, on both sides of the spinal column, in the region of the short ribs, repeating several times, and sometimes aggravated by the motion of the trunk, 4.
Stitch in the latissimus dorsi, near the upper arm (first day), 1.
Tensive stitch in the dorsal muscles of the left side, from below upward (twenty-fourth hour), 1.
Transient stitches in the right side of the back (forty-ninth hour), 1.
Crawling in the skin of the back, 4.
Drawing pressive pain along the four to five last dorsal and the first lumbar vertebræ, as if it were internal along the bodies of the vertebræ themselves (first day), 1. [380.]
Continual dull pressure in the lumbar region, 4.
Pressive pain in the small of the back, especially on bending the upper part of the body forward and backward (first day), 1.
Tearing pain in the small of the back, when sitting, 1.
Tensive sticking in the left loin, continuing during inspiration and expiration disappearing on walking (twenty-sixth hour), 1.
Boring sticking in the left loin, from within outward, disappears on inspiration and expiration (forty-first hour), 1.
Burrowing pressive sticking in the left loin, from within outward, toward the ribs, with anxiety (forty-fifth hour), 1.
Fine stitches, as with needles, around the left loin (twenty-sixth hour), 1.
Fine stitches, from the right loin toward the ribs (fifth hour), 1.
Stitch extending along the sacrum to the anus (first day), 1.

EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL

In many places on the limbs, rapidly passing cramplike drawings, like a twitching, 1. [390.]
Bruised feeling in the extremities, especially in the knees, when sitting, 4.
Rheumatic pains in the arms and legs, especially in the joints and shoulder-blades, but shifting locally from time to time, 3.
Drawing and stitching in the calves, in the muscles of the arms, here and there, more in the flexors, 4.
Pressure on the joint of the right great toe, above the right carpus, and on the back of the right hand, 4.
Shortly after waking up, tearing in the right shoulder, and several times in the left tibia; after rising, in the joint of the left foot, in the toes, and in the finger-joints, 4.
Severe bruised feeling in the muscles of the upper arm, in the joints of the hands and feet, and severely in paroxysms in some places, 4.

UPPER EXTREMITIES

Twitching in the left shoulder-joint, toward the outer side (ninth hour), 1.
Twitching in the left shoulder (first hour), 1.
Twitching in the deltoid muscle (second hour), 1.
Twitching in the deltoid muscle (fourth hour), 1. [400.]
Drawing in the muscles of the left shoulder-blade, 4.
Paralytic drawing pain along the left shoulder and down the upper arm, in rest (second day), 1.
Pressing pains in the shoulder-joints, 4.
Frequent pressure in the shoulders, more in the right, 4.
Below the right axilla toward the front an intermitting severe inward pressure, without oppression of respiration, 1.
Beneath the left axilla a transient inward pressure, 1.
A pressive pain at the scapular end of the clavicle when sitting (first day), 1.
Dull stitches in the left shoulder (first hour), 1.
Stitches in the left shoulder-joint from within outward (twenty-sixth hour), 1.
Below the left axilla some fine superficial but sensitive needle stitches, 1. [410.]
Fine tensive stitches in the shoulder-joint extending inward (second hour), 1.
Bruised sensation in the shoulder and elbow-joints, 4.
Twitching in the left upper arm-joint, extending inward (forty-eighth hour), 1.
Twitching in the muscles on the outer side of the left upper arm (fourth hour), 1.
A drawing pain around the head of the humerus, on holding the arm still, with a kind of trembling over irritability (as after great fatigue) in the muscles themselves, so that he must constantly move them (first day), 1.
Tensive drawing in the left upper arm on the inner side (third hour), 1.
Pressing in the muscles of the right upper arm, 4.
Pressure on the muscles of the right arm, 4.
Intermittent cramplike pressure in the left upper arm not far from the shoulder, 1.
Burning stitch on the outer side of the right upper arm (forty-eighth hour), 1. [420.]
Tensive stitches in the right upper arm from the upper part outward toward the inner side, immediately, 1.
Boring stitches in the inner surface of the right upper arm, which do not disappear on motion (forty-third hour), 1.
Pressive sticking in the right upper arm, on its inner surface from within outward (sixty-eighth hour), 1.
Sticking pain on the inner side of the left upper arm (twenty-sixth hour), 1.
Twitching sensation in the inner muscles of the left upper arm (thirty-fourth hour), 1.
Burning on the outer side of the right elbow-joint (seventh hour), 1.
Fine stitch in the elbows (twenty-sixth and sixty-fourth hour), 1.
A fine, long stitch extending into the bend of the elbow (sixty-fourth hour), 1.
A cramplike twitching extends down the right forearm, with the feeling as if the hand would stiffen, 1.
In slow intermissions, cramplike drawing streaming up along the inner surface of the left forearm, 1. [430.]
Pressure on the outside of the left forearm (second hour), 1.
Boring pressure on the inner side of the left forearm from within outward (first hour), 1.
On moving the finger, tearing pains along up the forearm, 1.
Tearing pains up along the forearm, on bending the fingers (first day), 1.
Dull sticking on the inside of the right forearm, 1.
Tearing stitches followed by burning extend up the right forearm, during rest (second day), 1.
Stitches on the skin of the right forearm, 4.
Pain as if beaten in the bones of the wrist, in rest (second day), 1.
A scraping sensation on the inner (ulnar) condyle at the wrist, 1.
The hands soon get icy cold, the coldness of the back increases and keeps on, with slow pulse, 4. [440.]
Pressure on the joints of the hands, 4.
In bed, repeatedly, severe pressing in the joints of the right hand and in the right temple, and these appeared at 6 A.M., exactly on awaking, and with pressing in the neck, 4.
A dull pain in the palm of the right hand as from a pressive body, with the sensation as if the hand would stiffen, 1.
Pressive sticking on the back of the right hand (eighth hour), 1.
Cramplike sensitive twitching in the metacarpal bones of the left thumb, 1.
Frequent pains in the joint of the left thumb, 4.
A numblike pain on the metacarpal bone of the left middle finger, as if an oppressive body lay on it, 1.
A transient cramplike pain in the right thumb, with unhindered motion of it; immediately afterward, also in the left thumb, 1.
Severe aching, from time to time, in the external condyle of the wrist-side of the thumb, 1.
Cramplike aching in the flesh between the metacarpal bones of the left thumb and index finger, 1. [450.]
Pointed sticking burning at the tip of the left index finger (sixty-third hour), 1.
Drawing pain in the joints of all the fingers, 4.
Drawing in the joints of the fingers, on the dorsum of the hands and feet, 4.
Pressure at the root of the middle and index finger of the right hand, continuing on various motions (eighth hour), 1.
Pressive pain from the right wrist, extending into the right index finger (twenty-ninth hour), 1.
Pressing pain in the joints of the left thumb, 4.
Pressure on the inner side of the thumb (ninth hour), 1.
Severe pressing in the joints of the left thumb, and later in the joints of the other fingers, 4.
On lying and in rest, drawing pressure on the back of the finger, and jerks from the forearm to the elbow (second day), 1.
Stitches in the finger-joints, 4. [460.]
Dull stitch from the thumb outward toward the back of the hand (forty-fifth hour), 1.
Frequent stitches in paroxysms in the joints of the small finger, worse on motion of the joint, 4.

ASAFŒTIDA.

LOWER EXTREMITIES

When walking, drawing and pressure in the lower extremities, 4.
Violent tearing pressive pain in the whole right leg, less on walking (third hour), 1.
Tearing around the hip-joint on walking (first day), 1.
Drawing fine stitches in the right hip-joint, extending into the intestines (twenty-ninth hour), 1.
Twitches in the right gluteal muscles (sixty-eighth hour), 1.
On the anterior surface of the left thigh, not far from the knee, a frequent wavelike twitching, 1.
Twitchings in the anterior muscles of the thigh, in the upper half (forty-ninth hour), 1.
Twitchings on the anterior side of the right thigh (twenty-fifth hour), 1. [470.]
Twitchings in the muscles of the right thigh (fifth hour), 1.
Twitchings of the muscles of the left thigh (second hour), 1.
Superficial twitchings on the inner side of the left thigh (one-quarter of an hour), 1.
On the inner surface of the thigh, at the upper part, sensitive twitchings in slow intermissions, 1.
Burning on the anterior surface of the thigh when sitting, 1.
Drawing in the muscles of the right thigh, 4.
Tensive drawing on the inside of the right thigh, 1.
Constant drawing in the muscles of the right thigh, running down the knee and foot, where a pressure is several times felt, jumping up also to the knee when sitting, 1.
Paralytic drawing pain on the outer side of the thigh when sitting, 1.
Drawing pressive pain in the hamstrings on making them tense (first day), 1.
Pressing pain in the muscles of the inside of the right thigh, in the joints of the right foot, recurring several times, also in the joints of the left foot, in sitting as well as when walking, 4. [480.]
Twitching tearing in the left thigh (forty-eighth hour), 1.
Tearing in the left femur when sitting (first day), 1.
Pains in the flesh of the right thigh as if a pointed body stuck therein, 1.
Stitches in the skin of the external side of the left thigh, 4.
Dull stitches in the right gluteal muscles (twenty-ninth hour), 1.
Dull, sensitive, regularly-beating stitches in the outer surface of the left thigh in a small spot, just below the hip-joint, 1.
A restlessness (trembling) in the thigh and leg when sitting, like a violent pulsation of the arteries, after a walk, 1.
Twitching on the inner side of the right knee-joint (twenty-ninth hour), 1.
Twitching in the outer side of the left knee-joint, 1.
The pains in the knees are severe and of long duration, 4. [490.]
Burning aching, which sometimes changes to a burning throbbing, in a small spot on the upper part of the knee, 1.
Drawing in the muscles above the knee, 4.
Stitching-drawing pains in the right knee and above it, worse when walking, 4.
Pressure in the knees, 4.
Frequent pressure in knees, more in the right, when sitting, 4.
Pressive pain behind the left patella, 1.
Burning sticking in the right patella (fourth hour), 1.
Stitches on the knee near the patella, on sitting; the patella pains on touch as if sore and ulcerated, 1.
Stitching pains in the knees and joints of the feet, wandering about, when sitting, 4.
Fine stitch in the left knee-joint when sitting (sixty-first hour), 1. [500.]
Clucking in the left knee-joint on the inner side (thirty-sixth hour), 1.
Itching on the inner side of the right knee-joint, which continues on motion (thirtieth hour), 1.
Itching of the skin of the left patella, which does not disappear on scratching (twenty-seventh hour), 1.
The lower leg goes to sleep easily, if its nerves are the slightest compressed; for example, if one leg is crossed over the other in sitting, the latter goes to sleep immediately, 1.
A drawing in the skin of the entire external surface of the left leg several times, 4.
Itching sticking in the left tibia in the forepart below the knee; disappears on walking (sixth hour), 1.
A general twitching in the muscles of the upper half of the right tibia, 1.
Severe drawing in the right tibia, 4.
Pressure in the left tibia, which disappears on motion (thirty-sixth hour), 1.
Sharp stitches from within outward in the right tibia (second hour), 1. [510.]
(Sharp stitches running down in the left tibia toward the inside) (fourth hour), 1.
Tensive burning in the left calf (seventy-second hour), 1.
Drawing in the calves, 4.
Drawing pain in the left calf, 4.
Pressive pain below the right calf; on walking it disappears (first hour), 1.
Severe stitches in the right calf when sitting, later when walking, 4.
Stitches in the right calf, and like pinching when sitting, for a long while, then the same pain in the muscles above the right knee, 4.
Twitching in the right ankle extending downward (thirty-sixth hour), 1.
(The decided, cold swelling around the malleoli disappeared in the first twenty hours; curative action), 1.
In walking about, pressure in the joint of the right foot and towards the calf, 4. [520.]
Itching sticking below the inner malleolus of the right foot, which at once disappears on rubbing (forty-second hour), 1.
Dull stitches in the left ankle toward the inner side (twenty-ninth hour), 1.
Sensitive intermitting throbbing on the inner side of the left foot, 1.
Sensation in the lower part of the left foot (which rides over the other and hangs down) as if it would become stiffened.
Burrowing on the inner side of the left foot (forty-second hour), 1.
In walking, pressure in the joint of the left foot, for a great while, 4.
Severe pressing pain in the joints of the right foot when walking, after awhile the same pain in the left foot when sitting, but worse when walking, 4.
Pressure in the joints of the feet and knees, in walking, 4.
Pressive pain on the back of the left foot when sitting (forty-eighth hour), 1.
An irregular intermittent severe tension as from a tight boot on the right instep, 1. [530.]
Pointed stitches in the dorsum of the right foot, which go away completely on walking (fourth hour), 1.
Itching on the dorsum of the foot continues when sitting and walking (sixty-sixth hour), 1.
Twitching in the left sole toward the toes (second hour), 1.
Pressive pain in the right sole, on sitting (forty-sixth hour), 1.
Sensation in the ball of the left sole as if he had stood long upon it, 1.
Slight twitching in the right great toe (half hour), 1.
Drawing pains in the right toes, 4.
Burning pressure at the root of the left great toe (forty-ninth hour), 1.
Fine stitches in the third toe of the right foot, on walking (twenty-fourth hour), 1.
Burning stitches in the left little toe (sixty-eighth hour), 1. [540.]
A sensitive throbbing in the left great toe from time to time, 1.
In the left great toe a simple, sometimes throbbing pain, on rest and motion.
Painful throbbing in the tip of the great toe, 1.*
Itching crawling on the lower surface of the right great toe (forty-ninth hour), 1.

GENERALITIES

Yawning, discomfort, restlessness, and debility, 3.
Sense of heaviness in the whole body, 1.
(Unusual fatigue at evening, followed by very sound sleep), 1.
Troublesome lassitude, 3.
Great lassitude and sleepiness in the evening, 3.
Great weakness on moving; so long as he lies still or stands he feels bright and strong, except a languishing feeling, whereby the mouth is very dry (first day), 1. [550.]
Sense of general prostration; the limbs sink down heavily and relaxed, and the head feels dizzy, 1.
Causes, in large doses, hemorrhages, 2.
(Asafœtida penetrates the whole organism (in large doses); all secretions, the breath, sweat, urine, flatulence, the pus in the carious ulcers, smell of it), 2.
A good night's sleep was followed, early in the morning, by oppression of the chest, quick breathing, and beating of the pulse and heart, distension of the abdomen, and in three hours by troublesome aching of the stomach; all relieved in three hours more by partly solid, partly papescent, dark-brownish and blackish stools, smelling strongly of the drug; also the rheumatic pains in the back of the head, extending to the arms, and drawing, rending pains in the back of the neck subsided after the stools, 3.
Drawing in the muscles of the shoulder-blades, thighs, fingers, and in the right cheek, 4.
Pressing pains in the thorax, in the elbow-joint below the edge of the ribs on the left side, when walking, and in the muscles of the shoulder-blades, 4.
After rising, pressure in the forehead, drawing in the muscles of the right forearm, in the muscles of the left cheek; pressure in the right tibia, in the left calf; drawing and pressing in different places of the forehead, 4.
Stitches as with needles, 1.
Stitches in the points of the toes, in the skin of the right axilla, on the right cheek. [560.]
Fine, superficial, sensitive, needle-stitches here and there, so that he must rub, 1.
Trembling over the whole body, with coldness of the skin, and small, weak pulse, 3.
Frequent repetition of the pains, 4.
The pains return frequently, and jump from one place to another, 4. [ **
Note.**
The following are clinical: (Chorea, Geisschlager in Hufeland's Journ., 10).
(A very "cold" swelling, pitting on pressure, around the malleoli, diminished in eight hours, and disappeared in thirty hours), 1.
(The pus from a carious tibia, previously ichorous, very offensive, and thin, became thicker and odorless; twelfth hour), 1.
(The charpie did not adhere to the sore any longer, causing, on removal, unendurable pain in the bone underlying it, but came off easily and without pain, even without previous wetting; twenty-eighth hour), 1.
(No longer tormented by the nightly syphilitic bone-pains, but can again sleep under his feather-bed ; twelfth hour), 1.
(The apparently healthy portion of the tibia lying beneath the peculiar carious ulcer, became again sensitive and painful to the slightest touch, or even the approach of the finger, so also to the removal of the charpie, and at night also almost unendurable ; second day), 1.
(The superficial sore in the skin, around the peculiar carious ulcer in the calf and inner side of the knee, becomes again bright-red, bleeds easily, and covered with a tough, membranous, coagulated lymph-crust, to which the charpie sticks fast, and when it is removed the whole epidermis around the sore is painfully abraded, clear, transparent, lymphlike pus is seen in the sore; second day), 1.
(Most extreme sensitiveness, in the vicinity of the carious ulcer of the tibia, of the superficial skin-sores, and also of the ulcer itself; the patient cries out if the finger touches a place distant from the ulcer; removal of charpie causes most severe pain ; second day), 1 .]

SKIN

Burning in the skin externally on left leg, 4.

SLEEP AND DREAMS

Unusual desire to sleep (thirtieth hour), 1.
Toward 9 P.M. the pains cease entirely, and a good night follows, 4.
Sleep disturbed very much, 3.
Restless night, 3.
Vivid dreams of business and feasting, 1. [570.]
Sleep full of dreams of things of which he had previously spoken or thought; the dream becomes a true continuation, which afterward is completely realized, 1.

FEVER

Chills ran over the body from time to time, 3.*
Chilliness lasts till after 9 A.M., 4.
Chilliness in the back, cold hands, 4.
Slight chilly feeling in the back and loins, 3.
The chilliness in the back increased, ran through the upper and lower extremities, the hands got cold, a creeping chill ran through the whole body, the nails were bluish, much salivation, and sometimes Asafœtida eructations, 4.
In walking up and down the room several times, severe chilliness in the back, cold feet, cold hands, with blue nails, 4.
The chilliness seemed to be somewhat less, perhaps from being obliged to walk incessantly the whole morning, 4.
Chilliness at 6 P.M., with increased warmth of the hands (second hour), 4.
In two hours the hands begin to get cold, and some chilliness in the back; the same wandering pains remain, with heat in head and face, 4. [580.]
Repeated alternations of chilliness in the back and cold hands, with heat and heaviness and pressure in the head; even a slight motion in the warm room aggravates the chilliness, 4.
Coldness of the hands, with blue nails, with continued heat of the face and head, visible twitches of the right lower eyelid, stitches in the point of the tongue, pressure in the sternum, chilliness in the back, wandering pains, 4.
With the heat of the face , cold hands and feet, and chills of the back from 8 1/2 to 9 A.M., 4.
The fever disappears about 5 1/2 P.M., and a sensation of heat only remains, 4.
After eating, feverish, with heat in the face (without perceptible heat externally), without thirst, but with anxiety and sleepiness, 1.
Cold sweat on the forehead and limbs, 3.

CONDITIONS

Aggravation.
( Morning ), Pain in joints, etc., of head; sensation as if beaten, etc., in epigastric region, etc.; after rising, tearing in joint of left foot, etc.; early, oppression of chest, etc.
( Evening ), Hysteric rising in throat; great lassitude, etc.
( Night ), When awaking, pain in joints, etc., of head.
( Bending thorax forward ), Pressure on lower part of sternum.
( Bending upper part of body back and forth ), Pressive pain in small of back.
( After dinner ), When walking, flatulent pain in abdomen.
( Drinking ), Causes heaviness, etc., in intestines.
( After eating ), Pressure in epigastric region; pressure in epigastric region, etc.; tension in abdomen.
( During inspiration and expiration ), Pressure in left intercostal muscles; sticking in left loin.
( When lying ), Soon after a meal, great oppression of chest, etc.; stitches, etc., in chest.
( Motion ), Drawing down left side of throat; drawing down left side of neck; stitches in joints of small finger; great weakness; chilliness.
( On moving finger ), Pain along forearm.
( Motion of painful joints ), Increases sufferings.
( Rest ), Pain along left shoulder, etc.; stitches up right forearm; pain as if beaten in wrist bones.
( Sitting ), Pain in pit of stomach; cutting in abdomen; drawing across abdomen, etc.; after eating, stitches in both sides of abdomen; sticking, etc., in left side of lower abdomen; stitches in chest after hawking; stitches in intercostal muscles; throbbing in thorax; palpitation of heart; twitching in muscles of lower half of back; pain in small of back; bruised feeling in extremities; pressive pain at scapular end of clavicle; burning on anterior surface of thigh, pain on outer side of thigh; tearing in left femur; restlessness in thigh, etc.; stitch in left knee-joint; stitch in right calf; stitches in right calf, etc.; pain on back of left foot; pain in right sole.
( Standing ), Pain below navel; stitches in chest after hawking; throbbing in thorax.
( Stooping ), Pain in region of left short rib; stitches under left shoulder-blade.
( Swallowing ), Tension in throat.
( Making parts tense ), Pain in hamstrings.
( While urinating ), Drawing in glands penis.
( Walking ), Cutting in abdomen; stitches in left side of abdomen; drawing, etc., in lower extremities; tearing around hip-joint; pains in knee, etc.; stitches in right calf; pressure on joint of foot, etc., pressure on joint of left foot; pressing pain in joint of right foot; pressing pain in joint of left foot; pressure in joints of feet, etc.; stitches in right toe; pain below edge of ribs; chilliness in back, etc.
( On writing ), Dull pressure in sternum returns.
Amelioration.
( Evening ), All symptoms disappear except distension of abdomen.
( Toward 9 P.M. ), Pains cease entirely.
( After blinking ), Dimness of eyes disappears.
( Mucous expectoration ), Aching in chest.
( Discharge of offensive flatus ), Relief from time to time.
( On inspiration and expiration ), Pressure of sternum passes off; sticking in loin disappears.
( Motion ), Pressure on tibia disappears.
( Pressure ), *Stitches in both sides of abdomen disappear; stitches, etc., in chest disappear.
( Rubbing ), Stitches in side of abdomen go away; sticking below right malleolus disappears.
( Sitting up ), Stitches, etc., on chest disappear.
( After blackish-brown, etc., stool ), Symptoms relieved.
( Walking ), Stitching in left loin disappears; tearing, etc., in right leg; sticking in tibia disappears; pain below left calf disappears; stitches in dorsum of right foot go away.

SUPPLEMENT: ASAFŒTIDA. Authority.

7 , E. W. Berridge, The Organon, vol. ii, p. 258, Mr. ---, æt twenty years, took some ethereal tincture of Asafœtida.

He at once felt as if he could not remain indoors, but must walk about in the open air, with apprehension, feeling as if the heart would burst, and quick breathing; for two days there were violent palpitation of heart and excitement of mind. Since then he has had, from time to time, the following symptoms, which he never had before (The symptoms are given in groups, just as he from time to time reported them).

At night, when lying on back, has palpitation and suffocative feeling, and as if the heart would burst; he must sit up, which relieves him. Fits of low spirits. Heart sometimes beats very feebly.

Rush of blood to head, and increased action of heart on the slightest excitement.

Palpitation, with faintness, rush of blood to head, flushing of face, anxiety, and slow breathing, from excitement.

Attacks of faintness, followed by fluttering of heart, with the faintness sweat on small of back, hot and cold alternately and trembling. Feeling of suffocation in throat on taking a full inspiration.

Attacks of faintness, with anxiety, as if he would die, and with one attack desire for suicide. With the faintness, shivering and very feeble action of the heart. Feeling as if the heart were swollen, preventing a deep inspiration. Restless, must walk about. Dislike for solitude. At times heart feels bound together tightly, as if it could not beat; afterwards this was felt only on exertion or walking.

Shooting from just below left nipple through to back, on walking.

Faintness on beginning to eat, especially at dinner, with full and frequent beating of heart, with the faintness, anxiety as if he would die, alternate heat and chill, sweat on small of back, and trembling.

Faintness, with quick pulse; the faintness is worse the day after a seminal emission (to which he was subject before he took the drug).

After meals, flatulent distension of abdomen, making heart beat very feebly with faintness.

Woke in night with distension of stomach, pain across chest, and feeble heart.

Dull pain and fulness in left side of head, with bleeding from left nostril, and heart beating slowly.

Fulness and throbbing in head, heart beats feebly, and apprehension.

Fulness of head when riding in a carriage, with feeling as if nose were stopped up high up, so that he cannot breathe through it.

Heart's action is quickened by a deep inspiration.

Moving arms makes heart beat quickly. Sometimes heart beats short and quick, at other times he feels as if there were no action of it; with the heart symptoms, fear of death. Low-spirited between the heart attacks. These heart symptoms and faintness worse after seminal emission. With one attack of faintness there was shaking of the limbs, and as if the bowels shook. The faintness is brought on by noise, on being in crowded streets.

If he sleeps on left side, he wakes up feeling faint, and with slow action of heart.

Fears paralysis or softening of brain.

Continual pain about region of heart, with slight oppression of breathing the pain temporarily relieved by eructations.

At times slight inclination to faint, accompanied by great apprehension.

If he thinks of having taken the drug, it brings on the faintness.

When faint, if he breathes deeper, the heart beats fuller and the faintness decreases; if he holds the breath, the heart becomes very feeble.

Faintness and feeble of heart. Inability to walk fast or uphill. Apprehension. Depression. Occasional tingling in legs after much walking. Faintness is worse after seminal emissions. Cold sensation in head, 7.

ASAFOETIDA.