Asarum europaeum
Henry N. Guernsey著 — Key-Notes to the Materia Medica
Historical reference for practitioners and students. The statements below reflect the named author’s homeopathic teaching and do not establish treatment effectiveness. This text is not medical advice and must not replace appropriate diagnosis or care.
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.