Aralia Racemosa

American Spikenard

by William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory

This is a remedy for asthmatic conditions, with cough aggravated on lying down . Drenching sweat during sleep. Extreme sensitiveness to draughts. Diarrhœa, prolapse of rectum. Aching in rectum extending upwards; worse lying on side lain upon.

Respiratory

Dry cough coming on after first sleep , about middle of night. Asthma on lying down at night with spasmodic cough; worse after first sleep, with tickling in throat. Constriction of chest; feels as if a foreign body were in throat . Obstruction worse in spring. Hay-fever; frequent sneezing . Rawness and burning behind sternum.

The least current of air causes sneezing, with copious watery, excoriating nasal discharge, of salty acrid taste .

Female

Menses suppressed; leucorrhœa foul-smelling, acrid, with pressing-down air. Lochia suppressed, with tympanites.

Modalities

Worse about 11 pm (cough).

Relationship

Compare: Pecten-Scallop (humid asthma. Quick, labored breathing. Constriction of chest, especially right side. Asthma preceded by coryza and burning in throat and chest. Attacks ends with copious expectoration of tough, frothy mucus. Worse at night). Ars iod; Naphthaline; Cepa; Rosa; Sabad; Sinapis .

Dose

Tincture, to third potency.

Aralia Racemosa across the other classic books

Aralia Racemosa appears in 6 of the 13 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.

Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“Aralia racemosa, L. Natural Order , Araliaceæ. Common name , Spikenard (American name). Authority. S. A. Jones, M.D., Hales's New Remedies, third edition, p. 471. At 3 P.M., I took 10 drops of the mother tincture in 2 ounces of water. On retiring at 12 P.M., felt as well as I ever did. Had no sooner laid down than I…”
Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“SLEEP, falling to, or first, Agg. 11 P.M.”
Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“Respiration. Mucous membranes. After a short nap. Drafts. Lying with head high. Sitting up. Weak, relaxed and nauseated. Biliousness. .................... Sneezing, slight expectoration. Whistling breathing. Salty expectoration. Complementary: Lob.”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Spikenard (American name). Grows in rich woodlands throughout U.S.A. - N. O. Araliaceæ. Tincture of fresh root. Asthma / Cough / Diarrhœa / Hæmorrhoids / Hay-fever / Leucorrhœa / Prolapsus ani Aralia was used by the old herbalists and by eclectics as a remedy in phthisis and coughs, and also for leucorrhœa and other…”
Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“Loud wheezing breathing, with cough, < in evening or night, after the first sleep (asthma.)”

Aralia Racemosa in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Aralia Racemosa in 47 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in COUGH (18), EXPECTORATION (6), RESPIRATION (6), FEMALE GENITALIA (5), HEAD (5).

COUGH - LYING - night - midnight,wakens him - before
COUGH - SLEEP, - after
COUGH - SLEEP, - wakens from
FEMALE GENITALIA - LEUCORRHOEA - offensive
COUGH - WAKING,on
GENERALITIES - NIGHT
RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT
COUGH - PAROXYSMAL - night - midnight - before - 11 p.m. - sleep,after
COUGH - SLEEP, - going to,on - one hour after
COUGH - SUFFOCATIVE - sleep,during
CHEST - CONSTRICTION,tension,tightness - lying, - while
COUGH - RATTLING - morning
RESPIRATION - ASTHMATIC - evening - after lying down
RESPIRATION - WHISTLING - inspiration,during
COUGH - NIGHT - midnight - before - 11 p.m.
COUGH - PAROXYSMAL - night - midnight - before
FEMALE GENITALIA - MENSES - suppressed - cold - from
CHEST - CONSTRICTION,tension,tightness - night
HEAD - PAIN, - leaning against something, - amel.
FEMALE GENITALIA - LOCHIA - suppressed

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