Asparagus Officinalis

Common Garden Asparagus

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

Its marked and immediate action on the urinary secretion is well known. It causes weakness and cardiac depression with dropsy. Rheumatic pains. Especially about left shoulder and heart.

Head

Confused. Coryza, with profuse, thin fluid. Aching in forehead and root of nose. Migrainious morning headache with scotoma. Throat feels rough, with hawking copious tenacious mucus throat.

Urine

Frequent, with fine stitches in orifice of urethra; burning; of peculiar odor. Cystitis, with pus, mucus and tenesmus. Lithiasis.

Heart

Palpitation, with oppression of chest . Pulse intermits, weak, pain about left shoulder and heart, associated with bladder disturbances. Great oppression in breathing. Hydrothorax.

Extremities

Rheumatic pain in back, especially near shoulder and limbs. Pain at acromion process of left scapula under clavicle and down arm, with feeble pulse.

Relationship

Antidote: Acon; Apis .

Compare: Althae -Marshmallow--(contains asparagin; irritable bladder, throat and bronchi). Physalis Alkekengi. Digital; Sarsap; Spigelia.

Dose

Sixth potency.

Asparagus Officinalis across the other classic books

Asparagus Officinalis appears in 4 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.
“A. officinalis, L. Nat. order , Liliaceæ. Common names , Asparagus; (Germ.) Spargel; (Fr.) Asperge. Preparation , Tincture of the young sprouts. Authorities. Serenity of mind the whole day (first day), 1. A peculiar anxiety, with palpitation of the heart, and ill-humor, 2. Confusion of the head, and a vertiginous…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“A. officinalis. N. O. Liliaceæ. Tincture of young sprouts. Coryza / Diabetes / Dropsies / Heart disease / Urinary disorders Like other liliaceous plants Aspar. acts on the heart, kidneys, and dropsical effusions. Severe coryza and nasal catarrh, with profuse secretion of thin, whitish fluid from left nostril…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Asparagus. Liliaceæ. Introduced and proved in 1840 by Buchner, who proved sprouts ; later others made provings. Jeanes proved the root. The strongest effect must be obtained from the berries, and still more from the seed. Many symptoms may be added by practitioners if they meet with cases in which asparagus disagrees…”

Asparagus Officinalis in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Asparagus Officinalis in 185 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in CHEST (27), URINE (21), NOSE (15), URETHRA (11), RESPIRATION (10).

URETHRA - PAIN - stitching - meatus
URINE - COPIOUS - increased
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Upper Limbs - extending - downward
URINE - COLOR, - brown - beer,like
FACE - EXPRESSION, - distressed
CHEST - PALPITATION heart - sitting - while
CHEST - PAIN - Clavicle - below
FACE - WAXY
NOSE - DISCHARGE, - white
CHEST - DROPSY
URINE - ODOR - strong
RESPIRATION - SIGHING
CHEST - FULLNESS
URINE - SEDIMENT - sand - red (brick-dust)
BACK - PAIN - Dorsal region - scapulae
GENERALITIES - PULSE - weak
URINE - ODOR - offensive
GENERALITIES - PULSE - irregular
GENERALITIES - PULSE - labored - slow
RESPIRATION - ACCELERATED

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