- Allen HC — The keynotes that separate this remedy from its nearest neighbours.
“European Snake Root (Arsistolochiaceae) Nervous, anxious people; excitable or melancholy. Imagines he is hovering in the air like a spirit (Lac. c.); lightness of all the limbs. Cold "shivers" from any emotion. Oversensitiveness of nerves , scratching of linen or silk, crackling of paper is unbearable (Fer. Tar.)…”
- Allen TF — A compiled symptom record drawing on proving reports and other named observations.
“A. Europæum, Linn. Nat. order , Aristolochiaceæ. Common name , Haselwurz. Preparation , Tincture of the root and whole plant. Authorities. [No. He imagines he is hovering in the air, when walking, like a spirit, 3. Great cheerfulness (after six and twelve hours), sometimes interrupted for a few moments by a melancholy…”
- Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“European Snake-root (ASARUM EUROPUM) A remedy for nervous affections, loss of energy, with excessive erethism. Scratching on silk or linen or paper unbearable . Pains and spasmodic muscular actions. Nervous deafness and asthenopia. Cold shivers from any emotion. Feels as if parts were pressed together. Tension and…”
- Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“BATHING, cold applications, etc., Amel. COMPRESSION, squeezing, pinching, as of a vise, cap, etc. (Comp. Cramp.) DRY, clear or cold weather, Agg. FLOATING, flying, etc., as if (Comp. Vertigo.)”
- Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“NERVES. Mucous membranes. Female organs. PENETRATING SOUNDS. Dry. Cold. Emotions. Cold bathing; of face (Flu-ac.). EXCESSIVE NERVOUS SENSIBILITY; scratching on silk, rattle of paper, etc., is unbearable. Contractive sensations. .................... Lightness, as if floating. Painfully sensitive hearing. Cold saliva…”
- Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Asarum Europœum. Asarabacca. Hazelwort. Wild Nard. (Mountainous woods in Europe.) N. O. Aristolochiaceæ. Tinctures of root and whole fresh plant. Alcoholism / Anus, prolapse of / Catarrhs / Cholerine / Diarrhœa / Dysmenorrhœa / Eyes, affections of; operations on / Fidgets / Headache / Hysteria / Levitation, sensation…”
- Guernsey — The leading characteristics — a compact bridge from repertory result to remedy study.
“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…”
- Hahnemann (MMP) — The proving record — numbered observations closest to Hahnemann's primary materia medica.
“(The spirituous tincture of the dry root of Asarum europaeum or the juice of the whole plant mixed with alcohol.) From vol. iii, 2nd edit., 1825. Even when the ordinary physicians have taken the trouble, which they but seldom did, to ascertain by their own experiments the powers of simple medicinal substances, we can…”
- Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Haselwurtz. Aristolochiaceæ. Introduced and proved in 1817 by Hahnemann (14) and his pupils (254). The second edition appeared in 1825 (16 and 254). It was physiologically arranged by A. G. Schneider in 1853. The root alone is better than the whole plant. Gradual vanishing of thought, as when falling asleep. Stupid…”
- Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Nervous irritability and exaltation. Pain, as from contraction in the forehead, temples, and behind the cue, with watering and burning of the eyes, worse in the afternoon, (5 P.M.), relieved when sitting, and by washing. Inflamed eyes, blear-eyedness. The eyes stare. The cold air is pleasant to the eyes; sunshine…”
- Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common name: european snake root. Hyperæsthesia of the senses (Bell., Coff., Nux-V., Op., Phos.) (Bl.). OVERSENSITIVENESS OF THE NERVES; THE SCRATCHING ON LINEN OR SILK IS INSUPPORTABLE (Ferr., Tarant-C.). Cold "shivers" from any emotion (A.). Nervous irritability and exaltation. Asthmatic breathing, worse from odour…”
- Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“Remarkable over-sensitiveness of the nerves; scratching linen or silk or even thinking of it is unbearable.”
