Asa Fœtida
By C.M. Boger — A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica
REGION
- NERVES.
- Mind.
- Gullet.
- Digestive tract.
- Periosteum: Ears. Nose. Tibia.
- Left side.
WORSE
- Night.
- In room.
- Rest.
- Eating.
- Suppression.
- Mercury.
- Noise.
- Sitting.
- Warm wraps.
BETTER
- Motion in open air.
- Pressure.
- Full, stout aspect, but intolerably nervous and
OVERSENSITIVE. Fits of violent, hard throbbing, pressure, sharp sticking, etc. Clavus. Easy relapses. Bone aches. Pains extend outward, are associated with numbness and change place or are > by touch. Boring. Blueness. Foul, thin acrid secretions. .................... Magnifies her symptoms. Craves sympathy. Fickleness. Fainting. Hysteria. Clutches throat. Occipital ache > stool. Eyelids stick to ball. Numb about eyes. Ozœna. Puffy, purple face, as if heated. Greasy taste. Everything presses toward throat. Globus. Spasm of gullet and stomach. Rancid or explosive belching. Regurgitations. Flatulence; sudden; pushing upward, hysterical. Wind colic. Reverse peristalsis. Bowels seem knotted. Foul, dark watery diarrhœa. Spasmodic tightness of chest. Heart seems full, distended. Reflex heart symptoms, of nervous origin. Dark red swelling. Eruption of air vesicles. Bluish ulcers; with high sensitive edges. Foul, burrowing pus. Caries.
Related: Aur. Lach. Sumb. Val.