Asa foetida
de Henry N. Guernsey — 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Historical reference for practitioners and students.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--A very great sensitiveness, hypersensitiveness, particularly of those in whom the venous system preponderates over the arterial; very weakly and delicate persons. It affects the left hypochondriac region; left side of the abdomen; left side of the neck, and nape of the neck: left upper extremity and left lower extremity; left ear; general symptoms left side.
Mental.--Dissatisfied with one's self; complaints about one's troubles.
Head.--Inner semi-lateral, on either side, but generally on the left. Heaviness and pressure in the forehead and right half of the head.
Ears.--Fetid or purulent discharge; badly smelling.
Nose.--Ozæna with discharge of green fetid pus.
Throat.--Pressure in œsophagus as if a body were ascending, obliging one to swallow frequently; globus hystericus.
Stomach.--Fatty taste. Rising in the throat. Loathing; inclination to vomit; pressure in from below upwards into the œsophagus; pulsations in the pit of the stomach, perceptible to the hand and eye even.
Abdomen.--Heaviness in; stitches; lancinations; dartings; bloated. Flatus very offensive. Sensation as if peristaltic motion were taking place from below upwards. Inner region of the spleen.
Stool.--Stool stinking; slow; difficult; hard. Diarrhœa of most disgusting odor. Fetid flatus.
Sexual.--Female: Labor-like pains in the uterus, of cutting and bearing down character. Deficiency of milk. Nipples.
Urine.--Urine smells like Ammonia.
Bones.--Bones of the arm; sensation as if bones were bending; darting pain in; caries in; caries of the periosteum; painfulness in; painfulness of the periosteum, accompanied with great sensitiveness; enlargement of; softening or swelling of; swelling of the periosteum.
Skin.--Itching, better by scratching; pricking, burning skin. Ulcers in general; hard on circumference; with bloody pus; with thin pus; painful ulcers; painful on the edges; sensitive on the circumference, with high, hard edges; prickings on circumference.
Sensations.--Big toe. Pain, jerking in outer parts particularly; pressing from within outwards; darting in outer parts, in inner parts, from within outward; in the muscles; burning darting in the muscles; quivering in the external parts; tension in inner parts; in right side of back, near scapula. Intermittent, pulsative, oppressive, darting, also tearing pains, from within outwards; often relieved by scratching or rubbing.
Generalities.--Asthma of different kinds. Old ulcers on forearm, wrist, hand; ulcers, especially when affecting the bones; thin ichorous pus.
Better.--From scratching; from being touched.
Remedies to follow: China, Mercur., Pulsat.
Antidotes:--China, Mercur.