Asafoetida: Source: Veg. Kingdom

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 Asafoetida
 Source: veg. kingdom
 FAMILY: umbelliferae
 Scientific name : ferula asafoetida
 Asafotida is dried latext prepared from the
rhizome or tap root of several species of ferula
 Suitable for syphilitic individual who are
fat ,plethoric and hysterical
 Anxiety starts in the stomach.
 Fear of being alone, fear of closed rooms and fear
of crowded places
 Absent minded, unable to think,difficulty in
concentration.
 Cold purple faces easily faints by slightest
exertion that is mental or physical
 Stitching pains inner surface to outer that is bone
to surface
 Numbness in unexpected parts, there is sensation
of deadness in suffering parts.
 Slight infection develops into ulcer which has no
tendency to close
 Discharges are watery with horrible offense and
ichorous
 Glands all over the body are hot ,throbbing with
shooting jerking pains.
 Ill affects of skin eruptions or suppressed
dicharges..
 Neuralgia of stamp ,after operations.
 Headache as if nail or plug driven through the
head.
 Shooting stitching pain in left frontal eminence
 Ulcers of eye ball and cornea with
burning,dryness.
 < by open air
 Dullness of vision seems as if looking through fog.
 Carries of nasal and ear bones with foetid
discharges.
 Hysterical spasms of throat, sensation if ball
rising in the throat(globus hystericus).
 Loud belchings, explosive eructations which are
horrible offense smelling like garlic.
 Gone empty feeling in the stomach,pulsations
after eating.
 Slight indigestion lead to diarrhoea,
 Stools are liquid , offensive.
 Bearing down pain in genitals< by riding in a
carriage
 Indicative for deregulation of milk flow that is in
flow of milk in non pregnant women and sudden
diminished flow of milk in nursing women
 Attacks of dyspnoea after coition(ambra.)
 Hysterical asthama < night
 Perspiration smells like garlic
 Pungent smell of urine
 Aching and drawing pains in wrist joints
 Arthritic nodosites in toes
 Cramps in toes alternating with spasms in glottis.
 Awkwardness in fingers. discolouratin of finger
nails during chill.
 Felon beginning in nail, panaritium.
 Burning in roots of toe nails with numbness
 <: night, by touch, during rest
 >: by motion, open air, pressure
 Relationships: similar to arg. Nit. (open air >),
aur.met. in bone diseases, hepar in sensitiveness
of ulcers, faints from pain, merc sol. In syphilis
 Ignatia in hysteria(due to long concentrated grief)
 Moschus in hysteria and spams of lungs ,fainting
 Other hysterical remedies :
 Lachesis: great loquacity, suspicious ,restless,
 Mental labour best performed at night
 Religious insanity
 Left sided complaints starts first, ill effects of
suppressed discharges.
 Remedy for climacteric conditions.
 Valeriana : hysteria oversensitiveness, spams
 Hysterical,
 Sensation as if thread hanging down in the
throat.
 Sciatica pain worse by standing and sitting on
floor
 Pain in heels when sitting
 Insomnia during pregnancy and menopause.
 Tarentula
 The patient has immoderate attacks of
uncontrollable laughter
 Restless,trembling of limbs compelled to
continually move
 Excessive hyper- aesthesia, the spine is
sensitive,the ovaries are sensitive.
 Nymphomania
 Apt for hysterical epilepsy
 Music >
 Platina:
 It has different form of hysteria from animal
kingdom
 Characterized by haughty mental condition
 Self esteemed she looks every one on down
 There are also paroxysm of laughter, loud some
times maniacal
 Sensitive genitalia, nymphomania is there
 Melancholic conditions ,which in extreme
conditions makes the patient sleepless
 Constriction of oesophagus and a suffocative
feeling
 <by sitting and standing ,evening
 <walking
 Nux moschata:
 Hysterical people who change rapidly from grave
to gay
Characterized by sleepiness ,bloating of abdomen and
dryness of mouth
Fainting attacks are prominent, least effort makes
them exhausted
Dry, hysterical cough, oppression of the chest and
fainting fits
< exertion, cold moist wind, cold food, cold washing
 < warmth, dry weather.

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