Asarum europaeum

Asarum europaeum
(european snake-root)
* 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 contractive sensations.
* Always feels cold.
Mind
- Thoughts vanish, with drawing pressure in forehead.
- Sensibility increased, even from mere imagination.
Head
- Compressive pain.
- Tension of scalp; hair painful. [China.]
- Coryza, with sneezing.
Eyes
- Feel stiff; burn; feel cold.
- Better, in cold air or water; worse, sunlight and wind.
- Darting pains in eyes after operations.
- Asthenopia.
Ears
- Sensation as if plugged up.
- Catarrh with deafness.
- Heat of external ear.
- Noises.
Stomach
- Loss of appetite, flatulence, eructation, and vomiting.
- Desire for alcoholic drinks.
- Smoking tobacco tastes bitter.
- Nausea; worse after eating.
- Clean tongue.
- Great faintness.
- Accumulation of cold, watery saliva.
Rectum
- Strings of odorless, yellow mucus pass from bowels.
- Diarrhoea of tough mucus.
- Undigested stools.
- Prolapse.
Female
- Menses too early, long lasting, black.
- Violent pain in small of back.
- Tenacious, yellow leucorrhoea.
Respiratory
- Nervous, hacking cough.
- Short respiration.
Back
- Paralytic pain in muscles of nape of neck.
- Weakness, with staggering.
Fever
- Chilliness, single parts get icy cold.
- Easily excited perspiration.
Modalities
- Worse, in cold dry weather; penetrating sounds.
- Better, from washing; in damp and wet weather.
Relationship
- Asarum Canadensa - Wild Ginger. (Colds, followedby amenorrhoea and gastro-enteritis.
Suppressed colds.)
- Compare : Ipecac., especially in diarrhoea; Silica; Nux; China.
Dose
- Third to sixth potency.