ASAFETIDA
Source indications
Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica
- Asthma
- Bone, disease of
- Chorea
- Diarrhea
- Dyspepsia
- Flatulence
- Headache
- Heart, affections of
- Hypersensitiveness
- Hysteria
- Iritis
- Lactation, disorders of
- Mercury, effects of
- Neuralgia
- Obesity
- Orbital neuralgia
- Ozena
- Syphilis
- Tympanitis
- Ulcers
- Whitlow
- Reversed peristalsis of stomach and bowels
- Excessive abdominal distension
- Sensation as if everything in the abdomen would burst through the mouth
- Strong rancid taste in mouth after belching of wind
- Sinking sensation at epigastrium
- Hysteria from suddenly suppressed discharges
- Fetid watery stools
- Profuse and greenish stools
- Fetid flatus
- Eructations smelling like garlic
- Hiccough-like contractions of diaphragm
- Griping pain below navel while standing
- Heat in spleen and abdomen
- Stitches in right hypochondrium towards the diaphragm
- Hysterical restlessness and anxiety
- Eyes inflamed, dry sensation
- Fetid discharge from nose
- Bones of orbits bruised, sore, and sensitive
- Caries of bones
- Multiple nodes on roof of mouth, discoloured, bone deeply involved
- Deficient milk with over-sensitiveness after confinement
- Periosteal affections ending in ulcers which are so sensitive that no dressing is tolerated
- Pressing pains in various parts, especially pressure from within outwards
- Heat in face after eating
- Diarrhea after eating
- Sensitiveness to contact
- Pains accompanied by numbness in the affected parts
- Touch relieves pain in head
- Pains cease or change place on touch
- Scratching relieves itching
- Dissatisfied with one's self
- Complaints about one's troubles
- Unsteady and fickle
- Ill-humour
- Irritable
- Apprehensive
- Over-sensitive
- Excitable
- Faintness if he thinks of having taken the drug
- Pressive pain in forehead from within outward
- Vertigo and vanishing of sight
- Single deep-penetrating stitches in left frontal eminence
- Heaviness and pressure in forehead and right half of the head
- Drawing, pressive pains like a plug, in sides of head or temples
- Rush of blood to head
- Warmth of face
- Headaches worse towards evening
- Headaches worse in room while at rest, sitting or lying
- Nocturnal throbbing pains in and around the head
- Syphilitic iritis
- Extensive superficial ulceration of the cornea
- Burning, sticking, or pressive pains in the eyes from within outward
- Sharp pain extending through eye into head on touching
- Sensation of dryness in the eyes
- Dryness and burning in the eyes
- Severe boring pains over the eyebrows
- Hardness of hearing
- Discharge of offensive, thin pus from the ears
- Discharge of very offensive greenish matter from the nose
- Bones swollen and inflamed after Mercury or in scrofula
- Sensation of numbness in the bones of the face
- Painless tension in various places in the face
- Swelling of the lower lip
- Numbing pressure on chin
- Grinding of teeth
- Bluntness of teeth
- Greasy, rancid taste in mouth
- Rancid taste of phlegm hawked up
- Speech unintelligible
- Tongue white, swollen
- Constantly chewing
- Working frothy slime out of mouth
- Sensation of dryness in the mouth and throat
- Dryness of mouth, throat, and esophagus
- Sensation of a ball rising in the throat
- Obliging frequent swallowing
- Difficult breathing
- Globus hystericus
- Sensation in the esophagus as if the peristaltic motions were from below upward
- Ravenous hunger
- Desire for wine
- Disgust for all food
- Pulsation in the pit of the stomach
- Rising in throat
- Loathing
- Inclination to vomit
- Sensation of fulness and distension in stomach
- Eructations smelling like garlic
- Eructations tasting rancid, sharp, or putrid
- Flatus passing upward, none down
- Great distension of the abdomen
- Pulsations in abdomen
- Colic with distension and a rising-up feeling
- Colic better by external pressure
- Fainting at height of pain
- Sense of fulness, and as if beaten, in epigastrium and whole abdomen
- Pressive pain on drawing in abdominal muscles
- Lancinations in abdominal-muscles
- Pain in perineum, as from something dull pressing out
- Stool profuse, watery, or thick, papescent, brown, and exceedingly offensive
- Diarrhea, very offensive, with pain in the abdomen and discharge of fetid flatus
- Stool stinking, slow, difficult, hard
- Urine brown, and of pungent smell
- Urine smells like ammonia
- Spasm in the bladder during and after urination
- Faintness worse after seminal emissions
- Urging towards genitals
- Aching in testes
- Needle-like stitches in penis
- Drawing in glans
- Labour-like pains in uterine region, with cutting and bearing-down
- Excited sexual desire
- Leucorrhea profuse, greenish, thin, and offensive
- Swelling and inflammation of the genitals
- Mammæ turgid with milk when not pregnant
- Milk increased or diminished
- Spasmodic dyspnea, as if the lungs could not be sufficiently expanded
- Asthmatic attacks
- Obstinate titillating cough
- Hoarse, ringing, short cough
- Excited by tickling in trachea
- Asthmatic feeling in trachea
- Spasmodic contraction of thorax
- Accumulation of stringy mucus
- Cough on gaping
- Greasy-tasting sputa
- Oppressive pressing, aching pains in the chest
- Stitches in chest from within outward
- Nervous palpitation
- Small, quick, irregular pulse
- Continual pain about heart region
- Heart feels bound tightly
- Heart feels swollen to bursting
- Fine burning stitches in and behind right scapula, extending to ribs
- Very violent sacral pains
- Cannot work on account of the backache
- Crawls run over back in afternoon
- Sensation as if bones of the arm were bending
- Darting pains in the bones
- Caries in the bones
- Caries of the periosteum
- Tearing stitches in upper arm and forearm down to tips of fingers
- Painfulness of the periosteum accompanied with great sensitiveness
- Nodes on periosteum
- Twitching in the muscles of the arms
- Aching, drawing, beaten pain in wrist joints
- Whitlow, pains worse at night
- Psoas abscess
- Disease of pelvic bones
- Twitching of the muscles of the legs
- Carious ulcer on the tibia
- Pain as of a splinter sticking in right fibula
- Swelling and caries of the tibia and bones of the feet
- Stitches and pulsation in the big toe
- Sense of rigor
- Body heavy and bloated
- Hysterical attacks
- Hysteria with much trouble about throat or esophagus
- Twitching and jerking in the muscles
- Dull stitches from within outwards
- Pains mostly in the inside of the joints and limbs
- St Vitus' dance
- Itching, better by scratching
- Pricking, burning skin
- Ulcers with high, hard edges, sensitive to touch, easily bleeding
- Old ulcers on forearm, wrist, hand
- Ulcers affecting the bones
- Pus profuse, greenish, thin, offensive, even ichorous
- Ulcers very painful to contact, especially in the circumference, gangrenous
- Much inclined to sleep
- Pulse small, rapid, and unequal
- Heat in the face after dinner, with anxiety or drowsiness, without thirst
- Chills run over body from time to time