Asa foetida

Common names: gum of the stinkasand; devil's dung.

Hysterical attacks (Ign., Nux-M., Sep.).

Hysteria, where the throat symptoms predominate, with all kinds of spasms and nervous irritability, such as fits of great joy and laughter, or anxious sadness; constant change of position; flushes in the face, etc. (Bt.).

Leucorrhœa; profuse, greenish, thin and offensive (G.).

Menses scanty and too early (G.).

Hysterical spasms, with much trouble about the œsophagus (G.).

SENSATION OF PRESSURE, AS IF A BODY OR LUMP WERE ASCENDING IN THE ŒSOPHAGUS, OBLIGING FREQUENT DEGLUTITIONS (G.).

Caries of nasal bones (Ars., Aur., Calc-F., Hep., Merc., Nit-Ac., Sil.) (Br.).

INTOLERABLE SORENESS AROUND THE ULCER (Hep.) (F.).

Bluish ulcers, with high edges (Lach.) (B.).

SYPHILITIC OZŒNA (Aur-M., Calc., Hep., Kali-B., Kali-I., Merc., Puls., Sep., Sil.), WITH VERY OFFENSIVE, PURULENT DISCHARGE (Br.).

Is employed as a galactagogue, in sensitive, hysterical females (Bl.).

Fetid or purulent discharge from the ears (Calc., Calc-S., Hep., Merc., Sil.) (G.).

Sometimes indicated for iritis following mercurialization; extreme soreness of the bones around the eyes (F.).

ERUCTATIONS OF GAS, SMELLING LIKE GARLIC OR FÆCES (Bt.).

Pulsation in the pit of the stomach (Acon., Ant-T., Calc., Chin., Cic., Ferr., Glon., Kali-C., Nux-V., Phos., Puls., Sep., Sil.) (Bt.).

Painful inflammation of the bones (Aur., Hep., Nit-Ac.).

Caries, with thin, offensive pus (tibia).

Swelling of the glands (Calc., Merc-I., Tub.).

Sense of rigor.

Greasy taste in the mouth (Puls.) (D.).

Body heavy and bloated.

St. Vitus's dance (Agar., Ign., Nux-V., Sep.).

Dark red and hot swellings.

Pains on the inside of the joints of the limbs.

TWITCHING AND JERKING IN THE MUSCLES (Bell., Hyos., Ign., Lach., Nux-V., Stram.).

Pricking, stinging and darting pain, which is periodic from within outwards; by touch relieved or changed.

SYPHILITIC IRITIS (Merc-C., Nit-Ac., Sil.) (Br.).

Sensation as if peristaltic motion were taking place from below upwards (G.).

An empty gone feeling in the stomach at 11 A. M. (Sulph.) (F.).

Particularly adapted to syphilitic patients, who have taken much mercury, or to nervous, hysterical individuals (C.).

Extreme sensitiveness around the diseased portion of bone (F.).

Painfulness of the periosteum, accompanied with great sensitiveness; enlargement of bones (G.).

Nervous palpitation (Cocc.), like a tremor when sitting, with small, quick, irregular pulse (C.).

Spasmodic tightness of the chest, as if the lungs could not be fully expanded (Crot-T., Ign., Laur., Phos.) (C.).

Hysteria arising from the sudden suppression of discharges.

A bursting feeling upwards, as though everything in the abdomen was coming out at the mouth (Arg-N.) (F.).

Burning in the stomach and œsophagus (Carb-V., Iris-V., Sulph.) (D.).

AGGRAVATION: While sitting; at night; during rest; from warm application; and from dressing the wound.

AMELIORATION: In the open air; from motion and from pressure.

RELATIONSHIP. Similar to: Aur., Chin., Merc., Mosch., Nit-Ac. and Sil.

Antidotes: Chin., Merc.