====== ASPARAGUS OFFICINALIS ====== {{anchor:s1}}Asparagus Officinalis. {{anchor:s2}}Asparagus. {{anchor:s3}}Liliaceae. {{anchor:s4}}Introduced and proved in 1840 by Buchner, who proved sprouts; later others made provings. {{anchor:s5}}Jeanes proved the root. {{anchor:s6}}The strongest effect must be obtained from the berries, and still more from the seed. {{anchor:s7}}Many symptoms may be added by practitioners if they meet with cases in which asparagus disagrees. ====== MIND. [1] ====== {{anchor:s9}}Cheerfullness; serenity of mind; the 5th day.\\ {{anchor:s10}}A peculiar anxiety, with palpitation and ill humor.\\ {{anchor:s11}}Fretful and peevish, disturbed by trifles; constant anxiety and apprehension. ====== SENSORIUM. [2] ====== {{anchor:s13}}Vertigo: slight in afternoon; in forehead; with staggering.\\ {{anchor:s14}}Confusion of head.\\ {{anchor:s15}}Dullness of head. ====== INNER HEAD. [3] ====== {{anchor:s17}}Dizziness in forehead, afterwards aching in temples, especially left.\\ {{anchor:s18}}Aching in forehead, with confusion.\\ {{anchor:s19}}Pressing pain in both temples, worse from pressure.\\ {{anchor:s20}}Heaviness, pressure in forehead, pain presses towards eyes. ====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ====== {{anchor:s22}}Increased acuteness of vision.\\ {{anchor:s23}}Stitches and tickling in eyes.\\ {{anchor:s24}}Aching of brain near eyes.\\ {{anchor:s25}}Pains in eyeballs.\\ {{anchor:s26}}Drawing pain over eyebrows all across. ====== SMELL AND NOSE. [7] ====== {{anchor:s28}}Frequent sneezing; after smelling tincture.\\ {{anchor:s29}}Coryza, with slight dryness and swelling inside, then impeded entrance of air; gets violent, with frequent discharge of a thin white fluid from left nostril; irritation to sneeze, and frequent sneezing.\\ {{anchor:s30}}Later with catarrh a pressing pain from root of nose to forehead; next day, at 9 A. M., dry coryza; later running; want of smell; violent sneezing; 3d day discharge of mucus from right nostril. ====== UPPER FACE. [8] ====== {{anchor:s32}}Increased heat of face.\\ {{anchor:s33}}Burning of cheeks.\\ {{anchor:s34}}Countenance pale, wax-like and bloated.\\ {{anchor:s35}}General expression of anxiety and distress. {{anchor:s36}}See 29. ====== TEETH AND GUMS. [10] ====== {{anchor:s38}}Painless cavity; exfoliation of a carious molar.\\ {{anchor:s39}}Relieved toothache. ====== TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] ====== {{anchor:s41}}Taste: sweetish, insipid; coppery; bitter-sweetish on tongue.\\ {{anchor:s42}}Smarting feeling on tongue. ====== INNER MOUTH. [12] ====== {{anchor:s44}}Saliva increased; sweetish, as if mixed with blood; diminished; later more copious. ====== PALATE AND THROAT. [13] ====== {{anchor:s46}}Almost constant hawking, with a rough feeling in throat.\\ {{anchor:s47}}Copious discharge of tenacious mucus from throat.\\ {{anchor:s48}}Deglutition difficult. {{anchor:s49}}~ Hydrophobia.\\ {{anchor:s50}}Burning in throat. ====== APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] ====== {{anchor:s53}}Increased thirst.\\ {{anchor:s54}}Feeble appetite. ====== EATING AND DRINKING. [15] ====== {{anchor:s56}}After breakfast: cough remitted; pain in chest.\\ {{anchor:s57}}After eating: palpitation. {{anchor:s58}}See 29.\\ {{anchor:s59}}Fullness and oppression after eating or drinking. ====== HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] ====== {{anchor:s61}}Belching of wind.\\ {{anchor:s62}}Nausea 5 A. M., on awaking; vomited food taken evening before, with bile and much mucus, followed by a bilious diarrhea; after 15 minutes another attack of difficult vomiting.\\ {{anchor:s63}}Retching bringing tears into the eyes, when attempting to cough.\\ {{anchor:s64}}Nausea after each exertion. ====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ====== {{anchor:s66}}Pain in region of cardiac end of stomach, extending thence to left shoulder. ====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ====== {{anchor:s68}}Sense of fullness in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s69}}Griping in region of navel, which is painful when touched.\\ {{anchor:s70}}Drawing pains in both groins. ====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ====== {{anchor:s72}}Discharge of much wind.\\ {{anchor:s73}}Insufficient stool in afternoon, notwithstanding a regular stool in morning.\\ {{anchor:s74}}Feces bilious after vomiting. {{anchor:s75}}See 16.\\ {{anchor:s76}}Bilious diarrhea, with colic.\\ {{anchor:s77}}A peculiar urging, with difficult, hard fecal discharge; hemorrhoids bleed much more.\\ {{anchor:s78}}Burning and soreness at anus. ====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ====== {{anchor:s80}}(OBS:) Nephritis.\\ {{anchor:s81}}Nephritic colic.\\ {{anchor:s82}}Urging to urinate.\\ {{anchor:s83}}Frequent scanty discharge preceded by a sensation as if something was sticking in urethra, with slight burning.\\ {{anchor:s84}}Frequent urination, with fine stinging in meatus, followed by stitches out of urethra.\\ {{anchor:s85}}Urine scanty, straw-colored and offensive.\\ {{anchor:s86}}Cutting and burning in urethra.\\ {{anchor:s87}}Strangury.\\ {{anchor:s88}}Burning in urethra 6 A. M.; eighth day.\\ {{anchor:s89}}After urination burning in urethra, with sensation as if some was still passing.\\ {{anchor:s90}}Increased urine beer-brown, without sediment.\\ {{anchor:s91}}Diabetes.\\ {{anchor:s92}}When urinating, particularly when voiding last drops, rheumatic, constricting pain in cardiac region, forcing him to cry out; turns blue in face. {{anchor:s93}}~ Dropsy of chest.\\ {{anchor:s94}}Urine: bloody; straw-colored, becoming turbid and full of motes, which settle as a white flocculent sediment; of a peculiar odor; of unpleasant odor; strong smelling; smells like cats' urine; deposits a greasy sediment on sides of vessel; reddish deposit on sides of vessel.\\ {{anchor:s95}}Lithiasis.\\ {{anchor:s96}}Gravel passing in small quantities with urination. ====== MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] ====== {{anchor:s98}}Sexual excitement.\\ {{anchor:s99}}Stitching on right side of glans penis.\\ {{anchor:s100}}Swelling of penis, with erection and urging to urinate. ====== FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [23] ====== {{anchor:s102}}Promotes flow of menses.\\ {{anchor:s103}}The flow continued a day longer than usual.\\ {{anchor:s104}}Relieved prurigo pudendi in woman, aet. 40. ====== VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] ====== {{anchor:s107}}Continual hawking and hemming, with sensation of roughness in throat.\\ {{anchor:s108}}Talks in a nasal voice during coryza. ====== RESPIRATION. [26] ====== {{anchor:s110}}Difficulty of breathing when moving or going up-stairs.\\ {{anchor:s111}}At night he was obliged to sit up in bed to relieve his breathing.\\ {{anchor:s112}}Great oppression; breathing rapid, difficult, increased after being in bed some time.\\ {{anchor:s113}}Breathing: rapid, labored, sighing; difficult when moving or ascending; difficult at night; must sit up in bed. ====== COUGH. [27] ====== {{anchor:s115}}Hawking and inclination to cough; mucus not readily loosened, paroxysms of cough, which brought it up.\\ {{anchor:s116}}Tickling and inclination to cough, but expectoration was difficult.\\ {{anchor:s117}}Cough, with inclination to vomit.\\ {{anchor:s118}}Cough distressing, with fullness of chest and copious mucous sputum.\\ {{anchor:s119}}Cough in paroxysms from mucus, which is not easily detached.\\ {{anchor:s120}}Cough remitted one hour after breakfast.\\ {{anchor:s121}}Less inclined to hawk and cough; fifth day; agg. rising from deep in throat.\\ {{anchor:s122}}Spitting blood. ====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ====== {{anchor:s124}}Stitches, especially about left scapula, when inspiring.\\ {{anchor:s125}}Pains relieved by throwing chest forward and head backward.\\ {{anchor:s126}}Hydrothorax; often with heart disease or gouty diathesis of old people.\\ {{anchor:s127}}Unusual fullness of chest.\\ {{anchor:s128}}Constriction of chest; tension, increased by a deep breath.\\ {{anchor:s129}}Chest feels as if hollow, with external heaviness.\\ {{anchor:s130}}Sudden darting through right side of chest.\\ {{anchor:s131}}Stitching pains in region of chest. ====== HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] ====== {{anchor:s133}}Slight sensation of stitching in region of heart after eating.\\ {{anchor:s134}}Heart's throb visible, especially at night; very strong and extended over an unnaturally large area; throbbing carotids; murmurs.\\ {{anchor:s135}}Palpitation; while sitting, leaves of book in his hand tremble; with anxious restlessness, increased by motion or ascending ; with oppression of chest.\\ {{anchor:s136}}Heart's action weak; pulse feeble. {{anchor:s137}}See 32.\\ {{anchor:s138}}Heart's stroke twofold, irregular, quickened.\\ {{anchor:s139}}Pulse accelerated when sitting; slow, weak; irregular and feeble. ====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ====== {{anchor:s141}}Rheumatic pains between scapulae.\\ {{anchor:s142}}Fifth and sixth vertebrae pain.\\ {{anchor:s143}}Pains in loins at beginning of false vertebrae; 4 P. M., fifth day.\\ {{anchor:s144}}Pain at acromion process of left scapula, also under clavicle and down arm, with exceeding feebleness of pulse.\\ {{anchor:s145}}Sensation when sitting as if something was darting through small of back towards sacral vertebrae. ====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ====== {{anchor:s147}}Rheumatic pains in region of right axilla.\\ {{anchor:s148}}Pain in region of shoulder on touching it.\\ {{anchor:s149}}Pains on tip of left shoulder.\\ {{anchor:s150}}Pain at acromion process of left scapula, under clavicle and down left arm; pulse feeble. ====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ====== {{anchor:s152}}The right leg and foot are the weakest.\\ {{anchor:s153}}On awaking and stretching cramps in left calf, amel. from rubbing.\\ {{anchor:s154}}While walking, pain as from dislocation in neck of right thigh bone.\\ {{anchor:s155}}Muscles in middle of thigh feel bruised, agg. ascending, sore pain on touching it.\\ {{anchor:s156}}Drawing in left toe, which had been cut with an axe years ago. ====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ====== {{anchor:s160}}Sitting: breathing amel.; pulse accelerated.\\ {{anchor:s161}}Throwing chest forward and head backward: pains better.\\ {{anchor:s162}}Coughing: retching and lachrymation.\\ {{anchor:s163}}Exertion: nausea worse.\\ {{anchor:s164}}When urinating: pain in cardiac region.\\ {{anchor:s165}}Moving or ascending: difficult respiration; palpitation increased; pain in thigh muscles.\\ {{anchor:s166}}Inspiration: stitches about left scapula.\\ {{anchor:s167}}Stretching: cramp in calf.\\ {{anchor:s168}}Walking: pain in neck of right femur.\\ {{anchor:s169}}Motion aggravates most pains.\\ {{anchor:s170}}Compelled to throw chest forward and head backward to find relief of pains in loins and elsewhere. ====== NERVES. [36] ====== {{anchor:s172}}Great languor and disinclination to physical or mental exertion.\\ {{anchor:s173}}Very much prostrated, pulse irregular. ====== SLEEP. [37] ====== {{anchor:s175}}Sleepiness and yawning.\\ {{anchor:s176}}Sleep uneasy and disturbed by oppressed breathing. ====== TIME. [38] ====== {{anchor:s178}}At 5 A. M.: nausea on awaking.\\ {{anchor:s179}}At 6 A. M.: burning in urethra.\\ {{anchor:s180}}At 9 A. M.: dry coryza.\\ {{anchor:s181}}Afternoon: slight vertigo; insufficient stool.\\ {{anchor:s182}}At 3 P. M.: some fever; weak and drowsy.\\ {{anchor:s183}}At 4 P. M.: pains in loins.\\ {{anchor:s184}}Evening: urging to urinate.\\ {{anchor:s185}}Night: orthopnea; heart beats visibly. ====== FEVER. [40] ====== {{anchor:s187}}Slight chilliness with some sleepiness.\\ {{anchor:s188}}Slight fever; weak; drowsy.\\ {{anchor:s189}}Increased warmth.\\ {{anchor:s190}}Suppression of sweat. ====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ====== {{anchor:s192}}Right: mucus from nostril; stitching side of glans penis; darting through side of chest; pains in axilla; leg and foot weak; pain in neck of femur.\\ {{anchor:s193}}Left: ache in temple; thin discharge from nostril; pain cardiac end of stomach; pain in shoulder; stitches about scapula; pain tip of shoulder (acromion process), under clavicle, and down arm; cramp in calf; drawing in toe.\\ {{anchor:s194}}Symptoms go from right to left.\\ {{anchor:s195}}Below upward: pain from root of nose; pain cardiac end of stomach.\\ {{anchor:s196}}Above downward: pain in left shoulder. ====== SENSATIONS. [43] ====== {{anchor:s198}}As if something was sticking in urethra; as if urine was still passing after urination; as if something was darting through small of back towards sacral vertebrae; chest as if hollow.\\ {{anchor:s199}}Cutting: in urethra.\\ {{anchor:s200}}Darting: through right side of chest; through small of back towards sacrum.\\ {{anchor:s201}}Stitches: in eyes; out of urethra; in glans penis; about left scapula; through chest; in cardiac region.\\ {{anchor:s202}}Stinging: in meatus.\\ {{anchor:s203}}Griping: in region of navel.\\ {{anchor:s204}}Burning: of cheeks; in throat; at anus; in urethra.\\ {{anchor:s205}}Smarting: on tongue.\\ {{anchor:s206}}Soreness: at anus.\\ {{anchor:s207}}Aching: in temples; in forehead; of brain.\\ {{anchor:s208}}Pressure: in temples; in forehead; towards eyes from forehead; from root of nose to forehead.\\ {{anchor:s209}}Drawing pain: over eyebrows; in groins; in left toe.\\ {{anchor:s210}}Rheumatic pain: in cardiac region when urinating; between scapulae; in right axilla.\\ {{anchor:s211}}Dislocating pain: in neck of right femur.\\ {{anchor:s212}}Bruised feeling: in muscles of thigh.\\ {{anchor:s213}}Constricting pain: in cardiac region.\\ {{anchor:s214}}Constriction: of chest.\\ {{anchor:s215}}Cramps: in left calf.\\ {{anchor:s216}}Undefined pain: in eyeballs; in chest; in cardiac end of stomach to left shoulder; at acromion process of left scapula; under clavicle and down arm; in loins.\\ {{anchor:s217}}Roughness: in throat.\\ {{anchor:s218}}Fullness: in abdomen; of chest.\\ {{anchor:s219}}Heaviness: in forehead.\\ {{anchor:s220}}Heat: of face.\\ {{anchor:s221}}Tickling: in eyes. ====== TISSUES. [44] ====== {{anchor:s223}}(OBS:) Gout.\\ {{anchor:s224}}Dropsies. {{anchor:s225}}See Hydrothorax, 28.\\ {{anchor:s226}}(OBS:) Anasarca. ====== TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] ====== {{anchor:s230}}Touch: umbilical region painful; pain in shoulder; pain in thigh muscles.\\ {{anchor:s231}}Pressure: pain in temples worse.\\ {{anchor:s232}}Rubbing: cramp in calf better.\\ {{anchor:s233}}(OBS:) Soothes the pain occurring in a dislocated limb.\\ {{anchor:s234}}Numbness of the bitten part, extending over the whole arm. {{anchor:s235}}~ Hydrophobia.\\ {{anchor:s236}}Constant desire to be carried about in the arms. ====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ====== {{anchor:s238}}Man, aet. 74, after Digit. {{anchor:s239}}~ Dropsy of chest. ====== RELATIONS. [48] ====== {{anchor:s241}}Antidote: Acon. (prostration, feeble pulse, pain in shoulder); Apis.\\ {{anchor:s242}}Is antidotal to Coffea.\\ {{anchor:s243}}Side relations: Convallaria maj., Medeola virg., Trillium cer., Sarsap.\\ {{anchor:s244}}Compare: Arnic., Aurum mur., Cannab., Digit. (dropsy); Spigel. ---- ====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ====== ^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 02, 1880 | ^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r509|Asparagus officinalis]] | ^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r509|Asparagus officinalis]] | ^ Author: | Hering, C. | ^ Year: | 1880 | ^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting | ^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}