Asarum europaeum
Name: Asarum europaeum
English: European Snake-root
Dutch: mansoor
Family: Aristolochiaceae
Homeopathy
A remedy for nervous affections, loss of energy, with excessive erethism. Scratching on silk or linen or paper unbearable. (Dutch name: MANSOOR). 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. Diarrhœa of tough mucus. Undigested stools. Prolapse.
Female.--Menses too early, long lasting, black. Violent pain in small of back. Tenacious, yellow leucorrhœa.
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, followed by amenorrhœa and gastro-enteritis. Suppressed colds). Compare: Ipecac, especially in diarrhœa; Silica; Nux; China.