16. Asafoetida
Names: Asa foetida, Ferula asa foetida, Narthex asafoetida, Ferula narthex.
English: Assafetida, Devil's Dung.
German: Teufelsdreck, Stinkasand.
Dutch: duivelsdrek
Botanical: not always distinguished (HAB) from Ferula foetida.
Stage 16: offensive,
Mind
Hysteria, theatrical, extravert, gesticulating, changeable, weeping alternating laughing
Sensitive, oversensitive
Hypochondriasis, calling the doctor frequently.
Irritable, quarrelsome; complaining.
Fear: cancer, aids,
Sexual problems, < confinement.
Smiling in sleep.
Dream: knocking with violence on a door; the door was elastic, bouncing back; then she could knock softly, then she could ring the bell and was invited to come to dinner.
Irresolution
Memory loss.
Vertigo.
Anorexia nervosa.
Generals
Type: reversed peristalsis, plethoric robust.
Localisation: left.
Weather: > open air, < warm applications.
Time: < 3 pm, < 9 am, < night.
Desire: alcohol, tobacco, milk, meat, food.
Food: << after eating.
Sleep: 'gloe gloe' noises.
Physical: < touch, < rest, > motion, > pressure.
Physical
Vertigo; Fainting.
Sensation: throbbing, pressing outward, heavy.
Discharge: offensive, like garlic, onion; fetor.
$# Quivering.
Epilepsy, convulsions, < sleep, < menses.
Headache, boring above eyebrows, stitches under left frontal eminences; heavy, diffcult to hold
Eyes: orbital neuralgia, > pressure, > rest; iritis intraocular inflammations, boring throbbing pain; corneal ulcer, superficial, digging pains.
Ears: otitis, discharge offensive, purulent; mastoiditis, boring, + pain in temporal, 3 pressing out.
Face: red; numb, around eyes; chewing; artrosis temperomandibular
Nose: discharge offensive purulent; caries.
Throat: globus hystericus, reverse peristalsis; bubble or lump, rising from stomach.
Oesofagitis < reflux in babies
Chest: tight, spasmodic, sensation lungs can not fully expand, asthma > flatus.
Palpitation like a tremor.
Breast: turgid with milk in < unimpregnated. milk scanty.
Stomach, spasmodic contraction, belching, no flatus, > vomiting; empty weak, beating, cutting, burning, 3 pulsation pit; eructation, forcible, difficult, loud, liquid food; gurgling, rolling.
Abdomen, distension, flatulence.
Cystitis
Rectum: distended, griping, obstinate constipation; diarrhoea, offensive; perineum pain, S dull pressed out.
Stool: scanty, offensive
Female: fluor.
Limbs: bone pain, darting, caries, brittle; periosteum painful, swollen, enlarged.
Skin: itching, > scratching; ulcers, deep, painful on edges, left lower leg medial, thin pus.