Asa foetida

Gum of the Stinkasand

Region
NERVES. Mind. Gullet. Digestive tract. Periosteum [ears; nose; tibia]. * LEFT SIDE.

Modalities
Worse: Night. In room. Rest. After eating. Suppression. Mercury. Noise. Sitting.
Warm wraps. TOUCH. Cough.
Better: Motion in open air. Pressure.

Leading symptoms
M - EXTREME NERVOUSNESS and OVERSENSITIVITY.
M - "Magnifies her symptoms" [Boger]. CRAVES SYMPATHY.
M - HYSTERICAL PATIENTS; faint easily in a closed room from excitement; globus
hystericus.
G - BONES + PERIOSTEUM [pains, caries, swelling].
G - PRESSING pains - from within outward.
G - TOUCH agg. [3] or amel. [3].
G - Internal sensation of TENSION.
G - PUFFED, venous, fat, flabby patients with a PURPLE face; purple when out in the
cold, purple when excited; "they get no sympathy when sick because they look so
well".
G - REVERSED PERISTALSIS. "Flatus does not pass downward but always upward."
"Everything presses toward throat" [Boger]. "Enormous accumulation of flatulence
all pressing upwards" [Mathur].
G - "Hysterical women: disposed to miscarriages, haemorrhages; breasts filled up
with milk when not pregnant; deficiency of milk a few days after delivery" [Mathur].
G - Faintness in a closed room [2] - on excitement [2].
G - Pain and numbness.
P - Children with digestive troubles [loud rumbling and explosive belching, difficult
stool] who are constantly CHEWING, as if ruminating.
P - Extremely offensive diarrhoea and meteorism and regurgitation of food.

Repertory
Mind
Hysteria, suppression of discharges, after [3; Lach.].
Head
Pain, plug, peg or wedge, as from a, sides [2], temples [2] [clavus hystericus].
Eye
Numbness, around eyes [3/1]. Pain, air, open air amel. [3], pressure amel. [2].
Pulsation, in eyes, night [3].
Nose
Numbness, bones, of [2]. Face
Heat, eating, after [2]. Numbness [2], chin [2].
Throat
Reversed peristaltic action of oesophagus [2/1]. Swallow, constant disposition to,
evening [2/1].
Stomach
Emptiness, forenoon, 11 a.m. [2], throbbing, with [2]. Eructations, garlic, like [3].
Pulsation, eating, after [2].
Abdomen
Heaviness, as from a load, drinking, after [2/1]. Peristalsis reversed [2].
Chest
Milk, non-pregnant women [2]. Palpitation, sitting, while [3].
Extremities
Caries, of bone [3]. Coldness, foot, hot face, with [2].
Generalities
Convulsions, suppressed discharges [2]. Pain, scraped, as if, Periosteum [2].

Food
Aversion: Food [2]; beer [1]. Desire: Cold drinks [1]; wine [1].
Worse: Fat [2]; beer [1]; butter [1]; pork [1].

Nucleus
1. Puffy and purple face [as if heated].
2. Exaggerating, magnifying symptoms; craves sympathy.
3. Globus hystericus. Clavus hystericus. Hypersensitivity [touch].
4. Reversed peristalsis; explosive belching.
5. Left-sided complaints. Notes