Asarum europaeum

European Snakeroot

Region
NERVES. Mucous membranes. Female organs. * LEFT SIDE.

Modalities
Worse: PENETRATING SOUNDS. Dry, cold weather; icy cold or clear fine weather.
Emotions.
Better: Cold bathing; of face; eyes. Damp, wet weather.

Leading symptoms
M - EXCESSIVE NERVOUS SENSIBILITY; scratching on silk, rattle of paper, etc. is
unbearable.
M - Tremendous erethism; NERVES ON EDGE. Overworked women. Mental
breakdown from stress [dullness].
M - Aversion to COITION [as strong as in Sep.], kissing and embracing.
M - Wrings hands. Very sensitive to violence. Cold shivers from any emotion, noise
[Morrison].
M - Mental DULLNESS and sluggishness and OVEREXCITABILITY of SENSES [hearing,
smell, eyes].
M - Lightness, as if floating.
G - CHILLY persons who are worse in cold, dry weather and feel better in damp wet
weather [Caust.]; ALWAYS FEEL COLD
G - Unconquerable LONGING for ALCOHOL.
G - Ailments and great faintness and constant yawning.
G - Belongs to the group of very SENSITIVE remedies, together with Caust., Nat-c.,
Nat-m., Nat-p., Lil-t., Sil., Staph. and Coff. [Vithoulkas].
G - Pain: PRESSING TOGETHER.
P - PAINFULLY SENSITIVE HEARING. Pain in teeth or vertigo from noise.
P - Asthmatic breathing agg. odours or cold.
P - Darting pain in eyes after operations. Eye troubles amel. bathing eyes in COLD
water. "When reading, sensation in eyes as if they would be pressed asunder or
outward, amel. bathing them in cold water" [Mathur]. Sunshine, light and wind are
intolerable.

Repertory
Mind
Delusions, floating in air, while walking [1/1]. Ideas, deficiency of, vomiting amel.
[1/1]. Sensitive, noise, to, slightest [3]; Thoughts, vanishing of, mental exertion, on
[2].
Head
Coldness, sides [2]. Headless, sensation of being [1]. Pain, weather, dry cold [2];
pressing, temples, shaking head [2/1].
Eye
Cold amel. [2]. Inflammation, cold amel. [2]. Pain, bathing in cold water amel. [2],
light, strong [2].
Vision
Dim, air, fresh open air amel. [2], cold bathing amel. [1], sunlight agg. [1].
Ear
Noises, rumbling, like a distant tornado [2/1]. Hearing Acute, to noises, scratching
on silk and linen [3/1].
Face
Wash in cold water, desire to [2].
Stomach
Anxiety, morning, waking, on [3]; morning, waking, on, drunkards, in [3/1]. Nausea,
pressure on abdomen [1]. Pulsation, gastric and abdominal sufferings, during [2/1].
Abdomen
Fullness, sensation of, hunger, during [1/1].
Rectum
Diarrhoea, damp weather amel. [1], dry weather [1].
Bladder
Urging to urinate, frequent, menses, before [1].
Cough
Grief [1].
Extremities
Coldness, hands, knee, foot, hottest weather, in [2/1]. Pain, upper arm, deltoid
region, hand lies on table, while [1/1]; lower limbs, sciatica, cold agg. [1], wet
weather amel. [1/1]. Weakness, upper limbs, hanging down amel. [1/1].
Sleep
Sleeplessness, noise, from slight [2].
Generalities
Bathing the affected part amel. [3], cold amel. [2], face amel. [2].

Food
Aversion: Smoking [1].
Desire: Alcohol [3]; beer [1]; milk [1]; nuts [1]; tobacco [1]. Worse: Alcohol [3]; hot
food [2].
Better: Cold drinks, during heat [2]; cold water [2]; vinegar [2]; warm food [1].

Nucleus
1. Extreme nervous sensibility; overworked; mental dullness and overexcitability of
special senses.
2. agg. Penetrating sounds.
3. Aversion to coition, kissing, embracing.
4. amel. Cold water, cold bathing [eyes, face].
5. Chilly persons; hands, knees and feet always cold. Notes