Homeopathic Materia Medica ASARUM EUROPUM (asar) (European Snake-root) A remedy for nervous affections, loss of energy, with excessive ERETHISM. SCRATCHING ON SILK OR LINEN OR PAPER UNBEARABLE. Pains and spasmodic muscular actions. Nervous deafness and asthenopia. Cold shivers from any emotion. Feds 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. Diarrhoea of tough mucus. UNDIGESTED STOOLS. Prolapse. Female Menses too early, long lasting, black. Violent pain in small of back. Tenacious, yellow leucorrhoea. 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 amenorrhoea and gastro-enteritis. Suppressed colds.) Compare: IPECAC., especially in diarrhoea; SILICA; NUX; CHINA. Dose Third to sixth potency,
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