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Materia Medica Viva Volume 3 – page 660

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A patient applied at the out-patient clinic of the Massachusetts Homoeopathic Hospital, presenting pathologically as a most pronounced feature, a blood pressure ranging from 220 sys. to 240 or 250 sys. Mentally there was great anxiety, with the peculiar and characteristic distraction at the sound of the crumpling of paper, or scratching of linen. As I had many years ago pigeon-holed this symptom in mind under the one remedy having it in prominence, it was easy to give this arteriosclerotic patient some doses of Asarum Europeum 30th, which within a short time not only relieved entirely the nervous condition, but the blood-pressure readings thereafter – so long as I had trace of her – remained at 1120 sys. And the patient seldom has had occasion to return for treatment.
Proceedings of the Forty-Seventh Annual Session of the International Hahnemannian Association, pp. 198-199.
Case. A Characteristic Symptom of Asarum Europeum – Scanty, yellow mucus stool, in one string.
A woman, two months after confinement, from which she made a slow recovery, having had profuse and prolonged lochia, followed by tenacious leucorrhoea, applied for a prescription for "dysentery", saying that she had stools of mucus with pain in the belly. She took Mercurius and Pulsatilla, each a few days, but without benefit. I now insisted upon a more definited description of the stool, and was shown one of three or four which had occured that day. It was a long, yellow, twisted string of inodorous mucus. Three doses of Asarum 2d cured the case; she had but three or four such stools after the first dose.
A woman, four months after confinement, complained of pain in the region of the descending colon, with faecal discharges coated with mucus. Podophyllum 2d was given. In three days no faecal discharges occurred, -nothing but long, yellow, tenacious strings of mucus, (inodorous). Six pellets of Asarum 3d, after each stool, arrested them in two days.
A second attack occurring in the same lady after a cold, three months after, was cured promptly with Asarum in the same doses.
These three cases are quite sufficient to establish the reliability of this symptoms as a "characteristic" of Asarum. Was it only a coincidence that they occurred after a severe confinement? or does the intimate relation which Asarum holds to the generative organs have anything to do with the condition cured? It is notable that the tenacious yellow leucorrhoea in the first case disappeared with the intestinal blenorrhoea!
It may be well here to compare this symptom of Asarum with similar ones belonging to other remedies.
E.M. Hale MD.
On taking a dose, it caused burning and smarting in mouth, this being followed by a cold sensation from the secretion of a quantity of tenacious mucus. Nausea with inclination to vomit followed, and vomiting of some fluid occurred in one case. Considerable flatus was produced in both stomach and bowels, and this was followed by loose, light-coloured stools. The bladder was much irritated, causing very frequent