Asa Foetida - Generalities symptoms - Hering

GENERALITIES

Sleep

Inclined to sleep.

Sleeplessness at midnight.

About midnight violent pains through left half of body.

Nausea and vomiting

Eructations; smelling like garlic; tasting rancid, sharp or putrid.

Flatus passing upwards, none down.

Hiccough-like contractions of the diaphragm.

Eating and drinking

After eating pressure in the stomach, stitches about the lower ribs, tension in the abdomen; squirming and twisting in the bowels; great difficulty in breathing; febrile state.

After drinking; heaviness and cold feeling in the intestines; diarrhoea.

Tissues

Glands hard, swollen, hot and throbbing, with shooting-jerking pains.

Neuralgia of the stump after amputation of the thigh.

Ostitis, caries, bluish redness and swelling of the parts.

Ulcers with bluish edges, hard, painful to the slightest touch; transparent and thin, very offensive and ichorous pus.

Soft enlargement of bones, also curvature.

Body bloated.

Contact, Injuries, etc.

Touch 3, 28, 46. Pressure 5, 19.

Riding in carriage 23.

Sensations

Numbness with the pains.

Burning or pressing, piercing pain in the muscles.

Crushing pains, worse at night.

Great heaviness of the whole body.

Pain like from splinters.

Nerves

Hysteria, with much trouble about throat or oesophagus.

Twitching and jerking of the muscles.

Chorea.

Clumsiness of the body.

Temperature and weather

Worse in-doors, better out-doors.

Desires for open air.

Room 3. Open air 3.

Chill, Fever and Sweat.

Crawls run over back, in afternoon.

Chill, coldness and dryness of the skin; also in caries, etc.

Every day between 3 and 4 P.M., coldness and trembling, with unbearable stitches in the head.

Heat in the face, after dinner, with anxiety and sleepiness, without thirst.

Occasional cold, most skin.

Attacks

Intermittent pinching pain in ulcers.

Sides.

Right 18, 32, 33. Left 2, 31, 37. Within outward 3, 5, 28. Below upwards 13, 16, 19, 26, 32. Above downwards 28, 31, 32.