Asarum europaeum
as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927
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Mind
Thoughts vanish, with drawing pressure in forehead. Sensibility increased, even from mere imagination.
General
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. Feels as if parts were pressed together. Tension and contractive sensations. Always feels cold.
Modalities
Worse, in cold dry weather; penetrating sounds. Better, from washing; in damp and wet weather.
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. Diarrhœa of tough mucus. Undigested stools. Prolapse.
Female
Menses too early, long lasting, black. Violent pain in small of back. Tenacious, yellow leucorrhœa.
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.
Relationships
Asarum Canadensa-Wild Ginger (Colds, followed by amenorrhœa and gastro-enteritis. Suppressed colds). Compare: Ipecac, especially in diarrhœa; Silica; Nux; China.
Dose
Third to sixth potency.
What the other books say about Asarum europaeum
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Asarum europaeum in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
- Asarum europaeum in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.
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Create a free accountCite this page. William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Asarum europaeum — Mind. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/asarum-europaeum. Published 1927: public domain in the US (since 2023) and in India (author died 1929). Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.