Asa foetida
as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931
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Keynotes
Full, stout aspect, but intolerably nervous and OVERSENSITIVE. Fits of violent, hard throbbing, pressure, sharp sticking, etc. Clavus. Easy relapses. Bone aches. Pains extend outward, are associated with numbness and change place or are > by touch. Boring. Blueness. Foul, thin acrid secretions. .................... Magnifies her symptoms. Craves sympathy. Fickleness. Fainting. Hysteria. Clutches throat. Occipital ache > stool. Eyelids stick to ball. Numb about eyes. Ozœna. Puffy, purple face, as if heated. Greasy taste. Everything presses toward throat. Globus. Spasm of gullet and stomach. Rancid or explosive belching. Regurgitations. Flatulence; sudden; pushing upward, hysterical. Wind colic. Reverse peristalsis. Bowels seem knotted. Foul, dark watery diarrhœa. Spasmodic tightness of chest. Heart seems full, distended. Reflex heart symptoms, of nervous origin. Dark red swelling. Eruption of air vesicles. Bluish ulcers; with high sensitive edges. Foul, burrowing pus. Caries.
Worse
Night. In room. Rest. Eating. Suppression. Mercury. Noise. Sitting. Warm wraps.
Better
Motion in open air. Pressure.
Region
NERVES. Mind. Gullet. Digestive tract. Periosteum: Ears. Nose. Tibia. Left side.
Relationships
Related: Aur. Lach. Sumb. Val.
What the other books say about Asa foetida
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Asa foetida in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Asa foetida in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
- Asa foetida in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
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Create a free accountCite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Asa foetida — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/asa-foetida. Author died 1935: public domain in India. The catalogue records 1931; a 1931 edition is public domain in the US from 1 Jan 2027 at the latest — the edition this transcription follows is not stated in the file. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.