Dr. Reckeweg Asafoetida 30 CH (11 ml)

Properties

Form:                  Drops

Common Name: Gum of the sticksand, Heeng

Description

Hysterical and hypochondriacal manifestations are covered by this remedy. Though the patient is of full habit, and stout aspect yet he is intolerably nervous and OVERSENSITIVE. In the digestive tract it produces flatulence and spasmodic contractions of stomach and oesophagus, with reverse peristalsis, everything comes up, nothing goes down. It affects bones and periosteum; caries of bones and deep ulcerations are favourably influenced by it. fits of hard, violent throbbing. Pains are pressive, sharp, stitching, extending outwards; associated with numbness; they change place and are better by touch. Aching, boring in bones. Easy relapses. Blueness. Foul, thin, acrid secretions. As if a nail or plug driven in. Twitching and jerking in muscles. Fistulae with foul pus. Glands all over the body are hot and throb. Pains jerk and shoot. Clumsy children. Obesity. Left sided symptoms. Undulating, twitching of muscles. Ill effects of checked skin eruptions or suppressed discharges. Neuralgia of stump, after operations. Nervous disorders from suppressed skin eruptions. 

Indications

Asthma. Bone, disease of. Chorea. Diarrhoea. Dyspepsia. Flatulence. Headache. Heart, affections of. Hypersensitiveness. Hysteria Iritis. Lactation, disorders of. Mercury, effects of. Neuralgia. Obesity. Orbital neuralgia. Ozaena. Syphilis. Tympanitis. Ulcers. Whitlow.

Dosage

Take 5 drops in half cup of water 3 times a day or as prescribed by the physician OR

Medicate the globules and take 4-6 globules 3 times a day or as prescribed by the physician.

Action of Medicine

• Hysterical flatulence with distension of stomach.
• There is gurgling and rolling of wind which escapes afterwards with loud and difficult eructation.
• Irritable, sensitive, Boring above eyebrows and complaints of pressing pain from within outward.
• Offensive, purulent discharge from ears
• Flatulence and regurgitation of liquid. Sensation of emptiness and weakness, with distention and beating in stomach and abdomen. Forcible eructation of gas.
• Pain in perineum, as if something dull pressed out. diarrhoea, extremely offensive, with meteorism, and regurgitation of food.
• Itching, better scratching; ulcers painful on edges. Suppressed skin symptoms produce nervous disorders.
• An empty all gone feeling in stomach at 11AM with strange pulsation in the pit of stomach
• Deficient milk with oversensitiveness after confinement
• Excessive distension of abdomen & sensation as if peristaltic motions were reversed with eructations smelling like garlic even regurgitation of food
• Palpitation more like a tremor. Heart seems full, distended. Reflex heart symptoms of nervous origin.
• Spasmodic tightness of chest, as if lungs could not be fully expanded. Asthmatic attacks at least once in a day, worse bodily exertion, coition, satisfying meals. 
• Explosive eructations smelling like garlic and rancid in taste.
• Flatulence; sudden, pushing upwards, hysterical, wind colic with abdominal pulsations. Bowels seem knotted.
• Diarrhoea, stools dark, watery with disgusting odour. Only mucus is passed. Flatus passing upwards, none downwards.
• Mammae turgid with milk, when not pregnant. Deficient milk with oversensitiveness.
• Asthmatic attacks at least once in a day, worse bodily exertion, coition, satisfying meals. Spasms of the glottis, alternating with contraction of finger and toes.
• Headaches in occipital region better stool.

MODALITIES:

• Worse:  at night; from tough; left side, during rest, warm applications, In room, Eating, Suppressions, Mercury, Noise, Sitting, Warm wraps.
• Better: open air; from motion, pressure,  touch, Scratching.