Asafoetida

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Asafoetida

• NERVES.
• Mind.
• Gullet.
• Digestive Tract.
• Periosteum
• Ears.
• Nose.
• Tibia.
• Left Side.

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• Overweight individual with a purple face and many
  hysterical symptoms.

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• The main idea in Asafoetida is unsteadiness and
  changeability. It is a remedy that swings from
  excitement to stagnation.

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• Aside from this main theme, there are 4 primary
  areas of pathology that you will frequently see
  in these patients.

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• 1. Deep ulcerations with a fetid discharge and
  threatening septicemia

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• 2. Deregulation of milk flow in women

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• 3. Reversal of peristalsis with offensive
  eructations

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• 4. Violent hard throbbing with red puffed up face
  and possible venous stasis.

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• Vithoulkas says
• Asafoetida people are super-sensitive
  individuals, easily excited for insignificant
  reasons, and equally easily turning to indolence
  and apathy. One can readily perceive that they do
  not have a strong constitution, and the pathology
  will run soon to the deeper regions like their
  central and peripheral nervous system.

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• Frequently connected with deep syphilitic cases.

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• Hypochondriacal people
• who develop a kind of
• hysterical anxiety.

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• Hysteria-like symptoms appear after suppression
  of emotions, eruptions or discharges

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• There are hiccoughlike contractions of the
  diaphragm.

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• There is a lot of faintness and faint like
  symptoms.

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• Excitability is a primary part of their
  make up.

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• Asafoetida cases are people with fears and
  anxieties.

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• The person needing Asafoetida can be very
  disagreeable at times.

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• The important general symptoms include
• Offensive discharges
• Syphilitic pains at night
• Left sided complaints
• Neurological complaints
• Obesity

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• Keynotes include
• Hysteria with intestinal problems
• Hysteria from suppressed discharges
• Globus hystericus (Ign, Nat-m, Lach, Mosch)
• Reverse peristalsis
• Ineffectual eructation
• Abdomen filled with gas, but no flatus
• Deep ulcers with blue margins
• Ulcerative conditions of the eyes
• Numbness of the face and esp. around the mouth
• Bone pains esp. at night