Allium Sativum

• ▸Teste places All.
• ▸sat.
• ▸in the Bryonia group along with Lyc.
• ▸, Digit.
• ▸, Nux v.
• ▸,

Coloc., Ign., all of which act with much power on carnivorous animals and hardly at all on

herbivora. All are suited to persons who are disposed to excesses at table, have strong

constitutions, dark complexions, firm flesh, though occasionally disposed to obesity. The A//. sat.

patient is rather a gourmand than a glutton. It suits persons who eat a great deal more than they

drink. In the mental sphere there is anxiety and impatience. Fears he won't recover; that he won't

be able to bear any medicine; fear of being poisoned. Teste has cured with it, chronic dyspepsia

in old, fleshy persons, whose bowels were deranged by the least irregularity of diet; chronic

bronchial catarrh with profuse mucous expectoration; periodical asthma; a case of permanent

dyspnoea; rheumatism of hip; swelling of breasts after weaning. He also greatly relieved with it

• ▸cases of diabetes mellitus.
• ▸The pains of A//.
• ▸s.
• ▸are mostly pressive from within outward (i.
• ▸e.
• ▸,

distensive, like those of Bry.); stinging, or stinging and burning; or stinging with paralytic

weakness; or tearing and crampy. Sometimes they increase gradually to a high point and then

• ▸decrease gradually (like Su/.
• ▸and Stan.
• ▸).
• ▸Garlic has been used as a condiment from ancient times,

• ▸and also as a remedy against worms and fevers.
• ▸Though closely related to All.
• ▸cep.
• ▸it is

incompatible with it, and not very like it in action. It produces headache in connection with

digestive troubles and also with menstruation. Heavy headache, can hardly open eyes, > onset of

menses, < after. Catarrhal ophthalmia returning every night on trying to read. Coryza, moist, dry,

• ▸thin, fluent, with pressive pains above root of nose.
• ▸Scurvy gums; sore mouth.
• ▸A//.
• ▸sat.
• ▸is one of

the remedies for "hair" sensation: Sensation of hair on tongue < reading. (Many of the pains of

Cepa are thread-like.) Copious sweetish saliva. The digestion is disordered by slightest

irregularities in diet. Pressure in epigastrium and transverse colon > by pressure and sitting bent.

The menses are profuse. During menses there is soreness of vulva and thighs, mammee swollen

and painful to touch. There are some characteristic respiratory symptoms. Bronchial catarrh with

gelatinous, difficult expectoration. Cough, giving rise to most fetid breath like Capsicum. Cough

• ▸when smoking.
• ▸The hip is the seat of many rheumatic pains.
• ▸Tearing in hip.
• ▸Pain in psoas and

iliac muscles < least movement, though he can lift the limb with the hands. The skin is sensitive,

dry, shrivelled. Herpetic itching, burning, red or whitish spots on swollen surface. Baldness;

scurf, skin peels off hand. The skin over joints is tight.

It is suited to fleshy people and those used to high living. Change of temperature <. Open air <

chest complaints. Moist heat < pains in limbs. Damp cold weather = tearing and stinging in

different parts of body. Reading < eye and mouth symptoms. Aggravation from reading is

• ▸noteworthy.
• ▸It is found also under Cina.
• ▸The vertigo of All.
• ▸sat.
• ▸is brought on by looking long

and steadily at anything: this is probably, in essence, the same modality as < by reading. Many

symptoms are < in evening and night; also in the morning on waking. Sitting bent >; pressure <

pains in abdomen. Every step = excruciating pain in intestines. Walking < pains in limbs.

Sadness.—Weeping during sleep.—Fears he will never get well; fears he cannot bear

any medicine; fear of being poisoned.—Sensitive —Impatient—Impulse to run away.

Heavy; pulsation in temples; catarrhal deafness.

Vertigo on looking steadily at anything for a long time.—Short-lasting vertigo, and

only on rising from a chair.—Heaviness in forehead, almost preventing him from opening his

eyes.—Dull pain in occiput in morning, while lying on the back.—Headache: with mucus in the

throat; before menses, ceasing when they occur and returning after; in dyspeptic subjects.

Catarrhal ophthalmia at night; smarting, burning lachrymation; agglutination; returns

every night when he tries to read.—Tarsi sore with irritation.

Coryza rather dry than fluent, with pressive pain from above the root of the

nose.—Smarting at junction of alze nasi and face.—Blowing blood from the nose in the night.

Much sweetish saliva after meals and at night. Sensation of a hair on tongue or throat.

Tickling sensation in the lower teeth.—Swelling of lower gums.—During night, and

in the morning, troublesome feeling as of a hair on her tongue; renewed on waking.—Tongue

pale-red with effaced papillae.—Dryness of palate—Very copious flow of sweetish saliva into the

mouth in the forenoon, after meals; more esp. after supper and during the night —Hot taste in

mouth, proceeding from throat, strongly reminding him of garlic, immediately after taking the

medicine, and returning after breakfast to such a degree as to cause a flow of saliva.—The

symptoms of the mouth are < by reading.

Sensation as of something cold rising in throat—Sensation as of a hot and smarting

vapour rising in the throat—Mucous accumulations in the throat, in the morning, with heavy

head.—Sticky feeling in throat with dryness, tickling, heat, and raw feeling in larynx.

10, 11. Appetite and Stomach.—Voracious appetite ——Great hunger from weakness of stomach

without appetite-—Desire for butter—Thirst; preventing sleep.—Burning eructations, after a

meal.—Eructations exciting copious salivation.—The slightest deviation in diet disturbs the

bowels and digestion—Complaints from bad water; from gluttony.—Chest complaints < after

eating.—Burning in stomach, which is not painful when not touched, but is very sensitive to the

• ▸least pressure.
• ▸—Lancinations.
• ▸—Weight in stomach which prevents sleep.
• ▸—Pressure inward as

from a stone in epigastrium.—Pressure in upper abdomen; > by sitting bent and pressing with

both hands; pain became unendurable on walking out.

• ▸Voracious appetite.
• ▸Burning eructations.
• ▸Least change in diet causes trouble.
• ▸Constipation, with constant dull pains in bowels.
• ▸Tongue pale, red papillae.

Wind colic; twistings and pinchings round navel.—Incomplete (as if interrupted)

emission of fetid flatus.—Every step on the pavement caused excruciating pain as if the intestines

would be torn apart, > by lying down.—Everything seemed to drag downward.—Weight in

hypogastrium, immediately after a meal, without urging to stool or urinate.

Expels flatus.—Stool first fecal, then watery and hot.—Involuntary

• ▸stools.
• ▸—Diarrheeic stool, 3 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸, preceded, accompanied, and followed by cuttings in abdomen

and loins —Normal stool immediately after a meal.—Stool delayed from morning until after

dinner, great urging; with stool heat in rectum.—Constipation with almost constant dull pain in

bowels.—Hzmorrhoids.—Prolapsus ani—Worms.

Urine increased.—Whitish very abundant urine, becoming cloudy from

nitric acid.—A kind of diabetes —Dark brown with copious sediment.—Lessened urine.

Pain in swelling of breasts. Eruption in vagina and on breasts and vulva during menses.

Menses too early; headache and dizziness lessen as the flow

becomes established.—Suppurating pimples on vulva.—Suppurating pimples on vulva during

menses.—During menses extensive excoriations of skin of internal portions of thighs —Bright red

spots, with itching and smarting on the inside of the labia majora and at entrance of

• ▸vagina.
• ▸—(Said to be injurious during pregnancy and nursing.
• ▸).
• ▸—Retained placenta.
• ▸—Dull stitches

• ▸in r.
• ▸mamma.
• ▸—Breasts swell after weaning.
• ▸—Swelling of breasts, sensitive to touch.
• ▸—Eruption of

red blotches between the breasts and around the nipples.

• ▸Constant rattling of mucus in bronchi.
• ▸Cough in the morning after leaving bedroom, with mucous expectoration, which is tenacious and difficult to raise.
• ▸Sensitive to cold air.
• ▸Dilated bronchi, with fetid expectoration.
• ▸Darting pain in chest.

Difficult respiration as if sternum compressed.—Periodic

asthma.—Painful irritation of windpipe when coughing.—Scraping in larynx exciting dry

cough.—Almost continuous mucous rales in bronchi.—Cough seeming to come from

stomach.—Cough giving rise to perceptible fetid smell—Dry cough after eating —Morning

cough, after leaving his bedroom, with extremely copious mucous expectoration.—Sudden

paroxysms of hard, dry cough while smoking, compelling him to desist.—Great difficulty in

expectorating a glutinous mucus.—Expectoration of thin, yellowish, purulent-looking blood-

streaked mucus of putrid odour.—Cough < bending head; after eating; by open air.

Pain in |. chest with dark urine —Darting pain in the chest which prevents sleep.

Red spots like ringworm on the back.—Itching between shoulders.—Tearing pain in

sacrum.—Cutting pain in sacrum in morning.—Simple pain in coccyx.

Painful feeling of contraction in arm.—Pain in forearm; seems as if

• ▸paralysed.
• ▸—Burning, then moisture in palms.
• ▸—Some red spots appear on hands.
• ▸—Skin peels off

the hands. —Tearing pains in fingers extending below the nails.

Rheumatism of hip.—Tearing pain in hip.—Intolerable pain in common

tendon of psoas and iliacus muscles; < from least movement; trying to cross legs causes him to

cry out; but this causes no pain if he lifts the limb gently with his hand; < 8 p.m. in bed, cannot

then change his position or sleep —Weakness in lower limbs; painful weariness in the

thighs.—Legs do not grow as rapidly as the rest of the body.—Pain as from a sprain in ankle-joint;

in toe-joints.—Tingling in feet; burning in soles; stiffness in feet—Pains < by changes of

temperature.

Skin sensitive.—Loose; dry; wilted skin —Swelling with itching and burning.—Red

spots; on hands, on chest, on back.—Herpetic itching burning, red or whitish spots on a swollen

surface.

Drowsiness after a meal.—Muscles twitch on falling asleep.—Sleep prevented by:

stitches on chest; weight on stomach; thirst—Coldness felt in sleep and awakening him

frequently.—Dreams: of water and storms; of rapid transit from place to place; anxious;

continuing after waking.

Chilliness on one side only.—Shivering before midday and in evening. —During

• ▸coldness, redness of face.
• ▸—Vomiting during the fever.
• ▸—Sweat in afternoon.
• ▸—Sweat: acrid;

causing itching; fetid.

• ▸Alopecia.
• ▸Asthma, periodical.
• ▸Bronchitis.
• ▸Catarrhs.
• ▸Colic.
• ▸Constipation.
• ▸Cough.

• ▸Coxalgia.
• ▸Dandriff.
• ▸Diabetes.
• ▸Diarrhoea.
• ▸Dypepsia.
• ▸Fevers.
• ▸Headache.
• ▸Hip, rheumatism of.

• ▸Hoarseness.
• ▸Menorrhagia.
• ▸Menses, disorders of.
• ▸Ophthalmia.
• ▸Rheumatism.
• ▸Salivation.
• ▸Scurvy.

• ▸Skin, affections of.
• ▸Sprains.
• ▸Whitlow.
• ▸Worms.

• ▸Compare: All.
• ▸cep.
• ▸(which see).
• ▸Ornithogalum umbellatum (stomach affections);

• ▸Bry.
• ▸, Caps.
• ▸(fetid breath with cough), Coloc.
• ▸(colic; hip-pain); Ign.
• ▸; Kali bi.
• ▸(ropy expectoration;

• ▸hair on tongue); Rhus and Hyo.
• ▸(fear of being poisoned); Lyc.
• ▸, Nux v.
• ▸, Seneg.
• ▸Antidoted by: Lyc.

• ▸Complementary: Ars.
• ▸Incompatible: Alo.
• ▸, All.
• ▸cep.
• ▸, Scilla.

• ▸Allium Sat according to Dr.
• ▸Teste, belongs to the Bryonia group, including Lycopod.
• ▸Nux.
• ▸Colocy, Digital and Ignatia which affect deeply all flesh eating animals and hardly at all vegetarians.
• ▸Hence their special applicability to meat eaters rather than to exclusive vegetarians.

Compare: Capsicum; Arsenic; Senega; Kali nit.

Complementary: Arsenic.

Antidote: Lycopod.

Third to sixth potency. In tuberculosis, dose, four to six grammes in moderate state of dessication daily, in divided doses.