Aralia Racemosa

Aralia was used by the old herbalists and by eclectics as a remedy in phthisis

and coughs, and also for leucorrhcea and other complaints of women whose secretions are acrid

• ▸or suppressed.
• ▸The homceopathic uses have been chiefly based on a proving by Dr.
• ▸S.
• ▸A.
• ▸Jones,

in whom it developed an attack of asthma. The symptoms were: Loud wheezing respiration

coming on immediately on lying down at midnight; and he particularly noted that inspiration was

very loud and more difficult than expiration. The right lung appeared more affected than the left.

On turning to left side, left side seemed affected, and right side became quite free. As the attack

passed off phlegm came more freely, had a salty taste, and felt warm in the mouth. The

characteristic cough, according to Burnett, is "a fit of coughing occurring before midnight, either

• ▸immediately on lying down or more commonly after a short sleep.
• ▸" Cough occurring at 11 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸,

• ▸after a short sleep.
• ▸Profuse perspiration whilst asleep.
• ▸Dr.
• ▸Jones also experienced diarrhoea and

prolapse of rectum; soft yellow stools; after stool an aching pain in the rectum, extending

upwards on the left side.

Smarting soreness of posterior nares, caused by passage of acrid mucus, with peculiar

soreness of alze nasi as if fissured.

Faintly defined nausea in throat and stomach, and sensation in intestines as if

diarrhoea would set in.

Feeling as if about to have loose stool, voided with great difficulty only

a teaspoonful of soft yellow feeces—Mucous membrane of rectum came down like a

tumour.—After stool, whilst still sitting, an aching pain in rectum, extending upwards on the I.

side.

Menses suppressed; leucorrhoea foul-smelling, acrid, with pressing-down air. Lochia suppressed, with tympanites.

• ▸Dry cough coming on after first sleep, about middle of night.
• ▸Asthma on lying down at night with spasmodic cough; worse after first sleep, with tickling in throat.
• ▸Constriction of chest; feels as if a foreign body were in throat.
• ▸Obstruction worse in spring.
• ▸Hay-fever; frequent sneezing.
• ▸Rawness and burning behind sternum.

The least current of air causes sneezing, with copious watery, excoriating nasal discharge, of salty acrid taste.

Dry, wheezing respiration, sense of impending suffocation, and

rapidly increasing dyspnoea.—Very loud, musical whistling during both inspiration and

expiration, but louder during inspiration; < lying down; obliged to sit up.—R. lung appeared more

affected than |—When the attack was over, I lay on my r. side, and then it seemed as if all the

• ▸oppression and discomfort was in r.
• ▸lung.
• ▸—On turning over it soon felt as if 1.
• ▸lung was affected,

• ▸while r.
• ▸was entirely relieved.
• ▸—Constant desire to clear chest, so that I could inspire better.
• ▸—All

obstruction seemed to be in inspiration.—On making forcible expiration to clear chest, raw,

burning sore feeling behind whole length of sternum and in each lung, most intense behind

sternum.—A fter rising in morning raised some loose phlegm easily.—Spasmodic cough at night,

awakens after the first sleep and cannot sleep again on account of it; caused by tickling in throat

with constriction of chest; has to sit up and cough violently; sometimes caused by a feeling of a

foreign body in the throat; sputum at acme of attack scanty; then increased, warm and

saltish.—Immediately on lying down an attack of asthma.

Compare: Botanical relations, Ginseng., Hedera helix; Calc. (turning on one side,

• ▸symptoms go to that side, relieving opposite side); Rumex c.
• ▸(cough at 11 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸); Chlorum (opp.

of Aral.—inspiration easy, expiration difficult).

• ▸Compare: Pecten-Scallop (humid asthma.
• ▸Quick, labored breathing.
• ▸Constriction of chest, especially right side.
• ▸Asthma preceded by coryza and burning in throat and chest.
• ▸Attacks ends with copious expectoration of tough, frothy mucus.
• ▸Worse at night).
• ▸Ars iod; Naphthaline; Cepa; Rosa; Sabad; Sinapis.

Tincture, to third potency.