Asparagus Officinalis

The well-known effects of shell-fish, as well as of other fish, in producing

nettle-rash is exemplified in Astacus beyond all other varieties. The lacquer-workers of the East

have discovered in the river-crab the best antidote to the effects of Rhus which they employ in

their craft. The liver is markedly affected, and a great characteristic is "nettle-rash with liver

• ▸complaint.
• ▸" jaundice of children.
• ▸Itching of various parts.
• ▸Crusta lactea, with large lymphatic

glands. Enlarged glands of neck in children and old people. Pain and tenderness of liver,

jaundice, stools of pipe-clay colour. Inward chilliness and sensitiveness to air; < uncovering.

Violent fever with headache, glowing red face, inward chilliness. Nervous crawls over body.

• ▸Tumours, recent.
• ▸Gout of drinking people.
• ▸Stinging pains are felt in various parts.
• ▸A notable

remedy.

Symptoms aggravated by motion.—Drowsiness, with yawning; yawning in the

morning.—Increase of natural heat; pulse quick, small, easily stopped; rapid while

seated.—Anxiety, with palpitation of the heart, and ill-humour; calmness of mind.—Rheumatic

pains in the back and limbs.—Concretions of lithic acid in the joints.—Great languor and

disinclination to physical or mental exertion.

Astacus Fluviatilis.

• ▸Cancer fluviatilis.
• ▸Crawfish or River Crab.
• ▸N.
• ▸O.
• ▸Crustacezx.
• ▸Tincture from whole animal.

• ▸Confused.
• ▸Coryza, with profuse, thin fluid.
• ▸Aching in forehead and root of nose.
• ▸Migrainious morning headache with scotoma.
• ▸Throat feels rough, with hawking copious tenacious mucus throat.

Dulness in head.—On head, neck and chest inflammation, with red spots filled with

serum, gone after a sweat.—A thick, crusty eruption on scalp, with enlarged lymphatic glands.

• ▸Dilated pupils.
• ▸—Dim vision.
• ▸—Sees coloured spots when reading.
• ▸—Motion of eyes

painful—Yellow conjunctiva.

Sensation as if a foreign body obstructed passage of r. ear, causing slight

deafness.—Heat and redness of ears.

At intervals darting like lightning from temple to cheek.—Face glowing and red with

fever.—Erysipelas with nettle-rash.

Canker-spots in mouth; scorbutus.—Fishy taste, followed by nausea spreading

through chest.

Toothache at intervals; dull drawing, as if tooth being drawn out.—Toothache in

whole lower r. jaw, with cold feeling in an eyetooth.

Fulness and pressure in stomach; burning in epigastrium.—Empty eructations;

with sneezing and yawning.—Nausea and vomiting.

Severe pain in duodenum.—Liver inflamed, sensitiveness to pressure.—Jaundice;

of little children.—Pressure in region of spleen.—Colicky pain with tenesmus and prostration; >

sitting, < walking.

Stool, colour of pipe-clay; pain in liver.—Diarrhoea, with vomiting and colicky pain.

Bilious diarrhoea, with pain as of excoriation in the anus, colic, and

dragging in the groins.

Pain in kidneys, stinging in night; < when inhaling.—Fishy-smelling

urine.—Urging, scanty discharge, burning during and after urination; reddish sediment.—Urine

pale, acid; quantity of albumen.

Frequent, with fine stitches in orifice of urethra; burning; of peculiar odor. Cystitis, with pus, mucus and tenesmus. Lithiasis.

Restless sleep from strong sexual excitement.—Averse to coition;

diminished power; scrotum relaxed.

Dyspneea, with anxiety and rattling of mucus.—Cough from tickling

in larynx < during day.—Cough did not molest him when walking, but returned as soon as he sat

down.

• ▸Palpitation, with oppression of chest.
• ▸Pulse intermits, weak, pain about left shoulder and heart, associated with bladder disturbances.
• ▸Great oppression in breathing.
• ▸Hydrothorax.

Oppression of the chest, esp. when writing; dyspnoea brought on by motion, on

going upstairs, and sometimes in the night-time, obliging the patient to sit up in bed.—Pressure

on the chest, sometimes after breakfast, also with tension in breathing; feeling of emptiness

within, with weight on the chest; shootings at different parts of the chest, esp. below the 1.

shoulder-blade; sometimes in the I. side, in breathing; severe shooting pain across the r. side

when sitting down.

Palpitations of the heart, which are visible and audible even during very gentle

movements, and which frequently recur, accompanied by agitation and anxiety during motion,

and on ascending the stairs; violent when seated; irregular beating of the heart, rapid, redoubled,

almost imperceptible.—Shooting pains in the region of the heart after a meal.—Pulse slightly

accelerated; feeble.

Pain near the shoulders on touching the part; rheumatic pain between the

shoulders.—Sensation, as if something passed through the kidneys, and penetrated to the

abdominal vertebree, on the patient sitting down.—Pains in the region of the false vertebre.

Pain, as of dislocation, in the right femoral joint, which causes

lameness.—Shootings in the knees, at night, afterwards under the I. patella, on being

• ▸seated.
• ▸—Bruise-like pain in the 1.
• ▸thigh, with difficulty in walking, and esp.
• ▸in mounting the

stairs; internal pain, as of excoriation, on touching the part; also in the femoral articulation, and

the knee, on bending the limb; the r. leg suffers more than the |., and is also much

weaker.—Severe drawing pains in the calf of the r. leg, in the morning, on waking, and on

extending the limb; cramps in both calves.—Drawing in the great toe, in consequence of a

wound.

Rheumatic pain in back, especially near shoulder and limbs. Pain at acromion process of left scapula under clavicle and down arm, with feeble pulse.

Nettle-rash over whole body; with liver complaint.—Itching on various

parts Jaundice; of children —Erysipelas, with fever, headache, and increased sweat.

Sensitiveness to air no matter how great the feeling of heat —Inward chilliness and

sensitiveness to air; < from uncovering.—Nervous crawls all over body.—Chilly confusion of the

head, face red, swollen; eyelids swollen; great prostration and slight delirtum.—Violent fever,

with headache, glowing red face, inward chilliness and sensitiveness to air.

• ▸Biliousness.
• ▸Colic.
• ▸Cough.
• ▸Diarrhoea.
• ▸Fever.
• ▸Glands, enlarged.
• ▸Intermittent fever.

• ▸Jaundice.
• ▸Liver complaints.
• ▸Nettle-rash.
• ▸Neuralgia.
• ▸Shiverings.
• ▸Stomach, disorders of.

Toothache. Tumours.

Antidote: Acon; Apis.

Compare: Althae-Marshmallow--(contains asparagin; irritable bladder, throat and bronchi). Physalis Alkekengi. Digital; Sarsap; Spigelia.

Sixth potency.