Asparagus Officinalis aspar.

Asparagus officinalis, the well-known garden perennial contains an active principle (Asparagine), which also occurs in Convallaria, Paris, Robinia, etc. A tincture is prepared from the young sprouts.

This substance is a marked diuretic and sometimes an emetic; it depresses the heart, produces profuse mucous secretions, nasal and bronchial, and causes weakness. ▶ Its allies are Convallaria, Squills, Paris, digitalis, Apocynum, etc.

Most symptoms agg. on motion. ▶ Pains amel. throwing chest forward and head backward.

Serenity. ▶ Peculiar anxiety, with palpitation and ill humor.

Confusion and vertiginous staggering. ▶ Forehead, aching, with confusion; aching in brain near eyes; confusion; heaviness in sinciput; stupefaction in sinciput, then aching in temples, agg. left ; vertigo in sinciput. ▶ Temples, pressing pain, agg. pressure.

Stitches and crawling. ▶ Vision acute.

Sneezing; irritation to. ▶ Coryza, with profuse thin whitish fluid from left nostril, then from right; C., with aching extending from root of nose over forehead to fore part of head; C. with beginning dryness and swelling of internal nostrils, then impeded entrance of air; dry C. ▶ Smell lost.

Pale.

Painless cavity and exfoliation of a carious molar. ▶ Saliva diminished; increased; sweetish, as if mixed with blood. ▶ Talking through nose. ▶ Taste coppery; T. sweetish, insipid.

Hawking almost constantly, with rough feeling in throat; inclination to hawk and cough, rising from deep in throat; and inclination to cough, the mucus is not readily loosened, but is brought up by paroxysms of cough; H. of mucus. ▶ Copious tenacious mucus from throat.

Thirst. ▶ Eructations. ▶ Retching while coughing. ▶ Nausea on waking before 5 A.M., and vomiting of the food eaten in the evening, with bile and mucus, then fecal bilious diarrhœa, then frequent vomiting with increased effort. ▶ Wind.

Discharge of much wind. ▶ Distention. ▶ Colic, with bilious diarrhœa. ▶ Griping in region of navel, which is painful on touch. ▶ Pinching below navel in evening. ▶ Drawing pain in groins.

Burning and soreness at anus. ▶ (Itching in anus.). ▶ Peculiar desire for stool and somewhat difficult hardish stool.

Burning in urethra; and cutting; burning after urinating, with sensation as if there were more urine to pass. ▶ Urging to urinate. ▶ Urinating frequently with fine stitches in orifice of urethra. ▶ Frequent scanty discharge of urine, preceded by sticking in urethra, with burning. ▶ Urine scanty and cloudy; decreased, beer-brown, without sediment; a little straw-colored urine, becomes turbid immediately. ▶ Diuresis; with thirst and increase of appetite. ▶ Urine of peculiar odor. ▶ Turbid urine after dinner; turbid when passed, but became clear and formed a white, flocculent sediment. ▶ Fatty coating on sides of glass after the urine was shaken out and the glass well washed. ▶ Urine kept over night formed a reddish deposit on sides of vessel.

Cystitis, pus and mucus, tenesmus, weak bladder, enlarged prostate or inflammation of the neck of the bladder from cold, with pus and mucus.

Cardiac affections of people with weak pulse, pain about the left shoulder. ▶ Palpitations and pains about the heart, with troubles in the bladder.

Swelling of penis, with erections and urging to urinate. ▶ Stitching on right side of glans. ▶ Excitement of sexual passions. ▶ Menses one day longer than usual.

Tickling and inclination to cough. ▶ Cough towards evening; remitted after breakfast; straining, with inclination to vomit and also forcing tears into eyes; distressing with oppression of chest and copious mucus. ▶ Expectoration difficult. ▶ Mucus is more readily loosened upon each turn of coughing. ▶ Breathing difficult when moving or ascending stairs. ▶ Is obliged to sit up in bed to relieve the breathing.

Stitches in left on inspiration; in various parts on inspiration, especially about left scapula. ▶ Pressure in, after breakfast. ▶ Sudden darting pain through right at 10 A.M. oppression. ▶ Constriction; agg. writing. ▶ Tension when taking a deep breath; tensive sensation on inspiration as if hollow. ▶ Hollow sensation, with external heaviness.

Stitching in region of heart after eaten. ▶ Palpitation, agg. after motion and ascending stairs, with anxious restlessness; with oppression of chest; while sitting, so that the leaves of the book he held trembled. ▶ Pulsation of heart perceptible to touch and hearing; on moderate motion. ▶ Irregular, quick, twofold stoke of heart. ▶ Heart's beat hardly perceptible. ▶ Pulse small, compressible. ▶ Pulse accelerated; when sitting.

Rheumatic pain between scapulæ. ▶ Pain in small of back, at beginning of lumbar vertebræ. ▶ Shooting pains through loins, in region of lumbar vertebræ while sitting.

Shoulder. ▶ Pain in region of, on touch. ▶ Rheumatic pain in region of right.

Thigh. ▶ Pain as from dislocation neck of right bone while walking; in forenoon while walking, preventing rapid motion and sometimes causing limping. ▶ Bruised pain in muscles in middle, making it difficult to walk, agg. descending stairs, with sore pain on touch. ▶ Sore pain in upper surface on touch and on bending hip and knee-joints, making it difficult to walk. ▶ Stitching above right knee, then below left side of knee, evening when sitting. ▶ Indications of cramp in calves. ▶ Cramplike pain in left calf while stretching on waking, amel. rubbing. ▶ Right foot more painful than left. ▶ Right foot weaker than left. ▶ Drawing in left toe, which he had cut with an axe when a boy, at 10 P.M. before sleep.

Drowsiness and yawning; in morning.

Shivering, with weary sleepiness. ▶ Warmth increased. ▶ Febrile excitement at 3 P.M. with weariness. ▶ Heat of face. ▶ Burning of cheeks.