Aralia Racemosa aral.

Respiration. Mucous membranes.

After a short nap. Drafts.

Lying with head high. Sitting up.

Weak, relaxed and nauseated. Biliousness.

Sneezing, < drafts. Aphthæ. Pains from liver to r. scapula. Dyspnœa or violent cough after first sleep, > slight expectoration. Whistling breathing. Salty expectoration.

Complementary: Lob.

American Spikenard

This is a remedy for asthmatic conditions, with cough aggravated on lying down. Drenching sweat during sleep. Extreme sensitiveness to draughts. Diarrhœa, prolapse of rectum. Aching in rectum extending upwards; worse lying on side lain upon.

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.

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

Worse about 11 pm (cough).

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.

Loud wheezing breathing, with cough, < in evening or night, after the first sleep (asthma).

Spikenard (American name). Grows in rich woodlands throughout U.S.A. - N. O. Araliaceæ. Tincture of fresh root.

Asthma. Cough . Diarrhœa. Hæmorrhoids. Hay-fever. Leucorrhœa. Prolapsus ani.

Aralia was used by the old herbalists and by eclectics as a remedy in phthisis and coughs, and also for leucorrhœa and other complaints of women whose secretions are acrid or suppressed. The homœopathic 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 diarrhœa and prolapse of rectum; soft yellow stools; after stool an aching pain in the rectum, extending upwards on the left side.

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).

Fear of lung disease; cannot be shaken off.

Smarting soreness of posterior nares, caused by passage of acrid mucus, with peculiar soreness of alæ nasi as if fissured.

Nausea in throat.

Faintly defined nausea in throat and stomach, and sensation in intestines as if diarrhœa would set in.

Feeling as if about to have loose stool, voided with great difficulty only a teaspoonful of soft yellow fæces. — Mucous membrane of rectum came down like a tumour. — After stool, whilst still sitting, an aching pain in rectum, extending upwards on the l. side.

Acrid, offensive leucorrhœa, with bearing-down pains.

Dry, wheezing respiration, sense of impending suffocation, and rapidly increasing dyspnœa. — 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 l. — 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 l. 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. — After 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.

Weak, prostrated, half-sick, and filled with a vague feeling of nausea.

Smarting soreness of posterior nares causes by passage of acrid mucus with peculiar soreness of the alæ nasi, as if fissured.

Dry wheezing respiration, sense of impending suffocation; whistling worse during inspiration, must sit up. θ Hay-asthma.

Awakes and cough, cannot again sleep because of it.
Sputum at came of asthma scanty, then increased; warm and saltish.

Raw, burning sore feeling behind the whole length of the sternum and in each lung.

The American spikenard is an herbaceous plant belonging to the Araliaceæ. A tincture is prepared from the fresh root.

See respiratory organs.

Iodine, Ars., Ip.

Severe cold, no cough. ▶ Weak, half sick and filled with vague nausea. ▶ Feeling on rising at 8.30 as after a "spree," with nausea in throat and stomach and sensation as if diarrhœa would set in, and at 3.15 P.M. stool, difficult, soft, yellow, about a teaspoonful, with protrusion of mucous membrane of rectum like a tumor (have had hæmorrhoids), after stool aching pain in rectum extending upward and on left side. ▶ Headache.

Lips red, swollen, lips and mouth feel parched, wants to keep the tongue moving to keep it moist, although there is profuse salivation, saliva running from mouth, agg. by lying, rood of mouth covered with ulcers, irregular in size and shape, having a yellowish-white covering (not membrane) looking like pus, throat swollen and sore, swallowing difficult on account of a sensation of a "bunch" in throat, voice weak and husky. ▶ Nausea. ▶ Discomfort in stomach, with flatulency. ▶ Griping. ▶ Irritation in anus at night. ▶ Mucous discharge from rectum. ▶ Diarrhœa; preceded by belching.

Asthma on lying down at night, dry wheezing respiration when lying on back, with sense of impending suffocation, rapidly increasing dyspnœa, loud musical whistlings during inspiration and expiration, but louder during inspiration, inability to lie down, warm, salt, mucous expectoration, greater oppression of right than of left lung, afterwards when lying on right side all oppression and discomfort were in right lung, but on turning over the left lung was affected and the right relieved entirely, constant desire to clear chest of something, all obstruction being during inspiration, on forcible expiration raw, burning, sore feeling behind whole length of sternum and in lungs, most intense behind sternum, in morning easy expectoration of loose phlegm, afterwards fear that right lung is diseased, and cough now and then, with raising of phlegm, which is swallowed involuntarily.

Sweat in sleep at night.

It has been found useful for asthma with spasmodic cough at night, in general agg. lying down. ▶ Spasmodic cough at night after the first sleep, cough caused by tickling in throat, associated with constriction of chest, has to sit up and cough violently; sometimes caused by a feeling of a foreign body in the throat. ▶ Asthma, with oppressed breathing all day, as from a weight on stomach, agg. night on lying down, when the patient is awakened by the violent cough, amel. raising a little tough mucus. ▶ Hay fever, frequent sneezing, with asthmatic attacks and whistling respiration, must sit up. ▶ It has cured leucorrhœa, acrid, offensive, with bearing-down pains.

This root has been used for Asthma and spasmodic cough aggravated by lying down, especially after the first sleep at night.
Constriction of the chest.
Relief from expectoration of tough mucus.