Asparagus officinalis
Plant · Asparagaceae
Asparagus Officinalis is indicated in elderly patients with cardiac affections accompanied by dropsy and urinary disturbances. The remedy suits those with weak, irregular pulse, left-sided shoulder and cardiac pain, and strong-smelling characteristic urine, reflecting a combined cardiac and renal insufficiency picture.
Key symptoms
- Frequent urination with fine stitches in urethra and burning; urine of peculiar strong odour
- Visible violent palpitation with oppression of chest; pulse weak, slow, and irregular
- Rheumatic pain in back especially near left shoulder and down left arm
- Great oppression in breathing; hydrothorax
- Coryza with profuse thin fluid; copious tenacious mucus from throat by hawking
- Migrainous morning headache with scotoma; confused head
- Cardiac affections of the aged with dropsy
Worse (aggravation)
- Motion and ascending stairs (palpitation and dyspnoea worse)
Common Garden Asparagus
Its marked and immediate action on the urinary secretion is well known. It causes weakness and cardiac depression with dropsy. Rheumatic pains. Especially about left shoulder and heart.
Head
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.
Urine
Frequent, with fine stitches in orifice of urethra; burning; of peculiar odor. Cystitis, with pus, mucus and tenesmus. Lithiasis.
Heart
Palpitation, with oppression of chest. Pulse intermits, weak, pain about left shoulder and heart, associated with bladder disturbances. Great oppression in breathing. Hydrothorax.
Extremities
Rheumatic pain in back, especially near shoulder and limbs. Pain at acromion process of left scapula under clavicle and down arm, with feeble pulse.
Relationship
Antidote: Acon; Apis.
Compare: Althae-Marshmallow--(contains asparagin; irritable bladder, throat and bronchi). Physalis Alkekengi. Digital; Sarsap; Spigelia.
Dose
Sixth potency.
A. officinalis. N. O. Liliaceæ. Tincture of young sprouts.
Clinical
Coryza. Diabetes. Dropsies. Heart disease. Urinary disorders.
Characteristics
Like other liliaceous plants Aspar. acts on the heart, kidneys, and dropsical effusions. Severe coryza and nasal catarrh, with profuse secretion of thin, whitish fluid from left nostril, afterwards right. Frequent violent sneezing. Copious discharge of tenacious mucus from the throat, not easily loosed, but brought up by hawking or paroxysms of cough. Frequent urination, with fine stinging in the meatus; followed by stitches out of the urethra. After urinating burning in urethra with sensation as if some were still passing. Increased urine beer-brown, without sediment. Urine strong-smelling; odour peculiar; deposits greasy sediment on sides of vessel; gravel. Prurigo pudendi. Fulness in chest; hydrothorax. Visible violent palpitation; while sitting; with anxious restlessness, increased by motion or ascending; with oppression of chest. Pulse weak, slow, irregular. Pain at left acromion process, under clavicle and down left arm. Constant desire to be carried about in the arms.
Heart and Pulse
Cardiac affections of the aged with dropsy.
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