Sumbulus moschatus
Ferula sumbul · Plant · Apiaceae
Sumbulus Moschatus suits nervous, hysterical patients — especially women — with functional cardiac disorders, neuralgic affections, and strong tendency to faint from the slightest cause. It is particularly indicated for the nervous, easily excited person with left-sided symptoms, sclerosed arteries, and hysterical or climacteric complaints.
Key symptoms
- Nervous palpitation of heart, worse on least excitement or thinking of it
- Sensation as if heart beating in water
- Hysterical mood with alternate weeping and laughter
- Fear of becoming insane; emotional and fidgety
- Choking constriction in throat with constant swallowing
- Numbness on left side when becoming cold
- Cardiac asthma and spasmodic hysterical asthma
- Insomnia; wakefulness at night with drowsiness by day
- Oily pellicle on surface of urine
- Climacteric flushes; ovarian neuralgia
Worse (aggravation)
- From motion and active exercise
- From cold and cold air
- From inspiration (deep breathing)
- Thinking of symptoms
- After sitting
- In the morning
- From music (causes faintness)
- On the left side
Better (amelioration)
- From warmth
- From gentle motion
- In the evening
Musk-root (SUMBUL - FERULA SUMBUL)
Has many hysterical and nervous symptoms, and is of use in neuralgic affections and anomalous, functional, cardiac disorders. Numbness on becoming cold. Numbness on left side. Insomnia of delirium tremens (fifteen drops of tincture). Sensation as if water dropped down spine. Asthma. A tissue remedy for sclerosed arteries.
Head
Emotional and fidgety. Dull in morning, clear in evening. Mistakes in writing and adding. Comedones. Tenacious, yellow, mucus in nose.
Throat
Chocking constriction; constant swallowing. Belching of gas from stomach. Spasm of pharyngeal muscles. Tenacious mucus in throat.
Heart
Nervous palpitation. Neuralgia around left breast and left hypochondriac region. Cardiac asthma. Aching in left arm, heavy, numb an weary. Loses breath on any exertion. Pulse irregular.
Female
Ovarian neuralgia. Abdomen full, distended, and painful. Climacteric flushes.
Urinary
Oily pellicle on surface of urine.
Modalities
Worse, active exercise; left side.
Relationship
Compare: Asaf; Mosch.
Dose
Tincture, to third potency. Dr. W. McGeorge advises the 2x every 3 hours for arterio-sclerosis.
Ferula sumbul. Sumbul. Musk-root. N. O. Umbelliferæ. Tincture of the powdered root.
Clinical
Acne. Asthma. Breasts, pains in. Chorea. Diarrhœa. Epilepsy. Fainting. Heart, palpitation of, nervous; affections of. Pneumonia. Hysteria. Infra-mammary pains. Neuralgia. Porrigo capitis. Spermatorrhœa. Throat, catarrh of; spasm of. Typhoid fever. Worms.
Characteristics
Sumbul, as its name, "Musk-root," implies, has an odour resembling that of musk. The resemblance is so close that Sumbul is used to adulterate musk. Sumb. was proved by Lembke, Cattell, and others, and the symptoms are as like to those of Moschus as the physical resemblance would imply. Hysterical mood; easy fainting; nervous palpitation; are common to both. Hale gives the following indications: (1) Nasal and pharyngeal catarrh, with nervousness, sleeplessness, and tendency to spasms (especially in children); discharge of tenacious, yellow mucus. (2) Ascarides, with bloated, drum-like. abdomen and constipation, picking nose (cured with Sumb. …
Phatak's chapter on Sumbulus moschatus is available in the app.
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