Volume 108 Number 2
70 AJHM Summer 2015
Timothy Fior, MD, André Saine, ND
the ninth month
.
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3.
Breasts
.
Dr
.
Boas, in consequence of the application
of
Asafoetida
plasters to the abdomen, has seen the
testes
swell considerably, and the pudendum likewise become in-
flamed and swollen.
This inflammation became so violent
in one case that he had to resort to antiphlogistic treatment;
and, although the patient was a lady of fifty, and had ceased
to menstruate long since, yet the
mammae became turgid
and secreted a milky fluid
, as if she were in the ninth month
of pregnancy
.
Dr
.
Kallenbach, a homeopathic practitioner,
guided by this empirical experience, employed
Asafoetida
in several cases for the purpose of restoring or increasing
the secretion of milk
.
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4.
A boy,
after repelled itch, was attacked with dizziness,
unconsciousness, and permanent idiocy, attended with par-
oxysms of frightful anxiety, followed by mania and furor, to
which some epilepsy was finally added.
The emulsion of
Asafoetida
was given, and the epilepsy soon ceased
.
At the
end of eight days a phagadenic herpes broke out upon the
legs, and his mind improved as the pustules filled up
.
In
five or six weeks he was cured, with the exception of some
weakness of memory, and remained well for more than two
years after
.
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5.
Mrs
.
E W, 37, American, complains of
almost constant
passage of flatus upward, without relief
; spasm of glottis,
and sensation of a bone lying crosswise in the throat; gone
feeling in the epigastrium at eleven a.m.; loss of sensation
in the hands; both hands and feet very cold; a continued
dread of death; will not go upon the streets alone; is often
filled with the desire to do something dreadful; even thinks
of murdering her children
.
Has no family troubles and is not
obliged to work very hard
.
Has good food, but always feels
worse after eating
.
Is nursing a baby of ten months, and is in
the habit of drinking eight to ten cups of tea daily
.
I limited
the amount of tea to three cups each day; ordered light lunch
between meals and selected
Asafoetida
200 as the remedy
.
A few doses of
Asafoetida
per week were given for a period
of two months, with excellent results, all noted symptoms
disappearing except the continual dread of death
.
This was
removed later by a few doses of
Aconite
200
.
At the end of
three months the patent was discharged cured
.
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6.
Mr
.
W., 57,
ozena
for nine years;
discharge from nose
greenish— yellow; very hard; sometimes very thin and
watery and exceedingly offensive
; intervals of abatement,
sometimes for a month or more; the discharge becoming
thicker and not so offensive
. Pulsatilla
3 did no good
. Au-
rum metallicum
3, ditto,
Asafoetida
3 cured
.
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7. Tertiary syphilis
in a man, 40
.
Large ulcer upon the
right leg with a bluish, hard edge, painful to the touch;
nightly pains in the tibiae, bone very sensitive to touch.
Nitricum acidum
200 benefited him for a while
.
Afterward
Asafoetida
200 cured
.
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8.
Amputation of the Thigh
for Encephaloid
.
Hemor-
rhage controlled byAcupressure—one silver pin remaining
in the stump
.
Ten months before amputation the tumor had
been extirpated; it soon returned, growing rapidly; after
amputation, hot water was freely applied to the wound; it is
highly serviceable in controlling hemorrhage, and in favor-
ing union by first intention
.
Acupressure was employed
.
Intense pain occurring when the patient awoke from
chloroform was readily relieved by
Arnica
300, in water,
internally; one of the pins with its wire loop was left in the
stump, by the breaking of the wire for withdrawing it; no
injury resulted
. Neuralgia of the stump,
characterized by
crushing pains, regularly worse at night, from dark till two
a.m.
, was permanently cured by
Asafoetida
200
.
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9. Whitlow, with violent, nightly pains and threatening
necrosis of the phalanx
, was quickly cured by
Asafoetida
200
.
10
10. ACharacteristic of
Asafoetida
.
Apronounced charac-
teristic of
Asafoetida
not generally known, is the following:
“A
sensation of emptiness and weakness, with distension
and throbbing in the stomach and in the abdomen together,
attended with gurgling and rolling of wind, which is hardly
ever passed downwards, but escapes upwards with loud
and difficult eructation, giving relief
.” My attention to this
symptom was riveted some fifteen years or so ago in a case
in which
Argentum nitricum
had failed, but this remedy
quickly cured
.
I would say, also, that
obstinate constipa-
tion
is very often associated with the aforesaid condition
.
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11.
Asafoetida
in Dyspnea
.
Mrs
.
F, 40, has had much anxi-
ety for several years; suffered from the following condition
for three or four weeks past: spells of dyspnea; feels as if
could not breathe deep enough to be satisfied; sits down
and takes repeated deep inhalations till finally says: “There,
now!
I got it that time.” These
attacks only during day and
excited by exertion, or thinking about this condition
, when
the fear is excited that she will have a “spell,” and she does
have it
. Relieved at night, and by forgetting herself.
Sleeps
well
.
Condition of lungs and heart normal, and during the
attack the air seems to enter all parts of the lungs
.
There
is considerable flatulence, and some
relief of the dyspnea
by eructation.
No rattling or expectoration follows the
dyspnea
. Ignatia
and
Arsenicum album
in succession for a
week gave no relief
.
Then
Asafoetida
cured the condition
in twenty four hours
.
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12. Asthma
.
Aman, 30, who was the pheasant hunter of a
neighboring count, and who from his early childhood had
been more or less afflicted with
scrofulous
disorders, and
had a generally impressed scrofulous habit of body; this
caused his asthmatic troubles, and from the fruitlessness
of various treatments tried at different periods of time he
had already quite despaired of any possibility of cure
.
The
attacks appeared almost daily
at the time when he sought
