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RED AND BLUE ONLY – Asparagus Officinalis. – THE GUIDING SYMPTOMS OF OUR MATERIA MEDICA By CONSTANTINE HERING, M.D.

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[1] Mind.
[2] Sensorium.
[3] Inner head.
[4] Outer head.
[5] Sight and eyes.
[6] Hearing and ears.
[7]
Smell and nose.
[8]
Upper face.
[9] Lower face.
[10]
Teeth and gums.
[11] Taste, speech, tongue.
[12] Inner mouth.
[13]
Palate and throat.
[14] Appetite, thirst. Desires..
[15] Eating and drinking.
[16] Hiccough, belching, nausea..

[17] Scrobiculum and stomach.
[18] Hypochondria.
[19] Abdomen and loins.
[20] Stools and rectum.
[21]
Urinary organs.
[22] Male sexual organs.
[23]
Female sexual organs.
[24] Pregnancy. Parturition..
[25] Voice and larynx. Trachea..
[26]
Respiration.
[27] Cough.
[28]
Inner chest and lungs.
[29]
Heart, pulse and circulation.
[30] Outer chest.
[31] Neck and back.
[32]
Upper limbs.

[33] Lower limbs.
[34] Limbs in general.
[35]
Rest. Position. Motion.
[36]
Nerves.
[37] Sleep.
[38] Time.
[39] Temperature and weather.
[40]
Fever.
[41] Attacks, periodicity.
[42] Locality and direction.
[43] Sensations.
[44]
Tissues.
[45]
Touch. Injuries..
[46] Skin.
[47] Stage of life, constitution.
[48] Relations.

Aspar. * Full text * Red and blue only * Red only

SMELL AND NOSE. [7] [Aspar.]

Frequent sneezing ; after smelling tincture.
   

UPPER FACE. [8] [Aspar.]

Countenance pale, wax-like and bloated.
General expression of anxiety and distress. See 29.
   

TEETH AND GUMS. [10] [Aspar.]

Relieved toothache.
   

PALATE AND THROAT. [13] [Aspar.]

Deglutition difficult. θ Hydrophobia.
Burning in throat.
   

URINARY ORGANS. [21] [Aspar.]

Frequent urination, with fine stinging in meatus, followed by stitches out of urethra.
Urine scanty, straw-colored and offensive.
Increased urine beer-brown, without sediment.
When urinating, particularly when voiding last drops, rheumatic, constricting pain in cardiac region, forcing him to cry out ; turns blue in face. θ Dropsy of chest.
Lithiasis.
Gravel passing in small quantities with urination.
   

FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [23] [Aspar.]

Relieved prurigo pudendi in woman, æt. 40.
   

RESPIRATION. [26] [Aspar.]

Great oppression ; breathing rapid, difficult, increased after being in bed some time.
Breathing : rapid, labored, sighing ; difficult when moving or ascending ; difficult at night ; must sit up in bed.
   

INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] [Aspar.]

Hydrothorax ; often with heart disease or gouty diathesis of old people.
Unusual fulness of chest.
   

HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] [Aspar.]

Heart’s throb visible, especially at night ; very strong and extended over an unnaturally large area ; throbbing carotids ; murmurs.
Palpitation ; while siting, leaves of book in his hand tremble ; with anxious restlessness, increased by motion or ascending ; with oppression of chest.
Heart’s action weak ; pulse feeble. See 32.
Heart’s stroke twofold, irregular, quickened.
Pulse accelerated when sitting ; slow, weak ; irregular and feeble.
   

UPPER LIMBS. [32] [Aspar.]

Pains on tip of left shoulder.
Pain at acromion process of left scapula, under clavicle and down left arm ; pulse feeble.
   

REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] [Aspar.]

Motion aggravates most pains.
   

NERVES. [36] [Aspar.]

Great languor and disinclination to physical or mental exertion.
   

FEVER. [40] [Aspar.]

Suppression of sweat.
   

TISSUES. [44] [Aspar.]

Dropsies. See Hydrothorax, 28.
   

TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] [Aspar.]

Numbness of the bitten part, extending over the whole arm. θ Hydrophobia.
Constant desire to be carried about in the arms.

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