Materia Medica

Aralia Racemosa

American Spikenard

'His is a remedy for asthmatic conditions, with cough aggravated con lying down. Extreme sensitiveness to draughts. Diarrhoea, prolapse of rectum.

Female

Menses suppressed : leucorrhcea four-smell- ing, acrid, with pressing-down pain. Lochia suppressed, with tympanites.

Respiratory

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 u foreign' body urrre in throat. Obstruction worse in spring. Hay-fever ; frequent sneeing. The least current of air causes sneezing, with copious watery, excoriating nasal discharge, of salty acrid taste.

Modalities

Worse about 11 p. M. (cough).

Relationships

Compare: Pccten — Scallop (humid asthma. Quick, labored breathing. Constriction of chest, especially right side. Asthma preceded by coryza and burning in thiroat and chest. Attack ends with copious expectoration of tough, frothy mucus. Worse at night.) Ars. iod.; Naphthaline; Ccpa; Rosa; Sabad.; Sinatis.

Dose

Tincture, to third potency.