ALLIUM SATIVUM
(Garlic)
PHARMACY - all-s. Alliumsativum. Garlic.
N.O: Liliaceae. Alliaceae. Tincture of fresh bulb.
Historicaldose: Tincture and all potencies.
CLINICAL - Alopecia. Asthma, periodical. Bronchiectasis. Bronchitis. Catarrhs. Chest, complaints. Colic. Colitis. Constipation. Coughs. Coxalgia. Dandruff. Deafness. Diabetes. Diarrhea. Dropsy. Dyspepsia. Fevers. Flatus. Headaches. Hemoptysis. Hemorrhoids. High blood pressure. Hoarseness. Menstrual. Menorrhagia. Ophthalmia. Prolapsed anus.
Retained, placenta. Rheumatism. Ringworm. Salivation. Scurvy. Skin, disorders. Sprains. Tuberculosis. Vertigo. Whitlow. Worms.
HERBAL - Garlic has been used as a condiment from ancient times and also as a remedy against worms and fevers. It has a reputation of lowering the blood pressure.
HOMEOPATHIC - All-s.. though closely related to All-c., is incompatible with it and not very like it in action. It produces head-ache in connection with digestive troubles and menstruation. Heavy headache, can hardly open eyes, better onset of menses, worse after.
Teste cured with it chronic dyspepsia in old, fleshy persons, whose bowels were deranged by the least irregularity of diet. He also greatly relieved cases of diabetes mellitus with it. Periodical asthma, a case of permanent dyspnea, rheumatism of hip, swelling of breasts after weaning.
Characteristic respiratory symptoms include a cough, giving rise to fetid breath (Caps.). Bronchial catarrh with profuse, gelatinous, difficult mucus expectoration. Cough when smoking.
All-s. has vasodilatory properties. It acts directly on intestinal mucus membrane increasing peristalsis. Colitis with pathological flora. Adapted to fleshy subjects with dyspepsia and catarrhal disorders. High livers.
Patients who eat a great deal more, especially meat, than they drink. The digestion in disordered by slightest irregularities in diet. Pressure in epigastrium and transverse colon, better by pressure and sitting bent. Pain in hip, psoas and illiac muscles.
Stings and bites. Dropsy after protracted intermittent in marshy districts. The child is drowsy, lifeless, extremely pale, bowels torpid, will not walk and the legs do not grow as rapidly as rest of the body.
Breasts swollen and painful to touch. Profuse menses. During menses there is soreness of vulva and thighs, Pulmonary tuberculosis. Hemoptysis. Cough and expectoration diminish, temperature becomes normal, weight is gained and sleep becomes regular.
MIND - Anxiety and impatience. Sensitive. Fears he won't recover, that he won't able to bear any medicine. Fear of being poisoned. Fear he will never get well. Impulse to run away. Wants many things, pleased with nothing. Weak memory. Sadness when alone. Weeping during sleep.
Abdomen - Pressure in upper abdomen, better by sitting bent and pressing with both hands. Colic from flatus, twisting and pinching around navel. Emission of fetid flatus. Everything seemed to drag downward. Weight in hypogastrium, im-mediately after a meal.
Back - Red spots like ringworm on the back. Itching between shoulders. Tearing, cut-ting pain in sacrum, in morning. Simple pain in coccyx.
Breasts - Breasts swollen and tender during menses. Swelling of breast after weaning. Dull stitches in right breast. Breasts sensitive to touch. Eruption of red blotches between the breasts and around the nipples.
Causations - Drinking bad water, gluttony, meat eating.
Chest - Darting pain in the chest which prevents sleep. Pain in left chest with dark urine. Chest complaints worse after eating.
Constitutions - Rather a gourmand than a glutton. Suited to persons who are disposed to excesses at the table, have strong constitutions, dark complexions, firm flesh, though occasionally disposed Lo obesity. Persons who eat a great deal more than they drink. Suited to fleshy people and those used to high living.
Ears- Catarrhal deafness. Hardened earwax and crusts (Thuj.).
Eyes- Catarrhal ophthalmia at night, smarting, burning and lachrymation, agglutination, returns every night when he tries to read. Tarsi sore with irritation.
Face - Spots on face. Lips are dry. Sharp pain on one side of the face.
Female- Eruption in vagina. on breasts and vulva during menses. Menses profuse, too early. Headache and dizziness lessen as the flow becomes established. Soreness of vulva and thighs during menses. Suppurating pimples on vulva. During menses extensive excoriations of skin of internal portions of thighs. Retained placenta.
Food - Voracious appetite. Thirst. Hunger and emptiness in stomach without appetite. Desire for butter. Digestion is disordered by slightest error in diet. Complaints from bad water, gluttony.
Head - Heavy, pulsation in temples. Headaches before menses, ceases during, worse after menses. Heaviness in forehead. Dull pain in occiput in morning, while lying on the back. Headache with mucus in the throat in dyspeptic subjects. Dandruff.
Heart - Leaping beats of the heart. High blood pressure.
Kidneys - Urine increased. Whitish very abundant urine, becoming cloudy from nitric acid. A kind of diabetes. Dark brown with copious sediment.
Limbs - Rheumatism of hip. Tearing pain in hip. Pain in psoas and iliacus muscles, worse crossing legs. Painful contraction in arm. Pain in forearm, seems as if paralyzed. Burning, then moisture in palms. Skin peels off the hands. Tearing pains in fingers extending below the nails. Weak-ness in lower limbs, painful weariness in the thighs. Pain as from a sprain in ankle joint, in toe joints. Tingling in feet, burning in soles, stiffness in feet.
Lungs - Difficult breathing as if sternum compressed. Periodic asthma. Constant rattling of mucus in bronchial. Cough in the morning after leaving bedroom with mucus expectoration. Coughing when smoking. Sensitive to the cold air. Painful irritation of windpipe when coughing. Cough seeming to come from stomach. Dry cough after eating. Bronchiectasis with fetid expectoration. Great difficulty in expectorating a glutinous mucus. Expectoration of thin, yellowish, purulent-looking blood-streaked mucus of putrid odor.
Modalities- Better from sitting bent. Worse from change of temperature. Worse pressure. Worse drinking bad water. Worse gluttony. Walking aggravates pains in limbs. Every step causes excruciating pain in intestines. Worse in evening and night. Worse in morning on waking.
Mouth - Much sweetish saliva after meals and at night. Tickling sensation in the lower teeth. Swelling of lower gums. Dry-ness of palate. Hot taste in mouth, from throat, strongly reminding him of garlic. Nose - Coryza rather dry than fluent, with pressive pain from above the root of the nose. Smarting at junction of ale nasi and face. Blowing blood from the nose in the night.
Rectum - Constipation with constant dull pains in bowels. Expel, flatus. Stool first fecal. then watery and hot. Involuntary stools. Diarrhea with cuttings in abdomen and loins. Hemorrhoids. Prolapsed anus. Worms.
Skin - Loose, dry, wilted skin. Skin sensitive. Swelling with itching and burning. Red spots, on hands. on chest. on back. Herpetic itching burning, red or whitish spots on a swollen surface.
Sleep - Drowsiness after a meal. Muscles twitch on falling asleep. Sleep prevented by stitches on chest. weight on stomach, or thirst. Coldness felt in sleep and awakening him frequently. Dreams of water and storms. Anxious dreams. continuing after waking.
Stomach - Burning belching. Slightest error in diet disturbs the stomach. Sensations of cold and or hot ascending esophagus. Burning in stomach, very sensitive to the least pressure. Weight in stomach which prevents sleep. Pressure inward as from a stone in epigastrium.
Temperature-Chilliness on one side only. Shivering before midday and in evening. During coldness. redness of face. Vomiting during the fever. Sweat in afternoon. Sweat acrid. causing itching. fetid.
Throat - Sticky feeling m throat with dry-ness. tickling, heat, and raw feeling in larynx. Sensation as of something cold rising in throat. Sensation ;1s of a hot and smarting vapor rising in the throat. Mucus accumulations m the throat 10 the morning.
Tongue - Tonguepaleredpapillae. Sensation of a hair on tongue or throat.
Vertigo - Vertigo while reading. Vertigo on looking steadily at anything for a long time. Short-lasting vertigo, and only on rising from a chair.
COMMENTS - Pain, pressive from within out-ward (Bry.). stinging or stinging and burning or stinging with paralytic weakness or tearing and crampy. Sometimes they increase gradually to a high point and then decrease gradually (Sulph., Stano.). "Hair" sensation on tongue, worse reading. Copious sweetish saliva. The hip is the seat of many rheumatic pain,.
Tearing in hip. Pain in psoas and iliac muscles worse least movement, though he can lift the limb with the hands. Aggravation from reading (Cina.).
Vertigo, brought on by looking long and steadily at anything. This is probably. in essence, the same modality as worse) reading. Catarrhal ophthalmia returning every night on trying to read. Coryza, moist. dry, thin, fluent with press1ve pains above root of nose. Scurvy gums. sore mouth.
RELATIONS
Antidoted by: All-c., Lye.
Compare:
(I) Ars., Sencga, Kali-n. All-c.
(2) Omithogalum umbellatum - stomach disorders.
(3) Bry., Caps..(feud breath with cough).
(4) Coloc.-colic, hip-pain, Ign., Kali-bi.(ropy expectoration, hair on tongue)
(5) Rhus t and Hyos. (fear of being poisoned), Lye.. Nux-v., Seneg.
Complementary: Ars.
Incompatible: Aloe., All-c.,Sc11la.
REFERENCES - Boericke. Clarke.