# Aralia Racemosa

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Tubercular Miasm
- **Temperament:** Chilly
- **Aggravation Time:** Morning

## Keynote Indications
The homeopathic uses have been chiefly based on a proving by Dr. S. A. Jones, in whom 
it developed an attack of asthma. Jones also experienced diarrhea and prol apsed rectum, soft, yellow stools, 
and an aching pain in the rectum after stool, extending upwards on the left side. Pain in rectum worse lying on 
side lain on. 
Patient is weak, relaxed and exhausted. 
Biliousness. Asthmatic conditions with cough aggravated  on lying down.  Acrid mucus secretions. 
Drenching sweat during sleep. Extreme sensitiveness to drafts. 
The characteristic cough, according to Burnett is: “a fit of coughing occurring before midnight, either 
immediately on ly ing down or more commonly after  a short sleep.” Cough occurring at 11 p.m. after a short 
sleep.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Better from lying with head high. Better sitting up. Worse from drafts. Worse 11 p.m.. Worse after 
a short nap. 
Nose - Hay fever. Frequent sneezing, worse least drafts with copious, watery excoriating nasal discharge. 
COMMENTS - Loud wheezing respiration coming on immediately on lying down at midnight. Loud inspiration, 
more difficult than expiration. Right lung more affected than the left. 
On turning to left sided, left side seemed affected and right side became quite free. As the attack passed off 
phlegm came more freely, had a salty taste and felt warm in the mouth.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Fear of lung disease cannot be shaken off.
- Fear of lung disease cannot be shaken off.

### Chest
- Asthmatic condition with coughing, worse lying down.
- Dry cough coming on after first sleep, about 
middle of night.
- Raw, burning feeling behind the sternum.
- Asthma on lying down at night with spasmodic cough, 
worse after first sleep with tickling in throat.
- Constriction of chest, feels as if a foreign body were in throat.
- Obstruction worse in spring.
- Whistling breathing.
- Salty expectoration feels warm in mouth.
- The least current 
of air causes sneezing with copious watery, excoriating nasal discharge of salty acrid taste.
- .Mouth - Aphthae.
- As if foreign body in throat.
- Nausea in throat.

### Urinary & Genital
- Menses suppressed.
- Foul smelling leucorrhea, acrid with pressing -down pain.
- Lochia suppressed 
with tympanites.
- Liver - Pain from liver to right scapula.