- Asafoetida is often used as a seasoning spice and to promote digestion of food.
- The homoeopathic form of Asafoetida is very useful for the spasmodic contraction of the stomach and the oesophagus (gullet).
- Its salient feature is a numbing headache mostly on the surface, though it may be felt deep inside the head.
- (In Hydrocyanic Acid, Tarentula Hispania and Conium, ther e is a generalised sensation of numbness.) Asafoetida patients are of very sensitive nature.
- The symptoms are worse at night.
- They ameliorate in the open air, by movement and local pressure.
- Brittle porous bones are well within the range of this homoeopathic remedy.
- As in syphilis, where the bones of the nose die and rot resulting in persistently malodorous discharge.
- AntidoteNeutralizing substance or remedyA remedy or substance that stops, counteracts, or neutralizes the action of a previously taken remedy.: China, Mercury PotencyStrength level of a remedyThe dilution and succussion scale of a remedy (e.g., 6C, 30C, 200C, 1M), indicating its energetic concentration.: 30