# Asafoetida (HMT)

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Remedy
- **Miasm:** Syphilitic Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
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.

Antidote: China, Mercury
Potency: 30

## Symptoms by System