# Asparagus Officinalis

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

## Keynote Indications
Cystitis. Frequent urination with fine stinging in the meatus, followed by stitches out of the 
urethra. After urinating, burning in urethra with sensation as if some were still passing. Increased ur ine, beer-
brown without sediment. Urine is strong smelling, odor peculiar, deposits greasy sediment on sides of vessel, 
gravel. 
Severe coryza and nasal catarrh with profuse secretion of thin, whitish fluid from left nostril, afterwards right. 
Frequent violent sneezing. Copious discharge of tenacious mucus from the throat, not easily loosened, but 
brought up by hawking or paroxysms of cough. 
Weakness and cardiac depression with dropsy. Rheumatic pains, especially about left shoulder and heart. 
Fullness in chest, hydrothorax. Visible violent palpitations, while sitting, with anxious restlessness increased  
by motion or ascending with oppression of chest. 
Pulse weak, slow, irregular. Pain at left acromion process, under clavicle and down left arm. Constant des ire 
to be carried about in the arms.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Constant anxiety and apprehension.
- Anxiety with palpitations of the heart and ill humor.
- Calmness of 
the mind.
- Fretful and peevish.
- Disturbed by trifles.
- Constant anxiety and apprehension.
- Anxiety with palpitations of the heart and ill humor.
- Calmness of 
the mind.
- Fretful and peevish.
- Disturbed by trifles.

### Vertigo
- Vertigo in forehead, head confused, as during an attack of vertigo, dizziness in the forehead, followed 
by aching in the temples.
- COMMENTS - Aspar, is a prostate and kidney remedy.
- The old homeopaths used to  give it in tincture for the 
tendency to form kidney stones or history of kidney stones.
- Sediment in the urine, urine is gritty and painful.
- Boericke noted it for cystitis and lithiasis, the predisposition to kidney stones.
- Diabetes.
- Dropsy.
- Heart 
disorders.
- Urinary disorders.

### Head
- Aching in forehead and root of nose.
- Morning migraine headaches with scotoma.
- Aching pain in the 
temples, aggravated by pressure, weight in the forehead.
- Aching in forehead and root of nose.
- Morning migraine headaches with scotoma.
- Aching pain in the 
temples, aggravated by pressure, weight in the forehead.

### Eyes
- Darting and tingling in the eyes, sight more piercing.

### Face
- Paleness of the face.
- Increase of heat in the face, cheeks burning.

### Mouth
- Taste insipid, sweetish (as of copper), softness of the saliva, as if it were mixed with blood.
- Nose - Coryza with profuse, thin fluid.

### Throat
- Throat feels rough with hawking copious, tenacious mucus from throat.
- Abundant secretion of mucus 
in the throat, a constant rattling of mucus in the chest 
with roughness in the throat.
- Urine - Urine loaded with phosphates and the urate of ammonia in kidney  dropsy.
- Gravel passes in small 
quantities with the urine.
- Straw colored urine, scanty, soon becomes turbid with little white specks.
- White flaky 
sediment, the urine deposits a fatty sediment on the sides of the vessel.
- Urine brown or clear with a fetid smell, 
a peculiar smell from the urine.

### Chest
- Oppression of the chest, especially when writing.
- Dyspnea  brought on by motion, on going upstairs.
- Pressure on the chest.
- Emptiness within, with weight on the chest.
- Severe shooting pain across the right side 
when sitting down.
- Hydrothorax.
- Irregular beating of the heart, rapid, redoubled.
- Heartbeat alm ost imperceptible.
- Palpitations with 
oppression of chest.
- Palpitations, which are visible and audible even during very gentle movements with 
agitation and anxiety.
- Palpitations from 
Asparagus officinalis motion and on ascending the stairs, worse when seat ed.
- Shooting pains in the region 
of the heart after a meal.
- Pulse slightly accelerated, feeble, intermits, weak.
- Kidneys - Frequent urination with fine stitches in orifice of urethra,  burning of peculiar odor.
- Kidney 
stones.
- Cystitis with pus, mucus and te nesmus.
- Urgent inclination to urinate.
- Frequent and scanty emission 
of urine, preceded by a sensation as if a foreign body were in the urethra.
- Diminished secretion of urine, 
burning in the urethra.
- Great oppression in breathing.
- Frequent sneezing, hawking with irresist ible inclination to cough, but 
without any power to detach mucus, paroxysms of coughing, which compel the patient to rise from his seat, 
abating after breakfast, vio lent cough, attended by oppression of the chest and copious expectoration of 
mucus.
- Violent cough inducing retching.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Belchings, flatulency in the stomach, nausea in the morning, on wak ing.
- Vomiting of food, mixed 
with bile and slimy matter afterwards diarrhea of bile and of fecal matter.
- Sensation of fullness in the abdomen, pinching i n the umbilical region, at night with painful 
sensibility to the touch.
- Inflation of the abdomen, frequent emission of wind.
- Thirst increased.
- Feeble appetite.
- Fullness and oppression after eating and drinking.
- V omiting of food 
taken evening before.
- Palpitations after eating.

### Urinary & Genital
- Excitation of sexual appetite, dartings in the glans penis.
- Menses continue a day beyond the usual time.

### Extremities
- Rheumatic pain in back, especially near shoulder and limbs.
- Pain at acromion process of left scapula 
under clavicle and down arm with feeble pulse.
- Pain, as of dislocation in the right hip joint, which causes 
lameness.
- Shootings in the knees, at night afterwards under the left patella, on being seated.
- Bruise-like pains.
- Severe drawing pains in the calf of the right leg, in the morning, on waking and on extending the limb, cramps 
in both calves.

### Neck & Back
- Pain near the shoulders on touch ing the part, rheumatic pain between the shoulders.
- Sensation, as if 
something passed through kidneys and penetrated to the abdominal vertebrae, on the patient sitting down.
- Shootings pains, especially below the left shoulder blade.
- Pains in the region of the false vertebrae.