Asafoetida

 

 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, there 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.