Sumbul sumb.

Nerves. Heart. Left side.

Motion. Inspiration. Climacteric. Music.

Gentle motion.

Nervous, irritable and sleepless. As of hot water flowing through part. Yellow, tenacious discharges. Early senility.

Laughs and weeps by turns. As of a hair or cobweb on face. Choking constriction in throat. Hysteria. Burning pyrosis. Oppressive tightness in left chest. Dyspnœa. Asthma; cardiac. Sexual excitability. Trickling along spine. Pale, cold skin. Internal itching. Dreams of falling.

Complementary: Lact. Related: Mos.

Musk-root (SUMBUL - FERULA SUMBUL)

Has many hysterical and nervous symptoms, and is of use in neuralgic affections and anomalous, functional, cardiac disorders. Numbness on becoming cold. Numbness on left side. Insomnia of delirium tremens (fifteen drops of tincture). Sensation as if water dropped down spine. Asthma. A tissue remedy for sclerosed arteries.

Emotional and fidgety. Dull in morning, clear in evening. Mistakes in writing and adding. Comedones. Tenacious, yellow, mucus in nose.

Chocking constriction; constant swallowing. Belching of gas from stomach. Spasm of pharyngeal muscles. Tenacious mucus in throat.

Nervous palpitation. Neuralgia around left breast and left hypochondriac region. Cardiac asthma. Aching in left arm, heavy, numb an weary. Loses breath on any exertion. Pulse irregular.

Ovarian neuralgia. Abdomen full, distended, and painful. Climacteric flushes.

Oily pellicle on surface of urine.

Worse, active exercise; left side.

Compare: Asaf; Mosch.

Tincture, to third potency. Dr. W. McGeorge advises the 2x every 3 hours for arterio-sclerosis.

Ferula sumbul. Sumbul. Musk-root. N. O. Umbelliferæ. Tincture of the powdered root.

Acne. Asthma. Breasts, pains in. Chorea. Diarrhœa. Epilepsy. Fainting. Heart, palpitation of, nervous; affections of. Pneumonia. Hysteria. Infra-mammary pains. Neuralgia. Porrigo capitis. Spermatorrhœa. Throat, catarrh of; spasm of. Typhoid fever. Worms.

Sumbul , as its name, "Musk-root," implies, has an odour resembling that of musk. The resemblance is so close that Sumbul is used to adulterate musk. Sumb . was proved by Lembke, Cattell, and others, and the symptoms are as like to those of Moschus as the physical resemblance would imply. Hysterical mood; easy fainting; nervous palpitation; are common to both. Hale gives the following indications: ( 1 ) Nasal and pharyngeal catarrh, with nervousness, sleeplessness, and tendency to spasms (especially in children); discharge of tenacious, yellow mucus. ( 2 ) Ascarides, with bloated, drum-like. abdomen and constipation, picking nose (cured with Sumb . 15). ( 3 ) Oily pellicle in urine. ( 4 ) Pain in left uterine region. ( 5 ) Asthma: catarrhal, spasmodic, or cardiac. ( 6 ) Climacteric flushings. ( 7 ) Neuralgia: facial or ovarian, in women of quick and lively nervous constitutions. ( 8 ) Neuralgia of left hypochondrium, simulating angina pectoris; with palpitation; in nervous women. ( 9 ) Insomnia of chronic alcoholism. Peculiar Sensations of Sumb . are: Tongue as if scraped. Like a string pulling in right breast. Corkscrew pains in (left) uterus and appendages. Clogged sensation in left chest. As if heart beating in water. The left side was more affected than the right. The symptoms are < by motion. < After sitting. < By inspiration. < By cold. > By warmth. < Thinking of symptoms. < In morning. Music = faintness.

Compare: General symptoms, Mosch., Asaf. Porrigo, Melit., Medor., Mez. Oily pellicle on urine, Sul., Pul., Petr. Tenacious, yellow mucus, Hydras. Infra-mammary pain, Act. r., Pul., Lil. t. < Thinking of symptoms, Ox. ac., Pip. meth.

Intellect dull in morning; inability to study; clearer in evening and in warmth. — Happy disposition with continued smiling; expression idiotic; fear of becoming insane (chorea). — Hysterical mood even in men; alternate laughter and tears; easily excited; emotional; irritable, fidgety, at first spirits are exalted, then depressed.

Vertigo: on stooping; using warm water; moving about or rising from a seat; feeling a want of security. — Hysteria, with tendency to faint from slightest cause. — Fits with falling forward. — Ebullition of blood in head, lightness and exalted feeling. — Cold in the head, < morning. — Porrigo in infants, l. side of scalp; spots round and dry, slightly raised and reddened at edges with bran-like scales in centre.

Sensation of foreign body in eyes. — Tight feeling in eyes. — Quivering and swimming before eyes.

Loud surging and hissing in both ears; in r.

Cold in head, < morning. — Coryza: watery; of yellow mucus. — Alæ nasi sore at edges. — Stuffing in nose. — Tenacious yellow mucus in nose; < l. nostril. — Loss of smell.

Acne punctata, black pores on face.

Brown (or white) coating on tongue, morning. — Tongue feels rough as if scraped, with heat in throat. — Increased saliva.

Erosion, burning heat and rawness in throat, with tenacious mucus. — Catarrhs of children with great nervous irritation and spasms. — Choking constriction at top of gullet, constant swallowing.

Appetite increased. — Eructations; empty. — Nausea and salivation. — Pressure; rumblings; slight shootings in stomach.

Tension, pain, and gnawing in r. hypochondrium. — Abdomen feels distended, painful. — Gnawing in r. hypochondrium. — Glands in groins painful.

Ascarides with bloated, drum-like abdomen and constipation; pricking at nostrils. — Chronic diarrhœa, from inert condition of intestinal canal; discharges cause alarm; diarrhœa in typhoid fever. — Rectum protrudes. — Hæmorrhoids excited.

Urine: clear; yellowish-red; clouded at bottom, and an oily pellicle on surface. — Frequent desire. — Stitches up urethra.

Absence of erections and all sexual desire. — Itching in genitals with increased desire. — Erythema of scrotum.

Leucorrhœa, white, esp. after sitting. — Menses: premature; of short duration, with deficient quantity; retarded. — Corkscrew pains in l. region of uterus and appendages. — Tensive pain like a string in r. breast. — Tensive pains in l. breast, evening. — Lancinations and biting pains in l. breast, < deep inspirations. — Flushings at climaxis.

Hoarseness. — Asthma: catarrhal; but more esp. spasmodic, hysterical. — Hacking cough.

Tightness in chest with diminished secretion. — Paroxysm of dull pressure under sternum. — Tightness, tensive, stretched feeling across chest, between l. breast and sternum and in l. breast, < on inspiration.

Pulse: very irregular, compressible; want of elasticity in vessels. — Nervous affections of heart; rheumatic carditis; heart's impulse strong, jerking, esp. after exertion or during digestion; action of heart full and sharp, strokes at times irregular, rapid, then slow; bellows murmur; flushings of heat in floods from back; sharp pains like a knife in chest; oppression in l. chest, clogged sensation; < on stooping; l. arm numb, heavy, weary, with sharp, wiry shooting in fingers; hysterical mood. — Nervous palpitation in hysterical subjects; or at climaxis. — Heart beats softly, as if in water, with sinking of heart and sickliness and faintness all over. — Palpitation on least excitement, < on paying attention to it.

Cannot keep warm; least draught is felt down spine. — Nape of neck, r. side, swollen.

L. arm and foot easily chilled. — Fulness of arms and feet. — Tremulous tingling, dry, in palms and feet.

Weakness, beaten sensation, and numbness in arms. — L. arm numb. — Hands red, veins distended. — Fingers swollen.

Aching, rheumatic pain, weakness of lower limbs. — Pain in knee, with stiffness, impeding walking. — Felt as her legs were not her own. — Trembling of feet.

Chorea: constant jerking of head and limbs, with protrusion of tongue; voracious appetite. — Dropsy dependent on impaired nervous vitality. — Clogged sensation in body, esp. in head and stomach. — Hysteria. — Epilepsy; falls forward, foaming vat mouth. — Tendency to faint from slightest cause.

Acne punctata; black pores on face. — Porrigo in infants, l. side of scalp. — Skin cold, white, shrunken, and dry, as if washed in acrid water. — Miliary spots on back, r. shoulder-blade, and hip. — Reddish spots on forehead, chin, and cheeks, containing either water or thick, white, curdy matter. — Itching.

Drowsy in the cold. — Drowsy during day. — Wakefulness at night. — Sleep interrupted by startings of limbs. — Dreams; of falling; vivid; of coitus, followed by profuse sudden emission.

Coldness. — Chilliness, esp. down spine; sensitiveness to least draught. — Too easily chilled; want of elasticity in the vessels. — Numbness and coldness of tips of fingers. — Dry, transient heat all over body. — Typhoid fever with cerebral excitement; low and nervous fevers succeeding typhus.

Musk Root. Umbelliferæ.
The plant, a perennial, is a native of the Orient ; the root enters commerce by way of Russia ; from it, finely powdered, is prepared the alcoholic tincture.
Provings by Lembke, A. H. Z., vol. 34, p. 273 ; Cattell, Brit. Jour. Hom., vol. 9, p. 256, 1852 ; Muranjew, Med. Zeit. Russ., 1853 ; Hirschel's Arch., vol. 1, p. 241 ; Altschul, Brit. Jour. of Hom., vol. 11, p. 678, 1853.
CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.
- Diarrhœa , Altschul, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 435 ; Ascarides , Cattell, B. J. H., vol. 9, p. 289 ; Chorea , Cattell, B. J. H., vol. 9, p. 289 ; Porrigo , Cattell, B. J. H., vol. 9, p. 290.

Intellect dull in morning ; inability to study ; clearer in evening and in warmth.
Happy disposition with continued smiling ; expression idiotic ; fear of becoming insane. θ Chorea.
Hysterical mood, even in men ; alternate laughter and tears ; easily excited ; emotional ; irritable ; fidgety, at first spirits are exalted, then depressed.

Vertigo on stooping, using warm water, moving about or rising from a seat, feeling a want of security.
Hysteria, with tendency to faint from slightest cause.
Fits, with falling forward.

Cold in head, < in morning.

Porrigo in infants, left side of scalp ; spots round and dry, slightly raised, and reddened at edges, with branlike scales in centre.

Stuffing in nose.
Tenacious yellow mucus in nose ; < in left nostril.

Acne punctata, black pores on face.

Brown coating on tongue in morning.
Tongue feels rough as if scraped, with heat in throat.

Erosion, burning heat and rawness in throat, with tenacious mucus.
Catarrhs of children, with great nervous irritation, sleeplessness and spasms.

Tensive pain and gnawing in right hypogastrium.
Abdomen full, distended, painful.

Ascarides, with bloated, drumlike abdomen and constipation ; picking at nostrils.
Chronic diarrhœa due to torpid, inert condition of intestinal canal ; discharges cause atony ; diarrhœa in typhoid fever.

Urine clear, yellowish-red, cloud on bottom, and an oily pellicle on surface.
Constant desire to urinate.
Much urinary difficulty.

Absence of erections and all sexual desire.

Corkscrew pains in left region of uterus and its appendages.
Tensive pain like a string pulling in right breast.
Tightness, tensive stretched feeling across chest between left breast and sternum and in left breast, < on inspiration.
White leucorrhœa, < after sitting.
Menses too early.
Flushings at climacteric period.

Hoarseness.

Asthma, catarrhal, but more especially spasmodic, hysterical.

Hacking cough.

Pulse very irregular, compressible ; want of elasticity in vessels.
Nervous affections of heart ; rheumatic carditis ; heart's impulse strong, jerking, especially after exertion or during digestion ; action of heart full and sharp, strokes at times irregular ; beating rapidly eight or ten times, then slowly ; bellows sound of heart, with violent and irregular palpitations and flushes of heat in floods from back ; sharp pains, like a knife, in chest ; oppression in left chest, clogged sensation ; < on stooping ; left arm numb, heavy and weary, with sharp, wiry shooting in fingers ; hysterical mood.
Nervous palpitation in hysterical subjects, or at change of life.
Heart beats softly, as if in water, with sinking of heart, and sickliness and faintness all over.
Palpitation at least exertion, < by paying attention to it.
Posteriorly over left scapular region, an indistinct mixed murmur and purring sound, associated with rheumatism ; not heard anteriorly.

Cannot keep warm ; least draft is felt down spine.

Stooping : vertigo ; heart symptoms <.
Sitting : leucorrhœa < after.
Motion : vertigo ; palpitation.
Rising : vertigo.

Chorea : constant jerking of head and limbs, with protrusion of tongue ; voracious appetite.
Dropsy dependent on impaired nervous vitality.
Hysteria and hysterical spasms.
Epilepsy, she falls suddenly forward, foaming at mouth ; unconsciousness.
Tendency to faint from slightest cause.

Morning : intellect dull ; cold in head < ; brown coating on tongue.
Evening : intellect clearer.

Least draft is felt down spine.
Warmth : intellect clearer.

Dry, transient heat all over body.
Coldness of body, pulse 66.
Typhoid fever with cerebral excitement ; low and nervous fevers succeeding to typhus.
Numbness and coldness of tips of fingers.

Irregular action of heart, beats rapidly eight or ten times, then slowly.
Climacteric period : flushes ; nervous palpitation.

Left : porrigo on scalp ; yellow mucus in nostril ; corkscrew pains in uterus ; oppression in chest ; arm numb ; shooting in fingers ; murmur over scapular region.
Right : tensive pain and gnawing in hypogastrium ; tensive pain in breast ; miliary spots on shoulder blade and hip.

As if scraped, tongue ; like a string pulling in r. breast ; clogged sensation in left chest ; as if heart were beating in water.
Knifelike pains in chest.
Corkscrew pains in region of uterus and appendages.
Sharp wiry shooting : in fingers.
Burning heat : in throat.
Gnawing : in right hypogastrium.
Rawness : in throat.
Tensive pain : in right hypogastrium ; in right breast.
Tightness : across chest ; in left breast.
Numbness : in left arm ; of tips of fingers.
Heaviness : in left arm.

Deranges action of inhibitory nerves, while at same time it causes a paresis of cardiac branches of vagi.
Vertigo, faintness ; dreams and mental conditions show deficient innervation.
Anomalous functional disorders of heart, occurring in persons possessing a peculiarly sensitive nervous system, especially in hysterical subjects.
Weakened heart.

Acne punctata, black pores on face.
Porrigo in infants on left side of scalp ; spots round and dry, slightly raised and reddened at edges, with branlike scales in centre.
Skin cold, white, shrunken and dry as if washed in acrid water.
Miliary spots on back, right shoulder blade and hip.
Reddish spots on forehead, chin and cheeks, containing either water, or thick, white, curdy matter.
Itching in skin.

Child, æt. 2 ; ascarides.
Girl, æt. 10, bilious-sanguine temperament ; chorea.

Compare : Asafœt . and Moschus in low fevers, hysteria, etc.

A tincture is made of the dried root of Ferula Sumbul, Hooker fil.

A feeble narcotic; used in Russia for a nervous stimulant, especially in low fevers, dysentery, delirium tremens, hysteria, et cetera.

Closely allied to Asafœtida and Moschus.

Emaciation. ▶ Strong odor of the medicine from the breath and skin, agg. palms, which felt sticky. ▶ Darting pains in left lumbar region, in chest, sides and abdomen during the day. ▶ Bruised sensation in muscles, agg. left triceps. ▶ Tingling. ▶ Throbbing in nape, abdomen and lumbar region. ▶ Clogged sensation, agg. head and stomach. ▶ Sensation as of cobwebs being moved over different parts, first of cerebellum and then over face. ▶ Sickliness. ▶ It feels especially good to sit down. ▶ Weakness; in morning; in morning, with sleepiness; in evening, with stretching and yawning; from walking; from least exertion, agg. arms and hands, and chiefly left ; with trembling; with oppression; with listlessness; as from insufficient, unrefreshing sleep. ▶ Faintness; on hearing music, the loud notes jar in the head; with vertigo on stopping; tendency to, from stooping or excitement.

Fit of hysterical laughter and tears. ▶ Nervous excitement in evening after listening to a disputation, with heat, agg. head. ▶ Excitability, easily depressed, easily aroused to passion, sensation as if least provocation would enrage, with mirth, with the excitability fulness in temples and forehead and cerebellum, agg. left side, and pulsations below left ear. ▶ Mirthful, smiling, disturbed by nothing; M., witty. ▶ Cheerful; and excited; and disposed for intellectual occupation, happy enthusiastic state as after performing a noble deed; and mirth, alternating with despondency as if ill-treated by every one. ▶ Vivacity hastiness. ▶ Cannot feel compassion. ▶ Amorous. ▶ Fond of the society of women. ▶ Anxious. ▶ Easily frightened. ▶ Despairing. ▶ Melancholy, no desire for labor, even intellectual. ▶ Irritable; in afternoon and evening; in evening, from harsh music, and agitated. ▶ Restless when reading. ▶ Tranquil and indolent. ▶ Activity; anxious, with physical weakness. ▶ Intellect dull in morning, clear in evening. ▶ Thought disturbed in morning. ▶ Mistakes in writing and summing.

Aching; agg. 6 P.M., with tensive fulness. ▶ Constriction, agg. from forehead to occiput; benumbing, in brain as if contracted, in morning. ▶ Confusion; during the day, but in afternoon he was more overwhelmed, with tendency to snore and he did so when awake; with contracted feeling in forehead; with contractive pain in left half of forehead. ▶ Fulness. ▶ Affected by sunbeams, it feels full of blood, and in cerebellum heat, uneasiness and fulness extending to spinal cord. ▶ Uneasiness, agg. forehead and cerebellum, with heat light and ebullition of blood. ▶ Ebullition of blood, with lightness and exalted feeling. ▶ Blood seems to circulate quickly, agg. left side. ▶ Heaviness; with compression from one temple to the other and heat in forehead. ▶ Vertigo; in evening on stooping; on stooping; from using warm water; on rising from a seat and when lying.

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