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Assafoetida, Asafetida, A Wei 阿魏

Asafoetida
Hing, Hingu  (Ayurveda)
A Wei 阿魏 (TCM)
Hilteet (Unani)
Shing kun  ཤིང་ཀུན  (Tibetan)

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Ortus sanitatis, Cube, Johann von, 1501

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Atlas der officinellen pflanzen (2), Felix, 1899

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Lump of raw Asafetida gum
(Adam, 2022)

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Botanical name:
Ferula asafetida
Other related sources include F. sinkiangensis

Parts used:
Gum
'The root has similar therapeutic functions' (Li Shi Zhen)

Temperature & Taste:
Hot, dry. Pungent, bitter.

Classification:
2H. CARMINATIVES     2K. RESOLVENT      2Q. ANODYNE
3G. EMMENAGOGUE     3K. EXPECTORANT
4j. NERVINES
TCM:
J. Regulate Qi     O. Promotes Digestion

Uses:
1. Warms the Womb, Moves Qi (West, Ayurveda):
-painful and difficult Menstruation

2. Warms the Stomach, Benefits Digestion (West, TCM, Ayurveda, Tibetan):
-indigestion, colic, abdominal pain, poor appetite


3. Clears Wind, Stops Spasms (West, Tibetan Medicine):
-Spasms, Convulsions, Epilepsy

4. Warms the Kidneys (West, TCM, Ayurveda, Tibetan):
-Arthritis, Edema

5. Clears Cold Phlegm, Stops Cough (West, Ayurveda, Tibetan):
-spasmodic Cough, Asthma, chronic Bronchitis

6. Clears Wind, Resists Poison (West, TCM, Ayurveda, Tibetan):


7. Kills Worms:
-Worms

8. Externally:

-Vulnerary; used for Wounds, Bruises
-externally for swelling of the Spleen, 'suffocation of the Uterus'


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Main Combinations:
1. To promote Menstruation, cleanse the Uterus, to promote Labor, and for Hysteria;
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2. Hysteria:
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v. and to strongly promote Menstruation, combine Asafetida with ... available in PRO version
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3. Infertility, Asafetida with ... available in PRO version
4. Asthma or Bronchitis:
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iii. spasmodic Cough, Whopping Cough, Asafetida, ... available in PRO version
5. Wind diseases: combine Asafetida with ... available in PRO version
6. Epilepsy, Seizures:
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7. Nervous diseases, Spasms:
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8. Hypochondriac Melancholy, Asafetida with ... available in PRO version
9. Abdominal Obstruction, Asafetida, ... available in PRO version
10. To promote Digestion and increase digestive Heat, Asafetida with ... available in PRO version
11. All Wind diseases of the digestive system: combine Asafetida with ... available in PRO version
12. Heart disorders from Wind, Heart pain, Asafetida, ... available in PRO version
13. Diarrhea associated with weakness of the Stomach, combine Asafetida with ... available in PRO version
14. Dysentery, Asafetida, ... available in PRO version
15. Chronic Malaria, Asafetida with ... available in PRO version
16. Abscesses, Carbuncles etc., combine Asafetida with ... available in PRO version
17. In enemas, Asafetida with ... available in PRO version

Major Formulas
Asafetida 25 (Shin kun nyer lnga) (Tibetan Medicine)
Mental Happiness (Sems kyi bde skyid) (Tibetan Medicine)

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Cautions:
1. Best not used during pregnancy (despite having been used for Threatened Miscarriage)
2. Not used in Heat conditions.

Toxicity:
1. Evaluation of Toxicity Effects of Asafetida on Biochemical, Hematological, and Histological Parameters in Male Wistar Rats
2. Acute and subchronic toxicity assessment model of Ferula assa-foetida gum in rodents
3. . Sub-acute and acute toxicity of Ferula asafoetida and Silybum marianum formulation and effect of the formulation on delaying gastric emptying
4. Severe Methemoglobinemia Secondary to Ferula asafoetida Ingestion in an Infant: A Case Report

Main Preparations used:
Pills of Asafetida (either alone, made up with Distilled Vinegar, or Compound)

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'Whether the substance which the ancients called Laser was the same as the modern Aasafoetida, is a question that has been often discussed during the last three hundred years, and it is one upon which we shall attempt to offer no further evidence. Suffice it to say that Laser is mentioned along with products of India and Persia, among the articles on which duty was levied at the Roman custom house of Alexandria in the 2nd century.

"Hingu," doubtless meaning Asafoetida, occurs in many Sanskrit works, especially in epic poetry, but also in Susruta.

Asafoetida was certainly known to the Arabian and Persian geographers and travellers of the middle ages. One of these, Ali Istakhri, a native of Istakir, the ancient Persepolis, who lived in the 10th century, states that it produced abundantly in the desert between Sistan and Makran, and is much used by the people as a condi-ment. The region in question comprises a portion of Beluchistan.

The geographer Edrisi, who wrote about the middle
of the 12th century, asserts that asafoetida, called in Arabic Hiltit, is collected largely in a district of Afghanistan near Kaleh Bust, at the junction of the Helmand with the Arghundab, a locality still producing the drug. Other Arabian writers as quoted by Ibn Baytar, describe asafoetida in terms which show it to have been well known and much valued.

Matthaeus Platearius, who flourished in the second half of the 12th century, mentions asafoetida in his work on simple medicines, known as Circa installs, which was held in great esteem during the middle ages. It is also named a little later by Otho of Cremona, who remarks that the more foetid the drug, the better its quality. Like other productions of the East, asafoetida found its way in European commerce during the middle ages through the trading cities of Italy. It is worthy of remark that it is much less frequently mentioned by the older writers than galbanum, sagapenum and opopanax. In the 13th century, the "Physicians of Myddfai," in Wales, considered asafoetida as one of the substances which every physician "ought to know and use." (Pharmacographia, Fluckiger & Hanbury, 1879)
GENERAL / REVIEW
–Biological activities and medicinal properties of Asafoetida: A review
–Ferula asafoetida: Traditional uses and pharmacological activity
–Metabolic Profile, Bioactivities, and Variations in the Chemical Constituents of Essential Oils of the Ferula Genus (Apiaceae)

ANTIMICROBIAL / ANTIBACTERIAL
–Biological activities and medicinal properties of Asafoetida: A review
–In Vitro Antioxidant and Bactericidal Efficacy of 15 Common Spices: Novel Therapeutics for Urinary Tract Infections?
–Antibacterial activity of some Indian Ayurvedic preparations against enteric bacterial pathogens
–Antimicrobial Activity of the Essential Oil Obtained from the Seed and Oleo-Gum-Resin of Ferula Assa-Foetida against Oral Pathogens

ANTI-VIRAL
–Anti-Viral Evaluation of Sesquiterpene Coumarins from Ferula assa-foetida against HSV-1
–Antiviral Potential of Selected Medicinal Herbs and Their Isolated Natural Products
–The human rhinovirus: human‐pathological impact, mechanisms of antirhinoviral agents, and strategies for their discovery
–Potential Immunomodulatory Properties of Biologically Active Components of Spices Against SARS-CoV-2 and Pan β-Coronaviruses
–Anti-Viral Evaluation of Sesquiterpene Coumarins from Ferula assa-foetida against HSV-1

ANTIOXIDANT
–In Vitro Antioxidant and Bactericidal Efficacy of 15 Common Spices: Novel Therapeutics for Urinary Tract Infections?
–Antiepileptic and Antioxidant Effect of Hydroalcoholic Extract of Ferula Assa Foetida Gum on Pentylentetrazole- induced Kindling in Male Mice
–The effect of hydroalcoholic extract of Ferula foetida stems on blood pressure and oxidative stress in dexamethasone-induced hypertensive rats

ANTINOCICEPTIVE
–Ferula asafoetida: Traditional uses and pharmacological activity
–Antinociceptive effect of Ferula assa-foetida oleo-gum-resin in mice

ANTHELMINTIC
–Biological activities and medicinal properties of Asafoetida: A review
–Evaluation of anti-helmintic activity of Ferula foetida “Hing- A natural Indian spice” aqueous extract

LEISHMANIASIS
–Antileishmanial activity of Ferula assa-foetida oleo gum resin against Leishmania major: An in vitro study
–In vitro Antileishmanial Activity of Some Ethiopian Medicinal Plants

PROMOTES DIGESTION
–Biological activities and medicinal properties of Asafoetida: A review

DYSPEPSIA
–Safety and Efficacy of Ferula asafoetida in Functional Dyspepsia: A Randomized, Double-Blinded, Placebo-Controlled Study

HEPATOPROTECTIVE
–Biological activities and medicinal properties of Asafoetida: A review

HYPOTENSIVE / ANTI-HYPOTENSIVE
–Biological activities and medicinal properties of Asafoetida: A review
–Antihypertensive Effects of Standardized Asafoetida: Effect on Hypertension Induced by Angiotensin II
–The effect of hydroalcoholic extract of Ferula foetida stems on blood pressure and oxidative stress in dexamethasone-induced hypertensive rats

NEUROPROTECTIVE
–Biological activities and medicinal properties of Asafoetida: A review
–Ferulic acid attenuates microglia-mediated neuroinflammation in retinal degeneration
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Preventive Effect of Ferula asafoetida Oleo Gum Resin on Histopathology in Cuprizone-Induced Demyelination Mice
–Neuroprotective potency of some spice herbs, a literature review

MEMORY PROMOTING
–Biological activities and medicinal properties of Asafoetida: A review
ANXIOLYTIC
–Biological activities and medicinal properties of Asafoetida: A review

RELAXANT
–Biological activities and medicinal properties of Asafoetida: A review

ANTISPASMODIC / ANTICONVULSANT
–The Relaxant Effect of Seed's Essential Oil and Oleo-Gum-Resin of Ferula Assa-Foetida on Isolated Rat's Ileum
–Anticonvulsant Effect of Ferula Assa-Foetida Oleo Gum Resin on Chemical and Amygdala-Kindled Rats

EPILEPSY
–Antiepileptic and Antioxidant Effect of Hydroalcoholic Extract of Ferula Assa Foetida Gum on Pentylentetrazole- induced Kindling in Male Mice
–Efficacy of Iranian Traditional Medicine in the Treatment of Epilepsy

MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS
–Preventive Effect of Ferula asafoetida Oleo Gum Resin on Histopathology in Cuprizone-Induced Demyelination Mice

OPIOID ADDICTION
–Traditional Chinese and Indian medicine in the treatment of opioid-dependence: a review
–Effect of the methanolic extracts of different parts of Ferula assa-foetida on naloxone-induced withdrawal behavior in morphine-dependent mice

MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA
–The effect of asafoetida essential oil on myocardial ischemic-reperfusion injury in isolated rat hearts

VASORELAXANT
–Role of the potassium channels in vasorelaxant effect of asafoetida essential oil

DIURETIC
–Effect of Ferula assa-foetida oleo-gum-resin on renal function in normal Wistar rats

INCREASES SPERM
–Biological activities and medicinal properties of Asafoetida: A review
–Effect of Ferula assa-foetida oleo gum resin on spermatic parameters and testicular histopathology in male wistar rats

IMPOTENCE / ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION
–A panoramic view of medicinal plants traditionally applied for impotence and erectile dysfunction in Persian medicine

DIABETES
-Biological activities and medicinal properties of Asafoetida: A review
–Middle East Medicinal Plants in the Treatment of Diabetes: A Review

OBESITY
–Biological activities and medicinal properties of Asafoetida: A review

INCREASES PROGESTERONE
–Ferula asafoetida: Traditional uses and pharmacological activity

ANTI-IMPLANTATION
–Ferula asafoetida: Traditional uses and pharmacological activity

CANCER
–Biological activities and medicinal properties of Asafoetida: A review
–Ferula asafoetida: Traditional uses and pharmacological activity
–Gummosin, a sesquiterpene coumarin from Ferula assa-foetida is preferentially cytotoxic to human breast and prostate cancer cell lines
–Cytotoxic Properties of Some Medicinal Plant Extracts from Mazandaran, Iran
–Cytotoxic activity of the genus Ferula (Apiaceae) and its bioactive constituents
–Antitumor effect of Ferula assa foetida oleo gum resin against breast cancer induced by 4T1 cells in BALB/c mice
–Evaluation of Cytotoxicity Effects of Oleo-Gum-Resin and Its Essential Oil of Ferula assa-foetida and Ferulic Acid on 4T1 Breast Cancer Cells

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