POTHOS.
Symplocarpus fœtidus, Salisb. (Ictodes fœtidus,
Bigelow; Phothos fœtidus).
Natural order
, Araceæ.
Common name
, Skunk-cabbage.
Preparation
, Tincture of the root.
Authorities.
1,
Bigelow, Amer. Med. Botany, 2, 48 (1818), effects of 30 grams of dried
root; 2, Symptoms from Jahr’s New
Manual or Symptomen Codex.
HEAD.
►
Vertigo, [1]. ► Headache, [1].
► Headache here and there, of short
duration, [2]. ► Drawing from both sides of the forehead
to the glabella, very violent in the region of the latter, as if drawn
by a magnet, [2].
EYE.
►
Temporary blindness, [1].
NOSE.
►
Violent sneezing, inducing a pain in the fauces, palate, pharynx, down
to the stomach, and long-lasting after-pains in the region of the
orifice of the stomach, [2]. ► The nose above the nasal bones is swollen
and red, forming a saddle, painful when touched, particularly high up on
the left side of the nose, the cartilaginous portion being cold and
bloodless, with red spots on the cheeks resembling small pimples, [2].
MOUTH.
►
Numb feeling in the tongue; inability to carry it to the teeth; red and
sore on the edges and at the tip, [2].
THROAT.
►
Burning from the fauces down through the chest, [2]. [10.] ► Swelling of the cervical and submaxillary
glands, [2].
STOMACH.
►
Vomiting, [1]. ► Pain in the pit of the stomach on
stepping firmly, as if something were breaking off, [2].
ABDOMEN.
►
Sensation in walking as if the bowels were shaking, [2].
STOOL.
►
Soft stool, [2].
SEXUAL ORGANS.
►
Painful voluptuous titillation around the corona glandis, [2].
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
►
Disposition to take deep breath, with hollowness of the chest,
afterwards with contraction of the chest and throat, [2].
CHEST.
►
Pain in the chest, with pain under the shoulders, which seems to be in
connection with burning in the pharynx, [2].
► Aching pain on the sternum, [2].
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Bone-pain in the right border of the
tibia, [2].
GENERALITIES.
[20.]
► *Sudden feeling of anguish, with
oppression of breathing and sweat, after which he has an
evacuation from the bowels, with relief of all the symptoms, [2].® 2000
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