Condensed Materia Medica.
By Constantine Hering.
Presented by .
ARUM TRIPHYLLUM.
[Arum triph.]
Arisæma triphyllum. Araceæ.[1] * [2]
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* [46] * [48]► Forgetful.
► Absence of mind, giddy.
► During delirium, boring in the nose ;
picking at one spot, or at the dry lips. θ
Scarlatina. θ
Typhus.
► Wakeful, restless, screaming ; delirium part of the time.
► Irritable disposition.
► Vertigo and fulness, with absence of mind.
► Light headed disposition.
► Dull headache, upper part feels cold as if open and
without covering.
► Headache, pressing on right or both sides worse from hot coffee.
► Tearing in right forehead and temple.
► Stitches over left eye.
► Sudden shooting over left eye and occiput.
► Tearing, darting, or stitches in temples.
► Scalp sore to the touch, on the vertex.
► Aversion to light.
► Obscured sight, as from a veil.
► Upper eyelids heavy, with headache.
► Tension in the lower lids, as if swollen.
► Quivering of upper lids.
► Swelling of the edges of the lids.
► Water in the eyes all day, most at the outer canthi.
► Burning in the right, tearing in the left ear.
► Left parotid gland sore to the touch.
► Coryza, fluent, acrid.
► Acrid, ichorous discharge, excoriating
inside alæ and upper lip.
► Corrosive, yellow, nasal discharge in diphtheria ; nostrils
raw.
► Nose moist, but obstructed ; discharge in the morning
streaked with blood, during day yellow, thick mucus.
► Nose stopped up, worse left side, must breathe through the mouth ;
worse mornings. θ
Scarlatina.
► Sneezing, and sleepy, worse at night.
► Nostrils sore, chapped, worse left.
► Drink passes up and through the nose.
► Constant pricking at the nose.► Heat in the face, afternoons, with coryza.
► Swollen, bloated face. θ
Scarlatina.
► Lips nose and face chapped, as after exposure to cold
wind.
► Lips thick, burning, swollen, cracked and
bleeding.
► Lips as if scalded, mornings.
► Picks the lips until they bleed ; corners of mouth sore,
cracked and bleeding, 48. θ
Scarlatina. θ
Typhus.
► Swelling of submaxillary glands, worse
left. θ
Scarlatina.
► Toothache in hollow teeth of left side of lower jaw,
towards evening.
► Tongue : cracked, burning, painful ; sore,
red, papillæ elevated. θ
Scarlatina.
► Root of tongue and palate feel raw.
► Sudden glossitis.
► Excessive salivation ; saliva
acrid.
► The mouth burns, and is so sore that they refuse to drink, and cry
when anything is offered.
► Buccal cavity raw and sore, bleeding.
► Putrid odor from the mouth.
► Constriction in the throat, with sneezing.
► Sensation of swelling on the soft palate, when swallowing, with
discharge of nasal mucus.
► Soreness, burning, and pains in palate, worse when eating or
drinking.
► Throat and tongue very sore, burning
pains, putrid ulcers in throat.
► Refuses food and drink on account of soreness of throat.► No appetite ; dose not want to
play ; loses flesh ; headache ; scanty urine.
► Desires to drink a little at a time.
► Worse drinking coffee : 3.
► Worse drinking or eating : 13.
► Headache better after breakfast or dinner.
► Nausea ; qualmish ; giddy.
► Cramps in the stomach.
► Pain in the liver, front then back.
► Pain under left short ribs.
► Rumbling in bowels ; flatulency ; cutting
pains.
► Painful urging, with rumbling ; tenesmus towards
evening.
► Fissura ani, with retention of urine.
► Stool : watery, dark brown, with belching ; soft, thin,
yellow and painless ; soft, with tenesmus ; at night during
sleep.
► Burning at the anus.
► Urine scanty or suppressed.
θ
Scarlatina.
► Tearing pain in right testicle during morning ;
comes suddenly and disappears suddenly.
► Smarting at the end of the penis.
► Cutting pains in ovaries.
► Menstrual blood darker.
► Lumps deep in the left mammæ, with aching pains.
► Convulsions during dentition, right side lame, quivering of left
upper eyelid.
► Voice hoarse ; from over-use of
the voice in speaking or singing, worse taking food.
► Œdema glottidis.
► Voice uncertain, uncontrollable, changing continually.
► Mucus in the trachea when coughing.
► Loss of voice : after exposure to N. W. wind ; when
singing.
► Must hawk, in the morning ; hoarseness more before talking,
better afterwards.
► Constant pain in the larynx.
► Clergyman’s sore throat.► Asthmatic breathing, with chronic catarrh.
► Head and breast feel obstructed, full of mucus, without
spitting.
► Frequent coughing, with much mucus, and much spitting.
► Burning pain in the lungs when coughing.
► Tickling cough from mucus in the trachea ; an night after
lying down inability to sleep ; hoarseness.
► Lungs feel sore.
► Soreness in left lung and upper arm pressing in forehead.
► Stitches in right lung and under shoulder-blade.
► Pulse more frequent.
► Stiffness of the neck ; with intolerable pressing
headache.
► Pain as if in atlas and dentoid vertebræ.
► Glands of throat or neck swollen.
► Hands stiff and swollen.
► Cramp in the right leg on getting awake in the morning.
► Stinging, pricking or bruised pain in the soles.
► Heaviness of the limbs worse in legs.
► Better after rising : 20. Rest :
13, 27.
► Lassitude and low-spirits.
► Right side lame during dentition.
► Very nervous.
► Greatest weakness or exhaustion.
► Spasms of arms and hands ; thumbs drawn in.
► Sleepy yawning and sneezing at 11 A.M. ; headache
worse, eyes heavy.
► Drowsy in the evening.
► Sleeplessness from soreness of mouth and
throat or from itching of the skin.
► Nightmare.
► On falling asleep feels as if she would smother, starts as if
frightened.
► All day : 7, 13.
Morning : 7, 9, 12,
13, 25, 33, 37.
11 A.M. : 7, 37. Afternoon : 8,
40. 4-9 P.M. : 40. Evening :
10, 20, 37. Night :
7, 20, 27, 37.
Before midnight : 13. Same hour : 40.
► N. W. wind : 25.
► Repeated chill spreading from the vertex with sneezing
like after taking a cold, afternoons.
► Chills running over the body after much yawning at the same hour
on two days.
► Flushed with burning face.
► Fever heat very intense. θ
Scarlatina.
► Typhoid forms of fever : picking the
ends of the fingers, picking the dry lips till they bleed ; boring
the nose, restless tossing about the bed, wants to escape, unconscious of
what he is doing or of what is said to him ; urine suppressed ;
great weakness (last stages probably with uræmia).► Sudden : 3. Pains come and go
suddenly : 22. Same hour : 40.
► Right : 3, 6, 7,
18, 22, 24, 28,
31, 33, 36, 37.
Left : 3, 5, 6, 7,
10, 18, 23, 24,
28. Both sides : 3. Front of back
(liver) : 18.
► Head feels open, as if calvaria were removed.
► Itching. θ
Scarlatina.
► Desquamation a second or third time, in large flakes. θ
Scarlatina.
► Little round, red, hard pimples all over the body, legs, arms and
face.
► Buttermilk, which contains Lactic
acid, antidotes.
► Compare : Amm mur., Castor., Cepa,
Kali hydr., Lycop., Mezer., Nitr. ac., Silic. (nasal
discharge), Arg. nitr., Crocus
(tongue), Capsic. (throat), Caustic.,
Ferr. Phosph. (hoarseness), Mercur.
and Valer. (salivation), Mercur.
and Bryon. (lips and corners of
mouth).
► Concordances : Laches., Lycop.,
Ailanth., Arsen., Canthar., Mur. ac., Nitr. ac., Sulph. ac., Hydr. ac.,
Iodium, Phytol., Sanguin., Silic., Sulphur.
► In typhus : compare Calad., Nitr. ac.
► Arum has in high degree soreness and cracks in corners of mouth
but Condurango not be neglected for
the same site ; especially if there is also superficial ulceration of
the cornea.
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