Hand Book of Materia Medica and Homœopathic Therapeutics

Arum Maculatum arum-m.

Allen (1889)In every bookSave

General

A tincture is prepared from the fresh root and kept in a cool, dark place.

General Action and Relationships same as Arum tri.

Horrible convulsions. ▶ Weakness; with inability to speak, raising hands frequently to its mouth and throat, uttering at intervals a sharp cry and starting up as if suffocated. ▶ Torpor, then violent febrile reaction. ▶ Taciturnity, with sleepiness after eating. ▶ Pressure in left temple; below ears, behind lower jaw. ▶ Gums bleed (on kissing). ▶ Tongue, stitches; with burning; swollen; feeling as if swollen. ▶ Burning pain in mouth and lips. ▶ Caustic effects over lips, mouth and as far as could be seen. ▶ Salivation. ▶ Throat; swollen so that a probe could not be introduced into œsophagus; stinging in T. and œsophagus. ▶ Pain on left side below larynx, near trachea, on pressure; P., provoking swallowing, which is difficult, as from a swelling on left side above larynx. ▶ Tickling in throat, becoming a burning. ▶ Swallowing impossible; difficult, as if the "palate were down."

Appetite lost. ▶ Vomiting; of blood. ▶ Cramp in stomach. ▶ Cardialgia. ▶ Pain in stomach on pressure. ▶ Constriction in abdomen as in anxiety and fear, then it ascended over whole chest, with hot breath, then it rose into throat, first like a pressure inward in the back part of palate above larynx, provoking swallowing, which is difficult, afterwards it feels too narrow. ▶ Emptiness abdomen as after vomiting, mornings after eating. ▶ Pressure on a spot between navel and top of hip, agg. standing, or lying on side or back, most on filling chest full or making abdominal muscles tense, with pain on pressure.

Diarrhœa. ▶ Bleeding from urethra. ▶ Urine copious. ▶ Urine watery, smelling almost like burnt horn, becoming cloudy in middle on standing. ▶ Hoarseness. ▶ Bloody sputa. ▶ Sleepiness, agg. after dinner and sleep, with red face. ▶ Sweat.