Arum Triphyllum arum-t.

A tincture is prepared from the fresh root of this plant ("The Jack-in-the-pulpit"), and kept in a cool, dark place.

An irritant poison causing inflammation of mucous surfaces and destruction of tissue, together with a low type of fever.

Kali bi., Ail., Nat. ars., Ant. cr., Canth., Graph.

Weakness. ▶ Forgetfulness. ▶ Low spirits. ▶ Irritable disposition.

Tendency to great depression of the vital forces. ▶ In low types of scarlet fever, diphtheria, typhoid fever, with carphology, especially boring into the nose and picking the lips until they bleed. ▶ Delirium in scarlet fever, with boring into the nose.

Violent coryzas, fluent, acrid, ichorous; nostrils very sore, with constant desire to bore into the nose and to pick it. ▶ Nose completely stopped, with fluent acrid discharge. ▶ In hay fever, with terrible pain over root of nose; nose and throat feel raw. ▶ In scarlet fever and in diphtheria the nose becomes ulcerated, with an offensive excoriating discharge; the patient is constantly working at the nose.

Lips chapped and burning; the patient constantly picks at the lips until they bleed; the corners cracked; bloody; with this the submaxillary glands are often swollen, the tongue red and the whole mouth raw.

Throat raw. ▶ Occasionally useful in diphtheria with the characteristic nose and lips. ▶ Sore throat from speaking. ▶ Sore throat, with hay fever, violent coryza, rawness and soreness, constant hawking.

Laryngitis, with great hoarseness, the result of talking; hawking and clearing the voice.

▶ Aching; amel. after breakfast; amel. after dinner; agg. after drinking hot coffee. ▶ Dullness; morning. ▶ Fulness. ▶ Heaviness; morning; at night. ▶ Obstructed feeling, as if full of mucus, and in chest. ▶ Vertigo; with fulness of head and absence of mind. ▶ Feels better after dinner. ▶ Worse at night.

Stitches over left eye; in evening, suddenly repeated. ▶ Tearing in right side, in right temple and ear. ▶ Aching; and on right side of head; in right terrible; A. in both sides, with heaviness of eyelids. ▶ Heaviness and dullness in morning.

Stitches in left temple; at 10 P.M.; in right, extending towards submaxillary bone. ▶ Aching in temples; in vertex, sometimes with cold feeling as if cranium were open; in scalp of vertex, with soreness on touch. ▶ Boring in right side of head of head in morning on waking. ▶ Shooting in occiput when turning eyes upward.

Cloudiness. ▶ Aching in right. ▶ Smarting. ▶ Sensation as after shedding many tears. ▶ Sleepiness. ▶ Heaviness. ▶ Much water in eyes from morning till evening, especially in outer canthus, with swelling of margins of lids. ▶ Tension in lower lids in evening, as if swollen. ▶ Vision dim.

Tearing in left.

▶ Soreness of nostrils (Graph., Kali bi., Aur.). ▶ Nose, lips and face feel chapped (Ant. cr.); as if he walked in a cold wind. ▶ Obstruction, must breathe through mouth; left nostril obstructed; in morning. ▶ Dryness. ▶ Sneezing; much in afternoon, with feeling as if he had taken cold, and chills over whole body, beginning at vertex; much at night. ▶ Moisture in afternoon, with obstruction.

▶ Coryza; fluent, also profuse; fluent afternoons, with heat in face and head. ▶ Continual discharge from left nostril. ▶ Discharge in morning, with streaks of blood and hardened mucus; yellow and thick D. during the day; watery; watery at 4 P.M., with sneezing; watery, and at the same time obstruction, agg. in morning; profuse watery, with obstruction of right side; tough, yellowish, with sensation of approaching swelling in soft palate and pressure.

▶ Lips chapped; thick and burning; dry; scalded feeling in morning. ▶ Sprained pain in left articulation of jaw when swallowing.

Tearing in left teeth. ▶ Aching in left lower decayed teeth towards evening. ▶ Tongue cracked, painful and burning (Ail.); raw feeling at root and at palate; burning at root and in throat; pain on left margin; smarting at upper anterior part. ▶ Mouth, lips and soft palate sore and burning (Ars.) in morning. ▶ Palate sore with pain when eating and drinking. ▶ Dryness of mouth (Kali bi.). ▶ Salivation.

▶ Swelling of left submaxillary glands (Bar. c., Merc. i. r.). ▶ Internal swelling in region of larynx, agg. right side. ▶ Mucus; tenacious; much M., with tickling, compelling to cough. ▶ Stitches in left side. ▶ Pain, agg. night; agg. when coughing; burning. ▶ Scratching, amel. after drinking hot coffee; constant, with burning and desire to swallow. ▶ Soreness at 5 A.M.; 4 P.M.; burning (Canth.). ▶ Burning; morning in bed, amel. after rising; at 10 P.M., and in lungs; before midnight, with dryness, then much mucus, which goes deeper and deeper down by swallowing. ▶ Constriction; at night. ▶ Swollen feeling in soft palate in morning when swallowing. ▶ Constant desire to swallow; with stitches in throat, which is painful to pressure. ▶ Swallowing difficult; in morning. ▶ Amelioration during morning till after dinner; Amel. after breakfast.

No appetite. ▶ Thirst to drink a little at a time.

Intermittent distention from noon till evening. ▶ Rolling in morning, with frequent painful urging to stool. ▶ Cutting. ▶ Pain in hepatic region, first in front, then in back.

Burning in anus (Caps.). ▶ Urging to stool driving from bed, stool watery, dark brown. ▶ Diarrhœa frequent, from 3 to 8 A.M.; diarrhœa like mustard till noon, afterwards no stool from two days; watery, brown (Kali bi.), with eructations of food. ▶ Stool soft; with much tenesmus; thin, yellow, in morning. ▶ Micturition frequent. ▶ Urine copious; and pale. ▶ Sudden tearing in right testicle, repeatedly from noon till evening. ▶ Cutting in region of left ovary. ▶ Menses darker.

Internal swelling in trachea, right, then left side, and when pressing against it soreness of left parotid. ▶ Hoarseness (Kali bi.). ▶ Cough from tickling in throat, with much mucus; frequent C., also at 6 A.M. after waking; much at 5 A.M.; spasmodic. ▶ Expectoration of much mucus; scanty but constant discharge of tough mucus from mouth (Kali bi.).

Stitches in right lung and under right scapula. ▶ Soreness of lungs (Ail., Pho.). ▶ Burning pain in lungs (Ail.) when coughing. ▶ Burning, extending from lungs to pit of stomach. ▶ Full feeling, with soreness in left lung and left upper arm and pain in forehead.

Neck stiff. ▶ Pain in region of atlas and dentoid vertebra, extending to right side; P. over hips.

Heaviness, especially of lower. ▶ Aching in right shoulder and between scapulæ. ▶ Swelling and stiffness of hands, amel. about 6 P.M. ▶ Pain in right hip under trochanter. ▶ Cramp in right leg in morning on waking. ▶ Pain in middle of left tibia, where there has been a discolored spot for years. ▶ Stinging in soles. ▶ Tickling itching in centre of right sole.

Yawning in afternoon; at same hour on two days, with coldness running over body; Y. agg. in afternoon, with stretching and sleepiness. ▶ Sleepiness at 11 A.M., also with yawning and heaviness of eyes; S. in evening. ▶ Sleeps in his chair after supper. ▶ Sleep restless at night, with heaviness of head.

Chills running over body at night. ▶ Flushes of heat at night, flushes from 4 to 9 P.M. with burning face. ▶ Heat of face; right ear.