Arum Triphyllum arum-t.

Mucous membranes: Mouth. THROAT. Larynx. Kidneys. Brain. Blood. Skin.

Over use of voice: TALKING. Singing. Cold, wet winds. Heat.

Irritation. PAINFULLY SORE, RAW AND BURNING PARTS. ACRID DISCHARGES.

Excessively cross and stubborn (Tub.). NERVOUS; CHILD PERSISTENTLY BORES INTO NOSE or picks at lips, the fingers or at one spot; until it is sore or bleeds. Acrid, fluent coryza. Raw, cracked lips (angles) (Psor.). Painfully raw, sore, inflamed mouth. Aphthæ. Raw sore throat; painful on clearing or coughing, yet grasps or wants to scratch it. Hay asthma. Stools like corn-meal. Uræmia. Voice hoarse, squeaky or breaks. Itching fingers and toes. Eruptions leave a brilliant red stain. Pemphigus. Impetigo contagiosa.

Complementary: Nit-ac. Related: Ars. Merc-c.

Coryza; acrid, fluent; nostrils raw. Nose feels stopped up in spite of the watery discharge (compare, Am. c., Samb., Sinap.); sneezing < at night. Acrid, ichorous discharge, excoriating inside of nose, alae, and upper lip (Ars., Cepa). Constant picking at the nose until it bleeds; boring with the finger into the side of the nose. Picks lips until they bleed; corners of the mouth sore, cracked, bleeding (with malignant tendency, Cund.); bites nails until fingers bleed. Patients pick and bore into the raw bleeding surfaces though very painful; scream with pain but keep up the boring (in diphtheria, scarlatina, typhoid). Children refuse food and drink on account of soreness of mouth and throat (Mer.); are sleepless. Saliva profuse, acrid, corrodes the mucous membrane; tongue and buccal cavity raw and bleeding. Aphonia: complete, after exposure to northwest winds (Acon., Hep.); from singing (Arg. n., Caust., Phos., Sel.). Clergyman's sore throat; voice hoarse, uncertain, uncontrollable, changing continually; worse from talking, speaking or singing; orators, singers, actors. Desquamation in large flakes, a second or third time, in scarlatina. Typhoid scarlatina, with apathy, scanty or suppressed urine; threatened uraemia. The sore mouth and nose are guiding in malignant scarlatina and diphtheria.

Useful: after Hep. and Nit. ac. in dry, hoarse, croupy cough; after Caust. and Hep. in morning hoarseness and deafness, and in scarlatina. Should not be given low or repeated often as bad effects often follow. - Dr. L. The higher potencies most prompt and effective.

One of the first indications for this drug, is the appearance of raw, bloody surfaces, which may be on the lips, buccal cavity, nose, back of ear, etc. There is great itching with this rawness, so that children will often pick and bore into these surfaces, though so doing causes great pain, and they will scream with the pain meantime; but they will keep up this boring and screaming. Very scanty secretion of urine, sometimes passing none for a day. Great delirium. Headache. Rawness at lips, and corners of the mouth. Clergyman's sore throat, or sore throat of one who speaks a great deal. Children also pick their fingers, their skin, their, lips; lose their appetite; don't want to play; lose flesh; have headaches.

Discharge of burning, ichorus fluid from the nose, excoriating the nostrils and upper lip; corners of mouth sore, cracked and bleeding.

Jack-in-the-Pulpit

Arum maculatum, Italicum, Dracontium, have the same action as the Triphyllum. They all contain an irritant poison, causing inflammation of mucous surfaces and destruction of tissue. Acridity is the keynote of the kind of action characteristic of Arum.

Bores head in pillow. Headache from too warm clothing, from hot coffee.

Quivering of upper eyelids, especially left.

Soreness of nostrils. Acrid, excoriating discharge, producing raw sores. Nose obstructed; must breathe through mouth. Boring in the nose. Coryza; discharge blood-streaked, watery. Nose completely stopped, with fluent, acrid discharge. Hay-fever, with pain over root of nose. Large scabs high up on right side of nose. Face feels chapped, as if from cold wind; feels hot. Constant picking at nose until it bleeds.

Raw feeling at roof and palate. Lips and soft palate sore and burning. Lips chapped and burning. Corners of mouth sore and cracked. Tongue red, sore; whole mouth raw. Picking lips until they bleed. Saliva profuse, acrid, corroding.

Swelling of sub-maxillary glands. Constricted and swollen; burns; raw. Constant hawking. Hoarseness. Expectoration of much mucus. Lungs feel sore. Clergyman's sore throat. Voice uncertain, uncontrollable. Worse, talking, singing.

Scarlet rash; raw, bloody surfaces anywhere. Impetigo contagiosa.

Worse, northwest wind; lying down.

Compare: Ammon carb; Ailanthus; Cepa.

Antidotes: Buttermilk; Acet ac; Puls.

Third to thirtieth potency.

Raw, red, bloody surface of lips, nose, buccal cavity; patients pick and bore into them incessantly, though they are so sore and painful.

Hoarseness, with changing voice when exciting it; from high to low and vice versa.

Discharges generally very acrid or corrosive; exceptionally bland.

This is a very unique remedy. I do not know of one that stands so far apart from any and all others, and its peculiar and characteristic symptoms are capable of such remarkable verification in different diseases as would, or ought to, convince the most skeptical of the truth of Similia Similibus Curantur, etc.

Hering's "Guiding Symptoms", gives it in the best rendering. Let us quote a few of the best symptoms: "Appearance of raw, bloody surface, on lips, buccal cavity, nose, etc." "Patients often pick and bore into the raw surfaces, though doing so gives great pain, and they scream with it but keep up the boring.". (Hellebor. nig.) There is also one other symptom not so well expressed in Hering, viz.: That these raw surfaces are very red, like a piece of fresh beefsteak in appearance. Notice that in Hering these symptoms of mouth, tongue and nose are given in connection with Scarlatina mainly. I want to say that they are also found in typhoid and typhus fevers. Whenever, in any disease, this red, raw condition of the mouth, nose and lips, at which the patient bores and picks, continually appears, give Arum triphyllum. Another important use of this remedy is in affections of the larynx and bronchia. Hoarseness or loss of voice, or voice uncontrollable; it breaks when trying to sing or speak in a high tone or key. This is often found in clergyman's sore throat, or in operatic singers. Aggravation of hoarseness from singing is also found under Argentum nitricum, Arnica, Selenium, Phosphorus and Causticum.

Aversion to light.

Sore ; discharge of burning, ichorous fluid from the nose, excoriating the nostrils and upper lip. Nose stopped up ; can only breathe with mouth open.

Tongue sore, red, papillæ elevated. Lips swollen, cracked ; corners of the mouth sore, bleeding, cracked. The mouth burns, and is so sore that he refuses to drink, and cries when any thing is offered. Face swollen. Swelling of the sub-maxillary glands. Throat sore ; feels as if excoriated ; cannot swallow. Excessive salivation-saliva acrid.

Frequent discharge of abundant pale urine.

Hoarseness (clergymen's sore throat) worm from talking. Voice uncertain, and changing continually. Accumulation of mucus in the trachea.

Sleeplessness, from soreness of mouth and throat, or itching of the skin.

Dry heat of the skin.

Exanthema like scarlet rash, the skin pools off afterwards. Itching of the scarlet eruption.

Amelioration in Scarlet fever, as soon as the urine becomes more abundant and watery.

Indian turnip. N. O. Araceæ. Tincture of fresh tuber or corm.

Brain, inflammation of. Clergyman's sore throat. Delirium. Diphtheria. Glandular swellings . Headache. Jaw-joint painful. Mouth, sore. Scarlatina. Tongue, cracked . Typhoid fever. Voice, hoarse.

Ar. tri . is the most important of the Arums. Its irritating properties are well marked; excitable and irritable in mind and body. It is especially irritating to the nose and throat. This with its scarlet rash suggested its appropriateness in cases of scarlatina of malignant type, in which it has met with great success. An indication of its curative action in scarlatina is the urine becoming more abundant and watery. Raw, bloody surfaces appear on lips, on mouth, on nose, &c. With the rawness there is itching. "Picks lips till they bleed, corners of mouth sore, cracked, and bleeding "is a characteristic indication; also, "picking ends of fingers" and "boring nose" (especially side of nose). Tongue cracked and bleeding. Urine scanty or suppressed. Patient passes into unconsciousness and slides down in bed. Dr. Lippe, who is one of the greatest authorities on this remedy, said it should not be given low or repeated often. "Bores head in pillow" is an indication when the brain is involved. Kent points out that almost all the discharges are acrid and cause irritation of orifices. He defines the hoarseness as that of public speakers who, after long exertion, get cold (as from a draught), and suddenly are unable to finish. (With Rhus the hoarseness is at the beginning and passes off by using the voice.) Ar. t . prominently affects the l. side. It has a headache < from hot coffee and has cured headache < from too hot clothing.

It is antidoted by: Butter-milk, Lac. ac., Acet. ac., Puls. Compare: The other Arums and Calad.; Ailanth. (scarlatina; depressing, stupid, drowsy sleep); Cina (boring nose); Am. c. (acrid discharge from nose in scarlatina, but right parotid more decidedly affected in Am. c., and drowsiness is marked); Am. m. (scarlatina); Arg. n. (scarlatina, painful red blotches left side of tongue); Ars., Canth., Caps.; Castor. (nasal discharge watery and acrid but with violent tearing pain at root of nose); Caust., Cepa, Crocus (elevated papillæ, but tongue white); Hepar, Hydr. ac., Iod., Kali iod., Lach., Lyc., Merc., Mez., Mur. ac., Nit. ac., Phytol., Sang., Silic., Sul. Useful after: Hep., Nit. ac., Caust., Seneg. Incompatible: Calad.

Restlessness or irritability. — In delirium bores in nose; picks at one spot or at dry lips. — Great delirium. — Absence of mind; giddy.

Child has headache, puts hand on back of head and cries; a raw spot appears on lip, corners of mouth, or on nose, emitting one drop of blood; urine scanty; this raw spot may occur on the hand when the child bores and digs at it. — Dull headache; upper part feels cold, as if open and without covering. — Violent headache; pressing on r. or both sides; < from hot coffee; > after dinner, and after breakfast. — (Headache from too warm clothing, from becoming hot.). — Head burning hot. — Tinea capitis.

Aversion to light. — Quivering of l. upper lid. — Catarrh of lachrymal sac; bores into side of nose.

Sore, discharge of burning ichorous fluid from nose, excoriating nostrils and upper lip. — Nose stopped; can only breathe with mouth open; dry coryza. — R. nostril open, l. blocked.

Tongue sore, red papillæ elevated; cracked and bleeding (strawberry tongue). — Lips dry; swollen, cracked; corners of mouth sore, bleeding, cracked; picks them. — Face swollen. — Swelling of submaxillary glands.

Mouth burns and is so sore that he requires drink and cries when anything is offered. — Extreme salivation, saliva acrid.

Throat sore, feels excoriated; cannot swallow. — Clergyman's sore throat, or sore throat of one who speaks a great deal.

Appetite, loss of.

Sensation of emptiness after breakfast in the abdomen, as after vomiting; with contraction in the abdomen, as from anxiety and fear. — Severe aching between the navel and the hip, esp. when standing upright, or lying on the side, or drawing a deep inspiration, with great sensitiveness of the part affected to external pressure.

Diarrhœa, typhoid-like. — Stool like cornmeal mush. — Stool dark brown, watery, thin, acrid. — Thin fæces escape from anus, and keep the parts raw and burning.

Frequent discharge of abundant pale urine. — Clear, watery urine and smelling like burnt horn, and depositing a cloudy sediment. — Very scanty secretion of urine, sometimes passing none for a day.

Tearing pain in r. testicle, sometimes extending to abdomen; comes and goes suddenly. — Smarting at end of penis.

Cutting pain in either ovary. — Menstrual blood darker. — Menses checked for two months, returned.

Hoarseness (clergyman's sore throat), < from talking. — Voice uncertain, constantly changing (goes off into a squeak on attempting to speak or sing). — Accumulation of mucus in trachea. — Cough hurts the throat and annoys the patient.

Raw feeling in chest. — Lungs (esp. l.) feel sore.

Stiff-neck; with intolerable pressing headache. — Pain in region of atlas vertebra, extending to r. side. — Sore, moist places on coccyx.

Burning in many parts — ear, lips, tongue, palate, throat, anus, lungs, upper arms.

Erythema of scarlet rash, skin peels afterwards. — Itching of scarlet eruption. — One of the first indications for this drug is the appearance of raw, bloody surfaces, which may be on the lips, buccal cavity, nose, back of ear, &c.

Sleeplessness from soreness of mouth or itching of skin.

Dry heat of skin.

Unconscious of what he is doing or what is said to him.
Forgetful.
Absence of mind ; giddy.
Great delirium. θ Scarlatina. θ Typhus.
During delirium, boring in nose ; picking at one spot, or at dry lips. θ Typhoid.
Wakeful, restless, screaming ; delirium part of the time.
Mania.
Apathy. See 40 .
Irritable disposition.

Complains of dizziness on being raised. θ Scarlatina.
Giddiness.
Dizziness and fulness, with absence of mind.
Light-headed, sleepy.
Dull, heavy head, morning.

Violent headache.
Dull headache, upper part feels cold as if open and without covering.
Headache, pressing on right or both sides ; < from hot coffee ; > after dinner and after breakfast.
Tearing in right forehead, temple and ear, down to maxillary bone.
Stitches over left eye.
Sudden shooting over left eye and occiput ; repeating.
Tearing, darting, or stitches in temples.
Boring in right side, morning on getting awake.

Twitching on middle of forehead.
Twitching and fluttering of muscular fibres.
Pain and soreness of scalp to touch on crown of head.
Head burning hot. θ Scarlatina.
Tinea capitis.

Aversion to light.
Dimness of sight, as if a veil were drawn before eyes, without pain or giddiness, spectacles do not assist vision.
Upper eyelids heavy, with headache.
Eyes feel as after shedding many tears.
Eyes heavy ; sleepy.
Smarting of eyes.
Tension in lower lids as if swollen.
Quivering of left upper lid.
Water in eyes all day, most at outer canthi, edges of lids swollen.
Catarrh of lachrymal sac, with desire to bore into side of nose.
Stitches over left eye.
On turning eyes upward, shooting in occiput, mornings.

Burning and tearing in left ear.
Left parotid gland sore to touch. θ Scarlatina.

Nose stopped up, < left side, must breathe through mouth, < mornings.
Sneezing ; < at night.
Nose moist, but obstructed.
Discharge in morning streaked with blood ; during day yellow thick mucus.
Fluent coryza, acrid.
Corrosive yellow nasal discharge, nostrils raw. θ Diphtheria.
Acrid ichorous discharge, excoriating inside of nose, the alæ and upper lips. θ Scarlatina.
Drink passes up through nose.
Nose feels stopped up in spite of watery discharge. θ Scarlatina.
He can only breathe with mouth open. θ Scarlatina.
Nose stopped, with or without profuse yellow discharge.
Sneezing as from taking cold, with repeated chills over whole body, beginning in vertex ; afternoon.
Nostrils sore, < left ; nose, lips and face chapped, as from a cold wind.
Constant picking at nose until it bleeds.
Desire to bore into side of nose. θ Catarrh of lachrymal sac.
Much sneezing at night with constriction of throat.
Great heat in face and head afternoons, with fluent coryza.
Discharge tough, yellowish, with swelling of soft palate and pressure.
Could hardly talk on account to phlegm in back part of nose ; hawking difficult.

Face swollen and red.
Heat in face, afternoons ; with coryza.
Swollen, bloated face. θ Scarlatina.
Left face feels chapped, as if he had walked in cold wind.

Pain in joint of left inferior maxilla, as if sprained, when swallowing.
Lips as if scalded, mornings.
Lips chapped, as after exposure to cold wind.
Lips burning, swollen, cracked and bleeding.
Picks lips until they bleed, corners of mouth sore, cracked and bleeding. θ Scarlatina.
Children will often pick and bore into raw surfaces, though doing so gives great pain, and they scream with it, but keep up boring. θ Scarlatina.
Lips very sore and swollen, skin peeling off. θ Diphtheria.
Appearance of raw, bloody surfaces, on lips, buccal cavity, nose, etc., with great itching. θ Scarlatina.
Swelling of submaxillary and parotid glands, left < θ Scarlatina.

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(Indian Turnip)

Generalities: Many boys have wandered in the low grounds where this wild turnip grows, and have taken a nip out of it, and probably remember the sensations in the mouth that they received at that time.

I distinctly remember making an endeavor to enjoy a piece of wild turnip. The tingling that is left in the lips and tongue and from the throat to the end of the nose, and wherever sentient nerves come to the surface, is astonishing.

The prickling and tingling is painful. It is a sensation that cannot be let alone. It requires a continued manipulation, and from this we gather the sensations that must be present in children when they are suffering from acute diseases and this remedy is indicated.

For, in spite of the rawness and bleeding and smarting of the parts, they will insist on pinching and scratching and picking the lips and pressing around the mouth and boring into the nose.

It has been a guiding feature in acute diseases, scarlet fever, many throat affections, diseases that take on a low type, such as continued fever and eruptive fevers.

Among other complaints, sore throats, zymotic affections, delirium and excitement, even maniacal manifestations. It is manifested to a great extent in these associated symptoms. It must be that there is in the nose and lips painful tingling that the patient persists in boring the fingers into the nose.

Manipulating and pinching the lips, picking the lips. It is altogether a different symptom that occurs in delirium of a low, muttering type, which we call carphologia, picking the bed clothes, picking all the time, picking and handling the clothing, a busy, low form of muttering, must be doing something all the time groping around with the fingers and feeling for something.

This is the carphologia and it is a mental symptom. While "picking the lips" is given under the "mental" symptoms in the repertory, it is not intended to mean that it is a mental symptom like carphologia.

Now, you will find two expressions in the repertory, and it is necessary to have two - the one is that

"the nose itches," and the other is "he rubs the nose,"

he does something; that is what an individual would do if his nose itched. One's mind is not always directed towards the two-one is a direct and the other is an indirect expression.

This remedy has not been sufficiently proved to bring out the nature of its chronic manifestations. It has undoubtedly something of that kind, but it has been used in a limited way among acute affections of a zymotic character. It has not been used to any great extent for chronic sick headaches, but it has cured some headaches that are worse in the heat, worse in a warm room and from warm clothing, worse from becoming warm, worse from wrapping up the body.

Heat in the head, determination of blood to the head. It has also cured eruptions upon the scalp like eczema.

It has also been found useful in catarrhal affections of the nose, eyes and lids. About the nose its affections have been mostly of the acute kind. It has most dreadful coryza,

The nose is stopped up, and more stopped up on the left side. Must breathe through the mouth. Sneezing worse during the night; fluent acrid coryza. The discharge of saliva flowing over the lips produces rawness, smarting and burning of the mucous membranes, and the lips, bleed. The fluid from the nose as it flows over the skin leaves red streaks.

"Acrid ichorous discharge excoriating the inside of the nose, the alae and upper lip."

That is expressive and occurs in diphtheria; in various forms of sore throat, in scarlet fever, when this remedy is indicated.

Inflammation of the tongue, with acrid discharge from the nose. Inflammation of the root of the tongue, of the throat and soft palate, of the tonsils. The glands of the neck are swollen.

This inflammatory condition is followed by paralytic weakness, making it impossible for him to swallow liquids or food, and when the mouth forces food into the pharynx the oesophagus refuses to operate, and then fluids and liquids are forced up into the nose and run out of the nose.

This has been clinically observed many times in diphtheria and sore throats. The sneezing is like an ordinary coryza, with repeated chills over the body, and aching in the bones as if the bones would break, like Nux, Eupator., Arn., Rhus, Bry. and Ars., that have aching all over during ''cold.''

This is one of the most striking medicines as an illustration of the keynote system, that is, with those who prescribe on one symptom and give this medicine whenever the patient bores his nose or picks his lips, notwithstanding that Cina bores the nose and picks the lips.

Cina has more of the congestive and nerve symptoms. The nostrils are really so sore from the acridity of the fluids inside of the nose that it feels as if the nostrils were filled with fire. This is the language of the patients who narrate their symptoms in an Arum triphyllum case.

They come into the office with a sore, raw nose, and it tingles and tickles and he cannot let it alone. Fluids run down over the lip and excoriate. The glands of the neck are often enlarged. When he takes cold in one nose there is soreness of the neck and parotid gland.

Desire to bore into the nose. This boring into the side of the nose is another symptom and differs from the one "boring the nose."

You will see children boring in the nose, inside of nose. it is an inflammation of the nasal duct, the duct that leads from the eye to the nose, and accompanied by a discharge of tears over the cheeks, with the tickling that extends up there which they cannot reach, but they undertake to reach it.

Can hardly talk on account of phlegm in the back part of the nose. He talks through the nose. The nose is filled with mucus and there is great tumefaction of all the mucous membranes; which gives him a nasal tone.

"Swollen, bloated face."

If you observe the nose and face you will be surprised to see that so much of the trouble is on the left side of the face, left nostril, left lachrymal duct, etc.

There is bleeding of the lips, upper and lower. The under lip especially is denuded and drops of blood stand upon it, and the patient is constantly picking and pinching the lips, and when you request of the little one to stop it or take his hands away he yells with a sort of sepulchral yell.

"Children will often pick and bore into raw surfaces, though it gives them pain and they scream with it, but they keep on boring."

That is a striking symptom. Fluids make the lips raw and then this tickling comes on and he cannot let it alone, ho must keep at it.

"Appearance of raw bleeding surfaces on the lips, buccal cavity, nose, etc."

Great itching tingling describes it. In typhoid, where you would hardly expect much swelling of the parotid, these glands are enlarged. In diphtheria, scarlet fever and sore throat enlargement of the salivary glands.

This inflammatory condition with soreness and swelling of these glands; the glands are hard and tender to the touch. The tongue is red, the papillae elevated; the tongue appears to be almost denuded. It is raw and bleeding, sometimes does bleed in a few places, and sometimes, after this has gone on for a few days, when the tongue is projected it looks like a big red straw berry, and for that reason has been called

"Strawberry tongue."

"Tongue cracked, bleeding, burning, painful; smarting on tongue and fauces."

Putrid odor from the mouth. Mouth foul, so sore that he was unwilling to drink. All this points to tingling and raw condition of the buccal cavity far back into the throat.

If you look into the buccal cavity you will see the parts raw, denuded and bleeding. Excessive flow of saliva, which is acrid. Mouth burns and is sore. Cries when anything is offered. Buccal cavity covered with diphtheritic ulcers, also with aphthous patches, which cover the whole mouth and tongue.

It says "stinging," but it is a painful tingling, stinging like the sting of a bee, stinging pains in the throat, and the parts are ulcerated, raw and bleed.

It has a diarrhoea such as occurs in idiopathic typhoid. If you have ever seen the yellow corn-meal mush when it is dropped on a plate, it has the appearance of the typhoid yellow stools. When this medicine is suitable diarrhoea is yellow like corn-meal; frequent, faecal, thin, mushy, yellow, is the description of this typhoid stool.

There are other times that the stool is dark brown, watery, thin. As is usual, the faeces are acrid. The thin faeces escape from the anus and keep the parts raw and burning. With other complaints, in typhoid especially, in the groin where the thigh bends upon the abdomen an excoriation takes place with acrid moisture.

Again, we notice rawness over the coccyx. A moisture and rawness from acrid fluid in the posterior part of the fissure back of the anus so that over the coccyx and back of the anus there is rawness and acrid moisture.

The voice comes in for art extensive part of the trouble. It has been found especially to relate to singers and public speakers.

At times when a lawyer has had a long case and he is making a final effort, and has been speaking three or four hours, and while in a sweat has got into a draft or gone out, he finds himself hoarse and cannot finish Ids speech, a dose of Arum triph. will enable him to go on with his speech in a clear voice.

If clears up the hoarseness. In public speakers and singers who have been compelled to strain the voice and have taken a little cold and the voice is hoarse after prolonged exercise; this is the most striking feature of the Arum triph. voice.

"Voice hoarse; from over-exertion of the voice is speaking or singing."

"Voice uncertain, uncontrollable, changing continually, now deep, now hoarse, etc."

It manifests itself in this way. A person starts in a certain pitch and he cannot talk to you, but he tries another pitch and can talk. It is a queer thing that on certain notes they are voiceless, which shows that there is an irregular and patchy inflammation of the vocal cords; it is not a uniform inflammation or the voice would be uniformly affected.

"Clergyman's sore throat," is not a good expression, because it is clergyman's hoarseness that is meant; hoarseness and rawness of the throat of public speakers when talking.

Of course you would say any voice that is hoarse is aggravated when talking, but it is not always so.

The Rhus hoarseness carries with it its characteristic relief from motion, and the use of the voice is motion of the larynx.

When the Rhus patient commences to use the voice he finds that he is hoarse, but after using the voice a little it loosens up, becomes freer, or, in other words, it is better from motion. This may be so either in acute or chronic hoarseness.

Now, in this remedy as in Phosphorus, the voice is ameliorated from clearing the vocal cords of a little mucus. It is not so in Rhus tox., for it is a weakness and paralysis from cold. It is well known under Rhus tox. that the tendons and muscles that are rheumatic become weak, they are stiff on beginning to move and are ameliorated when they are warmed up; so it is with the voice.

Now, in the chest there is burning and rawness when coughing; this extends to the pit of the stomach.

"Raw feeling in chest."

"Lungs feel sore."

"Soreness in l. lung."

You will notice that many times patients and provers state sufferings are in the lungs, which may not really be the region affected. Most likely from what is known of other symptoms this burning is in the trachea, although it says in the lungs.

This remedy does have burning in the trachea, the whole length of it, during an attack of coughing, and burning in the larger branches of the bronchial tubes. The catarrhal state is largely confined to these parts, the trachea and bronchi, but this medicine has cured pneumonia It has been found useful as a palliative in phthisis.

It is used in crude form among the farmers as a domestic medicine for coughs and colds and as a palliative, in consumption. In many of the farm houses you will find the wild turnip hung up in strings like heads to be dried and, grated and used with sugar and cream.

I mentioned the fact that it seems to favor the left side of the head, the left nostril, the left side of the face. It also prefers the left chest and the left lung. It has soreness in the left side of the chest and left arm. it has a sensation of fullness in the thorax and soreness extending down and involving the left lung.

Here is a clinical picture of fever:

"Typhoid forms of fever; picking ends of fingers and dry lips till they bleed, etc."

In most of these complaints the urine is very scanty and is sometimes suppressed. You will very commonly note a good action of this medicine in these complaints by its immediately starting up a copious flow of urine. It is a sign of relief.

It has upon the skin all the scarlet rash that you would expect to find in scarlet fever, and it has also the typhoid petechiae.

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.

Touch: 4. Pressure: 33.

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.

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.

An irritant poison, producing inflammation and irritability of mucous surface; a low type of fever.

Delirium, with picking at the lips or nose.

Dull aching in the forehead or through the head, with heaviness.

Soreness of the nostrils, which even become ulcerated.
The nose and lips feel as though chapped by cold wind.
The nostrils obstructed.
Fluent coryza; constant discharge from left nostril; discharge thin, acrid, sometimes bloody, with great soreness of the nostrils.
Constant picking at the nose makes it more sore.
Pain at the root of the nose.

The lips burn, are swollen and chapped.
The left articulation of the jaw is painful on swallowing.

Tongue cracked, burning, with rawness at the root and in the throat.
All of the soft parts of the mouth and palate are sore and burning, painful when eating or drinking.
Salivation.

Swelling of the left submaxillary glands.
Pain on swallowing, burning soreness, constriction.
The whole throat feels swollen and raw.
(The throat and nose symptoms are frequently associated, in violent influenzas or in diphtheria. The patient is constantly inclined to pick at the nose and lips until they bleed. The discharges become bloody and offensive.)

Watery, brown diarrhœa, with eructations of food.

Urine copious and pale.

Hoarseness.
Expectoration of much mucus.
Constant inclination to clear the voice.

The lungs feel sore.
Burning pain and soreness, particularly in the left lung.

Eruption like scarlatina, with itching, followed by desquamation.

Creeping chills.
Flushes of heat, particularly of the face.
(Particularly adapted to low types of fever, especially of the eruptive varieties.)

Aru. / (Turnip) / Aaron.

Arum-Bleeding-Burning-Raw-
Is thy nose, and Mouth and Maw.
Chapped thy lips, with bloody trace
After picking at thy face.
Nose, that as it clogs and swells,
Breathing through the mouth compels.
Thine a hoarseness from abuse
Of the voice by over use.
Thine a scarlet fever type,
Of the low Ailanthus stripe.
Itching scarlet rash, that peels,
And an angry base reveals.

Aaron,- Has a Raw nose.

Aaron Cepa swims with Alf the Kid.

This Aaron,- Who is subject to cracked and bleeding lips,-Is an Aunt Amanda Gray's, with sinful drover, Cundu.

Raw Nose: Arum, Cep., Sul., Ars., Merc., Sil., Alu., Kali. i.

Cracked and Bleeding Lips: Arum, Ant. c., Am. c., Graph., Sil., Nat. m., Dros., Cundu. (Mouth corners, Arum, Ant. c., Cundu., Graph.)

Indicated chiefly in scarlet fever, with irritating discharges, causing raw, bleeding excoriations. In clergyman's sore throat.

Acrid, ichorous discharges from the nose; nostrils and lips sore, cracked, bleeding.

Saliva profuse, acrid, excoriating the parts it touches; worse from exposure to sharp wind.

Excessive soreness of the mouth, throat, corners of the mouth; the child picks at it constantly; refuses to eat on account of the soreness.

Nose obstructed; must breathe through the mouth.

Swelling of the submaxillary glands; throat raw and swollen.

Voice uncertain; hoarseness.

Rawness of the skin anywhere, spot soon becomes bloody; scarlet rash.