Anantherum Muricatum

Anatherum produces a state of drunkenness. Severe neuralgic headache; as if

balls moved about in head; as of steel arrows from forehead to nape. Pains in facial bones as if

• ▸crushed or ulcerated.
• ▸Convulsive tic.
• ▸Ulcers at labial commissures (syphilis).
• ▸Swelling of tonsils,

• ▸constriction of throat, inability to swallow.
• ▸Plugged sensation.
• ▸Burning and stitches.
• ▸Thirsty but

cannot drink. Burning heat alternating with icy coldness in gullet: as of something alive in gullet.

Involuntary urination when walking and during sleep. Venereal appetite increased by every

attempt to satisfy it until driven to onanism and madness. Tumour of breast, ulcerated, indurated.

Abscesses boils glandular swellings (especially of sub-maxillary and cervical glands). Herpes.

• ▸Herpes and ulcers or scabs on scalp.
• ▸Tumours.
• ▸Wart-like growths on eyebrows.
• ▸Falling off of

• ▸eyebrows and beard.
• ▸Chancre-like ulcers on penis.
• ▸Pustules like small-pox on vulva.
• ▸Abscesses,

ulcers, and fissures on arms and hands. Eruptions like itch or lichen. "Erysipelas with much

swelling of arms and legs, dark red or bluish eruptions, with tendency to suppurate" (Farrington).

Formication as of ants. Ulcers yellowish, violet, swollen, everted, syphilitic. Discharges from

ulcers are foul; foul breath and eructations. Coffee at first <, later >. Wine and coffee <

toothache.

Gay humour, with disposition to laugh and sing.—Blunted intellect and loss of

memory.

• ▸Pains pierce brain like pointed arrows; worse in afternoon.
• ▸Herpes, ulcers, and tumors on scalp.
• ▸Wartlike growth on eyebrows.
• ▸Boils and tumors on tip of nose.
• ▸Tongue fissured, as if cut on edges; copious salivation.

Vertigo with congestion, tendency to fall backward.—Drunkenness and

staggering.—Burning, lancinating, pulsating headache, <r. side, forehead and temples, with

nausea, vomiting and great heaviness of eyes.—Neuralgic pain in temples, with sensation as if

pointed irons were thrust in, producing fits of craziness; < afternoon and night, from noise, light,

and motion.—As if he had water in the head, < walking.—Herpes and ulcers on scalp, with

compact, thick, humid scabs and prurigo.—Exostoses.

Muscé volitantes and fiery circles before eyes; everything seems excessively bright and

shining.—Wart-like growth on eyebrows.

Stitches in nose, with a crushing sensation at root.—Air inhaled seems icy cold, and

• ▸causes sneezing.
• ▸—Ulcers, greenish, badly smelling discharge.
• ▸—Inflammation of bones.
• ▸—Boils

and small tumours on tip.—Nose cold pale, pointed.

Tic douloureux, and tic convulsif—Yellow and red spots; stinging pimples.—Ulcers,

scabs, or scaly herpes; falling off of eyebrows and beard.—Pain in facial bones as if crushed or

dislocated.—Jaws spasmodically clenched.—Submaxillary and cervical glands swell and tend to

suppurate.—Ulcers at labial commissures; syphilitic.

Taste bitter, bloody, sweet or flat.—Speech difficult, stammering.—Severe pains at

root of tongue as if it were cut off——Tongue fissured, lacerated, as if cut on its edges, with

copious salivation and debility, as from the effects of mercury.—Viscid saliva.

Digging in teeth as if forcibly pulled out.—Constant inclination to clench

teeth.—Decayed, crumbling teeth; bad smell from mouth.

Inflamed throat with sensation of fulness and obstruction as if plugged.—Tonsillitis;

burning and stitches; sometimes coldness.—Thirst, but throat contracts as soon as he hears water

mentioned, or sees shining objects.

Morbid hunger, wakes in the night to eat; as if he had tapeworm.—Eructations;

painful; tasting of food; foul—Nausea; vomiting of food, bile or blood; horrible pains in

stomach.—Very painful pressure, like a bar, on epigastrium with short, anxious

respiration.—Contraction, gnawing, and tearing pains; cramps and spasms.—Sensation as of a

hard tumour starting from pylorus and extending to liver.

Inflammation and swelling of liver—Burning, pulsating, and lancinating pain in

region of spleen.—Twisting and tearing pains in bowels with nausea and vomiting. —Swelling in

groin.

Stools mucous, bloody, brownish yellow; whitish, choleraic; offensive,

with colic and burning in abdomen and rectum.—Obstinate constipation, stool hard, knotty, like

sheep-dung.—H¢morrhoids and abscesses.—Itching at anus.

• ▸Turbid, thick, full of mucus.
• ▸Constant urging.
• ▸Bladder cannot hold smallest quantity.
• ▸Involuntary.
• ▸Cystitis.

Scirrhus-like swelling of cervix uteri—Eruptions, whitish and

reddish, in vulva; pustules.—Erysipelatous swelling of mammé¢.—Ulcerated indurated tumour in

breast.—Excoriation of nipples.

Chancre-like sores on penis and in urethra.—Sexual appetite

increased by every attempt to satisfy it until it drives him to onanism and madness.

Hoarseness and aphonia.—Difficulty of speaking with drowsiness,

with glandular inflammation.—Corrosive sensations in larynx.—Liquids pass frequently into

larynx and nasal foss¢.—Prominent swelling of laryngeal cartilages, obstinate, paroxysmal,

shaking cough, < in evening and night, and from dust.—Burning and raw feeling in chest.

Burning, stitches, and cramps in cardiac region, with oppression.—Heart seems

paralysed with death-like weakness.

Rheumatic pains and swelling of joints.—Diseased and deformed

nails.—Swelling of glands of axilla.

Stiffness, lancinating and crampy pain in sacrum and iliac bones.—Nails

grow awry and hurt toes.—Offensive feet-sweats.

• ▸Diseased and deformed nails.
• ▸Offensive foot-sweat.
• ▸Abscesses boils, ulcers.
• ▸Erysipelas.
• ▸Pruritus, herpes.

• ▸Abscesses.
• ▸Aphonia.
• ▸Boils.
• ▸Cancer.
• ▸Erysipelas.
• ▸Glandular inflammation.

• ▸Hydrophobia.
• ▸Sycosis.
• ▸Syphilis.
• ▸Tic convulsif.
• ▸Tic douloureux.
• ▸Tumours.
• ▸Ulcers.

• ▸Compare: Avena, Arundo, Anthox.
• ▸(botan.
• ▸); Bell.
• ▸, Can.
• ▸ind.
• ▸, Stram.
• ▸, Staph.
• ▸, Merc.
• ▸,

• ▸Lach.
• ▸, Thuj.
• ▸Antidoted by: Aromatic liquors.
• ▸/nimical: Wines and spirits.

Compare: Staphisag; Mercur; Thuja.

Third potency.

Chancre-like sores. Scirrhus-like swelling of cervix. Breasts swollen, indurated, nipples excoriated.