Arum Dracontium

• ▸A.
• ▸dracun.
• ▸is commonly cultivated in gardens.
• ▸It has a fetid smell which is apt

to cause headache. The following effects of pounding the root and tearing up leaves and stems

have been observed: Styptic metallic taste at back of mouth. Pricking, mingled with intolerable

itching in fingers, as if hand plunged among nettles. On rubbing the fingers together, sensation as

if a vast number of stings were driven perpendicularly into them.

Heavy; shooting pain in ears, aching pain behind right ear.

Head feels heavy and aches slightly in occipital and r. parietal regions; next morning

dull, heavy aching in head and chest, with asthma at night.

Aching over |. eye; conjunctiva highly injected. —Lids dry, stiff, and slightly

agglutinated at edges, which burn and smart; 3 p.m.

• ▸Shooting pains in r.
• ▸ear, 8 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸, transient, frequent; but leaving a feeling of fulness and

slight aching in middle ear; next day changed to |. ear—Warmth and fulness in ears, one or other

• ▸side, swallowing renews it temporarily.
• ▸—Aching pain behind r.
• ▸ear.
• ▸—Shooting pains in r.
• ▸ear,

sometimes very severe; deep shooting frequently, and for ten or fifteen minutes; only

occasionally in 1—Mucus in left Eustachian tube.

Aphthous ulcer on tongue; next day mouth and throat become very sore.—Bad taste,

mornings.—Tongue and mouth coated With a foul, putrid-tasting, slimy mucus.—Peculiar acrid

sensation in mouth and throat.—Bad taste in mouth.

Swallowing develops a slight soreness in muscles of throat, and renews temporarily

the feeling of warmth and fulness in the ears, sometimes in one, sometimes in the

other.—Disposition to swallow arising from an excess of mucus; without the unpleasant acrid

sensation as expected.—A slight uneasiness in throat and disposition to cough.—Dry soreness, <

when swallowing.—Dryness and smarting, rawness and fulness, not painful but annoying and

attracting constant attention —Raw and tender.—Hawking.—Continual disposition to clear throat

by swallowing and coughing.—Rawness, disappearing when asthmatic attacks began.

• ▸Dry, sore, worse swallowing.
• ▸Raw and tender.
• ▸Continued disposition to clear throat.
• ▸Croupy, hoarse cough with sore throat.

Escape of flatus from stomach and bowels.—Copious semi-liquid stool

with much flatus—Bilious passages, attended with aching in abdomen and burning in rectum;

borborygmus and escape of much flatus from bowels.

lIrresistible desire to pass urine, which is diminished in quantity, very

highly coloured, and has a burning or smarting effect on urethra; orifice tender and smarts

slightly —Frequent copious emissions of limpid urine.

Irresistible desire to pass urine, burns and smarts.

Great diminution, mostly entire absence of desire.—Penis

flaccid —Fine shooting pains in course of |. spermatic cord.—Chronic pruritus scroti of twelve

years' standing (cured in prover).

Hoarseness; excess of mucus in larynx. Asthmatic at night. Expectoration thick, heavy.

Hoarseness on awaking in morning.—Hoarseness; expectorates thick

mucus.—Rattling of mucus at every full expiration, which disappears in morning.—Excess of

mucus in larynx; increased soreness and great disposition to cough.—Laryngeal symptoms deep-

seated and persistent.—As of larynx partly obstructed About midnight great oppression of

breathing, soon passing off, leaving rattling in larynx and trachea.—Paroxysms of dyspnoea with

aching in chest.—Violent asthmatic attacks at night; from cold—Loose cough with dry soreness

of throat, like catarrh; rattling of mucus; < lying down at night.—Expectoration thick, heavy,

yellowish-white, with continuation of a violent cough.—Hoarse, croupy cough with sore throat;

rattling laryngeal breathing, swelling of air passages threatening suffocation.

Heart beats so violently as to shake the walls of the chest.—With increased heart's

action, aching in precordial region and down |. arm; flushing of hands and face.—Pulse full, hard,

somewhat jerking, soon becomes small and irregular; very feeble after a large dose.

Shooting pains |. anterior inferior triangle of neck, near clavicle—Aching

along the spine, most between shoulder-blades and in lumbar region.—Great weakness across

loins; feeling of extreme prostration continuing to increase, had to retire early.

Tingling or slight stinging in fingers; all over r. hand, which is redder and

• ▸warmer than |.
• ▸and appears somewhat swollen.
• ▸—Aching pain in 1.
• ▸forearm, |.
• ▸hand, and r.

• ▸humerus; r.
• ▸hand remains red and swollen.
• ▸—Shooting and aching pains in |.
• ▸brachial plexus of

nerves.—Shooting at styloid process of r. ulna.

Urticaria and other eruptions.

Arum Dracunculus.

• ▸A.
• ▸dracunculus, Willd.
• ▸N.
• ▸O.
• ▸Araceé.
• ▸Tincture of root.

• ▸Compare: Calad.
• ▸in skin affections; Arum triph.
• ▸Useful after: Colch.
• ▸and Ant.
• ▸—t.
• ▸in

laryngismus.

Arum Italicum (Brain-fag, with headache in occipital region). Arum maculatum (inflammation and ulceration of mucous membranes. Nasal irritation with polypus).

First potency.

Fine pricking or tingling sensation in feet and hands, beginning in r. foot, afterwards

• ▸attacking in regular succession r.
• ▸hand, |.
• ▸foot and |.
• ▸hand.
• ▸—Aching pains along outer aspect of I.

foot, immediately followed by a similar pain in corresponding part of 1. hand.