American Arum
Like the other Arums, Ca/adium has an intensely irritating effect on the
mucous membranes and skin, and produces many burning sensations. Calad. is one of the best
remedies for that troublesome affection, pruritus vulvé. Sometimes this is set up by intestinal
worms finding their way into the vagina, and they may then cause masturbation, and even
nymphomania. There is also great disturbance in the male sexual sphere. Masturbation and its
results. Nocturnal emissions occurring either without dreams or with non-sexual dreams.
SpermatorrhSa. The glans penis is flabby from masturbation, prepuce if drawn back remains so
from loss of contractility. Catarrhal asthma, mucus not readily raised, but giving relief when it
comes up.
Genitals relaxed and perspire. Patient afraid to go to sleep, and doesn't know why. Itching of
vulva with burning."
It is suited to persons of lax, phlegmatic temperament. There is < from warmth; aversion to cold
symptoms > after sweat; after sleeping in the daytime. Motion < most symptoms. Great desire to
lie down and aversion to motion; but if he makes the effort he is strong enough. Attacks like
fainting after writing and thinking, when lying down or when rising.
Low spirits and gloomy thoughts (impotence).—Forgetfulness.—Very irritable and
depressed.—Confused, cannot concentrate the mind.—Apprehensive; careful about his health.
Attacks like fainting after writing and thinking, when lying down, or when
rising.—Disinclination to move, and desire to lie still—Weariness over the whole
of parts which are usually moist.
Headaches and mental states of smokers. Very forgetful, does not know about the occurrences of things. Confused headache with pain in shoulder, pressure in eyes and forehead; extremely sensitive to noise, throbbing in ear.
Dull, frontal headache.—Vertigo with nausea, mornings.—Fulness in head, as if too
sharp, cutting pain in temples——Numbness in side of head.
red and inflamed, with smarting and burning.—Dull, pressive aching in portion of
eyeballs.—Eyeballs sore and sensitive to pressure.
Swelling of tongue with excessive ptyalism; saliva resembling white of egg; mucous
membrane red.
Dryness and burning in fauces and pharynx (without thirst); with aversion to cold
water.
very little wind, as if stomach were full of dry food (with asthma).—Burning in stomach, not > by
drinking.
Spasmodic cutting pain in stomach and abdomen.—Abdomen swollen and tender
to touch.—Sensation as if a long worm writhing in region of transverse colon or duodenum.
After stool thin red blood passes.—Discharge of mucus from the rectum
after stool.—Stitches in rectum after stool —Soft, pasty, clay-coloured stools, passed with
difficulty —Stool containing hard lumps.—Very scanty, pasty stool—Urging to stool on rising in
the morning.—Burning in the anus after stool.
Bladder feels full without desire to urinate.—Urine fetid; with sediment
(with impotence and gleet).
Pruritus of vulva (Ambr; Kreos) and vagina during pregnancy (Hydrogen peroxyd 1: 12 locally). Voluptuousness. Cramp pains in uterus at night.
Itching of external genitals with voluptuousness.—Pruritus of vulva
and vagina.—Pruritus vagin¢; with onanism (nymphomania).—Worms escape into vagina and
cause masturbation.—Cramp-like pains in uterus after midnight.
Organs swollen (puffy), relaxed, and sweating.—Swelling of margin
of prepuce with smarting during micturition—After waking prepuce remains retracted; painful
and swollen.—After coition the prepuce remains behind the glans; it is painful and
swollen.—Glans red, dry; dotted with still redder points —Glans flabby from
masturbation.—Painful erections without sexual desire, alternating with sexual desire with
emissions either without dreams or with non-sexual dreams.—Imperfect erections and premature
ejaculation of the semen.—Impotence; the penis remains relaxed, even when excited.—Feeling of
coldness, and cold perspiration of the sexual organs.
Larynx and trachea seem constricted; impedes deep
breathing.—Sudden and involuntary cough caused by tickling high up in throat (above
larynx).—Oppression of breathing, cannot get his breath easily —Asthma alternating with itching,
burning rash.—Catarrhal asthma (with mucus which is not readily raised, but the asthma is
relieved when it is raised).
Rheumatic pain in back; can hardly turn in bed. —Pain in shoulder with headache.
The skin has a rough, dry feeling.—Itching, burning rash (forearm and chest),
alternating with asthma.—Violent itching on various parts.
Drowsy and sleepy.—Sleepless, or unrefreshing sleep.—Sleepiness in the daytime, but
cannot go to sleep on account of vertigo.—Groans and moans anxiously in sleep.—Dreams;
frightful.
Chilliness in the evening, without thirst—Chilly even in a warm room.—Feverish,
skin hot and dry.—Face, head, and hands hot; legs and feet cold.—Internal heat, going off from
sleep.—Heat with thirst, pain in the ears, swelling of the sub-maxillary glands, and retention of
stool.—Sweat towards evening, with prostration, yawning, and drowsiness.—The perspiration
(after the heat) attracts the flies.
Incompatible: Arum triph.
Complementary: Nitr ac.
Compare: Capsic; Phosph; Caust; Selen; Lyc. Ikshugandha (sexual weakness, emissions, prostatic enlargement).
Third to sixth attenuation.
Caladium is a wonderful remedy ; perhaps some of you have read
It endeavoring to understand it ; it is a difficult medicine to understand, because it is quite evident from the provings that the prover
3id not understand how to describe and report symptoms ; did not know
how to tell his sensations because they were so strange ; he could not
relate his mental state.
An individual puts his mind to bear upon something which seems
10 have taken place during the day, but he is not quire sure whether
it took place or not ; he thinks the matter over, and yet he cannot be
really sure whether it took place or not, until he actually goes ^nd
puts his hands upon the object thought about : proves to himself by
actual contact and observation that his vague impression was so, that
it was true, then he goes away and again he is undecided as to whether
it was so or not. This relates to things that actually happened. “Very
forgetful, he cannot remember,” etc. This led to the use of Caladium
caladium
for a good many different kinds of mental affections, loss of memory
where there is that vague state of mind. It might be bordering upon
imbecility, it might be the borderland of insanity. All day long he
finds himself looking into the things that should have been done ; they
have simply escaped his mind ; he has forgotten them. So the mind
is worn through in places. A state of absent-mindedness. It may
come on in an acute state, with unconsciousness. There is a good deal
of congestion of the brain, more or less excitement, but more importtant is prostration of the mind, weakness of the mind ; feeble-minded ;
inability to perform intellectual work, it is impossible. He cannot
think ; the more thought he puts upon, a thing the more fatigue he has
and the further away that thing seems to be ; the more he attempts it
the less concentrated is the mind upon a subject. It is not strange,
then, that the provers themselves were unable to put these ideas into
speech so as to give us an intelligent idea of proving. It is only
by reading between the lines, using the remedy and studying it that
we can straighten out this tangled skein. “Very thoughtful, absentminded.'* There is in acute states delirium, excitement of mind, unconsciousness, stupefaction. As the febrile state is continued, we have
this mental state. This remedy is useful in fevers that arc continued.
One of the most important things to decide when we are going
into the mental state of a remedy is whether v/e shall use this remedy
in hysteria, in the delirium of the various phases of fever, or in insanity, and to ascertain this we turn to that part of the proving which
gives us the pace of the remedy. If we want to understand the delirium of Belladonna and Bryonia to see which one would be suitable
in a certain case, we turn to the fabrile action of the remedy and see
what the nature of that is ; the pace tells us largely what kind of
delirium, if we do not know from the delirium itself. So we will
see that in Belladonna there is no continued fever, and as a remedy
must, in its very nature, be adapted to the very nature of the disease, it
would be useless to follow the many injunctions that are written in
our books telling us to give Belladonna in the acute fonn of delirium
in typhoid fever ; but Bryonia has just that condition ; hence we will
see that Bryonia is useful in such cases which present symptoms similar to it, because the pace of the disease is similar to the pace of
Bryonia, which has continued fever. Belladonna has intermittent
and remittent fever, particularly remittent, and hence the acute delirium of Belladonna is similar to the acute delirium of remittent fever.
Now to bring this point to bear ; this remedy's fever is a continued
fever ; it has not great amount of fever in it, but it is a continued
fever ; we shall see that there is coma and stupor from fever ; ''delirium, unintelligible murmuring mental prostration. This remedy
is suitable in low, murmuring, exhaustive cases of typhoid fever, cases
that are running a very sluggish course; not a \ery active delirium;
but muttering ; a low torm o£ semi-consciousness, very often coma or
stupefaction like Phos. ac,, a dazed mind.
Forgetfulness in persons who are mentally and physically prostrated
from sexual excesses or from tobacco poisoning. It is indicated in
old debauches who are unable to perform the marital act. He has
the most tantalizing craving for the opposite sex with no ability to
perform coitus. Lascivious ideas. Such men stand on the street
corner and feast upon the forms of passing girls, and their semen
dribbles away ; a state also found in Picric acid and Selenium, You
can only cure these patients if they desire to reform, and if you can
inspire them to live a better life. Without this you cannot save them,
and those who take delight in such things arc not worth saving, and
medicine will not take hold of them. To cure, the patient must use
his will to help the remedy.
Extremely nervous ; afraid of his own shadow ; awake all night
with lascivious thoughts, apprehensions, especially before going to
sleep ; afraid of the future. Fear of catching diseases when they are
not around. This alternates with an opposite condition. At times he
is wholly incapable of appreciating danger. He will go into any sort
of danger without thought. Foolish boldness. We may sum up the
mental symptoms by saying he is extremely excitable.
Vertigo on closing the eyes. He cannot stand or walk with the eyes
shut, but it is not otherwise sufficiently related to locomotor ataxia to
be of use in that disease. Rocking, dizzy sensation after lying down
and closing the eyes, as if in a rocking chair. Vertigo and nausea in
the morning with stitch in pit of stomach. He opens his eyes and
asks: ‘‘Where am I? What do you want around me?”
The text is long with many vague symptoms. The mental symptoms
are the most important.
The whole nervous system is in a state of excitement. He is full
of fear ; startled by the slamming of a door, or the rattling of a newspaper. Cannot sleep if there is the least noise. Things are done in
great haste. Nervous excitement.
The patient in general is aggravated by warmth and the warm
room, and ameliorated by cool open air. Yet he wants warm drinks
through the remedy showing its relation to neurasthenic and hysterical
patients. Eructations.
There is a sensitiveness of the skin. Crawling : creeping. He has
the spider-web sensation. Sensation of a fly crawling on the face-.
The perspiration is sweetish, and if he is in a room with others, while
perspiring, the flies will all light on him. Sweetish odor to the pex>
Limbs feel tired and weak —Rheumatic pains in the limbs.—Trembling of the
limbs.—Stitches in corns——Cramps in the soles of the feet at night.
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