Ictodes Foetida

The Treasury of Botany thus epitomises the traditional uses of this plant in

medicine: "The roots in cases of asthma; the leaves as an application to ulcers. The seeds are also

considered to be anti-spasmodic, and useful in coughs." Hering and others proved it, and largely

confirmed its popular reputation, as also its clinical relationship to the Arum family. Burning

sensations from fauces down throat; enlarged glands of throat; swelling of nose and sneezing;

• ▸spasmodic cough and skin affections are common to Jctod.
• ▸and the Arums.
• ▸Motion <.
• ▸All

complaints > in open air. Asthma is < or caused by dust.

Cross; impetuous; inclined to contradict.—Absence of mind and inattention; enters

sick-room without knocking, does not listen to patient.

• ▸Absent-minded, irritable.
• ▸Headache in single spots, with violent pulsation of temporal arteries.
• ▸Outward drawing from glabella.
• ▸Better in open air (Puls).
• ▸Red swelling across the bridge of the nose.

Vertigo and dimness of sight.—Headache in single places, lasting a short while, then

changing place; dulness; pressing in temples, now more in one, then more in the other, with

violent pulsation of arteries.—Drawing in forehead in two lines from protuberances to glabella,

where it draws outward as from a magnet.

The nose is swollen as far as the nasal bones extend, red like a saddle, sore to touch, <

• ▸1.
• ▸side.
• ▸—Cartilage cold and bloodless, with red spots on cheeks and small pimples on 1.
• ▸side of

face.—Violent sneezing, with pains in palate, fauces, and ssophagus to stomach, hurting for a

while after in cardiac end of stomach.

Numbness of tongue, cannot touch teeth with it—Papill¢é elevated —Tongue red and

sore on tip and edges.

Nausea and vomiting.—With every firm step, pain in pit of stomach as from

something breaking loose.

Inflation and tension in abdomen.

Expansion and tension in abdomen.—Pain in abdomen here and there in single

spots——When walking, sensation as if the entrails were hanging loose and flabby without any

pain.

Spasmodic croup. Troublesome respiration, with sudden feeling of anguish and sweat.

• ▸Sneezing, with pain in throat.
• ▸Pain in chest, with difficult breathing.
• ▸Tongue feels numb.
• ▸Asthma; relieved by stool.

Spasmodic asthma.—Sudden anxiety, with dyspnsa and sweat,

followed by stool and relief of that and other complaints.—Inclined to take a deep breath: with

hollowness of chest; with constriction in fauces and chest.—Asthma, < or caused by

• ▸dust.
• ▸—Heaves in horses from dusty hay.
• ▸—Spasmodic cough.
• ▸—Senile catarrh.

Pain in chest and in axill¢; seems to have a connection with burning in

Ssophagus.—Pressing pain in sternum.

Tincture and lower potencies.