AMORPHOPHALLUS RIVIERI

AMORPHOPHALLUS RIVIERI

(Chinese Umbel)

PHARMACY - amor-r. Amorphophallusrivieri. Chinese umbel.

N. 0. Spaciflora order and the Araceae family. The tincture is made from the stem, the flower and the root.

Historical dose: Tincture and all potencies.

CLINICAL - Cancer, uterine. Cholera morbus. Dysmenorrhea. Headaches. Infantile, cholera. Leucorrhea. Menopause. Metritis. Metrorrhagia. Typhoid fever.

HERBAL - Amor-r. is an herbaceous plant, growing from 30 to 60 cm high. The starchy rhizome is edible, dried or roasted. This plant flowers only once every seven years, although the cyclemayvaryina green house. The whole plant is regarded as medicinal.

HOMEOPATHIC - The proving was the work of Dr. Proceso Sanchez Ortega of Mexico. The proving report weight loss, morbid hunger, bodily swelling and puffiness, and loss of ability to copulate. Repulsive appearance, general puffiness and the stupefied look of enervation.

Feeling of exhaustion. apathy. General discomfort with extreme exhaustion. General uneasiness, extreme weariness. Feels ill, needs to remain in bed. Feverish with intestinal colic. Burning sensation of the orifices and in the throat with numbness of the limbs.

Gastric and intestinal complaints with tiring diarrhea. Female genital complaints with difficult, painful menses and purulent leucorrhea. Burning sensation in the female genitals. Acute or chronic salpingitis.

MIND - Looks bewildered, dazed, exhausted. Total indifference and apathy. Semi-conscious state, does not react. Anxiety and fear.

Abdomen - Intestinal rumbling.

Eyes - Sight weak.

Female - Burning sensation in the vagina and cervix. Painful menstruation with pains in the sacrum and lumbar region, feeling of exhaustion and flow of dark blood. The menses is prolonged, with the blood decomposed, greenish and irritating. Fetid leucorrhea with a greenish, purulent appearance. Irritating leucorrhea with discharge of thick pus. Inflammation of the Bartholin glands. Metritis before menopause, with profuse menstruation and metrorrhagia. Uterine cancer.

Food - Intense thirst. Discomfort during naps, although the food had settled. Cannot bear alcoholic drinks.

Head - Persistent frontal headache, spreading at first to the right temple and then the left. Head pains by day in the morning and afternoon. Periodic head pains, every eight days and throughout the day until bed-time.

Modalities - Better from nourishment. Worse from alcoholic drinks.

Rectum - Normal stools or diarrhea, coffee-colored, preceded by abdominal pains. Diarrhea every two hours with tenesmus, fatigue and weakness.

Stomach - Burning in the stomach, causing great discomfort. Heaviness of the stomach when eating, which disappears after three to four hours. Nausea, especially on waking, ameliorated by nourishment. Nausea at the sight of food. Acidity after introducing food to the stomach.

Vertigo - Slight vertigo, especially while walking and the sensation of walking crookedly.

RELATIONS

Compare:

 (l) Ars. - Prostration, violent vomiting after drinking, diarrhea with burning, black stools, excoriation around the anus. Painful menses with black blood and burning, putrid. corrosiveleucontiea.

(2) Verat. Prostration and feeling of coldness, vomiting and diarrhea, painful

(3) Camphora State of collapse, feeling of general cracking, cannot bear to be covered, even though the body may be ice-cold.

REFERENCES - Julian.