Anantherum muricatum

(Cuscus grass)

PHARMACY- anan. Anantherum muricatum. Cuscusgrass. Andropogon muricatus. Andropogon squarrosus. Vetiver. Vitivayr.

N.0. Gramineae. India. Tincture of root.

Historical dose:Tincture and all potencies.

CLINICAL - Abscesses. Aphonia. Boils. Cancer. Chancre-like sores. Colic. Erysipelas. Glandular inflammation. Hair, loss. Herpes. Hydrophobia. Sycosis. Syphilis. Tic convulsive. Tic douloureux. Tumors. Ulcers.

HOMEOPATHIC - A medicinal grass cultivated in the Markarentas Islands, East India. Anantherum has produced a state of drunkenness and intoxication. Farrington noted if for "Erysipelas with much swelling of arms and legs, dark red or bluish eruptions with tendency to suppurate."

Anantherum is a skin remedy of high order. Abscesses. boils. Abscesses, ulcers and fissures on arms and hands. Tumors of breast. ulcerated indurated.

Herpes and ulcers or scabs on scalp. Tumors, wart-like growths on eyebrows. Falling off of eyebrows and beard. Chancre-like ulcers on penis. Eruptions like itch or lichen. Ulcers at labial commissures. Pustules like smallpox on vulva. Syphilis.

Severe neuralgic headache. as if bells moved about in head, as of steel arrows from forehead to nape. Pains in facial bones as if crushed or ulcerated. Convulsive tic. Plugged sensation. Glandular swellings especially of sub-maxillary and cervical glands. Swelling of tonsils, constriction of throat, inability to swallow. Painful swelling of various parts extending to suppuration.

MIND - Sadness and restlessness with fear of death and the future. Sheds tears easily. Dread of society. Seeks solitude and obscurity. Apathetic. Anger with desire to strike and destroy. Quarrelsome, but after being angry he often regrets what he has done. Jealousy. Foolish joy and absurd complacency.

Changes in his mood and tum of thought. Ardent desire to travel. Blunted intellect and loss of memory. Haste in all his actions.

Persistent fear of death during all his suffering. Monomania, as for rowing about in a boat, dressing or walking out in a grotesque manner, always frequenting the same places and doing the same things.

Abdomen - Cramps, lancination and digging in the region of the spleen with loss of respiration. Spleen as if ulcerated and hypertrophied. Burning in the whole abdomen, as if he had erysipelas. Inflammation and swelling of the abdomen, very painful. Abdomen inflated, tense and hard, with tympanitic sound on percussion. Colic, cramps and tearing pains in the abdomen, sensation as if there were a red-hot iron in it.

Breasts - Breasts swollen indurated, nipples excoriated. The breasts are atrophied and become soft. Heat and pain in the breasts, as if they had been gashed with a pen knife. Inflammation and swelling. Congestions of the breasts as from accumulation of milk. Lancinating, pulsating and pressive pains. Excoriation of the nipples.

Constitutions - Psoric and allergic constitutions.

Ears - Very copious secretion of cerumen. Heat and smarting in the lobes of the ears. Fissures in the lobes of the ears. Noises, murmurs and hissing in the ears.

Eyes – Heat and burning in the eyes. Pressure and painful stitches in the eyes. Photo-phobia. The eyelids are inverted and as if scarified. Abundant secretion of mucus and considerable lachrymation, especially in the open air. Trembling of the lids.

Eyes - Swelling and ulceration of the lachrymal glands. Weakness of the eyes.

Face - Face yellowish or red, enlarged inflamed and congested. Face pale, transparent and white as wax. Face gray, cold and frozen looking and paralyzed. Face emaciated, bluish, cyanotic, contracted, shrunken with hollow eyes.

Female - Scirrhus-like swelling of cervix. Prolapsed uterus. Sterility, as from atrophy of the ovaries. Swelling of the uterus. Menstruation very painful and copious, the blood generally bright or light-colored. Menstruation retarded, the blood dark, thick, followed by fetid leucorrhea. Suppression of menses. Menstruation frequent and painful. Great itching and burning in the vulva. Whitish and reddish eruptions on the vulva. Leucorrhea watery, clear or milky and of very bad odor. Thick, purulent, yellow or green leucorrhea.

Food - Morbid hunger. wakes up in night to eat, as if he had a tape worm. Burning, unquenchable thirst. Longing for aromatic drinks.

Head - Pains pierce brain like pointed arrows, worse in afternoon. Herpes, ulcers and tumors on scalp. Wart-like growth on eyebrows. Boils and tumors on tip of nose.

Heart - Burning and sensation of weight in the heart with sadness, anguish and fear of death. Stitches and formication in the heart with great anxiety.

Kidneys - Turbid, thick urine, full of mucus. Bladder cannot hold smallest quantity. Involuntary. Cystitis. Constant urging to urinate with stitches and crushing pains in the kidneys. Frequent emission of urine, which is turbid or soon becomes so. Sensation of a numbness and obstruction in the kidneys and bladder were always full and swollen.

Liver - Sensation of heat and of congestion of the liver. Cramps in the hepatic region with sensation as if it were full of painful tuberosities.

Male - Excoriations on the prepuce and urethral meatus. Secretion of a thick substance of very strong odor. between the glans and prepuce, which are swollen.

Burning, stitching and pinching in the penis. Syphilitic-looking pimples on the penis with intense pains, traversing from one part of another.

Modalities - Coffee at first worse, then better. Wine and coffee aggravate the toothache.

Mouth-Tongue fissured, as if cut on edges, copious salivation. Constant inclination to clench the teeth. Sensation of cold in the teeth with heat in the gums and the whole mouth. Burning in the teeth, gums and lips, as if they were burned. Gum-boils. Very painful pimples on the tongue with itching and burning.

Rectum - Very Jong-lasting constipation, followed by dry, brown, bulky stools, then diarrhea. Obstinate constipation with fever, heat, thirst, sweat and debility. Stools difficult. large and hard, knotty like sheep-dung, passed with difficulty, even after the use of injections.

Sleep - Restless sleep with cries, starting up, movements of the limbs and anxious dreams. Comatose sleep with disturbing dreams and snoring. Prolonged sleep in the morning with inclination to lie abed late. Sleep with frequent dreams, alternate coldness and heat and burning of the whole body, intense thirst and fright.

Stomach - Obstinate, convulsive hiccough. Burning in the stomach, as if it were on fire. Excessive and almost continual secretion of phlegm. Vomiting of the food and of bile, with hunger even after eating. Vomiting of food and often of blood after meals. Vomiting of acrid, burning matter, followed by bile and blood. Pains in the stomach with cold sweats on the face and back.

Skin - Itching. Offensive foot sweat. Diseased and deformed nails. Herpes. Abscesses, boils and ulcers. Erysipelas. Chancre-like sores.

COMMENTS - 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.

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

Discharges from ulcers are foul. foul breath and belching. Sexual desire increased by every attempt to satisfy it until driven to onanism and madness.

RELATIONS

Compare:

(I) Staph., Mere., Thuj.

REFERENCES - Boericke. Clarke.