Arum Italicum

Pharmacy

arum-i. Arum italicum. N. 0. Araceae. Southern Europe. Tincture of root. Historical dose: Tincture and all potencies.

Clinical

• Brain-fag.
• Colic.
• Fever.
• Headache.
• Hoarseness.
• Itching.

Homeopathic

Dr. Paul Pitet is the authority for this medicine. He used it for brain fatigue with headache in occipital region.

The chief symptoms observed were headache, chiefly in occiput, worse in damp weather. Dull pain in brain, from least intellectual effort. Colic in umbilical region with diarrhea. Smarting and tearing pains in rectum during stool. Burning behind sternum. Burning in fingers, worse by pressure.

Skin covered with miliary vesicles. Prickling and formication as from hundreds of needles on fingertips. The colic is worse by mouth and lips "as with a hundred needles." Tickling and burning in throat. Sensation of a swelling in left side above larynx. Hoarseness. From abdomen ascending to chest an oppression over whole chest with hot breath, it then rose into throat. Burning, constricting pain in stomach. Ascarides. Prolapsed anus.

Mind

• Anxiety and fear.
• Hypochondriacal.
• Melancholy and depressed.
• Taciturn.

Abdomen

Sensation of emptiness after breakfast in the abdomen, as after vomiting with contraction in the abdomen, as from anxiety and fear. Severe aching between the navel and the hip, especially when standing upright, lying on the side, or drawing a deep inspiration, with great sensitiveness of the part affected to external pressure.

Eyes

Aching in left eye.

Female

Menses profuse.

Head

Migraine. Headache in left temple and forehead. Headache with dyspepsia.

Kidneys

Clear, watery urine, exhaling a smell of burned horn and depositing a cloudy sediment.

Lungs

Phlegm in the respiratory organs. Violent tight cough with a scanty expectoration. Bloody expectoration. After much coughing, expectoration of mucus streaked with yellow.

Mouth

Gums bleed readily. Tongue so swollen he could not swallow.

Nose

Violent irritation of nose and eyes.

Rectum

Diarrhea. Ascarides. Prolapsed anus.

Skin

Redness and erosions of skin. Blisters. Eczema.

Sleep

Redness of face during sleep. Almost uncontrollable sleepiness, an hour after dinner.

Stomach

Pains in stomach on pressing it. Burning, constricting pains. Vomiting of blood.

Throat

Pain in the throat with difficult deglutition, as if from constriction in the esophagus with constant inclination to swallow after drinking, sensation as if something were attached to the epiglottis. Obstinate hoarseness. Pressure in the larynx. Tickling with inclination to cough.

Relations

Antidoted by: Sweet oil, milk, butter. Gum relieves pungent effect on mouth. Compare: (1) Arum-t. Arums.

References

Boericke.