Asthma. Catarrh. Cough. Dropsy. Herpes. Hysteria. Rheumatism.

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 Ictod. and the Arums. Motion <. All complaints > in open air. Asthma is < or caused by dust.

Compare: Arum t., Asaf., Meph.

Cross; impetuous; inclined to contradict.─Absence of mind and inattention; enters sick-room without knocking, does not listen to patient.

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, < l. side.─Cartilage cold and bloodless, with red spots on cheeks and small pimples on l. side of face.─Violent sneezing, with pains in palate, fauces, and œsophagus to stomach, hurting for a while after in cardiac end of stomach.

Swollen submaxillary glands.

Scurvy.

Numbness of tongue, cannot touch teeth with it.─Papillæ elevated.─Tongue red and sore on tip and edges.

Burning from fauces downwards through chest.─Œsophagus painful on sneezing.

Inclined to smoke, but it does not taste good.

Nausea and vomiting.─With every firm step, pain in pit of stomach as from something breaking loose.

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.

Great urging; urine darker.

Titillation, voluptuous but painful, around corona glandis.

Amenorrhœa.

Spasmodic asthma.─Sudden anxiety, with dyspnœa 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 axillæ; seems to have a connection with burning in œsophagus.─Pressing pain in sternum.

Aching along r. crista tibiæ.

Hysterics.─Epilepsy.─Erratic and spasmodic pains.

Herpes and cutaneous affections.

Ictodes foetida

• A remedy for asthmatic complaints agg. by inhalation of dust and relieved by stools.

• Absence of mind.

• Headache in small spots, with throbbing in temporal arteries.

• Red swelling across the nose.

• Pain in throat while sneezing.

• Tongue numb.

• Abdomen distended.

• Erratic spasmodic pains.

• Open air.