Arum Triphyllum arum-t.

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

C. M. Boger · Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica · A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1915 — the Materia Medica half

Region

Mucous membranes: Mouth. THROAT. Larynx. Kidneys. Brain. Blood. Skin.

Worse

Over use of voice: TALKING. Singing. Cold, wet winds. Heat.

General

Irritation. PAINFULLY SORE, RAW AND BURNING PARTS. ACRID DISCHARGES.

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Particulars

Excessively cross and stubborn (Tub.). NERVOUS; CHILD PERSISTENTLY BORES INTO NOSE or picks at lips, the fingers or at one spot; until it is sore or bleeds. Acrid, fluent coryza. Raw, cracked lips (angles) (Psor.). Painfully raw, sore, inflamed mouth. Aphthæ. Raw sore throat; painful on clearing or coughing, yet grasps or wants to scratch it. Hay asthma. Stools like corn-meal. Uræmia. Voice hoarse, squeaky or breaks. Itching fingers and toes. Eruptions leave a brilliant red stain. Pemphigus. Impetigo contagiosa.

Related

Complementary: Nit-ac. Related: Ars. Merc-c.

Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica

H. C. Allen · Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Medi-T HTML text; edition not stated by the mirror (first edition 1898, Allen d. 1909)

Keynote

Coryza; acrid, fluent; nostrils raw. Nose feels stopped up in spite of the watery discharge (compare, Am. c., Samb., Sinap.); sneezing < at night. Acrid, ichorous discharge, excoriating inside of nose, alae, and upper lip (Ars., Cepa). Constant picking at the nose until it bleeds; boring with the finger into the side of the nose. Picks lips until they bleed; corners of the mouth sore, cracked, bleeding (with malignant tendency, Cund.); bites nails until fingers bleed. Patients pick and bore into the raw bleeding surfaces though very painful; scream with pain but keep up the boring (in diphtheria, scarlatina, typhoid). Children refuse food and drink on account of soreness of mouth and throat (Mer.); are sleepless. Saliva profuse, acrid, corrodes the mucous membrane; tongue and buccal cavity raw and bleeding. Aphonia: complete, after exposure to northwest winds (Acon., Hep.); from singing (Arg. n., Caust., Phos., Sel.). Clergyman's sore throat; voice hoarse, uncertain, uncontrollable, changing continually; worse from talking, speaking or singing; orators, singers, actors. Desquamation in large flakes, a second or third time, in scarlatina. Typhoid scarlatina, with apathy, scanty or suppressed urine; threatened uraemia. The sore mouth and nose are guiding in malignant scarlatina and diphtheria.

Relations

Useful: after Hep. and Nit. ac. in dry, hoarse, croupy cough; after Caust. and Hep. in morning hoarseness and deafness, and in scarlatina. Should not be given low or repeated often as bad effects often follow. - Dr. L. The higher potencies most prompt and effective.

Key-Notes to the Materia Medica

Henry N. Guernsey · Key-Notes to the Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML text (Guernsey d. 1885; public domain)

Characteristic Peculiarities

One of the first indications for this drug, is the appearance of raw, bloody surfaces, which may be on the lips, buccal cavity, nose, back of ear, etc. There is great itching with this rawness, so that children will often pick and bore into these surfaces, though so doing causes great pain, and they will scream with the pain meantime; but they will keep up this boring and screaming. Very scanty secretion of urine, sometimes passing none for a day. Great delirium. Headache. Rawness at lips, and corners of the mouth. Clergyman's sore throat, or sore throat of one who speaks a great deal. Children also pick their fingers, their skin, their, lips; lose their appetite; don't want to play; lose flesh; have headaches.

Seven Hundred Red Line Symptoms from Materia Medica

J. W. Hutchison · Seven Hundred Red Line Symptoms from Materia Medica · rewritten from Hering's and other materia medicas

Red line symptom

Discharge of burning, ichorus fluid from the nose, excoriating the nostrils and upper lip; corners of mouth sore, cracked and bleeding.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Jack-in-the-Pulpit

General

Arum maculatum, Italicum, Dracontium, have the same action as the Triphyllum. They all contain an irritant poison, causing inflammation of mucous surfaces and destruction of tissue. Acridity is the keynote of the kind of action characteristic of Arum.

Head

Bores head in pillow. Headache from too warm clothing, from hot coffee.

Eyes

Quivering of upper eyelids, especially left.

Nose

Soreness of nostrils. Acrid, excoriating discharge, producing raw sores. Nose obstructed; must breathe through mouth. Boring in the nose. Coryza; discharge blood-streaked, watery. Nose completely stopped, with fluent, acrid discharge. Hay-fever, with pain over root of nose. Large scabs high up on right side of nose. Face feels chapped, as if from cold wind; feels hot. Constant picking at nose until it bleeds.

Mouth

Raw feeling at roof and palate. Lips and soft palate sore and burning. Lips chapped and burning. Corners of mouth sore and cracked. Tongue red, sore; whole mouth raw. Picking lips until they bleed. Saliva profuse, acrid, corroding.

Throat

Swelling of sub-maxillary glands. Constricted and swollen; burns; raw. Constant hawking. Hoarseness. Expectoration of much mucus. Lungs feel sore. Clergyman's sore throat. Voice uncertain, uncontrollable. Worse, talking, singing.

Skin

Scarlet rash; raw, bloody surfaces anywhere. Impetigo contagiosa.

Modalities

Worse, northwest wind; lying down.

Relationship

Compare: Ammon carb; Ailanthus; Cepa.

Antidotes: Buttermilk; Acet ac; Puls.

Dose

Third to thirtieth potency.

Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics

E. B. Nash · Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics · homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML text (Nash d. 1917; public domain)

Leaders

Raw, red, bloody surface of lips, nose, buccal cavity; patients pick and bore into them incessantly, though they are so sore and painful.

Hoarseness, with changing voice when exciting it; from high to low and vice versa.

Discharges generally very acrid or corrosive; exceptionally bland.

This is a very unique remedy. I do not know of one that stands so far apart from any and all others, and its peculiar and characteristic symptoms are capable of such remarkable verification in different diseases as would, or ought to, convince the most skeptical of the truth of Similia Similibus Curantur, etc.

Hering's "Guiding Symptoms", gives it in the best rendering. Let us quote a few of the best symptoms: "Appearance of raw, bloody surface, on lips, buccal cavity, nose, etc." "Patients often pick and bore into the raw surfaces, though doing so gives great pain, and they scream with it but keep up the boring.". (Hellebor. nig.) There is also one other symptom not so well expressed in Hering, viz.: That these raw surfaces are very red, like a piece of fresh beefsteak in appearance. Notice that in Hering these symptoms of mouth, tongue and nose are given in connection with Scarlatina mainly. I want to say that they are also found in typhoid and typhus fevers. Whenever, in any disease, this red, raw condition of the mouth, nose and lips, at which the patient bores and picks, continually appears, give Arum triphyllum. Another important use of this remedy is in affections of the larynx and bronchia. Hoarseness or loss of voice, or voice uncontrollable; it breaks when trying to sing or speak in a high tone or key. This is often found in clergyman's sore throat, or in operatic singers. Aggravation of hoarseness from singing is also found under Argentum nitricum, Arnica, Selenium, Phosphorus and Causticum.

Text Book of Materia Medica

Adolph Lippe · Text Book of Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML text (Lippe d. 1888; public domain)

Eyes

Aversion to light.

Nose

Sore ; discharge of burning, ichorous fluid from the nose, excoriating the nostrils and upper lip. Nose stopped up ; can only breathe with mouth open.

Face and mouth

Tongue sore, red, papillæ elevated. Lips swollen, cracked ; corners of the mouth sore, bleeding, cracked. The mouth burns, and is so sore that he refuses to drink, and cries when any thing is offered. Face swollen. Swelling of the sub-maxillary glands. Throat sore ; feels as if excoriated ; cannot swallow. Excessive salivation-saliva acrid.

Urine

Frequent discharge of abundant pale urine.

Respiratory Organs

Hoarseness (clergymen's sore throat) worm from talking. Voice uncertain, and changing continually. Accumulation of mucus in the trachea.

Sleep

Sleeplessness, from soreness of mouth and throat, or itching of the skin.

Fever

Dry heat of the skin.

Skin

Exanthema like scarlet rash, the skin pools off afterwards. Itching of the scarlet eruption.

Conditions

Amelioration in Scarlet fever, as soon as the urine becomes more abundant and watery.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1st edition (1900-02, three volumes); homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML digitization

General

Indian turnip. N. O. Araceæ. Tincture of fresh tuber or corm.

Clinical

Brain, inflammation of. Clergyman's sore throat. Delirium. Diphtheria. Glandular swellings . Headache. Jaw-joint painful. Mouth, sore. Scarlatina. Tongue, cracked . Typhoid fever. Voice, hoarse.

Characteristics

Ar. tri . is the most important of the Arums. Its irritating properties are well marked; excitable and irritable in mind and body. It is especially irritating to the nose and throat. This with its scarlet rash suggested its appropriateness in cases of scarlatina of malignant type, in which it has met with great success. An indication of its curative action in scarlatina is the urine becoming more abundant and watery. Raw, bloody surfaces appear on lips, on mouth, on nose, &c. With the rawness there is itching. "Picks lips till they bleed, corners of mouth sore, cracked, and bleeding "is a characteristic indication; also, "picking ends of fingers" and "boring nose" (especially side of nose). Tongue cracked and bleeding. Urine scanty or suppressed. Patient passes into unconsciousness and slides down in bed. Dr. Lippe, who is one of the greatest authorities on this remedy, said it should not be given low or repeated often. "Bores head in pillow" is an indication when the brain is involved. Kent points out that almost all the discharges are acrid and cause irritation of orifices. He defines the hoarseness as that of public speakers who, after long exertion, get cold (as from a draught), and suddenly are unable to finish. (With Rhus the hoarseness is at the beginning and passes off by using the voice.) Ar. t . prominently affects the l. side. It has a headache < from hot coffee and has cured headache < from too hot clothing.

Relations

It is antidoted by: Butter-milk, Lac. ac., Acet. ac., Puls. Compare: The other Arums and Calad.; Ailanth. (scarlatina; depressing, stupid, drowsy sleep); Cina (boring nose); Am. c. (acrid discharge from nose in scarlatina, but right parotid more decidedly affected in Am. c., and drowsiness is marked); Am. m. (scarlatina); Arg. n. (scarlatina, painful red blotches left side of tongue); Ars., Canth., Caps.; Castor. (nasal discharge watery and acrid but with violent tearing pain at root of nose); Caust., Cepa, Crocus (elevated papillæ, but tongue white); Hepar, Hydr. ac., Iod., Kali iod., Lach., Lyc., Merc., Mez., Mur. ac., Nit. ac., Phytol., Sang., Silic., Sul. Useful after: Hep., Nit. ac., Caust., Seneg. Incompatible: Calad.

Mind

Restlessness or irritability. ─ In delirium bores in nose; picks at one spot or at dry lips. ─ Great delirium. ─ Absence of mind; giddy.

Head

Child has headache, puts hand on back of head and cries; a raw spot appears on lip, corners of mouth, or on nose, emitting one drop of blood; urine scanty; this raw spot may occur on the hand when the child bores and digs at it. ─ Dull headache; upper part feels cold, as if open and without covering. ─ Violent headache; pressing on r. or both sides; < from hot coffee; > after dinner, and after breakfast. ─ (Headache from too warm clothing, from becoming hot.). ─ Head burning hot. ─ Tinea capitis.

Eyes

Aversion to light. ─ Quivering of l. upper lid. ─ Catarrh of lachrymal sac; bores into side of nose.

Nose

Sore, discharge of burning ichorous fluid from nose, excoriating nostrils and upper lip. ─ Nose stopped; can only breathe with mouth open; dry coryza. ─ R. nostril open, l. blocked.

Face

Tongue sore, red papillæ elevated; cracked and bleeding (strawberry tongue). ─ Lips dry; swollen, cracked; corners of mouth sore, bleeding, cracked; picks them. ─ Face swollen. ─ Swelling of submaxillary glands.

Mouth

Mouth burns and is so sore that he requires drink and cries when anything is offered. ─ Extreme salivation, saliva acrid.

Throat

Throat sore, feels excoriated; cannot swallow. ─ Clergyman's sore throat, or sore throat of one who speaks a great deal.

Appetite

Appetite, loss of.

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, esp. when standing upright, or lying on the side, or drawing a deep inspiration, with great sensitiveness of the part affected to external pressure.

Stool and Anus

Diarrhœa, typhoid-like. ─ Stool like cornmeal mush. ─ Stool dark brown, watery, thin, acrid. ─ Thin fæces escape from anus, and keep the parts raw and burning.

Urinary Organs

Frequent discharge of abundant pale urine. ─ Clear, watery urine and smelling like burnt horn, and depositing a cloudy sediment. ─ Very scanty secretion of urine, sometimes passing none for a day.

Male Sexual Organs

Tearing pain in r. testicle, sometimes extending to abdomen; comes and goes suddenly. ─ Smarting at end of penis.

Female Sexual Organs

Cutting pain in either ovary. ─ Menstrual blood darker. ─ Menses checked for two months, returned.

Respiratory Organs

Hoarseness (clergyman's sore throat), < from talking. ─ Voice uncertain, constantly changing (goes off into a squeak on attempting to speak or sing). ─ Accumulation of mucus in trachea. ─ Cough hurts the throat and annoys the patient.

Chest

Raw feeling in chest. ─ Lungs (esp. l.) feel sore.

Neck and Back

Stiff-neck; with intolerable pressing headache. ─ Pain in region of atlas vertebra, extending to r. side. ─ Sore, moist places on coccyx.

Generalities

Burning in many parts ─ ear, lips, tongue, palate, throat, anus, lungs, upper arms.

Skin

Erythema of scarlet rash, skin peels afterwards. ─ Itching of scarlet eruption. ─ One of the first indications for this drug is the appearance of raw, bloody surfaces, which may be on the lips, buccal cavity, nose, back of ear, &c.

Sleep

Sleeplessness from soreness of mouth or itching of skin.

Fever

Dry heat of skin.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

Constantine Hering · The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica · 1879–91

Mind

Unconscious of what he is doing or what is said to him.
Forgetful.
Absence of mind ; giddy.
Great delirium. θ Scarlatina. θ Typhus.
During delirium, boring in nose ; picking at one spot, or at dry lips. θ Typhoid.
Wakeful, restless, screaming ; delirium part of the time.
Mania.
Apathy. See 40 .
Irritable disposition.

Sensorium

Complains of dizziness on being raised. θ Scarlatina.
Giddiness.
Dizziness and fulness, with absence of mind.
Light-headed, sleepy.
Dull, heavy head, morning.

Inner head

Violent headache.
Dull headache, upper part feels cold as if open and without covering.
Headache, pressing on right or both sides ; < from hot coffee ; > after dinner and after breakfast.
Tearing in right forehead, temple and ear, down to maxillary bone.
Stitches over left eye.
Sudden shooting over left eye and occiput ; repeating.
Tearing, darting, or stitches in temples.
Boring in right side, morning on getting awake.

Outer head

Twitching on middle of forehead.
Twitching and fluttering of muscular fibres.
Pain and soreness of scalp to touch on crown of head.
Head burning hot. θ Scarlatina.
Tinea capitis.

Sight and eyes

Aversion to light.
Dimness of sight, as if a veil were drawn before eyes, without pain or giddiness, spectacles do not assist vision.
Upper eyelids heavy, with headache.
Eyes feel as after shedding many tears.
Eyes heavy ; sleepy.
Smarting of eyes.
Tension in lower lids as if swollen.
Quivering of left upper lid.
Water in eyes all day, most at outer canthi, edges of lids swollen.
Catarrh of lachrymal sac, with desire to bore into side of nose.
Stitches over left eye.
On turning eyes upward, shooting in occiput, mornings.

Hearing and ears

Burning and tearing in left ear.
Left parotid gland sore to touch. θ Scarlatina.

Smell and nose

Nose stopped up, < left side, must breathe through mouth, < mornings.
Sneezing ; < at night.
Nose moist, but obstructed.
Discharge in morning streaked with blood ; during day yellow thick mucus.
Fluent coryza, acrid.
Corrosive yellow nasal discharge, nostrils raw. θ Diphtheria.
Acrid ichorous discharge, excoriating inside of nose, the alæ and upper lips. θ Scarlatina.
Drink passes up through nose.
Nose feels stopped up in spite of watery discharge. θ Scarlatina.
He can only breathe with mouth open. θ Scarlatina.
Nose stopped, with or without profuse yellow discharge.
Sneezing as from taking cold, with repeated chills over whole body, beginning in vertex ; afternoon.
Nostrils sore, < left ; nose, lips and face chapped, as from a cold wind.
Constant picking at nose until it bleeds.
Desire to bore into side of nose. θ Catarrh of lachrymal sac.
Much sneezing at night with constriction of throat.
Great heat in face and head afternoons, with fluent coryza.
Discharge tough, yellowish, with swelling of soft palate and pressure.
Could hardly talk on account to phlegm in back part of nose ; hawking difficult.

Upper face

Face swollen and red.
Heat in face, afternoons ; with coryza.
Swollen, bloated face. θ Scarlatina.
Left face feels chapped, as if he had walked in cold wind.

Lower face

Pain in joint of left inferior maxilla, as if sprained, when swallowing.
Lips as if scalded, mornings.
Lips chapped, as after exposure to cold wind.
Lips burning, swollen, cracked and bleeding.
Picks lips until they bleed, corners of mouth sore, cracked and bleeding. θ Scarlatina.
Children will often pick and bore into raw surfaces, though doing so gives great pain, and they scream with it, but keep up boring. θ Scarlatina.
Lips very sore and swollen, skin peeling off. θ Diphtheria.
Appearance of raw, bloody surfaces, on lips, buccal cavity, nose, etc., with great itching. θ Scarlatina.
Swelling of submaxillary and parotid glands, left < θ Scarlatina.

Teeth and gums

Toothache in hollow teeth ; left side, lower jaw ; towards evening.

Taste, speech, tongue

Tongue sore, red, papillæ swollen and elevated. θ Scarlatina.
Tongue cracked, burning, painful.
Pain on left margin of tongue.
Root of tongue and palate feel raw.
Round spots on tongue as if scalded.
Tip of tongue sore, with round sore spots.
Smarting on tongue and fauces.
Tongue cracked and bleeding.
Dryness and stiffness across tongue immediately anterior to and on a line with anterior arch of palate, with astringent feeling as strong as after eating persimmons.
Tongue red, papillæ rough, dry in centre.
Strawberry tongue.

Inner mouth

Putrid odor from mouth. θ Diphtheritis.
Mouth felt so sore inside that he was unwilling to drink. θ Scarlatina.
Excessive salivation ; saliva acrid. θ Scarlatina.
The mouth burns and is sore that they refuse to drink, and cry when anything is offered. θ Scarlatina. θ Diphtheria.
Buccal cavity raw and bleeding.
Scanty but constant discharge of tough mucus from mouth with burning in throat.
Mouth very dry, lips chapped.
Mouth dry, feels as if it would crack, has to get up at night to drink.
Mouth, lips and soft palate sore and burning, in morning.
Great sore feeling in mouth. θ Scarlatina.
Cavity of mouth covered with diphtheritic deposit and ulcers. θ Diphtheritis.

Palate and throat

Sensation of swelling on soft palate, when swallowing ; with discharge of nasal mucus, in morning.
Soreness, burning, and pains in palate ; < when eating or drinking.
Tonsils much swollen.
Sore throat with much phlegm from nose through choanæ.
Swelling in throat extends towards nose.
Fauces and nares ulcerated with a corroding acrid secretion.
As if tied together in throat, as if too narrow.
Constriction in throat (with sneezing).
Cannot chew nor swallow.
Refuses food and drink on account of soreness of throat. θ Scarlatina.
The sore throat (after 7th day) returns ; 12th day a stiff neck.
Constant scratching and burning in throat, with desire to swallow.
Desire to swallow with stitching in throat, which is painful to pressure.
Difficult deglutition.
Stinging burning sensation in throat.
Great burning and rawness in throat.
Burning in pharynx and glottis with soreness in chest.
A sensation of something hot in throat, more particularly during inspiration.
Burning pain in throat and in root of tongue, with dryness.
Burning in throat, in morning while in bed, > after rising.
Burning and dryness in throat, before midnight ; after midnight and towards morning, much mucus in throat, which goes deeper and deeper down by swallowing, and is perceived no more in morning after rising.
Tenacious mucus, with tickling cough.
Putrid sore throat.
Throat and tongue very sore, burning pains, putrid ulcers in throat. θ Scarlatina.
Throat livid, studded with deep angry looking ulcers having a fetid discharge. θ Scarlatina.
Aphthous sore throat.
Swelling of glands on throat and neck.
Sore throat goes from right to left ; neck stiff ; left parotid sore.
Considerable swelling of submaxillary glands left side.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Children lose their appetite, don't want to play, lose flesh, have headache and scanty urine.
No appetite.
Desire to drink a little at a time.

Eating and drinking

Palate sore. See 13 .
Worse drinking coffee, headache. See 3 .
Worse drinking or eating. See 13 .
Headache > after breakfast or dinner.
Eructations of ingesta after dinner.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Nausea ; qualmish ; giddy.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Cramps in stomach.

Hypochondria

Pain in region of liver, first anteriorly, then posteriorly.
Pain under left short ribs.

Abdomen and loins

Rolling in abdomen with frequent painful urging to stool, mornings.
Rumbling in bowels ; flatulency.
Slight cutting pains, < about noon.
Between abdomen and legs sore moist places ; same on os coccygis. θ Scarlatina.

Stools and rectum

Painful urging, with rumbling, compelling to rise from bed ; tenesmus towards evening.
Stool : watery, dark brown, with eructation of food ; soft and painless, thin, yellow, in morning ; soft, with tenesmus ; at night, during sleep ; each succeeding discharge more watery.
Diarrhœa till noon, like mustard.
Diarrhœa dark yellow fluid. θ Typhoid fever.
Watery brown stool at noon.
From 3 to 8 A. M., watery brown discharge, often with tenesmus, sometimes with belching of food.
Burning in anus.
Great soreness between abdomen, genitals and thighs, on and below os coccygis.
Between abdomen and legs sore moist places.

Urinary organs

Frequent discharge of pale urine.
Urine very abundant and pale. θ Scarlatina.
Urine scanty or suppressed.
Very scanty secretion of urine, sometimes passing none for a whole day. (As soon as urine increases after it is given in scarlatina, the patient gets better. --Dr. L.) θ Scarlatina.
Itching at mouth of urethra.

Male sexual organs

Tearing pain in right testicle, sometimes extending to abdomen, from noon till evening, repeatedly ; comes suddenly and disappears suddenly.
Smarting at end of penis.

Female sexual organs

Cutting pain in either ovary.
Menstrual blood darker.
Menses checked for two months, returned.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

Soreness and pain as if bruised in left mamma.
Lumps deep in left mamma, with aching pains.
Convulsions during dentition ; right side lame ; quivering of left upper eyelid.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Voice hoarse. θ Scarlatina.
Great hoarseness. θ Scarlatina.
To talk is an exertion.
Voice hoarse ; also from overexertion of voice in speaking or singing.
Voice uncertain, uncontrollable, changing continually ; now deep, hollow, then scarcely audible, and again high, shrieking.
Clergyman's sore throat ; hoarseness, < from talking.
Voice hoarse, deep, or weak.
Loss of voice after exposure to N. W. wind.
Burning of glottis, or pharynx.
Must hawk in morning ; hoarseness more before talking, > afterwards.
Constant pain in larynx. θ Scarlatina.
In region of larynx considerable internal swelling of throat.
Internal swelling of trachea, first right and then left side.
Accumulation of mucus in trachea.
Mucus in trachea when coughing.
(In sick :) Hawked up a good deal of mucus. θ Scarlatina.
(OBS :) Croup.

Respiration

(OBS :) Asthma.
Asthmatic breathing, with chronic catarrh.

Cough

Head and breast feel obstructed, full of mucus, without spitting.
Frequent coughing, with much mucus and much spitting.
Burning pain in lungs when coughing.
Tickling cough from mucus in trachea ; at night after lying down, with inability to sleep and hoarseness.
Distressing, hacking cough , after getting awake.
Expectoration of much mucus.
(OBS :) Whooping cough.

Inner chest and lungs

Burning in lungs when coughing, extending to pit of stomach.
Raw feeling in chest.
Lungs feel sore.
Soreness in left lung and upper arm, with pressing in forehead.
Stitches in right lung and under right shoulder blade.
Head and breast feel obstructed by mucus.
Sensation of fulness in thorax and soreness in left lung and upper arm.
Pain in right side of chest near axilla, below and anteriorly.
Pain through left lung, about base of heart.
(OBS :) Consumption.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Pulse more frequent.
Pulse 140, hard and full. θ Scarlatina.

Outer chest

Pain in left side of chest below left nipple.

Neck and back

Stiff neck ; with intolerable pressing headache.
Pain in region of atlas and dentoid vertebra, extending to right side.
Sore, moist places on os coccygis.
Glands of neck and throat swollen. θ Scarlatina.

Upper limbs

Pressing in right shoulder and between blades.
Hands stiff and swollen.

Lower limbs

Pain in right hip under trochanter.
Heaviness mostly in lower limbs ; pain over hips.
Cramps in right leg on getting awake mornings.
Stinging, pricking or bruised pain in soles.
Pain in middle of left tibia (where there has been a discolored spot on skin for years).
In left foot painful sensation of dislocation, can hardly walk, most under ball of big toe ; later same pain above knee ; in front of thigh.
Tickling itching in centre of right sole.
Feet hurt her so that she cannot stand ; pain even when drawing on stockings ; hurts her so that it makes her sick at stomach.

Limbs in general

Heaviness in all limbs, most in lower.

Rest. position. motion

On falling asleep : starts smothering.
Standing : feet <.
Lying down : cough <.
On being raised : dizziness.
After rising from bed : burning in throat >.

Nerves

Very great restlessness, child crying and throwing itself into all sorts of positions. θ Diphtheritis.
Lassitude and low spirits.
Right side lame during dentition.
Very nervous.
Greatest weakness or exhaustion. θ Typhus.
Spasms of arms and hands ; thumbs drawn in.

Sleep

Drowsiness immediately after sundown.
Child drowsy and stupid ; dark, livid eruption. θ Scarlatina.
Yawning in afternoon , with stretching and sleepiness.
Sleepy, yawning and sneezing at 11 A. M. ; headache <, eyes heavy.
Fell asleep sitting in chair soon after supper.
Sleeplessness from soreness of mouth and throat, or from itching of skin.
Nervous at night, cannot sleep.
Restless at night, with heavy head, lassitude ; low spirits.
Nightmare.
On falling asleep feels as if she would smother. starts as if frightened.
Bad night ; very delirious 5th day of scarlet fever.
Restless tossing about in bed, desire to escape.
Before midnight burning in throat ; after midnight mucus in throat and loose bowels.
At night ; head < ; sneezing ; pain in throat ; cold running over back ; flushes of heat.
When getting awake : burning on right side of head ; < coughing.

Time

Morning : 3 to 8 A. M., diarrhœa ; head dull ; boring in head ; nose stopped ; discharge from nose ; lips feel scalded ; mouth sore and burning ; mucus from posterior nares ; throat > ; urging to stool ; hawking ;
cramp in leg ; burning side of head.
At 11 A. M. : sleepiness ; sneezing ; headache < ; eyes heavy.
Noon : cutting pains < ; watery stool.
During day : eyes water ; thick mucus from nose.
Afternoon : sneezing and chills ; heat in face and head ; coryza ; pain in testicle ; sleepiness.
At 4 to 9 A. M. : flashes of heat ; burning face.
Towards evening : toothache ; tenesmus.
After sundown : drowsiness.
Night : sneezing ; throat constricted ; thirst ; tenesmus ; cough < ; nervous ; restless ; head < ; coldness ; flashes of heat.
Before midnight : dry throat burns.
After midnight : mucus in throat ; loose bowels.

Temperature and weather

Hot coffee : headache <.

Fever

Repeated chills, spreading from vertex, with sneezing as after taking cold, afternoons.
Chills running over body after much yawning, same hour on two days.
Cold running over body at night.
Dry, feverish heat of skin.
Flushes of heat, with burning face, 4 to 9 P. M.
Flushes at night.
Fever heat very intense. θ Scarlatina.
Typhoid forms of fever ; picking ends of fingers and dry lips till they bleed ; boring nose ; restless tossing about bed, wants to escape ; unconscious
of what he is doing or of what is said to him ; urine suppressed ; great weakness (last stages probably with uræmia).
Child falls into a typhoid condition, with apathy. θ Scarlatina.

Attacks, periodicity

Pains come and go suddenly.
Much yawning, and cold running over body, at same hour as day before.

Locality and direction

Right : headache ; tearing in forehead ; pain in testicle ; side lame ; stitches in lung ; pain side of chest ; pressing in shoulder ; pain in hip ; cramps in leg ; itching on sole.
Right to left : sore throat ; swelling of trachea.
Left : stitches over eye ; quivering of eyelid ; burning in ear ; parotid sore ; nostril stopped and sore ; pain in inferior maxillary joint ; swollen submaxillary glands ; toothache ; pain in margin of tongue ; pain under short
ribs ; soreness and lumps in mamma ; pain and soreness in lung and arm ; pain above knee, in tibia and in foot.
Above downward : tearing in forehead.
Below upward : swelling in throat.
Before backward : pain in liver.

Sensations

Upper part of head feels cold, as if open ; eye lids as if swollen ; face feels as if he had walked in a cold wind ; lips as if scalded ; mamma as if bruised ; as if he would smother ; as if soft palate was swelling ; as if tied together in
throat ; as if dislocated in left foot and above knee.
Cutting : in abdomen ; in ovaries.
Boring : in right side of head.
Stitches : over left eye ; in temples ; in throat, in right lung ; under right shoulder blade.
Stinging : in throat ; in soles.
Shooting : over left eye and in occiput.
Pricking : in soles.
Scalded feeling : in spots on tongue.
Burning : in ear ; in lips ; of tongue ; in palate ; in throat ; in pharynx ; in glottis ; on root of tongue ; in anus ; in lungs ; in upper arm.
Smarting : of eyes ; on tongue ; in fauces ; at end of penis.
Soreness : of scalp ; of tongue ; of mouth ; in palate ; in chest ; of left parotid ; in left mamma ; of lungs.
Rawness : in throat ; in chest.
Scratching : in throat.
Tearing : in right forehead, temple and ear, to maxillary bone ; in temples ; in right testicle.
Aching : in left mamma.
Pressing : on sides of head ; in forehead ; in right shoulder and between blades.
Bruised pain : in left mamma ; in soles.
Sprained feeling : in left maxillary joint.
Cramp : in stomach ; in right leg.
Constriction : of throat.
Tension : in eyelids.
Undefined pain : in palate ; on left margin of tongue ; in region of liver ; under ribs ; in larynx ; in right side of chest ; through left lung ; at base of heart ; below left nipple ; in region of atlas and dentoid vertebra ; in
right hip ; over hips ; in left tibia ; in feet ; in joint of left inferior maxilla.
Quivering : of left upper lid.
Fulness : in thorax.
Heaviness in all limbs.
Heat : in face and head ; in throat.
Dryness : in throat ; of tongue.
Itching : at mouth of urethra ; in centre of right sole ; eruptions.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Touch : scalp sore ; parotid sore.
Pressure : throat painful.
Picking : nose, lips and fingers bleed.
Swallowing : pain in inferior maxilla < ; sensation of swelling : on soft palate.
Drinking : mouth burns < ; pains in palate <.
Eating : pains in palate <.
Overexertion of voice : hoarseness.
Talking : hoarseness < ; hoarseness >.
Coughing : burning in lungs ; burning in head.
Drawing on stockings : feet pain.

Skin

Itching with desquamation, following a scarlet rash.
Eruption all over body, with much itching and restlessness. θ Scarlatina.
Exanthema like scarlet rash ; skin peels off afterwards.
Desquamation a second or third time, in large flakes, in scarlatina.
Little round, red, hard pimples all over body, legs, arms and face.
Eruption more in patches than uniform. θ Scarlatina.
Scarlatina, when characteristic symptoms of nose, mouth and throat ( See 7 , 12 , 13 ) are present ; fever very intense ; in one case
rawness down inner side of thighs.
Appearance of petechiæ. θ Scarlatina.

Stage of life, constitution

Clergymen, orators', singers', actors', auctioneers' sore throat ; even the highest potencies, one drop, have restored the voice in a few hours.
Boy, æt. 6. θ Scarlatina ; after Bellad., Ant. tart., Sulphur and Lycop. were of little use.

Relations

This remedy should not be given low or repeated often, as bad effects often follow. --L.
Antidotes : buttermilk ; Lac. ac. ; Acet. ac. ; Pulsat .
Family relations : Arum dracon. ; Arum mac. ; Calad .
Compare : Ailant . (in scarlatina, depressing, stupid, drowsy sleep) ; Amm. carb . (acrid discharge from nose, in scarlatina, but right parotid more decidedly affected, and drowsiness is marked) ; Amm.
mur . (in scarlatina, discharge from nose thicker, making nose sore inside, nose being stuffed up only at night or only on one side) ; Argent. nitr . (tongue in scarlatina has erect, prominent papillæ ; fells sore, tip red and very
painful ; painful and red blotches on left side of tongue) ; Arsen . (excoriating discharge from nose, blueness of rash, restless after midnight) ; Canthar. ; Capsic . (throat) ; Castor .
(discharge from nose in scarlatina is watery and acrid, but associated with a violent, tearing pain at root of nose) ; Caustic . (hoarseness) ; Cepa (nasal discharge) ; Crocus
(elevated papillæ, but tongue white) ; Hepar (hoarseness) ; Hydr. ac. ; Iodium ; Kali hydr . (discharge from nose in scarlatina very similar, but soreness of mouth differs in that tongue and mouth are
ulcerated, with soreness but no salivation ; food and drink are refused on account of great pain caused by ulcerated condition ; after abuse of Mercur ., frequently recurring attacks of fluent coryza, with burning in nose and sensation of a
ligature, preventing passage of air) ; Laches. ; Lycop . (similar discharge from nose in scarlatina ; concomitant symptoms are headache, with much thirst at night, burning blisters on tip of tongue, breathing injured by stuffed nose
discharging burning ichor, child cross on awaking) ; Mercur . (excessive salivation) ; Mezer . (discharge from nose in scarlatina, slightly streaked or tinged with blood) ; Mur. ac.,
Nitr. ac . (similar discharge from nose in scarlatina ; stinging, pricking ulcers in throat, almost always accompanied by cough, with hoarseness) ; Phytol., Sanguin., Silic . (discharge from nose in scarlatina similar, but nose bleeds
readily from soreness) ; Sulphur .
Useful after ; Hepar and Nitr. ac . in hoarse, dry, croupy cough, and in scarlatina, etc. ; after Caustic . and Hepar in hoarseness in
morning, and deafness ; after Seneg . in soreness and redness of throat.
Incompatible : Calad ., which is too similar.

Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

James Tyler Kent · Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Séror HTML text (Kent d. 1916; public domain)

Lecture

(Indian Turnip)

Generalities: Many boys have wandered in the low grounds where this wild turnip grows, and have taken a nip out of it, and probably remember the sensations in the mouth that they received at that time.

I distinctly remember making an endeavor to enjoy a piece of wild turnip. The tingling that is left in the lips and tongue and from the throat to the end of the nose, and wherever sentient nerves come to the surface, is astonishing.

The prickling and tingling is painful. It is a sensation that cannot be let alone. It requires a continued manipulation, and from this we gather the sensations that must be present in children when they are suffering from acute diseases and this remedy is indicated.

For, in spite of the rawness and bleeding and smarting of the parts, they will insist on pinching and scratching and picking the lips and pressing around the mouth and boring into the nose.

It has been a guiding feature in acute diseases, scarlet fever, many throat affections, diseases that take on a low type, such as continued fever and eruptive fevers.

Among other complaints, sore throats, zymotic affections, delirium and excitement, even maniacal manifestations. It is manifested to a great extent in these associated symptoms. It must be that there is in the nose and lips painful tingling that the patient persists in boring the fingers into the nose.

Manipulating and pinching the lips, picking the lips. It is altogether a different symptom that occurs in delirium of a low, muttering type, which we call carphologia, picking the bed clothes, picking all the time, picking and handling the clothing, a busy, low form of muttering, must be doing something all the time groping around with the fingers and feeling for something.

This is the carphologia and it is a mental symptom. While "picking the lips" is given under the "mental" symptoms in the repertory, it is not intended to mean that it is a mental symptom like carphologia.

Now, you will find two expressions in the repertory, and it is necessary to have two - the one is that

"the nose itches," and the other is "he rubs the nose,"

he does something; that is what an individual would do if his nose itched. One's mind is not always directed towards the two-one is a direct and the other is an indirect expression.

This remedy has not been sufficiently proved to bring out the nature of its chronic manifestations. It has undoubtedly something of that kind, but it has been used in a limited way among acute affections of a zymotic character. It has not been used to any great extent for chronic sick headaches, but it has cured some headaches that are worse in the heat, worse in a warm room and from warm clothing, worse from becoming warm, worse from wrapping up the body.

Heat in the head, determination of blood to the head. It has also cured eruptions upon the scalp like eczema.

Nose

It has also been found useful in catarrhal affections of the nose, eyes and lids. About the nose its affections have been mostly of the acute kind. It has most dreadful coryza,

The nose is stopped up, and more stopped up on the left side. Must breathe through the mouth. Sneezing worse during the night; fluent acrid coryza. The discharge of saliva flowing over the lips produces rawness, smarting and burning of the mucous membranes, and the lips, bleed. The fluid from the nose as it flows over the skin leaves red streaks.

"Acrid ichorous discharge excoriating the inside of the nose, the alae and upper lip."

That is expressive and occurs in diphtheria; in various forms of sore throat, in scarlet fever, when this remedy is indicated.

Inflammation of the tongue, with acrid discharge from the nose. Inflammation of the root of the tongue, of the throat and soft palate, of the tonsils. The glands of the neck are swollen.

This inflammatory condition is followed by paralytic weakness, making it impossible for him to swallow liquids or food, and when the mouth forces food into the pharynx the oesophagus refuses to operate, and then fluids and liquids are forced up into the nose and run out of the nose.

This has been clinically observed many times in diphtheria and sore throats. The sneezing is like an ordinary coryza, with repeated chills over the body, and aching in the bones as if the bones would break, like Nux, Eupator., Arn., Rhus, Bry. and Ars., that have aching all over during ''cold.''

This is one of the most striking medicines as an illustration of the keynote system, that is, with those who prescribe on one symptom and give this medicine whenever the patient bores his nose or picks his lips, notwithstanding that Cina bores the nose and picks the lips.

Cina has more of the congestive and nerve symptoms. The nostrils are really so sore from the acridity of the fluids inside of the nose that it feels as if the nostrils were filled with fire. This is the language of the patients who narrate their symptoms in an Arum triphyllum case.

They come into the office with a sore, raw nose, and it tingles and tickles and he cannot let it alone. Fluids run down over the lip and excoriate. The glands of the neck are often enlarged. When he takes cold in one nose there is soreness of the neck and parotid gland.

Desire to bore into the nose. This boring into the side of the nose is another symptom and differs from the one "boring the nose."

You will see children boring in the nose, inside of nose. it is an inflammation of the nasal duct, the duct that leads from the eye to the nose, and accompanied by a discharge of tears over the cheeks, with the tickling that extends up there which they cannot reach, but they undertake to reach it.

Can hardly talk on account of phlegm in the back part of the nose. He talks through the nose. The nose is filled with mucus and there is great tumefaction of all the mucous membranes; which gives him a nasal tone.

"Swollen, bloated face."

If you observe the nose and face you will be surprised to see that so much of the trouble is on the left side of the face, left nostril, left lachrymal duct, etc.

Mouth

There is bleeding of the lips, upper and lower. The under lip especially is denuded and drops of blood stand upon it, and the patient is constantly picking and pinching the lips, and when you request of the little one to stop it or take his hands away he yells with a sort of sepulchral yell.

"Children will often pick and bore into raw surfaces, though it gives them pain and they scream with it, but they keep on boring."

That is a striking symptom. Fluids make the lips raw and then this tickling comes on and he cannot let it alone, ho must keep at it.

"Appearance of raw bleeding surfaces on the lips, buccal cavity, nose, etc."

Great itching tingling describes it. In typhoid, where you would hardly expect much swelling of the parotid, these glands are enlarged. In diphtheria, scarlet fever and sore throat enlargement of the salivary glands.

This inflammatory condition with soreness and swelling of these glands; the glands are hard and tender to the touch. The tongue is red, the papillae elevated; the tongue appears to be almost denuded. It is raw and bleeding, sometimes does bleed in a few places, and sometimes, after this has gone on for a few days, when the tongue is projected it looks like a big red straw berry, and for that reason has been called

"Strawberry tongue."

"Tongue cracked, bleeding, burning, painful; smarting on tongue and fauces."

Putrid odor from the mouth. Mouth foul, so sore that he was unwilling to drink. All this points to tingling and raw condition of the buccal cavity far back into the throat.

If you look into the buccal cavity you will see the parts raw, denuded and bleeding. Excessive flow of saliva, which is acrid. Mouth burns and is sore. Cries when anything is offered. Buccal cavity covered with diphtheritic ulcers, also with aphthous patches, which cover the whole mouth and tongue.

It says "stinging," but it is a painful tingling, stinging like the sting of a bee, stinging pains in the throat, and the parts are ulcerated, raw and bleed.

Stools

It has a diarrhoea such as occurs in idiopathic typhoid. If you have ever seen the yellow corn-meal mush when it is dropped on a plate, it has the appearance of the typhoid yellow stools. When this medicine is suitable diarrhoea is yellow like corn-meal; frequent, faecal, thin, mushy, yellow, is the description of this typhoid stool.

There are other times that the stool is dark brown, watery, thin. As is usual, the faeces are acrid. The thin faeces escape from the anus and keep the parts raw and burning. With other complaints, in typhoid especially, in the groin where the thigh bends upon the abdomen an excoriation takes place with acrid moisture.

Again, we notice rawness over the coccyx. A moisture and rawness from acrid fluid in the posterior part of the fissure back of the anus so that over the coccyx and back of the anus there is rawness and acrid moisture.

Voice

The voice comes in for art extensive part of the trouble. It has been found especially to relate to singers and public speakers.

At times when a lawyer has had a long case and he is making a final effort, and has been speaking three or four hours, and while in a sweat has got into a draft or gone out, he finds himself hoarse and cannot finish Ids speech, a dose of Arum triph. will enable him to go on with his speech in a clear voice.

If clears up the hoarseness. In public speakers and singers who have been compelled to strain the voice and have taken a little cold and the voice is hoarse after prolonged exercise; this is the most striking feature of the Arum triph. voice.

"Voice hoarse; from over-exertion of the voice is speaking or singing."

"Voice uncertain, uncontrollable, changing continually, now deep, now hoarse, etc."

It manifests itself in this way. A person starts in a certain pitch and he cannot talk to you, but he tries another pitch and can talk. It is a queer thing that on certain notes they are voiceless, which shows that there is an irregular and patchy inflammation of the vocal cords; it is not a uniform inflammation or the voice would be uniformly affected.

"Clergyman's sore throat," is not a good expression, because it is clergyman's hoarseness that is meant; hoarseness and rawness of the throat of public speakers when talking.

Of course you would say any voice that is hoarse is aggravated when talking, but it is not always so.

The Rhus hoarseness carries with it its characteristic relief from motion, and the use of the voice is motion of the larynx.

When the Rhus patient commences to use the voice he finds that he is hoarse, but after using the voice a little it loosens up, becomes freer, or, in other words, it is better from motion. This may be so either in acute or chronic hoarseness.

Now, in this remedy as in Phosphorus, the voice is ameliorated from clearing the vocal cords of a little mucus. It is not so in Rhus tox., for it is a weakness and paralysis from cold. It is well known under Rhus tox. that the tendons and muscles that are rheumatic become weak, they are stiff on beginning to move and are ameliorated when they are warmed up; so it is with the voice.

Chest

Now, in the chest there is burning and rawness when coughing; this extends to the pit of the stomach.

"Raw feeling in chest."

"Lungs feel sore."

"Soreness in l. lung."

You will notice that many times patients and provers state sufferings are in the lungs, which may not really be the region affected. Most likely from what is known of other symptoms this burning is in the trachea, although it says in the lungs.

This remedy does have burning in the trachea, the whole length of it, during an attack of coughing, and burning in the larger branches of the bronchial tubes. The catarrhal state is largely confined to these parts, the trachea and bronchi, but this medicine has cured pneumonia It has been found useful as a palliative in phthisis.

It is used in crude form among the farmers as a domestic medicine for coughs and colds and as a palliative, in consumption. In many of the farm houses you will find the wild turnip hung up in strings like heads to be dried and, grated and used with sugar and cream.

I mentioned the fact that it seems to favor the left side of the head, the left nostril, the left side of the face. It also prefers the left chest and the left lung. It has soreness in the left side of the chest and left arm. it has a sensation of fullness in the thorax and soreness extending down and involving the left lung.

Here is a clinical picture of fever:

"Typhoid forms of fever; picking ends of fingers and dry lips till they bleed, etc."

In most of these complaints the urine is very scanty and is sometimes suppressed. You will very commonly note a good action of this medicine in these complaints by its immediately starting up a copious flow of urine. It is a sign of relief.

It has upon the skin all the scarlet rash that you would expect to find in scarlet fever, and it has also the typhoid petechiae.