====== ARUM DRACONTIUM ======
{{anchor:s1}}Arum Dracontium.
{{anchor:s2}}Green Dragon. {{anchor:s3}}Araceae.
{{anchor:s4}}Proved by Dr. C. P. Hart, of Wyoming, Ohio. {{anchor:s5}}Published in the Am. Hom. Observer, 1875; afterwards by E. M. Hale, in United States Medical Investigator, vol. {{anchor:s6}}IX, No. 3, P. 103. Also by Dr. M. McFarlan. {{anchor:s7}}The remarkable cure of Asthma Millari was communicated by Dr. F. F. Frantz, of Lancaster.
====== MIND. [1] ======
{{anchor:s9}}Great languor and depression of spirits, with asthma at night.
====== INNER HEAD. [3] ======
{{anchor:s11}}Head feels heavy and aches slightly in occipital and right parietal regions; next morning dull, heavy aching in head and chest, with asthma at night.\\ {{anchor:s12}}Had one of the characteristic pains in left side of head; began in left occipital region, gradually subsided, reappeared successively in left temporal and left frontal regions.
====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ======
{{anchor:s14}}Aching pain over left eye, pain transient; conjunctiva highly injected.\\ {{anchor:s15}}Eyelids dry, stiff, and slightly agglutinated at their edges, which burn and smart.\\ {{anchor:s16}}Heat, dryness and smarting of lids; 3 P. M.
====== HEARING AND EARS. [6] ======
{{anchor:s18}}Shooting pains in right ear at 8 A. M., half an hour after breakfast, transient, but frequent, leaving a feeling of fullness and slight aching in middle ear; next day changed to left ear.\\ {{anchor:s19}}Feeling of warmth and fullness in ears, one or other side, seldom in both at once; swallowing renews it temporarily.\\ {{anchor:s20}}Aching pain behind right ear.\\ {{anchor:s21}}Shooting pains in right ear, sometimes very severe; deep shooting frequently, and for ten, fifteen minutes, only occasionally in left.\\ {{anchor:s22}}Mucus in left eustachian tube. {{anchor:s23}}See 13.\\ {{anchor:s24}}A pressure below ears, behind lower jaws.
====== SMELL AND NOSE. [7] ======
{{anchor:s26}}Sneezing. {{anchor:s27}}~ Asthma Millari.\\ {{anchor:s28}}Eruption of pimples; lichen.
====== UPPER FACE. [8] ======
{{anchor:s30}}Slight aching in right malar region; next morning, 9 A. M. See 38.\\ {{anchor:s31}}Flushing of hands and face.
====== TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] ======
{{anchor:s33}}Aphthous ulcer on tongue; next day mouth and throat became very sore.\\ {{anchor:s34}}Bad taste in mouth in morning.\\ {{anchor:s35}}Tongue and mouth coated with a foul, slimy mucus, having a putrid taste.
====== INNER MOUTH. [12] ======
{{anchor:s37}}Peculiar acrid sensation in mouth and throat.\\ {{anchor:s38}}Bad taste in mouth.
====== PALATE AND THROAT. [13] ======
{{anchor:s40}}Swallowing develops a slight soreness in muscles of throat and renews temporarily feeling of warmth and fullness in ears, sometimes in one sometimes in another.\\ {{anchor:s41}}Disposition to swallow, arising from an excess of mucus; without unpleasant, acrid sensation as expected.\\ {{anchor:s42}}A slight uneasiness in throat, and disposition to cough.\\ {{anchor:s43}}Accumulation of mucus in throat.\\ {{anchor:s44}}Dry soreness, most when swallowing.\\ {{anchor:s45}}Dryness and smarting in throat, rawness and fullness, not painful, but annoying, attracting constant attention.\\ {{anchor:s46}}Hawking.\\ {{anchor:s47}}Continual disposition to clear throat by swallowing and coughing.\\ {{anchor:s48}}Throat raw and tender.\\ {{anchor:s49}}Constant rawness of throat; constant coughing, with mucus in morning.\\ {{anchor:s50}}Rawness of throat and purulent sputa.\\ {{anchor:s51}}Throat feels somewhat raw, and there is a rattling of mucus.\\ {{anchor:s52}}Rawness in throat present on retiring, but disappeared when asthmatic attacks began.\\ {{anchor:s53}}Soreness of throat, with loose cough; closely simulating a mild attack of catarrhal angina, soreness most when swallowing.\\ {{anchor:s54}}A feeling of dryness and smarting, kind of rawness with a sense of fullness, not really painful, but sufficiently annoying, it attracts constant attention, and produces a continual disposition to clear throat by swallowing, coughing or hawking.
====== HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] ======
{{anchor:s56}}Eructation of flatus tasting of drug.
====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ======
{{anchor:s58}}Sinking feeling in pit of stomach.
====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ======
{{anchor:s60}}Pain in bowels from incarceration of flatus.\\ {{anchor:s61}}Rumbling in abdomen.
====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ======
{{anchor:s63}}Escape of flatus from stomach and bowels.\\ {{anchor:s64}}Copious, semi-liquid stool, with much flatus.\\ {{anchor:s65}}Bilious passages, attended with aching in abdomen and burning in rectum; borborygmus and escape of much flatus from bowels.
====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ======
{{anchor:s67}}Irresistible desire to pass urine, which is diminished in quantity, very highly colored and has a burning or smarting effect on urethra.\\ {{anchor:s68}}Frequent, copious emissions of limpid urine; 2d day.\\ {{anchor:s69}}Inclination to urinate every hour or so during day.\\ {{anchor:s70}}Urine increased to four or five times normal amount.\\ {{anchor:s71}}Tenderness and slight smarting or burning of orifice of urethra, especially during micturition.
====== MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] ======
{{anchor:s73}}Great diminution, mostly an entire absence of sexual desire.\\ {{anchor:s74}}Penis flaccid and relaxed.\\ {{anchor:s75}}Fine shooting pains in course of left spermatic cord.\\ {{anchor:s76}}Chronic pruritus scroti of twelve years' standing.
====== VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] ======
{{anchor:s79}}Hoarseness on awaking in morning.\\ {{anchor:s80}}Hoarseness; expectorates thick mucus.\\ {{anchor:s81}}Rattling of mucus in larynx at every full expiration, which disappears in moving.\\ {{anchor:s82}}Excess of mucus in larynx (See 13); increased soreness of larynx and great disposition to cough.\\ {{anchor:s83}}Rattling of mucus in larynx during expectoration, ceasing on rising, except expirations are prolonged by voluntary effort.\\ {{anchor:s84}}Very much annoyed by gravity and persistence of laryngeal symptoms; its influence is deep-seated and permanent on larynx.\\ {{anchor:s85}}As if larynx were partly obstructed. {{anchor:s86}}~ Asthma Millari.
====== RESPIRATION. [26] ======
{{anchor:s88}}About midnight great oppression of breathing, soon passing off, leaving considerable rattling of mucus in larynx and upper part of trachea.\\ {{anchor:s89}}Awakes about midnight with great oppression of breathing, a kind of asthmatic attack, soon passing off.\\ {{anchor:s90}}Paroxysms of dyspnea occurring sometimes, with much aching in chest, and always with considerable secretion of mucus in larynx and trachea.\\ {{anchor:s91}}Violent asthmatic attack at night; after a full dose on 19th day, lighter each preceding night for a week.\\ {{anchor:s92}}Asthmatic attacks at night, from a cold, which had resisted Colchic. and Ant. tart.\\ {{anchor:s93}}Oppressed asthmatic breathing, as if larynx was partly obstructed. {{anchor:s94}}~ Asthma Millari.\\ {{anchor:s95}}At midnight suddenly seized with labored breathing, followed in 15 or 20 minutes by croup-like cough; coughs until exhausted (about 3 minutes), then violent inspirations and no expirations until lungs are expanded to their fullest extent, when breathing ceases, feces would be expelled, cold sweat breaks out all over body; this breathless condition lasts from 1 to 12 minutes, and is followed by an interval of from half to three quarters of an hour, in which there is considerable rattling of mucus in larynx and some in lungs; three or four attacks up to 2 or 3 A. M. ~ Asthma Millari.
====== COUGH. [27] ======
{{anchor:s97}}Disposition to cough. {{anchor:s98}}See 13.\\ {{anchor:s99}}Loose cough, with dry soreness of throat, like catarrh; for a week troubled with an annoying cough and rattling of mucus; agg. at night lying down.\\ {{anchor:s100}}Expectoration thick, heavy, yellowish-white, with continuation of a violent cough.\\ {{anchor:s101}}Annoying cough, with rattling in larynx.\\ {{anchor:s102}}Cough from laryngeal irritation, agg. at night and when lying down.\\ {{anchor:s103}}Croupy cough, with hoarseness and rawness of throat, during an epidemic influenza.\\ {{anchor:s104}}Hoarse, croupy cough, with sore throat, rattling laryngeal respiration, and considerable swelling of air passages, threatening suffocation; child, aet 3.
====== HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] ======
{{anchor:s106}}Pulse 80, full, hard, somewhat jerking, which soon becomes small and irregular.\\ {{anchor:s107}}Artery seems to roll under finger, requiring considerable pressure in order to be correctly counted.\\ {{anchor:s108}}Pulse becomes feeble after a large dose; 3d day, 84, small, somewhat irregular.\\ {{anchor:s109}}Heart beats so violently as to shake walls of chest (after 5 minutes).\\ {{anchor:s110}}With increased heart's action aching in precordial region and down left arm, flushing of hands and face.\\ {{anchor:s111}}Slight aching pain in precordial region and down left arm.
====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ======
{{anchor:s113}}Shooting pains in left anterior and inferior triangle of neck, near clavicle.\\ {{anchor:s114}}Aching along spine, most between shoulder blades and in lumbar region.\\ {{anchor:s115}}Great weakness across loins; feeling of extreme prostration continuing to increase, had to retire early.
====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ======
{{anchor:s117}}Tingling, or slight stinging sensation in fingers, as when circulation is impeded.\\ {{anchor:s118}}Fine tingling sensation all over right hand, which is warmer and redder than left, and appears somewhat swollen.\\ {{anchor:s119}}Aching pain in left forearm, left hand, and right humerus; right hand remains red and swollen.\\ {{anchor:s120}}Shooting and aching pains in left brachial plexus of nerves.\\ {{anchor:s121}}Sharp, shooting pains at styloid process of right ulna.
====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ======
{{anchor:s123}}Tingling, or slight stinging sensation in toes, as when circulation is impeded.\\ {{anchor:s124}}Shooting pain down right thigh.\\ {{anchor:s125}}Burning of soles of feet; 3 P. M., 2d day.
====== LIMBS IN GENERAL. [34] ======
{{anchor:s127}}Fine picking or tingling sensation in feet and hands, beginning in right foot, afterwards attacking in regular succession right hand, left foot and left hand.\\ {{anchor:s128}}Aching pain along outer aspect of left foot, immediately followed by a similar pain in corresponding part of left hand.
====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ======
{{anchor:s132}}Lying down: cough agg.\\ {{anchor:s133}}Swallowing: fullness in ears; soreness in throat agg.\\ {{anchor:s134}}Motion: rattling mucus in larynx disappears.
====== NERVES. [36] ======
{{anchor:s136}}Feeling of extreme prostration.
====== SLEEP. [37] ======
{{anchor:s138}}Awakes about midnight with asthma.
====== TIME. [38] ======
{{anchor:s140}}Morning: dull headache; bad taste; coughing; hoarseness; rattling of mucus amel.\\ {{anchor:s141}}At 8 A. M.: pains in ears.\\ {{anchor:s142}}At 9 A. M.: face and hands flush.\\ {{anchor:s143}}At 3 P. M.: eyelids smart; feet burn.\\ {{anchor:s144}}Night: asthma; cough agg.\\ {{anchor:s145}}Midnight: breathing oppressed; asthma.
====== FEVER. [40] ======
{{anchor:s147}}Heat in palms of hands.\\ {{anchor:s148}}Burning of soles of feet.
====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ======
{{anchor:s150}}Attacks at intervals of a week or ten days, as many as three or four between 12 and 2 A. M.; at one time attacks every night for six weeks. {{anchor:s151}}~ Asthma Millari.
====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ======
{{anchor:s153}}Right: parietal headache; pain in ear; ache in malar region; tingling in hand; hand swollen and red; pain in thigh.\\ {{anchor:s154}}Left: pain in head; pain in ear; pain over eye; mucus in eustachian tube; pain in spermatic cord; aching in arms; pains in neck; tingling in hand; aching in foot and hand.
====== SENSATIONS. [43] ======
{{anchor:s156}}As if larynx was partly obstructed.\\ {{anchor:s157}}Shooting: in right ear; in spermatic cord; in neck; near clavicle; down right thigh; in left anterior triangle of neck; down right thigh.\\ {{anchor:s158}}Burning: of eyelids; in rectum; in urethra; of soles of feet.\\ {{anchor:s159}}Stinging: in fingers and toes.\\ {{anchor:s160}}Smarting: of lids; in throat; of orifice of urethra.\\ {{anchor:s161}}Acrid sensation: in mouth and throat.\\ {{anchor:s162}}Rawness: in throat.\\ {{anchor:s163}}Heavy aching: in head and chest.\\ {{anchor:s164}}Aching: over left eye; in middle ear; behind right ear; in right malar region; in abdomen; in chest; along spine; in foot and head; in precordial region; down left arm.\\ {{anchor:s165}}Dull pain: in head and chest.\\ {{anchor:s166}}Pressure: below ears.\\ {{anchor:s167}}Fullness: in middle ear; in ears; in throat.\\ {{anchor:s168}}Undefined pain: across forehead; in bowels.\\ {{anchor:s169}}Sinking: in pit of stomach.\\ {{anchor:s170}}Pricking: in feet and hands.\\ {{anchor:s171}}Tingling: in fingers; in feet and hands.\\ {{anchor:s172}}Dryness: in throat; of lids.
====== SKIN. [46] ======
{{anchor:s174}}Urticaria and other eruptions, probably neurotic Compare Calad.
====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ======
{{anchor:s176}}Boy, aet. 4 years and 9 months. {{anchor:s177}}~ Asthma Millari.
====== RELATIONS. [48] ======
{{anchor:s179}}Aqua chlor. relieved spasms of glottis, but prolonged the attacks. {{anchor:s180}}~ Asthma Millari.\\ {{anchor:s181}}Useful after Colchic. and Ant. tart. in asthma.\\ {{anchor:s182}}Compare: Calad. in skin affections.
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====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ======
^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 02, 1880 |
^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r572|Arum dracontium]] |
^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r572|Arum dracontium]] |
^ Author: | Hering, C. |
^ Year: | 1880 |
^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting |
^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}