Arum triphyllum

Indian Turnip. Aracece.

Keynotes

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, alse, 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 mouth sore, cracked, bleeding (with malignant tendency, Cund.); bites nails until fingers bleed.

Patients pick and bore into the rain bleeding sur- • faces 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 uremia.

The sore mouth and nose are guiding in malignant scarlatina and diphtheria.

Relationship p. 50

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.