Anantherum

Anantherum muricatum. Andropogon muricatus. Andropogon squarrosus. Cuscus grass. Vetiver or Viti-var. A medicinal grass cultivated in the Markarentas Islands (E. Ind.). (Houat) N. O. Gramineae. Tincture of root. Qtiitesl. — Abscesses. Aphonia. Boils. Cancer. Erysipelas. Glandular inflammation. Hydrophobia. Sycosis. Syphilis. Tic convulsif . Tic douleureux. Tumours. Ulcers.

Characteristics

Anantherum produces a state of drunkenness. Severe neuralgic headache ; as if bells moved about in head ; as of steel arrows from forehead to nape. Pains in facial bones as if crushed or ulcerated. Convulsive tic. Ulcers at labial commissures (syphilis). Swelling of tonsils, constriction of throat, inability to swallow. Plugged sensation. Burning and stitches. Thirsty but cannot drink. Burning heat alternating with icy coldness in gullet : as of something alive in gullet. Involuntary urination when walking and during sleep. Venereal appetite increased by every attempt to satisfy it until driven to onanism and madness. Tumour of breast, ulcerated, indurated. Abscesses, boils ; glandular swellings (especially of sub-maxillary and cervical glands). Herpes. Herpes and offers or scabs on scalp. Tumours. Wart-like growths on eyebrows. Falling off of eyebrows and beard. Chancre-Tike ulcers on penis. Pustules like small-pox on vulva. Abscesses, ulcers, and fissures on arms and bands. Eruptions like itch or lichen. "Erysipelas with much swelling of arms and legs, dark red or bluish eruptions, with tendency to suppurate " (Farrington). Formication as of ants. Ulcers yellowish, violet, swollen, everted, syphilitic. Discharges from ulcers are foul ; foul breath and eructations. Coffee at first <, later > . Wine and coffee < toothache.