Ictodes Fœtida

Pothos foetidus. Symplocarpus foetidus. Skim-weed. Skunk Cabbage. AT.O. Orontiaceae (Calliaceae, Orontoidae, allied to Araceae). Tincture of whole fresh plant — including root. Cllldol.— -Asthma. Catarrh. Cough. Dropsy. Herpes. Hysteria. Rheum-

Characteristics

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 cou and skin affections are common to Idod. and the Arums. Motion <. All complaints > in open air. Asthma is < or caused by dust

Relations p. 5

Compare : Arum t, Asaf., Meph.

Mind p. 5

Cross; impetuous; inclined to contradict. — Absence of mind and inattention ; enters sick-room without knocking, does not listen to patient 2. Head .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.

Nose p. 5

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 oesophagus to stomach, hurting for a while after in cardiac end of stomach.

Face p. 5

Swollen submaxillary glands.

Teeth p. 5

Scurvy.

Mouth p. 5

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

Throat p. 5

Burning from fauces downwards through chest — C£so* phagus painful on sneezing. ID. Appetite. — Inclined to smoke, but it does not taste good.

Stomach p. 5

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

Abdomen p. 5

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.

Urinary Organs p. 5

Great urging ; urine darker.

Male Sexual Organs p. 5

Titillation, voluptuous but painful, around corona glands.

Female Sexual Organs p. 5

Amenorrhoea.

Respiratory Organs p. 5

Spasmodic asthma.— Sudden anxiety, with dyspnoea 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.

Chest p. 5

Pain in chest and in axillae ; seems to have a connection with burning in CBSophagus. — Pressing pain in sternum. ICTODES FOETIDA— IGNATIA 23. Lo'wer Limtbs. — Aching along r. crista tibiae. .

Generalities p. 6

Hysterics. — Epilepsy. — Erratic and spasmodic pains.

Skin p. 6

Herpes and cutaneous affections.