Arum Dracontium

Green Dragon. Aracece.

Proved by Dr. C. P. Hart, of Wyoming, Ohio. Published in the Am. Horn. Observer, 1875 ; afterwards by E. M. Hale, in United States Medical Investigator, Val. IX., No. 3, p. 103. Also by Dr. M. McFarlan. The remarkable cure of Asthma Millari was communicated by Dr. F. F. Franz, of Lancaster.

Mind

Great languor and depression of spirits, with asthma at night.

Inner Head

Head feels heavy and aches slightly in occipital and r. parietal regions ; next morning dull, heavy aching in head and chest, with asthma at night.

Had one of the characteristic pains in the 1. side of head ; began in 1. occipital region, gradually subsided, reappeared successively in 1. temporal and 1. frontal regions.

Sight and Eyes

Aching pain over 1. eye, pain transient ; conjunctiva highly injected.

Eyelids dry, stiff, and slightly agglutinated at their edges, which burn and smart.

Heat, dryness and smarting of lids ; 3 p.m.

Hearing and Ears

Shooting pains in r. ear at 8 a.m., half an hour after breakfast, transient, but frequent, leaving a I I feeling of fullness and slight aching in middle ear ; next day changed to 1. ear.

Feeling of warmth and fullness in ears, one or other side, seldom in both at once ; swallowing renews it temporarily.

Aching pain behind r. ear.

││ Shooting pains in r. ear, sometimes very severe ; deep shooting frequently, and for ten, fifteen minutes, only occasionally in left.

Mucus in 1. eustachian tube. See 13.

A pressure below the ears, behind lower jaws.

Smell and Nose p. 155

Sneezing. θ Asthma Millari.

Eruption of pimples ; lichen.

^ Face. Slight aching in r. malar region ; next morning, 9 a.m.

Flushing of hands and face.

Taste and Tongue p. 155

Aphthous ulcer on the tongue ; next day mouth and throat become very sore.

Bad taste in mouth in the morning.

Tongue and mouth coated with a foul, slimy mucus, having a putrid taste.

Inner Mouth p. 155

││ Peculiar, acrid sensation in mouth and throat.

Bad taste in the mouth.

Palate and Throat p. 155

Swallowing develops a slight soreness in muscles of throat and renews temporarily the feeling of warmth and fullness in the ears, sometimes in one sometimes in another.

Disposition to swallow, arising from an excess of mucus ; without the unpleasant, acrid sensation as expected.

A slight uneasiness in throat, and disposition to cough.

Accumulation of mucus in the throat.

Dry soreness, most when swallowing.

▌ Dryness and smarting in throat, rawness and fullness, not painful, but annoying, attracting constant attention.

▌ Hawking.

▌ Continual disposition to clear the throat by swallowing and coughing.

▌ Throat raw and tender.

││ Constant rawness of the throat ; constant coughing, with mucus in the morning.

Rawness of throat and purulent sputa.

Throat feels somewhat raw, and there is a rattling of mucus.

Rawness in throat present on retiring, but disappeared when asthmatic attacks began.

Soreness of throat, with loose cough ; closely simulating a mild attack of catarrhal angina, soreness most when swallowing.

││ 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 the throat by swallowing, coughing or hawking.

Belching p. 155

Eructation of flatus tasting of the drug.

Stomach p. 155

Sinking feeling in pit of stomach.

Abdomen p. 155

Pain in bowels from incarceration of flatus.

Rumbling in abdomen.

Scrobiculum and Stomach p. 155

Escape of flatus from stomach and bowels.

Copious, semi-liquid stool, with much flatus.

Bilious passages, attended with aching in abdomen and burning in rectum ; borborygmus and escape of much flatus from bowels.

Urine p. 156

Irresistible desire to pass urine, which is diminished in quantity, very highly colored, and has a burning or smarting effect on urethra.

Frequent, copious emissions of limpid urine; 2d day.

Inclination to urinate every hour or so during the day.

Urine increased to four or five times the normal amount.

Tenderness and slight smarting or burning of orifice of urethra, especially during micturition.

Male Sexual Organs p. 156

Great diminution, mostly an entire absence of sexual desire.

││ Penis flaccid and relaxed.

Fine shooting pains in course of 1. spermatic cord.

▌ Chronic pruritus scroti of twelve years standing.

Voice p. 156

and Larynx, Hoarseness on awaking in morning.

▌ Hoarseness; expectorates thick mucus.

Rattling of mucus in larynx at every full expiration, which disappears in moving.

Excess of mucus in larynx (see 13); increased I I soreness of larynx and great disposition to cough.

Rattling of mucus in larynx during expectoration, ceasing on rising, except expiration are prolonged by voluntary effort.

Very much annoyed by the gravity and persistence of laryngeal symptoms ; its influence is deep-seated and permanent on the larynx.

▌ As if larynx were partly obstructed. θ Asthma Millari. ^^

Respiration p. 156

About midnight great oppression of breathing, soon passing off, leaving considerable rattling of mucus in larynx and upper part of trachea.

││ Paroxysms of dyspnoea, sometimes with much aching in chest,

│ always with much mucus in larynx and trachea.

││ Awakes about midnight with great oppression of breathing, a kind of asthmatic attack, soon passing off.

││ Paroxysms of dyspnoea occurring sometimes, with much aching in chest, and always with considerable secretion of mucus in larynx and trachea.

││ Violent asthmatic attack at night; after a full dose on the 19th day, lighter each preceding night for a week.

▌ Asthmatic attacks at night, from a cold, which had resisted Colchic. and Ant. tart.

│ Oppressed asthmatic breathing, as if larynx were partly obstructed, θ Asthma Millari.

▌ 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

▌ to 12 minutes, and is followed by an interval of from half 10 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. θ Asthma Millari.

Cough p. 157

Disposition to cough. See 13.

Loose cough, with dry soreness of throat, like catarrh; for a week troubled with an annoying cough and rattling of mucus ; worse at night lying down.

││ Expectoration thick, heavy, yellowish-white, with continuation of a violent cough.

││ Annoying cough, with rattling in larynx.

Cough from laryngeal irritation, worse at night and when lying down.

▌ Croupy cough, with hoarseness and rawness of throat, during an epidemic influenza.

▌ Hoarse, croupy cough, with sore throat, rattling laryngeal respiration, and considerable swelling of the air passages, threatening suffocation ; child set. 3.

Heart, Pulse and Circulation p. 157

Pulse 80, full, hard, somewhat jerking, which soon becomes small and irregular.

Artery seems to roll under the finger, requiring considerable pressure in order to be correctly counted.

Pulse becomes feeble after a large dose; 3d day, 84, small, somewhat irregular.

Heart beats, so violently as to shake the walls of the chest (after 5 minutes).

With increased heart's action aching in praecordial region and down the 1. arm ; flushing of hands and face.

Slight aching pain in preecordial region and down 1. arm.

Neck and Back p. 157

Shooting pains in 1. anterior inferior triangle of neck, near clavicle.

Aching along the spine, most between shoulder-blades and in lumbar region.

Great weakness across the loins ; feeling of extreme prostration continuing to increase, had to retire early.

Upper Limbs p. 157

Tingling, or slight stinging sensation in fingers, as when circulation is impeded.

Fine tingling sensation all over the r. hand, which is warmer and redder than the 1., and appears somewhat swollen.

Aching pain in 1. forearm, 1. hand, and r. humerus; r. hand remains red and swollen.

Shooting and aching pains in 1. brachial plexus of nerves.

Sharp, shooting pains at the styloid process of r, ulna.

Lower Limbs p. 157

Tingling, or slight stinging sensation in toes, as when circulation is impeded.

Shooting pain down the r. thigh.

Burning of the soles of the feet ; 3 p.m., 2d day.

Limbs in General p. 158

Fine picking or tingling sensation in feet and hands, beginning in r. foot, afterwards attacking in regular succession r. hand, 1. foot and 1. hand.

Aching pain along outer aspect of 1. foot, immediately followed by a similar pain in the corresponding part of 1. hand.

Rest. Position. Motion p. 158

Ikying down : cough worse.

Swallowing : fullness in ears ; soreness in throat worse.

Nerves p. 158

Feeling of extreme prostration.

Sleep p. 158

Awakes about midnight with asthma.

Time p. 158

Morning : dull headache ; bad taste ; coughing ; hoarseness ; rattling of mucus better.

8 A.M. : pains in ears.

9 A.M. : face and hands flush.

3 P.M. : eyelids smart; feet burn.

Night : asthma ; cough worse.

Midnight : breathing oppressed ; asthma.

Chill. Fever. Sweat p. 158

Heat in palms of hands.

Burning of soles of feet.

Attacks p. 158

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, θ Asthma Millari.

Locality and Direction p. 158

Right : parietal headache ; pain in ear ; ache in malar region ; tingling in hand ; hand swollen and red ; pain in thigh.

Left : pain in head ; pain in ear ; mucus in eustachian tube ; pain in spermatic cord ; aching in arms ; pains in neck ; tingling in hand; aching in foot and hand.

Sensations p. 158

Shooting ; in r. ear ; in spermatic cord ; in neck, near clavicle ; down r. thigh.

Burning : of eyelids ; in rectum ; in urethra ; of soles of feet.

Smarting : of lids ; in throat ; of orifice of urethra.

Acrid sensation : in mouth and throat.

Rawness : in throat.

Heavy aching : in head and chest.

Aching : over 1. eye ; in middle ear ; behind r. ear ; in r. malar region; in abdomen; in chest; along the spine; in foot and head.

Dull pain : in head and chest.

Pressure : below ears.

Fullness : in middle ear ; in ears ; in throat.

Undefined pain : across forehead.

Tingling : in fingers ; in feet and hands.

Dryness : in throat.

Skin p. 158

Urticaria and other eruptions, probably neurotic. Compare Calad.

Stages of Life, Constitution p. 158

'Boy, set. 4 years and 9 months. θ Asthma Millari.

Relations p. 159

▌ Aqua chlor. relieved the spasms of glottis, but prolonged the attacks. θ Asthma Millari.

Useful after Colchic. and Ant. tart, in asthma.

Compare : Calad. in skin affections.