Pothos fœtidus
Hering, The Guiding Symptoms of our Materia Medica, 1879, Vol. VI, p. 137
Skunk Cabbage. Aracese.
Experiment by Below, Amer. Med. Botany, vol. 2, p. 48. Symptoms in Jahr's Symptomatology are from provings by C. Hering and others.
Mind
Cross; impetuous; inclined to contradict.
Absence of mind and inattention; enters sick-room without knocking, does not listen to patient.
Sensorium
Vertigo and dimness of sight.
Inner Head
Headache on 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.
Sight and Eyes
Dimness of sight, with vertigo.
Smell and Nose
The nose is swollen as far as the nasal bones extend, red like a saddle, sore to touch, < 1. side.
Cartilage cold and bloodless, with red spots on cheeks and small pimples on 1. side of face.
Violent sneezing, with pains in palate, fauces and oesophagus to stomach, hurting for a while after in cardiac end of stomach.
Lower Face
Swollen submaxillary glands.
Teeth and Gums
Scurvy.
Taste and Tongue
Numbness of tongue, cannot touch teeth with it.
Papillae elevated.
Tongue red and sore on tip and edges.
Throat
Burning from fauces downwards through chest.
(Esophagus painful on sneezing.
Appetite, Thirst. Desires, Aversions
Inclined so smoke, but it does not taste good.
Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting
Nausea and vomiting.
Scrobiculum and Stomach
\¥ith every firm step, pain in pit of stomach as from something breaking loose.
Abdomen
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. 138
Great urging ; urine darker.
Male Sexual Organs p. 138
▌ Titillation voluptuous, but painful, around corona glands.
▌^ Female Sexual Organs. Amenorrhoea.
Respiration p. 138
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, aggravated or caused by dust. θ Heaves in horses from dusty hay.
Cough p. 138
Spasmodic cough.
││ Senile catarrh.
Inner Chest and Lungs p. 138
Pain in chest and in axillae; seems to have a connection with burning in oesophagus.
Outer Chest p. 138
Pressing pain on sternum.
Neck and Back p. 138
Glands on throat swollen.
Lower Limbs p. 138
Aching along r. cresta tibiae,
Rest. Position. Motion p. 138
With every firm step : pain in pit of stomach as from something breaking loose.
When walking: sensation as if entrails were hanging loose and flabby.
On sneezing: Painfulness in oesophagus.
Nerves p. 138
> Hysterics.
': Epilepsy.
Sleep p. 138
Sleepiness early in evening.
Temperature and Weather p. 138
All complaints disappear in open air.
Locality and Direction p. 138
Right : aching along cresta tibiae.
Left: small pimples on side of face.
Outward: drawing in forehead.
Sensations p. 138
Erratic and spasmodic pains.
Drawing as if from a magnet in forehead; pain in pit of stomach as from something breaking loose; as if entrails were hanging loose and flabby, without pain.
Pain: in palate; in fauces; in oesophagus to stomach ; in pit of stomach; in abdomen here and there in single spots; in chest and in axillae.
Painful titillation: around corona glands.
Pressing pain : in sternum.
Drawing: in forehead, in two lines from protuberances to glabella, where it draws outward as from a magnet.
Pressing: in temples, now in one, then in the other.
Aching: along r. cresta tibiae.
Burning: extends from fauces downwards through chest.
Soreness : of tip and edges of tongue.
Violent pulsation : of arteries of temples.
Expansion and tension : of abdomen.
Constriction : of fauces and chest.
Dulness: in head.
Numbness : of tongue.
Tissues p. 139
Spasmodic asthma; senile catarrh.
▌ Dropsy.
▌ Chronic rheumatism.
Touch. Passive Motion. Injuries p. 139
Touch: nose sore; tongue numb, cannot touch teeth with it.
Skin p. 139
▌ Herpes and cutaneous affections.
Stages of Life, Constitution p. 139
Catarrh of aged persons.
Relations p. 139
Compare; Arum triph., Asaf., Mephit.