Arundo Mauritanica

An Italian Grass. Tincture of the root sprouts.

Proved and introduced by Doctor F. Patti, Chagon a Due de Sorentino; published in J. de la S. Gall., Vol. VII, p. 345, in 1856. Clinical observations from B. Dadea, Compendia Materia Medica Para, Vol. I, p. 282, 1874.

^ Mind. Lascivious ideas.

Laughs easily, a stupid hilarity.

Anxiety diminished in open air.

Anxiety from accumulation of mucus in bronchi.

Dullness of mind and indifference to painful sensations.

Absence of ideas. ^ Sensorium. Vertigo on getting out of bed. ^ Inner Head- Deep-seated pain towards frontal lobes and sides.

Paiiitui undulation in frontal region.

Burning pain in interior head ; pain and heat in forehead.

Pain in r. temple to top of head, makes sleepy.

Sudden formicating pains through temples.

Formication and stupefying pain on top of head, going down to neck.

Deep-seated pains in sides of head.

Pain toward and in occiput.

■ Cephalalgia; hysterical.

* Outer Head. Formication and pricking in forehead ; itching

on different parts. Pustules with red areola, suppurate and form crusts, with

children. Pricking in 1. temple and on top of head. Roots of hairs painful. I I Hair falls off entirely in children. Scurf on the head.

* Sight and Eyes, l ' Inflammation of eyes, in children.

JBlepharitis.

Light intolerable, at noon and evenings.

Luminous objects flutter.

Undulating, luminous openings appear wherever he looks.

Dim vision, things veiled.

Cannot look upwards.

When looking steadily, pricking in orbit.

Pupils dilated.

Pricking pain in vault of orbit ; gets heavy and sleepy.

Pricking, itching and burning in eyes, the 1. worse.

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Itching of conjunctiva; burning pain in sclerotica.

Excrescence on sclerotica.

Lids jacticate, are heavy, red and burning, itch, swollen.

Lachrymation.

Intolerable itching in brow and 1. eye.

Sudden burning in orbit.

Burning, pricking, (1.), formication.

I Catarrhal, rheumatic, or scrofulous ophthalmia. ^ Hearing and Ears. Noise in ears, sound as of little bells.

Pain at base of outer ear (1.).

Formication in 1. external ear.

While children complain they keep fingers in ears.

Pain burning, and intolerable itching in the canals.

Burning, itching in auditory canals coincide with pain in sub- lingual glands.

I I The inflammation of ears commences with shooting pains, begins in the concha, extends to external meatus ; finally, with itching a discharge of blood.

Hemorrhage of bright red blood (1.).

■ Purulent discharge from ears. ^ Smell and Nose. Loss of smell.

Pain at root of nose.

Itching, burning, dryness of Schneiderean membrane.

Burning in inner walls of nose.

Itching in nose ; sneezing.

When sneezing stitches in loins.

iCoryza, with snuffling.

I I In the beginning water runs from the nose, later green mu- cus and thick, white, slimy masses ; with sneezing, pieces of indurated greenish mucus.

Putrid nasal mucus.

Ulcer beneath the reddened nose. ^ Face. Pallor.

Weight on 1. side of face.

Pain in masseter muscles.

Itching, pricking all over ; formication ; with pain in 1. half of face.

Pain and burning in r. cheek.

Erysipelas on r. cheek. ® Lower Part of Face. Pricking on point of chin. ^^ Teeth and Gums. Gums red, sensitive, swollen, bleeding. " Taste, Speech, Tongue. Food insipid.

Sweetish taste in mouth.

Water has a bad taste.

Bitter mouth on waking mornings.

Pain in sublingual glands. See 6. ^^ Inner Mouth. Mouth excoriated in children.

I Stomacace.

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Salivation. ^^ Palate and Throat. Burning, itching and irritation of palate. Eruption of red points on palate in children. Burning and redness in oesophagus. Globus hystericus.

Stoppage of air (from stomach ?) in oesophagus. Obstruction prevents swallowing. Burning and pain on swallowing.

^* Appetite, Thirst, Desires, Aversions. Longing for acids,

acid food. Want of appetite. Constant thirst I I in children ; 1 after w^aking in the morning.

^® Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting. Desire to

belch, but cannot.

Empty belching.

Hiccough.

Attacks of very painful nausea.

Nausea getting up in the morning.

Vomiting of frothy, viscid matter after cough. See 27. ^^ Scrobiculum and Stomach. Coldness in stomach.

Acute pain in pit of stomach ; on pressure pain.

Pain all around epigastrium, pricking through it.

Gastralgia. ^^ Hypochondria. Pain in liver.

ir'ricking in spleen. ^^ Abdomen, Loins and Groins. Acute pain at umbilicus.

Pain in colon, r. and 1.; pricking in it.

Wandering pains through bowels.

Movements in bowels as if caused by a living thing; as of a worm crawling on r. side.

Noise in bowels ; borborygmus. ^

Abundant flatulence.

Bowels painful when pressed by hand.

Pain throughout hypogastrium ; burning and pricking after coughing.

Pain at pubic region.

Stitches in groin.

Pricking and burning heat.

Pain, burning and formication in loins.

Stitches in loins ; stitches when sneezing.

Pricking pains in loins, corresponds to like pains in pit of stomach. ^^ Rectum and Stools. I Intestinal catarrh.

I I The stools at first hard, soon become loose. ■ Constant diarrhoea of nursing children.

I I Serious diarrhoea with teething children. Liquid diarrhoea in children, with red blood. Blood streaked ; loose stools.

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Diarrhoea with bearing down.

Greenish diarrhoea.

Hard, greenish stools.

Constipation.

Descent of hemorrhoids before the stool.

Stools followed by burning at anus.

Burning piles.

Pricking in anus.

Hemorrhoids, with prolapsus recti. 2^ Urinary Organs. Nephritic pains.

Pricking in bladder.

Red urine with sandy sediment.

Urine deposits a great deal of red sand. Compare : Lycop.

After urinating, weight ; burning, itching in urethra. ^^ Male Sexual Organs. Sexual desire ; lascivious ideas ; fre- quent erections.

Pain in spermatic .cords after coition.

Difficult breathing during coition. 2^ Female Sexual Organs. ■ Uterine catarrh.

Violent desire for coition, or aversion to it.

Pricking pain in uterus.

Pain in uterus with meteorism before catamenia.

Menses too early and very profuse.

Long-lasting menses.

Hemorrhage of black, clotted blood.

Leucorrhoea.

Pricking pains in the vulva.

Heat, with formication beginning at the loins, rising to shoul- ders, and extending to hands..

Pain starting from 1. side of jaw, running along 1. eyebrow, thence extending to shoulders and loins, finally settling on pubis, burning there like fire.

Pains in the loins, with a cough.

Pain in loins before first menstruation.

Painful constriction of pubis and loins, prevents walking.

Pain beginning in kidneys, passing on to lumbar region and ex- tending to the pubis.

Burning pain from kidneys passing through left ileum to the pubis. " Pregnancy and Parturition. Excessive secretion of milk, causes pain in 1. breast.

Burning and pain in nipples.

Prickings under the 1. breast.

■ Teething children. See 20. ^^ Voice and Larynx. Larynx obstructed after coughing. See 27.

Morning hoarseness.

Loss of voice in an instant.

Bronchial catarrh.

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Respiration. Whistling, etc., in the bronchi when breathing*

Short, difficult breathing ; also during coition, or on walking going up stairs.

Suflfocative paroxysm.

Attacks of dyspnoea, with profuse sweat. " Cough. 1 Catarrhal cough.

Sputa in the beginning bluish, then white, and so alternately.

After expectorating, bruised feeling in pit of throat.

Rattling during the cough.

After cough, burning in hypogastrium.

After coughing, larynx obstructed, prevents wind and sputa from coming up, causing afterwards vomiting of frothy, vis- cid matter.

Cough at noon, midday and evenings.

Dry cough evenings, with pains in pit of stomach, with viscid vomiting ; followed by burning at pit of throat.

Expectoration difficult, early mornings.

Sputa whitish ; round, ash-colored clots. ^^ Inner Chest and Lungs. Accumulation of mucus in the bron- chi causes anxiety.

Pain in chest ; pricking in chest ; under clavicles.

Formication in chest.

Pain in r. side, towards midnight. ^^ Heart, Pulse and Circulation. 1 1 Pulse rises to 90, later lessening.

Abnormal movements of heart ; oppression of it.

Pricking in the arteries. ^^ Neck and Back. Startings in the neck ; formicating pain on 1. side of it.

Feeling.as of a worm crawling on the neck.

Acute pain under 1. scapula.

Lumbago. ^^ Upper Limbs. Pain in the scapulae.

Pricking in axilla.

Weakness of arms, acute pain ; formication.

Coldness in shoulders, in both arms ; heat and heaviness in 1. arm.

Burning pain passing from arm to wrist, from there to fore- finger, and then to thumb.

Burning pain in elbows.

Pain beginning in elbow, ending in ring finger.

Pain in r. wrist, and burning heat in one or the other.

Burning, jerking pain in r. wrist.

Formicative pain, with heaviness in 1. wrist.

Stiffness pf hands.

Oedema of hands, especially in children.

Burning pain in both hands, as if plunged in boiling water.

Formication in hands.

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Pain in fingers ; in the metacarpal joints and first phalanges.

Burning pain in r. thumb.

Pricking in finger tips. ^^ Lower Limbs. Towards midday attack of pain extends to loins, knee and foot.

I 1 CEdema of the lower limbs.

General redness of legs owing to an eruption of very small points, with violent itching.

Burning pain from hip to heel, like sciatica.

Weakness of thighs and legs.

Burning stitches in thigh.

Swelling of knees.

Weakness of knees.

Pain in knees, afternoons.

Burning pain in knees.

Cramps in knees, often with a sensation of heat.

Stitches in knees.

Pain in 1. calf, most when standing up or when walking.

Cramps in legs.

Burning pain in heels ; pricking in heels.

Qlidema of feet in children.

(Edema of feet and ankles, worse on movement.

Copious and offensive sweat of the feet.

Burning and swelling of soles, as after a long journey.

Beating and burning heat in soles.

Burning stitches in toes. ^* Limbs in General, i i (Edema of limbs.

Pain in limbs as if tightly bandaged.

Formicating pains rising from loins to shoulders and settling on 1. clavicle. ^^ Rest. Position. Motion. When walking and going up stairs, difficult breathing.

When standing, pain in 1. calf. ^® Nerves. Twitchings and inclination to yawn.

Hysteria. ^^ Sleep, Sleepiness in daytime.

Sleeps by day ; sleepless at night.

Sleepiness, with burning in eyes.

Sleeplessness and weeping at night, in children ; excessive heat.

On waking, bitter mouth ; after waking, thirst.

Getting up in the morning, vertigo.

On waking, nausea, hoarseness. ^^ Time. Towards noon : attack of pain.

At noon : shunning of light; cough.

Most eff"ects from noon till evening.

Afternoon : pain in knees.

Evening : shunning light ; cough ; dry cough, etc.

Morning : easy expectoration.

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Before midnight, quotidian ; toward midnight, pain in r. side of chest.

^^ Temperature and Weather. Desire for open air with the

rises from the loins, passes over shoulders and then invades

the middle of head and face, in women. Heat with formication, beginning in loins, rising to face, where

it is preceded by perspiration, in women. Constant sensation of heat ; is burnt in the sun and frozen in

Tendency to sweat ; motion causes profuse sweat. Fever ends Avith sweat, most on shoulders and chest, sometimes

with vertigo.

*^ Locality and Direction. Acts most on the lel't side.

canals ; in nose ; in r. cheek ; of palate ; in oesophagus ; in

hypogastrium ; piles ; in urethra ; from kidneys through to

pubis ; in nipples ; in arms and hands ; in elbows ; in r.

wrist ; in r. thumb ; from hip to heel ; in thigh ; in knees ;

in heels ; of soles ; in toes. Pricking : in 1. temple ; in vertex ; in orbit ; in eyes ; in face ;

on point of chin ; through epigastrium ; in spleen ; in colon ;

in hypogastrium ; in loins ; in anus ; in bladder ; in uterus ;

in vulva ; under 1. breast ; in chest ; in arteries ; in finger

in 1. eye ; in 1. ear ; from loins to shoulders ; in chest ; in

arms ; in hands : on 1. clavicle.

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Undefined pain : frontal lobes and sides of brain ; in forehead ; in r. temple to top of head ; in occiput ; at base of ear ; at root of nose; in masseter muscles; in sublingual glands; around epigastrium ; in liver; in colon; in ' hypogastrium ; at pubic region ; in kidneys ; in spermatic cords ; in loins ; in nipples ; in chest ; in arms and hands ; in knees ; in 1. calf.

Coldness : in stomach.

Itching: on head; in eyes; of lids ; in brow; in auditory; in nose ; in face ; of palate ; in urethra ; eruptions. ■*^ Tissues. Mucous membranes of eyes, ears, nose, palate, etc.

I Acute and chronic catarrhs.

Pains and prickings in the glands. ^® Skin. Feeling as of an insect crawling over loins, shoulders, and sometimes the entire surface of body.

Redness of skin, like a birth-mark.

Skin in children turns blue at the height of fever.

Eruptions resembling itch on breast, in children, and also be- hind the ears.

Itching papular eruption in children.

Erysipelas on various parts of body.

Itching miliary eruption on loins.

Pustules like of scabies, with intolerable itching, discharge when opened by friction a watery fluid.

Suppurating pimples on chest and arms. ^^ Stages of Life, Constitution. l Diseases of women and

children. *^ Relationship. No graminese are known by their morbid in- fluence, except some poisoning symptoms of Lolium.

Ananth. has been proved by Houat, but we have no trustworthy cures. Saccli. off. is well known by provings and cures, but has no similarity with any tincture of roots.

The disjunctive similars are principally Sulphur, Calc. ost., and Lycop., one of the principal family in our armamentarium.

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