Arum Dracunculus

A. dracunculus, Willd. Nat order , Araceae. Preparation , Tincture from the root.

Authority. 1 , Journ. d. l. Soc. Gal., IV, 114: effects of cutting and pounding the root; Dr. Demeures; 2 , Bibliothèque Homoeopathique, III, 192, effects of tearing up the leaves and stems; Dr. Pitet.

Styptic and metallic taste, mingled with bitterness at the back of the mouth, [1] .

Prickings as with thorns in the fingers of the right hand, [1] .

Feeling as if the hand were plunged among nettles, [1] . On rubbing the fingers together, sensation as if a vast number of stings were driven perpendicularly into them, [1] . Pain in the right index finger, as if it were forcibly pulled, [1] .

Pricking, mingled with intolerable itching, in the fingers, [2] .