Pothos Foetidus

Symplocarpus foetidus, Salisb. (Ictodes foetidus, Bigelow; Phothos foetidus).

Natural order , Araceae.

Common name , Skunk-cabbage.

Preparation , Tincture of the root.

Authorities. 1 , Bigelow, Amer. Med. Botany, 2, 48 (1818), effects of 30 grams of dried root; 2 , Symptoms from Jahr's New Manual or Symptomen Codex.

Vertigo, [1] . Headache, [1] .

Headache here and there, of short duration, [2] . Drawing from both sides of the forehead to the glabella, very violent in the region of the latter, as if drawn by a magnet, [2] .

Eye.

Temporary blindness, [1] .

Violent sneezing, inducing a pain in the fauces, palate, pharynx, down to the stomach, and long-lasting after-pains in the region of the orifice of the stomach, [2] . The nose above the nasal bones is swollen and red, forming a saddle, painful when touched, particularly high up on the left side of the nose, the cartilaginous portion being cold and bloodless, with red spots on the cheeks resembling small pimples, [2] .

Numb feeling in the tongue; inability to carry it to the teeth; red and sore on the edges and at the tip, [2] .

Burning from the fauces down through the chest, [2] . [10.] Swelling of the cervical and submaxillary glands, [2] .

Vomiting, [1] . Pain in the pit of the stomach on stepping firmly, as if something were breaking off, [2] .

Sensation in walking as if the bowels were shaking, [2] .

Soft stool, [2] .

Painful voluptuous titillation around the corona glandis, [2] .

Respiratory Organs.

Disposition to take deep breath, with hollowness of the chest, afterwards with contraction of the chest and throat, [2] .

Pain in the chest, with pain under the shoulders, which seems to be in connection with burning in the pharynx, [2] .

Aching pain on the sternum, [2] .

Inferior Extremities. Bone-pain in the right border of the tibia, [2] .

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*Sudden feeling of anguish, with oppression of breathing and sweat , after which he has an evacuation from the bowels, with relief of all the symptoms, [2] .