Other names and synonyms
poth, Ictodes foetida.Description Source
Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica - J.H. ClarkePharmacological Group
Description
Pothos foetidus. Symplocarpus foetidus. Skunk-weed. Skunk сabbage. N. O. Orontiaceae (Calliaceae, Orontoidae, allied to Araceae). Tincture of whole fresh plant-including root.
Nosology
Asthma. сatarrh. сough. Dropsy. Herpes. Hysteria. Rheumatism.
Typical features
The Treasury of вotany thus epitomises the traditional uses of this plant in medicine: The roots in cases of asthma; the leaves as an application to ulcers. The seeds are also considered to be anti-spasmodic, and useful in coughs. Hering and others proved it, and largely confirmed its popular reputation, as also its clinical relationship to the Arum family. вurning sensations from fauces down throat; enlarged glands of throat; swelling of nose and sneezing; spasmodic cough and skin affections are common to Ictod. and the Arums. Motion in open air. Asthma is.
Dif. diagnostics
Compare: Arum t., Asaf., Meph.
Psyche and consciousness
Cross; impetuous; inclined to contradict. Absence of mind and inattention; enters sick-room without knocking, does not listen to patient.
Head, face, and ears
Vertigo and dimness of sight. Headache in 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.
The nose is swollen as far as the nasal bones extend, red like a saddle, sore to touch,.
Swollen submaxillary glands.
The nose is swollen as far as the nasal bones extend, red like a saddle, sore to touch,.
Swollen submaxillary glands.
Mouth and throat
Scurvy.
Numbness of tongue, cannot touch teeth with it. Papillae elevated. Tongue red and sore on tip and edges.
Burning from fauces downwards through chest. Oesophagus painful on sneezing.
Numbness of tongue, cannot touch teeth with it. Papillae elevated. Tongue red and sore on tip and edges.
Burning from fauces downwards through chest. Oesophagus painful on sneezing.
Appetite and food preferences
Inclined to smoke, but it does not taste good.
Gastrointestinal tract
Nausea and vomiting. With every firm step, pain in pit of stomach as from something breaking loose.
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.
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.
Urogenital system
Great urging; urine darker.
Titillation, voluptuous but painful, around corona glandis.
Amenorrhoea.
Titillation, voluptuous but painful, around corona glandis.
Amenorrhoea.
Chest organs
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,.
Pain in chest and in axillae; seems to have a connection with burning in oesophagus. Pressing pain in sternum.
Pain in chest and in axillae; seems to have a connection with burning in oesophagus. Pressing pain in sternum.
Limbs and spine
Aching along right crista tibiae.
Common symptoms
Hysterics. Epilepsy. Erratic and spasmodic pains.
Skin
Herpes and cutaneous affections.