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Pothos foetidus

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  1. Pharmacological Group
  2. Description
  3. Nosology
  4. Typical features
  5. Dif. diagnostics
  6. Mental
  7. Head, face, and ears
  8. Mouth and throat
  9. Appetite and food preferences
  10. Gastrointestinal tract
  11. Urogenital system
  12. Chest organs
  13. Limbs and spine
  14. Common symptoms
  15. Skin
  16. Analogs by action
  17. Included in the composition

Other names and synonyms

poth, Ictodes foetida.

Description Source

Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica - J.H. Clarke

Pharmacological Group

Homeopathic classical monopreparations

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.

Mental

 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.

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.

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.

Urogenital system

 Great urging; urine darker.
 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.

Limbs and spine

 Aching along right crista tibiae.

Common symptoms

 Hysterics. Epilepsy. Erratic and spasmodic pains.

Skin

 Herpes and cutaneous affections.

Analogs by action

Included in the composition

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