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Pothos foetidus

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

Other names and synonyms

poth, Ictodes foetida.

Description Source

Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica - C. Hering

Pharmacological Group

Homeopathic classical monopreparations

Additional facts

 Skunk сabbage. Aracea.
 Experiment by вigelow, Amer. Medorrhinum вotany, vol. 2, p. 48. Symptoms in Jahr’s Symptomatology are from provings by с. Hering and others.

Mental

 Cross ; impetuous ; inclined to contradict.
 Absence of mind and inattention ; enters sick room without knocking, does not listen to patient.
 Vertigo and dimness of sight.

Head, face, and ears

 Headache on 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.
 Dimness of sight, with vertigo.
 The nose is swollen as far as the nasal bones extend, red like a saddle, sore to touch, worse left side.
 Cartilage cold and bloodless, with red spots on cheeks and small pimples on left side of face.
 Violent sneezing, with pains in palate, fauces and oesophagus to stomach, hurting for a while after in cardiac end of stomach.
 Swollen submaxillary glands.

Mouth and throat

 Scurvy.
 Numbness of tongue, cannot touch teeth with it.
 Papilla elevated.
 Tongue red and sore on tip and edges.
 Burning from fauces downwards through chest.
 Esophagus 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, aggravated or caused by dust. θ Heaves in horses from dusty hay.
 Spasmodic cough.
 Senile catarrh.
 Pain in chest and in axilla ; seems to have a connection with burning in oesophagus.
 Pressing pain on sternum.

Limbs and spine

 Glands on throat swollen.
 Aching along right cresta tibia.
 With every firm step : pain in pit of stomach as from something breaking loose.
 When walking : sensation as if entrails were hanging loose and flabby.
 On sneezing : painfulness in oesophagus.
 Touch : nose sore ; tongue numb, cannot touch teeth with it.
 Herpes and cutaneous affections.

Nervous system

 Hysterics.
 ** Epilepsy.

Sleep

 Sleepiness early in evening.

Common symptoms

 All complaints disappear in open air.
 Right : aching along cresta tibia.
 Left : small pimples on side of face.
 Outward : drawing in forehead.
 Erratic and spasmodic pains.
 Drawing as if from a magnet in forehead ; pain in pit of stomach as from something breaking loose ; as if entrails were hanging loose and flabby, without pain.
 Pain : in palate ; in fauces ; in oesophagus to stomach ; in pit of stomach ; in abdomen here and there in single spots ; in chest and in axilla.
 Painful titillation : around corona glandis.
 Pressing pain : in sternum.
 Drawing : in forehead, in two lines from protuberances to glabella, where it draws outward as from a magnet.
 Pressing : in temples, now in one, then in the other.
 Aching : along right cresta tibia.
 Burning : extends from fauces downwards through chest.
 Soreness : of tip and edges of tongue.
 Violent pulsation : of arteries of temples.
 Expansion and tension : of abdomen.
 Constriction : of fauces and chest.
 Dulness : in head.
 Numbness : of tongue.
 Spasmodic asthma ; senile catarrh.
 Dropsy.
 Chronic rheumatism.

Patient type and constitution

 Catarrh of aged persons.

Dif. diagnostics

 Compare : Arum triph., Asafoetida, Mephit.
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Analogs by action

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