ARUM TRIPHYLLUM HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINE

ARUM TRIPHYLLUM

Indian Turnip		Araceae

Coryza; acrid, fluent; nostrils raw.        Nose feels stopped up in spite of the watery discharge (compare, Am. c., Samb., Sinap.); sneezing < at night.        Acrid, ichorous discharge, excoriating inside of nose, alae, and upper lip (Ars., Cepa).        Constant picking at the nose until it bleeds; boring with the finger into the side of the nose.        Picks lips until they bleed; corners of the mouth sore, cracked, bleeding (with malignant tendency, Cund.); bites nails until fingers bleed.        Patients pick and bore into the raw bleeding surfaces though very painful; scream with pain but keep up the boring (in diphtheria, scarlatina, typhoid).        Children refuse food and drink on account of soreness of mouth and throat (Mer.); are sleepless.        Saliva profuse, acrid, corrodes the mucous membrane; tongue and buccal cavity raw and bleeding.        Aphonia: complete, after exposure to northwest winds (Acon., Hep.); from singing (Arg. n., Caust., Phos., Sel.).        Clergyman's sore throat; voice hoarse, uncertain, uncontrollable, changing continually; worse from talking, speaking or singing; orators, singers, actors.        Desquamation in large flakes, a second or third time, in scarlatina.        Typhoid scarlatina, with apathy, scanty or suppressed urine; threatened uraemia.        The sore mouth and nose are guiding in malignant scarlatina and diphtheria.        Relations. - Useful: after Hep. and Nit. ac. in dry, hoarse, croupy cough; after Caust. and Hep. in morning hoarseness and deafness, and in scarlatina.        Should not be given low or repeated often as bad effects often follow. - Dr. L.        The higher potencies most prompt and effective.