Arundo Mauritanica
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General
Arundo Mauritanica.
An Italian Grass. N. O. Gramineae. Tincture of the root sprouts.
Clinical
Catarrh. Coryza. Dentition. Diarrhoea. Ear, discharge from. Hay-fever. Stomacace. Urine, deposit in.
Characteristics
Arundo is a reedy grass and the tincture is made from the root-shoots It has not been much tested clinically, but its chief sphere has been proved to be in catarrhal conditions. Constant (serous) diarrhoea of nursing or teething children. Urine deposits much red sand.
Mouth excoriated. Thirst. Coryza and snuffling. Scrofulous ophthalmia.
Purulent discharge from the ear. Arundo has cured a case of hay-fever, the symptoms beginning with "burning and itching of palate and conjunctiva." Chagon is the authority for the pathogenesis.
Relations
Compare: Other Gramineae, Ananth., Lolium. Also Cepa, Sul., Calc. c., Lyc., Sabad., Psor.
Mind
Lascivious ideas.—Laughs easily.
Head
Vertigo on getting out of bed
Painful undulation in frontal region
Deep-seated pains in sides of head
Roots of hairs painful
Hair falls off entirely in children
Scurf.
Eyes
Ophthalmia in children
Blepharitis
Undulating luminous openings appear wherever he looks
Fluttering luminous objects
Cannot look up
Pricking, itching, burning in conjunctiva.
Ears
Burning itching in auditory canals, coincide with pain in sublingual glands
The inflammation of ears begins with shooting pains in concha, extends to external meatus; finally with itching and discharge of blood
Purulent discharge from ears
Eczema behind ears
Sound of little bells in ears.
Nose
Pain at root of nose
Coryza with snuffling
In the beginning water runs from nose, later green mucus and thick, white, slimy masses; with sneezing, pieces of indurated greenish mucus.
Face
Erysipelas on r. cheek.—Pricking in point of chin.
Mouth
Mouth excoriated
Pains in sublingual glands
Salivation
Burning and itching of palate.
Stomach
Wants to belch but cannot.—Coldness in stomach.
Abdomen
Pain in liver
Pricking in spleen
Acute pain at umbilicus.
Stool And Anus
Stools at first hard, soon become loose
Constant diarrhoea (serous) of nursing or teething children
Greenish stools
Stools followed by burning at anus
Pricking at anus
Piles and prolapse of rectum.
Urinary Organs
Much red sand in urine.—After urinating, weight; burning itching in urethra.
Male Sexual Organs
Sexual desire; lascivious ideas; frequent erections
Pain in spermatic cords after coitus
Difficult breathing after coitus.
Female Sexual Organs
Uterine catarrh
Violent desire for coition; or aversion to it
Early, profuse, long-lasting menses; blood dark clotted
Pains start from l. side of jaw, along l. eyebrow, extending to shoulders and loins and finally settling on pubis, burning like fire
Excessive secretion of milk causes pain in l. breast.
Respiratory Organs
Catarrhal cough
Sputa at first bluish, then white, and so alternately
After expectorating bruised feeling in pit of throat
After cough: burning in epigastrium; larynx obstructed
Accumulation of mucus in bronchi causes anxiety.
Neck And Back
Startings in neck; crawling on l. side of it.—Acute pain under l. scapula.
Limbs
Oedema of limbs.—Pain in limbs as if tightly bandaged.