Caladium Seguinum
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General
Caladium.
Caladium seguinum. Arum seguinum. Dumb Cane. (South America.) N. O. Araceae. Tincture of whole fresh plant.
Clinical
Asthma. Dropsical swellings. Gleet. Impotence. Irritation. Nymphomania. Pruritus vaginae. Spermatorrhoea. Typhoid. Typhus. Worms.
Characteristics
Like the other Arums, Caladium has an intensely irritating effect on the mucous membranes and skin, and produces many burning sensations. Calad. is one of the best remedies for that troublesome affection, pruritus vulvae. Sometimes this is set up by intestinal worms finding their way into the vagina, and they may then cause masturbation, and even nymphomania. There is also great disturbance in the male sexual sphere.
Masturbation and its results. Nocturnal emissions occurring either without dreams or with non-sexual dreams. Spermatorrhoea. The glans penis is flabby from masturbation, prepuce if drawn back remains so from loss of contractility.
Catarrhal asthma, mucus not readily raised, but giving relief when it comes up.
H. N. Martin gives this picture of Calad.: "Is similar to Lycopod.; patient wants to lie down always; > from sweat (opp. Merc.); > after short sleep (opp. Lach.). Perspiration attracts flies. Genitals relaxed and perspire. Patient afraid to go to sleep, and doesn't know why. Itching of vulva with burning."
It is suited to persons of lax, phlegmatic temperament. There is < from warmth; aversion to cold water; but bathing with cold water > itching. Heat with drowsiness. Sweet odour of sweat. All symptoms > after sweat; after sleeping in the daytime. Motion < most symptoms. Great desire to lie down and aversion to motion; but if he makes the effort he is strong enough. Attacks like fainting after writing and thinking, when lying down or when rising.
Relations
Compare: The Araceae (but it is incompatible with them); Aco., Bry., Caust., Carb. v., Canth., Caps., Cina (worms); Gels. (effects of sexual excesses);
Hyo., Ign., Lyc., Merc., Nit. ac., Nux, Pho., Plat. (nymphomania and irritation of genitals); Pul., Sep., Staph. (effects of masturbation);
Sul., Zingib. Antidoted by: Caps.; Ign. (stitches in pit of stomach and fever);
Carb. v. (rash); Hyo. (night cough);
Zingib. (asthma); Merc. (preputial symptoms).
Antidote to: Merc. Compatible: Aco., Canth., Puls., Sep. Complementary: Nit. ac.
Mind
Low spirits and gloomy thoughts (impotence)
Forgetfulness
Very irritable and depressed
Confused, cannot concentrate the mind
Apprehensive; careful about his health.
Head
Dull, frontal headache
Vertigo with nausea, mornings
Fulness in head, as if too much blood were there
Throbbing pain in the head
Headache with nausea
Dull, pressive, or sharp, cutting pain in temples
Numbness in side of head.
Eyes
Burning and stitches
Eyes violently inflamed
Drowsiness and heaviness
Eyelids red and inflamed, with smarting and burning
Dull, pressive aching in portion of eyeballs
Eyeballs sore and sensitive to pressure.
Ears
Very sensitive to noise (start from sleep).
Nose
Fluent or stopped coryza.
Face
Sensation as if a spider web or plaster were sticking here and there.
Teeth
Toothache, teeth feel elongated.
Mouth
Swelling of tongue with excessive ptyalism; saliva resembling white of egg; mucous membrane red.
Throat
Dryness and burning in fauces and pharynx (without thirst); with aversion to cold water.
Stomach
Nausea, esp. in the morning on rising
Acid eructations
Frequent eructations of very little wind, as if stomach were full of dry food (with asthma)
Burning in stomach, not > by drinking.
Abdomen
Spasmodic cutting pain in stomach and abdomen
Abdomen swollen and tender to touch
Sensation as if a long worm writhing in region of transverse colon or duodenum.
Stool And Anus
After stool thin red blood passes
Discharge of mucus from the rectum after stool
Stitches in rectum after stool
Soft, pasty, clay-coloured stools, passed with difficulty
Stool containing hard lumps
Very scanty, pasty stool
Urging to stool on rising in the morning
Burning in the anus after stool.
Urinary Organs
Bladder feels full without desire to urinate.—Urine fetid; with sediment (with impotence and gleet).
Male Sexual Organs
Organs swollen (puffy), relaxed, and sweating
Swelling of margin of prepuce with smarting during micturition
After waking prepuce remains retracted; painful and swollen
After coition the prepuce remains behind the glans; it is painful and swollen
Glans red, dry; dotted with still redder points
Glans flabby from masturbation
Painful erections without sexual desire, alternating with sexual desire with relaxed penis
Impotence with mental depression
Frequent nocturnal emissions
Nocturnal emissions either without dreams or with non-sexual dreams
Imperfect erections and premature ejaculation of the semen
Impotence; the penis remains relaxed, even when excited
Feeling of coldness, and cold perspiration of the sexual organs.
Female Sexual Organs
Itching of external genitals with voluptuousness
Pruritus of vulva and vagina
Pruritus vaginae; with onanism (nymphomania)
Worms escape into vagina and cause masturbation
Cramp-like pains in uterus after midnight.
Respiratory Organs
Larynx and trachea seem constricted; impedes deep breathing
Sudden and involuntary cough caused by tickling high up in throat (above larynx)
Oppression of breathing, cannot get his breath easily
Asthma alternating with itching, burning rash
Catarrhal asthma (with mucus which is not readily raised, but the asthma is relieved when it is raised).
Chest
Sharp stitches in r. side of chest.
Back
Rheumatic pain in back; can hardly turn in bed.—Pain in shoulder with headache.
Limbs
Limbs feel tired and weak
Rheumatic pains in the limbs
Trembling of the limbs
Stitches in corns
Cramps in the soles of the feet at night.
Generalities
Attacks like fainting after writing and thinking, when lying down, or when rising.—Disinclination to move, and desire to lie still.—Weariness over the whole body.—Extremely nervous.—Great throbbing all through the body.—Sighing respiration; dryness of parts which are usually moist.
Skin
The skin has a rough, dry feeling
Itching, burning rash (forearm and chest), alternating with asthma
Violent itching on various parts.
Sleep
Drowsy and sleepy
Sleepless, or unrefreshing sleep
Sleepiness in the daytime, but cannot go to sleep on account of vertigo
Groans and moans anxiously in sleep
Dreams; frightful.
Fever
Chilliness in the evening, without thirst
Chilly even in a warm room
Feverish, skin hot and dry
Face, head, and hands hot; legs and feet cold
Internal heat, going off from sleep
Heat with thirst, pain in the ears, swelling of the sub-maxillary glands, and retention of stool
Sweat towards evening, with prostration, yawning, and drowsiness
The perspiration (after the heat) attracts the flies.