Ictodes Foetida
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General
Ictodes Foetida.
Pothos foetidus. Symplocarpus foetidus. Skunk-weed. Skunk Cabbage. N. O. Orontiaceae (Calliaceae, Orontoidae, allied to Araceae). Tincture of whole fresh plant-including root.
Clinical
Asthma. Catarrh. Cough. Dropsy. Herpes. Hysteria. Rheumatism.
Characteristics
The Treasury of Botany 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. Burning 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 <. All complaints > in open air. Asthma is < or caused by dust.
Relations
Compare: Arum t., Asaf., Meph.
Mind
Cross; impetuous; inclined to contradict.—Absence of mind and inattention; enters sick-room without knocking, does not listen to patient.
Head
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.
Nose
The nose is swollen as far as the nasal bones extend, red like a saddle, sore to touch, < l. side
Cartilage cold and bloodless, with red spots on cheeks and small pimples on l. side of face
Violent sneezing, with pains in palate, fauces, and oesophagus to stomach, hurting for a while after in cardiac end of stomach.
Face
Swollen submaxillary glands.
Teeth And Gums
Scurvy.
Mouth
Numbness of tongue, cannot touch teeth with it
Papillae elevated
Tongue red and sore on tip and edges.
Throat
Burning from fauces downwards through chest.—Oesophagus painful on sneezing.
Appetite
Inclined to smoke, but it does not taste good.
Stomach
Nausea and vomiting.—With every firm step, pain in pit of stomach as from something breaking loose.
Abdomen
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.
Urinary Organs
Great urging; urine darker.
Male Sexual Organs
Titillation, voluptuous but painful, around corona glandis.
Female Sexual Organs
Amenorrhoea.
Respiratory 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, < or caused by dust
Heaves in horses from dusty hay
Spasmodic cough
Senile catarrh.
Chest
Pain in chest and in axillae; seems to have a connection with burning in oesophagus.—Pressing pain in sternum.
Lower Limbs
Aching along r. crista tibiae.
Generalities
Hysterics.—Epilepsy.—Erratic and spasmodic pains.
Skin
Herpes and cutaneous affections.