Anatherum
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General
Anatherum.
Anatherum muricatum. Andropogon muricatus. Andropogon squarrosus. Cuscus grass. Vetiver or Viti-vayr. A medicinal grass cultivated in the Markarentas Islands (E. Ind.). (Houat.) N. O. Gramineae. Tincture of root.
Clinical
Abscesses. Aphonia. Boils. Cancer. Erysipelas. Glandular inflammation. Hydrophobia. Sycosis. Syphilis. Tic convulsif. Tic douloureux. Tumours. Ulcers.
Characteristics
Anatherum produces a state of drunkenness. Severe neuralgic headache; as if balls moved about in head; as of steel arrows from forehead to nape. Pains in facial bones as if crushed or ulcerated. Convulsive tic.
Ulcers at labial commissures (syphilis). Swelling of tonsils, constriction of throat, inability to swallow. Plugged sensation. Burning and stitches.
Thirsty but cannot drink. Burning heat alternating with icy coldness in gullet: as of something alive in gullet. Involuntary urination when walking and during sleep. Venereal appetite increased by every attempt to satisfy it until driven to onanism and madness.
Tumour of breast, ulcerated, indurated. Abscesses boils glandular swellings (especially of sub-maxillary and cervical glands). Herpes. Herpes and ulcers or scabs on scalp.
Tumours. Wart-like growths on eyebrows. Falling off of eyebrows and beard. Chancre-like ulcers on penis.
Pustules like small-pox on vulva. Abscesses, ulcers, and fissures on arms and hands. Eruptions like itch or lichen. "Erysipelas with much swelling of arms and legs, dark red or bluish eruptions, with tendency to suppurate" (Farrington).
Formication as of ants. Ulcers yellowish, violet, swollen, everted, syphilitic. Discharges from ulcers are foul; foul breath and eructations. Coffee at first <, later >.
Wine and coffee < toothache.
Relations
Compare: Avena, Arundo, Anthox. (botan.); Bell., Can. ind., Stram., Staph., Merc., Lach., Thuj. Antidoted by: Aromatic liquors. Inimical: Wines and spirits.
Mind
Gay humour, with disposition to laugh and sing.—Blunted intellect and loss of memory.
Head
Vertigo with congestion, tendency to fall backward
Drunkenness and staggering
Burning, lancinating, pulsating headache, < r. side, forehead and temples, with nausea, vomiting and great heaviness of eyes
Neuralgic pain in temples, with sensation as if pointed irons were thrust in, producing fits of craziness;
< afternoon and night, from noise, light, and motion
As if he had water in the head, < walking
Herpes and ulcers on scalp, with compact, thick, humid scabs and prurigo
Exostoses.
Eyes
Muscae volitantes and fiery circles before eyes; everything seems excessively bright and shining.—Wart-like growth on eyebrows.
Ears
Copious ear-wax.—Deafness, < evening and damp weather.
Nose
Stitches in nose, with a crushing sensation at root
Air inhaled seems icy cold, and causes sneezing
Ulcers, greenish, badly smelling discharge
Inflammation of bones
Boils and small tumours on tip
Nose cold pale, pointed.
Face
Tic douloureux, and tic convulsif
Yellow and red spots; stinging pimples
Ulcers, scabs, or scaly herpes; falling off of eyebrows and beard
Pain in facial bones as if crushed or dislocated
Jaws spasmodically clenched
Submaxillary and cervical glands swell and tend to suppurate
Ulcers at labial commissures; syphilitic.
Teeth
Digging in teeth as if forcibly pulled out
Constant inclination to clench teeth
Decayed, crumbling teeth; bad smell from mouth.
Mouth
Taste bitter, bloody, sweet or flat
Speech difficult, stammering
Severe pains at root of tongue as if it were cut off
Tongue fissured, lacerated, as if cut on its edges, with copious salivation and debility, as from the effects of mercury
Viscid saliva.
Throat
Inflamed throat with sensation of fulness and obstruction as if plugged
Tonsillitis; burning and stitches; sometimes coldness
Thirst, but throat contracts as soon as he hears water mentioned, or sees shining objects.
Stomach
Morbid hunger, wakes in the night to eat; as if he had tapeworm
Eructations; painful; tasting of food; foul
Nausea; vomiting of food, bile or blood; horrible pains in stomach
Very painful pressure, like a bar, on epigastrium with short, anxious respiration
Contraction, gnawing, and tearing pains; cramps and spasms
Sensation as of a hard tumour starting from pylorus and extending to liver.
Abdomen
Inflammation and swelling of liver
Burning, pulsating, and lancinating pain in region of spleen
Twisting and tearing pains in bowels with nausea and vomiting
Swelling in groin.
Stool And Anus
Stools mucous, bloody, brownish yellow; whitish, choleraic; offensive, with colic and burning in abdomen and rectum
Obstinate constipation, stool hard, knotty, like sheep-dung
Haemorrhoids and abscesses
Itching at anus.
Urinary Organs
Ardor urinae.—Incontinence; when walking and during sleep.
Male Sexual Organs
Chancre-like sores on penis and in urethra.—Sexual appetite increased by every attempt to satisfy it until it drives him to onanism and madness.
Female Sexual Organs
Scirrhus-like swelling of cervix uteri
Eruptions, whitish and reddish, in vulva; pustules
Erysipelatous swelling of mammae
Ulcerated indurated tumour in breast
Excoriation of nipples.
Respiratory Organs
Hoarseness and aphonia
Difficulty of speaking with drowsiness, with glandular inflammation
Corrosive sensations in larynx
Liquids pass frequently into larynx and nasal fossae
Prominent swelling of laryngeal cartilages, obstinate, paroxysmal, shaking cough, < in evening and night, and from dust
Burning and raw feeling in chest.
Heart
Burning, stitches, and cramps in cardiac region, with oppression.—Heart seems paralysed with death-like weakness.
Neck And Back
Stiffness of neck and back; lumbago.
Upper Limbs
Rheumatic pains and swelling of joints
Diseased and deformed nails
Swelling of glands of axilla.
Lower Limbs
Stiffness, lancinating and crampy pain in sacrum and iliac bones
Nails grow awry and hurt toes
Offensive feet-sweats.
Skin
Abscesses, boils, ulcers.