ARUM MACULATUM


ARUM MACULATUM symptoms from Manual of the Homeopathic Practice by Charles Julius Hempel. What are the uses of the homeopathy remedy ARUM MACULATUM…


INTRODUCTION

ARUM M. Common Arum. “Archiv.,” XIII., 2. Very little known.

ANTIDOTE

Vinegar.

HEAD

Slight pressure in the left temple. Pressure below the ear, behind the lower jaw. Violent irritation of the eyes and nose.

MOUTH

Bleeding of the gums. Stinging in the mouth. Stinging and burning in the surface of the tongue. The tongue is so much swollen that it fills up the whole buccal cavity and makes deglutition impossible.

THROAT

Impeded deglutition, as if the uvula had become swollen and elongated. Continual seated burning in the throat. Titillation in the throat, sometimes increased to a violent burning. Burning, contractive pain in the fauces. Pressure in the throat, from without inwards, in the posterior region of the palate, causing a desire to swallow, with sensation of swelling in the larynx, which impedes deglutition, preceded by oppression in the abdomen and chest. Pain in the left side of the throat, near the trachea, and below the larynx, when pressing the part with the finger.

STOMACH

Vomiting. Haematemesis. Burning, contractive pain in the stomach. Cardialgia. Inflammation of the stomach.

ABDOMEN

Emptiness in the abdomen, as if he had vomited. Oppression in the abdomen, as from great anguish and fear, without palpitation of the heart, gradually rising into the chest. Violent aching pain in a spot between the umbilicus and the superior spinous process of the ileum, particularly when standing, or when lying on the side or back, most violent when expanding the chest, or when putting the abdominal muscles on the stretch, or when pressing upon the part from without. Inflammation of the intestinal canal.

STOOL

Diarrhoea.

URINE

Increased secretion of urine. The urine is watery, light colored, smelling almost like burnt horn, with a cloud in the middle after standing.

FEMALE GENITAL ORGANS

Profuse menstruation.

LARYNX AND TRACHEA

Bloody sputa. Continual hoarseness. Pressure in the larynx; titillation, with desire to cough; excess of mucus in the respiratory organs; violent racking cough, with scanty expectoration; after a long paroxysm of cough he raises mucus, traversed with yellow threads; sensation after drinking as if something remained sticking to the upper part of the epiglottis.

Charles Julius Hempel
Charles Julius Hempel (5 September 1811 Solingen, Prussia - 25 September 1879 Grand Rapids, Michigan) was a German-born translator and homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. While attending medical lectures at the University of New York, where he graduated in 1845, he became associated with several eminent homeopathic practitioners, and soon after his graduation he began to translate some of the more important works relating to homeopathy. He was appointed professor of materia medica and therapeutics in the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia in 1857.