Arum Italicum


Arum Italicum signs and symptoms of the homeopathy medicine from the Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica by J.H. Clarke. Find out for which conditions and symptoms Arum Italicum is used…


      A. Italicum, Miller. *N. O. Araceae. Tincture of root.

Clinical

Brain-fag. Colic. Fever. Headache. Hoarseness. Itching.

Characteristics

Dr. Paul Pitet is the authority for this medicine. The chief symptoms observed were the following: Headache, chiefly in occiput, worse in damp weather. Dull pain in brain from least intellectual effort. Colic in umbilical region with diarrhoea. Smarting and tearing pains in rectum during stool. Burning behind sternum. Burning in fingers, worse by pressure. Skin covered with miliary vesicles desquamates. Prickling and formication as from hundreds of needles on tips of fingers. The colic is worse by wine, brandy, coffee. Itching is worse 6 p-m. Hoarseness 9 p-m. Damp weather agg. Unconquerable drowsiness in morning. Copious night sweat, especially on chest, smelling of ivy.

Relations.

*Compare: Araceae, Aethusa c., Pic-ac., Anacardium (brain-fag).

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica