POTHOS


Pothos homeopathy medicine – drug proving symptoms from Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica by TF Allen, published in 1874. It has contributions from R Hughes, C Hering, C Dunham, and A Lippe….


  Common name: Skunk-cabbage.

Introduction

Symphoricarpus foetidus, Salisb. (Ictodes foetidus, Bigelow; Pothos foetidus). Natural order, Araceae. Preparation, Tincture of the root.

Head

Vertigo. Headache. Headache here and there, of short duration.

Drawing from both sides of the forehead to the glabella, very violent in the region of the latter, as if drawn by a magnet.

Eye

Temporary blindness.

Nose

Violent sneezing, inducing a pain in the fauces, palate, pharynx, down to the stomach, and long-lasting after-pains in the region of the orifice of the stomach. The nose above the nasal bones is swollen and red, forming a saddle, painful when touched, particularly high up on the left side of the nose, the cartilaginous portion being cold and bloodless, with red spots on the cheeks resembling small pimples.

Mouth

Numb feeling in the tongue; inability to carry it to the teeth; red and sore on the edges and at the tip.

Throat

Burning from the fauces down through the chest. Swelling of the cervical and submaxillary glands.

Stomach

Vomiting. Pain in the pit of the stomach on stepping firmly, as if something were breaking off.

Abdomen

Sensation in walking as if the bowels were shaking.

Stool

Soft stool.

Sexual Organs

Painful voluptuous titillation around the corona glandis.

Respiratory Organs

Disposition to take deep breath, with hollowness of the chest, afterwards with contraction of the chest and throat.

Chest

Pain in the chest, with pain under the shoulder, which seems to be in connection with burning in the pharynx. Aching pain on the sternum.

Inferior Extremities

Bone-pain in the right border of the tibia.

Generalities

Sudden feeling of anguish, with oppression of breathing and sweat, after which he has an evacuation from the bowels, with relief of all the symptoms.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.