Anatherum
Chrysopogon zizanioides · Plant · Poaceae
Anatherum is a deep-acting remedy for syphilitic, cancerous, and sycotic constitutions with a tendency to ulceration, suppuration, and glandular enlargement. It produces a state of drunkenness and convulsive neuralgias, suited to patients with foul discharges, syphilitic lesions, and herpes of the scalp.
Key symptoms
- Severe neuralgic headache as if balls moved in the head; pain like steel arrows from forehead to nape
- Convulsive tic and tic douloureux of the face
- Thirsty but cannot drink; burning and stitches throughout the body
- Involuntary urination when walking and during sleep
- Abscesses, boils, and glandular swellings especially of sub-maxillary and cervical glands
- Chancre-like ulcers and syphilitic pustules on genitalia
- Indurated, ulcerated tumour of the breast
- Erysipelas with dark red or bluish eruptions tending to suppurate
Worse (aggravation)
- Coffee (at first aggravates)
- Wine and coffee (toothache worse)
Better (amelioration)
- Coffee (later ameliorates after initial aggravation)
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. Gramineæ. 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 …
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