Arum dracunculus
Dracunculus vulgaris · Plant · Araceae
Arum Dracunculus is a minor remedy with very limited proving data, characterised chiefly by intense pricking and nettle-like itching sensations in the hands and fingers from contact with the plant. Its main indications are urticaria and intense cutaneous stinging sensations.
Key symptoms
- Styptic metallic taste at back of mouth
- Pricking mingled with intolerable itching in fingers as if plunged among nettles
- Sensation as if a vast number of stings driven perpendicularly into fingers on rubbing together
- Nettle-rash; urticarial eruptions
A. dracunculus, Willd. N. O. Araceæ. Tincture of root.
Clinical
Nettle-rash. Pricking pains.
Characteristics
A. dracun. is commonly cultivated in gardens. It has a fetid smell which is apt to cause headache. The following effects of pounding the root and tearing up leaves and stems have been observed: Styptic metallic taste at back of mouth. Pricking, mingled with intolerable itching in fingers, as if hand plunged among nettles. On rubbing the fingers together, sensation as if a vast number of stings were driven perpendicularly into them.
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