Arum italicum
Plant · Araceae
Arum Italicum is indicated in patients with brain fatigue, occipital headache aggravated by damp conditions, and burning sensations in the chest and extremities. The remedy is notable for its vesicular skin eruptions, nocturnal sweating with characteristic odour, and aggravation from intellectual exertion, wine, or coffee.
Key symptoms
- Headache chiefly in occiput, worse in damp weather
- Dull pain in brain from least intellectual effort; brain-fag
- Colic in umbilical region with diarrhoea
- Burning behind sternum; burning in fingers worse from pressure
- Skin covered with miliary vesicles that desquamate
- Hoarseness appearing at 9 p.m.
- Copious night sweat especially on chest smelling of ivy
Worse (aggravation)
- Damp weather (headache worse)
- Wine, brandy, coffee (colic worse)
- 6 p.m. (itching worse)
- Pressure (burning in fingers worse)
A. Italicum, Miller. N. O. Araceæ. 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, < in damp weather. Dull pain in brain from least intellectual effort. Colic in umbilical region with diarrhœa. Smarting and tearing pains in rectum during stool. Burning behind sternum. Burning in fingers, < by pressure. Skin covered with miliary vesicles desquamates. Prickling and formication as from hundreds of needles on tips of fingers. The colic is < by wine, brandy, coffee. Itching is < 6 p.m. Hoarseness 9 p.m. Damp weather <. Unconquerable drowsiness in morning. Copious night sweat, especially on chest, smelling of ivy.
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