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Arum Dracunculus
6XArum-draArum Dracunculus · Dragon Arum · "The Acrid Arum"
PlantRare
Source
🎯 It acts primarily as a local irritant, causing intense stinging and itching sensations upon contact.
📖 Clarke writes:
A. dracunculus, Willd. N. O. Araceae. Tincture of root.
👤 Characteristics
Sphere of Action & Core States
•Fetid smell of the plant
•Causes headache from smell
•Styptic metallic taste at back of mouth
•Pricking sensation
•Intolerable itching in fingers
•Sensation as if hand plunged among nettles
•Sensation as if a vast number of stings were driven perpendicularly into fingers upon rubbing them together
Key Characteristics & Guiding Symptoms
•Effects observed from pounding the root and tearing up leaves and stems
•Fetid smell
•Styptic metallic taste
•Intolerable itching in fingers
•Pricking sensation in fingers
•Sensation of stings driven perpendicularly into fingers
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Fetid smell causing headache
Clarke
Styptic metallic taste at the back of the mouth
Clarke
Intolerable itching in the fingers
Clarke
Pricking sensation as if plunged among nettles
Clarke
Sensation of stings driven perpendicularly into the fingers
Clarke
Symptoms triggered by pounding the root
Clarke
Symptoms triggered by tearing up leaves and stems
Clarke
Sensation of stings intensified by rubbing fingers together
Clarke
🩺 Systems & Indications
⚙️Generals
Indicated for sharp, stinging, or pulling pains in the extremities and metallic taste in the mouth.
Styptic and metallic taste, mingled with bitterness at the back of the mouth, [1] .
Prickings as with thorns in the fingers of the right hand, [1] .
Feeling as if the hand were plunged among nettles, [1] .
On rubbing the fingers together, sensation as if a vast number of stings were driven perpendicularly into them, [1] .
Pain in the right index finger, as if it were forcibly pulled, [1] .
Pricking, mingled with intolerable itching, in the fingers, [2] .
🔑 Modalities
↓Worse from
Rubbing fingers together
sensation of stings driven perpendicularly into fingers
📚 Sources & References
✓ Clarke's Dictionary↗✓ Allen's Encyclopedia↗Boericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraKent's Materia MedicaPhatak's Concise MM
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