Arum Dracunculus

A. dracunculus, Willd.

Nat order , Araceæ.

Preparation , Tincture from the root.

Authority.

1 , Journ. d. l. Soc. Gal., IV, 114: effects of cutting and pounding the root; Dr. Demeures; 2 , Bibliothèque Homœopathique, III, 192, effects of tearing up the leaves and stems; Dr. Pitet.

• 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.