ARUM DRACUNCULUS.
By Timothy F. Allen — The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
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.