- Allen HC — The keynotes that separate this remedy from its nearest neighbours.
“American Arum. (Araceae.) Very sensitive ot noise; slightest noise startles from sleep (Asar., Nux, Taren.). Eructations, frequent, of very little wind, as if stomach were full of dry food. Impotence: with mental depression; relaxed penis, with sexual desire and excitement (Lyc., Sel.). No erection, even after caress…”
- Allen TF — A compiled symptom record drawing on proving reports and other named observations.
“Caladium seguinum, Very. (Arum seguinum, Linn.). Nat. order , Araceæ. Preparation , Tincture of the root. Authorities. Emotional. Extreme excitement, 3. Loud cries about an vexation, like a child, with inconsiderate prattlings, after many days, 1. He is very apprehensive about his health, and about everything…”
- Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“American Arum This remedy has a marked action on the genital organs, and pruritus of this region. Coldness of single parts and inclination to lie down, with aggravation on lying on left side. Slightest noise startles from sleep. Dread from motion . Modifies craving for tobacco. Tobacco heart. Asthmatic complaints…”
- Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“COITION, Agg. ITCHING, tickling, etc., internal LYING, on side, Agg. PRESSURE, Agg., lying on painful or affected side, etc., Agg. TURNING OVER in bed., Agg. 12 Night”
- Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“GENITALS. NERVES. Skin. Mucous membranes. Sexual excesses. Motion. Sudden noises. On falling to sleep. Tobacco. Cool air. Short sleep. Sweating. DRYNESS; food eaten seems too dry; must drink to swallow. Red, dry stripe down center of tongue, widening toward tip. Inclines to lie down. Dreads to move…”
- Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“seguinum. Arum seguinum. Dumb Cane. (South America.) N. O. Araceæ. Tincture of whole fresh plant. Asthma / Dropsical swellings / Gleet / Impotence / Irritation / Nymphomania / Pruritus vaginæ / Spermatorrhœa / Typhoid / Typhus / Worms Like the other Arums, Caladium has an intensely irritating effect on the mucous…”
- Farrington — The differential diagnosis — remedy families narrowed through direct clinical comparison.
“Caladium is indicated in stout persons of flabby fibre who are subject to catarrhal asthma, that is, asthma with the production of mucus which is not readily raised but which, when raised, gives relief to the patient. It is a remedy to be remembered in spermatorrhoea or in seminal weakness, particularly in nocturnal…”
- Guernsey — The leading characteristics — a compact bridge from repertory result to remedy study.
“Sexual.--Impotence of the male; weakness of sexual power; coldness of the sexual parts; affections of the prepuce. Generalities.--Sighing respiration; dryness of parts which Are usually moist; inclination to lie down; aversion to motion; coldness of single parts. Worse.--Lying on painful side. Remedies…”
- Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Caladium seguinum. Araceæ. Proved in Surinam, where it is a common poison, in 1830, and published in Stapf's Archives, in 1832. Another proving by Schreter, one of our best men, followed in 1842. The last and best proving of all is by E. W. Berridge. Unconsciousness or coma. θ Typhus. Stupefying pressure in right…”
- Hughes & Dake — The source evidence — provings and poisonings retained with their experimental context.
“CALADIUM. CalaSum tigulnumf Vert. (Arum itguinum, L.). Dumb-cafle. Kat. Ord., df^aa L Frovings.^i, a Hering proved i»ingle dosrs of 4 dr. or more of tinct. Soon after ingestion or during d., appeared following symptoms i — He must lie down and close eyes, feeling then as if being rocJced (4 \\J) ; confu-sion and…”
- Kent — The mental and general picture — how Kent organizes the remedy’s historical symptom portrait.
“Caladium is a wonderful remedy; perhaps some of you have read It endeavoring to understand it; it is a difficult medicine to understand, because it is quite evident from the provings that the prover did not understand how to describe and report symptoms; did not know how to tell his sensations because they were so…”
- Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Low spirits and gloomy thoughts, (with impotence). Forgetfulness. Swelling of the tongue with excessive ptyalism; the saliva resembling the white of an egg; the eyes are violently inflamed, the chest is oppressed, pulse small and accelerated, cold perspiration all over. Dryness in the fauces and pharynx, with aversion…”
- Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common name: american arum. Very sensitive to noise; slightest noise startles him from sleep (Asar., Bell., Hyos., Kali-C., Nux V., Stram., Tarant.) (A.). Red, dry stripe down centre of the tongue widening toward tip (B.). Hard cough with asthma, relieved from expectoration (Caust., Guai., Hep., Iod., Ipec., Lach…”
