Caladium seguinum, Very. (Arum seguinum, Linn.).

Nat. order , Araceæ.

Preparation , Tincture of the root.

Authorities.

1 , Hering, Archiv f. Hom. Hielk., 11, 2, 161; [I began with half a drop, and experienced most of the symptoms a few hours after taking it, or during the day; those that appeared later I have always marked with the number of the day; larger doses produced no more symptoms than the smaller, only more severe. An exceedingly healthy feeling appeared after twelve or twenty-four hours; all the symptoms seemed to disappear, but they always returned again; in many provers on the fourteenth day there were quite new symptoms].

2 , Schreter, Neu. Archiv., 3, 3, 153, proving with the 30th dil.; 3 , Dr. Chairon, L'Union, 1863 (Schmidt's Jahrb., 119, 289), case of poisoning by the root; 4 , Berridge, Am. J. Hom. M. M., 8, 126, a man proved the 200th dil.; 5 , ibid., a woman proved the 200th dil.

MIND

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 apprehensive and anxious (after a fever, for several weeks), 1.
Apprehensiveness, before going to sleep, 1.
Fear of cutting himself while shaving (eleventh day), 2.
Becomes easily angry at everything, 1.
Intellectual.
Very forgetful; he cannot remember if what he ought to have done and written during the day is really accomplished until he convinces himself of it, 2.

HEAD

Confusion and Vertigo.
Confusion and whirlings in the head, 1.
Vertigo, after some walking (second day), 2. [10.]
Vertigo and nausea, in the morning, with stitches in the pit of the stomach (after fourteen days), 1.
Sensations.
Occasional heat in the head, 2.
Heat ascends from below into the head and becomes an internal glowing heat (after two hours), 1.
Pressive headache after the midday sleep, or after lying on the side; disappears when sitting, 1.
Drawing-tearing, extending to the head, 2.
Bursting headache, especially in the forehead (sixth day), 2.
Forehead.
Boring pain in the forehead, 2.
Temples.
Boring and sticking in the left temple, relieved by pressure, 2.
On waking, stupefying pressure in the right temple (fifth day), 2.
Sticking in the right temple, especially in the right eye, 2.
Occiput. [20.]
Drawing in the occiput (first day), 2.
External.
Pimples on the hairy scalp behind the ear, sensitive when touched, 2.

EYE

Burning in the eyes, 1.
Sensitive, stupefying pressure in the eyes and forehead, with heat in the face, and restlessness he can hardly control, while smoking tobacco; followed by much hawking of mucus and slimy vomiting, with urgency to stool, 2.
The eyes close from sleepiness before dinner, with tension in the temples (second day), 2.
Pressure in the eyeballs, with painful sensitiveness when touching them, soon after rubbing his abdomen with Calad. (fifth day), 2.

EAR

Sensations.
Pains in the ear, during a fever (after seventh day), 1.
Burning on the external upper margin of the ears, without redness or heat (fifth day), 2.
Throbbing in the right ear, and a sensation around it as if warm water were flowing about it in a circle (after five days), 2.
Tickling and itching in the right ear, evenings, 2.
Hearing. [30.]
Extremely sensitive to noise, especially if he wishes to sleep (after three, four days), 1.
When going to sleep he is waked by the folding of paper; he is sensitive to it (fifth day), 2.
Something seems to be put before the ears which makes him deaf, 1.
Twittering in the ears, 2.
Roaring in the ears, frequently during the day, 2.

NOSE

Sudden burning in the upper part of the nose, then a long continuing irritation to sneezing, and at last violent, as from pepper; short sneezing, followed by fluent coryza (in the evening), (first day), 1.

FACE

Biting-burning stitches in the cheek, 1.

MOUTH

Teeth.
After vomiting, the teeth seem too long; insipid taste on the tongue, herbaceous, with a scratchy sensation in the throat, as of something sharp (second day), 2.
Toothache, mornings and evenings, 2.
Toothache, in the evening, that wakes him from his sleep again in the morning, 2. [40.]
Boring toothache, with stitches in the ear, 2.
Drawings through the left back teeth from above downward (after a few hours), 1.
General Mouth.
Mucous membrane of the mouth uniformly very red; the curtains of the palate exceedingly red, not swollen; the uvula slightly swollen, 3.
The mouth is sticky and herby (after several hours), 1.
Burning in the mouth and fauces, 3.
Sensation in the mouth as if burnt with creosote, 2.
Taste.
Milk tasted sour and was repugnant, 3.
Throat.
Scratchy in the throat, with dry sensation, with much hawking of mucus, 2.
Tickling in the throat, with cough (after one hour), often renewed during the day, 2.
Dryness in the fauces and pharynx, not in the mouth, without thirst, and with aversion to cold water (after one and several hours), 1.

STOMACH

Appetite and Thirst. [50.]
Sensation of hunger, soon after taking, 2.
Evenings, after the theatre, he is hungry, contrary to custom, but eats nothing; nausea in the morning while half asleep, a sensation like faintness, as if he had over eaten and must vomit; when fully awake this sensation ceased (second day), 2.
Takes his breakfast with hunger and relish, but is hardly satisfied when he becomes discouraged and uncomfortable; head exceedingly confused, and he grows sleepy (fifth day), 2.
Has great desire to smoke, and relishes it uncommonly (fourth day), 2.
He only eats because the stomach is so hollow, without hunger, but very hastily, and is immediately satisfied, 1.
Thirst, with dry lips, wakes him at night, 1.
Longing for beer, without decided thirst; he was not able to drink water throughout the proving, 1.
Does not drink for many days, 1.
After eating, he drank only because it seemed so dry in the stomach, which sensation could not be called thirst; it was quite different from it, 1.
Eructations and Hiccough.
Frequent eructations of very little wind, as if the stomach were full of dry food (after twelve hours), 1 . [From this characteristic, Caladium cured several asthmatic attacks. -C. Hg.]* [60.]
Incomplete eructations, because they are hindered by burning pressure in the abdomen, 1.
Hiccough continues for some time, 2.
Nausea.
After, and while smoking his accustomed tobacco, nausea and inclination to vomit, 2.
While smoking a cigar, sudden inclination to vomit; he must stop-smoking; at the same time urgency to stool, so that he thought he could scarcely retain it, yet is obliged to strain hard to get rid of the pappy yellow stool (second day), 2.
Nausea, with confusion of the head, 1.
Stomach.
Pain deep, internally, when pressing on the pit of the stomach (after several hours), 1.
A constant sensation as if a bird were fluttering in the stomach and trying to escape, causing nausea in the stomach, but without retching, from morning till afternoon (very soon), .

ABDOMEN

Hypochondria.
Stitches, jerkings, and pressure in the region of the spleen, 1.
Umbilical.
Spasmodic cutting in the abdomen, below the navel; must bend himself double, 1.
General Abdomen.
Abdomen very hard, distended, painful to pressure, 3.
Scanty, offensive flatus, 1. [80.]
Felt, three or four times, a sensation as if a long worm were writhing in the region of transverse colon or transverse duodenum, 4.
He eats a sour plum that does not agree with him, and is followed by a drawing in the abdomen; he begins to smoke a cigar, which he is at once obliged to lay aside, as it causes nausea and inclination to vomit, although he has only taken a few whiffs; soon after, the inclination to vomit is increased, and followed by a corrosive, acid vomiting, with much mucus, and a part of some cocoa he had taken; he is hungry not long after, and eats bread and butter with relish (second day, forenoon), 2.
If the pain extends into the abdomen it leaves behind a dull pressure, 1.
Sudden twisting pain in the abdomen, in the evening (first day), 1.
The abdomen is painful to touch, especially the region of the bladder (one hour), 1.
Violent throbbing, especially on the right side, above the navel, 1.
Violent pulsating in the upper part of the abdomen, 1.

RECTUM AND ANUS

Sticking in the rectum, 2.
Stitches as of knives, in the rectum (first day), 2.
Stitches in the rectum, soon after stool (second day), 2. [90.]
Mornings, urgency to stool; passage of noisy flatus at first; is compelled to strain hard to eject the soft pappy stool (second day), 2.

STOOL

Diarrhœa.
Frequent desire for a soft, pasty, yellow stool (first day), 2.
Seven stools, at first watery, afterward thicker (three hours), 1.
Soft stool, after one hour, followed by passage of blood; later, moving about, and burrowing in the abdomen; hæmorrhoidal symptoms, an hour after a second stool, with passage of blood after the evacuation (after two hours), 2.
Soft stool, yellow, pasty; he was scarcely dressed after the movement before he was obliged to go again (third day), 2.
Mucus passes after the stool, and later, a thin fluid flows from the anus (for three days), 2.
After stool, thin red blood passes in considerable quantities, 2.
Constipation.
Stool omits the first day, with a feeling of diarrhœa, in the evening, 1.
Very scanty pasty stool, 1.

URINARY ORGANS

Bladder.
Region of the bladder painful to touch; without desire to urinate, the bladder seems as if full, followed by moderate urination, 1. [100.]
Spasmodic drawing sidewise, from the bladder towards the penis, or deep behind and near the bladder, 1.
Urethra.
Burning in the urethra, with and without urinating (sixth day), 2.
Stitches in the urethra, evenings (after third day), 2.

SEXUAL ORGANS

Sexual organs seem larger, as if puffed, relaxed and sweating; the skin of the scrotum seems thicker than usual (after two hours), 1.
Glans very red, covered with fine red points, very dry, which causes a desire to rub it; the prepuce is very much swollen along its margin, sore and very painful (after second day), 1.
Prepuce swollen, sore on the margin, with biting on urinating, compelling him to rub it frequently, 1.
After coition, the prepuce remains retracted, does not cover the glans with pain and swelling, 1.
Sore corrosive pain on the prepuce, 1.
The symptoms of the prepuce soon disappear after Mercurius 2d, but they return the same as ever after coition, and continue for two months, 1.
Erection mornings, without any desire (eighth day), 2. [110.]
Erections, when half asleep, mornings, that ceased when fully awake, 2.
An erection in the morning and cohabits, but suddenly his desire ceased, and he did not know if there was an emission or not, 2.
Painful erections, without sexual desire; it alternates one morning with desire, with relaxed penis, 1.
Incomplete erection; it seems as though it were broken, with which the semen emits too soon, 1.
No erection, even after amorous caresses (first day), 2.
Impotency; the penis remains relaxed during excitement and sexual desire (first night), 1.
Dull burrowing in the penis, 1.
During an embrace, no emission and no orgasm; penis less hard than usual, 1.

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

Larynx.
The epiglottis and adjacent parts decidedly swollen, and exceedingly painful to pressure, 3.
*Larynx and trachea seem constricted, so that it impedes deep breathing; and the attacks of cough seem to originate above the larynx, 1. [120.]
When asked where he suffered, he pointed to his larynx, then to his mouth, and lastly to his stomach, 3.
He desires to cough, but the heaviness in the pit of the stomach will not permit it, 1.
Voice.
He was unable to speak a word, apparently on account of the swelling of the vocal cords, or on account of the continual cough, 3.
Cough.
Weak, toneless cough; at night, prevents sleep; continues the next morning, 1.
Incessant cough of a hoarse sound, 3.
The cough was not spasmodic, was without expectoration, and aggravated if he attempted to speak a word, 3.
Cough in slight, weak, sensitive paroxysms, with expectoration of small lumps of mucus, 1.
Continued weak cough; after the expectoration of lumps of mucus, the chest seems hollow and empty, 1.
Respiration.
Respiration very incomplete, inspiration catching; on inspiration, the sinking in of the pit of the stomach was very noticeable, 3.
Respiration difficult and oppressed; he grasped his throat with his hand every moment, 3.

CHEST. [130.]

On straightening up, cracking below the last ribs, as if they had been dislocated and snapped back again, 1.
Oppression of the chest, with burning in the stomach; the oppression also continues afterwards, 1.
Dull sticking in the right side of chest, with anxiety; worse on the left, better when lying on the right side, evenings, in bed (fourth day), 2.
Pressive sticking in the left side of the chest, near the sternum, 2.
Stitches, in a small spot between the left nipple and axilla, as with needles, very deep internally, without influencing respiration or motion, 1.
Stitches in the chest, in the evening, 1.

HEART AND PULSE

A peculiar throbbing below the heart, not palpitation, only perceptible on applying the hand, 1.
Hard, full, jerking pulse (after six hours), 1.

BACK

Stitches in the back, as if from incarcerated flatus (forenoon, sixth day), 2.
The sacral region and back feel bruised; in the morning, on rising, 1. [140.]
Pains in the sacrum, mornings, a kind of weakness, as if he had not sufficient strength in the sacrum; stitches even on certain movements, especially when walking, 2.
Boring and burrowing in the sacrum and anus (sixth day), 2.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

Drawing-pinching pains between the bones of the forearm, and behind the tendo Achillis, 1.
Feeling in palms, like pins and needles, similar to what is felt when the ulnar nerve is struck, or, by some people, when looking down from a height; this lasted till sleep, causing her to rub them hard, towards evening (second day), 5.
All the fingers felt very large, like sausages; she could not use them well; they felt as if they were going to be paralyzed; this lasted till middle of the next day (first day), 5.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

Sudden violent pain in the left knee, as if it would be torn asunder; it cracks on stepping, preventing walking (second day), 1.
Cramp in the soles, at night, 1.
When standing, his knees feel weak and tremble; is obliged to sit down, 2.
Sticking in a corn (first day), 2.
Stitches in a corn of the left little toe (after five minutes), 2. [150.]
Stitches in a corn, left foot, and in the left eye, often during the day, 2.

GENERAL SYMPTOMS

Restless during the forenoon, not inclined to anything, afterwards very busy and forgetful, 2.
Dread of motion; wishes to lie down the whole time, though he is strong enough when he makes an effort, 1.
Must lie down and close the eyes, when it seemed as if he were rocked (after four hours), 1.
Faintness after writing, when reflecting, lying, and on rising up, 1.
Stitches, as from insect-bites, pain very much; they itch and burn afterwards, 1.
Evenings, after eating fish pickled in vinegar, feeling unwell, discomfort, and distension of the abdomen; relieved when walking, worse when driving (seventh day), 2.
Throbbing in the abdomen, after internal heat; very much prostrated (after three hours), 1.

SKIN

Eruptions, Dry.
Rash eruption on the chest; it alternates with asthma, for several weeks, 1.
Rash on the inner side of the forearm, consisting of very red pimples, which itch and burn very much, after three to four days, when it disappears, immediately; great oppression of the chest, so that he could scarcely get the breath, as if mucus would suffocate him , without anxiety; especially after eating, and after a midday nap, 1. [160.]
Painful pimples on the septum of the nose, in the right nostril, 2.
Pimples on the mons veneris, and on the left ear, 2.
Moist.
Rash, with white vesicles, on the wrist, forearm, and elbow; it itches in the heat, at night, burns internally after scratching, the twelfth day. Carbo relieves it for some time, 1.
Pustular.
White, suppurating pimples, with red areolæ, appear here and there on the body, with an itching sensation, sore to the touch (after seven days), 2.
A furuncle had formed on the buttock, that pained him severely, when sitting. When the external application of Calad. was discontinued, the pain of the furuncle ceased, 2.
Sensations.
On the skin, especially in the face, frequent sensations, as if a fly were crawling there, 2.
Sudden, violent, corrosive burning frequently in small places in the skin, on the cheeks, nose, toes, and in other places; obliges touching, always on the right side (without any contact with the juice of the plant), (after one hour), 1.
Stitches in the skin of the forehead, as if with needles, 2.
Itching of the fingers, especially when lying down at night, 2.

SLEEP AND DREAMS

Sleepiness.
Sleepy very early in the evening; cannot keep awake, 1.
Grows sleepy and fretful again at 7 in the morning, and would like to return to bed, 2.
Sleepy in the morning, after rising; his eyes close while walking in the open air, with nausea and qualmishness in the stomach, like a sensation of emptiness, with weakness and prostration in the knees, 2.
Sleeplessness. [170.]
He is obliged to lie down during the day, but is unable to sleep; he shivers, and is dizzy, 1.
Cannot get asleep till 1 at night (second day), 2.
Sleep at night restless, with confused dreams, 1.
Restless night, with heat; is obliged to uncover, with light sleep, like slumber. Excessive erections, at 4 in the morning, without desire; deep sleep towards 6 o'clock, so that he can scarcely rouse himself, with livid dreams of persons whom he has not seen for years, 2.
Every noise troubles him in sleep, 1. [180.]
He groans and moans anxiously in sleep , so that he wakes the neighbors several times in the night, and for several nights, 1.
Violent starting in sleep, 1.
Dreams.
During a confused sleep, everything comes to his mind which he had forgotten while awake, 1.
Very clear, vivid dreams, 1.
Restless, anxious dreams, 2.
Dreams of dead persons, and events of past years, so vivid that when he awakes, he falls asleep again directly, and continues to dream of them, 2.

FEVER

Chilliness.
Chilly in the evening, without thirst; coldness extends from the abdomen to the feet; they are icy cold, as also are the fingers, 1.
Chilliness over the back and whole body, with drawing pains in the left little finger, that feels as if full and gone to sleep, besides a pulled, stretched sensation in the whole body (second day), 2.
Heat.
Fever the ninth day; heat with thirst, in the evening, till midnight; it again wakes him, when it disappears, 1.
Fever after seven days; heat with thirst; violent pain in the ear; swollen submaxillary glands, and constipation, 1.
Internal feverish heat, exhausting sweat, as from oppressive heat (after one hour), 1.
Internal fever disappears during sleep, 1.
Heat of the hands, face, and abdomen, with cold feet before midnight; after midnight, the abdomen is cold, the feet hot, without thirst, 1. [190.]
Heat before midnight, chill after midnight, 1.
Heat after the midday sleep, then sweat, then chill in the open air, 1.
Fever on the twelfth and thirteenth days; in the evening, till midnight, coldness with thirst, catching in the chest, therewith he feels sleepy; it wakes him again about midnight, and then disappears, together with throbbing in the chest and coryza (Ignatia cured), 1.
Sweat.
Perspiration toward evening, with prostration, yawning, and sleepiness (sixth day), 2.
On account of perspiration after heat, flies trouble him very much, being allured by the sweat (first day and afterwards), 1.
Excessive perspiration on the scrotum (after five days), 2.
The sweat relieved all the symptoms (first day), 1.

CONDITIONS

Aggravation.
( Morning ), Vertigo, etc.; till afternoon, sensation in stomach; urgency to stool, etc.; erections; on rising, small of back, etc., feel bruised; pains in sacrum; 7 o'clock, sleepy, etc.
( Forenoon ), Restless, etc.
( Toward evening ), Perspiration.
( Evening ), Tickling, etc., in ear; hungry; pain in abdomen; stitches in rectum; sticking in side of chest, etc.; stitches in chest; after eating pickled fish, feels unwell, etc.; chilly; till midnight, heat, etc.
( Night ), Thirst, etc.; cramp in the soles; when lying down, itching of the fingers.
( Midnight ), Cutting in pit of stomach, etc.
( After coition ), Symptoms of the prepuce return.
( Driving ), Feeling unwell, etc.
( After eating ), Oppression of chest.
( Lying ), Faintness.
( After lying on side ), Headache.
( When reflecting ), Faintness.
( On rising up ), Faintness.
( After the siesta ), Headache; oppression of chest.
( Sitting ), Stitches in pit of stomach.
( Sleep ), During the day, all the symptoms.
( Before going to sleep ), Apprehensive.
( Attempting to speak ), Cough.
( After stool ), Sticking in the rectum; mucus passes.
( Tobacco smoking ), Pressure in eyes, etc.; cramp in the soles; when lying down, itching of the fingers.
( Walking ), Vertigo; throbbing in pit of stomach; stitches in the sacrum.
( After writing ), Faintness.
( Lying on right side ), Sticking in right side of chest.

SUPPLEMENT: CALADIUM. Authority.

J. C. Bishop, M.D., The Clinic, vol. vii, 1874, p. 306; 6 , Two children ate a few pieces of the stalk; 7 , the mother ate a piece about one inch in length.

Delirium, 6.
Occasionally tendency to stupor, from which the patient would rouse up, cry, and talk incoherently, and perhaps drop into stupor again, 6.
Intense headache, 6. [200.]
Eyes injected and watery, 6.
The face was flushed to a scarlet, 6.
Lips greatly swollen, even to three times their normal size, 6.
The mucous membrane of the mouth and fauces greatly inflamed, the saliva flowing profusely, with a choking sensation and a desire to swallow, which could be accomplished with difficulty, 6.
The saliva as it poured from the mouth was copiously streaked with blood, 6.
There was difficult articulation, patients talked as if they had stuffed their mouths full of mush, 6.
There was intense burning pain in the stomach, with frequent retching, but no vomiting, 6.
She said "her throat wanted to shut up, and felt as tough ten thousand needles were sticking into it, while the pain kept shooting up towards the ears, with a burning and intense pain in the stomach," 7.
Respirations labored, irregular, and accelerated, 6.
Pulse 120, very weak, 6. [210.]
Jactitation of the limbs, 6.
Temperature 103°. 6.

Caladium