Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Remedy
Chapter:
632.11.20
632.11.20 Asterostigma luschnathianum, Arum dracontium
English: Green dragon.
Source: Dr Hart.
Mind
Energy: languor and depression of spirits.
Bites nails.
General
Sensation: burning, raw, pulling.
Sweat: neck, breast.
Time: 1 pm < 7 am, < 8 pm.
Sleep: sleepless, < bronchitis.
Body
Infection: influenza.
Head: heavy, shooting pain in ears, aching pain behind right ear.
Eyes: conjunctivae injected, < waking, lids dry, stuff, agglutinated, burning, smarting edges.
Ears: shooting pain in ear, leaving fullness and aching in middle ear.
Face: purple; flushing; chapped as if from cold wind.
Nose: irritation; obstructed, must breathe through the mouth; bores in his nose or picks at it until it bleeds; sneezing more at night; polyps.
Mouth: cracks; picks and licks lips.
Throat: burning, raw, smarting, tender, sore, dry, < talking, < swallowing; constant clearing throat, hawking, coughing; pharyngitis; laryngismus stridulus, pseudo croup, < fright, < crying, < laughing.
Throat: larynx burning, raw, smarting, tender, sore; hoarse changeable, < talking, < singing; much mucus.
Lungs: cough, croup, hoarse, < night, < laryngeal irritation; rattling of mucus, < 7 am, if expirations are prolonged, < night, < lying down; expectoration watery, burning, acrid, later mucus with pus, thick, heavy, yellowish, white, mucus; asthma, < night, < midnight, < cold; bronchial catarrh.
Heart: aching pain in praecordial region and down left arm; heart beat so violently as to shake walls of chest; pulse rapid, hard and jerking; rapid, small and irregular, the artery seems to roll under the finger and it requires considerable pressure to be counted correctly.
Chest: dull heavy aching; shooting and aching pain in left brachial plexus of nerves.
Stomach: sinking at pit; belching of flatus.
Abdomen: pain aching, burning, < flatus, > flatus.
Rectum: aching, burning; stool copious, fluid, bilious; bilious diarrhoea, + borborygmus and emission of flatus; constipated.
Urinary: urination tender, smarting, burning orifice of urethra, < urination; urging; urine scanty, high coloured, copious, limpid.
Male: fine shooting left spermatic cord; penis flaccid, relaxed; desire diminished, absent; impotence.
Back: shooting in left anterior inferior triangle of neck, near clavicle; aching along spine, especially between scapulae and in lumbar region, with weakness across loins.
Limbs: aching pain, outer left foot, left hand, forearm, right shoulder, right humerus; tingling, stinging, fingers, toes, right hand is warmer redder, swollen, as circulation is impeded; sharp shooting pain in styloid process of right ulna; shooting down right thigh; heat in palms; burning in soles.
Skin: chronic itching; pimples, lichen, nose; vesicles; blisters; urticaria near right elbow.