Arundo Mauritanica


Arundo Mauritanica signs and symptoms of the homeopathy medicine from the Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica by J.H. Clarke. Find out for which conditions and symptoms Arundo Mauritanica is used…


      An Italian Grass. *N. O. Gramineae. Tincture of the root sprouts.

Clinical

Catarrh. Coryza. Dentition. Diarrhoea. Ear, discharge from. Hay- fever. Stomacace. Urine, deposit in.

Characteristics

*Arundo. is a reedy grass and the tincture is made from the root-shoots. It has not been much tested clinically, but its chief sphere has been proved to be in catarrhal conditions. Constant (serous) diarrhoea of nursing or teething children. Urine deposits much red sand. Mouth excoriated. Thirst. Coryza and Snuffling. Scrofulous ophthalmia. Purulent discharge from the ear. *Arundo. has cured a case of hay-fever, the symptoms beginning with “burning and itching of palate and conjunctiva.” Chagon is the authority for the pathogenesis.

Relations.

*Compare: Other Gramineae, Anan., Lolium. Also Cepa, Sulphur, Calcarea, Lycopodium, Sabad., Psorinum

Mind

Lascivious ideas. Laughs easily.

Head

Vertigo on getting out of bed. Roots of hairs painful. – Hair falls off entirely in children. -Scurf.

Eyes

Ophthalmia in children. Blepharitis. Undulating luminous openings appear wherever he looks. Fluttering luminous objects. Cannot look up. Pricking, itching, burning in conjunctiva.

Ears

Burning itching in auditory canals, coincide with pain in sublingual glands. The inflammation of ears begins with shooting pains in concha, extends to external meatus, finally with itching and discharge of blood. Purulent discharge from ears. Eczema behind ears. Sound of little bells in ears.

Nose

Pain at root of nose. Coryza with snuffling. In the beginning water runs from nose, later green mucus and thick, white, slimy masses, with sneezing, pieces of indurated greenish mucus.

Face

Erysipelas on right cheek. Pricking in point of chin.

Mouth

Mouth excoriated. Pain in sublingual glands. Salivation. Burning and itching of palate.

Stomach

Wants to belch but cannot. Coldness in stomach.

Abdomen

Pain in liver. Pricking in spleen. Acute pain at umbilicus.

Stool and Anus

Stools at first hard, soon become loose. Constant diarrhoea (serous) of nursing or teething children. Greenish stools. Stools followed by burning at anus. Pricking at anus. Piles and prolapse of rectum.

Urinary Organs

Much red sand in urine. After urinating, weight, burning itching in urethra.

Male Sexual Organs.

Sexual desire, lascivious ideas, frequent erections. Pain in spermatic cords after coitus. Difficult breathing after coitus.

Female Sexual Organs.

Uterine catarrh. Violent desire for coition, or aversion to it. Early, profuse, long-lasting menses, blood dark clotted. Pains start from left side of jaw, along left eyebrow, extending to shoulders and loins and finally settling on pubis, burning like fire. Excessive secretion of milk causes pain in left breast.

Respiratory Organs

Catarrhal cough. Sputa at first bluish, then white, and so alternately. After expectorating bruised feeling in pit of throat. After cough: burning in epigastrium, larynx obstructed. Accumulation of mucus in bronchi causes anxiety.

Neck and Back.

Startings in neck, crawling on left side of it. Acute pain under left scapula.

Limbs.

Oedema of limbs. Pain in limbs as if tightly bandaged.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica