COMMON NAME:
AMERICAN ARUM.
Symptoms
Very Sensitive to noise; slightest noise startles him from sleep (Asarum europaeum, Belladonna, Hyoscyamus, Kali carb., Nux V., Stramonium, tarent.) (A.).
Red, dry stripe down centre of the tongue widening toward tip (B.).
Hard cough with asthma, relieved from expectoration (Causticum, Guai., Hepar, Iodium, Ipecac., Lachesis, Phosphorus, Sanguinaria, Sepia) (B.).
Inclination to rest, and aversion to move.
Breathing impeded (Bryonia, Kali M., Lachesis, Lycopodium, Pulsatilla, Sulphur) (Br.).
Face, head and hands hot; legs and feet cold (C.).
Catarrhal asthma; mucus not readily raised (Amm-C., Hepar, Nat-S.) (Br.).
Coldness of single parts (Calcarea, Camph., Carbo vegetabilis, Digitalis, Ipecac., Lachesis, Natrum muriaticum).
HEAT DURING SLEEP, CEASES ON WAKING (Mezer., Opium, Sambucus) (B.).
FALLS ASLEEP DURING EVENING FEVER AND WAKES WHEN IT STOPS (A.).
Respiratory symptoms alternating with skin symptoms (Arsenicum) (B.).
Soft, pasty, clay-coloured stools, passed with difficulty (Alumina, Hepar, Sepia) (C.).
Limbs feel tried and weak (Baptisia, Bryonia, Cimic., Kali-P., Rhus toxicodendron) (C.).
Burning in the stomach and skin (Arsenicum, Phosphorus, Sulphur).
Eructations: frequent, of every little wind, as if stomach was full of dry food (A.).
food eaten seem too dry; must drink to swallow (B.).
It is to be remembered in spermatorrhoea or in seminal weakness, particularly in nocturnal emissions, when is complete relaxation of the organ; so that emissions occur without any dreams, or if there be a dream, it is entirely foreign to sexual subjects (F.).
Perspiration, which very much attacks the flies.
Effects of sexual excesses; there are emissions without any excitements (Conium, Nux vomica, Selenium( (D.).
Confused; cannot concentrate the mind (C.).
Forgetfulness (Ambr., Kali P., Lycopodium) (C.).
Vertigo, with nausea in the morning (Bryonia, Cocc., Nux vomica, Sepia) (C.).
Dull pressure or cutting pain in the temples (C.).
Very irritable and depressed (C.).
IMPOTENCE : WITH MENTAL DEPRESSION, RELAXED PENIS, WITH SEXUAL DESIRE AND EXCITEMENT (Agn., Conium, Lycopodium, Nux vomica, Selenium, Sulphur) (A.).
Flaccid, sweaty genitals; glans like a rag (B.).
IMPOTENCY AFTER GONORRHOEA (Agn.; impotency after syphilis-Mercurius) (B.).
Erections when half asleep; cease when fully awake (Br.).
Coldness of the sexual parts (Agn., Camph.) (G.)
NO ERECTION, EVEN AFTER CARESS; NO EMISSION, NO ORGASM DURING AN EMBRACE (Calcarea, Graphites, Selenium, Sepia) (A.).
Pruritus vulvae, with burning; from pin worms (B.).
Pruritus, during pregnancy (Borax); with mucous discharge (A.).
PRURITUS VAGINAE; INDUCES ONANISM (Nux vomica, Orig., Platina, Zincum met.) (A.).
Crampy pains in the uterus at night (Br.).
When nymphomania occurs as the result of worms escaping into the vagina and there exciting irritation Caladium is the remedy (F.).
AGGRAVATION:
From motion; lying on painful parts; inside a room; and from 3 or 4 P.M. till midnight.
AMELIORATION:
After a short sleep; after perspiring; from expectoration; in the open air; and from motion.
RELATIONSHIP:
It destroys craving for tobacco (destroys craving for alcohol or liquor-Sulphuric Acid). It is also useful for mosquito and insect-bites (which burn and itch intensely).
Incompatible : Arum – T.
Compare : Agn., Bryonia, Calcarea, Causticum, China, Digitalis, Gelsemium, Kali-P., Lycopodium, Nux vomica, Opium, Phosphorus, Acid phosphoricum., Selenium, Sulph and Zincum met.
Caladium ANTIDOTES Acid nitricum
Comparative Materia Medica (Philadelphia, 1854)
Text-Book of Materia Medica (1866)