Arum Italicum arum-i.

A. Italicum, Miller. N. O. Araceæ. Tincture of root.

Brain-fag. Colic. Fever. Headache. Hoarseness. Itching.

Dr. Paul Pitet is the authority for this medicine. The chief symptoms observed were the following: Headache, chiefly in occiput, < in damp weather. Dull pain in brain from least intellectual effort. Colic in umbilical region with diarrhœa. Smarting and tearing pains in rectum during stool. Burning behind sternum. Burning in fingers, < by pressure. Skin covered with miliary vesicles desquamates. Prickling and formication as from hundreds of needles on tips of fingers. The colic is < by wine, brandy, coffee. Itching is < 6 p.m. Hoarseness 9 p.m. Damp weather < . Unconquerable drowsiness in morning. Copious night sweat, especially on chest, smelling of ivy.

Compare: Araceæ; Æthusa c., Pic. ac., Anac. (brain-fag).

Preparation, General Action and Relationship same as Arum tri.

General malaise. ▶ Debility; and emaciation. ▶ Aggravation from pure wine, coffee and brandy. ▶ Mental uneasiness. ▶ Intellectual incapacity. ▶ Headache in damp weather, especially in occiput. ▶ Contusive aching in anterior lobes of brain. ▶ Aching in brain from least mental exertion, agg. stormy weather. ▶ Acute enterocolitis. ▶ Colic after eating, then diarrhœa; C., with pain in vesical region and urging to urinate; contractive twisting, agg. before stool. ▶ Sensitiveness of abdomen, with heat. ▶ Smarting and tearing in rectum during stool. ▶ Stools generally liquid or very soft, scanty, yellowish or dark, with emission of flatus and towards the last mixed with frothy mucus; S. more frequent from 3 to 6 A.M.; frequent preceded by colic, mostly in umbilical region, and renewed with each urging to stool.

Hoarseness suddenly agg. about 9 P.M.; agg. evening, with tickling in larynx and cough, agg. after sleep. ▶ Shocks of dry cough and constant hawking of thick, tenacious, gray or brown mucus, often blood-streaked. ▶ Contusive pains in left chest, sometimes in front, below clavicle, sometimes behind, below spine of scapula and near its inner border. ▶ Heat behind sternum and anterior part of chest. ▶ Dull pain behind left scapula. ▶ Pricking in finger-tips, with formication. ▶ Skin of fingers red, as from wine-lees, with sensitiveness and pain as if burnt, agg. pressure. ▶ Last two phalanges of fingers covered with almost invisible elevations, with itching, agg. after bathing, then desquamation. ▶ Itching, agg. about 6 A.M.

Drowsiness every morning. ▶ Chills in daytime at slightest draught. ▶ Coldness and shivering in afternoon, especially down back, in evening redness of face, general heat, rapid pulse, at night sweat, especially on chest, having an odor resembling that of Hedera helix when rubbed between the fingers. ▶ Heat of skin and hands at night in bed, with rapid pulse. ▶ Night-sweats.