An Italian Grass. N. O. Gramineae. Tincture of the root sprouts.
Clinical
Catarrh. Coryza. Dentition. Diarrhoea. Ear, discharge from. Hayfever. 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, Sulph., Calc., Lyc., Sabad., Psor.
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.