# Arum Maculatum

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Herbal Remedy
- **Miasm:** Syphilitic Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
Leading symptoms include inflammation and ulceration of mucus mem branes. Violent 
irritation of nose and eyes. Pain left side of nose. Nasal irritation with polyps. Bleeding from mucus membranes 
and cavities. Violent convulsions. Great physical depression and lassitude. Irrepress ible inclination to sleep 
after meals, the face becoming redder than usual during sleep. 
Tongue swollen, pricking, stinging, burn ing, excoriated. Burning, stinging pains in mouth and lips “as with a 
hundred needles.” Tickling and burning in throat. Sensation of a swelling in left side above larynx. 
Hoarseness. From abdomen ascending to chest an oppression over whole chest with hot breath, it then rose 
into throat. Burning, constricting pain in stomach. Ascaride. Prolapsed anus.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Anxiety and fear.
- Hypochondriacal.
- Melancholy and depressed.
- Taciturn.
- Anxiety and fear.
- Hypochondriacal.
- Melancholy and depressed.
- Taciturn.

### Head
- Migraine.
- Headache in left temple and forehead.
- Headache with dyspepsia.
- Kidneys - Clear, watery urine, exhaling a smell of burned horn and depositing a cloudy sediment.
- Migraine.
- Headache in left temple and forehead.
- Headache with dyspepsia.
- Kidneys - Clear, watery urine, exhaling a smell of burned horn and depositing a cloudy sediment.

### Eyes
- Aching in left eye.

### Mouth
- Gums bleed readily.
- Tongue so swollen he could not swallow.
- Nose - Violent irritation of nose and eyes.

### Throat
- Pain in the throat with difficult deglutition, as if from constriction in the esophagus with constant 
inclination to swallow after drinking, sensation as if something were attached to the epiglottis.
- Obstinate 
hoarseness.
- Pressure in the larynx.
- Tickling with inclination to cough.

### Chest
- Phlegm in the respiratory organs.
- Violent tight cough with a scanty expec toration.
- Bloody 
expectoration.
- After much coughing, expectoration of mucus streaked with yellow.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Pains in stomach on pressing it.
- Burning, constricting pains.
- Vomiting of blood.
- Sensation of emptiness after breakfast in the abdomen, as after vom iting with contraction i n the 
abdomen, as from anxiety and fear.
- Severe aching between the navel and the hip, especially when standing 
upright, lying on the side, or drawing a deep inspiration, with great sensitiveness of the part affected to external 
pressure.

### Urinary & Genital
- Menses profuse.

### Skin
- Redness and erosions of skin.
- Blisters.
- Eczema.

### Sleep
- Redness of face during sleep.
- Almost uncontrollable sleepiness, an hour after dinner.