CALADIUM SEGUINUM
Common Name: American
Arum
Mental:
Nervous excitement.
Very careful about
health- refuses to take medicine, fear of catching disease, fear of cutting himself
while shaving.
Lack of enthusiasm.
Indifferent to everything.
Very forgetful,
absent-minded.
Mental confusion,
inability to perform intellectual work.
Symptoms from sexual
excesses.
Physical:
Weak hereditary
disposition.
Action on genital
organs.
Impotence with mental
depression and sexual desire. Flaccid penis with sexual desire and excitement
(Lyc.,Sel). Lascivious thoughts and ideas.
There is
over-excitability, but they cannot perform the sexual act in a natural way and
therefore seek other
ways of satisfying the excessive desire.
This remedy has special
action on the genitalia of both sexes. Pruritis Valvae (voluptuous
itching) in females,
inducing masturbation and sleeplessness .
Intestinal worms find
their way into the vagina and irritates, which induces masturbation and even
nymphomania.
Dryness of parts which
are usually moist.
Circulation problems of
genitalia, lower limbs, sometimes heart problems caused by
smoking. Organism is
sensitive to smoking tobacco and will be agg. by it.
Yet has a great desire
for tobacco, increased when sex life decreases.
A burning sensation, may
stay in the lungs for years after heavy smoking. Asthma
alternating with an
itching rash.
Stomach feels full of
dry food.
Sensitivities of the
skin, with the sensation of a crawling spider or fly on the face. Insect bites burn and itch intensely. Violent
itching on certain parts of the
skin.
Eyelids red, smarting
and burning.
Red stripe in the centre
of the tongue which widens towards the tip. Tongue is swollen, with an excess
of saliva, food which is eaten seems too dry and needs to drink in order to
swallow it.
Very sensitive to
slightest noise, startles from sleep (Asar, Nux, Tarent). In somnia.
Sometimes is afraid to
go to sleep and doesn’t know why. Sleeps for 3-4 hrs and then wakes up and
cannot sleep for 2-3hrs.
Perspiration is
sweetish, which attracts flies.
Coldness of single parts
of the body. Agg. by warmth, yet wants warm drinks.
Perculiar momentary
relaxation of the sphinctures of the body.
KEY NOTES:
Face, heated from
smoking
Pain and cramping in
uterus after midnight
Feet hot with cold body
Desires beer with thirst and without thirst