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J.D.

Patil
Group Study in Homeopathic Materia Medica
Reading excerpt
Group Study in Homeopathic Materia Medica
of J.D. Patil
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Araceae Family

INTRODUCTION
Araceae family has total 8 homeopathically important remedies.
Though it is a small family still it has its own characteristic features.
The plants in this group, in their juices, contain an acrid principle
in more or less quantity. They contain some irritant poison, causing
inflammation of mucus membrane and destruction of tissue.

MORPHOLOGICAL STUDY

These herbs usually contain watery, acrid or milky juice. They


are stemless shrubs with sympodial branches, climbing by aerial
roots. The leaves in spirally herbaceous species, alternate solitary
or radical, appearing without or after the flowers. The petiole is
hermaphrodite, which is more or less completely enclosed in green
color. Fruits are many, small and free. Seeds in each drupe are
berry-like, small or large. Albumin is copious or scanty. Embryos
axile are in exalbuminous genera, thick with plumule in a lateral
slit. It has 107 genera and about 1000 species. The various species
of the Anthurium, Arum and Philodendron are acrid and purgative
and contain more or less stimulant or poisonous juices.

IMPORTANT REMEDIES

1. Arum triphyllum
2. Arum dracontium

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Excerpts from Dr. J.D. Patil, M.D.,
Group Study in Homeopathic Materia Medica
60 Group Study in Homeopathic Materia Medica

3. Arum italicum
4. Arum maculatum
5. Caladium seguinum
6. Pothos foetidus
7. Acorus calamus

CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES OF ARACEAE


FAMILY

Constitutions
It is suited to lax, phlegmatic persons.

Ailments from
Over use of voice, exposure to cold, sexual excess, sudden
noise and tobacco smoking.

Temperament
Leucophlegmatic.

Miasm
Psora, syphilis and sycosis.

Relation to Heat & Cold


Predominantly chilly.

Side affinity
Most remedies are RIGHT SIDED.

Sphere of Action
Mucus membrane, eyes, nose, rectum, larynx, urinary organs
and extremities.

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Group Study in Homeopathic Materia Medica
Araceae Family 61

Characteristic Mental Symptoms


• Unconscious about what he is doing.
• Forgetful.
• Absence of mind.
• Delirium.
• Irritable disposition.
• Restlessness or irritability - in delirium he bores the nose,
picks at one spot or dry lips until it is sore or bleeds.
• "Picking of the ends of fingers."
• "Bores head into pillow."
• Children excessively cross, stubborn, nervous, irritable and
restless.
• Apprehension about anything.
• Great languor and depression during asthma at night.
Common Characteristic Physical Symptoms
• Headache with dull, heavy sensation from least intellectual
effort.
• Heavy sensation, shooting pain in head.
• Excoriating discharges make the nostril raw and lips sore,
swollen.
• Dryness of mouth, drinks little at a time.
• Glandular enlargement.
• Violent action of heart shakes the chest wall, flushing of hands
and face.
• Sleepless from itching of skin and soreness in throat and mouth.
Sleepless due to vivid dreams.
• Offensive urine, burning of urethra after micturition.

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Excerpts from Dr. J.D. Patil, M.D.,
Group Study in Homeopathic Materia Medica
J.D. Patil
Group Study in Homeopathic Materia
Medica
with 'Quick Review Flow Charts'

320 pages, pb
publication 2016

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