Arum triphyllum

Jack-in-the-pulpit

Region
Mucous membranes [mouth; THROAT; larynx]. Kidneys. Brain. Blood. Skin.

Modalities
Worse: Overuse of voice [TALKING; singing]. Cold, wet winds. Heat. LEFT SIDE.

Leading symptoms
M - Child excessively cross and stubborn.
G - BURNING - internally and externally.
G - PAINFULLY SORE, RAW and BURNING PARTS, especially nose, upper lip, corners
of mouth; and CONSTANT PICKING or boring until it BLEEDS.
G - ACRID discharges; agg. LEFT. Redness around mouth, lower face.
G - "Typhoid fever and other ailments and constant picking of lips and nose until it
bleeds." Child refuses food and drinks on account of soreness of mouth and throat;
is sleepless.
P - Complete loss of voice after exposure to cold wind, or VOICE CHANGEABLE [low,
high, failing, hoarse, squeaky, breaking, all in alternation].
P - Impetigo contagiosa.
P - Clergyman's sore throat [= laryngitis]; agg. talking or continuous speaking; voice
hoarse, uncontrollable, changing. Of speakers, actors, singers. "Chronic cases of
hoarseness."
P - "Eczema of scalp in children suffering from catarrhal affections of eyes, nose and
throat" [Mathur].
P - "Mostly for acute colds and hay fevers" [Morrison].
P - Itching fingers and toes; bites nails until fingers bleed.
P - "Nose feels blocked up in spite of the watery discharge." Sneezing agg. night.
"Can hardly talk from mucus in nares."
P - HEAT of FACE and HEAD during CORYZA [agg. LEFT].

Repertory
Mind
Bites, fingers [2], himself [1], nails [2]. Delirium, picking at nose or lips, with [2/1].
Gestures, picks at bedclothes [1]. Obstinate, children [1].
Head
Heat, coryza, during [3]. Pain, heated, from becoming, by a fire or stove [2], hot
drinks agg. [2], warm food agg. [2].
Nose
Boring in, with fingers [3]. Coryza, left [3], violent attacks [3]. Discharge, copious,
with stuffing of head [2], morning [2/1]; crusts, high up [1]; thick, daytime [2/1];
yellow, daytime [2/1]. Obstruction, left [2], sensation of, with watery discharge [1].
Pain, in, rawness [3], rawness, nostrils [2]; sore, inside, left [3]. Sneezing, night [2].
Face
Bleeding, lips [3]. Chapped, lips [3]. Cracked, corners of mouth [3]. Discoloration,
red, eating, after [1]; red, lips [1]. Heat, coryza, during [3].
Larynx
Inflammation, larynx, speakers, in [3]. Voice, changeable [3], deep [2], hoarseness,
overuse of the voice, from [3], singing, from [3], talking, from [3]; lost, wind, after
exposure to northwest [2/1].

Food
Desire: Cold drinks [1]; cold water [1]. Worse: Coffee [1]; hot food [1].

Nucleus
1. Affinity with left side [NOSE]. Coryza [left-sided] and heat of head and face.
2. Acrid, reddening discharge from nose; parts raw, sore and burning, and constant
picking of lips and boring in nose [due to tingling]. Acute colds and hay fevers.
3. Aphonia from cold wind, singing, continuous speaking. Or changeable voice.
4. Bites nails until fingers bleed. Notes