Arum triphyllum
as H.C. Allen recorded it in Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica, 1899
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Keynotes
Arum triphyllum
Indian Turnip. Aracece.
Coryza ; acrid, fluent; nostrils raw.
Nose feels stopped up in spite of the watery discharge (compare. Am. c., Samb., Sinap. ) ; sneezing < at night.
Acrid, ichorous discharge, excoriating inside of nose, alse, and upper lip (Ars., Cepa).
Constant picking at the nose until it bleeds ; boring with the finger into the side of the nose.
Picks lips until they bleed ; corners of mouth sore, cracked, bleeding (with malignant tendency, Cund. ); bites nails until fingers bleed.
Patients pick and bore into the raiv bleeding sur- • faces though very painful ; scream with pain but keep up the boring (in diphtheria, scarlatina, typhoid).
Children refuse food and drink on account of soreness of mouth and throat (Mer.) ; are sleepless.
Saliva profuse, acrid, corrodes the mucous membrane; tongue and buccal cavity raw and bleeding.
Aphonia : complete, after exposure to northwest winds (Acon., Hep.) ; from singing (Arg. n., Caust., Phos., Sel.).
Clergyman’s sore throat; voice hoarse, uncertain, uncontrollable, changing continually; worse from talking, speaking or singing; orators, singers, actors.
Desquamation in large flakes, a second or third time, in scarlatina.
Typhoid scarlatina, with apathy, scanty or suppressed urine ; threatened ursemia.
The sore mouth and nose are guiding in malignant scarlatina and diphtheria.
Relations. — Useful : after Hep. and Nit. ac. in dry, hoarse, croupy cough ; after Caust. and Hep. in morning hoarseness and deafness, and in scarlatina.
Should not be given low or repeated often, as bad effects often follow. — Dr. L.
The higher potencies most prompt and effective.
What the other books say about Arum triphyllum
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Arum triphyllum in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Arum triphyllum in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
- Arum triphyllum in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
- Arum triphyllum in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.
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Cite this page. H.C. Allen. Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica. 3rd edition (1910). Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel. Arum triphyllum — Keynotes, pp. 48–50. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/allen/arum-triphyllum. Published 1910: public domain in the US (before 1931) and in India (author died 1909). Replaces B. Jain's 2005 "rearranged and classified" edition (© the publisher), per the owner's decision of 13 Sep 2026. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.