POTHOS FOETIDA
Botanical naine: Pothos foetidus Mich.
Known:
- English: Bear’s foot;
- French: Racine de pothos fetide;
- German: Stinkends Drachewurzel
Preparation
- Mother Tincture, Drug Strength 1/10
- Pothos foetidus in coarse powder: 100 g
- Purified Water: 500 ml
- Strong Alcohol: 537 ml
(Source: Varma P. N. and Indu V., Encyclopedia of the Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia)
Clinical tips by:
Boericke William, Pocket manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica
- Inflation and tension of stomach and abdomen. [Pothos.] in comparison to Gentiana Lutea
- Violent pulsation of arteries. [Pothos; Glonoine.] in relation to Oniscus, compare : Pothos. foet.; Canth.
Dewey W. A. Practical Homoeopathic Therapeutics
- Pothos foetida and Cyclamen have excessive attacks of sneezing.
Farrington E. A. Clinical Materia Medica
Pothos foetida is a remedy you should remember in asthma. It is useful for asthma that is worse from any inhalation of dust, as, for example, the inhalation of the dust in a hay-loft, and that is relieved by stool.
Gupta R. L. Directory of Diseases and Cure in Homoeopathy
- Pothos foetida-3x, 6. Asthma from inhaling the dust, better after bowels moved.-which actually relieves abdominal distention.
- Pothos-foet. 1X-3X, Asthma after inhaling the dust in a hay loft, see it also under bronchial asthma.
Ward J. W. Unabridged Dictionary of the “Sensation As if”
- Pain in the pit of the stomach on stepping firmly, as if something was breaking off. Pothos (A)
- Drawing from both sides of the forehead to the glabella, very violent in the region of the latter, as if drawn by a magnet. Pothos (A)
- Sensation in walking as if the bowels were shaking. Pothos (A)
- Sensation as of emptiness in the chest. Pothos Foetidus (LP)
- Sensation as of numbness of the tongue. Pothos Foetidus (LP)
