• Sexual desire and excitement with a relaxed penis
• Sweet sweat, attracts flies
• Falls asleep during evening fever and wakes when it stops

Source: Vegetable Kingdom
Synonyms: Caladium, Americum arum, Arum senguinum, Dum cane
Family: Araceae
Prover: Dr E.W.Berridge
Duration of Action: As per Clarke, 30-40 days
Miasmatic Background: Sycosis; also psora and syphilis
Temperament: Phlegmatic

Introduction and History: Like the other Arums, Caladium has an intensely irritating effect on the mucous membranes and skin producing severe burning sensations. Caladium seems to lessen the craving for tobacco.

H.N. Martin gives a picture: “Caladium is similar to Lycopodium, the patient wants to lie down always, better from sweat, opposite of Mercurius, and better after a short sleep, opposite to Lachesis. Perspiration attracts flies.”

Genitals relaxed and perspire. Patient afraid to go to sleep and doesn’t know why. Itching of vulva with burning.

Habit and Habitat: It is found in South America.

Constitution and Physiognomy: It is suited to persons of lax, phlegmatic temperament.

Seat of Action (Pharmacodynamics): It acts the on mind, ears, eyes, female genital organs, head, heart, kidneys, lungs, male genital organs, nose, skin, stomach, abdomen and sensorium.

Ailments From: Gonorrhoea, masturbation, tobacco habbit, poisoning.

Physio-pathological Changes (Pathology)

1. It has a marked action on the genital organs and itching of this region.
2. It modifies the craving for tobacco.

Characteristic Mental Symptoms (Psychology)

1. Patient is very careful about health.
2. Patient is restless, cannot control himself after smoking.
3. He refuses to take medicine.
4. Forgetful.
5. Nervous excitation; fear of catching a disease.
6. He is afraid of his own shadow.
7. Presence of foolish boldness in the patient.
8. Patient is nervous and craves tobacco.

Characteristic Physical Guiding Symptoms

Sensitiveness: Patient is very sensitive to noise, slightest noise startles from sleep.

Sweat: Sweet sweat attract flies.

Aversions: Has an aversion to motion, dreads movement.

Cravings: Intense craving for tobacco.

Eructations: Frequent eructations of very little wind, as if the stomach were full of dry food.

Impotence: Impotence with mental depression, relaxed penis, and sexual desire and excitements. There is no erection even after caressing, no emission, no orgasm during an embrace.

Pruritus vaginae: Itching of the vagina which induces orgasm, during pregnancy with mucoid discharges.

Fever: Patient falls asleep during the evening fever and wakes when it stops.

Skin: Mosquito and insect bites burn and itch intensely.

Important Characteristic Features

Sexual sphere: It has marked action on the genitals with itching of this region. It is one of the best remedies for itching of the vagina. Pruritus vulvae in females, which may sometimes be due to thread worms finding their way into the vagina, thus inducing masturbation and sometimes nymphomania.

There is great disturbance in the male sexual sphere. Impotence despite lascivious thoughts. Nocturnal emissions occurring either without dreams or with nonsexual dreams. There is spermatorrhoea. Glans is flabby from masturbation; prepuce is drawn back, remains so due to loss of contractility. Worse on falling asleep, warmth, from sexual excess, motion, sudden noises; better after Sweat, after sleeping during daytime, cold air, short nap.

General Modalities

Aggravation: From sexual excesses, motion, sudden noise, on falling asleep, from tobacco smoking, from warmth, aversion to cold water but bathing with cold water improves itching.

Amelioration: After sweat, after sleeping during the daytime, cold air, short nap.

Remedy Relationships

Complementary: Nit-ac.

Incompatible: Arum-t.

Comparison

Complete impotence, no sexual power or desire: Agn, Calad, Sel.

Sexual excitement and passion with impotence and a relaxed penis: Calad, Lyc, Sel.

Profuse perspiration after acute diseases with relief of all sufferings: Calad, Nat-m, Psor.

Pruritus vagina induces onanism (masturbation) in girls: Calad, Orig, Zinc.

Aversion to motion: Bry, Cadm-s.

Caladium Seguinum Dosage: 3 to 30 potency.

Repetition: Bears repetition well.

Therapeutic Value: Asthma, Dropsical swelling, Gonorrhoea, Impotence, Itching, Masturbation, Mosquito bites, Nymphomania, Poisoning, Pruritus vulvae, Spermatorrhoea, Tobacco habit, Typhoid, Typhus, Worms.