# Ananatherum Muricatum

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Syphilitic Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
A medicinal grass culti vated in the Markarentas Islands, East India. Anantherum has 
produced a state of drunken ness and intoxication. Farrington noted if for “Erysipelas with much swelling of 
arms and legs, darkred or bluish eruptions with tendency to suppurate.”  
Anantherum is a skin remedy of high order. Abscesses,  boils. Abscesses, ulcers and fissures on arms and 
hands. Tumors of breast, ulcerated indurated. 
Herpes and ulcers or scabs on scalp. Tu mors, wart-like growths on eyebrows. Fall ing off of eyebrows and 
beard. Chancre-like ulcers on penis. Eruptions like i tch or lichen. Ulcers at labial commissures. Pustules like 
smallpox on vulva. Syphilis. 
Severe neuralgic headache, as if bells moved about in head, as of steel arrows from forehead to nape. Pains 
in facial bones as if crushed or ulcerated. Convulsive tic. Plugged sensation. Glandular swellings 
especially of sub-maxillary and cervical glands. Swelling of tonsils, constriction of throat, inability to swallow. 
Painful swelling of various parts extending to suppuration.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Coffee at first worse, then better. Wine and coffee aggravates the toothache.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Sadness and restlessness with fear  of death and the future.
- Sheds tears easily.
- Dread of society.
- Seeks solitude and obscurity.
- Apathetic.
- Anger with desire to strike and destroy.
- Quarrelsome, but after being 
angry he often regrets what he has done.
- Jealousy.
- Foolish joy and absurd compla cency.
- Changes in his mood and turn of thought.
- Ardent desire to travel.
- Blunted intellect and loss of memory.
- Haste 
in all his actions.
- Persistent fear of death during all his suf fering.
- Monomania, as for rowing about in a boat, 
dressing or walking out in a grotesque manner, always frequenting the same places and doing the same things.
- Sadness and restlessness with fear  of death and the future.
- Sheds tears easily.
- Dread of society.
- Seeks solitude and obscurity.
- Apathetic.
- Anger with desire to strike and destroy.
- Quarrelsome, but after being 
angry he often regrets what he has done.
- Jealousy.
- Foolish joy and absurd compla cency.
- Changes in his mood and turn of thought.
- Ardent desire to travel.
- Blunted intellect and loss of memory.
- Haste 
in all his actions.
- Persistent fear of death during all his suf fering.
- Monomania, as for rowing about in a boat, 
dressing or walking out in a grotesque manner, always frequenting the same places and doing the same things.

### Head
- Pains pierce brain like pointed arrows, worse in afternoon.
- Herpes, ulcers and tumors on scalp.
- Wart -
like growth on eyebrows.
- Boils and tumors on tip of nose.
- Pains pierce brain like pointed arrows, worse in afternoon.
- Herpes, ulcers and tumors on scalp.
- Wart -
like growth on eyebrows.
- Boils and tumors on tip of nose.

### Eyes
- Swelling and ulceration of the lachrymal glands.
- Weakness of the eyes.

### Ears
- Very copious secretion of cerumen.
- Heat and smarting in the lobes of the ears.
- Fissures in the lobes of 
the ears.
- Noises, murmurs and hissing in the ears.

### Face
- Face yellowish or red, enlarged inflamed and congested.
- Face pale, trans parent and white as wax.
- Face gray, cold and frozen looking and paralyzed.
- Face emaciated, bluish, cyanotic, contracted, shrunken with 
hollow eyes.

### Mouth
- Tongue fissured, as if cut on edges, copious salivation.
- Constant inclination to clench the teeth.
- Sensation of cold in the teeth with heat in the gums and the whole mouth.
- Burning in the teeth, gums and lips, 
as if they were burned.
- Gum-boils.
- Very painful pimples on the tongue with itching and burning.

### Chest
- Burning and sensation of weight in the heart with sadness, anguish and fear of death.
- Stitches and 
formication in the heart with great anxiety.
- Kidneys - Turbid, thick urine, full of mucus.
- Bladder cannot hold smallest quantity.
- Involuntary.
- Cystitis.
- Constant urging to urinate with stitches and crushing pains in the kidneys.
- Frequent emission of urine, which 
is turbid or soon becomes so.
- Sensation of a numbness and obstruction in the kidneys and bladder were 
always full and swollen.
- Liver - Sensation of heat and of congestion o f the liver.
- Cramps in the hepatic region with sensation as if it 
were full of painful tuberosities.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Obstinate, convulsive hiccough.
- Burning in the stomach, as if it were on fire.
- Excessive and almost 
continual secretion of phlegm.
- Vomiting of the food and of bile, with hunger even after eating.
- Vomiting of food 
and often of blood after meals.
- Vomiting of acrid, burning matter, followed by bile and blood.
- Pains in the 
stomach with cold sweats on the face and back.
- Cramps, lancination and digging in the region of the spleen with loss of respiration.
- Spleen as if 
ulcerated and hypertrophied.
- Burning in the whole abdomen, as if he had erysipelas.
- Inflammation and swelling 
of the abdomen, very painful.
- Abdomen inflated, tense and hard, with tympanitic sound on percussion.
- Colic, 
cramps and tearing pains in the abdomen, sensation as if there were a red-hot iron in it.
- Breasts - Breasts swollen indurated, nipples excoriated.
- The breasts are atrophied and become soft.
- Heat 
and pain in the breasts, as if they had been gashed with a penknife.
- Inflammation and swelling.
- Congestions 
of the breasts as from accumulation of milk.
- Lancin ating, pulsating and pressive pains.
- Excoriation of the 
nipples.
- Constitutions - Psoric and allergic constitutions.
- Morbid hunger, wakes up in night to eat, as if he had a tapeworm.
- Burning, unquenchable thirst.
- Longing 
for aromatic drinks.

### Urinary & Genital
- Excoriations on the prepuce and urethral meatus.
- Secretion of a thick substance of very strong odor, 
between the glans and prepuce, which are swollen.
- Burning, stitching and pinching in the penis.
- Syphilitic -looking pimples on the penis with intense pains, 
traversing from one part of another.
- Scirrhus-like swelling of cervix.
- Prolapsed uterus.
- Sterility, as from atrophy of the ovaries.
- Swelling 
of the uterus.
- Menstruation very painful and copious, the blood generally b right or light-colored.
- Menstruation 
retarded, the blood dark, thick, followed by fetid leucorrhea.
- Sup pression of menses.
- Menstruation frequent 
and painful.
- Great itching and burning in the vulva.
- Whitish and reddish eruptions on the vulva.
- Leucorrhea 
watery, clear or milky and of very bad odor.
- Thick, purulent, yellow or green leucorrhea.

### Skin
- Itching.
- Offensive foot sweat.
- Diseased and deformed nails.
- Herpes.
- Abscesses, boils and ulcers.
- Erysipelas.
- Chancre-like sores.
- COMMENTS - Burning and stitches.
- Thirsty, but cannot drink.
- Burning heat alternating with icy coldness in 
gullet, as of something alive in gullet.
- Involuntary urination when walking and during sleep.
- Formication as from ants.
- Ulcers yellowish, violet, swollen, everted, syphilitic.
- Discharges from ulcers are foul, foul breath and belchings.
- Sexual desire increased by every attempt to satisfy 
it until driven to onanism and madness.

### Sleep
- Restless sleep with cries, starting up, movements of the limbs and anxious dreams.
- Comatose sleep 
with disturbing dreams and snoring.
- Prolonged sleep in the morning with inclination to lie abed late.
- Sleep with 
frequent dreams, alternate coldness and heat and burning of the whole body, intense thirst and fright.