This is one of the most striking medicines as an illustration of the keynote system, that is, with those who prescribe on one symptom and give this medicine whenever the patient bores his nose or picks his lips, notwithstanding that Cina bores the nose and picks the lips. Cina has more of the congestive and nerve symptoms. The nostrils are really so sore from the acridity of the fluids inside of the nose that it feels as if the nostrils were filled with fire. This is the language of the patients who narrate their symptoms in an Arum triphyllum case. They come into the office with a sore, raw nose, and it tingles and tickles and he cannot let it alone.
Fluids run down over the lip and excoriate.
The glands of the neck are often enlarged. When he takes cold in one nose there is soreness of the neck and parotid gland. Desire to bore into the nose. You will see children boring in the nose, inside of nose. Can hardly talk on account of phlegm in the back part of the nose.