APOCYNUM CANNABINUM

REGION:
URINARY ORGANS.
Heart.
Digestive tract.
Uterus.

WORSE:
COLD: Weather. Drinks.
Uncovering.
Lying.

BETTER:
Warmth.

Weak and dropsical. Scanty discharges. Irritation. .................... Bewildered. Can't think. Faint. Thirst, but water distresses; vomits every drink. Uræmic vomiting. Sinking at epigastrium. Noisy, yellow, painless, gushing stools. Diarrhœa; with dropsy. Bed-wetting of old men. Enlarged prostate. Uterine hæmorrhage, then dropsy (Chin.). Oppression of chest. Rough, dry skin. Can't sweat. Sleepy. Pulse slow, fluttering, irregular or intermittent.

REMEDY RELATION

Related: Chin-ar. Nux-v.

Apocynum Androsae-mifolium

(Spreading Dogbane)

Pharmacy

Apoc, -a Apocynum androsae-mifolium. Spreading dogbane. N.O. Apocynaceae. Tincture from the root.

Historical dose: TID cure and all potencies.

Clinical

• Diarrhea
• Dropsy
• Nausea
• Neuralgia of face
• Rheumatic pains
• Vomiting
• Wandering rheumatism
• Worms

Homeopathic

Acute rheumatism with great stiffness. General rheumatic pains. Flying pains in different parts. Its pains are of a wandering nature with much stiffness and drawing. The pains go from above downward, are worse when breathing and on turning to the left side.

Itching of body and face. Profuse sweat of whole body. Swollen sensations. Trembling and prostration. Worms. Everything smells or tastes like honey.

It has been proved in large doses, its most prominent symptoms included "Heaviness with great desire to sleep. Trembling of the body. Prostration and trembling. Swollen sensations of face and body. Swelling of hands and feet, showing its relation to dropsical states like Apoc. can. and Stroph."

Face

Twitching in face. Violent pain in left zygoma.

Female

Profuse menstruation lasting eight days with violent, pressing pain.

Head

Pains and stiffness in back of head and neck.

Kidneys

Profuse flow of clear urine.

Limbs

Violent pains in all the joints. Much pain in knee and right shoulder. Pain in toes and soles. Tingling pain in toes. Cramps in soles. Profuse sweat with violent heat in soles (Sulph.). Swelling of hands and feet.

Mouth

Pains in all teeth of left lower jaw. Delightful taste in the mouth.

Nose

Everything smells like honey.

Stomach

Vomiting and purging, better from copious evacuation.

Comments

Hale cured with it rheumatic gout, "Acute pains in the joints attended with cramps, bilious stools and flying pains in the teeth. The tincture in drop doses has been known to expel ascarides and other worms." It has been used for expelling kidney stones and gravel.

Relations

Comparative: (1) Bry., Colch., Benz-ac. (2) Also Apoc., Last., Stroph.

References

Boericke, Clarke.