Asclepias Cornuti

(Milkweed)

Pharmacy

asc-c. Asclepias comuti. Milkweed. Silkweed. Asclepias syriaca. N.

0. Asclepiadacae. North America. Tincture of root. Historical dose: Tincture and all potencies.

Clinical

• Allergies
• Bronchitis
• Catarrhal fever
• Diaphoresis
• Dropsy
• Dysmenorrhea
• Hay fever
• Headaches
• Indigestion
• Influenza
• Menses, scanty
• Miscarriage
• Neuralgia
• Pleurisy
• Rheumatism
• Uremia
• Uterine pains

Homeopathic

Asclepias comuti is a remedy for dropsy, hepatic, kidney, or after scarlet fever. It causes diaphoresis and augments the urinary secretion. Dropsy after heart disease. Uremia. Intermittent, pressing-down uterine pains.

Acts especially on the nervous system and urinary organs. Nervous headache, as if a sharp instrument were thrust through from one temple to the other with vomiting, followed by sweating or profuse urination. Belching of food with its proper taste.

Influenza, catarrhal fever, bronchitis, hay fever. Headache from checked sweat or retention of effete matters. Uterine pains are intermittent, pressing with threatened miscarriage. Coldness of surface after vomiting. Diaphoresis, profuse sweat. Acute rheumatism confined to large joints with much pain and swelling.

Abdomen

• Flatuent colic
• Rumbling in abdomen, as if diarrhea would set in
• Pain and soreness in abdomen, with or without distension
• Stitching and aching pains, in left side of abdomen

Back

Cutting and aching about lowest dorsal vertebra.

Female

Intermittent, bearing-down, labor-like pains, pressing from sacrum to hypogastrium. Scanty flow. Suppression of menses.

Food

Increased appetite, vomiting, and headache with constipation. Great appetite even a few hours after a meal.

Head

Constriction across forehead. Feels as if a sharp instrument were thrust through from temple to temple.

Head

Nervous headache after suppressed perspiration, followed by increased urine with increase of specific gravity. Headache from retention of effete matters in the system.

Heart

Action of heart lessened, pulse slow. Feeble pulse after vomiting.

Kidneys

Ardor urinae. Increased flow of urine. Pale-colored urine with light specific gravity. Increase of solid matters in urine.

Lungs

Increase of the bronchial secretions. Burning and tickling in fauces. Pain in left side of chest on deep inspiration (pleurisy).

Male

Tickling sensation at the end of the penis.

Perspiration

Diaphoresis, profuse sweat.

Rectum

Diarrhea with nausea and vomiting with excoriation of the anus. Copious stools of soft, fluid consistence, yellowish in color and attended with some griping pain. Constipation, pain in right side, lower limbs, loss of appetite.

Sleep

Drowsy, sleepiness, hard sleep during the night.

Stomach

Excessive nausea with violent headache, violent vomiting, and retching. Severe and long-continued vomiting. Sensation of rawness in the stomach and pain.

Temperature

Coldness of the surface of the skin and feeble pulse.

Throat

Burning and tickling in the fauces with nausea and headache.

Tongue

Tongue covered with a white fur.

Vertigo

Vertigo, dullness, and stupidity.

Vertigo with headache.

Relations

Compare: (1) Cimic., Bry., Colch., Asc-t. (2) Asclepias, Vincetoxicum.

References

Boericke. Clarke.