Its action on the chest muscles is most marked and has been verified. Sick headache, with flatulence in stomach and bowels. Dyspepsia. Bronchitis and pleurisy come within its range. Catarrhal states from cold and damp weather. Irritation of larynx with huskiness; grip, with pleuritic pain.
ASCLEPIAS TUBEROSA
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Natural
Clinical Applications
Compare: Asclepias Incarnata -Swamp Milk Weed (Chronic gastric Catarrh and leucorrha. Dropsy with dyspna) Periploca groeca -One of the Asclepiades--(Cardiac tonic, acts on circulation and respiratory center, accelerating respiration in a ratio disproportionate to pulse). Bryonia; Dulc .
Key Symptoms & Indications
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Its action on the chest muscles is most marked and has been verified. Sick headache, with flatulence in stomach and bowels. Dyspepsia. Bronchitis and pleurisy come within its range. Catarrhal states from cold and damp weather. Irritation of larynx with huskiness; grip, with pleuritic pain.
Physical Symptoms
Respiratory
Respiration painful, especially at base of left lung. Dry cough; throat constricted; causes pain in head and abdomen. Pain in chest; shooting downward from left nipple. A general eliminative remedy, acting specially on the sudoriparous glands. Chest pains are relieved by bending forward. Spaces between ribs close to sternum tender. Lancinating pain between shoulders. Catarrh, with frontal headache, and sticky yellow discharge.
Stomach
Fullness, pressure, weight. Flatulence after meals. Sensitive to tobacco.
Rectum
Catarrhal dysentery, with rheumatic pains all over . Stools smell like rotten eggs.
Extremities
Rheumatic joints give sensation as if adhesions being broken up on bending.
Mentions in Classic Materia Medicas
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ASCLEPIAS TUBEROSA
Respiration painful, especially at base of left lung. Dry cough; throat constricted; causes pain in head and abdomen. Pain in chest; shooting downward from left nipple. A general eliminative remedy, acting specially on the sudoriparous glands. Chest pains are relieved by bending forward. Spaces between ribs close to sternum tender. Lancinating pain between shoulders. Catarrh, with frontal headache, and sticky yellow discharge.
Fullness, pressure, weight. Flatulence after meals. Sensitive to tobacco.
Catarrhal dysentery, with rheumatic pains all over. Stools smell like rotten eggs.
Rheumatic joints give sensation as if adhesions being broken up on bending.
Compare: Asclepias Incarnata-Swamp Milk Weed (Chronic gastric Catarrh and leucorrhœa. Dropsy with dyspnœa) Periploca groeca-One of the Asclepiades--(Cardiac tonic, acts on circulation and respiratory center, accelerating respiration in a ratio disproportionate to pulse). Bryonia; Dulc.
Tincture and first potency.
Asclepias Tuberosa.
Alopecia. Asthma. Bilious fever. Bronchitis. Catarrh. Chancre. Colic. Cough. Diarrhœa. Dysentery. Headache. Heart, affections of. Influenza. Ophthalmia. Pericarditis. Pleurisy. Pleurodynia. Rheumatism. Scrofula. Syphilis.
Asclep. tub. causes sharp, stitching, pricking pains; < by motion. It is of the hydrogenoid type, corresponding to catarrhal complaints from cold and damp weather. Rheumatic pains affect the body diagonally, l. upper and r. lower, or the opposite. Muscular and articular rheumatism with stitching pains, dark red urine and hot, perspiring skin. Sensitive to tobacco. Pain in forehead and abdomen from coughing. Griping and sharp peritoneal pains < by pressure. Dysentery in autumn; and painful diarrhœa with griping and tenesmus. Warm feeling in chest. Dyspnœa. Cough hard and dry; or hoarse, croupy with tight breathing and constriction of larynx, and acute pleuritic pains. Pains in lungs > bending forward. Stitches in l. side shooting over to r. and up to l. shoulder. Influenza with pleuritic pains. Cutting pain behind sternum; intercostal spaces near sternum tender to pressure. Pain like pricking of a needle in region of heart. Contracting pain in heart. Sharp pains, starting from l. nipple downward with stiffness of l. side of neck. Excessive weakness, walking seems impossible. Bilious marsh-fever on rice plantations. High fever with hot sweat. Catarrhal complaints from cold and damp weather. Diarrhœa is < in winter. Symptoms < in morning; on rising; by motion; by coughing; by tobacco. Chest pains < 4 a.m. and 4 p.m.
Compare: Agar. (diagonal pains); Bry.; Verat. relieved pains with stool at night. Dulc. (< cold and damp).
Weakness of memory thinking difficult.─At 9 p.m. cheerful, mood changed, and without any cause he became fretful and feverish.
Feeling of drunkenness with weakness of sight after smoking a very little.─Swimming of the head with dulness behind forehead.─Dull headache in the forehead and vertex, < by motion; > by lying down.─Headache in the morning on rising.─Headache > after a foot-bath.─Headache pressing deeply on, the base of the skull.─Pain in the forehead from coughing.─Alopecia.
Eyes look dull, fatigued, and heavy (as after long illness).─Ophthalmia, with itching and pain in eyes.─Feeling of sand in the eyes.─Vision disturbed large spots before the eyes.
Fluent coryza, with much sneezing.─Blowing of blood from l. nostril.─Itching of the nose.─Snuffles of children.
Hippocratic face after violent diarrhœa.─Yellow complexion.─Vesicles on lips.─Itching of lips.
Teeth yellow-coated.─Bleeding of the gums.─Tongue covered with a tough yellow coating.─Taste putrid.─Taste of blood.
Slight constriction of throat, and pricking in larynx.
Loss of appetite; esp. in morning.─Insatiable hunger.─Sensitive to tobacco.─Eructations.─Nausea, and efforts to vomit in the morning when rising.─In stomach: nervous pains; disagreeable weight; burning.─In evening, violent gastralgia after supper; it seems as if coughing would bruise the stomach.─Cramp.
Grumbling in r. hypochondrium.─Throbbing in l. hypochondrium.─Rumbling in the bowels, with uneasiness, or sharp, cutting pains and soreness.─Burning borborygmi.─Colic pains from flatulence.─Colic on going upstairs.─Dull pain in bowels on pressure.
Emission of fetid flatulence.─Soft and fetid stool at 11 a.m., preceded by rumbling in the bowels.─Early morning diarrhœa (1 to 3 a.m.), sudden discharge.─Winter diarrhœa.─Autumnal dysentery.─Tenesmus.─At 11 a.m. another stool, almost black, with many ascarides and yellow spots like fat, with a feeling as if a stream of fire passed through abdomen.─Stools: dysenteric; like white of eggs; yellow; green; clammy; smelling like rotten eggs; enveloped in froth; like moss.─With stool: colic.─After stool: colic continues long.─Constipation after diarrhœa.
Lancinating pain in urethra, excoriation of glans penis in several places, with commencement of sanious and purulent secretion.─Urine very red: looks as if blood were in it.
Flabbiness, perspiration, and insipid smell of genitals.─Excoriation of glans penis in several places, with commencement of sanious discharge (chancre); > by bathing with urine.─Weakness; erection without desire.
Menorrhagia, with violent bearing down.
Dry cough, with constriction of throat; causing pain in forehead and abdomen; dry, hacking cough, < night and morning; from irritation of larynx or bronchia.─Respiration painful, esp. at base of l. lung.─Breath smells like pepper.─Humid asthma; < after eating: < after smoking a little.─Oppression and difficulty of breathing; in paroxysms, like asthma.
Warm feeling in chest.─Sharp pains shooting from l. nipple downward, with stiffness of l. side of neck.─Pain moves up to behind the sternum, and becomes more sharp and cutting, < drawing a long breath, or moving the arms (as in triturating).─The spaces between the ribs, close to the sternum, are sensitive to pressure, and the pain, which is quick and darting, shoots over from l. to r. side, and up to l. shoulder.─Pain in chest relieved by bending forward.─Acute pleuritic pain in r. side, with dry, hacking cough, and scanty mucous expectoration.─Pain in chest low down, in diaphragm.─Sharp pains from l. nipple downward, with stiffness l. side neck.
Constrictive pain in the heart.─Tenderness to pressure over heart.─Lancinating pains; like pricking of a needle in region of heart.─Pain beneath l. nipple with palpitation.─Pulse slightly accelerated.
Stiff-neck (l.); on waking.─Lancinating pains in back and between the shoulders.─Pains shooting from l. chest into l. shoulder.─Sharp pain in loins near sacrum; lumbago.
Rheumatic pain in all the joints.
Sharp, shooting pains in r. shoulder.─Pain in l. shoulder, shooting from l. chest.─Pains near wrists.
Itching of thighs and nates but no eruption.─Coxalgia in r. hip.─Corns painful.
Weak and languid, as if he had been sick a long time.─Emaciation.─Numbness of whole body.
Vesicles, pimples, and pustules all over the body, esp. on arms, legs, and face; itching.
Drowsy.─Uneasy, restless sleep.─Troublesome dreams.
Chill towards noon; with cold feet though room is warm.─Feverish afternoon.─High fever with hot sweat.─Rheumatic; catarrhal; bilious marsh fevers of rice plantations.
Asclepias tuberosa
Asclepias tuberosa
• It increases the Secretions of Skin; serous and mucous membranes - causing profuse perspiration in pleuro-pneumonia, diarrhoea or rheumatic conditions, - colliquative states.
• It causes sharp, stitching, pricking pains agg. motion.
• Excessive weakness, walking seems impossible.
• Numbness of the whole body.
• Influenza with pleurisy.
• Sensitive to tobacco.
• Weak and languid as if he had been sick a long time.
• Unfit for business from pain in bowels and frequent stools.
• Motion.
• Deep breathing.
• Lying.
• Tobacco.
• Rising Coughing.
• Memory weak.
• Ache amel. after foot bath.
• Sticky yellow nasal discharge; Snuffles of children.
• Tough yellow coating on tongue.
• Taste; putrid, of blood.
• Stools smell like rotten eggs; or burn like fire.
• Catarrhal dysentery, with rheumatic pains all over.
• Stools with a feeling as stream of fire passing through abdomen.
• Flabby genitals.
• Dry cough, witth constriction of throat.
• Chest pains amel. bending forward, agg. lying, breathing.
• Short of breath and weak on walking.
• Pleurodynia.
• Pericardial effusion.
• Pleurisy.
• Pain beneath left nipple, with palpitation.
• Ant-t.
ASCLEPIAS TUBEROSA
REGION:
SECRETIONS: SKIN. Serous. Mucous.
Chest (R).
Muscles.
WORSE:
Motion.
Deep breathing.
Lying.
Tobacco.
Colliquative states (Agar.). SWEATINGS; in pleuro-pneumonia, diarrhœa or rheumatism. Body numb. .................... Sticky, yellow nasal discharge. Tough, yellow coat on tongue. Stools smell like rotten eggs, or burn like fire. Dysentery. Flabby genitals. Short of breath and weak on walking. Chest pains, < lying or breathing. Pleurodynia. Pericardial effusion. Pleurisy.
REMEDY RELATION
Related: Ant-t.
Asclepias Tuberosa
(Pleurisy Root)
Pharmacy
asc-t. Asclepiastuberosa. Pleurisy root. Butterfly weed. N.0. Asclepiadacae. North America. Tincture of fresh root. Historical dose: Tincture and all potencies.
Clinical
- Alopecia
- Asthma
- Bilious fever
- Bronchitis
- Catarrh
- Chancre
- Colic
- Coughs
- Diarrhea
- Dyspnea
- Dysentery
- Flatulence
- Headaches
- Heart disorders
- Influenza
- Marsh fever
- Ophthalmia
- Pericarditis
- Pleurisy
- Pleurodynia
- Pleuropneumonia
- Pneumonia
- Rheumatism
- Scrofula
- Syphilis
Herbal
Asc-t. is said to be diaphoretic and expectorant, without being stimulant. In large doses, it is often a cathartic. It is thought, by the herbal doctors, to act prominently on the cutaneous system, stimulating the capillary circulation, promoting diaphoresis.
Homeopathic
Asclepias tuberosa has been used for bronchitis and pleurisy. Marked action on the chest muscles, which has been verified. Also effective in autumn dysentery with painful diarrhea, griping, and tenesmus. Increases the secretions of skin, serous, and mucus membranes. Catarrhal states from cold and damp weather. Bronchitis and pleurisy. Pains in lungs better bending forward. Stitches in left side shooting over to right and up to left shoulder. Profuse perspiration in pneumonia and pleuropneumonia.
A general eliminative remedy, acting specially on the sweat glands. Influenza with pleuritic pains. Cutting pain behind sternum, intercostal spaces near sternum tender to pressure. Catarrhal complaints from cold and damp weather. Bilious marsh fever on rice plantations. High fever with hot sweat.
Sick headache with flatulence in stomach and bowels. Dyspepsia. Sensitive to tobacco. Unfit for business because of pain in bowels and frequent stools. Irritation of larynx with huskiness, grip with pleuritic pain. Diarrhea or rheumatic conditions. Muscular and joint rheumatism with stitching pains, dark red urine, and hot, perspiring skin.
Heart
Pericardial effusion. Constrictive pain in the heart. Tenderness to pressure over heart. Sharp pains, like pricking of a needle in the region of heart. Pulse slightly accelerated.
Kidneys
Sharp pain in urethra, excoriation of glans penis in several places with bloody and purulent secretion. Urine very red, looks as if blood were in it.
Limbs
Rheumatic pain in all the joints. Rheumatic pains that affect the body diagonally, or left upper and right lower or the opposite. Pains near wrists. Joints give sensations as if adhesions being broken up on bending. Itching of thighs and buttocks but no eruption. Pain in right hip. Corns painful.
Lungs
Short of breath and weak on walking. Bronchitis and pleurisy. Dry cough, throat constricted, causes pain in head and abdomen.
Breathing painful, at base of left lung. Humid asthma, worse after eating, worse after smoking a little. Oppression and difficulty of breathing, in paroxysms, like asthma. Catarrh with frontal headache and sticky yellow discharge.
Male
Flabbiness, perspiration, and insipid smell of genitals. Excoriation of glans penis in several places with a bloody discharge, better by bathing with urine. Chancre. Weakness, erection without desire.
Modalities
- Worse in morning
- Worse on rising
- Worse by motion
- Worse by coughing
- Worse from tobacco
- Worse from motion
- Worse deep breathing
- Worse lying down
- Worse rising up
- Worse coughing
Mouth
Breath smells like pepper. Tough yellow coating on tongue. Taste, putrid of blood. Teeth yellow-coated. Bleeding of the gums. Tongue covered with a tough yellow coating.
Nose
Sticky yellow nasal discharge. Snuffles of children. Fluent coryza with much sneezing. Blowing of blood from left nostril. Itching of the nose. Snuffles of children.
Rectum
Autumnal dysentery. Tenesmus. Catarrhal dysentery with rheumatic pains. Diarrhea is worse in winter. Stools with a feeling as stream of fire passing through abdomen. Soft and fetid stool. Early morning diarrhea. Winter diarrhea. Stools like white of eggs, yellow, green, clammy, enveloped in froth, like moss. Stools smell like rotten eggs or burn like fire. Constipation after diarrhea.
Skin
Vesicles, pimples, and pustules all over the body, especially on arms, legs, and face, itching.
Sleep
Drowsy. Uneasy, restless sleep. Troublesome dreams.
Stomach
Fullness, pressure, weight. Belchings. Nausea, and efforts to vomit, in the morning when rising. Stomach pains, burning, disagreeable weight. In evening, violent stomach pain after supper. Cramps.
Temperature
Chill towards noon, with cold feet though room is warm. Feverish afternoon. High fever with hot sweat. Rheumatic, catarrhal, bilious marsh fevers of rice plantations.
Throat
Slight constriction of throat, and pricking in larynx.
Vertigo
Feeling of drunkenness with weakness of sight after smoking a very little. Swimming of the head with dullness behind forehead.
Comments
Sharp, stitching, pricking pains, worse by motion. Sensitive to tobacco. Pain in forehead and abdomen from coughing. Griping and sharp peritoneal pains, worse by pressure. Excessive weakness, walking seems impossible.
Dyspnea. Hard cough, dry or hoarse, croupy with tight breathing and constriction of larynx and acute pleuritic pains. Warm feeling in chest. Pain like pricking of a needle in region of heart. Contracting pain in heart. Sharp pains, starting from left nipple downward with stiffness of left side of neck.
Increased secretions of skin, serous, and mucus membranes. Catarrhal states from cold and damp weather. Bronchitis and pleurisy (often will follow Bry. in pleurisy cases), coughing and pain in the chest and pain on breathing. Pains in lungs, better bending forward.
Stitches in left side shooting over to right and up to left shoulder. Profuse perspiration in pleuropneumonia.
Relations
Compare:
- (1) Ant-t.
- (2) Asclepias incamata.
- Pcnplocagreca - Cardiac tonic, acts on circulation and respiratory center, accelerating the respiration in a ratio disproportionate to pulse.
- (3) Agar., diagonal pains.
- (4) Bry., Verat. Relieved pains with stool at night.
- (5) Dulc. - worse cold and damp.
References
Boericke. Clarke.
Clinical Tips & Practitioner Insights
"TUBERCULINUM should never be forgotten and should be administered at the commencement of the treatment for tubercular meningitis. It is a constitutional remedy and prevents as well as cures. Give a single dose of 200 dilution and no medicine for 6 to 12 hours, unless the patient-s condition demands immediate change to another indicated medicine."
"Always keep TUBERCULINUM in mind when treating sore throats, with frequent tonsillitis and enlarged tonsils."
"In bowel tuberculosis, with enlarged lymph nodes - there comes the matter of differentiating the different kinds of TUBERCULINUM; I have found that TUBERCULINUM BOVINUM helps more when there is tuberculosis of the glands, and bowel tuberculosis."
"TUBERCULINUM is almost routinely successful for herpes cincinata, when other symptoms are lacking."
"When the pneumonia hangs fire and refuses to clear up, and a tuberculous history is elicited and TUB. BOV. is given, there is apt to be a rise of temperature for a few hours, then it stops and does not rise again while the patient makes the desired recovery."
"Early diagnosis of an incipient renal tuberculosis is the most simple procedure. A dose of TUBERCULINUM discloses in nearly all cases not only the tubercular character of the disease, but also the location."
"If TUBERCULINUM BOVINUM be given in 10m, 50m and cm potencies, two doses of each potency at long intervals, all children and young people who have inherited tuberculosis may be immunised from their inheritance and their resiliency will be restored."
"I have cured probably 100 cases of adenoids with TUBERCULINUM alone ."
"TUBERCULIN in high potency is a remedy for amenorrhoea which I find very useful when various indicated remedies fail to bring on flow in psoric patients."
"Koch-s TUBERCULINUM was claimed as a remedy for Lupus rather than for tuberculosis. It has proved curative in the 30th and 200th homoeopathic potencies, in rarely repeated doses, as also has BACILLINUM."
Remedy Profile
- Type Remedy
- Common Name N/A
- Origin Source Natural
Dosage & Potency
Tincture and first potency.
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