ASTRAGALUS EXCAPUS

Astragalus Excapus

Pharmacy

Astra-e. Astragalus excapus.

N. 0. Papilionoideae. Tincture of the fresh plant with flowers and seeds. Historical dose: Trituration, tincture, and all potencies.

Clinical

• Migraine
• Neuritis
• Syphilis
• Tabes

Herbal

Astra-e. is a leguminous plant which grows in the Canton of Valais. It is a small, herbaceous plant with a short stem and downy leaves. When mature, it has an oval fruit.

Homeopathic

There is no homeopathic symptomatology for this remedy. The symptoms which follow are from O. A. Julian's toxicology and clinical experimentation.

Alternation of mental and pulmonary complaints. Dyspnea and respiratory spasm. Falls easily and has tension disorders of the organs. Giddiness. Pressing pains in the temples, in the maxillary sinuses. Shooting pains above the right eyebrow. Painful sensation of fullness in the left temporal and maxillary regions.

General paralysis. Cerebral softening. Paretic weakness of the lower limbs. Incoordination of movements, walking difficult, of an ataxic type. Paretic walk and pressing temple and maxillary pains. Neuritis of syphilitic type. Tertiary syphilis.

Mind

Unstable moods, excites quickly and loses his dash and assurances easily. Mental confusion in nervous subjects. Psychological state, sees as through a fog. Bewilderment, worse in the morning.

Chest

Weakness of the chest.

Constitutions

Psoric and allergic constitutions. Tubercular types. Nervous, uneasy types with depressive or obsessive tendencies.

Food

Anorexia. Emaciation.

Limbs

Sensation of formication on the right foot from the heel towards the toes. Icy coldness in the left calf. Tumors on the maxillary bones and jaw. Juvenile dystrophy and the bones. Multiple myelomata of the bones. Raynaud's syndrome. Arteritis.

Lungs

Difficulty in breathing, choking sensation, groping for breath. Asthma. Emphysema. Slow, difficult respiration and small or thick plugs of sputum. Rhonchi and bronchial wheezing.

Nose

Permanent head cold with watery, abundant flow, sometimes burning and excoriating. Sinusitis.

Stomach

Burning all along the esophagus. Empty feeling in the stomach with failing and debility. Crises of gastric tabes. Hiatus hernia.

Relations

Compare: (1) Arg-m. - Paretic type with cramps, chronic laryngitis and pharyngitis. (2) Ars-i. - Chronic coryza, inflammation of lymphatic glands and bronchitis, weakness and rapid emaciation. (3) Tuberculinum - Gradual emaciation, headache as though restricted by a headband, nasal and pharyngeal congestion, cough with thick, yellow sputum, sweating. (4) Syphilium - Obsessions, loss of memory, nightly aggravation, especially of the pains in the bones, coughing.

References

Julian.