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Materia Medica

Asclepias Cornuti

Silk-weed
4 sectionsBoericke · 4

Essence

Prologue
Boericke

Silk-weed (ASCLEPIAS SYRIACA)

  • Seems to act especially on nervous system and urinary organs.
  • A remedy for dropsy, hepatic, renal or cardiac and post-scarlatinal; causes diaphoresis and augments the urinary secretion.
  • Acute rheumatic inflammation of large joints.
  • Intermittent, pressing-down uterine pains.
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Head

Head
Boericke
  • Feels as if a sharp instrument were thrust through from temple to temple.
  • Constriction across forehead.
  • Nervous headache, after suppressed perspiration, followed by increased urine, with increase of specific gravity.
  • Headache from retention of effete matters in system.

Relations

Relationship
Boericke
  • Compare: Asclepias Vincetoxicum.
  • --Swallow-wart.
  • --Cynanchum--(A gastro-intestinal irritant, producing vomiting and purgation).
  • --(Useful in dropsy, diabetes, great thirst, profuse urination).

Posology

Dose
Boericke

Tincture.

Classical Posology

Acute
  • 30C or 200C · repeat every 1–4 h depending on intensity
  • Stop on improvement · reassess in 24–48 h
  • For sensitive / elderly / paediatric: prefer LM1 or 30C
Constitutional
  • 200C or 1M single dose · wait 4 weeks
  • Alternative: LM1 daily × 10 days · ascend on retest
  • Hering's-Law follow-up adapts the next script
Citations: Organon §246 (interval / repetition) · §161 (plussed water) · §282 (LM ascension) · Kent on selection · Vithoulkas on second prescription. Open Repertify for the case-specific dose with the rule cited inline.
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