Asclepias Tuberosa

• ▸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, 1.
• ▸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 diarrhoea with griping and tenesmus. Warm feeling in

chest. Dyspnoea. 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 1.
• ▸side shooting

• ▸over to r.
• ▸and up to |.
• ▸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 |.
• ▸nipple downward with stiffness of 1.

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.

Diarrhcea is < in winter. Symptoms < in morning; on rising; by motion; by coughing; by tobacco.

• ▸Chest pains < 4 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸and 4 p.
• ▸m.

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.—A lopecia.

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 1. nostril —Itching of the

nose.—Snuffles of children.

Hippocratic face after violent diarrhoea —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.

Fullness, pressure, weight. Flatulence after meals. Sensitive to tobacco.

• ▸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 |.
• ▸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.

Catarrhal dysentery, with rheumatic pains all over. Stools smell like rotten eggs.

• ▸Emission of fetid flatulence.
• ▸—Soft and fetid stool at 11 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸, preceded by

• ▸rumbling in the bowels.
• ▸—Early morning diarrhcea (1 to 3 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸), sudden discharge.
• ▸—Winter

• ▸diarrhcea.
• ▸—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 diarrhcea.

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.

• ▸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.

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 1.
• ▸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 |. nipple downward, with

stiffness of 1. 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 |.
• ▸to r.
• ▸side, and up to 1.
• ▸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 |.
• ▸nipple downward,

with stiffness 1. 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 |.
• ▸nipple

with palpitation.—Pulse slightly accelerated.

Stiff-neck (1.); on waking.—Lancinating pains in back and between the

• ▸shoulders.
• ▸—Pains shooting from 1.
• ▸chest into 1.
• ▸shoulder.
• ▸—Sharp pain in loins near sacrum;

lumbago.

• ▸Sharp, shooting pains in r.
• ▸shoulder.
• ▸—Pain in |.
• ▸shoulder, shooting from 1.

chest.—Pains near wrists.

• ▸Itching of thighs and nates but no eruption.
• ▸—Coxalgia in r.
• ▸hip.
• ▸—Corns

painful.

24. Generalities—Weak and languid, as if he had been sick a long

time.—Emaciation.—Numbness of whole body.

Rheumatic joints give sensation as if adhesions being broken up on bending.

Vesicles, pimples, and pustules all over the body, esp. on arms, legs, and face; itching.

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.

• ▸Alopecia.
• ▸Asthma.
• ▸Bilious fever.
• ▸Bronchitis.
• ▸Catarrh.
• ▸Chancre.
• ▸Colic.
• ▸Cough.

• ▸Diarrhoea.
• ▸Dysentery.
• ▸Headache.
• ▸Heart, affections of.
• ▸Influenza.
• ▸Ophthalmia.
• ▸Pericarditis.

• ▸Pleurisy.
• ▸Pleurodynia.
• ▸Rheumatism.
• ▸Scrofula.
• ▸Syphilis.

• ▸Compare: Agar.
• ▸(diagonal pains); Bry.
• ▸; Verat.
• ▸relieved pains with stool at night.

Dulc. (< cold and damp).

Compare: Asclepias Incarnata-Swamp Milk Weed (Chronic gastric Catarrh and leucorrhoea. Dropsy with dyspnoea) 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.