Apocynum androsaemifolium
Plant · Apocynaceae
Apocynum Androsaemifolium suits patients with wandering rheumatic pains, stiffness, and the peculiar symptom that everything smells and tastes like honey. Swelling and violent heat in the soles, cramps, profuse sweat, and general prostration with trembling are characteristic features.
Key symptoms
- Wandering rheumatic pains with much stiffness and drawing
- Everything smells and tastes like honey
- Pain in all joints with swelling of hands and feet
- Violent heat in soles of feet
- Tingling pain in toes with cramps in soles
- Profuse sweat with much heat in soles
- Trembling and prostration
Dogbane
The rheumatic symptoms of this remedy promise most curative results. Its pains are of a wandering nature, with much stiffness and drawing. Everything smells and tastes like honey. Worms. Trembling and prostration. Swollen sensations.
Extremities
Pain in all joints. Pain in toes and soles. Swelling of hands and feet. Profuse sweat, with much heat in soles. Tingling pain in toes. Cramps in soles. Violent heat in soles (Sulph).
Dose
Tincture and first potency.
Spreading Dogbane. N. O. Apocynaceæ. Tincture from the root.
Clinical
Diarrhœa. Dropsy. Nausea. Neuralgia of face. Vomiting. Wandering rheumatism. Worms.
Characteristics
It has been proved in large! doses, and its most prominent symptoms Are: Trembling of the body. Prostration and trembling. Swollen sensations of face and body. Swelling of hands and feet; showing its relation to dropsical states like Apoc. can. and Stroph. Heaviness with great desire to sleep. Flying pains in different parts. Itching of body and face. Acute rheumatism with great stiffness. General rheumatic pains. Profuse sweat of whole body. The pains go from above downward; are < when breathing; and on turning to left side. Hale has cured with it rheumatic gout: "Acute pains in the joints attended with cramps, bilious stools and flying pains in the teeth. The tincture in drop-doses has been known to expel ascarides and other worms." It has been used for expelling renal calculi and gravel.
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