Asclepias cornuti
Asclepias syriaca · Plant · Apocynaceae
Asclepias Cornuti is indicated in dropsical conditions, particularly those associated with suppressed perspiration, renal or cardiac disease, and acute rheumatism of large joints. The characteristic nervous headache associated with urinary changes is a keynote for this remedy.
Key symptoms
- Nervous headache as if a sharp instrument thrust from temple to temple
- Constriction across forehead with headache from suppressed perspiration
- Headache followed by increased urine with raised specific gravity
- Dropsy of hepatic, renal, or cardiac origin; post-scarlatinal dropsy
- Acute rheumatic inflammation of large joints
- Intermittent pressing-down uterine pains
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.
Head
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.
Relationship
Compare: Asclepias Vincetoxicum.--Swallow-wart.--Cynanchum--(A gastro-intestinal irritant, producing vomiting and purgation).--(Useful in dropsy, diabetes, great thirst, profuse urination).
Dose
Tincture.
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