Asclepias syriaca
Plant · Apocynaceae
Asclepias Syriaca is suited to patients with dropsical conditions following fevers or cardiac disease, combined with nervous headaches and urinary changes. The remedy covers threatened miscarriage with intermittent labour-like pains, acute large-joint rheumatism, and influenza or hay-fever with watery catarrhal discharges.
Key symptoms
- Nervous headache as if a sharp instrument thrust from one temple to the other
- Headache from suppressed perspiration or retention of effete matters
- Headache with vomiting followed by sweating or profuse urination
- Dropsy after scarlatina or heart disease
- Acute rheumatism confined to large joints with much pain and swelling
- Intermittent pressing uterine pains; threatened miscarriage
- Increased pale urine with light specific gravity
Better (amelioration)
- Sweating or profuse urination (headache relieved)
A. cornuti. Milkweed or Silkweed. N. O. Asclepiadaceæ. Tincture of root.
Clinical
Abortion. Bronchitis. Catarrhal fever. Dropsy. Dysmenorrhœa. Hay-fever. Headache. Indigestion. Influenza. Pleurisy. Rheumatism. Uræmia. Uterine pains.
Characteristics
Asclep. syr. has especial influence on nervous tissues. Nervous headache; as if a sharp instrument were thrust through from one temple to the other; with vomiting; followed by sweating or profuse urination. Belching of food with its proper taste. Influenza and hay-fever. Dropsy after scarlatina or heart disease. Headache from checked sweat or retention of effete matters. Uræmia. Acute rheumatism confined to large joints with much pain and swelling. Intermittent, pressing, uterine pains; threatened miscarriage.
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