Asclepias Syriaca
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General EN
Asclepias Syriaca.
A. cornuti. Milkweed or Silkweed. N. O. Asclepiadaceae. Tincture of root.
Clinical EN
Abortion. Bronchitis. Catarrhal fever. Dropsy. Dysmenorrhoea. Hay-fever. Headache. Indigestion. Influenza. Pleurisy. Rheumatism. Uraemia. Uterine pains.
Characteristics EN
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. Uraemia. Acute rheumatism confined to large joints with much pain and swelling. Intermittent, pressing, uterine pains; threatened miscarriage.
Relations EN
Compare: Act. r., Bry., Colch., Asclep. tub.
Head EN
Vertigo, dulness, and stupidity, with headache (l.)
Violent headache between the eyes; sense of constriction across the forehead
Headache from suppressed perspiration, or from the retention of effete matters in the system
Nervous headaches, followed by sweating or profuse urination
When the drug did not cause sweating or profuse urination, it caused violent headache with quick, full pulse and nausea
A feeling (after vomiting) as if some sharp instrument were thrust from one temple to the other.
Mouth EN
Tongue covered with a white fur.
Throat EN
Burning and tickling in the fauces, with nausea and headache.
Appetite EN
Great appetite even a few hours after a meal.—Increased appetite, notwithstanding the vomiting and headache, with constipation.
Stomach EN
Excessive nausea; with violent headache; violent vomiting and retching.—Severe and long-continued vomiting, leaving behind it a sensation of rawness in the stomach and a slight pain, coldness of the surface of the skin, and feeble pulse, and a feeling as if a sharp instrument thrust through from one temple to the other.
Stool And Anus EN
Increased secretion of bile
Slight inclination to evacuate the bowels; with nausea and diuresis
Diarrhoea, with nausea and vomiting, with excoriation of the anus
Copious stools of soft, fluid consistence, yellowish in colour, and attended with some griping pain
Constipation; pain in r. side, lower limbs, loss of appetite.
Urinary Organs EN
Ardor urinae
Increased flow of urine
Pale coloured urine, with light specific gravity
Increase of solid matters in urine.
Male Sexual Organs EN
Tickling sensation at the end of the penis.
Female Sexual Organs EN
Intermittent, bearing-down, labour-like pains (during dropsy); pressing from sacrum to hypogastrium, with scanty flow.—Suppression of menses (during dropsy).
Respiratory Organs EN
Increase of the bronchial secretions
Burning and tickling in fauces.—(Influenza; catarrhal fevers; bronchitis; hay-fever.)
Pain in l. side of chest on deep inspiration (pleurisy).
Heart And Pulse EN
Action of heart lessened; pulse slow.—Feeble pulse after vomiting.
Back EN
Cutting and aching about lowest dorsal vertebra.
Limbs EN
Large joints affected.
Sleep EN
Drowsy; sleepiness; hard sleep during the night.
Fever EN
Coldness of surface after vomiting.—Diaphoresis; profuse sweat.