Apocynum cannabinum
Allen, Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica, 3rd ed., 1910, p. 40
Indian Hemp. Apoeynacece.
Keynotes
Excretions diminished, especially urine and sweat. Dropsy of serous membranes ; acute, inflammatory. Dropsy: with thirst (Acet. ac.), water disagrees or is vomited (Ars.) ; most cases uncomplicated with organic diseases; after typhus, typhoid, scarlatina, cirrhosis; after abuse of quinine.
Acute hydrocephalus, with open sutures; stupor, sight of one eye lost; constant and voluntary motion of one arm and one leg (left arm and leg, Bry.) ; forehead projected.
Amenorrhoea in young girls, with bloating or dropsical extension of abdomen and extremities.
Metrorrhagia : continued or paroxysmal flow ; fluid or clotted ; nausea, vomiting, palpitation ; pulse quick, feeble, when moved; vital depression, fainting, when raising head from the pillow.
Cough, short and dry, or deep and loose, during pregnancy (Con.).
Relationship p. 41
, — Similar: to. Acetic acid. Apis (no thirst), Ars., Cinch., Dig., in dropsical affections.
Blatta orientalis has cured bad cases of general dropsy, after Apis, Apoc. and Dig. failed. — Haynes.