Asclepias Syriaca

Milk or Silkiveed. Asclepiadaeece.

The oldest and best proving was made by Jeanes; later proved by Clerborne and Pattee.

Preparation : tincture of root.

Sensorium

Vertigo, dullness and stupidity, with headache.

Dullness with the pain in 1. side of head. *

Inner Head

Violent headache between the eyes ; a sense of constriction across the forehead.

A feeling as if some sharp instrument was thrust through from one temple to the other, with feeble pulse and cool skin ; also vomiting.

▌ Nervous headaches, which are attended by dry skin and scanty urine, cool skin and feeble pulse, and followed by sweating or profuse urination.

Congestive headache, from suppression of sweat or urine, and fever.

When the drug did not cause sweating or profuse urination, it caused violent headache, with vertigo, quick, full pulse, and nausea.

│ Rheumatic headaches.

Disordered feeling, with slight pain in 1. side of head.

At times severe pain for several hours in whole of 1. head.

Nerves

Shooting pain in 1. ear.

® Face. Appeared dull and stupid.

Teeth p. 208

Pain in the carious teeth.

Tongue p. 208

Tongue coated with a white fur.

Throat p. 208

Burning and tickling in the fauces with nausea and headache.

Appetite p. 208

Great appetite even a few hours after a meal.

Increased appetite, notwithstanding the vomiting and headache, with constipation.

Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting p. 208

││ Excessive nausea, with violent headache.

A striking, well-marked belching of the food with its proper taste (similar to Ant. crud).

Severe and long continued vomiting, leaving behind a sensation of rawness in the stomach and a slight pain.

After vomiting : headache (see 3) ; relaxed feeling ; frequent, feeble pulse.

Stomach p. 208

Uneasiness and slight pain in stomach with diuresis and inclination to stool.

Rawness in stomach after vomiting. See 16.

Heat of stomach and abdomen.

; Indigestion.

Hypochondria p. 208

Increased secretion of bile.

\ Hepatic derangements.

Abdomen p. 208

Rumbling in the bowels, apparently in the superior flexure of colon, as if diarrhoea would set in.

Pain and soreness in abdomen, with or without distension.

Stitching and aching pain in 1. lumbar region of abdomen.

Considerable rumbling in all parts of abdomen, as before diarrhoea.

\ Peritonitis.

\ Flatulence and flatulent colic.

Scrobiculum and Stomach p. 208

' l Inclination to evacuate the bowels, with nausea and diuresis.

\ Diarrhoea.

│ Dysentery, during the febrile stage.

Diarrhoea with persistent nausea and vomiting.

Copious evacuation, in evening, soft, brown, with slight colic.

Soft yellow stool at noon, with increase of appetite.

Diarrhoea with excoriation of anus.

▌ Constipation ; pain in r. side, lower limbs, and loss of appetite. See 14.

Urinary Organs p. 208

Enormous increase of urine.

Pale colored urine with lighter specific gravity. .

││ Increase of solid matter in urine.

Scanty urine with headache.

Profuse urine after headache.

Burning in urethra when urinating.

Male Sexual Organs p. 208

Tickling sensation at the end of penis.

Pressing and pain in groins and at the abdominal ring, more in 1. side.

Female Sexual Organs p. 209

Dysmenorrhoea with diuresis.

▌ Suppression of menses during dropsy.

;intermitting, bearing down, labor-like pains, θ Dropsy.

Larynx p. 209

│▌ Increase of the bronchial secretions.

Severe bronchial irritation with burning and tickling in fauces.

▌ Influenza; catarrhal fevers ; bronchitis.

▌ Hay sickness.

Relations p. 209

• Asthma.

Cough p. 209

: Whooping-cough.

Lungs p. 209

Pain in 1. side of chest on deep inspiration.

\ Catarrh. I Pleurisy. • Pneumonia, \ Consumption.

Heart. Pulse p. 209

Action of heart increased.

Pulse lowered from 98 to 67 first day; 63 third day; 60, fourth, fifth and sixth days.

Pulse feeble after vomiting.

Neck and Back p. 209

▌ Pain about the lowest dorsal vertebra, cutting and aching.

Chilliness in back, when the pain there began to abate.

Upper Limbs p. 209

Pains, with feeling of heaviness in upper limbs.

Lower Limbs p. 209

Boring pain in 1. tibia.

Limbs in General p. 209

Pains in limbs.

Nerves p. 209

• Hysteria.

Sleep p. 209

Drowsiness ; slept rather hard during the night.

Time p. 209

Morning : headache on awaking.

Noon : Soft yellow stool.

Fever p. 209

Coldness of skin on surface, with feeble pulse, and peculiar headache (see 3) ; after vomiting.

Skin moist.

Profuse sweat.

• Fevers of different types.

Sides p. 209

Right : pain in side.

Left : pain side of head ; shooting in ear ; pain lumbar region ; pain in groin ; pain side of chest ; boring pain in tibia.

▌*^ Sensations. As if a sharp instrument were thrust from temple to temple.

Boring : in 1. tibia.

Cutting: about lowest dorsal vertebrae.

Stitching : in 1. lumbar region of abdomen.

Shooting : in 1. ear.

Burning: in fauces.

Rawness : in stomach.

Soreness : in abdomen.

Aching : in 1. lumbar region of abdomen ; about lowest dorsal vertebrae.

Pressing : in groins, and abdominal ring.

Heaviness : in upper limbs.

Constriction : across forehead.

Undefined pain : in 1. side of head ; in carious teeth ; in stomach ; in abdomen ; in 1. chest.

Tissues p. 210

▌ Has especial influence on nervous tissues.

▌ Dropsy after scarlatina with nephritis.

▌ Headache from checked sweat, or retention of effete matters; dropsy from the same causes or diseases of kidneys.

▌ Dropsy from heart disease. See 24.

▌ Uraemia ; urine after profuse discharges is scanty or suppressed.

▌ Acute rheumatism, confined to the large joints, with much pain and swelling.

│ Chronic rheumatism.

Skin p. 210

▌ Eruptions.

Relations p. 210

Cognates : Act. rac, Bryon., Colchic.

Side relations : Asclep. tuber, and Asclep. vincet. (particularly useful in diabetes mellitus).