Acalypha Indica acal.

Key-Notes to the Materia Medica

Henry N. Guernsey · Key-Notes to the Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML text (Guernsey d. 1885; public domain)

General

Often called for in hæmorrhage of the lungs.

Chest

Constant pain. Dulness on percussion. Cough, with bloody expectoration. Hæmoptysis. Emaciation.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Indian Nettle

General

A drug having a marked action on the alimentary canal and respiratory organs. It is indicated in incipient phthisis, with hard, racking cough, bloody expectoration, arterial hæmorrhage, but no febrile disturbance. Very weak in the morning, gains strength during day. Progressive emaciation. All pathological hæmorrhages having notably a morning aggravation.

Chest

Cough dry, hard, followed by hæmoptysis; worse in morning and at night. Constant and severe pain in chest. Blood bright red and not profuse in morning; dark and clotted in afternoon. Pulse soft and compressible. Burning in pharynx, œsophagus, and stomach.

Abdomen

Burning in intestines. Spluttering diarrhœa with forcible expulsion of noisy flatus, bearing down pains and tenesmus. Rumbling distention, and griping pain in abdomen. Rectal hæmorrhage; worse in morning.

Skin

Jaundice. Itching and circumscribed furuncle-like swellings.

Modalities

Worse in morning.

Relationship

Compare: Millefol; Phosphor; Acetic acid; Kali nit.

Dose

Third to sixth potency.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1st edition (1900-02, three volumes); homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML digitization

General

Cupameni. Indian acalypha. (East Indies.) N. O. Euphorbiaceæ. Tincture of fresh plant.

Clinical

Cough. Diarrhœa. Flatulence. Hæmoptysis.

Characteristics

The chief employment of this Euphorbian has been in violent dry cough followed by bloody expectoration. Expectoration of pure blood in the morning, and dark clotted blood in the evening. Cough most violent at night. Dulness of chest on percussion; constant severe pain in chest. Progressive emaciation. A proving by several Indian physicians has brought out a number of symptoms in the alimentary tracts characterised by: burning, sense of weight at stomach, flatulence, and sputtering diarrhœa.

Relations

Compare : Mercurialis ann., Mancin., and other Euphorbians. Ham., Ipec., Millefol., Phos., Aco.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

Constantine Hering · The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica · 1879–91

General

Acalypha Indica Linn. Euphorbiaceæ.
A weed common in the East Indies, like nettle. Proved and applied by Tonnere, of Calcutta, and Payne, of Bath. Holcombe's cure.

Mind

Gloomy and despairing, but very unwilling to die. θ Hæmoptysis.
Leucorrhœa, sometimes thick, sometimes watery. θ Consumptive patient.

Cough

Cough, with bloody expectoration. θ Tuberculosis.
Violent dry cough, followed by bloody expectoration.
Hæmoptysis.
Hæmoptysis : expectorates pure blood in morning, dark lumps (clotted) in evening. Cough most violent at night. θ Tubercular deposits in apex of lung.

Inner chest and lungs

Dulness in chest on percussion. θ Hæmoptysis.
Constant and severe pain in chest. θ Hæmoptysis.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Pulse small and depressed.
Pulse from 100 to 120. θ Hæmoptysis.

Time

Night : cough most violent.
Morning : expectorates pure blood.
Evening : expectorates dark clotted blood.

Fever

Slow fever.

Tissues

Progressive emaciation. θ Hæmoptysis.

Relations

Collaterally related to all Euphorbiaceæ ; especially to Mercurialis annua and Mancin .