Asclepias Cornuti (Syriaca) asc-c.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Silk-weed (ASCLEPIAS SYRIACA)

General

Seems to act especially on nervous system and urinary organs. A remedy for dropsy, hepatic, renal or cardiac and post-scarlatinal; causes diaphoresis and augments the urinary secretion. Acute rheumatic inflammation of large joints. Intermittent, pressing-down uterine pains.

Head

Feels as if a sharp instrument were thrust through from temple to temple. Constriction across forehead. Nervous headache, after suppressed perspiration, followed by increased urine, with increase of specific gravity. Headache from retention of effete matters in system.

Relationship

Compare: Asclepias Vincetoxicum.--Swallow-wart.--Cynanchum--(A gastro-intestinal irritant, producing vomiting and purgation).--(Useful in dropsy, diabetes, great thirst, profuse urination).

Dose

Tincture.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

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

General

Milk or Silkweed. Asclepiadaceæ.
The oldest and best proving was made by Jeanes ; later proved by Clerborne and Pattee.
Preparation : tincture of root.

Sensorium

Vertigo, dulness and stupidity, with headache.
Dulness with pain in left side of head.

Inner head

Violent headache between eyes ; a sense of constriction across forehead.
A feeling as if some sharp instrument was thrust through from one temple to 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 left side of head.
At times severe pain, for several hours, in whole of left head.

Hearing and ears

Shooting pain in left ear.

Upper face

Appeared dull and stupid.

Teeth and gums

Pain in carious teeth.

Taste, speech, tongue

Tongue coated with a white fur.

Palate and throat

Burning and tickling in fauces with nausea and headache.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Great appetite even a few hours after a meal.
Increased appetite, notwithstanding vomiting and headache, with constipation.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Excessive nausea, with violent headache.
A striking, well-marked belching of food with its proper taste (similar to Ant. crud.).
Severe and long-continued vomiting, leaving behind a sensation of rawness in stomach and a slight pain.
After vomiting : headache ; relaxed feeling ; frequent, feeble pulse.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Uneasiness and slight pain in stomach with diuresis and inclination to stool.
Rawness in stomach after vomiting.
Heat of stomach and abdomen.
(OBS :) Indigestion.

Hypochondria

Increased secretion of bile.
(OBS :) Hepatic derangements.

Abdomen and loins

Rumbling in bowels, apparently in superior flexure of colon, as if diarrhœa would set in.
Pain and soreness in abdomen, with or without distension.
Stitching and aching pain in left lumbar region of abdomen.
Considerable rumbling in all parts of abdomen, as before diarrhœa.
(OBS :) Peritonitis.
(OBS :) Flatulence and flatulent colic.

Stools and rectum

Inclination to evacuate bowels, with nausea and diuresis.
(OBS :) Diarrhœa.
(OBS :) Dysentery, during febrile stage.
Diarrhœa with persistent nausea and vomiting.
Copious evacuation, in evening, soft, brown, with slight colic.
Soft yellow stool at noon, with increase of appetite.
Diarrhœa with excoriation of anus.
Constipation ; pain in right side, lower limbs, and loss of appetite.

Urinary organs

Enormous increase of urine.
Pale-colored urine with light specific gravity.
Increase of solid matter in urine.
Scanty urine with headache.
Profuse urine after headache.
Burning in urethra when urinating.

Male sexual organs

Tickling sensation at end of penis.
Pressing and pain in groins and at abdominal ring, more in left side.

Female sexual organs

Dysmenorrhœa with diuresis.
Suppression of menses during dropsy.
(In sick :) Intermitting, bearing down, labor-like pains. θ Dropsy.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Severe bronchial irritation with burning and tickling in fauces.
Influenza ; catarrhal fevers ; bronchitis.
Hay sickness.

Respiration

(OBS :) Asthma.

Cough

(OBS :) Whooping cough.

Inner chest and lungs

Pain in left side of chest on deep inspiration.
(OBS :) Catarrh.
Pleurisy.
(OBS :) Pneumonia.
(OBS :) Consumption.

Heart, pulse and circulation

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

Pain about lowest dorsal vertebra, cutting and aching.
Chilliness in back, when pain there began to abate.

Upper limbs

Pain with feeling of heaviness in upper limbs.

Lower limbs

Boring pain in left tibia.

Limbs in general

Pains in limbs.

Nerves

(OBS :) Hysteria.

Sleep

Drowsiness ; slept rather hard during night.

Time

Morning : headache on awaking.
Noon : soft yellow stool.

Fever

Coldness of skin on surface, with feeble pulse, and peculiar headache ; after vomiting.
Skin moist.
Profuse sweat.
(OBS :) Fevers of different types.

Locality and direction

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

Sensations

As if a sharp instrument was thrust from temple to temple.
Violent pain : between eyes.
Boring : in left tibia.
Cutting : about lowest dorsal vertebræ.
Stitching : in left lumbar region of abdomen.
Shooting : in left ear.
Labor-like pain : in sexual organs.
Burning : in fauces ; in urethra.
Rawness : in stomach.
Soreness : in abdomen.
Aching : in left lumbar region of abdomen ; about lowest dorsal vertebræ.
Pressing : in groins and abdominal ring.
Heaviness : in upper limbs.
Tickling : at end of penis.
Constriction : across forehead.
Undefined pain : in left side of head ; in carious teeth ; in stomach ; in abdomen ; in left chest ; in right side ; in limbs.

Tissues

Has especial influence on nervous tissues.
Dropsy after scarlatina with nephritis.
Headache from checked sweat, or retention of effete matters ; dropsy from same causes or diseases of kidneys.
Uræmia : urine after profuse discharges is scanty or suppressed.
Acute rheumatism, confined to large joints, with much pain and swelling.
(OBS :) Chronic rheumatism.

Skin

Eruptions.

Relations

Cognates : Act. rac., Bryon., Colchic .
Side relations : Asclep. tuber . and Asclep. vincet . (particularly useful in diabetes mellitus).