Asclepias Tuberosa asc-t.

SECRETIONS: SKIN. Serous. Mucous. Chest (R). Muscles.

Motion. Deep breathing. Lying. Tobacco.

Colliquative states (Agar.). SWEATINGS; in pleuro-pneumonia, diarrhœa or rheumatism. Body numb.

Sticky, yellow nasal discharge. Tough, yellow coat on tongue. Stools smell like rotten eggs, or burn like fire. Dysentery. Flabby genitals. Short of breath and weak on walking. Chest pains, < lying or breathing. Pleurodynia. Pericardial effusion. Pleurisy.

Related: Ant-t.

Pleurisy-root

Its action on the chest muscles is most marked and has been verified. Sick headache, with flatulence in stomach and bowels. Dyspepsia. Bronchitis and pleurisy come within its range. Catarrhal states from cold and damp weather. Irritation of larynx with huskiness; grip, with pleuritic pain.

Respiration painful, especially at base of left lung. Dry cough; throat constricted; causes pain in head and abdomen. Pain in chest; shooting downward from left nipple. A general eliminative remedy, acting specially on the sudoriparous glands. Chest pains are relieved by bending forward. Spaces between ribs close to sternum tender. Lancinating pain between shoulders. Catarrh, with frontal headache, and sticky yellow discharge.

Fullness, pressure, weight. Flatulence after meals. Sensitive to tobacco.

Catarrhal dysentery, with rheumatic pains all over. Stools smell like rotten eggs.

Rheumatic joints give sensation as if adhesions being broken up on bending.

Compare: Asclepias Incarnata-Swamp Milk Weed (Chronic gastric Catarrh and leucorrhœa. Dropsy with dyspnœa) Periploca groeca-One of the Asclepiades--(Cardiac tonic, acts on circulation and respiratory center, accelerating respiration in a ratio disproportionate to pulse). Bryonia; Dulc.

Tincture and first potency.

Pleurisy-root. Butterfly-weed. N. O. Asclepiadaceæ. Tincture of fresh root.

Alopecia. Asthma. Bilious fever. Bronchitis. Catarrh. Chancre. Colic. Cough. Diarrhœa. Dysentery. Headache. Heart, affections of. Influenza. Ophthalmia. Pericarditis. Pleurisy. Pleurodynia . Rheumatism. Scrofula. Syphilis.

Asclep. tub . causes sharp, stitching, pricking pains; < by motion. It is of the hydrogenoid type, corresponding to catarrhal complaints from cold and damp weather. Rheumatic pains affect the body diagonally, l. upper and r. lower, or the opposite. Muscular and articular rheumatism with stitching pains, dark red urine and hot, perspiring skin. Sensitive to tobacco. Pain in forehead and abdomen from coughing. Griping and sharp peritoneal pains < by pressure. Dysentery in autumn; and painful diarrhœa with griping and tenesmus. Warm feeling in chest. Dyspnœa. Cough hard and dry; or hoarse, croupy with tight breathing and constriction of larynx, and acute pleuritic pains. Pains in lungs > bending forward. Stitches in l. side shooting over to r. and up to l. shoulder. Influenza with pleuritic pains. Cutting pain behind sternum; intercostal spaces near sternum tender to pressure. Pain like pricking of a needle in region of heart. Contracting pain in heart. Sharp pains, starting from l. nipple downward with stiffness of l. side of neck. Excessive weakness, walking seems impossible. Bilious marsh-fever on rice plantations. High fever with hot sweat. Catarrhal complaints from cold and damp weather. Diarrhœa is < in winter. Symptoms < in morning; on rising; by motion; by coughing; by tobacco. Chest pains < 4 a.m. and 4 p.m.

Compare: Agar. (diagonal pains); Bry.; Verat. relieved pains with stool at night. Dulc. ( < cold and damp).

Weakness of memory thinking difficult. — At 9 p.m. cheerful, mood changed, and without any cause he became fretful and feverish.

Feeling of drunkenness with weakness of sight after smoking a very little. — Swimming of the head with dulness behind forehead. — Dull headache in the forehead and vertex, < by motion; > by lying down. — Headache in the morning on rising. — Headache > after a foot-bath. — Headache pressing deeply on, the base of the skull. — Pain in the forehead from coughing. — Alopecia.

Eyes look dull, fatigued, and heavy (as after long illness). — Ophthalmia, with itching and pain in eyes. — Feeling of sand in the eyes. — Vision disturbed large spots before the eyes.

Fluent coryza, with much sneezing. — Blowing of blood from l. nostril. — Itching of the nose. — Snuffles of children.

Hippocratic face after violent diarrhœa. — Yellow complexion. — Vesicles on lips. — Itching of lips.

Teeth yellow-coated. — Bleeding of the gums. — Tongue covered with a tough yellow coating. — Taste putrid. — Taste of blood.

Slight constriction of throat, and pricking in larynx.

Loss of appetite; esp. in morning. — Insatiable hunger. — Sensitive to tobacco. — Eructations. — Nausea, and efforts to vomit in the morning when rising. — In stomach: nervous pains; disagreeable weight; burning. — In evening, violent gastralgia after supper; it seems as if coughing would bruise the stomach. — Cramp.

Grumbling in r. hypochondrium. — Throbbing in l. hypochondrium. — Rumbling in the bowels, with uneasiness, or sharp, cutting pains and soreness. — Burning borborygmi. — Colic pains from flatulence. — Colic on going upstairs. — Dull pain in bowels on pressure.

Emission of fetid flatulence. — Soft and fetid stool at 11 a.m., preceded by rumbling in the bowels. — Early morning diarrhœa (1 to 3 a.m.), sudden discharge. — Winter diarrhœa. — Autumnal dysentery. — Tenesmus. — At 11 a.m. another stool, almost black, with many ascarides and yellow spots like fat, with a feeling as if a stream of fire passed through abdomen. — Stools: dysenteric; like white of eggs; yellow; green; clammy; smelling like rotten eggs; enveloped in froth; like moss. — With stool: colic. — After stool: colic continues long. — Constipation after diarrhœa.

Lancinating pain in urethra, excoriation of glans penis in several places, with commencement of sanious and purulent secretion. — Urine very red: looks as if blood were in it.

Flabbiness, perspiration, and insipid smell of genitals. — Excoriation of glans penis in several places, with commencement of sanious discharge (chancre); > by bathing with urine. — Weakness; erection without desire.

Menorrhagia, with violent bearing down.

Dry cough, with constriction of throat; causing pain in forehead and abdomen; dry, hacking cough, < night and morning; from irritation of larynx or bronchia. — Respiration painful, esp. at base of l. lung. — Breath smells like pepper. — Humid asthma; < after eating: < after smoking a little. — Oppression and difficulty of breathing; in paroxysms, like asthma.

Warm feeling in chest. — Sharp pains shooting from l. nipple downward, with stiffness of l. side of neck. — Pain moves up to behind the sternum, and becomes more sharp and cutting, < drawing a long breath, or moving the arms (as in triturating). — The spaces between the ribs, close to the sternum, are sensitive to pressure, and the pain, which is quick and darting, shoots over from l. to r. side, and up to l. shoulder. — Pain in chest relieved by bending forward. — Acute pleuritic pain in r. side, with dry, hacking cough, and scanty mucous expectoration. — Pain in chest low down, in diaphragm. — Sharp pains from l. nipple downward, with stiffness l. side neck.

Constrictive pain in the heart. — Tenderness to pressure over heart. — Lancinating pains; like pricking of a needle in region of heart. — Pain beneath l. nipple with palpitation. — Pulse slightly accelerated.

Stiff-neck (l.); on waking. — Lancinating pains in back and between the shoulders. — Pains shooting from l. chest into l. shoulder. — Sharp pain in loins near sacrum; lumbago.

Rheumatic pain in all the joints.

Sharp, shooting pains in r. shoulder. — Pain in l. shoulder, shooting from l. chest. — Pains near wrists.

Itching of thighs and nates but no eruption. — Coxalgia in r. hip. — Corns painful.

Weak and languid, as if he had been sick a long time. — Emaciation. — Numbness of whole body.

Vesicles, pimples, and pustules all over the body, esp. on arms, legs, and face; itching.

Drowsy. — Uneasy, restless sleep. — Troublesome dreams.

Chill towards noon; with cold feet though room is warm. — Feverish afternoon. — High fever with hot sweat. — Rheumatic; catarrhal; bilious marsh fevers of rice plantations.

Excessive dejection.
Weakness of memory.
Difficulty in thinking collectedly.
Towards evening unusual elevation of spirits. N.
At 9 P. M. the cheerful mood changed, and without any cause he became fretful and peevish. N.
Languid and dull all day both in body and mind. N.

Feeling of drunkenness with weakness of sight, after smoking a very little.
Swimming of head, with dulness behind forehead. N.
Head feels dull and gloomy, 9 A. M. N.

Pain in forehead with a feeling of heaviness in side, continuing all day.
Headache is present almost daily, generally most severe early in morning.
Headache in morning while rising, with weakness, so that he must lie down again, continued all day and night, relieved somewhat by a warm foot bath.
Arthritic cephalalgia.
Gastric cephalalgia.
Dull aching headache in forehead and vertex, < by motion, > lying down. N.
Headache presses deep on base of skull. N.
Pain in forehead from coughing.

Pricking as if with nails in head and at same time in other parts.
Pain in scalp, left side of occiput, like touching a pustule, continuing one day.
Falling out of hair.

Transitory pain behind left eyeball.
Broad, dark spots before eyes, with very slow pulse, 55.
Itching in canthi and lids of right eye.
Inflammation of conjunctiva ; for many days.
Pain in eyes by gaslight.
Eyes look languid and fatigued.
Feeling as if sand was in eyes.
Lower lids painful as if ulcerated.

Itching in nose and face.
Pustules on nostrils.
Stinging in nose as from a flea.
At first dry, then fluent coryza during first few days, with much sneezing subsequently.
Snuffles of children.
Fluent coryza with much sneezing.
Blowing of blood from one nostril.

Yellowness of face.
Hippocratic face after a violent diarrhœa, on 15th day.

Many vesicles on lips.
Itching of lips.
Lips inflamed and covered with herpetic vesicles.

Yellow coating on teeth.
Pain in right inferior molars.
Gums very pale and almost yellow ; bleed easily and repeatedly.

Putrid taste.
Yellow tough coating on tongue.

Taste of blood in mouth.

Transitory constriction and stinging in throat, extending to larynx.
Pain and soreness in throat.

Deficient appetite, especially in morning.
Insatiable hunger.
Sensitive to tobacco.

Eructations : frequently after taking drug, continuing all day ; with odor of drug.
Nausea in morning, when rising.
Nausea and efforts to vomit.
Vomiting, purging and great prostration.
Nausea with constipation ; bilious vomiting.
Bilious vomiting, with or without diarrhœa ; but with pains in limbs, cramp in feet, etc.

Burning in stomach ; after twenty-five minutes.
Pain in stomach ; nervous, even amounting to violent gastralgia ; also cramplike.
Sensation as if stomach would burst, while laughing ; pains in stomach continue forty-two days.
Pressing pain in stomach with rumbling in bowels, 5 P. M. N.
Thoracic pains, easier ; still felt in region of diaphragm and on motion. N.
Disagreeable feeling of weight at stomach, appetite deficient.
Flying pains in stomach.

Burning in right hypochondriac region and stomach, with pain in intestines.
Throbbing in left hypochondriac region.
Violent pain in hypogastrium, as if ulcerated, with tenderness to pressure.
Fulness and pains in right side, with flying pain in stomach and feeling as if something would pass bowels, with slight nausea.

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The butterfly-weed has bright orange-red flowers and a large fleshy root; from the root a tincture is prepared.

A marked cathartic; muscles, especially of chest, painful (Bry., Coloc., Kali c.).

Pandiculations. ▶ Emaciation. ▶ It seemed when walking as if he leaned forward and to the left. ▶ Sharp bone-pains from time to time in different parts. ▶ Pain in joints. ▶ Oppression from dinner till evening. ▶ Distress and general weakness after walking a short distance and smoking a cigar, with aversion to all movement. ▶ Pulsations in muscles, in arms, back and various parts. ▶ Numbness of whole body. ▶ Feeling as if recovering from a long and severe illness. ▶ Weakness; morning; morning, especially in legs; amel. evening; so that walking is difficult; with disinclination to work; of body and mind all day, with dullness.

Elevation of spirits towards evening. ▶ Low spirits. ▶ Fretfulness. ▶ Thought difficult. ▶ Memory weak.

Aching; morning on getting up, also obliging him to lie down, again in consequence of debility; amel. foot-bath. ▶ Heaviness; with pain, agg. left side; with drowsiness; with uneasiness; and of eyes. ▶ Confusion; when getting up, with heaviness. ▶ Intoxicated feeling after smoking a little, vertigo, dim vision and general debility. ▶ Vertigo, with dullness behind forehead. ▶ Aching in forehead; forehead and vertex, agg. motion and amel. lying. ▶ Aching in right side of head at noon. ▶ Headache presses deeply on base of skull and is similar to Ipec. ▶ Headache. ▶ Alopecia. ▶ Pain in scalp of left occiput, with pain on touch, as if there were a pimple there.

Dull and he looks as after several weeks sickness. ▶ Ophthalmia. ▶ Blepharophthalmy, heaviness of eyes and itching in right ball. ▶ Blepharitis. ▶ Feeling as from sand. ▶ Pain from gas light. ▶ Fatigued; and heavy. ▶ Ulcerative sensation in lower lids. ▶ Pain in left inner canthus, with itching in globe, and on shutting lids a noise like the sucker of a pump-box. ▶ Itching in right inner canthus at 6 P.M., in lower lid and all over face, with stitches in forehead and several parts of body. ▶ Pain in left orbit. ▶ Vision disturbed. ▶ Vision of black spots.

Pimple on septum in right nostril and at right side of root, with itching. ▶ Pricking in like a flea-bite. ▶ Itching; in left nostril; in root on both sides. ▶ Sneezing; desire for, in left nostril. ▶ Coryza in morning in open air; dry C.; fluent. ▶ Blows blood from left nostril.

Hippocratic. ▶ Yellow complexion. ▶ Lips inflamed and full of pimples.

Teeth yellow. ▶ Pain in right lower molars. ▶ Gums and buccal membrane pale, inclining to yellow. ▶ Gums bleeding; of right upper canine tooth. ▶ Tongue has yellow sticky coat. ▶ Breath fetid, even smelling of pepper. ▶ Taste putrid; taste of blood.

Constriction, with pricking in larynx. ▶ Angina.

Appetite depraved; deficient; anorexia in morning; insatiable hunger at noon. ▶ Thirst. ▶ Eructations; till evening; prolonged, smelling of medicine. ▶ Nausea morning on getting up. ▶ Cramps. ▶ Pain; with rumbling in bowels; in pit, with burning in stomach; nervous. ▶ Gastralgia; after supper, and it seems as if the cough would shatter the stomach. ▶ Burning in stomach and intestines, with noisy borborygmi and slight pain. ▶ Weight.

Rumbling; at 3 A.M., with cutting pain, which wakes him, at 6 A.M. on waking, with soreness of peritoneum; and uneasiness, with heat in umbilical region. ▶ Flatus emitted till evening; emitted, with rumbling in region of transverse colon; smelling intolerably of medicine. ▶ Pain; forenoon; 11 A.M.; after dinner; on ascending stairs; on pressure; continues long after a stool, with smarting in rectum; with emission of fetid flatus. ▶ Wind colic after breakfast; flatulent pain and stool of intolerable smell, with sharp pain in hypogastrium as if rotten, with soreness on pressure and as if it would all come out; wind colic while walking, pain as if everything would fall down. ▶ Pain at 1 A.M. as if intestines would fall out, with painful and large stool, then at 1.30 and 2 A.M. small and painful stools with increasing pains. ▶ Right hypochondrium, pain; grumblings in evening after being magnetized. ▶ Throbbing in left hypochondrium.

Urging to stool. ▶ Blind hæmorrhoids.

Dysentery, with threadlike pulse. ▶ Liquid (after salad); liquid causing smarting; soft and fetid, preceded by rumbling. ▶ Of intolerable smell. ▶ Like moss and suspended in water, at 4.30 A.M. ▶ Entirely albuminous. ▶ Sticky green, smelling like rotten eggs. ▶ Yellow, like tincture of turmeric, with yellow and green flocks. ▶ Frequent, painful, with colic, of bistre color and slimy, the last containing false membranes, looking as if intestines had been scraped, also yellow spots as from grease and feeling like a stream of fire. ▶ Always accompanied by colic. ▶ Insufficient.

Lancinations in urethra, with excoriations of glans penis and beginning of a sanious and purulent secretion, the excoriation amel. bathing with urine. ▶ Shooting in orifice of urethra. ▶ Urine red; and after standing there rise to surface small red, almost black spots, the sediment is deep-colored and thick, in the form of clouds and masses of moss, while the surface (beneath the spots) is clear and as if decomposed.

Sweat and insipid smell. ▶ Flabbiness and insipid smell. ▶ Weakness. ▶ Chancre in right side of prepuce, was washed with urine and passed to left side. ▶ Erection without desire; prolonged erection in morning.

Pain in bronchi. ▶ Asthmatic paroxysm. ▶ Inspiration noisy and forcible, and the lungs seem to be dilated more fully. ▶ Forcible inspirations at 4 P.M. ▶ Respiration painful, especially at base of left lung. ▶ Cough dry; with constriction in throat; dry and harsh, causing pain in forehead and abdomen (Bry.); dry and hacking (Bry.), though a little mucus is raised with effort; dry and spasmodic.

Left lung dull on percussion. ▶ Shooting downward from left nipple, with stiffness of left side of neck. ▶ Pain moves up to behind sternum and becomes sharper and cutting, agg. long breath and motion of hands, as in triturating (Bry.). ▶ Acute pain on right side, seemingly in pleura. ▶ Pain agg. singing or loud speaking; P. in region of diaphragm on motion; beneath left nipple, with palpitation; in lungs, amel. bending forward (Coloc.); in left lung, then weariness, the pain returning on coughing or drawing a deep breath. ▶ Spaces between ribs close to sternum tender on pressure, and darting pain shoots over to right side. ▶ Oppression after smoking; after the forcible inspirations; with difficulty in breathing. ▶ Warmth internally, with dull pain at base of lungs and with feeling of tightness. ▶ Weak and sore feeling. ▶ Paralysis of right lung in forenoon, with violent pain.

Pleurodynia or acute pleurisy.

Lancinating pain near heart; lancinations in heart and right intercostal muscles at 6 P.M. ▶ Pain as from the prick of a pin. ▶ Constrictive pain. ▶ Pulse disturbed after dinner. ▶ Rapid and small.

Torticollis on waking. ▶ Lancinating pain between shoulders. ▶ Pain in back and between shoulders; between shoulders, agg. on right side; between shoulders, a little to left, in afternoon. ▶ Rheumatic pain in right scapula and in left wrist. ▶ Pain in loins near sacrum, lumbago.

Bone pain in right arm and right leg. ▶ Pains are always felt crosswise, when right leg is affected the left arm is equally so, and when it is right arm it is also left thigh. ▶ Pain in right shoulder and left leg; right shoulder and left knee; left thigh and right shoulder; left wrist, right arm and left knee; right arm near wrist and in left leg near malleoli; left knee and right forearm; right knee and leg and left elbow; left knee and right elbow; above left knee and in left arm.

Shoulder, pain shooting up to left, which was painful on motion; sharp shooting pain in right. ▶ Pain in shoulders and in right breast; in right shoulder after dinner; in left, and in right forearm near wrist; in left after getting up.

Bruised pain in left. ▶ Pain in right; left ; rheumatic, in left. ▶ Arthritic pain in right elbow. ▶ Pain in left arm near wrist. ▶ Pain near right wrist at 3 P.M. ▶ Hand, pain in left at 9.30 P.M.; rheumatic, in right; neuralgic, in right palm, numbness of left hand.

Thigh, pain in right; in left near knee at 6.30 P.M.; rheumatic, close to left knee; coxalgic, in left ; coxalgic, in right hip.

Sharp and lancinating pain as far as thigh; lancinating pain in left at 2 P.M., and when walking pain in right hip-joint. ▶ Pain in left ; pain in left when walking; in right when walking, and in left when sitting; aching, in knees and driving P. in thighs; rheumatic, in left knee and right thigh; rheumatic, in left, also morning on getting up, also at 8.30 P.M., rheumatic, in right at 1.30 P.M., extending into femur.

Rheumatic pains. ▶ Sharp pain in right tibia near knee at 6.30 P.M., with sore pain on pressure. ▶ Weakness of legs in morning. ▶ Sharp bone pain near left malleoli. ▶ Pain in left tarsus; rheumatic pain in right tarsus. ▶ Pain in left foot. ▶ Sprained feeling in left foot. ▶ Lancinating pain in left metatarsus. ▶ Painful corns on foot and a callosity on each fourth toe; corns painful in bed, agg. touch of bed-clothes. ▶ Rheumatic pains in left fourth and little toes.

Red erythematous tetter on right thigh below ilium (after dinner), with pain and itching, less inflamed in evening, then another of lighter color, but sore to touch, behind it, the first followed by a dark colored spot for several months. ▶ Pimples; on left temporal region and on back; below upper lip, on right side; small red, in a thick cluster beneath left labial commissure, with crawling and gnawing itching; on lip, then below angle of mouth, becoming pustular, and one on eyebrow, which is painful (right side); on left side of nose, filled with serum; itching, on nose, thighs and back; red, on stomach; on nape of neck; on back, itching at night and towards morning; on left wrist; on left middle finger; on thighs; red, on right thigh. ▶ Itch-pustules on left hand, with itching. ▶ Variolous pustule on bend of left arm. ▶ Blister as from a bug-bite between sacrum and right ilium.

Itching of lobe of right ear, of face, nose, and especially lips. ▶ At root of nose on both sides. ▶ Around body like a girdle, evening when lying; of waist and at top of left thigh; thighs; nates; right thigh in evening then left ; hips and left thigh; left ham; arms at night; forearms at night; wrists at night; left hand and right side; left hand between middle and little fingers; last left fingers, then in right.

Drowsiness; amel. open air; irresistible. ▶ Somnolence till evening. ▶ Sleeplessness. ▶ Slumbers tardy; with drowsiness in morning. ▶ Night restless; sleep restless during first part of night, with frightful dreams.

Dreams gloomy and frightful; frightful, all night, waking him at 5 A.M. ▶ Tiresome, of duels, flight, etc.; fatiguing, of reckless boasting, or trying to sing political songs in a loud voice in spit of the presence of spies. ▶ Extraordinary, of political affairs. ▶ Of churches, of horses and of troublesome things. ▶ Of supernatural things. ▶ Of the country, and other dreams. ▶ Complicated, but containing its own explanation, as if it had happened the night before.

Chilliness, with cold feet. ▶ Fever, with adipsia and rapid pulse. ▶ Warmth of skin.

Cathartic.
Myalgia, particularly of the intercostal muscles; perhaps also inflammation of the pleura.

Dull headache, forehead and vertex < by motion, > by lying.
Convulsion and vertigo, general debility and dim vision.

Nausea.
Pains, heavy pressure, burning.

Much rumbling and flatulent colic.

Evacuations thin, extremely fetid, preceded by rumbling in the bowels.
Evacuations containing flakes of mucus, as though the intestines had been scraped.

Dry cough, with constriction in the throat; cough causes pain in the forehead and abdomen.
Respiration painful at the base of the left lung.
Pain is extremely sharp and shooting downward, becomes cutting > by breathing and coughing > by bending forward.
The intercostal spaces tender to pressure, with darting pain, close to the sternum; the pain shoots over to the right side.
Sharp cutting pain behind the sternum < by breathing and by moving the arms.

Rheumatic pains in the joints, especially in the large joints; shooting pains in the shoulders and thighs and knees (particularly left knee).

Eruptions, papular, vesicular, pustular, on various parts of the body.