Asclepias Tuberosa.
Pleurisy-root. Butterfly-weed. N. O. Asclepiadaceć. Tincture of fresh
root.Clinical.─
Alopecia. Asthma. Bilious fever.
Bronchitis. Catarrh. Chancre. Colic. Cough. Diarrhśa. Dysentery. Headache. Heart,
affections of. Influenza. Ophthalmia. Pericarditis. Pleurisy. Pleurodynia.
Rheumatism. Scrofula. Syphilis.
Characteristics.─
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 diarrhśa with griping and tenesmus. Warm feeling in chest. Dyspnśa.
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. Diarrhśa is < in winter. Symptoms <
in morning; on rising; by motion; by coughing; by tobacco. Chest pains < 4 a.m. and 4 p.m.
Relations.─
Compare:
Agar. (diagonal pains); Bry.; Verat. relieved pains with stool at night. Dulc. (< cold and damp).
SYMPTOMS.
1. Mind.─
Weakness of memory thinking difficult.─At
9 p.m. cheerful, mood changed, and without any cause he became fretful and feverish.
2. Head.─
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.
3. Eyes.─
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.
5. Nose.─
Fluent coryza, with much sneezing.─Blowing
of blood from l. nostril.─Itching of the nose.─Snuffles
of children.
6. Face.─
Hippocratic face after violent
diarrhśa.─Yellow complexion.─Vesicles on lips.─Itching
of lips.
8. Mouth.─
Teeth yellow-coated.─Bleeding
of the gums.─Tongue covered with a tough yellow coating.─Taste
putrid.─Taste of blood.
9. Throat.─
Slight constriction of throat, and
pricking in larynx.
11. Stomach.─
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.
12. Abdomen.─
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.
13. Stool and Anus.─
Emission of fetid flatulence.─Soft
and fetid stool at 11 a.m., preceded by rumbling in the bowels.─Early
morning diarrhśa (1 to 3 a.m.), sudden discharge.─Winter diarrhśa.─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 diarrhśa.
14. Urinary Organs.─
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.
15. Male Sexual Organs.─
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.
16. Female Sexual Organs.─
Menorrhagia, with
violent bearing down.
17. Respiratory Organs.─
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.
18. Chest.─
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.
19. Heart and Pulse.─
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.
20. Neck and Back.─
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.
21. Limbs.─
Rheumatic pain in all the joints.
22. Upper Limbs.─
Sharp, shooting pains in r.
shoulder.─Pain in l. shoulder, shooting from l. chest.─Pains
near wrists.
23. Lower Limbs.─
Itching of thighs and nates but
no eruption.─Coxalgia in r. hip.─Corns painful.
24. Generalities.─
Weak and languid, as if he had
been sick a long time.─Emaciation.─Numbness of whole
body.
25. Skin.─
Vesicles, pimples, and pustules all
over the body, esp. on arms, legs, and face; itching.
26. Sleep.─
Drowsy.─Uneasy,
restless sleep.─Troublesome dreams.
27. Fever.─
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.® 2000
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