APOCYNUM CANNABINUM
Indian Hemp
Increases secretions of mucous and serous membranes and acts on cellular
tissue, producing śdema and dropsy and on skin causing diaphoresis. Acute hydrocephalus. A
diminished frequency of the pulse is a prime indication. This is one of our most efficient
remedies, in dropsies, ascites, anasarca and hydrothorax,
and urinary troubles, especially suppression and strangury. In the digestive complaints of
Bright’s disease, with the nausea, vomiting, drowsiness, difficult breathing, it will be found
of frequent service. The dropsy is characterized by great thirst and gastric irritability.
Arrhythmia. Mitral and tricuspid regurgitation. Acute alcoholism.
Relaxation of sphincters.
Mind.–
Bewildered. Low spirited.
Nose.–
Long-continued sneezing. Snuffles of children (Sambucus). Chronic nasal catarrh with tendency to acute
stuffiness with dull, sluggish memory. Dull headache. Takes cold easily, nostrils become
congested and blocked up easily.
Stomach.–
Nausea, with drowsiness. Thirst on walking. Excessive vomiting. Food or water is immediately ejected. Dull,
heavy, sick feeling. Oppression in epigastrium and chest, impeding breathing (Lobelia infl). Sensation of sinking in stomach. Abdomen bloated.
Ascites.
Stool.–
Watery, flatulent,
with soreness in anus; worse after eating. Feeling as if sphincter were open and stools ran
right out.
Urine.–
Bladder much distended. Turbid, hot urine, with thick
mucus and burning in urethra, after urinating. Little expulsive power. Dribbling. Strangury. Renal Dropsy.
Female.–
Amenorrhśa, with bloating; metrorrhagia with nausea;
fainting, vital depression. Hćmorrhages at change of life. Blood expelled in large clots.
Respiratory.–
Short, dry cough. Respiratory
short and unsatisfactory. Sighing. Oppression about epigastrium and chest.
Heart.–
Tricuspid regurgitation; rapid and feeble, irregular
cardiac action, low arterial tension, pulsating jugulars, general cyanosis and general dropsy.
Sleep.–
Great restlessness and little sleep.
Modalities.–
Worse, cold
weather; cold drinks; uncovering.
Relationship.–
Cymarin is
the active principle of Apocyn, lowers pulse rate and increases blood-pressure. Strophanthus (extreme cardiac depression with intense gastric
disturbance; dropsy). Aralia hispida-Wild Elder-a valuable
diuretic, useful in dropsy of the cavities, either due to hepatic or renal disease with
constipation. Urinary disorders, especially with dropsy. Scudder advises doses of five to
thirty drops in sweetened cream of tartar, (Solution). Apis, Arsenic,
Digital; Helleb.
Dose.–
Tincture (ten drops three times daily) and in acute
alcoholism 1 dram of decoction in 4 oz water.