Other names and synonyms
asc-c, asclepias syriaca homeopathy.Description Source
Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica - J.H. ClarkePharmacological Group
Additional facts
A. cornuti. Milkweed or Silkweed. N. O. Asclepiadaceae. Tincture of root.
Nosology
Abortion. вronchitis. сatarrhal fever. Dropsy. Dysmenorrhoea. Hay-fever. Headache. Indigestion. Influenza. Pleurisy. Rheumatism. Uraemia. Uterine pains.
Typical features
Asclep. syr. has especial influence on nervous tissues. Nervous headache; as if a sharp instrument were thrust through from one temple to the other; with vomiting; followed by sweating or profuse urination. вelching of food with its proper taste. Influenza and hay-fever. Dropsy after scarlatina or heart disease. Headache from checked sweat or retention of effete matters. Uraemia. Acute rheumatism confined to large joints with much pain and swelling. Intermittent, pressing, uterine pains; threatened miscarriage.
Dif. diagnostics
Compare: Act. right, вry., сolch., Asclep. tub.
Head, face, and ears
Vertigo, dulness, and stupidity, with headache (left). Violent headache between the eyes; sense of constriction across the forehead. Headache from suppressed perspiration, or from the retention of effete matters in the system. Nervous headaches, followed by sweating or profuse urination. When the drug did not cause sweating or profuse urination, it caused violent headache with quick, full pulse and nausea. A feeling (after vomiting) as if some sharp instrument were thrust from one temple to the other.
Mouth and throat
Tongue covered with a white fur.
Burning and tickling in the fauces, with nausea and headache.
Burning and tickling in the fauces, with nausea and headache.
Appetite and food preferences
Great appetite even a few hours after a meal. Increased appetite, notwithstanding the vomiting and headache, with constipation.
Gastrointestinal tract
Excessive nausea; with violent headache; violent vomiting and retching. Severe and long-continued vomiting, leaving behind it a sensation of rawness in the stomach and a slight pain, coldness of the surface of the skin, and feeble pulse, and a feeling as if a sharp instrument thrust through from one temple to the other.
Increased secretion of bile. Slight inclination to evacuate the bowels; with nausea and diuresis. Diarrhoea, with nausea and vomiting, with excoriation of the anus. - сopious stools of soft, fluid consistence, yellowish in colour, and attended with some griping pain. - сonstipation; pain in right side, lower limbs, loss of appetite.
Increased secretion of bile. Slight inclination to evacuate the bowels; with nausea and diuresis. Diarrhoea, with nausea and vomiting, with excoriation of the anus. - сopious stools of soft, fluid consistence, yellowish in colour, and attended with some griping pain. - сonstipation; pain in right side, lower limbs, loss of appetite.
Urogenital system
Ardor urinae. Increased flow of urine. Pale coloured urine, with light specific gravity. Increase of solid matters in urine.
Tickling sensation at the end of the penis.
Intermittent, bearing-down, labour-like pains (during dropsy); pressing from sacrum to hypogastrium, with scanty flow. Suppression of menses (during dropsy).
Tickling sensation at the end of the penis.
Intermittent, bearing-down, labour-like pains (during dropsy); pressing from sacrum to hypogastrium, with scanty flow. Suppression of menses (during dropsy).
Chest organs
Increase of the bronchial secretions. - вurning and tickling in fauces. Influenza; catarrhal fevers; bronchitis; hay-fever. Pain in left side of chest on deep inspiration (pleurisy).
Cardiovascular system
Action of heart lessened; pulse slow. Feeble pulse after vomiting.
Limbs and spine
Cutting and aching about lowest dorsal vertebra.
Large joints affected.
Large joints affected.
Sleep
Drowsy; sleepiness; hard sleep during the night.
Fever
Coldness of surface after vomiting. Diaphoresis; profuse sweat.