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Apocynum Androsaemifolium

30CApoc Andr
Spreading Dogbane · "The Rheumatic Heart Remedy"
apoc-a.PlantUncommonPsoric
🎯 It acts primarily on the joints and extremities to relieve pain, stiffness, and swelling.
📖 Boericke writes:
The symptoms of this remedy promise most curative results. Its pains are of a wandering nature, with much stiffness and drawing. Everything smells and tastes like honey. Worms. Trembling and . Swollen sensations.
👤 Constitution
Individuals who experience significant joint pain, stiffness, and a tendency toward swelling in the hands and feet.
🩺 Systems & Indications
💪Extremities
Indicated for joint pain, swelling of the extremities, and burning heat in the soles of the feet.
Pain in all joints.
Pain in toes and soles.
Swelling of hands and feet.
Profuse sweat, with much heat in soles.
Tingling pain in toes.
Cramps in soles.
Violent heat in soles (Sulph).
💊 Dosage & Potency

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

Tincture
Mother Tincture
Primary Dosage
1X
Decimal
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Sulphur

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Apocynum Androsaemifolium is listed in 12 rubrics across 4 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 2 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

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