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Apocynum Cannabinum

30C / QApocynum

Indian Hemp · American Hemp · "The Dropsy Remedy"

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🎯 It acts primarily on mucous and serous membranes to increase secretions, causing dropsy, edema, and urinary suppression.

📖 Boericke writes:

Increases secretions of mucous and serous membranes and acts on cellular tissue, producing oedema 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.

👤 Constitution

•Typically indicated for individuals suffering from acute dropsy, heart weakness, or digestive disturbances associated with kidney disease.

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Mitral and tricuspid regurgitation.

introduction

Acute alcoholism.

introduction

Excessive vomiting.

stomach

Renal Dropsy.

urine

Respiratory short and unsatisfactory.

respiratory

🩺 Systems & Indications

🧠Mind

Used for mental states involving confusion and low mood associated with physical illness.

Bewildered.

Low spirited.

🔑 Modalities

↓Worse from

💊 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

🕒ten drops three times daily

Primary Dosage

1 dram of decoction in 4 oz water

Other

📝acute alcoholism

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🔄 Compare With

Apis Mellifica →Arsenicum Album →Digitalis Purpurea →Strophanthus →Aralia Racemosa →Zincum Sulphuricum →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Apocynum Cannabinum is listed in 96 rubrics across 15 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 19 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Urinary System20 Stomach14 Abdomen11 Generalities10 Female Sexual System10 Circulatory System9 Respiratory System7 Nervous System4 Locomotor System3 Head2 Modalities2 Fever1 Eyes1 Skin1 Nose1

See all 96 rubrics for Apocynum Cannabinum →