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Asclepias Cornuti

30C / QAsclepias Corn
Common Milkweed · Asclepias Syriaca · "The Pleurisy Remedy"
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🎯 It acts primarily on the nervous system and urinary organs to promote fluid elimination and reduce swelling.
📖 Boericke writes:
(ASCLEPIAS SYRIACA)
Seems to act especially on nervous system and urinary organs. A remedy for , , renal or cardiac and post-scarlatinal; causes and augments the urinary secretion. Acute of large joints. , pressing-down pains.
👤 Constitution
Individuals who may need this remedy often suffer from fluid retention, joint pain, or caused by the body's inability to properly eliminate waste.
Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Feels as if a sharp instrument were thrust through from temple to temple.
head
Nervous headache, after suppressed perspiration, followed by increased urine, with increase of specific gravity.
head
🩺 Systems & Indications
👤Head
Useful for nervous associated with fluid retention or suppressed perspiration.
Feels as if a sharp instrument were thrust through from temple to temple.
across forehead.
Nervous headache, after suppressed perspiration, followed by increased urine, with increase of specific gravity.
Headache from retention of effete matters in system.
💊 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
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Asclepias Vincetoxicum

Boericke's Materia Medica