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Asclepias Cornuti
30C / QAsclepias CornCommon Milkweed · Asclepias Syriaca · "The Pleurisy Remedy"
asc-c.PlantUncommonPsoric
Source
🎯 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 dropsy, hepatic, renal or cardiac and post-scarlatinal; causes diaphoresis and augments the urinary secretion. Acute rheumatic inflammation of large joints. Intermittent, pressing-down uterine pains.
👤 Constitution
•Individuals who may need this remedy often suffer from fluid retention, rheumatic joint pain, or headaches 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 headaches associated with fluid retention or suppressed perspiration.
Feels as if a sharp instrument were thrust through from temple to temple.
Constriction across forehead.
Nervous headache, after suppressed perspiration, followed by increased urine, with increase of specific gravity.
Headache from retention of effete matters in system.
🔑 Modalities
↓Worse from
Morning
On waking, headache, etc.
↑Better from
Rest
amelioration of general inflammatory discomfort
💊 Dosage & Potency
Tincture
Mother Tincture
🕒As directed
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Asclepias Vincetoxicum →
📚 Sources & References
✓ Boericke's Materia Medica↗✓ Kent's Materia Medica↗✓ Allen's Encyclopedia↗Hering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraClarke's DictionaryPhatak's Concise MM
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