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ASCLEPIAS SYRIACA

Asclepias Syriaca
asc-sPlantUncommonPsoric✨ Exclusively from Hering

Exclusively Documented in Hering

This remedy is documented exclusively in Hering's Guiding Symptoms. It does not appear in Boericke's Materia Medica or other standard texts.

🎯 Acts primarily on the serous membranes, particularly the pleura, and influences fluid balance and respiratory function.
About: Asclepias Syriaca is a remedy often indicated for conditions involving inflammation of the chest lining and respiratory catarrh. It is particularly useful when physical symptoms like dropsy or suppressed menses are accompanied by specific changes in skin temperature and urinary output.
👤 Constitution
The typical individual may present with a cool, dry skin, a feeble pulse, and a tendency toward fluid retention or suppressed menstrual flow.
Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Pleurisy and inflammation of the chest lining.
Hering
Nervous headaches associated with dry skin and scanty urine.
Hering
Headaches followed by profuse sweating or increased urination.
Hering
Suppression of menses occurring during dropsy.
Hering
Catarrhal fevers, influenza, and bronchitis.
Hering
Constipation accompanied by pain in the right side and lower limbs.
Hering
Labor-like, bearing-down pains in the context of dropsy.
Hering
General state of cool skin and feeble pulse.
Hering
🩺 Systems & Indications
Hering Exclusive
👤Head
Nervous headaches, which are attended by dry skin and scanty urine, cool skin and feeble pulse, and followed by sweating or profuse urination.
Vertigo, dulness and stupidity, with headache.
Dulness with pain in left side of head.
Violent headache between eyes
  • a sense of constriction across forehead..
A feeling as if some sharp instrument was thrust through from one temple to other, with feeble pulse and cool skin
  • also vomiting..
Congestive headache, from suppression of sweat or urine, and fever.
When the drug did not cause sweating or profuse urination, it caused violent headache, with vertigo, quick, full pulse, and nausea.
Rheumatic headaches.
Disordered feeling, with slight pain in left side of head.
At times severe pain, for several hours, in whole of left head.
Hering Symptom Grade:
Keynote (Grade 3)
Important (Grade 2)
Minor (Grade 1)
🔑 Modalities
Hering Exclusive
Worse from
Morningheadache on awaking
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
BRYONIA ALBA
📚 Sources & References
Boericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraKent's Materia MedicaClarke's DictionaryAllen's KeynotesPhatak's Concise MM

Compiled from classical homeopathic texts in the public domain. Click any active source badge to open the original text. For educational and reference purposes only. Always consult a qualified homeopath for treatment.

ASCLEPIAS SYRIACA (Asclepias Syriaca) — Homeopathy Materia Medica