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Strophanthus Hispidus

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Strophanthus · "The Heart Muscle Tonic Strophe"

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🎯 A powerful heart tonic that increases the strength of heart muscle contractions and acts as a diuretic to reduce fluid retention.

📖 Boericke writes:

Strophanthus is a muscle poison; it increases the contractile power of all striped muscles. Acts on the heart; increasing the systole and diminishes the rapidity. May be used with advantage to tone the heart, and run off dropsical accumulations. In small doses for weak heart; it feels enlarged. In mitral regurgitation, where oedema and dropsy have supervened (Digit). Strophanthus occasions no gastric distress, has no cumulative effects, is a greater diuretic, and is safer for the aged, as it does not affect the vaso-motors. In pneumonia and in severe prostration from haemorrhage after operations and acute diseases. After the long use of stimulants; irritable heart of tobacco-smokers. Arterio-sclerosis; rigid arteries of aged. Restores tone to a brittle tissue, especially of the heart muscle and valves. Especially useful in failing compensation dependent upon fatty heart. Hives. Anaemia with palpitation and breathlessness. Exophthalmia goitre. Corpulent persons.

👤 Constitution

•Often indicated for corpulent persons, the elderly, or those with rigid, hardened arteries and a weak, irregular heart.

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Acts on the heart; increasing the systole and diminishes the rapidity.

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🩺 Systems & Indications

👤HEAD

Used for head symptoms related to circulatory issues or aging.

Temporal pains with double vision, impaired sight; brilliant eyes, flushed face.

Senile vertigo.

🔑 Modalities

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💊 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

🕒three times a day

📝five to ten drops in acute cases

Primary Dosage

Decimal

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🔄 Compare With

Digitalis Purpurea →Phosphorus →Phosphoricum Acidum →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Strophanthus Hispidus is listed in 40 rubrics across 8 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 16 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Circulatory System19 Respiratory System5 Urinary System5 Generalities3 Nervous System3 Skin2 Locomotor System2 Female Sexual System1

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