====== ASCLEPIAS CORNUTI ======
<span tc1>{{anchor:s1}}Asclepias Syriaca. {{anchor:s2}}(Asclepias Cornuti.)</span>

<span grade2>{{anchor:s3}}Milk or Silkweed. {{anchor:s4}}Asclepiadaceae.</span>

{{anchor:s5}}The oldest and best proving was made by Jeanes; later proved by Clerborne and Pattee.

{{anchor:s6}}Preparation: tincture of root.

====== SENSORIUM. [2] ======

{{anchor:s8}}Vertigo, dullness and stupidity, with headache.\\ {{anchor:s9}}Dullness with pain in left side of head.

====== INNER HEAD. [3] ======

{{anchor:s11}}Violent headache between eyes; a sense of constriction across forehead.\\ {{anchor:s12}}A feeling as if some sharp instrument was thrust through from one temple to other, with feeble pulse and cool skin; also vomiting.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s13}}Nervous headaches, which are attended by dry skin and scanty urine, cool skin and feeble pulse, and followed by sweating or profuse urination.</span>\\ {{anchor:s14}}Congestive headache, from suppression of sweat or urine, and fever.\\ {{anchor:s15}}When the drug did not cause sweating or profuse urination, it caused violent headache, with vertigo, quick, full pulse, and nausea.\\ {{anchor:s16}}Rheumatic headaches.\\ {{anchor:s17}}Disordered feeling, with slight pain in left side of head.\\ {{anchor:s18}}At times severe pain, for several hours, in whole of left head.

====== HEARING AND EARS. [6] ======

{{anchor:s20}}Shooting pain in left ear.

====== UPPER FACE. [8] ======

{{anchor:s22}}Appeared dull and stupid.

====== TEETH AND GUMS. [10] ======

{{anchor:s24}}Pain in carious teeth.

====== TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] ======

{{anchor:s26}}Tongue coated with a white fur.

====== PALATE AND THROAT. [13] ======

{{anchor:s28}}Burning and tickling in fauces with nausea and headache.

====== APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] ======

{{anchor:s31}}Great appetite even a few hours after a meal.\\ {{anchor:s32}}Increased appetite, notwithstanding vomiting and headache, with constipation.

====== HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s34}}Excessive nausea, with violent headache.</span>\\ {{anchor:s35}}A striking, well-marked belching of food with its proper taste (similar to Ant. crud.).\\ {{anchor:s36}}Severe and long-continued vomiting, leaving behind a sensation of rawness in stomach and a slight pain.\\ {{anchor:s37}}After vomiting: headache; relaxed feeling; frequent, feeble pulse.

====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ======

{{anchor:s39}}Uneasiness and slight pain in stomach with diuresis and inclination to stool.\\ {{anchor:s40}}Rawness in stomach after vomiting.\\ {{anchor:s41}}Heat of stomach and abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s42}}(OBS:) Indigestion.

====== HYPOCHONDRIA. [18] ======

{{anchor:s44}}Increased secretion of bile.\\ {{anchor:s45}}(OBS:) Hepatic derangements.

====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ======

{{anchor:s47}}Rumbling in bowels, apparently in superior flexure of colon, as if diarrhea would set in.\\ {{anchor:s48}}Pain and soreness in abdomen, with or without distension.\\ {{anchor:s49}}Stitching and aching pain in left lumbar region of abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s50}}Considerable rumbling in all parts of abdomen, as before diarrhea.\\ {{anchor:s51}}(OBS:) Peritonitis.\\ {{anchor:s52}}(OBS:) Flatulence and flatulent colic.

====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s54}}Inclination to evacuate bowels, with nausea and diuresis.</span>\\ {{anchor:s55}}(OBS:) Diarrhea.\\ {{anchor:s56}}(OBS:) Dysentery, during febrile stage.\\ {{anchor:s57}}Diarrhea with persistent nausea and vomiting.\\ {{anchor:s58}}Copious evacuation, in evening, soft, brown, with slight colic.\\ {{anchor:s59}}Soft yellow stool at noon, with increase of appetite.\\ {{anchor:s60}}Diarrhea with excoriation of anus.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s61}}Constipation; pain in right side, lower limbs, and loss of appetite.</span>

====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ======

{{anchor:s63}}Enormous increase of urine.\\ {{anchor:s64}}Pale-colored urine with light specific gravity.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s65}}Increase of solid matter in urine.</span>\\ {{anchor:s66}}Scanty urine with headache.\\ {{anchor:s67}}Profuse urine after headache.\\ {{anchor:s68}}Burning in urethra when urinating.

====== MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] ======

{{anchor:s70}}Tickling sensation at end of penis.\\ {{anchor:s71}}Pressing and pain in groins and at abdominal ring, more in left side.

====== FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [23] ======

{{anchor:s73}}Dysmenorrhea with diuresis.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s74}}Suppression of menses during dropsy.</span>\\ {{anchor:s75}}(In sick:) Intermitting, bearing down, labor-like pains. <span sbita>{{anchor:s76}}~</span> Dropsy.

====== VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] ======

{{anchor:s79}}Severe bronchial irritation with burning and tickling in fauces.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s80}}Influenza; catarrhal fevers; bronchitis.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s81}}Hay sickness.</span>

====== RESPIRATION. [26] ======

{{anchor:s83}}(OBS:) Asthma.

====== COUGH. [27] ======

{{anchor:s85}}(OBS:) Whooping cough.

====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ======

{{anchor:s87}}Pain in left side of chest on deep inspiration.\\ {{anchor:s88}}(OBS:) Catarrh.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s89}}Pleurisy.</span>\\ {{anchor:s90}}(OBS:) Pneumonia.\\ {{anchor:s91}}(OBS:) Consumption.

====== HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] ======

{{anchor:s93}}Action of heart increased.\\ {{anchor:s94}}Pulse lowered from 98 to 67, first day; 63, third day; 60, fourth, fifth and sixth days.\\ {{anchor:s95}}Pulse feeble after vomiting.

====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s97}}Pain about lowest dorsal vertebra, cutting and aching.</span>\\ {{anchor:s98}}Chilliness in back, when pain there began to abate.

====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ======

{{anchor:s100}}Pain with feeling of heaviness in upper limbs.

====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ======

{{anchor:s102}}Boring pain in left tibia.

====== LIMBS IN GENERAL. [34] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s104}}Pains in limbs.</span>

====== NERVES. [36] ======

{{anchor:s106}}(OBS:) Hysteria.

====== SLEEP. [37] ======

{{anchor:s108}}Drowsiness; slept rather hard during night.

====== TIME. [38] ======

{{anchor:s110}}Morning: headache on awaking.\\ {{anchor:s111}}Noon: soft yellow stool.

====== FEVER. [40] ======

{{anchor:s113}}Coldness of skin on surface, with feeble pulse, and peculiar headache; after vomiting.\\ {{anchor:s114}}Skin moist.\\ {{anchor:s115}}Profuse sweat.\\ {{anchor:s116}}(OBS:) Fevers of different types.

====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ======

{{anchor:s118}}Right: pain in side.\\ {{anchor:s119}}Left: pain in side of head; shooting in ear; pain in lumbar region; pain in groin; pain in side of chest; boring in tibia.

====== SENSATIONS. [43] ======

{{anchor:s121}}As if a sharp instrument was thrust from temple to temple.\\ {{anchor:s122}}Violent pain: between eyes.\\ {{anchor:s123}}Boring: in left tibia.\\ {{anchor:s124}}Cutting: about lowest dorsal vertebrae.\\ {{anchor:s125}}Stitching: in left lumbar region of abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s126}}Shooting: in left ear.\\ {{anchor:s127}}Labor-like pain: in sexual organs.\\ {{anchor:s128}}Burning: in fauces; in urethra.\\ {{anchor:s129}}Rawness: in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s130}}Soreness: in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s131}}Aching: in left lumbar region of abdomen; about lowest dorsal vertebrae.\\ {{anchor:s132}}Pressing: in groins and abdominal ring.\\ {{anchor:s133}}Heaviness: in upper limbs.\\ {{anchor:s134}}Tickling: at end of penis.\\ {{anchor:s135}}Constriction: across forehead.\\ {{anchor:s136}}Undefined pain: in left side of head; in carious teeth; in stomach; in abdomen; in left chest; in right side; in limbs.

====== TISSUES. [44] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s138}}Has especial influence on nervous tissues.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s139}}Dropsy after scarlatina with nephritis.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s140}}Headache from checked sweat, or retention of effete matters; dropsy from same causes or diseases of kidneys.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s141}}Uraemia: urine after profuse discharges is scanty or suppressed.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s142}}Acute rheumatism, confined to large joints, with much pain and swelling.</span>\\ {{anchor:s143}}(OBS:) Chronic rheumatism.

====== SKIN. [46] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s145}}Eruptions.</span>

====== RELATIONS. [48] ======

{{anchor:s147}}Cognates: <span grade2>Act. rac., Bryon., Colchic.</span>\\ {{anchor:s148}}Side relations: <span grade2>Asclep. tuber.</span> and <span grade2>Asclep. vincet.</span> (particularly useful in diabetes mellitus).

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====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ======
^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 02, 1880 |
^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r790|Asclepias Cornuti]] |
^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r790|Asclepias Cornuti]] |
^ Author: | Hering, C. |
^ Year: | 1880 |
^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting |
^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}