Homeopathy Remedy Asclepias Tuberosa


Asclepias Tuberosa homeopathy drug symptoms from Handbook of Materia Medica and Homeopathic Therapeutics by T.F. Allen, of the homeopathic remedy Asclepias Tuberosa…


      A marked cathartic; muscles, especially of chest, painful (Bryonia, Coloc., Kali carb.).

General Action

      + A marked cathartic; muscles, especially of chest, painful (Bryonia, Coloc., Kali carb.).

Generalities

      Pandiculations. Emaciation. It seemed with walking as if he leaned forward and to the left. Sharp bone-pains from time to time to in different parts. Pain in joints. Oppression from dinner till evening. Distress and general weakness after walking a short disease and smoking a cigar, with aversion to all movement. Pulsations in muscles, in arms, back and various parts. Numbness of whole body. Feeling as if recovering from a long and severe illness. Weakness; morning, especially in legs; (>) evening; so that walking is difficult; with disinclination to work; of body and mind all day, with Dullness.

Mind

      Elevation of spirits towards evening. Low spirits. Fretfulness. Thought difficult. Memory weak.

Head

      Aching; morning on getting up, also obliging him to lie down again in consequence of debility; (>) foot-bath. Heaviness; with pain, (<) l. side; with drowsiness; with uneasiness; and of eyes. Confusion; when getting up; with heaviness. Intoxicated feeling after smoking a little, vertigo, dim vision and general debility. Vertigo, with Dullness behind forehead. Aching in forehead; forehead and vertex, (<) motion and (>) lying. Aching in r. side of head at noon. Headache passes deeply on base of skull and is similar to Ipecac. headache. Alopecia. Pain in scalp of l. occiput, with on touch, as if there were a pimple there.

Eyes

      Dull, and he looks as after several looks sickness. Ophthalmia. Blepharophthalmy, heaviness of eyes and itching in r. ball. Blepharitis. Feeling as from sand. Pain from gas-light. Fatigued; and heavy. Ulcerative sensation in lower lids. Pain in l. inner canthus, with itching in globe, and on shutting lids a noise like the sucker of a pump-box. Itching in r. inner canthus at 6 P.M., in lower lid and all over face, with stitches in forehead and several parts of body. Pain in l. orbit. Vision disturbed. Vision of black spots.

Nose

      Pimple on septum in r. nostril and at r. side of root, with itching. Pricking in like a flea-bite. Itching; in l. nostril; in root on both sides. Sneezing; desire for, in l. nostril. Coryza in morning in open air; dry C.; fluent. Blows blood from l. nostril.

Face

      Hippocratic. Yellow complexion. Lips inflamed and full of pimples.

Mouth

      Teeth yellow. Pain in r. lower molars. Gums and buccal membrane pale, inclining to yellow. Gums bleeding; of r. upper canine tooth. Tongue has yellow sticky coat. Breath fetid, even smelling of pepper. Taste putrid; taste of blood.

Throat

      Constriction, with pricking in larynx. Angina.

Stomach

      Appetite depraved; deficient; anorexia in morning; insatiable hunger at noon. Thirst. Eructations; till evening; prolonged, smelling of medicine. Nausea morning on getting up. Cramps. Pain; with rumbling in bowels; in pit, with burning in stomach; nervous. Gastralgia; after supper, and Burning in stomach and intestines, with noisy borborygmi and slight pain. Weight.

Abdomen

      Rumbling; at 3 A.M.; with cutting pain, which wakes him; at 6 A.M. on waking, with soreness of peritoneum; and uneasiness, with heat in umbilical region. Flatus emitted till evening; emitted, with rumbling in region of transverse colon; smelling intolerably of medicine. Pain; forenoon; 11 A.M.; after dinner; on ascending stairs; on pressure; continues long after a stool, with smarting in rectum; with emission of fetid flatus. Wind colic after breakfast; flatulent pain and stool of intolerable smell, with sharp pain in hypogastrium as if rotten, with soreness on pressure and as if it would all come out; wind colic while walking, pain as if everything would fall down. Pain at 1 A.M. as if intestines would all out, with painful and large stool, then at 1.30 and 2 A.M. small and painful stools with increasing pains. R. hypochondrium, pain; grumblings, in evening after being magnetized. Throbbing in l. hypochondrium.

Rectum and Anus

      Urging to stool. Blind haemorrhoids.

Stool

      Dysentery, with threadlike pulse. Liquid (after salad); liquid causing smarting; soft and fetid, preceded by rumbling. Of in tolerable smell. Like moss and suspended in water, at 4.30 A.M. Entirely albuminous. Sticky green, smelling like rotten eggs. Yellow, like tincture of turmeric, with yellow and green flocks. Frequent, painful, with colic, of bistre color and slimy, the last containing false, membranes, looking a if intestines had been scraped, also yellow spots as from grease and feeling like a stream of fire. Always accompanied by colic. Insufficient.

Urinary Organs

      Lancinations in urethra, with excoriations of glans penis and beginning of a sanious and purulent secretion, the excoriation (>) bathing with urine. Shooting in orifice of urethra. Urine red; and after standing there rise to surface small red, almost black spots, the sediment is deep-colored and thick, in the form of clouds and masses of moss, while the surface (beneath the spots) is clear and as if decomposed.

Sexual Organs

      Sweat and insipid smell. Flabbiness and insipid smell. Weakness. Chancre on r. side of prepuce, was washed with urine and passed to l. side. Erection without desire; prolonged erection in morning.

Respiratory Organs

      Pain in bronchi. Asthmatic paroxysm. Inspiration noisy and forcible, and the lungs seem to be dilated more fully. Forcible inspirations of 4 P.M. Respiration painful, especially at nose of l. lung. Cough dry; with constriction in throat; dry and harsh, coughing pain in forehead and abdomen (Bryonia); dry and hacking (Bryonia), though a little mucus is raised with effort; dry and spasmodic.

Chest

      L. lung dull on percussion. Shooting downward from l. nipple, with stiffness of l. side of neck. Pain moves up to behind sternum and becomes sharper and cutting, (<) long breath and motion of hands, as in triturating (Bryonia). Acute pain on r. side, seemingly in pleura. Pain (<) singing or loud speaking; P. in region of diaphragm on motion; beneath l. nipple, with palpitation; in lungs, (>) bending forward (Coloc.); in l. lung, then weariness, the pain returning on coughing or drawing a deep breath. Spaces between the close to sternum tender on pressure, and darting pain shoots over to r. side Oppression after smoking; after the forcible inspiration; with difficulty in breathing. Warmth internally, with dull pain at base of lungs and with feeling to tightness. Weak and sore feeling. Paralysis of r. lung in forenoon, with violent pain.

Clinical Pleurodynia or acute pleurisy.

Heart and Pulse

      Lancinating pain near heart; lancinations in heart and r. intercostal muscles at 6 P.M. Pain as from the prick of a pin. Constrictive pain. Pulse disturbed after dinner. Rapid and small.

Neck and Back

      Torticollis on waking. Lancinating pain between shoulders. Pain in back and between shoulders; between shoulders, (<) on r. side; between shoulders, a little to left, in afternoon. Rheumatic pain in r. scapula and in l. wrist. Pain in loins near sacrum, lumbago.

Extremities

      Bone pain in r. arm r. leg. Pains are always felt crosswise, when r. leg is affected the l. arm is equally so, and when it is r. arm it is also l. thigh. Pain in r. shoulder and l. leg; r. shoulder and l. knee; l. thigh and r. shoulder; l. wrist, r. arm and l. knee; r. arm near wrist and in l. leg near malleoli; l. knee and r. forearm; r. knee and leg and l. elbow; l. knee and r. elbow; above l. knee and in l. arm.

Upper Extremities

      Shoulder, pain shooting up to l., which was painful on motion; sharp shooting pain in r. Pain in shoulders and in r. breast; in r. shoulder after dinner; in l., and in r. forearm near wrist; in l. after getting up.

Arm.- Bruised pain in l. Pain in r.; l.; rheumatic, in l. Arthritic pain in r. elbow. Pain in l. arm near wrist. Pain near w. wrist at 3 P.M. Hand, pain in l. at 9.30 P.M.; rheumatic, in r.; neuralgic, in r. palm; numbness of l. hand.

Lower Extremities

      Thigh, pain in r.; in l. near knee at 6.30 P.M.; rheumatic, close to l. knee; coxalgic, in l.; coxalgic, in r. hip.

Knee.- Sharp and lancinating pain as far as thigh; lancinating pain in l. at 2 P.M., and when walking pain in r. hip-joint. Pain in l.; pain in l. when walking; in r. when walking, and in l. when sitting; aching, in knees and driving P. in thighs; rheumatic; in l. knee and r. thigh; rheumatic; in l., also morning on getting up, also at 8.30. P.M.; rheumatic, in r. at 1.30 P.M., extending into femur.

Leg.- Rheumatic pains. Sharp pain in r. tibia near knee at 6.30 P.M., with sore pain on pressure. Weakness of legs in morning. Sharp bone pain near l. malleoli. Pain in l. tarsus; rheumatic pain in r. tarsus. Pain in l. foot. Sprained feeling in l. foot. Lancinating pain in l. metatarsus. Painful corns on foot and a callosity on each fourth toe; corns painful in bed, (<) touch of bed-clothes. Rheumatic pains in l. fourth and little toes.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.