ASCLEPIAS TUBEROSA

Pleurisy-root


  • Its action on the chest muscles is most marked and has been verified. 
  • Sick headache, with flatulence in stomach and bowels. 
  • Dyspepsia. 
  • Bronchitis and pleurisy come within its range. 
  • Catarrhal states from cold and damp weather. 
  • Irritation of larynx with huskiness; grip, with pleuritic pain.

Respiratory

  • Respiration painful, especially at base of left lung. 
  • Dry cough; throat constricted; causes pain in head and abdomen. 
  • Pain in chest; shooting downward from left nipple. 
  • A general eliminative remedy, acting specially on the sudoriferous glands. 
  • Chest pains are relieved by bending forward. 
  • Spaces between ribs close to sternum tender. 
  • Lancinating pain between shoulders. 
  • Catarrh, with frontal headache, and sticky yellow discharge.

Stomach

  • Fullness, pressure, weight. 
  • Flatulence after meals. 
  • Sensitive to tobacco.

Rectum

  • Catarrhal dysentery, with rheumatic pains all over. 
  • Stools smell like rotten eggs.

Extremities

  • Rheumatic joints give sensation as if adhesions being broken up on bending.

Relationship

  • Compare: Asclepias Incarnata-Swamp Milk Weed (Chronic gastric Catarrh and leucorrhea. Dropsy with dyspnea); Periploca groeca-One of the Asclepiades-(Cardiac tonic, acts on circulation and respiratory center, accelerating respiration in a ratio disproportionate to pulse); Bryonia; Dulc.

Dose

  • Tincture and first potency.