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.
