Apocynum cannabinum
By Adolph von Lippe — Keynotes and Red Line Symptoms of the Materia Medica
Common name: indian hemp.
Low spirited (Aur., Ign., Puls., Sep.) (Br.).
Excretions diminished, especially urine and sweat (Apis, Sep., Sulph.) (A.).
All kinds of dropsies, with a sinking feeling at the pit of the stomach (Hl.).
GENERAL ŒDEMA (Apis, Ars., Dig., Merc., Phos., Sep., Sulph.) (Bt.).
Ascites, with bruised feeling in the abdomen (Bt.).
Dropsy of serous membranes; acute, inflammatory (Apis, Ars-I., Bry., Phos., Merc-Sulph., Sulph.) (A.).
DROPSY: WITH THIRST (Acet-Ac., Ars., Iod., Nat-M., Phos., Sulph.),; dropsy without thirst- Apis, Nux-V., Puls., Sep.); WATER DISAGREES OR IS VOMITED (Ars., Phos.); AFTER TYPHUS, TYPHOID, SCARLATINA, OR CIRRHOSIS; ALSO AFTER ABUSE OF QUININE (R.).
Hydrocephalus: sutures opened; forehead projecting; sight of one eye totally lost, the other slightly sensible; stupour; constant involuntary motion of one leg and arm (Hell.); urine suppressed; vomiting, with stupour (Rn.).
Skin dry and husky (Hl.).
URINE EXCESSIVELY SCANTY, THICK, YELLOW AND TURBID (Frl.).
WATERY DIARRHŒA, OR CONSTIPATION (Rg.).
Obliged to sit up; lying down produces violent dyspnœa (Ars., Lyc., Phos., Sulph.) (Bt.).
Amenorrhœa in young girls (Ferr., Puls., Sep.), with bloating or dropsical extension of abdomen and extremities (A.).
Metrorrhagia: continued or paroxysmal flow; fluid or clotted; nausea; vomiting; palpitation; pulse feeble quick, when moved; vital depression; fainting, when raising head from pillow (A.).
Sometimes cures nocturnal enuresis (G.).
Hydro-thorax (Apis, Ars., Aur., Lach., Lyc., Merc-Sulph., Nat-S., Sulph.) (G.).
Penis and scrotum swollen, dropsical (Dig., Merc., Rhus-T.) (G.).
Should be remembered in dropsy, that is dependent upon a feeble heart, when the blood pressure is lowered, also in the later stages of heart disease, when a general anasarca is present (Bl.).
Cough, short and dry, or deep and loose (Hep., Nat-S., Spong.), during pregnancy (Caust., Con., Kali-Br., Nux-M., Phos., Puls., Sep.) (A.).
Excessive vomiting. Food or water is immediately ejected (Ars., Bism., Phos.) (Br.).
RENAL DROPSY (Apis, Dig., Kali-C., Merc-C., Phos., Sep., Sulph.) (Br.).
Oppression of the chest (Ars., Cact., Dig., Kali-Ars., Lach., Lyc., Phos.) (B.).
Great restlessness and little sleep (Br.).
COPIOUS, YELLOW OR BROWNISH DIARRHŒA, EXPELLED WITH GREAT FORCE (Crot-T., Gamb., Nat-S., Podo., Sulph.) (D.).
A weak, all-gone feeling in the abdomen (Carb-An., Kali-P., Sep., Sulph.) (D.).
AGGRAVATION: In cold weather; from cold drinks; from uncovering; and on lying down.
AMELIORATION: From sitting up.
RELATIONSHIP. Similar to: Acet-Ac., Apis, Ars., Dig., Hell., Lyc., Phos., Sep., and Sulph. in dropsical affections.
Cymarin is the active principle of Apocynum. It lowers the pulse-rate and increases the blood-pressure.