Virginia Creeper
by William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory
(AMPELOPSIS)
Renal dropsies, hydrocele, and chronic hoarseness in scrofulous patients have been benefited by this drug. Choleric symptoms. Generally worse about 6 pm. Dilated pupils. Left costal region sore and sensitive. Elbow joints pain, back sore. Soreness of all limbs. Vomiting, purging with tenesmus. Rumbling in abdomen.
Second to third potency.
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Ampelopsis Quinquefolia appears in 3 of the 13 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.
“Ampelopsis quinquefolia, Michx. Natural order , Vitaceæ. Virginia Creeper or American Ivy. Mr. Bernay, Pharm. Journ. and Trans., vol vii, 1876, p. 80, two children, æt. two and a half and five years, chewed the leaves, swallowing the juice. They are quickly seized with violent vomiting and purging, with considerable…”
“quinquefolia. Virginia Creeper. American Ivy. N. O. Vitaceæ. Tincture of plant. Decoction of chopped inner bark. Cholera / Dropsy / Hoarseness / Hydrocele Our pathogenetic knowledge of Ampelopsis is due to observations on two children poisoned by chewing the leaves. They were quickly seized with violent vomiting and…”
