Asclepias Cornuti

Silk-weed

by William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory

(ASCLEPIAS SYRIACA)

Seems to act especially on nervous system and urinary organs. A remedy for dropsy, hepatic, renal or cardiac and post-scarlatinal; causes diaphoresis and augments the urinary secretion. Acute rheumatic inflammation of large joints. Intermittent, pressing-down uterine pains.

Head

Feels as if a sharp instrument were thrust through from temple to temple . Constriction across forehead. Nervous headache, after suppressed perspiration, followed by increased urine, with increase of specific gravity . Headache from retention of effete matters in system.

Relationship

Compare: Asclepias Vincetoxicum . Swallow-wart. Cynanchum --(A gastro-intestinal irritant, producing vomiting and purgation). (Useful in dropsy, diabetes, great thirst, profuse urination).

Dose

Tincture.

Asclepias Cornuti across the other classic books

Asclepias Cornuti appears in 4 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.

Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“A. cornuti, Decaisne (A. Syriaca, Linn.). Nat. order , Asclepiadaceæ. Common names , Silkweed, milkweed. Preparation , Tincture of the root. Authorities. Calm, quiet feeling, 2. Dizziness in the head (lasting only a couple of hours), 1. A little dizziness (after four hours), 2. Agreeable sensation in the brain…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“A. cornuti. Milkweed or Silkweed. N. O. Asclepiadaceæ. Tincture of root. Abortion / Bronchitis / Catarrhal fever / Dropsy / Dysmenorrhœa / Hay-fever / Headache / Indigestion / Influenza / Pleurisy / Rheumatism / Uræmia / Uterine pains Asclep. syr. has especial influence on nervous tissues. Nervous headache; as if a…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Milk or Silkweed. Asclepiadaceæ. The oldest and best proving was made by Jeanes ; later proved by Clerborne and Pattee. Preparation : tincture of root. Vertigo, dulness and stupidity, with headache. Dulness with pain in left side of head. Violent headache between eyes ; a sense of constriction across forehead. A…”

Asclepias Cornuti in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Asclepias Cornuti in 27 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in URINE (4), EXTREMITIES (3), HEAD (2), PERSPIRATION (2), RECTUM (2).

KIDNEYS - INFLAMMATION
GENERALITIES - DROPSY - external
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - boring - Leg - tibia - left
URINE - COPIOUS - increased - headache, - after
URINE - SCANTY - headache,during,copious after
EYE - PAIN - between
HEAD - PAIN, - shooting - Temples - extending from temple to temple
BACK - PAIN - cutting - Dorsal region
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - boring - Leg - tibia
HEAD - PAIN, - Temples - extending - temple to temple
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - rheumatic - acute
STOMACH - APPETITE - ravenous,canine,excessive - .ìeating - after,soon
SLEEP - HEAVY
STOMACH - APPETITE - increased (hunger in general) - eating - after
ABDOMEN - PAIN - cramping,griping - stool - during
RECTUM - EXCORIATION
COUGH - WHOOPING
PERSPIRATION - PROFUSE
URETHRA - PAIN - burning - urination, - during
URINE - BURNING (includes Hot)

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