Asclepias Tuberosa

Pleurisy-root

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

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 sudoriparous 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 leucorrhœa. Dropsy with dyspnœa) 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.

Asclepias Tuberosa across the other classic books

Asclepias Tuberosa appears in 6 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. tuberosa, Linn. Nat. order , Asclepiadaceæ. Common names , Butterfly weed, Pleurisy root. Preparation , Tincture of the root. Authorities. Toward evening, unusual elevation of spirits, 2. The cheerful mood changed, and, without exterior cause, he became fretful and peevish (after eleven and a half hours), 2. Mental…”
Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“FOAMY, frothy”
Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“SECRETIONS: SKIN. Serous. Mucous. Chest (R). Muscles. Motion. Deep breathing. Lying. Tobacco. Colliquative states (Agar.). SWEATINGS; in pleuro-pneumonia, diarrhœa or rheumatism. Body numb. .................... Sticky, yellow nasal discharge. Tough, yellow coat on tongue. Stools smell like rotten eggs, or burn like…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Pleurisy-root. Butterfly-weed. N. O. Asclepiadaceæ. Tincture of fresh root. Alopecia / Asthma / Bilious fever / Bronchitis / Catarrh / Chancre / Colic / Cough / Diarrhœa / Dysentery / Headache / Heart, affections of / Influenza / Ophthalmia / Pericarditis / Pleurisy / Pleurodynia / Rheumatism / Scrofula / Syphilis…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Pleurisy Root. Asclepiadaceæ. An old and popular drug, proved by M. A. Savory, and published in the French journals, 1858 ; from them, 1860, into German ; from there translated by M. J. Rhees, in the June and July numbers of the Am. Hom. Review ; same year, 1859, translated by Marcy ; altogether condemned by Hale…”

Asclepias Tuberosa in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Asclepias Tuberosa in 312 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in EXTREMITIES (92), CHEST (29), ABDOMEN (18), STOOL (17), NOSE (13).

CHEST - PAIN - cutting (sudden sharp pain) - stooping,on
CHEST - PAIN - stitching - Mammae - extending - from left nipple downward
CHEST - PAIN - cutting (sudden sharp pain) - Sides - inspiration
CHEST - PAIN - cutting (sudden sharp pain) - motion - of arms
CHEST - PAIN - bending - forward - amel.
CHEST - PAIN - stitching - Mammae - nipple - left
NOSE - SNUFFLES
CHEST - PAIN - cutting (sudden sharp pain) - inspiration
CHEST - PAIN - cutting (sudden sharp pain) - Sides - left
RECTUM - DIARRHOEA - bilious
CHEST - INFLAMMATION - Heart - pericardium
ABDOMEN - RUMBLING - stool - before
GENERALITIES - PAIN - stitching - transversely
HEAD - PAIN, - Forehead,in - coughing
COUGH - CONSTRICTION, - larynx
GENERALITIES - PAIN - stitching - downward
ABDOMEN - PAIN - cough,during
EXTREMITIES - CRAMPS - Foot
CHEST - PAIN - cutting (sudden sharp pain)
SLEEP - SLEEPINESS - morning

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