====== APOCYNUM CANNABINUM ====== {{anchor:s1}}Apocynum Cannabinum. {{anchor:s2}}Indian Hemp. {{anchor:s3}}Apocynaceae. {{anchor:s4}}In the summer of 1833, during a walk in the suburbs of New York, attention was called to this plant as being one of the most promising, by Dr. John F. Gray. {{anchor:s5}}In Allentown it was proved, especially by Dr. Freitag; in 1856 another attempt by John C. Peters, with large doses of the tincture. {{anchor:s6}}Afterwards, at the suggestion of Dr. Gray, it was given for dropsies. {{anchor:s7}}Dr. Marcy proved the 3d. {{anchor:s8}}The best reports of cures in hemorrhages from uterus are from Dr. Marsden of York Spring, Pa. ====== MIND. [1] ====== {{anchor:s10}}Bewildered.\\ {{anchor:s11}}Feels as if she could do nothing but cry; don't want to speak, very low spirited.\\ {{anchor:s12}}Low-spirited and nervous. {{anchor:s13}}~ Ascites and chronic diarrhea.\\ {{anchor:s14}}Stupor. {{anchor:s15}}~ Hydrocephalus. ====== SENSORIUM. [2] ====== {{anchor:s17}}Dizzy in head. ====== INNER HEAD. [3] ====== {{anchor:s19}}Pain in forehead in morning. {{anchor:s20}}~ Ophthalmia.\\ {{anchor:s21}}Frontal headache, sick at stomach, restless at night.\\ {{anchor:s22}}Heaviness of head, evenings; aching in small of back and limbs.\\ {{anchor:s23}}Hydrocephalus; stupor, sight of one eye totally lost, the other slightly sensible; constant involuntary motion of one arm and leg; forehead projecting; sutures open. {{anchor:s24}}~ Stage of exudation.\\ {{anchor:s25}}Hydrocephalus acutus.\\ {{anchor:s26}}Dizzy headache. ====== OUTER HEAD. [4] ====== {{anchor:s28}}Forehead projecting, sutures open. {{anchor:s29}}~ Hydrocephalus. ====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ====== {{anchor:s31}}Sight of one eye totally lost, the other slightly sensible. {{anchor:s32}}~ Hydrocephalus.\\ {{anchor:s33}}Heat, redness of eye, feeling as of sand in eye; early in morning.\\ {{anchor:s34}}Eyes inflamed; worse morning and evening.\\ {{anchor:s35}}Pressure in right eye as if pressed outward.\\ {{anchor:s36}}Fine stitches in right eye. ====== SMELL AND NOSE. [7] ====== {{anchor:s38}}Violent irritation of Schneiderian membrane, resembling a severe attack of coryza.\\ {{anchor:s39}}Cold in head.\\ {{anchor:s40}}Nostrils and throat filled with thick, yellow mucus, on waking in morning.\\ {{anchor:s41}}Nose stopped up. ====== UPPER FACE. [8] ====== {{anchor:s43}}Face expressive of much anguish. {{anchor:s44}}~ Dropsy.\\ {{anchor:s45}}Face bloated after lying down; passes off after sitting up.\\ {{anchor:s46}}Face bloated; of a bluish lead color, also lips. {{anchor:s47}}~ Heart disease.\\ {{anchor:s48}}Face much swollen. {{anchor:s49}}~ Hydrothorax. ====== LOWER FACE. [9] ====== {{anchor:s51}}Dry lips; if taken in evening this is the first symptom the next morning. ====== TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] ====== {{anchor:s53}}Taste bitter, sub-acrid, in fauces.\\ {{anchor:s54}}Tongue greatly coated, brownish-white.\\ {{anchor:s55}}Tongue dry, immoderate thirst. {{anchor:s56}}~ Hydrothorax. ====== INNER MOUTH. [12] ====== {{anchor:s58}}Dryness of mouth on awaking; thirst.\\ {{anchor:s59}}Constantly spitting; increased secretion of mucus and saliva in mouth and fauces. ====== PALATE AND THROAT. [13] ====== {{anchor:s61}}Thick yellow mucus in throat in morning; unpleasant degree of heat.\\ {{anchor:s62}}Pressure on right side of throat. ====== APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] ====== {{anchor:s65}}Great thirst. {{anchor:s66}}~ Hydrothorax.\\ {{anchor:s67}}Great thirst, but water disagrees, causing pain, or is immediately thrown off. {{anchor:s68}}~ Dropsy.\\ {{anchor:s69}}Thirst on waking. ====== EATING AND DRINKING. [15] ====== {{anchor:s71}}Distension about stomach and hypochondria after a moderate meal.\\ {{anchor:s72}}Feels as if she was hungry, and when she tries to eat, it settles in epigastrium, turns sour and hurts her. ====== HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] ====== {{anchor:s74}}Nausea after sleep.\\ {{anchor:s75}}Violent vomiting, with prostration and drowsiness, cold skin.\\ {{anchor:s76}}Distressing vomiting at intervals. {{anchor:s77}}~ Menorrhagia.\\ {{anchor:s78}}Patient becomes very drowsy and vomits very often; pulse slow.\\ {{anchor:s79}}Considerable gastric disturbance. {{anchor:s80}}~ After scarlet fever. ====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ====== {{anchor:s82}}Sense of oppression about epigastrium and chest, so that there was the greatest difficulty in getting breath enough to smoke a cigar, or to speak with any comfort, and this happened after lighter meals than ordinary.\\ {{anchor:s83}}Sinking at stomach on awaking.\\ {{anchor:s84}}Stomach so irritable, not even a draught of water can be retained. {{anchor:s85}}~ Dropsy.\\ {{anchor:s86}}Great irritability of stomach and vomiting. {{anchor:s87}}~ Menorrhagia.\\ {{anchor:s88}}Congestion of liver, of portal system; followed by ascites. ====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ====== {{anchor:s90}}Abdomen very much distended and painful. {{anchor:s91}}~ Ascites.\\ {{anchor:s92}}Bloated abdomen and limbs. {{anchor:s93}}~ Amenorrhea.\\ {{anchor:s94}}Ascites.\\ {{anchor:s95}}Ascites with chronic diarrhea.\\ {{anchor:s96}}Decided distension of abdomen, especially after a moderate dinner; all the sense of fullness seemed about stomach, liver and spleen, while lower bowels did not appear more flatulent than common. ====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ====== {{anchor:s98}}Evacuations very scanty.\\ {{anchor:s99}}Bilious stools; loose, but not very copious.\\ {{anchor:s100}}Bowels sluggish, but feces not hard or costive. ====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ====== {{anchor:s102}}Dull aching pain in kidneys, with increased secretion of straw-colored urine, sinking at stomach, dry mouth, sighing.\\ {{anchor:s103}}Very peculiar torpid action of kidneys.\\ {{anchor:s104}}Decided scantiness of urine.\\ {{anchor:s105}}Scanty urine. {{anchor:s106}}~ Hydrothorax.\\ {{anchor:s107}}Urinary difficulties. {{anchor:s108}}~ Dysuria. {{anchor:s109}}~ Strangury.\\ {{anchor:s110}}Urine diminished to one-third of usual quantity.\\ {{anchor:s111}}Retention of urine, with paralysis of lower extremities.\\ {{anchor:s112}}Urine light, or sherry-colored, no sediment on cooling.\\ {{anchor:s113}}Very profuse light-colored urine, several gallons a day.\\ {{anchor:s114}}Urine high-colored and very scanty. {{anchor:s115}}~ After scarlet fever.\\ {{anchor:s116}}Urine high-colored, diminished in quantity, and voided with difficulty. {{anchor:s117}}~ Ascites.\\ {{anchor:s118}}Urine diminished to one-third the usual amount, without pain or uneasiness about kidneys or bladder; on contrary, chest organs seemed remarkably comfortable; they seemed simply torpid.\\ {{anchor:s119}}The little water that was passed flowed as easily as if it were oil.\\ {{anchor:s120}}Urine suppressed. {{anchor:s121}}~ Meningitis infantum.\\ {{anchor:s122}}A most inveterate case of wetting the bed at night, in a girl. ====== MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] ====== {{anchor:s124}}Penis and scrotum swollen. {{anchor:s125}}~ Heart disease. ====== FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [23] ====== {{anchor:s127}}Ovarian tumors.\\ {{anchor:s128}}Very profuse flow of blood, preceded for a day or two by a moderate discharge. {{anchor:s129}}~ Menorrhagia.\\ {{anchor:s130}}Discharge fluid and abundant. {{anchor:s131}}~ Menorrhagia.\\ {{anchor:s132}}Hemorrhage ceasing at intervals, always recurred when vital powers rallied. {{anchor:s133}}~ Menorrhagia.\\ {{anchor:s134}}Most exhausting menorrhagia for about six weeks.\\ {{anchor:s135}}Blood expelled in large clots, sometimes in fluid state. {{anchor:s136}}~ Menorrhagia.\\ {{anchor:s137}}The moderate flow of menses for a day or two suddenly sets in with such violence that she cannot be out of bed. {{anchor:s138}}~ Menorrhagia.\\ {{anchor:s139}}Shreds or pieces of membrane, with fluid blood. {{anchor:s140}}~ Menorrhagia.\\ {{anchor:s141}}Amenorrhea in young girls; abdomen and legs bloated.\\ {{anchor:s142}}Metrorrhagia continual or paroxysmal; fluid or clotted; nausea, vomiting, palpitation; pulse quick, feeble, when moved; fainting, when raising head from pillow. ====== PREGNANCY. PARTURITION. LACTATION. [24] ====== {{anchor:s146}}Cough during pregnancy, sometimes short and dry, sometimes deep and loose; if very deep, it pains in stomach. ====== VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] ====== {{anchor:s149}}Could not utter a syllable, although perfectly conscious; answering by signs. {{anchor:s150}}~ Hydrothorax.\\ {{anchor:s151}}Unpleasant heat of larynx and fauces.\\ {{anchor:s152}}Hoarseness. ====== RESPIRATION. [26] ====== {{anchor:s154}}Sighing.\\ {{anchor:s155}}Short respiration.\\ {{anchor:s156}}Could scarcely speak for want of breath. {{anchor:s157}}~ Heart disease.\\ {{anchor:s158}}Could only breathe in a sitting posture, with head thrown forward. {{anchor:s159}}~ Hydrothorax.\\ {{anchor:s160}}Panting for breath. {{anchor:s161}}~ Heart disease.\\ {{anchor:s162}}Oppression of chest on awaking.\\ {{anchor:s163}}Oppression about epigastrium and chest, difficulty in getting breath enough to speak; after a light meal. {{anchor:s164}}~ Hydrothorax.\\ {{anchor:s165}}Irresistible disposition to sigh.\\ {{anchor:s166}}Agonizing difficulty of breathing. {{anchor:s167}}~ Dropsy.\\ {{anchor:s168}}Short and unsatisfactory respiration.\\ {{anchor:s169}}Gasping for breath. {{anchor:s170}}~ Hydrothorax.\\ {{anchor:s171}}Difficult breathing, entirely unable to remain in a recumbent position.\\ {{anchor:s172}}Dropsy.\\ {{anchor:s173}}Great dyspnea, wheezing breathing and cough; could walk with great difficulty. {{anchor:s174}}~ Dropsy of pericardium. ====== COUGH. [27] ====== {{anchor:s176}}Dry cough, with scanty expectoration.\\ {{anchor:s177}}Short, dry cough.\\ {{anchor:s178}}Cough dry, hacking, suffocative, and incessant. {{anchor:s179}}~ Hydrothorax.\\ {{anchor:s180}}Cough agg. at night.\\ {{anchor:s181}}Violent attack of a hoarse cough at night, with vomiting.\\ {{anchor:s182}}Short cough, alternating with a deep cough.\\ {{anchor:s183}}Loose rattling, with oppression of chest.\\ {{anchor:s184}}Scanty expectoration of white mucus.\\ {{anchor:s185}}Hemorrhage from lungs. ====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ====== {{anchor:s187}}Oppression on left chest.\\ {{anchor:s188}}Stitches in right chest.\\ {{anchor:s189}}Hydrothorax. {{anchor:s190}}~ After scarlet fever.\\ {{anchor:s191}}Hydrothorax and anasarca depending on organic disease of heart. ====== HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] ====== {{anchor:s193}}Palpitation very troublesome whenever she attempted to move about house. {{anchor:s194}}~ Menorrhagia.\\ {{anchor:s195}}Dropsy of pericardium; heart's action scarcely perceptible; face bloated and anxious looking.\\ {{anchor:s196}}Very feeble, with a quick pulse.\\ {{anchor:s197}}Small weak pulse. {{anchor:s198}}~ Hydrothorax.\\ {{anchor:s199}}Pulse 45 between attacks of vomiting; feeble. {{anchor:s200}}~ Menorrhagia.\\ {{anchor:s201}}Pulse small and irregular. {{anchor:s202}}~ Ascites.\\ {{anchor:s203}}Pulse weak and irregular. {{anchor:s204}}~ After scarlet fever.\\ {{anchor:s205}}Almost pulseless and disposed to faint whenever she attempted to raise her head from pillow. {{anchor:s206}}~ Menorrhagia. ====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ====== {{anchor:s208}}Slight soreness in region of kidneys when bringing muscles into action. ====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ====== {{anchor:s210}}Finger nails of bluish lead color. {{anchor:s211}}~ Heart disease. ====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ====== {{anchor:s213}}Stiff knees.\\ {{anchor:s214}}Hard aching in both knees; fears inflammatory rheumatism.\\ {{anchor:s215}}Edema of feet and ankles, general dropsy; also after typhus.\\ {{anchor:s216}}Lower extremities, penis, scrotum and abdomen swollen. {{anchor:s217}}~ Heart disease.\\ {{anchor:s218}}The whole left leg is contracted.\\ {{anchor:s219}}Pain in ball of right big toe. ====== LIMBS IN GENERAL. [34] ====== {{anchor:s221}}Constant involuntary motion of one leg and one arm. {{anchor:s222}}~ Hydrocephalus.\\ {{anchor:s223}}General stiffness of legs and body, can scarcely bend.\\ {{anchor:s224}}Weakness of limbs.\\ {{anchor:s225}}Itching on limbs.\\ {{anchor:s226}}Pains in arms and legs. ====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ====== {{anchor:s230}}Had to be supported in sitting posture in bed. {{anchor:s231}}~ Dropsy.\\ {{anchor:s232}}Could not lie down. {{anchor:s233}}~ Dropsy of pericardium.\\ {{anchor:s234}}Region of kidneys sore on using muscles.\\ {{anchor:s235}}Raising head: fainting.\\ {{anchor:s236}}Lying: face bloated; amel. sitting up; cannot lie, dropsy.\\ {{anchor:s237}}Moving about house: palpitation agg.\\ {{anchor:s238}}Walks with great difficulty. {{anchor:s239}}~ Dropsy of pericardium. ====== NERVES. [36] ====== {{anchor:s241}}General restlessness.\\ {{anchor:s242}}Involuntary motions of one arm and leg. {{anchor:s243}}~ Hydrocephalus.\\ {{anchor:s244}}Greatly debilitated, pulse feeble and quick. {{anchor:s245}}~ Menorrhagia.\\ {{anchor:s246}}Disposition to faint; vital powers much depressed. {{anchor:s247}}~ Menorrhagia. ====== SLEEP. [37] ====== {{anchor:s249}}Drowsy in afternoon, restless in night.\\ {{anchor:s250}}On going to bed desire for sleep; with inability to sleep.\\ {{anchor:s251}}Drowsiness; vomiting, weak.\\ {{anchor:s252}}Stupor.\\ {{anchor:s253}}Restlessness; little sleep.\\ {{anchor:s254}}After sleep: nausea; thirst; dry mouth and lips; sinking at stomach; oppression of chest. ====== TIME. [38] ====== {{anchor:s256}}Morning: pains in forehead; heat, redness, feeling of sand in eye; yellow mucus in nostrils and throat; dry lips and mouth.\\ {{anchor:s257}}Evening: heaviness of head; aching in back and limbs; eyes more inflamed; going to bed, skin hot.\\ {{anchor:s258}}Night: restless; wetting the bed; violent attack of cough. ====== TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] ====== {{anchor:s260}}From a cold, during a sleigh-ride, after flow of menses had set in, menorrhagia lasting four and a half weeks. ====== FEVER. [40] ====== {{anchor:s262}}Heat of skin on going to bed.\\ {{anchor:s263}}Sweat; when skin moistens, dropsy improves.\\ {{anchor:s264}}Clammy sweat. {{anchor:s265}}~ Hydrothorax.\\ {{anchor:s266}}Body covered with large drops of cold sweat. {{anchor:s267}}~ Heart disease. ====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ====== {{anchor:s269}}Paroxysmal menorrhagia. ====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ====== {{anchor:s271}}Right: outward pressure in eye; fine stitches in eye; pressure in throat; stitches in chest; pain in ball of big toe.\\ {{anchor:s272}}Left: oppression on chest; contraction of leg. ====== SENSATIONS. [43] ====== {{anchor:s274}}Feels as if she could do nothing but cry; as if right eye was pressed outward; feeling as of sand in eye.\\ {{anchor:s275}}Stitches: fine, in right eye; in right chest.\\ {{anchor:s276}}Aching: in small of back and limbs; in kidneys; in both knees.\\ {{anchor:s277}}Soreness: in region of kidneys.\\ {{anchor:s278}}Pressure: as if right eye was pressed outward; on right side of throat.\\ {{anchor:s279}}Undefined pain: in forehead; caused by drinking water; in distended abdomen; in stomach, from deep cough; in ball of right big toe; in arms and legs.\\ {{anchor:s280}}Fullness: about stomach.\\ {{anchor:s281}}Heaviness: in head.\\ {{anchor:s282}}Oppression: about epigastrium and chest.\\ {{anchor:s283}}Dryness: of lips; of mouth; of skin.\\ {{anchor:s284}}Heat: of left eye; in fauces and larynx; of skin.\\ {{anchor:s285}}Itching: on limbs.\\ {{anchor:s286}}Weakness: of limbs. ====== TISSUES. [44] ====== {{anchor:s288}}Excretions diminished, especially urine and sweat.\\ {{anchor:s289}}Dropsy of serous membranes.\\ {{anchor:s290}}Acute inflammatory dropsy.\\ {{anchor:s291}}Dropsy: with great thirst, but water causes pain or is vomited; after typhus, scarlatina, cirrhosis; mostly uncomplicated with organic disease.\\ {{anchor:s292}}General dropsy after scarlet fever.\\ {{anchor:s293}}Rheumatic stiffness. ====== SKIN. [46] ====== {{anchor:s295}}Skin dry and harsh. {{anchor:s296}}~ Ascites.\\ {{anchor:s297}}Skin cold, with vomiting.\\ {{anchor:s298}}Skin hot, evening going to bed. ====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ====== {{anchor:s300}}Woman, aet. 24, mother of three children, black hair and eyes, fair complexion, disposed to uterine hemorrhage.\\ {{anchor:s301}}Woman, aet. 40, mother of several children, a hard worker, dark complexion, dark eyes and black hair; menorrhagia.\\ {{anchor:s302}}Women with amenorrhea.\\ {{anchor:s303}}A girl; ~ enuresis. ====== RELATIONS. [48] ====== {{anchor:s305}}Concordances: Acet. ac.; Apis (which has no thirst in dropsies); Arsen.; Bellad.; Bryon.; Cinchon.; Colchic.; Digit. (dropsy; slow pulse); Elat.; Helleb. (hydrocephalus, ascites, etc.); Kali carb.; Lycop.; Mercur.; Merc. sulph.; Scilla; Sulphur; Veratr. alb.\\ {{anchor:s306}}Dropsy after abuse of quinine. ---- ====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ====== ^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 01, 1879 | ^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r305|Apocynum cannabinum]] | ^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r305|Apocynum cannabinum]] | ^ Author: | Hering, C. | ^ Year: | 1879 | ^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting | ^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}