COMMON MILKWEED.
Introduction
(Asclepias-adkyemas, Asclepias, Aesculapius to whom the genus is dedicated. Cornuti-cornu, a horn-the crown of the flower consist of five hooded bodies, each containing an incurred born).
Allen given as the first proper, Dr. Clerborne, an old school man, who took the fluid extract and infusion of the root and the inspissated juice of the fresh herb.
Symptoms
Asclepias corn. is a remedy to be thought of in nervous headaches after suppressed perspiration followed or relieved by sweating and profuse urination (93).
It increases the amount of urine and the perspiration and is useful in dropsy (63) dependent upon diseases of the heart or kidneys and following scarlet fever.
Hale makes especial mention of it “in the uremia of pregnant women.”
It has proved of value in rheumatism of the large joints (161).
