Apocynum Cannabinum

COMMON NAME:

      INDIAN HEMP.

Symptoms

      Low spirited (Aurum, Ignatia, Pulsatilla, Sepia) (Br.).

Excretions diminished, especially urine and sweat (Apis., Sepia, Sulphur). (A.).

All kinds of dropsies, with a sinking feeling at the pit of the stomach (Hl.).

GENERAL OEDEMA (Apis., Arsenicum, Digitalis, Mercurius, Phosphorus, Sepia, Sulphur). (Bt.).

Ascites, with bruised feeling in the abdomen (Bt.).

Dropsy of serous membranes; acute inflammatory (Apis., Ars-I., Bryonia, Phosphorus, Merc-Sulph., Sulphur). (A.).

DROPSY: WITH THIRST (Acet-Ac., Arsenicum, Iodium, Natrum muriaticum, Phosphorus, Sulph); dropsy without thirst-Apis, Nux vomica, Pulsatilla, Sepia); WATER DISAGREES OR IS VOMITED (Arsenicum, Phosphorus); AFTER TYPHUS, TYPHOID, SCARLATINA, OR CIRRHOSIS, ALSO AFTER ABUSE OF QUININE (R.).

Hydrocephalus: sutures opened; forehead projecting; sight of one eye totally lost, the other slightly sensible; stupor; constant involuntary motion of one leg and arm (Helleborus); urine suppressed; vomiting, with stupor (Rn.).

Skin dry and husky (Hl.).

URINE EXCESSIVELY SCANTY, THICK YELLOW AND TURBID (Frl.).

WATERY DIARRHOEA OR CONSTIPATION (Rg.).

Obliged to sit up; lying down produces violent dyspnoea (Arsenicum, Lycopodium, Phosphorus, Sulphur). (Bt.).

Amenorrhoea in young girls (Ferrum, Pulsatilla, Sepia). with bloating or dropsical extension of abdomen and extremities (A.).

Metrorrhagia; continued or paroxysmal flow; fluid or clotted; nausea; vomiting; palpitation; pulse feeble quick when moved; vital depression; fainting when raising head from pillow (A.).

Sometimes cures nocturnal enuresis (G.).

Hydro-thorax (Apis., Arsenicum, Aurum, Lachesis, Lycopodium, Mercurius, Sulphur, Nat-S., Sulphur) (G.).

Penis and scrotum swollen, dropsical (Digitalis, Mercurius, Rhus toxicodendron) (G.).

Should be remembered in dropsy, that is dependent upon a feeble heart, when the blood pressure is lowered, also in the latter stages of heart disease, when a general anasarca is present (Bl.).

Cough, sore and dry, or deep and loose (Hepar, Nat-S., Spongia), during pregnancy (Causticum, Conium, Kali-Br., Nux-M., Phosphorus, Pulsatilla, Sepia) (A.).

Excessive vomiting. Food or water is immediately ejected (Arsenicum, Bism., Phosphorus). (Br.).

RENAL DROPSY (Apis., Digitalis, Kali-c., Merc-c., Phosphorus, Sepia, Sulphur) (Br.).

Oppression of the chest (Arsenicum, Cact., Digitalis, Kali-Arsenicum, Lachesis, Lycopodium, Phosphorus). (B.).

Great restlessness and little sleep (Br.).

COPIOUS YELLOW OR BROWNISH DIARRHOEA, EXPELLED WITH GREAT FORCE (Crot-T., Gambogia, Nat-S., Podophyllum, Sulphur). (D.).

A weak, all-gone feeling in the abdomen 9Carb-An., Kali-P., Sepia, Sulphur). (D.).

AGGRAVATION:

      In cold weather; from cold drinks; from uncovering; and on lying down.

AMELIORATION:

      From sitting up.

RELATIONSHIP:

      Similar to: Acet-Ac., Apis., Arsenicum, Digitalis, Helleborus, Lycopodium, Phosphorus, Sepia and Sulph. in dropsical affections.

Cymarin is the active principle of Apocynum. It lowers the pulse-rate and increases the blood-pressure.

Adolph Lippe

Adolph Lippe (born near Goerlitz, Prussia, 11 May 1812; died in Philadelphia, 23 January 1888) was a homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. Adolph got a legal education at Berlin. After completing his legal studies, Lippe became interested in homeopathy, and emigrated to the United States in 1837 to further his study. In 1838, he enrolled in the North American Academy of Homeopathy at Allentown, Pennsylvania, from where he graduated in 1841. He settled in Philadelphia, where from 1863 until 1868 he was professor of materia medica in the Homeopathic College of Pennsylvania. Besides some essays and treatises from the French, German, and Italian which became standards, Lippe was the author of:
Comparative Materia Medica (Philadelphia, 1854)
Text-Book of Materia Medica (1866)