Materia Medica
Asclepias Syriaca
Silkweed
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 per- spiration, followed by increased urine, with increase of specific gravity. Headache from retention of effete matters in system.
Relationships
Compare: Ascle pias Vincetoxicum. - Swallow-wort — Cynanchum -- .4 gastro-intestinal ir- ritant, producing vomiting and purgation.—- (Useful in dropsy, diabetes, great thirst, profuse urination.)
Dose
Tincture.