Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Remedy
Chapter:
665.27.06
665.27.06 Asclepias curassavica
English: Milkweed, red-purple.
Botany: North American.
Body
General: dropsy, hepatic, renal, cardiac, < scarlatina; causes diaphoresis and augments the urinary secretion.
Nervous system.
Head: headache, nervous, constriction, forehead, < suppressed perspiration, > urination, < suppressed discharges; as if a sharp instrument were thrust through from temple to temple.
Urinary: urine scanty, increased specific gravity.
Female: uterus pain, intermittent, pressing-down.
Limbs: arthritis, acute, rheumatic, large joints.