APOCYNUM CANNABINUM

William Boericke
John Henry Clarke

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 APPOCYNUM CANNABINUM WILLIAM BOERICKE
APOCYNUM CANNABINUM

(Indian Hemp)

Increases secretions of mucous and serous membranes and acts on cellular tissue,
producing oedema and dropsy and on skin causing diaphoresis. Acute hydrocephalus. A
diminished frequency of the pulse is a prime indication. This is one of our most efficient
remedies, in DROPSIES, ascites, anasarca and hydrothorax, and urinary troubles,
especially suppression and strangury. In the digestive complaints of Bright's disease, with
the nausea, vomiting, drowsiness, difficult breathing, it will be found of frequent service.
The dropsy is characterized by great thirst and gastric irritability. Arhythmia. MITRAL
AND TRICUSPID REGURGITATION. ACUTE ALCOHOLISM. Relaxation of
sphincters.

Mind :

Bewildered. Low spirited.

Nose :

Long-continued sneezing. Snuffles of children. (SAMBUCUS.) Chronic nasal catarrh with

tendency to acute stuffiness with dull, sluggish memory. Dull headache. Takes cold
easily, nostrils become congested and blocked up easily.

Stomach :

Nausea, with drowsiness. Thirst on walking. EXCESSIVE VOMITING. Food or water is

immediately ejected. Dull, heavy, sick feeling. Oppression in epigastrium and chest,
impeding breathing. (LOBELIA INFL.) Sensation of sinking in stomach. Abdomen
bloated. Ascites.

Stool :

WATERY, flatulent, with soreness in anus; worse after eating. Feeling as if sphincter
were open and stools ran right out. Urine. Bladder much distended. Turbid, hot urine,
with thick mucus and burning in urethra, after urinating. Little expulsive power. Dribbling.
Strangury. RENAL DROPSY.

Female :

Amenorrhoea, with bloating; metrorrhagia with nausea; fainting, vital depression.

Haemorrhages at change of life. Blood expelled in large clots.

Respiratory :

Short, dry cough. RESPIRATION SHORT AND UNSATISFACTORY. Sighing.

Oppression about epigastrium and chest.

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 Heart :

Tricuspid regurgitation; rapid and feeble, irregular cardiac action, low arterial tension,
pulsating jugulars, general cyanosis and general dropsy.

Sleep :

Great restlessness and little sleep.

Modalities :

Worse, cold weather; cold drinks; uncovering.

Relationship :

CYMARIN is the active principle of Apocyn., lowers pulse rate and increases blood-
pressure. STROPHANTHUS (extreme cardiac depression with intense gastric
disturbance; dropsy). ARALIA HISPIDA-Wild Elder--a valuable diuretic, useful in dropsy
of the cavities, either due to hepatic or renal disease with constipation. Urinary disorders,
especially with dropsy. Scudder advises doses of five to thirty drops in sweetened cream
of tartar, Solution). APIS., ARSENIC; DIGITAL.; HELLEB.

Dose :

Tincture (ten drops three times daily) and in acute alcoholism 1 dram of decoction in 4
oz. water.

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 APPOCYNUM CANNABINUM JOHN HENRY CLARKE
Apocynum Cannabinum
Indian (American) Hemp. N. O. Apocynaceae. Provings were made with fresh plant-
tinctures, or fresh or powdered root-tinctures or infusions. Watery infusions (with just
enough spirit to keep them from fermenting) are said to be more efficacious than
tinctures. The whole fresh plant, root included, should be used for making the tincture or
infusion.

Clinical.-Ascites. Catarrh. Coryza. Diabetes insipidus. Diarrhoea. Dropsies. Enuresis.

Heart, affections of. Hydrocephalus. Menorrhagia. Metrorrhagia. Nausea. Neuralgia.
Snuffles. Tobacco-heart. Urinary difficulties. Vomiting.

Characteristics.-The clinical effects of Strophanthus and the symptoms produced on

patients to whom it has been given in large doses, clearly show the relationship between
it and Apocynum. Both produce intense gastric disturbance, extreme depression of the
heart's action, and both control dropsical effusions and produce diuresis. Apo. c.
depresses the heart, kidneys, and intestines, relaxing sphincters. It causes an intense
sinking sensation; drowsiness and a bewildered state of mind. Dizziness. Haemorrhages.
The dropsies of Apocynum are general dropsies with or without organic disease; swelling
of every part of the body; cardiac dropsies. The excretions are diminished, especially
urine and sweat. Hydrocephalus has been cured with it: "Child lying in stupor, with
constant involuntary motion of one arm and leg." "Paralysis of left side; one eye
motionless, one rolling."
Three cases of neuralgia of the right side-groin, hip, and in one case region of right
kidney-have been cured with this remedy. All were violent, extorting cries. In one case
the pain set in very suddenly and the slightest jar aggravated. Hale says the kidneys are
the peculiar seat of the operation of the drug, and that it is in renal dropsies that it is
especially curative. It has cured diabetes insipidus with "a sense of sinking in the pit of
the stomach with great debility." Haemorrhages, especially menorrhagia, and
haemorrhages at the change of life have been cured with it. Hale has found it restore the
menses when given in cases of dropsy.
Diarrhoea is < immediately after eating. Food or water is immediately ejected, though
hungry. There is < on waking in the morning. Many of the symptoms are < after sleep.

Relations.-Compare: Apoc. andr., Alstonia const., Strophanth., Acet. ac., Apis (thirstless
in dropsies), Arsen., Bell., Bry., Chi., Colch., Digit. (dropsy; slow pulse), Elat., Helleb.
(hydrocephalus; ascites); Alo., Gamb., and Trombid. (diarrhoea), K. ca., Lyc., Merc.,
Merc. sul., the Loganiaceae-Nux v., Ignat., Curare; Spig., Scill., Sul., Verat.

SYMPTOMS.
1. Mind.-Bewildered; nervous, low-spirited.
2. Head.-Dizzy.-Very marked piercing pain in r. temple followed by vertigo.-Vertigo
suddenly appearing and disappearing.-Hydrocephalus: stupor, sight of one eye totally
lost, the other nearly so; forehead projecting; sutures open; stage of exudation.
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 3. Eyes.-Eyes inflamed; < morning and evening.-As if sand in them.
5. Nose.-Violent coryza.-Nose and throat filled with thick yellow mucus on waking in
morning.-("Snuffles" in infants.).-Peculiar dryness of mucous membranes of nose with
sensation of stiffness, followed by secretion of thick yellow mucus, preceded in some
cases by a thin, irritating discharge.
6. Face.-Face pale, covered with cold sweat (diarrhoea).-Dry lips.
8. Mouth.-Dry tongue, immoderate thirst.-Tongue coated.-Constant spitting, increase of
mucus and saliva.
11. Stomach.-Thirst on waking.-Great thirst; but water disagrees, causing pain, and is
immediately thrown off (Ars.).-Cannot tolerate food or drink, which is immediately
ejected.-Distension after a moderate meal.-Feels hungry, but when she eats it settles in
epigastrium, turns sour, and hurts.-Extreme epigastric sinking.-Oppression at epigastrium
and chest excessive, can hardly, get breath enough to smoke a cigar.-Ascites, often with
chronic diarrhoea.
13. Stool and Anus.-Gentle diarrhoea in the morning, no pain.-Diarrhoea explosive,
involuntary immediately after eating.-Stool copious, yellow or brownish, like mush;
sometimes containing undigested food.-Extreme prostration after stool.-Constipation
though faeces not hard.-Piles with feeling as of a wedge being hammered into anus.-
Tenesmus of rectum.-Bearing-down pain in anus.-Evacuations very scanty.-Watery
stools.-Symptoms always immediately after eating.
14. Urinary Organs.-Urinary organs torpid, urine scanty, but flows as easily as oil.-
Severe expulsive pains of bladder.-Urine copious and almost involuntary from relaxed
sphincters.-Profuse light-coloured urine; no sediment.-Enuresis.
15. Male Sexual Organs.-Penis and scrotum swollen, dropsical.
16. Female Sexual Organs.-Exhausting menorrhagia (continuous or paroxysmal).-
Blood expelled in large clots, sometimes in fluid state.-Amenorrhoea in young girls;
abdomen and legs bloated.
17. Respiratory Organs.-Oppression; can scarcely speak; speaks in sharp staccato;
must take deep breaths.-Violent hoarse cough, < at night.-Haemoptysis.-Cough short
and dry, loose and rattling with oppression.-Short, unsatisfactory respirations.
19. Heart.-Flutterings, dartings, prostrated feeling in cardiac region.-Quick, sharp,
catching pain in heart with palpitation.-Pulse slow, laboured.-Irregular, intermittent, at
times feeble, then slow.-Pulse quick, feeble when moved.-Fainting on moving the head.-
Palpitation troublesome on walking; heart action scarcely perceptible.
21. Limbs.-Rheumatic condition.-Joints stiff, esp. on moving in the morning.-Constant
involuntary motion of one leg and one arm.
22. Upper Limbs.-Finger nails of bluish red colour.
23. Lower Limbs.-Aching in both knees.-Å’dema of feet, ankles, and legs.
24. Generalities.-Excretions diminished, esp. urine and sweat.
26. Sleep.-Drowsy in afternoon, restless at night.-Stupor.-On going to bed desire to
sleep, but inability to do so.-Drowsy before and after nausea and vomiting.
27. Fever.-Body covered with large drops of cold sweat.-Dropsy after scarlet fever; after
abuse of quinine.

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