# Asclepias Cornuti

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Herbal Remedy
- **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
Asclepias cornuti is a remedy for  dropsy, hepatic, kidney or after scarlet fever. It causes 
diaphoresis and aug ments the urinary secretion. Dropsy after heart disease. Uremia. Intermittent, pressing -
down uterine pains. 
Acts especially on the nervous system and urinary organs. Nervous hea dache, as if a sharp instrument were 
thrust through from one temple to the other with vomiting, followed by sweating or profuse urination. Belching 
of food with its proper taste. 
Influenza, catarrhal fever, bronchitis, hay fever. Headache from checked swea t or retention of effete matters. 
Uterine pains are intermittent, pressing with threatened miscarriage. Coldness of surface after vomiting. 
Diaphoresis, profuse sweat. Acute rheumatism confined to large joints with much pain and swelling.

## Symptoms by System

### Vertigo
- Vertigo, dullness and stupidity.
- Vertigo with headache.

### Head
- Nervous headache after suppressed perspiration, followed by increased urine with increase of 
specific gravity.
- Headache from retention of effete matters in system.
- Nervous headache after suppressed perspiration, followed by increased urine with increase of 
specific gravity.
- Headache from retention of effete matters in system.

### Throat
- Burning and tickling in the fauces with nausea and headache.
- Tongue - Tongue covered with a white fur.

### Chest
- Action of heart lessened, pulse slow.
- Feeble pulse after vomiting.
- Kidneys - Ardor urinae.
- Increased flow of urine.
- Pale-colored urine with light specific gravity.
- Increase of solid 
matters in urine.
- Increase of the bronchial secretions.
- Burning and tickling in fauces.
- Pain in left side of chest on deep 
inspiration (pleurisy).

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Excessive nausea with violent headache, violent vomiting and retching.
- Severe and long-continued 
vomiting.
- Sensation of rawness in the stomach and pain.
- Temperature - Coldness of the surface of the skin and feeble pulse.
- Flatuent colic.
- Rumbling in abdomen, as if diarrhea would set in.
- Pain and soreness in abdomen, 
with or without distension.
- Stitching and aching pains, in left side of abdomen.
- Increased appetite, vomiting and headache with constipation.
- Great appetite even a few hours after a 
meal.

### Urinary & Genital
- Tickling sensation at the end of the penis.
- Perspiration - Diaphoresis, profuse sweat.
- Intermittent, bearing -down, la bor-like pains, pressing from sacrum to hypogastrium.
- Scanty flow.
- Suppression of menses.

### Neck & Back
- Cutting and aching about lowest dorsal vertebra.

### Sleep
- Drowsy, sleepiness, hard sleep during the night.