# Asclepias Tuberosa

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Herbal Remedy
- **Miasm:** Tubercular Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Morning

## Keynote Indications
Asclepias tuberosa has been used for bronchitis andpleurisy. Marked action on the chest 
muscles, which has been verified. Also effective in autumn dysentery with painful diarrhea, griping and 
tenesmus. 
Increases the secretions of skin, serous and mucus membranes. Catarrhal states from cold and damp weather. 
Bronchitis and pleurisy. Pains in lungs better bending forward. Stitches in left side shooting over to right and 
up to left shoulder. Profuse perspiration in pneumonia and pleuropneumonia. 
A general eliminative remedy, acting specially on the sweat glands. Influenza with pleuritic pains. Cutting pain 
behind sternum intercostal spaces near sternum tender to pressure. Catarrhal complaints from cold and 
damp weather. Bilious marsh fever on rice plantations. High fever with hot sweat. 
Sick headache with flatulence in  stomach and bowels. Dyspepsia. Sensitive to tobacco. Unfit for business 
because of pain in bowels and frequent stools. Irritation of larynx with huskiness, grip with pleuritic pain. 
Diarrhea or rheumatic conditions. Muscular and joint rheumatism with stit ching pains, dark red urine and hot, 
perspiring skin.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Worse in morning. Worse on rising. Worse by motion. Worse by coughing. Worse f rom tobacco. 
Worse from motion. Worse deep breathing. Worse lying down. Worse rising up. Worse coughing.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Dullness of mind with difficult thinking.
- Languid and dull all day both in body and mind.
- Memory weak.
- Mood changes, without any cause.Cheerful mood.
- Excessive dejection.
- Fretful and peevish.
- Dullness of mind with difficult thinking.
- Languid and dull all day both in body and mind.
- Memory weak.
- Mood changes, without any cause.Cheerful mood.
- Excessive dejection.
- Fretful and peevish.

### Vertigo
- Feeling of drunkenness with weakness of sight after smoking a very little.
- Swimming of the head with 
dullness behind forehead.
- COMMENTS - Sharp, stitching, pricking pains, worse by motion.
- Sensitive to tobacco.
- Pain in forehead and 
abdomen from coughing.
- Griping and sharp peritoneal pains, worse by pressure.
- Excessive weakness, walking 
seems impossible.
- Dyspnea.
- Hard cough, dry or hoarse, croupy with tight breathing and constric tion of larynx and acute pleuritic 
pains.
- Warm feeling in chest.
- Pain like pricking of a needle in region of heart.
- Contracting pain in heart.
- Sharp 
pains, starting from left nipple downward with stiffness of left side of neck.
- Increased secretions of skin, serous and mucus membranes.
- Catarrhal states from cold and damp weather.
- Bronchitis and pleurisy (often will follow Bry.
- in pleurisy cases), coughing and pain in the chest and pain on 
breathing.
- Pains in lungs, better bending forward.
- Stitches in left side shooting over to right and up to left shoulder.
- Profuse perspiration in pleuro-pneumonia.

### Head
- Headache better after footbath.
- Headache in the morning on rising.
- Headache pressing deeply on the 
base of the skull.
- Pain in the forehead from coughing.
- Alopecia.
- Headache better after footbath.
- Headache in the morning on rising.
- Headache pressing deeply on the 
base of the skull.
- Pain in the forehead from coughing.
- Alopecia.

### Eyes
- Eyes look dull, fatigued, and heavy,  as after a long illness.
- Ophthalmia, with itching and pain in eyes.
- Feeling of sand in the eyes.
- Vision disturbed, large spots before the eyes.

### Face
- Hippocratic face after violent diarrhea.
- Yellow complexion.
- Vesicles on lips.
- Itching of lips.

### Mouth
- Breath smells like pepper.
- Tough yellow coating on tongue.
- Taste, putrid of blood.
- Teeth yellow -
coated.
- Bleeding of the gums.
- Tongue covered with a tough yellow coating.
- Nose - Sticky yellow nasal discharge, Snuffles of children.
- Fluent coryza with much sneezing.
- Blowing of blood 
from left nostril.
- Itching of the nose.
- Snuffles of children.

### Throat
- Slight constriction of throat, and pricking in larynx.

### Chest
- Warm feeling in chest.
- Pleurisy.
- Pleurodynia.
- Acute pleuritic pain in right side, with dry, hacking cough, 
and scanty mucus expectoration.
- Chest pains better bending forward, worse lying, breathing.
- Pains  worse 4 
a.m.
- and 4 p.m.
- Spaces between ribs close to sternum tender.
- Pain in lower chest, diaphragm.
- Constitutions - Hydrogenoid type, which corresponds to catarrhal complaints, worse from cold and damp 
weather.
- Pericardial effusion.
- Constrictive pain in the heart.
- Tenderness to pressure over heart.
- Sharp pains, 
like pricking of a needle in region of heart.
- Pulse slightly accelerated.
- Kidneys - Sharp pain in urethra, excoria tion of glans penis in several places with bloody and purulent 
secretion.
- Urine very red, looks as if blood were in it.
- Breathing painful, at base of left lung.
- Humid asthma, worse after eating, worse after smoking a 
little.
- Oppression and difficulty of breathing, in paroxysms, like asthma.
- Catarrh with frontal headache and 
sticky yellow discharge.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Fullness, pressure, weight.
- Belchings.
- Nausea, and efforts to vomit, in the morning when rising.
- Stomach pains, burning, disagreeable weight.
- In evening, violent stomach pain after sup per.
- Cramps.
- Temperature - Chill towards noon, with cold feet  though room is warm.
- Feverish afternoon.
- High fever with 
hot sweat.
- Rheumatic, catarrhal, bilious marsh fevers of rice plantations.
- Flatulence after meals.
- Colic pains from flatulence.
- Colic on going upstairs.
- Rumbling in the bowels 
with uneasiness, or sharp, cutting pains and soreness.
- Burning borborygmi.
- Dull pain in bowels on pressure.
- Emission of fetid flatulence.
- Loss of appetite, especially in morning.
- Insatiable hunger.
- Sensitive to tobacco.

### Urinary & Genital
- Flabbiness, perspiration, and insipid smell of genitals.
- Excoriation of glans penis in several places with 
a bloody discharge, better by bathing with urine.
- Chancre.
- Weakness, erection without desire.
- Profuse menses.
- Menorrhagia with violent bearing down pain.

### Extremities
- Rheumatic pain in all the joints.
- Rheumatic pains that affect the body diagonally, or left upp er and 
right lower or the opposite.
- Pains near wrists.
- Joints give sensations as if adhesions being broken up on 
bending.
- Itching of thighs and buttocks but no eruption.
- Pain in right hip.
- Corns painful.

### Neck & Back
- Stiff-neck on waking.
- Sharp pains in back and between the shoulders.
- Pains shooting from left chest 
into left shoulder.
- Sharp pain in loins near sacrum, lumbago.
- Breasts - Sharp pains shooting from left nipple downward, with stiffness of left side of neck.
- Pain beneath left 
nipple with palpitations.

### Skin
- Vesicles, pimples, and pustules all over the body, especially on arms, legs, and face, itching.

### Sleep
- Drowsy.
- Uneasy, restless sleep.
- Troublesome dreams.