- Strophantus is an ornamental, evergreen and a climbing shrub, native of tropical Africa and Asia.
- The mother tinctureConcentrated liquid raw extractA mother tincture prepared by soaking botanical, animal, or mineral raw materials in alcohol and water. comes from the seeds of the plant.
- It is used as an arrow-poison by natives of Africa.
- Among the alkaloids is strophanthin.
- Stroph occasions no gastric distress, di uretic.
- It has no cumulative action, safe for corpulent, aged persons with rigid arteries, as it does not affect the vaso -motors.
- Restores tone to a weak tissue, especially of the heart muscle and valves.
- Stroph increases the contractile power of all striped muscles, especially the heart, increa sing the systolePhase of heart contractionThe stage of the heartbeat when the heart muscle contracts and pumps blood from the chambers into the arteries. and diminishing the rapidity.
- Acts on the heart increasing the systole and diminishes the rapidity.
- Tones the heart and run off dropsical effusions.
- Especially useful in failing compensation dependent upon fatty heart.
- After the long use o f stimulants.
- Arteriosclerosis, rigid arteries of aged.
- Precordial anxiety.
- Retro sternal pain.
- Functional disturbances of heart from alcohol, tobacco, tea.
- In small doses for weak heart, that feels enlarged.
- In mitral regurgitationBackward flow of blood or fluidsThe casting up of undigested food from the stomach, or the backward flow of blood through a defective heart valve., where edemaSwelling caused by excess fluid in tissuesA condition characterized by an excess of watery fluid collecting in the cavities or tissues of the body. and dropsyFluid retention and swelling (edema)An old medical term for edema, which is swelling caused by excess fluid trapped in your body's tissues. have supervened (Dig.).
- Severe prostrationExtreme physical weakness or exhaustionA state of extreme physical weakness, collapse, or exhaustion, often accompanying severe illness. from hemorrhageProfuse bleeding from a ruptured blood vesselAn escape of blood from a ruptured blood vessel, especially when profuse. after operations and acute diseases.
- AnemiaLack of healthy red blood cells or hemoglobinA condition marked by a deficiency of red blood cells or of hemoglobin in the blood, resulting in pallor and weariness. with palpitationsSensation of rapid or irregular heartbeatA noticeably rapid, strong, or irregular heartbeat due to agitation, exertion, or physical conditions. and loss of breath.
- Faintness.
- PneumoniaLung infection with inflamed air sacsInflammatory condition of the lung affecting primarily the microscopic air sacs (alveoli), usually caused by infection..
- Rapid alternations of symptoms with slow pulse.
- Undulating sensation in whole body.
- Throbbings.
- Stitching pains.
- Twitchings of the muscles.
- Obesity.
- Increased secretions.
- Nausea with special disgust for alcohol.
- Alcoholism, with drop doses of Stroph- h tincture.
- Hives.
- Exophthalmia goiter