Homeopathic Medicine :: Apocynum Cannabinum – Dog’s Bane; Indian Hemp.
Indicated in all forms of dropsy, with inactivity of the kidneys, strangury, and irritability of the stomach.
Indicated in all forms of dropsy, with inactivity of the kidneys, strangury, and irritability of the stomach.
Indicated in affections of the heart and circulatory system, with a sense of painful constriction. Used chiefly in haemorrhages (nose, lungs, stomach, rectum, bladder), headache, menstrual affections, and in neuralgia, angina pectoris, etc.
Indicated in gout and rheumatic affections of joints with dread of having the parts touched and excessive pain from the slightest touch or knock; in fall-dysentery; in bad effects of night watching.
Indicated in catarrhal inflammations of the eyes and nose. In measles with marked eye symptoms.
Indicated chiefly by the presence of sharp, sticking pain or a series of sticking pains, in various parts of the body. Especially useful in persons who are sensitive to changes in the weather and cannot bear cold weather. H. N. Guernsey thinks it one of the best remedies following childbirth and its consequences.
Indicated in functional diseases of the nervous system (faintings, palpitation of the heart, hysteria, etc.), associated with flatulency, tremblings, disposition to faint, and sense of great coldness.
Indicated in diarrhoea, chiefly of children, with distinctly sour smell of the stools and of the child.
Indicated principally in diseases of the brain and spine, especially when, in children, it depends upon the suppression of an exanthem or upon teething, and in adults when a neurasthenic state prevails, usually the result of anxious overwork. Thus it is employed in convulsions of children from irritation due to teething or eruptive fevers, in meningitis and in effusion within the brain, from the same cause or from tuberculosis; in the epilepsy of young children, in the headache of brain fag, including headache of overworked school children; in locomotor ataxia; in hysteria, especially when there is paralysis of the bladder; in spinal irritation and sciatica; in such functional disorders of the female generative organs as are accompanied by abnormal sexual desire, spinal irritation and restlessness, with inability to keep the feet still. Also used in varicose veins of the legs, lead colic, and other conditions associated with the nervous conditions belonging to the drug.
Indicated in affections of the larynx, chiefly catarrhal inflammation, hoarseness, cough, and in affections of the joints.
Indicated in the treatment of almost every disease resting upon a constitutional basis expressed in the leucophlegmatic temperament and the ailments to which it predisposes. Among these may be named: derangements of nutrition, glandular affections; catarrhal disorders; indigestion; diarrhoea; constipation; menstrual derangements; coughs and many serious diseases of the respiratory organs; gall-stone colic; affections of the nervous system, including the psychoses tumors, polypi, and a long list of other phases of morbid action, all characterized by symptoms peculiar to this remedy.