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Strophanthus Hispidus Reference Specimen Botanical Specimen and Materia Medica Identification

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  • Category: 🌿 Herbal Remedy
  • Miasm: Psoric Miasm
  • Temperament: Neutral
  • Aggravation: Neutral/Anytime

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🧬 Remedy Miasm: Psoric Miasm The Psoric miasm is considered the mother of all chronic diseases. It primarily manifests as functional nervous weakness, allergies, skin itching, eruptions, and hypersensitivity.
▲ GENERAL
  • Strophantus is an ornamental, evergreen and a climbing shrub, native of tropical Africa and Asia.
  • The mother tincture 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 systole 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 regurgitation, where edema and dropsy have supervened (Dig.).
  • Severe prostration from hemorrhage after operations and acute diseases.
  • Anemia with palpitations and loss of breath.
  • Faintness.
  • Pneumonia.
  • 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
▲ MODALITIES ETC
  • Better from rest, lying down.
  • Worse from exertion, exercise, standing.
  • Worse tobacco, tea, alcohol.
  • Worse from emotions
▲ RELATIONSHIPS
📊 Side-by-Side Comparison:

Compare: (1) Heart dropsy, Apoc. (2) Heart, Dig. is cumulative, Stroph -h. is not. (3) Crat.,


Phase., Cact. (4) Anemia, Fenr. (5) Alcoholism, Chin., Nux -v., Aven., Querc. (6) Kali -c. - heart weakness,
fatigue, chill, acute stinging pains, aggravated by the cold and at 2 a.m. (7) Aeon. - Sharp intolerable pains,
much more agitated with fear of death. (8) Lach. - worse left-side, aggravated on waking, hyperesthesia of the
skin, tendency to hemorrhage. (9) Sarcol -ac.- Pains and muscular weakness, extreme asthenia, agg ravated
by the slightest movement. (10) movement, feeling of fullness in the epigastrium, constipation. Compatible:
Ferr. in anemia.

▲ MIND
  • Worse from strong emotions.
  • Irritable.
  • Anxiety an d fear.
  • Fear of ordeals.
  • Feels lifted up during sleep.
  • Precociously talkative children.
  • Worse from strong emotions.
  • Irritable.
  • Anxiety an d fear.
  • Fear of ordeals.
  • Feels lifted up during sleep.
  • Precociously talkative children
▲ VERTIGO, DIZZINESS
  • Vertigo with swimming vision.
  • Senile vertigo.
  • Undulations in head.
  • COMMENTS-The homeopathic proving was conducted by Templeton on five provers, us ing 2x, 3x, 6c, 12c, 30c and by O’ Hanlon on twelve provers, using 6c, 12c and 30c.
  • Piedvache proved the tincture, but only with reference to the pulse.
  • Gise vius proved Stroph -h.
  • tincture, beginning with 5 drops increasing to 80 drops during the five days of his proving.
  • Matthes proved Stroph -h.
  • tincture in 10 drops doses.
  • Some well -marked symptoms were pro duced on two chemists from preparing the tincture.
  • Other effects curative and pathogenetic have been observed on patients taking the drug.
  • Stroph -h.
  • disorders the digestion, causes burning in the esophagus and stomach, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea.
  • A.
  • P.
  • Skworzow gave an infusion of Stroph.
  • to an alcoholic, 63, for weak heart and intermittent pulse, 7 drop doses three times a day.
  • The first dose caused nausea and a repugnance to alcohol which proved to be permanent.
  • The man entirely discontinued the habit.
  • On this hint, Stroph.
  • was given to two other alcoholics with the same result of abolishing the taste for alcohol.
  • It caused nausea and profuse sweating and the sudden withdrawal of alcohol was not attended with delirium.
  • A case of Clarke’s illustrates the gastric and cardiac action of the remedy.
  • W.
  • G., 16, a delicate -looking boy, was admitted to a hospital.
  • He had rheumatic pains for three months and an attack of rheumatic fever two years previously.
  • He had been laid up a month before admission and a week before was taken with cough, shivering and occasional vomiting.
  • When admitted, he had a frequent, short, dry cough, worse lying down, had to be propped up in bed, had edema of feet, especially left.
  • Tongue white, unable to retain any food for three d ays, no pain after food, but much flatulence, belchings giving much relief.
  • Heart greatly dilated, pulsation diffused, double mitral bruit.
  • Dullness at bases of both lungs, moist rales, halfway up right lung.
  • Expectoration of bright blood for seven days.
  • Stroph.
  • tincture, one drop every four hours, was given.
  • Improvement in all the symptoms was immediate, sickness, cough, hemoptysis and dropsy all disappeared and the heart sounds had cleared up to a large extent when the boy went home, less than three weeks after admission.
  • Hamer mentioned that Stroph.
  • cured “functional disturbance of the heart from alcohol tobacco and tea.” This agrees with the relation of Stroph.
  • to alcoholism and symptoms of indigestion.
  • A writer gave his experience with Stroph.
  • : a woman had constant outbursts of urticarial rash dating from exposure to an offensive effluvium from a dead whale cast on the sands.
  • The attacks would recur after drinking a glass of table beer.
  • Stroph-h.
  • cured.
  • Any accompanying cardiac weakness would be an addi tional indication.
  • The same writer considered Stroph.
  • of great service in the anemia of young girls when palpitation and breathlessness are marked features.
  • An accidental proving on a girl of five was made through the mother giving twenty drops of the tinc ture by mistake.
  • Some half an hour later her face was flushed, lips scarlet, eyes brilliant, temperature raised, skin dry, tongue normal.
  • Pupils quivering, dilating and contracting every few seconds.
  • Pulse 140, arteries distended.
  • Heart sounds vigorous, slight regurgitant mitral murmur.
  • Intellect clear, precociously loquacious during the five hours the poison ous symptoms lasted.
  • An ipecac emetic was administered.
  • No urine passed for ten hours after the dose
▲ HEAD
  • Temporal pains with double vision, impaired sight, brilliant eyes, flushed face.
  • Violent, pulsating headache, aggravated by movement.
  • Temporal pains with double vision, impaired sight, brilliant eyes, flushed face.
  • Violent, pulsating headache, aggravated by movement
▲ EYES
  • Pupils quivering, dilating and contracting alternately.
  • Eyes brilliant.
  • Glimmering in vision.
  • Impaired sight of left eye with nausea and faintness.
  • Double vision
▲ FACE
  • Flushed, red spots.
  • Lips scarlet
▲ MOUTH
  • Dryness of tongue and fauces
▲ THROAT
  • Seems dry, constricted.
  • Burning in throat and esophagus to stomach, compel ling empty swallowing
▲ CHEST
  • Pressive pain in middle of right third rib on anterior half, worse by pressure.
  • Thoracic pain on left side.
  • Constrictive, cramping pain behind the sternum, crushed, gnawing, needle-like sensation.
  • Weak heart with aching or anguish.
  • Heart’s action weak, rapid, irregular, due to muscular debility and insufficiency.
  • Cardiac pain and dyspnea.
  • Chronic, ner vous palpitations and arrest of breathing.
  • Violent palpitations, worse by emotion and exercise.
  • Sense of lively action.
  • Mitral regurgitation.
  • Stitches and twitches at apex beat.
  • Pulse, rapid, alternating with slow, weak, small irregular.
  • Kidneys - Kidneys become hyperemic.
  • Cystitis.
  • Urinary tract infections.
  • No urine passed for hours.
  • Frequent urination.
  • Urine increased secretion or scanty albuminous.
  • Urine strong, odor is fruity or like horse urine, pale.
  • Edema of lungs.
  • Bronchial and cardiac asthma.
  • Breathing deep, dif ficult, thirsty for air , feeling of dryness in the mucus membranes, aggravated by movement.
  • Cough worse by lying down.
  • Expectoration of bright red blood
▲ ABDOMEN
  • Bulky feeling in the stomach.
  • Twitching in stomach.
  • Burning in esopha gus and stomach with loss of appetite and extreme gastric distress.
  • Cramping, acrid stomachache with belching and nausea.
  • Er uctation and hiccough.
  • Nausea with special disgust for alcohol.
  • Temperature - Coldness of limbs.
  • Temperature raised, skin dry.
  • Profuse sweat.
  • Abdomen distended, painful, especially in the umbilical and inguinal regions.
  • Rumbling and pinching at navel.
  • Shooting pains in right hypochondrium.
  • Stitches in region of sigmoid flexure.
  • Acute entero-colitis.
  • Colic.
  • Craving for alcohol, tea, coffee, stimulants.
  • Nausea with special disgust for alcohol.
  • Loss of appetite.
  • Loathing of food, followed by choking and vomiting after eating
▲ GENITALS ETC
  • Uterine hemorrhage.
  • Uterus heavily congested
▲ EXTREMITIES, LIMBS
  • Swollen, dropsical.
  • Anasarca.
  • Swelling of legs.
  • Itching and stitching in both feet.
  • Dorsum of foot painful and tense.
  • Muscular and joint pains wit h stiffness and coldness of the limbs.
  • The pains are aggravated by movement.
  • Heaviness and pain in forearms and the fingers.
  • Liver - Pressure in liver region
▲ BACK AND NECK
  • Joint and muscular pains in the limbs, back and lumbar region with stiffness, muscular weakness, coldness at the limbs.
  • Causations - Alcohol, tea, tobacco
▲ SKIN
  • Hives, chronic, receding.
  • Urticaria, especially more chronic forms

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📚 Literature Citation & References:
This clinical profile is compiled from: Andrew Chevallier, FNIMH — Herbal Remedies (Eyewitness Companions), and Dr. David Keifer, MD — Herbal Remedies Reference Guide. Synced with traditional botanical use and pharmacological outlines.
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This profile has been verified by the Herbalhomeo medical team in accordance with authoritative homeopathic references.

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