# Apocynum Cannabinum

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Herbal Remedy
- **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm
- **Temperament:** Chilly
- **Aggravation Time:** Morning

## Keynote Indications
Provings were made with fresh plant tinctures or fresh or powdered root tinctufès or 
infusions. Watery infusions with just enough spirit to keep them from fermenting are said to be more efficacious 
than tinctures. The clinical effects of Strophanthus and n ; , the symptoms produced on patients to whom (fn it 
has been given in large doses, clearly show the relationship between it and Apocynum. 
Both produce intense gastric disturbance, j extreme depression of the heart's action and both control dropsical 
effusions and produce diuresis. 
Apocynum depresses the heart, kidneys and intestines, relaxing sphincters. Hypotensive, low 
bloodpressure. Arrhythmia. Congested heart failure with ascites.  Relaxation of sphincters. Mitral and 
tricuspid regurgitation. A diminished frequency of the pulse is a prime indication. 
Apocynum is a useful remedy for general dropsies with or without organic disease. Increases secretions of 
mucus and serous membranes and acts on cellular tissue, producing edema and dropsy and on skin causing 
diaphoresis. Swelling of every part of the body with scanty urine and sweat, feels if he could only StVeat he 
would get well. 
Urinary troubles, especially suppression and strangury. An effective remedy for 
dropsies, edema, ascites, anasarca and hydrothorax. Dropsy with great thirst, but water causes pain or is 
vomited after typhus, scarlatina, cirrhosis. Dropsy after hemorrhage, quinine. Dropsy of serous membranes. 
Acute inflammatory dropsy. 
Acute alcoholism. Useful for the digestive complaints of Bright's disease with nausea, vomiting, drowsiness, 
and difficult breathing. 
In acute hydrocephalus, the child lies in stupor with automatic motion of one arm and leg. Paralysis of left side, 
one eye mo tionless other rolling. Weakness is marked. Excretions diminished, especially urine and sweat. 
Rheumatic stiffness.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Better from warmth. Worse from cold weather.  Worse cold drinks. Worse from uncovering. 
Worse lying. Worse after sleep. Worse on waking in the morning. Diarrhea is worse immediately after eating. 
Food or water is immediately ejected, though hungry.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Acute or chronic alcoholism.
- Confusion of mind during fit of pain.
- Can't think.
- Bewildered, nervous, 
low-spirited.
- Faints when raised from pillow.
- Restlessness, nervousness at night.
- Acute or chronic alcoholism.
- Confusion of mind during fit of pain.
- Can't think.
- Bewildered, nervous, 
low-spirited.
- Faints when raised from pillow.
- Restlessness, nervousness at night.

### Vertigo
- Dizzy.
- Piercing pain in right temple followed by vertigo.
- Vert igo suddenly, appearing and 
disappearing.
- COMMENTS - The dropsies of Apocynum are general dropsies with or without organic disease, swelling of 
every part of the body, cardiac dropsies.
- It's specific for edema related to a weak heart, congestive heart 
failure.
- Edema of the heart, pericardium and the limbs.
- The ankles are swollen because of heart problems.
- History of heart attack and weak heart ever since ( Am-c., Crat.).
- Hypotensive, low blood pressure.
- Ascites, 
mitral and tricuspid valve regurgitations (Naja).
- Alcoholism, delirium tremens.
- Bright's disease, chronic 
nephritis.
- Kidney effect is considered secondary to the heart.
- Apoc.
- causes an intense sinking sensation, drowsiness and a bewildered state of mind.
- Dizziness, 
hemorrhages.
- The excretions are diminished, especially urine and sweat.
- Hydrocephalus has been cured with it, “Child lying in stupor with constant involuntary motion of one arm and 
leg.” “Paralysis of left side, one eye motionless, one rolling.” 
Three cases of neuralgia of the right side, groin, hip and, in one case,.region of right kidney, have been cured 
with this remedy.
- All were violent, extorting cries.
- In one case the pain set in very suddenly and the slightest 
jar aggravated.
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Hale said the kidneys are the peculiar seat of the  operation of the drug and that it is in kidney dropsies that it 
is especially curative.
- It has cured diabetes insipidus with “a sense of sinking in the pit of the stomach with 
great debility.” 
Hemorrhages, especially menorrhagia and hemorrhages at the cha nge of life have been cured with it.
- Hale 
has found it restore the menses when given in cases of dropsy.
- Boericke said to use “tincture (ten drops three times daily).” Less effective in potency (like Echi., Equis., and 
Crat,).

### Head
- Dull ache^ Hydrocephalus with stupor, vision lost, forehead projecting, sutures open, stage of 
exudation.
- Dull ache^ Hydrocephalus with stupor, vision lost, forehead projecting, sutures open, stage of 
exudation.

### Eyes
- Hot and red, as if sand in them.
- One eye motionless and other rolling.

### Face
- Bloated worse lying down, passes off after sitting up.
- Face pale, covered with cold sweat in diarrhea.
- Dry, lips, mouth.

### Mouth
- Dry tongue, immoderate thirst.
- Tongue coated.
- Constant spitting, increase of mucus and saliva.
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- Nose - Long continued sneezing.
- Snuffles of children (Samb.).
- Chronic nasal catarrh with tendency to acute 
stuffiness with dull, sluggish memory.
- Dull headache.
- Takes cold easily, nostrils become congested and 
blocked up easily.
- Filled with thick yellow .
- mucus in morning, snuffles of infants.

### Chest
- Oppression about epigastrium and chest.
- Constitutions - Sanguine constitutions.
- Heart's action is depres sed.
- Mitral and tricuspid regurgitation.
- Rapid and feeble, irregular cardiac 
action, low arterial tension, pulsating jugulars, general 
cyanosis and general dropsy.
- Pulse, slow, fluttering, irregular or intermittent.
- Kidneys - This remedy acts upon urinary organs, producing diufesis and removing the dropsical effusions.
- Kidney dropsy.
- Urine is copious, scanty.
- Bedwetting in old men.
- Bladder much distended.
- Turbid, hot urine 
with thick mucus and burning in urethra after urinating.
- Little expulsive power.
- Dri bbling.
- Strangury.
- Retention 
of urine with paralysis of lower limbs.
- Sighing.
- Short, dry cough.
- Breathing is short and unsatisfactory,  difficult.
- Hydrothorax.
- Hemoptysis.
- Violenthoarse cough, worse at night.
- Cough short, dry, loose and rattling.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Nausea with drowsiness.
- Excessive vomiting.
- Dull, heavy, sick feeling.
- Oppression in epigastrium 
and chest, impeding breathing (Lob.).
- Sensation of sinking in the pit of stomach after profuse urination, 
diabetes insipidus.
- Uremic vomiting.
- Bloated.
- Ascites, often with chronic diarrhea.
- Distention after a mod erate meal.
- Dropsy after 
scarlet fever.
- Dropsy after abuse of quinine.
- Great thirst with hydrothorax.
- Great thirst, but water disagrees, causing pain or is immediately thrown 
off.
- Thirst on walking.

### Urinary & Genital
- Prostate^land enlarged.
- Penis and scrotum swollen, dropsical.
- Amenorrhea with bloating of abdomen and legs.
- Metrorrhagia with nausea, fainting, vital depression.
- Uterine hemorrhage, blood expelled in large clots or sometimes in fluid state.
- Hemorrhage at menopause.
- Ovarian tumor.
- Cough during pregnancy.
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### Extremities
- Rheumatic condition.
- Joints stiff, especially on moving in the morning.
- Constant involuntary motion of 
one leg and one arm.
- Fingernails of bluish red m color.
- Aching in both knees.
- Edema of feet, ankles, and legs.

### Skin
- Rough, dry.
- Cannot sweat.

### Sleep
- Great restlessness and little sleep.
- Drowsy in afternoon, restless at night.
- Stupor.
- Desire to sleep, but 
inability to do so.
- Drowsy before and after nausea and vomiting.