- 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🌿 TeaMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines..
- 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🌿 DiseasesMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines..
- 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.
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- 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.
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- COMMENTS-The homeopathic provingTesting a remedy on healthy volunteersThe systematic method of administering a substance to healthy subjects to observe and record the symptoms it produces. 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 diarrheaFrequent, loose, and watery stoolsA state of having three or more loose or liquid bowel movements per day..
- 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.
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- 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 rheumaticRelating to joint or muscle painDescribe pain, stiffness, or inflammation affecting joints, muscles, or connective tissues. 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🌿 WhiteMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines., unable to retain any food for three d ays, no pain after food, but much flatulenceGas accumulation in stomach or intestinesThe presence of excessive air or gas in the digestive tract, causing bloating and wind., 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, hemoptysisCoughing up blood from lungsThe spitting or coughing up of blood or blood-stained mucus originating from the respiratory tract. 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.
- 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-colitisInflammation of the colon (large intestine)Inflammation of the inner lining of the colon, causing abdominal pain, cramping, or bloody diarrhea..
- ColicSevere fluctuating pain in the abdomenSevere, often fluctuating pain in the abdomen caused by gas, spasm, or obstruction in the intestines, common in infants..
- Craving for alcohol, tea, coffee, stimulants.
- Loss of appetite.
- Loathing of food, followed by choking and vomiting after eating
