• Apocynum Cannabinum increases secretions of mucous and serous membranes.

• Apocynum Cannabinum acts on cellular tissue, producing edema and dropsy.

• Apocynum Cannabinum affects the skin, causing diaphoresis.

• Apocynum Cannabinum is useful in acute hydrocephalus.

• A diminished frequency of the pulse is a prime indication for Apocynum Cannabinum.

• Apocynum Cannabinum is efficient in dropsies, ascites, anasarca, and hydrothorax.

• Apocynum Cannabinum addresses urinary troubles, especially suppression and strangury.

• Apocynum Cannabinum is valuable in digestive complaints of Bright's disease, with nausea, vomiting, drowsiness, and difficult breathing.

• Dropsy is characterized by great thirst and gastric irritability in Apocynum Cannabinum cases.

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• is a characteristic of Apocynum Cannabinum.

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• are associated with Apocynum Cannabinum.

• Apocynum Cannabinum is indicated in acute alcoholism.

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• is a key feature of Apocynum Cannabinum.

• Apocynum Cannabinum produces profound weakness and prostration.

• It causes a general sensation of fullness, especially in the head and abdomen.

• The patient has a feeling as if the body is waterlogged.

• Apocynum Cannabinum is constitutionally suited to individuals who are weakened by chronic disease, particularly of the kidneys or heart.

• Apocynum Cannabinum is often indicated in conditions where there is a combination of dropsy and cardiac or renal insufficiency.

• Marked debility is a characteristic of Apocynum Cannabinum.

• Cachexia is present in Apocynum Cannabinum cases.

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• Mental confusion and difficulty concentrating are experienced by the patient.

• Irritability, especially when in pain or discomfort, is noted.

• Anxiety related to health and physical symptoms, particularly breathlessness and dropsy, is present.

• Restlessness occurs, despite the profound weakness.

• Fear of suffocation or drowning is experienced.

• Depression is associated with chronic illness.

• Dullness of the senses is observed.

• Indifference to surroundings is characteristic.

• Loss of will power occurs.

• The patient is easily discouraged.

• Headache, dull and heavy, with a feeling of fullness occurs.

• Vertigo, especially on rising or moving the head, is present.

• The patient has a sensation as if the brain is floating in water.

• Hydrocephalus, especially in acute conditions, is present.

• Headache with nausea and vomiting is experienced.

• Throbbing headache occurs.

• Edema of the eyelids is present.

• Dim vision or blurred vision is experienced.

• Pupils are dilated or sluggish.

• Photophobia is present.

• Diplopia (double vision) occurs.

• Noises in the ears, such as ringing or buzzing, are heard.

• Vertigo is associated with ear symptoms.

• A sensation of fullness in the ears is present.

• Epistaxis (nosebleeds) occurs.

• Coryza with profuse, watery discharge is present.

• Obstruction of the nose occurs.

• Loss of smell is experienced.

• Dryness of the throat with intense thirst is present.

• Difficulty swallowing is experienced.

• Edema of the throat occurs.

• A sensation of a lump in the throat is present.

• , especially on exertion or lying down, is present.

• Orthopnea (difficulty breathing when lying flat) occurs.

• Cough, dry or with frothy, watery expectoration, is present.

• Hydrothorax (fluid in the pleural cavity) occurs.

• A sensation of suffocation is experienced.

• Rattling in the chest is heard.

• Short, rapid breathing occurs.

• is present.

• Mitral and tricuspid regurgitation occurs.

• Irregular pulse, slow and feeble, is present.

• Palpitations occur.

• Chest pain is associated with cardiac symptoms.

• Enlargement of the heart occurs.

• Cyanosis is present.

• A feeling of constriction in the chest is experienced.

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• occur, especially after eating or drinking.

• Intense thirst is present, even with vomiting.

• Gastric irritability is a feature.

• The abdomen is distended with fluid (ascites).

• The liver is enlarged and tender.

• Offensive breath is present.

• Loss of appetite occurs.

• Aversion to food is experienced.

• Belching and flatulence are present.

• A burning sensation in the stomach is felt.

• Diarrhea, watery and profuse, occurs.

• Constipation with hard, dry stools is present.

• Hemorrhoids occur.

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• Strangury (slow and painful discharge of urine) is present.

• Urine is dark and concentrated, with sediment.

• Albuminuria (protein in the urine), common in Bright's disease, is present.

• Frequent urging to urinate occurs, but with little or no result.

• A burning sensation during urination is experienced.

• Incontinence of urine occurs.

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• Relaxation of the sphincters occurs, leading to involuntary discharge.

• In males, swelling of the scrotum (hydrocele) is present.

• Impotence occurs.

• Premature ejaculation is experienced.

• Increased or decreased sexual desire may be present.

• Leucorrhea occurs.

• Pain in the back, especially in the lumbar region, is present.

• Stiffness of the back occurs.

• Weakness in the back is experienced.

• Coldness and cyanosis (bluish discoloration) of the extremities occurs.

• Weakness and heaviness of the limbs is experienced.

• Joints may be swollen and painful.

• Cramps in the legs and feet occur.

• Varicose veins are present.

• Diaphoresis (profuse sweating), often cold and clammy, is present.

• Skin is pale and waxy.

• Edema of the skin, pitting on pressure, occurs.

• Dry, itching skin is present.

• Eczema occurs.

• Urticaria is present.

• Sleeplessness due to dyspnea or anxiety is experienced.

• Drowsiness during the day occurs.

• Restless sleep is present.

• Vivid dreams occur.

• Dreams of suffocation or drowning are experienced.

• Lying down (dyspnea).

• Motion.

• Cold.

• Eating and drinking (nausea/vomiting).

• Exertion.

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• Damp weather.

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• Rest.

• Warmth (sometimes).

• Emptying bladder (temporary relief of urinary symptoms).

• Dry weather.

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• Rest; lying down.

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• Compare: Apoc. andr., Alstonia const., Strophanth., Acet. ac., Apis (thirstless in dropsies), Arsen., Bell., Bry., Chi., Colch. (dropsy; slow pulse), Digit. (dropsy; slow pulse), Elat., Helleb. (hydrocephalus; ascites); Alo., Gamb., and Trombid. (diarrhea), K. ca., Lyc., Merc., Merc. sul., the Loganiaceæ—Nux v., Ignat., Curare; Spig., Scill., Sul., Verat.

• Antidotes: Not definitively established, but symptoms suggest consideration of remedies like Arsenicum album or China depending on the dominant symptoms.

• Useful in cases of dropsy after acute diseases.

• Useful in cases of cardiac or renal insufficiency.

• Arsenicum Album, Digitalis, Helleborus.

• Camphor, China.

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• Arsenicum Album: Similar dropsical conditions, but Arsenicum has more marked restlessness and anxiety.

• Digitalis: Heart failure and dropsy, but Digitalis has a slower, more regular pulse.

• Helleborus: Dropsy with marked mental dullness and stupor.

• Strophanthus: Cardiac weakness, but without the marked dropsical tendencies of Apocynum.

• Lycopodium: Ascites and urinary problems, but with more pronounced right-sided symptoms and digestive disturbances.

• Apis Mellifica: Edema, but Apis has stinging pains.

• Bryonia: Dropsy, but Bryonia is more characterized by stitching pains and aggravation from motion.

• Common Name: Indian (American) Hemp

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• Family: Apocynaceæ

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• Preparation: Tinctures or infusions are made from the fresh plant, including the root. Watery infusions are considered more efficacious than tinctures.

• Sensation of emptiness.

• Relaxation of muscular fibers.

• Tendency to hemorrhages.

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• Anxiety with sinking feeling in the stomach.

• Mental confusion.

• Restlessness.

• Apathy and indifference.

• Irritability.

• Difficulty concentrating.

• Depression with thoughts of death.

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• Vertigo suddenly appearing and disappearing.

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• Head feels heavy and full.

• Dull headache with nausea.

• Eyes inflamed; worse morning and evening.

• Sensation as if sand in them.

• Dim vision.

• Photophobia.

• Ringing in the ears (tinnitus).

• Hearing diminished.

• Violent coryza.

• Nose and throat filled with thick yellow mucus on waking in morning.

• Snuffles in infants.

• Peculiar dryness of mucous membranes of nose with sensation of stiffness, followed by secretion of thick yellow mucus, preceded in some cases by a thin, irritating discharge.

• Face pale, covered with cold sweat (diarrhea).

• Dry lips.

• Swollen face, especially in dropsical conditions.

• Dry tongue, immoderate thirst.

• Tongue coated.

• Constant spitting, increase of mucus and saliva.

• Mouth feels sticky.

• Sore throat with dryness.

• Difficulty swallowing.

• Sensation of a lump in the throat.

• Oppression; can scarcely speak; speaks in sharp staccato; must take deep breaths.

• Violent hoarse cough, worse at night.

• Hemoptysis.

• Cough short and dry, loose and rattling with oppression.

• Short, unsatisfactory respirations.

• Difficult breathing, especially on exertion.

• Flutterings, dartings, prostrated feeling in cardiac region.

• Quick, sharp, catching pain in heart with palpitation.

• Pulse slow, labored.

• Irregular, intermittent, at times feeble, then slow.

• Pulse quick, feeble when moved.

• Fainting on moving the head.

• Palpitation troublesome on walking; heart action scarcely perceptible.

• Angina pectoris.

• Cyanosis.

• Weakness of the heart.

• Dyspnea.

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• Thirst on waking.

• Great thirst; but water disagrees, causing pain, and is immediately thrown off.

• Cannot tolerate food or drink, which is immediately ejected.

• Distension after a moderate meal.

• Feels hungry, but when she eats it settles in epigastrium, turns sour, and hurts.

• Extreme epigastric sinking.

• Oppression at epigastrium and chest excessive, can hardly get breath enough to smoke a cigar.

• Ascites, often with chronic diarrhea.

• Nausea and vomiting.

• Belching of sour fluids.

• Distended and tender abdomen.

• Ascites.

• Pain in the liver region.

• Gentle diarrhea in the morning, no pain.

• Diarrhea explosive, involuntary immediately after eating.

• Stool copious, yellow or brownish, like mush; sometimes containing undigested food.

• Extreme prostration after stool.

• Constipation though feces not hard.

• Piles with feeling as of a wedge being hammered into anus.

• Tenesmus of rectum.

• Bearing-down pain in anus.

• Evacuations very scanty.

• Watery stools.

• Symptoms always immediately after eating.

• Vomiting of bile.

• Severe expulsive pains of bladder.

• Urine copious and almost involuntary from relaxed sphincters.

• Profuse light-colored urine; no sediment.

• Enuresis.

• Urinary difficulties.

• Diabetes insipidus with a sense of sinking in the pit of the stomach and great debility.

• Penis and scrotum swollen, dropsical.

• Impotence.

• Exhausting menorrhagia (continuous or paroxysmal).

• Blood expelled in large clots, sometimes in fluid state.

• Amenorrhea in young girls; abdomen and legs bloated.

• Metrorrhagia.

• Hemorrhages at the change of life.

• Leucorrhea.

• Prolapsus uteri.

• Ovarian pain.

• Rheumatic condition.

• Joints stiff, especially on moving in the morning.

• Constant involuntary motion of one leg and one arm.

• Neuralgia, especially of the right side (groin, hip, or kidney region), with violent, extorting cries. Aggravated by the slightest jar.

• Finger nails of bluish red color.

• Weakness of the arms.

• Aching in both knees.

• Edema of feet, ankles, and legs.

• Heaviness and stiffness of the legs.

• Cramps in the calves.

• Sciatica.

• General dropsical swelling.

• Anasarca.

• Skin pale and waxy.

• Urticaria.

• Erysipelas.

• Drowsy in afternoon, restless at night.

• Stupor.

• On going to bed desire to sleep, but inability to do so.

• Drowsy before and after nausea and vomiting.

• Sleeplessness.

• Restless sleep.

• Vivid dreams.

• Night terrors.