Apocynum cannabinum
as H.C. Allen recorded it in Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica, 1899
Apocynum cannabium
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Keynotes
Apocynum cannabinum
Indian Hemp. Apocynaceae.
Excretions diminished, especially urine and sweat.
Dropsy of serous membranes ; acute, inflammatory.
Dropsy: with thirst (Acet. ac.), water disagrees or is vomited (Ars.) ; most cases uncomplicated with organic diseases; after typhus, typhoid, scarlatina, cirrhosis; after abuse of quinine.
Acute hydrocephalus, with open sutures; stupor, sight of one eye lost; constant and voluntary motion of one arm and one leg (left arm and leg, Bry. ) ; forehead projected.
Amenorrhoea in young girls, with bloating or dropsical extension of abdomen and extremities.
Metrorrhagia : continued or paroxysmal flow ; fluid or clotted ; nausea, vomiting, palpitation ; pulse quick, feeble, when moved; vital depression, fainting, when raising head from the pillow.
Cough, short and dry, or deep and loose, during pregnancy (Con.).
Relations., — Similar: to. Acetic acid. Apis (no thirst), Ars., Cinch., Dig., in dropsical affections.
Blatta orientalis has cured bad cases of general dropsy, after Apis, Apoc. and Dig. failed. — Haynes.
What the other books say about Apocynum cannabinum
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Apocynum cannabinum in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Apocynum cannabinum in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
- Apocynum cannabinum in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
- Apocynum cannabinum in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.
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Cite this page. H.C. Allen. Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica. 3rd edition (1910). Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel. Apocynum cannabinum — Keynotes, pp. 39–40. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/allen/apocynum-cannabinum. Published 1910: public domain in the US (before 1931) and in India (author died 1909). Replaces B. Jain's 2005 "rearranged and classified" edition (© the publisher), per the owner's decision of 13 Sep 2026. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.