Asclepias tuberosa
as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927
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General
Pleurisy-root Its action on the chest muscles is most marked and has been verified. Sick headache, with flatulence in stomach and bowels. Dyspepsia. Bronchitis and pleurisy come within its range. Catarrhal states from cold and damp weather. Irritation of larynx with huskiness; grip, with pleuritic pain.
Stomach
Fullness, pressure, weight. Flatulence after meals. Sensitive to tobacco.
Rectum
Catarrhal dysentery, with rheumatic pains all over. Stools smell like rotten eggs.
Respiratory
Respiration painful, especially at base of left lung. Dry cough; throat constricted; causes pain in head and abdomen. Pain in chest; shooting downward from left nipple. A general eliminative remedy, acting specially on the sudoriparous glands. Chest pains are relieved by bending forward. Spaces between ribs close to sternum tender. Lancinating pain between shoulders. Catarrh, with frontal headache, and sticky yellow discharge.
Extremities
Rheumatic joints give sensation as if adhesions being broken up on bending.
Relationships
Compare: Asclepias Incarnata-Swamp Milk Weed (Chronic gastric Catarrh and leucorrhœa. Dropsy with dyspnœa) Periploca groeca-One of the Asclepiades––(Cardiac tonic, acts on circulation and respiratory center,
accelerating respiration in a ratio disproportionate to pulse). Bryonia; Dulc.
Dose
Tincture and first potency.
What the other books say about Asclepias tuberosa
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Asclepias tuberosa in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.
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Create a free accountCite this page. William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Asclepias tuberosa — General. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/asclepias-tuberosa. Published 1927: public domain in the US (since 2023) and in India (author died 1929). Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.