HomeoRemedyStrophanthus hispidus
Kombe-seed
Main symptoms
- Strophanthus is a muscle poison; it increases the contractile power of all striped muscles.
- Acts on the heart; increasing the systole and diminishes the rapidity.
- May be used with advantage to tone the heart, and run off dropsical accumulations.
- In small doses for weak heart; it feels enlarged.
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- In mitral regurgitation, where swelling and fluid swelling (oedema) have supervened.
- Strophanthus occasions no gastric distress, has no cumulative effects, is a greater diuretic, and is safer for the aged, as it does not affect the vaso-motors.
- In pneumonia and in severe extreme weakness from haemorrhage after operations and acute diseases.
- After the long use of stimulants; irritable heart of tobacco-smokers.
- Arterio-sclerosis; rigid arteries of aged.
- Restores tone to a brittle tissue, especially of the heart muscle and valves.
- Especially useful in failing compensation dependent upon fatty heart.
- Hives.
- Anaemia with palpitation and breathlessness.
- Corpulent persons.
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Head
Temporal pains with double vision, impaired sight; brilliant eyes, flushed face. Senile dizziness.
Stomach
Seven drops of tincture.
Urinary
Increased secretion; scanty and albuminous.
Female
Heavy periods; uterine hemorrhage; uterus heavily congested. Aching pain through hips and thighs during climacteric.
Respiratory
Dyspnoea, especially on ascending. Lungs congested. Swelling of lungs.
Heart
Pulse quickened. Heart's action weak, rapid irregular, due to muscular debility; and insufficiency. Cardiac pain.
Skin
Hives, especially more chronic forms.
Extremities
Swollen, dropsical. Anasarca.
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