Asclepias Cornuti (Syriaca) asc-c.

This species of milk-weed is quite common in the United States, growing on roadsides. A tincture is prepared from the root.

Apocynum c.

Appeared dull and stupid. ▶ Headache; morning on waking, with disagreeable feeling in stomach; principally between eyes. ▶ Vertigo. ▶ Constriction across forehead. ▶ Tongue covered with thick fur. ▶ Tickling in fauces. ▶ Burning and tickling in fauces and throat. ▶ Appetite increased. ▶ Food little relished. ▶ Nausea. ▶ Vomiting; violent, with retching; then rawness in stomach and pain, cold skin, feeble pulse and feeling as if a sharp instrument were thrust through from one temple to the other. ▶ Pain in stomach; and rawness. ▶ Uneasiness in stomach. ▶ Increased secretion of bile. ▶ Excoriation of anus. ▶ Stool, slight inclination to; soft and yellow; fluid, copious, yellowish, with griping; soft, copious, brown, with pain in bowels; frequent. ▶ Ardor urinæ. ▶ Urine increased; in morning; with increase of specific gravity and solid matter; and pale, of lighter specific gravity. ▶ Increase of water in urine. ▶ Tickling at end of penis. ▶ Increase of bronchial secretions.

Heart's action increased. ▶ Pulse quick and full; quick and feeble after vomiting. ▶ Drowsiness and sleep. ▶ "Slept rather hard" during the night. ▶ Sweat profuse.

Has relieved persons suffering from dropsy dependent on disease of the kidneys and heart; it appears to increase the quantity of urine and perspiration. ▶ Nervous headaches after suppressed perspiration, followed by profuse flow of urine. ▶ Dropsy following scarlet fever, or from heart disease. ▶ Rheumatism of large joints. ▶ Intermittent, pressing uterine pains, threatening miscarriage in pregnant women, have been removed.