Apocynum Cannabinum is one of the remedies in homeopathy useful in treating a variety of diseases, is an indispensable remedy, proved and incorporated in Homeopathy by Freitag.
Apocynum Cannabinum is commonly known as Indian Hemp.
It belongs to the family Apocynaceae.
Apocynum Cannabinum is a common perennial herbaceous plant that grows in North America and a few parts of Canada.
The parts used for preparing mother tincture are seeds, barks, and roots, they are ground into small pieces it is taken, and mixed with alcohol, to form the tincture only then its dynamic curative power is aroused by homeopathy.
It is one of the top-ranking remedies for dropsy, hydrocephalus, and ascites, it occupies an important place in homeopathy practice.
Apocynum Cannabinum
Constitution/ Personality
Apocynum Cannabinum
is a top-ranking medicine, especially for people who tend to suffer from dropsical conditions after typhus, typhoid, scarlatina, and cirrhosis of the liver.
It is suitable for persons with the lymphatic constitution, in whom the excretions are diminished especially urine and sweat.
It is suited to women with dropsical conditions after amenorrhoea, and in young girls with heart, liver, and kidney diseases.
It is suited to people with melancholic temperaments and there is great sadness and depression of mind.
Guiding symptoms of Apocynum Cannabinum
Apocynum Cannabinum is a great remedy in homeopathy when all the dropsical ailments arise after typhus, typhoid, scarlatina, and cirrhosis after abuse of quinine and alcohol.
It is a wonderful remedy for treating dropsy with thirst, but water disagrees, causing pain in the stomach or it causes vomiting when associated with heart, liver, and kidney diseases.
It is used by many homeopaths in treating hydrocephalus with open sutures, stupor, the sight of one eye lost, constant and involuntary movement of one arm and one leg, and forehead is projected.
It is a great remedy for treating the female complaints of amenorrhoea in young girls with bloating or dropsical extension of the abdomen and extremities.
It is a great remedy for treating metrorrhagia with the continued or paroxysmal flow and fluid or clotted blood, nausea, vomiting and palpitation, pulse weak quick, feeble when moved, vital depression fainting when rising from the pillow.
It is indicated for intense gastric disturbance, extreme depression of the heart’s action, and is useful in the control of dropsical effusions It is a wonderful remedy for diuresis with depression of the heart, kidneys, and intestines, relaxing sphincters.
It is a great remedy for dizziness and hemorrhages progressing to dropsies, Apocynum is indicated when there are general dropsies with or without organic disease, and there is swelling of every part of the body.
It is a wonderful remedy for cardiac dropsies.
It is a great remedy for Hydrocephalus, indicated when the child is lying in a stupor, with the constant involuntary movement of one arm and leg.
It is a great remedy for Paralysis of the left side with one eye motionless, and one roll.
It is indicated when the pain sets in very suddenly and the slightest jar aggravated.
It is a great remedy for kidneys the peculiar seat of the operation of the remedy is that it works to cure renal dropsies.
It is a great remedy for diabetes insipidus with a sense of sinking in the pit of the stomach with great debility and dizziness, and weakness.
It is a great remedy for hemorrhages, especially menorrhagia, and hemorrhages at the change of life that is, during menopause it restores the menses when given in cases of dropsy.
It is a wonderful remedy for diarrhea there is aggravation immediately after eating.
The food or water is immediately ejected, though the person is hungry. There is aggravation on waking in the morning. Many of the symptoms are aggravated after sleep.
Apocynum Cannabinum Uses
This article will cover from head to toe all the complaints body. And wherever the symptoms are matched, this medicine can be used-
Mind symptoms
the patient suffers from the extreme absence of mind and thinking there is a bewildering condition of mind, making the person nervous, and low-spirited
It is indicated in the conditions of mind when there is an intense sinking sensation; drowsiness and a bewildered state of mind.
Head symptoms
Apocynum Cannabinum
is indicated in treating Vertigo in which the patient feels dizzy, there is a very marked piercing pain in the right temple followed by vertigo.
The Vertigo is suddenly appearing and disappearing worse from sleep and moving around.
It is a great remedy for hydrocephalus in children in a stupor, the sight of one eye is lost, the other nearly to get blank,
It is indicated in hydrocephalus when the forehead is projecting, the sutures are open and close to the stage of exudation.
Eyes symptoms
Apocynum Cannabinum is indicated in inflammation of the eyes there is aggravation morning and evening.
is a great remedy in homeopathy for the eyes, the patient has corrosive itching or itching over sensation as if sand in them.
Ears symptoms
Apocynum Cannabinum is the condition of inflammation of the middle ear causing dizziness and imbalance in walking.
The ears are sensitive to slight sounds, and pain in the ears is worse morning and evening, and after sleep.
Nose symptoms
Apocynum Cannabinum
is a wonderful remedy for the common cold there is Violent coryza, and the nose and throat are filled with thick yellow mucus on waking in the morning.
It is used by many homeopaths for Snuffles in infants.
It is indicated for Peculiar dryness of mucous membranes of the nose with the sensation of stiffness in the nose, followed by secretion of thick yellow mucus, and is preceded in some cases by a thin, irritating discharge from the nose.
Mouth symptoms
Apocynum Cannabinum is a wonderful remedy for the condition of the mouth that occurs in diabetes, there is a dry tongue, with immoderate thirst.
The Tongue is coated and there is constant spitting by the patient, an increase in mucus and saliva.
Face symptoms
Apocynum Cannabinum is a wonderful remedy for the condition of the face that results after continued diarrhea, the face becomes pale, covered with cold sweat, and dry lips.
Throat symptoms
Apocynum Cannabinum
is a remedy suited to throat conditions where there is complete dryness and soreness of the throat, it is indicated when the throat is filled with thick yellow mucus, in the morning.
It is indicated for violent hoarse cough worse at night.
Chest symptom
Apocynum Cannabinum is a wonderful remedy for chest oppression, the person can scarcely speak, if speaks it is in the form of sharp staccato and must take deep breaths.
It is a great remedy for Haemoptysis, with cough short and dry, loose and rattling with oppression in the chest.
It is a great remedy for breathlessness where there are short, unsatisfactory respirations.
Heart symptoms
It is a remedy that has got a wonderful action on the heart, it is given there are flutterings, dartings, and prostrated feeling in the cardiac region.
It is a great remedy for heart palpitation with quick, sharp, catching pain in the heart, the Pulse is slow, labored at times irregular, intermittent, and sometimes feeble, then it becomes slow. The palpitation is very troublesome on walking.
It is indicated when the pulse is quick, and feeble when moved.
It is a great remedy for Fainting on moving the head, and the heart action is scarcely perceptible.
Stomach symptoms
Apocynum Cannabinum
is a wonderful remedy for gastric disorders, like acidity and waterbrash there is thirst on waking, there is great thirst but water disagrees, causing pain, and is immediately thrown off.
The patient cannot tolerate food or drink, which is immediately ejected out, there is distension of the stomach after a moderate meal.
The patient feels hungry, but when she eats it settles in the epigastrium, then it turns sour and hurts the stomach.
It is indicated gastric complaints along with respiratory symptoms in which there is extreme epigastric sinking oppression at the epigastrium and chest it is so much excessive that the person, can hardly, get enough breath to smoke a cigar.
It is a great remedy for Ascites, often chronic diarrhea.
Abdomen and Rectum symptoms
Apocynum Cannabinum
is one of the top listed remedies for Diarrhoea, it is useful in gentle diarrhea in the morning, with no pain.
It is a wonderful remedy for watery stools that occur always immediately after eating food.
It is a great remedy for diarrhea that is explosive, and involuntary immediately after eating.
The Stools are copious, yellow or brownish, like mush; sometimes containing undigested food, there is extreme prostration after stool.
It is a wonderful remedy for Constipation even though feces are not hard.
It is a great remedy for Piles with feeling as of a wedge being hammered into the anus, there is violent tenesmus of the rectum, with bearing-down pain in the anus and the evacuations are very scanty.
Male symptoms
Apocynum Cannabinum has a wonderful action on the male genital where the symptoms are secondary to cardiac or renal dropsy, it is given when the penis and scrotum are swollen and, dropsical.
Female symptoms
Apocynum Cannabinum
has got wonderful action on female genitals, it is useful in Exhausting menorrhagia that is continuous or paroxysmal, the blood is expelled in large clots, sometimes in a fluid state.
It is a great remedy for treating the female complaints of amenorrhoea in young girls with bloating or dropsical extension of the abdomen and extremities.
It is a great remedy for treating metrorrhagia with the continued or paroxysmal flow and fluid or clotted blood, nausea, vomiting and palpitation, pulse weak quick, feeble when moved, vital depression fainting when rising from the pillow.
Urinary symptoms
It is useful when the urine is profuse light-colored urine; with no sediment and a tendency to enuresis.
It is a wonderful remedy for, its action on urinary organs that become torpid, the urine is scanty, but flows as easily as oil.
It is a great remedy for kidney disorders when there are severe expulsive pains of the bladder, and the urine is copious and almost involuntary from relaxed sphincters.
It is indicated in patients with renal dropsies, and it often cures the case.
Hand and Leg symptoms
Apocynum Cannabinum is a great remedy for the Rheumatic condition of joints, the joints are stiff, especially on moving in the morning, and there is the constant involuntary movement of one leg and one arm.
It is indicated in fingernails that are of bluish red color.
It is a great remedy for dropsy of legs there is aching in both knees, and edema of feet, ankles, and legs with much swelling.
It is highly indicated when there is a dropsical condition of the body and the excretions are diminished, especially the urine and sweat.
Back symptoms
Apocynum Cannabinum
is a great remedy for backaches mostly rheumatic pain which is worse in the morning and evening.
It is a great remedy for spinal pains and swelling of the neck and back with dropsy of arms and legs, backache is worse after sleep.
Skin symptoms
Apocynum Cannabinum
is a wonderful remedy for treating disorders of the skin like swelling and edema of the skin surface with twitching on the skin surface, redness, and bluishness of fingernails.
Sleep symptoms
Apocynum Cannabinum is a wonderful remedy for sleep disorders, there is drowsy sleep in the afternoon, and the person has restless sleep at night.
It is a great remedy for sleep that makes the person go into Stupor.
It is indicated for sleep complaints when on going to bed there is a desire to sleep, but the inability to do so.
The person is drowsy before and after nausea and vomiting
Fever symptoms
It is a great remedy for intermittent fever in which there is cold sweat all over the body, the body is covered with large drops of cold sweat.
It is a great remedy for fever with, Dropsy after scarlet fever and the one that occurs after abuse of quinine.
Apocynum Cannabinum Modalities
Modalities are the factors that, increase or decrease the complaints in a patient.
They are categorized as aggravating factors and amelioration factors.
Aggravating factors make the condition of the illness worst, while the amelioration factor makes the condition of the disease better.
It can be time, any part of the day, season, position, or any applications, etc.
Aggravated By
The condition of Apocynum Cannabinum is worse, cold weather; cold drinks; uncovering, and most of the symptoms are aggravated after sleep.
Symptoms related gastric system are aggravated immediately after eating and there is aggravation on waking in the morning.
Amelioration By
The conditions of Apocynum Cannabinum are better from warm drinks and resting.
Relationship with Other Medicine
Apocynum Cannabinum Complementary Medicines
This remedy completes the process of cure that is started by the first medicine given.
The remedies complementary to Apocynum Cannabinum are Arsenicum Album.
Apocynum Cannabinum Similar Medicines
These remedies have many similarities in action but are different in origin, which means the source from which the medicine is prepared is another.
Remedies similar to Apocynum Cannabinum are Acetic acid, Apis Mellifica in dropsy, and Arsenicum Album.
Apocynum Cannabinum Compatible
These are the remedies that are suitable to be used together.
It is compatible with Helleborus in the case of hydrocephalus and ascites.
Apocynum Cannabinum Antidoted by
The bad effects of Apocynum Cannabinum are antidoted by Camphora.
Apocynum Cannabinum antidotes
It antidotes the effects of abuse of quinine.
Apocynum Cannabinum Uses, Dosage & Potencies
The dosage and potency of the medicine depend on the individual case.
Apocynum Cannabinum 30 Uses
Lower potency is given when very few symptoms of the patient match with the medicine and help the doctor only to diagnose the disease condition.
It is used in treating constipation and acidity, ascites, and dropsy.
This potency requires frequent repetition, 3-4 times a day, till the expected result is seen.
Apocynum Cannabinum 200 Uses
This is considered as higher potency; they are given when the majority of mental symptoms and physical symptoms of Apocynum Cannabinum match.
It is useful in Amerrhoea and Rheumatism of joints.
Higher potencies are advisable to be not repeated very often; they act for a long duration of days, so the second dose is repeated every 7-days or every 15-days once.
Apocynum Cannabinum 1M Uses
This is very high potency.
One should give it only after careful case analysis, where all medicinal symptoms of Apocynum Cannabinum
and that given by the patient matches perfectly.
It is useful in cases of menorrhagia in females and cardiac dropsy.
One should not repeat 1 M potency.
It is given 30 days once and waiting for symptoms to disappear.
Apocynum Cannabinum (Mother Tincture) Uses
The mother tincture of Apocynum Cannabinum is used to treat ascites and hydrocephalus which needs frequent repetition.
Take 10 drops of mother tincture in half a cup of water three times a day till the improvement occurs.
Apocynum Cannabinum 3X/6X Uses
This lower potency of Apocynum Cannabinum
works well to treat the conditions like swelling of the legs knees and arms.
Take 2-3 drops of dilution directly on the tongue thrice a day for 3 months.
Clinical Indication of Apocynum Cannabinum
- Ascites
- Amenorrhoea
- Cough
- Dropsy
- Heart affections
- Hydrocephalous
- Metrorrhagia
- Urinary affections
- Vomiting
Side Effects of Apocynum Cannabinum
Homeopathic medicines are prepared by potentization where the dynamic curative power of the medication is aroused, so homeopathic medicines produce negligible side effects.
If any side effects of Apocynum Cannabinum like an increase in skin itching are seen, then it can be antidoted by Camphora.