ADONIS VERNALIS
Keynote / Introductory Description
Heart remedy in fatty degeneration, cardiac dropsy, weak pulse and low vitality with increased urinary secretion and oedema.
Modalities
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Dose / Potency
Five to ten drops of the tincture.
Relationship
Adonidin is a cardiac tonic and diuretic. Increases arterial pressure and prolongs diastole; useful substitute for Digitalis. Compare: Digitalis, Crataegus, Convallaria, Strophanthus.
Compare
Digitalis, Crataegus, Convallaria, Strophanthus
Complementary
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Head
Feels light; aches across front from occiput around temples to eyes. Vertigo on rising, turning quickly or lying down. Tinnitus. Scalp tight. Eyes dilated.
Mouth
Slimy mouth. Tongue dirty yellow, sore and scalded.
Stomach
Heavy weight. Gnawing hunger. Faint feeling in epigastrium. Better out of doors.
Urine
Oily pellicle on urine. Scanty and albuminous.
Respiratory
Frequent desire to take a long breath. Feeling of weight on chest.
Heart
Mitral and aortic regurgitation. Chronic aortitis. Fatty heart. Pericarditis. Rheumatic endocarditis. Praecordial pain, palpitation and dyspnoea. Venous engorgement. Cardiac asthma. Myocarditis with irregular cardiac action, constriction and vertigo. Pulse rapid and irregular.
Back
Aching in nape. Spine stiff and aching.
Extremities
Oedema.
Sleep
Restlessness with horrible dreams.
General Description
ADONIS VERNALIS
Pheasant's Eye
A heart medicine, after rheumatism or influenza, or Bright's disease, where the muscles of the heart are in stage of fatty degeneration, regulating the pulse and increasing the power of contractions of heart, with increased urinary secretions. Most valuable in cardiac dropsy. Low vitality, with weak heart and slow, weak pulse. Hydrothorax, ascites. Anasarca.
Head.--Feels light; aches across front, from occiput around temples to eyes. Vertigo on rising, turning head quickly or lying down. Tinnitus. Scalp feels tight. Eyes dilated.
Mouth.--Slimy. Tongue dirty yellow, sore, feels scalded.
Heart.--Mitral and aortic regurgitation. Chronic aortitis. Fatty heart. Pericarditis. Rheumatic endocarditis. Praecordial pain, palpitation, and dyspnoea. Marked venous engorgement. Cardiac asthma. Myocarditis, irregular cardiac action, constriction and vertigo. Pulse rapid, irregular.
Stomach.--Heavy weight. Gnawing hunger. Faint feeling in epigastrium. Better out of doors.
Urine.--Oily pellicle on urine. Scanty, albuminous.
Respiratory.--Frequent desire to take a long breath. Feeling of weight on chest.
Sleep.--Restlessness, with horrible dreams.
Extremities.--Aching in nape. Spine stiff and aching. Oedema.
Relationship.--Adonidin is a cardiac tonic and diuretic. It increases arterial pressure and prolongs diastole, favoring emptying engorged veins. Excellent substitute for Digitalis and not cumulative in action.
Compare: Digit; Crataeg; Convallaria; Strophanthus.
Dose.--Five to ten drops of the tincture.