STROPHANTHUS HISPIDUS

Action of Medicine:

This remedy is indicated in the active, energetic type of patient whose muscular development is below par. They are always exhausted and overtaxed. Frequently there is a history of some violent exercise or exertion that has left its effect in the form of dyspnoea and praecordial distress, or a painful throbbing in various parts of the body.
It is of service when the heart's action is rapid and feeble, the pulse is irregular and weak, there is serve dyspnoea, and a condition or arterio - sclerosis present. It is useful in nephritis when there is a permanent high arterial tension with senile rigidity of the arteries. The heart's action is weak and irregular. It is also useful in fatty degeneration of the heart, in hepatic cirrhosis, in the enfeebled heart's action that follows acute fevers, in reflex palpitation in the neurasthenic and hysterical.
It should be remembered in anasarca, when diuresis can be promoted by an increased blood pressure. It is particularly useful for corpulent persons and for children, those suffering from chlorosis, anaemia, irritability of the heart, and in senile vertigo from cerebral anaemia. If continued for a period it has a favourable influence in many cases of exophthalmic goiter.
It is useful during theclimacteric period, when there are aching pains through the hips and extensors of the thighs. It is to be preferred to Digitalis on account of its greater rapidity of action, in having but little if any vaso - motor effects, in having a greater diuretic power, in not disturbing the digestive organs, in not being accumulative; and in being safer for children and for the aged.
Clinical: Alcoholism. Anaemia. Cough. Diplopia. Dropsy, cardiac. Haemoptysis. Heart, affections of. Levitation.

References:A Manual Of Materia Medica, Therapeutics And Pharmacology By Blackwood, Alexander Leslie, Dictionary Of Practical Materia Medica By Clarke J. H.