STROPHANTHUS HISPIDUS 1M

Action of Medicine:

• This remedy is indicated in the active, energetic type of patient whose muscular development is below par.
• Frequently there is a history of some violent exercise or exertion that has left its effect in the form of dyspnoea and precordial 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 severe 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.
• 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 the climacteric period, when there are aching pains through the hips and extensors of the thighs.

References: Boericke’s New Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica with Repertory