ADONIS VERNAILS MATERIA MEDICA (Adonis vernalis)

 

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ADONIS

Adonis vernalis

Key uses

• Asthma

• Headaches

• Heart degeneration (structural problem), perhaps following a bout of severe influenza or rheumatic fever (inflammation of heart, blood vessel, joints)

• Edema (swelling fluid trapped in body tissue).

Remedy profile

Mental Symptoms

Adonis is best suitable for people who tend to be apprehensive (worried or afraid) and prone to horrible dreams (frightening dreams) and restless sleep. They generally feel waterlogged (extremely wet) and uncomfortable.

Physical Symptoms

The main symptom picture for Adonis is of heart degeneration (structural problem) , perhaps following a bout of severe influenza or rheumatic fever (inflammation of heart, blood vessel, joints). There may be pain and palpitations (irregular heartbeat) in the area around the heart. The heart rhythms may be abnormally rapid or slow and faltering (unsteady movement), possibly because of diseased valves or fatty degeneration (structural problem). Edema (an irregular accumulation of fluid in the body tissues or cavities), which develops as a result of poor circulation and is accompanied by scanty (less in amount) urine, may be treated by Adonis.

Adonis is also used to treat asthma (inflamed airways) with breathlessness, discomfort, or heart disease. Further symptoms may include headaches that move from the back of the head, around the temples (side of the head behind the eyes), to the eyes.

Modalities

Symptoms Amelioration - Exertion.

Symptoms Aggravation – cold, lying down.


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Adonis

Clinical.

Albuminuria  (too much albumin in urine).  Dropsy  (Edema).  Heart, affections of.

Characteristics. 

Adonis is a popular heart remedy. Main uses are as follows -

 Rapid and feeble action of the heart, dropsy, scanty (less in amount) urine with albumen and casts present in urine. Valvular disease and cardiac asthma (cough occur with heart failure). There is no record of its use in the potencies but gave relief to a water-logged patient of seventy-four  with mitral regurgitation, with one-grain doses of Adonis at eight-hour intervals, after failure of Ars Alb and Digitalis. Urinary secretion rose from half a pint to 2 pints in twenty-four hours. Breathing was relieved, sleep returned statement by Dr. Henry Clarke.



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