ADONIS VERNALIS (Heart medicine)
Key action:
Heart medicine – especially after rheumatism, influenznaa, or Bright’s disease.
👉 When the muscles of the heart are in a state of fatty degeneration.
👉 Regulates the pulse and increases the force of heart contractions.
👉 Increases urinary secretion → i.e. reduces cardiac dropsy.
Important Clinical Conditions
• Low vitality, weak heart, weak pulse.
• Cardiac dropsy. (swelling of the heart).
• Hydrothorax.(accumulation of fluid in the chest).
• Ascites. (accumulation of fluid in the abdomen).
• Anasarca. (swelling of the whole body).
Head
• Feels light.
• Aches across front.
→ From occiput to temples and eyes.
• Vertigo – when standing up, turning head quickly, or lying down.
• Tinnitus.
• Scalp feels tight.
• Eyes dilated.
Mouth
• Slimy (sticky).
• Tongue – dirty yellow (dirty yellow coating on the tongue).
• Sore, scalded.
Heart
• Mitral & aortic regurgitation (backflow of blood through the heart valves).
• Chronic aortitis (inflammation of the aorta).
• Fatty heart (fatty heart).
• Pericarditis (inflammation of the lining of the heart).
• Rheumatic endocarditis (inflammation of the inner lining of the heart).
• Precordial pain (chest pain).
• Palpitation (heart pounding).
• Dyspnoea (difficulty breathing).
• Venous engorgement (blood accumulation in the veins).
• Cardiac asthma (asthma caused by the heart).
• Myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle).
• Pulse – rapid, irregular (rapid, irregular pulse).
• Constriction & vertigo (chest pressure and gurgling).
Stomach
• Heavy weight.
• Gnawing hunger (feeling like you want to eat but not really hungry).
• Faint feeling in epigastrium (weakness/dizziness under the chest).
• Better in open air (feeling better when you go outside).
🚽 (Urine)
• Oily pellicle on urine.
• Scanty.
• Albuminous.
Respiratory
• Frequent deep breaths.
• Feeling of heaviness in the chest.
Sleep
• Restless.
• Horrible dreams.
Extremities
• Nape (back of neck) – pain.
• Spine (spine) – stiffness and pain.
• Oedema (swelling).
Relationship
• Adonidin → cardiac tonic (increases heart strength) + diuretic (diuretic).
• Dose: ¼ grain daily or 2–5 grains (1x trit).
• Action: Increases arterial pressure, prolongs diastole, empties veins.
• Good alternative to Digitalis → because of cumulative effect (does not accumulate).