The following drug picture has been extracted from Boericke’s Materia Medica. This is provided here for doctors’ and students’ easy and instantaneous reference.
AMPELOPSIS QUINQUEFOLIA
Virginia Creeper
(AMPELOPSIS)
General.–Renal dropsies, hydrocele, and chronic hoarseness in scrofulous patients have been benefited by this drug. Choleric symptoms. Generally worse about 6 pm. Dilated pupils. Left costal region sore and sensitive. Elbow joints pain, back sore. Soreness of all limbs. Vomiting, purging with tenesmus. Rumbling in abdomen.
Dose.–Second to third potency.