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Help to your heart. The natural remedy strophanthin, or ouabain, as it is often called in English literature, helps a stressed and diseased heart. It stabilizes it and keeps us fit and healthy. It is a scandal that modern medicine will forget about this wonderful cure! Our goal is to preserve strophanthin for future generations.

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Indications for using ouabain

An excerpt of the Materia medica from Boericke.  

STROPHANTHUS HISPIDUS

(Kombe-seed)

 

Strophanthus is a muscle poison; it increases the contractile power of all striped muscles.

Acts on the heart; increasing the systole and diminishes the rapidity.

May be used with advantage to tone the heart, and run off dropsical accumulations.

In small doses for weak heart; it feels enlarged.

In mitral exercise, delusions, where oedema and dropsy have supervened. [Digit.]

Strophantus
occasions no gastric distress, has no cumulative effects, is a greater
diuretic, and is safer for the aged, as it does not affect the
vaso-motors.

In pneumonia and in severe prostration from haemorrhage after operations and acute diseases.

After the long use of stimulants; irritable heart of tobacco-smokers.

Arterio-sclerosis; rigid arteries of aged.

Restores tone to a brittle tissue, especially of the heart muscle and valves.

Especially useful in failing compensation dependent upon fatty heart.

Hives.

Anaemia with palpitation and breathlessness.

Exophthalmia goitre.

Corpulent persons.

 

Temporal pains with double vision, impaired sight; brilliant eyes, flushed face.

Senile vertigo.

 

Nausea with special disgust for alcohol and so aids in treatment of dipsomania.

Seven drops of tincture.

 

Increased secretion; scanty and albuminous.

 

Menorrhagia; uterine haemorrhage; uterus heavily congested.

Aching pain through hips and thighs during climacteric.

 

Dyspnoea, especially on ascending.

Lungs congested.

Oedema of lungs.

Bronchial and cardiac asthma.

 

Pulse quickened.

Heart’s action weak, rapid irregular, due to muscular debility; and insufficiency.

Cardiac pain.

 

Urticaria, especially more chronic forms.

 

Swollen, dropsical.

Anasarca.

 

Compare : Digit. (but is slower than strophant. in its action);

Phos. ac. (weak heart, irregular pulse, fluttering sensation in cardiac region, palpitation during sleep, fainting).

 

Tincture and 6x potency.

In more acute cases, five to ten drops of the tincture three times a day.