The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

Castanea Vesca cast-v.

Hering, 1879–91 (1879)In every bookSave

General

Chestnut. Cupuliferæ.
Tincture of the leaves.
Symptoms marked * are those italicized in Allen's Encyclopædia, vol. 3, p. 21 , from provings of Houghton and others.
Clinical use in pertussis, by Conant, Counselor, Feb., 1880.

Palate and throat

Slight acrid feeling in throat. *

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Desire for warm drinks. *

Abdomen and loins

Abdominal walls sensitive. *
An uncomfortable relaxed condition of the abdominal viscera all day, > when lying on back. *

Stools and rectum

The soft stools consisted of short, small pieces, like chopped tape ; this character of stool has continued for three years, whenever loose stools occur. *
At 1.30 P. M., sudden and urgent desire for stool, accompanied by severe pain and rumbling ; pain > by stool. *

Cough

Pertussis, early stage, with violent spasmodic, very dry, ringing cough. (Clinical use in pertussis, by Conant, Counsellor, Feb., 1880.

Rest. position. motion

Lying on back : > relaxed condition of abdominal viscera.

Fever

Perspiration very free after drinking. *

Sensations

Acrid : in throat.
Pain : before stool.

Relations

Compare : Am. brom ., Mephit . and Naphthal . in whooping cough.