Castanea Vesca cast-v.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Chestnut Leaves

General

A useful remedy in whooping-cough, especially in the early stage, with dry, ringing, violent, spasmodic cough. Desire for warm drinks. Very thirsty. Loss of appetite. Diarrhœa. Thick urine.

Lumbago, weak back, can hardly straighten up.

Relationship

Compare: Pertussin-Whooping-cough (when symptoms return again after being allayed). Dros; Mephitis; Naphthal; Ammon brom.

Dose

Tincture.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1st edition (1900-02, three volumes); homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML digitization

General

Chestnut. N. O. Cupuliferæ. Tincture of leaves gathered in summer.

Clinical

Diarrhœa. Whooping-cough.

Characteristics

Castan . has been proved by Dr. H. C. Houghton and three others. The following are the principal symptoms observed: Slight acrid feeling in throat. Desire for warm drinks. Abdominal walls sensitive. Soft stools of short, small pieces like chopped tape; accompanied with severe pain and rumbling; pain > by stool. It has cured whooping-cough, early stage, violent, spasmodic; very dry ringing cough. Very free sweat after drinking.

Relations

Compare: Am. bro., Mephit., Naphthal.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

Constantine Hering · The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica · 1879–91

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.