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Castanea Vesca

Chestnut Leaves
4 sectionsBoericke · 3Clarke · 1

At a glance

Cardinal features · auto-extracted from Boericke · Clarke
  • whooping-cough

Essence

Prologue
Boericke

Chestnut Leaves

  • 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.
  • Diarrhoea.
  • Thick urine.

Lumbago, weak back, can hardly straighten up.

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Keynotes

Characteristics
Clarke
  • 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

Relationship
Boericke

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

Posology

Dose
Boericke

Tincture.

Classical Posology

Acute
  • 30C or 200C · repeat every 1–4 h depending on intensity
  • Stop on improvement · reassess in 24–48 h
  • For sensitive / elderly / paediatric: prefer LM1 or 30C
Constitutional
  • 200C or 1M single dose · wait 4 weeks
  • Alternative: LM1 daily × 10 days · ascend on retest
  • Hering's-Law follow-up adapts the next script
Citations: Organon §246 (interval / repetition) · §161 (plussed water) · §282 (LM ascension) · Kent on selection · Vithoulkas on second prescription. Open Repertify for the case-specific dose with the rule cited inline.
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