Polyporus pinicola

Volume I — Special Symptomatology

(Pine Agaric)

Officinal Preparations. — Tincture or trituration of the fresh fungus.

Analogues. — Agaricv.s, Bryonia, China, Cornus florida, Gelseminum, Ipecacuanha, Nux vomica, Podophyllum.

[Dr. P. H. Hale first used this medicine in intermittent fever. He got his information of its use in ague from the lumbermen of Northern Michigan, who put it in whisky and use it as a panacea for the ague. He tested it in obstinate agues in Southern Michigan, and found it quite useful.

I used it in several cases, with decided benefit, and sent the medicine to various physicians, to test its powers.

Drs. Mann, Coe, Duncan and Burt, all prescribed it in obstinate cases, and generally with good success. It has been found most useful in quotidians. It acts best in the tincture or 1 x trituration. — Hale.]

Volume II — Special Therapeutics

This species of fungus grows upon the trunk of the White Pine. Its general properties are similar to the larch agaric.

Dr. P. H. Hale first used this medicine in homoeopathic practice. He got his knowledge of its antiperiodic power from the lumbermen of Northern Michigan.

It is also used as a remedy for ague by the people of the Middle and Southern States, who macerate it in whiskey and take it during the intermission.

I place about the same estimate upon its powers that others place upon the P. officinalis. The general testimony is, that the best effects obtained from the pine-fungus have been observed in intermittent fevers of quotidian type.

The fungi found upon the oak and other forest trees possess medicinal properties. Some are very powerful, and a few resemble the poisonous species found growing in the earth.