- Allen TF — A compiled symptom record drawing on proving reports and other named observations.
“Ailanthus glandulosus, Desf. Nat. order , Simarubeæ. Common names , Tree of Heaven; (Germ.) Gotterbaum; (Fr.), Ailante. Preparation , Tincture from the flowers beginning to open. Authorities. [The following symptomatology is mainly copied from Dr. Jones's arrangement in Am. Hom. Observer, vol. 11.] Low-spirited, 3…”
- Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Chinese Sumach This remedy shows by its peculiar skin symptoms its pronounced power of disorganizing the blood, causing conditions we meet with in low fevers, low types of eruptive diseases, diphtheria, follicular tonsillitis , Streptococcus infection, Hæmorrhagic diathesis, etc. The skin appears livid or purplish …”
- Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“BLOOD SEPSIS, etc. DUSKY COLOR INACTIVE, apathetic, lies down, lethargic (Comp. Reaction, Relaxation) MOTTLED, PATCHY, ETC. (COMP. SPOTS.)”
- Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“The Tree of Heaven. (Eastern Asia; cultivated as a shade-tree in North America.) N. O. Simarubaceæ. Tincture from flowers beginning to open. Acne / Cerebro-spinal meningitis / Chancre / Coryza / Diphtheria / Headache / Mumps / Puerperal fever / Rheumatic fever / Scarlatina / Syphilis / Typhoid fever / Typhus fever…”
- Guernsey — The leading characteristics — a compact bridge from repertory result to remedy study.
“My observation and experience with this remedy lead me to place unbounded confidence in its efficacy to save life in the most desperate derangements, which are characterized by certain livid or purplish appearances of the skin. Mental.--Semi-conscious, can hardly comprehend what is said to him. Stupor, delirium, and…”
- Hale — The introduction story — early pathogenetic and clinical evidence for medicines new to Hale's generation.
“(Tree of Heaven.) The Ailantus (not Ailanthus, as many of our prominent physicians and authors spell it) belongs to the natural System Xanthoxylaceae and to the Linnaean system, Monoecia Polygamia. Derivations. — The word Ailantus was given to this genus by Desfontaine, who formed it from the Molucca name Ailanti. For…”
- Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Tree of Heaven. Simarubeæ. A very poisonous tree introduced from the Molucca Islands, and cultivated extensively as a shade tree, on account of its rapid growth, straight stem and shady leaves, until it was observed to make the month of June, the most healthy in the year, a sickly one, by the stench of its flowers…”
- Hughes & Dake — The source evidence — provings and poisonings retained with their experimental context.
“AILANTHUS. Dcff. Tit of betvea, Nat, Ord^ Sint^lmkdcis. ^poonf )f an infusion that caused 1 ipecacuanha; abo sense of tightness in temples. Symptoms increased] after | h. to vcHniting (soar) ; pulse had nour risen from 68 to 76,1 tecnp. from J/'i"^ to 37'3^- After this peculiar sensation of empnuesii in stomach i…”
- Kent — The mental and general picture — how Kent organizes the remedy’s historical symptom portrait.
“Generalities: This medicine is especially suitable in the low zymotic forms of sickness, such as we find in diphtheria and scarlet fever, in blood poisoning and in symptomatic typhoids, especially those cases that are characterized by capillary congestion in spots, red mottled spots. Scarlet: Perhaps the most striking…”
