Quebracho
by Edwin M. Hale — Materia Medica and Special Therapeutics of the New Remedies
Volume I — Appendix
Description. — This is a Brazilian plant, the Arpido-sperma Quebracho, a tree belonging to the Apocynaceas, and is used as a febrifuge by Brazilian physicians.
(No Proving.)
Spasmodic asthma. 0 Emphysema.
Volume II — Special Therapeutics
This is a Brazilian plant, the Arpido-sperma quebracho, a tree belonging to the Apocynacese, and is used as a febrifuge by Brazilian physicians.
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In provings on animals there is a respiratory paralysis , at first cessation of the flanks, then gradual diminution of the laryngeal breathing goes hand in hand with paralysis of the extremities. The beats of the heart diminish one-half in a few minutes.
When given therapeutically in phthisis, pleurisy, etc., it failed to influence the fever, temperature, or pulse. But in all cases in which dyspnoea was present it relieved that symptom.
In cases of asthma , with livid face, could only breathe on sitting up, after a dose of a teaspoon ful of the tincture (1 to 10), equal to the dgtli dilution, soon relieved, the face became red, and the patient could lie down.
When dyspnoea was so great that a cyanotic hue pervaded the face and lips it was always diminished or removed by Quebracho. The testimony goes to show that it is homoeopathic to dyspnoea of all kinds. In some it is merely palliative, in others curative. It may prove a cardiac remedy also.