Asimina triloba

American Papaw

by William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory

Historical reference for practitioners and students. The statements below reflect the named author’s homeopathic teaching and do not establish treatment effectiveness. This text is not medical advice and must not replace appropriate diagnosis or care.

Produces a series of symptoms much like scarlet fever; sore throat, fever, vomiting, scarlet eruption; tonsils and submaxillary glands enlarged, with diarrhœa. Fauces red and swollen, face swollen. Desire for ice-cold things. Hoarseness . Languid, drowsy irritable.

Acne. Itching in evening on undressing.

Relationship

Compare: Capsic; Bellad .

Asimina triloba across the other classic books

Asimina triloba appears in 4 of the 21 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.

Allen TF — A compiled symptom record drawing on proving reports and other named observations.
“Anona triloba, L. Nat. order , Anonaceæ. Common name , Pawpaw. Preparation , (?) Authority. Edward H. Eisenboeg (Thesis, Hahnemann Medical College, 1870, MSS.); 1 , 2d potency, repeated doses for six days; 2 , 4th potency, repeated doses, three days. Did not care to hold conversation with any one, even his best…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Paw Paw, or Custard Apple. N. O. Anonaceæ. Tincture of ripe and unripe fruit, green leaves, bark, and root. Aphthæ / Carbuncle / Cramp / Diarrhœa / Fever / Scarlatina / Throat, sore The Anonaceæ, to which Asimina belongs, are allied to the Magnolia family. From eating the unripe fruit five children developed high…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Paw Paw, or Custard Apple. Anonaceæ. A valuable proving of the late Dr. George Bute on himself, his daughter, and his 15-year-old grandson, from 1864 to 1868 ; afterwards also proved by E. H. Eisenbrey in 1869-70, in the 1st, 2d and 4th centesimal potencies. Bute used alcoholic extracts from all parts of the plant…”

Asimina triloba in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Asimina triloba in 21 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in HEAD (6), NOSE (4), FACE (2), LARYNX TRACHEA (2), MOUTH (2).

LARYNX TRACHEA - VOICE, - hoarseness
NOSE - DISCHARGE, - hard - dry - morning
HEAD - PAIN, - cutting,darting,stabbing - coughing,when
EXTREMITIES - CARBUNCLES - Thigh
BLADDER - URGING to urinate (morbid desire) - water, - hearing,running or putting hands in
MOUTH - PAIN - excoriated,as if
FACE - ENLARGED - submaxillary
HEAD - PAIN, - Temples - extending - to - eye
NOSE - DISCHARGE, - gray
HEAD - PAIN, - Temples - morning - waking,on
HEAD - PAIN, - Forehead,in - walking in open air, - while
SKIN - ITCHING - undressing agg.
HEAD - PAIN, - Forehead,in - coughing
LARYNX TRACHEA - VOICE, - hoarseness - morning
NOSE - DISCHARGE, - offensive
MOUTH - APHTHAE
STOMACH - DESIRES - cold drinks
HEAD - PAIN, - coughing, - on
NOSE - DISCHARGE, - thick
FACE - DISCOLORATION - bluish

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