American Papaw
by William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory
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.
Compare: Capsic; Bellad .
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Asimina Triloba appears in 4 of the 13 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.
“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…”
“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…”
“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…”
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).
