Chestnut Leaves
by William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory
A useful remedy in whooping-cough , especially in the early stage, with dry, ringing, violent, spasmodic cough. Desire for warm drinks. Very thirsty. Loss of appetite. Diarrhœa. Thick urine.
Lumbago, weak back, can hardly straighten up.
Compare: Pertussin -Whooping-cough (when symptoms return again after being allayed). Dros; Mephitis; Naphthal; Ammon brom .
Tincture.
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Castanea Vesca 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.
“Castanea vesca, L. Nat. order , Cupuliferæ. Common name , Chestnut. Preparation , Tincture of the leaves gathered in the summer. Authorities. MS provings of Dr. Henry C. Houghton and three others, with wineglassful doses of an infusion of the leaves. Head feels dull (fifth day). 10 A.M., out in the hot sun for one…”
“Chestnut. N. O. Cupuliferæ. Tincture of leaves gathered in summer. Diarrhœa / Whooping-cough Castan. has been proved by Dr. H. C. Houghton and three others. The following are the principal symptoms observed: Slight acrid feeling in throat. Desire for warm drinks. Abdominal walls sensitive. Soft stools of short, small…”
“Chestnut. Cupuliferæ. Tincture of the leaves. Symptoms marked are those italicized in Allen's Encyclopædia, vol. 3, p. 21 , from provings of Houghton and others. Clinical use in pertussis, by Conant, Counselor, Feb., 1880. Slight acrid feeling in throat. Desire for warm drinks. Abdominal walls sensitive. An…”
Kent's Repertory lists Castanea Vesca in 17 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in ABDOMEN (4), SLEEP (3), HEAD (2), VERTIGO (2), COUGH (1).
