Ironwood
by William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory
Of great value in anæmia from malaria. Bilious conditions and intermittent fever.
Tongue yellow; coated at the root . Loss of appetite. Frequent nausea , with dull, frontal headache. Sickening pains.
First to third potency.
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Ostrya Virginica appears in 3 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.
“Ostrya Virginica, Willd. Natural order , Cupuliferæ. Common names , Iron-wood, Hop-hornbeam, Lever-wood. Preparation , Tincture of the heart-wood. Authorities. Light feeling in the head, with the distress in the epigastric and umbilical regions; walking aggravates the pain in the head (after two hours), 1. Light…”
“virginica. Hop-hornbeam. Iron-wood. Lever-wood. N. O. Cupuliferæ. (Corylaceæ.) Tincture of heart wood. Headache, dull / Head, numb / Intermittent fever / Liver, affections of / Lumbago / Malaria / Malarial anæmia The Hop-hornbeam, Ostrya virginica, is sometimes regarded as a variety of the common Hornbeam naturalised…”
