Ailanthus Glandulosa

by C.M. Boger — A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica

REGION

BLOOD.
THROAT.
Skin.
Mind.

WORSE

Suppressions.
Raising up.
Sight of food.

BETTER

Hot drinks.

Aching. Rapid prostration advancing MALIGNANCY AND STUPOR. Fetor and LIVIDITY. Sepsis. Acridity. Thinness. .................... Dullness. Sighing. Faint on raising up, or vertigo < lying. Bloody, nasal discharge. Face and throat dark and swelled. Sordes on teeth. Dry, foul fauces. Deep ulcers stud tonsils, < left, with loose pultaceous material. Lacunar tonsilitis. Irritative itching of posterior pharynx. Diphtheria. Eruptions in dark, sparse patches; tardy; return slowly after pressure. Mottled skin. Scarlatina maligna; suppressed. Petechiæ. Crawling over body. Adynamic fever, with weak heart. Cold sweat.

Related: Aru-t. Bap. Lac-c.

Ailanthus Glandulosa across the other classic books

Ailanthus Glandulosa appears in 7 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.

Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“Ailanthus glandulosus, Desf. Nat. order , Simarubeæ. Common names , Tree of Heaven; (Germ.) Gotterbaum; (Fr.), Ailante. Preparation , Tincture from the flowers beginning to open. Authorities. [The following symptomatology is mainly copied from Dr. Jones's arrangement in Am. Hom. Observer, vol. 11.] Low-spirited, 3…”
Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Chinese Sumach This remedy shows by its peculiar skin symptoms its pronounced power of disorganizing the blood, causing conditions we meet with in low fevers, low types of eruptive diseases, diphtheria, follicular tonsillitis , Streptococcus infection, Hæmorrhagic diathesis, etc. The skin appears livid or purplish …”
Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“BLOOD SEPSIS, etc. DUSKY COLOR INACTIVE, apathetic, lies down, lethargic (Comp. Reaction, Relaxation) MOTTLED, PATCHY, ETC. (COMP. SPOTS.)”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“The Tree of Heaven. (Eastern Asia; cultivated as a shade-tree in North America.) N. O. Simarubaceæ. Tincture from flowers beginning to open. Acne / Cerebro-spinal meningitis / Chancre / Coryza / Diphtheria / Headache / Mumps / Puerperal fever / Rheumatic fever / Scarlatina / Syphilis / Typhoid fever / Typhus fever…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Tree of Heaven. Simarubeæ. A very poisonous tree introduced from the Molucca Islands, and cultivated extensively as a shade tree, on account of its rapid growth, straight stem and shady leaves, until it was observed to make the month of June, the most healthy in the year, a sickly one, by the stench of its flowers…”
Kent — The mental and general picture — who the patient is, before what the remedy cures.
“Generalities: This medicine is especially suitable in the low zymotic forms of sickness, such as we find in diphtheria and scarlet fever, in blood poisoning and in symptomatic typhoids, especially those cases that are characterized by capillary congestion in spots, red mottled spots. Scarlet: Perhaps the most striking…”

Ailanthus Glandulosa in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Ailanthus Glandulosa in 501 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in EXTREMITIES (49), HEAD (43), FACE (40), THROAT (37), MIND (29).

EXTREMITIES - PAIN - burning - Shoulder - beneath
NOSE - DISCHARGE, - ichorous
NOSE - CORYZA - scarlatina,during
THROAT - DISCOLORATION. - purple
THROAT - ULCERS - Tonsils
SKIN - ERUPTIONS - scarlatina
TEETH - SORDES
THROAT - GANGRENE
FEVER - EXANTHEMATIC fevers - measles - scarlatina
RESPIRATION - IRREGULAR
MOUTH - DISCOLORATION - Tongue - brown
MOUTH - CRACKED - Tongue fissured
FACE - EXPRESSION, - anxious
THROAT - SWELLING
NOSE - DISCHARGE, - bloody
MOUTH - DRYNESS - Tongue
BLADDER - URINATION - involuntary
VERTIGO - VERTIGO
CHEST - FULLNESS - expectoration amel.
CHEST - PAIN - stitching - Clavicle - extending - to - sternum

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