Cratægus Oxyacantha

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

REGION

HEART.
Nerves.

Weak and exhausted; suddenly. Cardio-hæmorrhagic or lithæmic cases (Lycps.). .................... Irritable. Despairing. Cough, with albuminous expectoration. WEAK HEART MUSCLES (r); with oppression, stitches or insomnia. Cardiac dyspnœa. Myocarditis. Incompetent valves. Cardiac dilatation. Angina pectoris. Pain under left scapula. Dropsies. Pulse rapid, irregular and small. Burning, smarting eruption in back of neck, axillæ and chin; < heat and sweating; > washing. Sweaty palms.

Related: Apocy. Strop.

Cratægus Oxyacantha across the other classic books

Cratægus Oxyacantha appears in 5 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.

Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Hawthorn Berries (CRATAEGUS) Produces giddiness, lowered pulse, and air hunger and reduction in blood-pressure. Acts on muscle of heart, and is a heart tonic . No influence on the endocardium. Myocarditis. Failing compensation. Irregularity of heart . Insomnia of aortic sufferers; anæmia; œdema; cutaneous chilliness…”
Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“HEART, CIRCULATION AND PULSE”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Hawthorn. N. O. Rosaceæ. Tincture of the ripe fruit. Angina pectoris / Heart, affections of / failure of; hypertrophy of Cratægus was introduced into medicine as a heart remedy by Dr. Greene, of Ennis, Ireland, and it has been used empirically with much success in cases of heart failure. It has usually been given in…”
Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common name: hawthorn berries. The few provings that have been made show conclusively that its action is directly upon the heart, which, primarily, it excites moderately, but to such a degree that it becomes quite evident that the long-continued use of the drug would result in lowering the tone of the heart and…”

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