QUERCUS E GLANDIBUS
By William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory
Spirit distilled from Tincture of Acorn Kernels
(QUERCUS GLANDIUM SPIRITUS)
Used first by Rademacher for chronic spleen affections; spleen-dropsy . Antidotes effects of Alcohol. Vertigo; deafness, with noises in head. Takes away craving for alcoholics ; give dose as below for several months. Dropsy and liver affections. Useful in gout, old malarial cases with flatulence.
Relationship
Compare: Angelica (in tincture, five drops, three times daily, produces disgust for liquor; also for atony of different organs, dyspepsia, nervous headache, etc; chronic bronchitis to increase expectoration). Ceanoth; Lach; Nat mur; Helianthus (spleen enlarged and painful).
Dose
Ten drops to a teaspoonful of the distilled spirit three to four times a day. A passing diarrhœa often appears for a times a day. A passing diarrhœa often appears for a time when using it. Curative effect. Quercus acts well in trituration of the acorn 3x in splenic cases, flatulence, old malaria and alcoholic history (Clark).