Cascara sagrada
Alias: Cas-s., Rhamnus purshiana
Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica, William Boericke
Sacred Bark (RHAMNUS PURSHIANA)
Introduced as a palliative for constipation (non-homeopathic), fifteen drops of fluid extract here it restores normal function by its tonic effects, but it has a wider sphere of action, as careful provings will show. Chronic indigestion, cirrhosis and jaundice. Haemorrhoids and constipation. Gastric headache. Broad, flabby tongue; foul breath.
Urine.--Must wait for minute before flow starts then first in drops.
Extremities.--Rheumatism of muscles and joints, with obstinate constipation.
Relationship.--Compare: Hyd; Nux; Rhamnus Californica (tincture for constipation; tympanites and appendicitis and especially rheumatism).
Dose.--Tincture to sixth potency.
A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica, John Henry Clarke
Rhamnus Purshiana. (California.) N. O. Rhamnaceae. Extract of bark.
Clinical.─Constipation. Rheumatism.
Characteristics.─I mention this well-known purgative because it has been found empirically curative in cases of subacute and chronic rheumatism with constipation. Pathogenetic effects on patients taking it for constipation have been recorded: Vomiting, severe griping, haemorrhage; in one case temporary insanity (from a home-made decoction of the bark). In two cases choleraic symptoms were produced. Only material doses have been used.