Castanea vesca
Alias: Cast-v.
Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica, William Boericke
Chestnut Leaves
A useful remedy in whooping-cough, especially in the early stage, with dry, ringing, violent, spasmodic cough. Desire for warm drinks. Very thirsty. Loss of appetite. Diarrhoea. Thick urine.
Lumbago, weak back, can hardly straighten up.
Relationship.--Compare: Pertussin-Whooping-cough (when symptoms return again after being allayed). Dros; Mephitis; Naphthal; Ammon brom.
Dose.--Tincture.
A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica, John Henry Clarke
Chestnut. N. O. Cupuliferae. Tincture of leaves gathered in summer.
Clinical.─Diarrhoea. Whooping-cough.
Characteristics.─Castan. has been proved by Dr. H. C. Houghton and three others. The following are the principal symptoms observed: Slight acrid feeling in throat. Desire for warm drinks. Abdominal walls sensitive. Soft stools of short, small pieces like chopped tape; accompanied with severe pain and rumbling; pain > by stool. It has cured whooping-cough, early stage, violent, spasmodic; very dry ringing cough. Very free sweat after drinking.
Relations.─Compare: Am. bro., Mephit., Naphthal.