Castanea vesca
Castanea sativa · Plant · Fagaceae
Suited to patients in the early stages of whooping cough with violent spasmodic character. The remedy suits those with general weakness of the back and digestive disturbances accompanying respiratory complaints.
Key symptoms
- Dry, ringing, violent, spasmodic cough especially in early whooping cough
- Desire for warm drinks with great thirst
- Loss of appetite with diarrhea and thick urine
- Lumbago and weak back, can hardly straighten up
- Soft stools in short small pieces with severe pain and rumbling
- Abdominal walls sensitive to touch
- Slight acrid feeling in throat
- Very free sweat after drinking
Better (amelioration)
- Abdominal pain better after stool
- Warm drinks bring some relief
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. Diarrhœa. 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.
Chestnut. N. O. Cupuliferæ. Tincture of leaves gathered in summer.
Clinical
Diarrhœa. 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.
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