Chaparro amargoso
Plant · Simaroubaceae
Chaparro amargoso is suited to chronic cases of dysentery and persistent diarrhea that have reached a standstill under other remedies. Its tonic and antiperiodic action makes it useful in debilitated states following bowel complaints.
Key symptoms
- Chronic diarrhea with stools containing much mucus but little pain
- Dysentery with persistent bowel complaints
- Tenderness over the liver
- Acts as a tonic and antiperiodic in debilitated states
Goat-bush
Chronic diarrhœa. Tenderness over liver. Stools little pain, but with much mucus. Dysentery. Acts as a tonic and antiperiodic.
Compare: Kali carb; Cup, ars; Caps.
Dose
Third attenuation.
Chaparro Bush. Goat-bush. Bishirandi Amargoso. Castila Nicholsoni. N. O. Simarubaceæ. Fluid extract from bark of stem.
Clinical
Diarrhœa. Dysentery.
Characteristics
Dr. M. J. Bleim, of San Antonio, Texas, communicates to the North American Journal of Homœopathy, of March, 1899, an article in praise of this Mexican plant, a small, thorny bush, three to five feet high, with a small, saffron-coloured flower. Dr. Bleim reports the following cases cured: (1) Mr. A., of New Orleans, eighteen months ill with dysentery, was sent to Dr. Bleim under suspicion of tuberculosis. Before seeing the doctor he met a stockman who said he could cure him, having been himself cured with the remedy after a like experience. Chapar. was the remedy, a teaspoonful of the extract three times a day. After three doses there was considerable improvement. He took no more medicine, and had no further trouble. (2) Boy, 12, had been treated for several months by Dr. Bleim with indifferent results. Chapar., half a teaspoonful three …
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