Salix mollissima
Plant · Salicaceae
Clarke
Salix mollissima is suited to nervous patients with rheumatic affections, particularly sciatic neuritis, where the capillary cutaneous circulation shows up visibly and there is tenderness and swelling of the limb.
Key symptoms
- Rheumatic affections, especially sciatic neuritis
- Visible capillary cutaneous circulation in nervous subjects
- Tenderness and swelling of the affected limb
John Henry Clarke
A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1900
Salix mollissima. N. O. Salicaceæ. Tincture of fresh leaves and young shoots.
Clinical
Rheumatism. Sciatica.
Characteristics
Cooper has used Sal. mollis. with success in rheumatic affections, especially in sciatic neuritis in nervous subjects, in whom the capillary cutaneous circulation showed up visibly, and there was some tenderness and swelling of the limb.
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