Skookum chuck aqua
Mineral
Remedy from mineral-rich water of Medical Lake near Spokane with strong affinity for skin and mucous membranes. An anti-psoric medicine that has been used for catarrh, eczema, and various skin conditions.
Key symptoms
- Catarrh
- Eczema
- Hay-fever
- Urticaria
- Skin affections
- Otitis media
- Lithemia
- Dry skin
- Profuse coryza
Chuck-Water and Skookum-Strong (Salts from Water from Medical Lake near Spokane, Wash) (SKOOKUM - CHUCK)
Has strong affinity for skin and mucous membranes-An anti-psoric medicine.
Otitis media. Profuse, ichorous, cadaverously smelling discharge. Lithemia. Catarrh. Urticaria. Skin affections. Eczema. Dry skin. Hay-fever. Profuse coryza and constant sneezing.
Relationship
Saxonite--(appears to have remarkable cleansing, deodorizing and soothing properties for the skin (Cowperthwaite). Eczema, scalds, burns, sores and hæmorrhoids).
Dose
Third trituration.
Skookum Limechen Chuck ("Strong Medicine Water"). Medical Lake. A lake in Western U.S. containing in grains per gallon: Sodic carbonate 63.54, Sodic chloride 16.37, Sodic silicate 10.63, Potassic chloride 9.24, Ferrous carbonate .526, Magnesia carbonate .237, Calcic carbonate .186, Aluminic oxide .175, with traces of Lithic carbonate, Borax, and Potassic sulphate. Trituration of the dried salt.
Clinical
Breast, tumour of. Catarrh. Eczema; vaccinal. Hay-fever. Lithæmia. Ozæna. Rheumatism. Urticaria. Vaccination.
Characteristics
The information respecting the remedy known by the Indian name, Skookum chuck (which I will shorten into Skoo.), is collected in New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies. Gentry introduced it to homœopathy in an article in U.S. Med. Month., 1889. He commenced to prove it, but the severity of the catarrhal symptoms led to its discontinuance. Gentry has himself cured with Skoo. many cases of catarrh, and he considers it a remedy in hay-fever. The cure of many cases of inveterate skin …
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