Chestnut. *N. O. Cupuliferae. Tincture of leaves gathered in summer.
Clinical
Diarrhoea. Whooping-cough.
Characteristics
*Castanea. 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 better by stool. It has cured whooping-cough, early stage, violent, spasmodic, very dry ringing cough. Very free sweat after drinking.
Relations
*Compare: Am-br., Meph., Napht.
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica