Magnolia glauca

      Sweet Magnolia. Sweet Bay. *N. O. Magnoliaceae. Tincture of the flowers.

Clinical

Asthma. Fainting.

Characteristics

Our knowledge of *Mag.gl. is based on two observations by S. A. Jones and T. F. Allen of the effects of the flowers on three persons. The symptoms were these: “Sense of great oppression about his chest, ” “strong tendency to fainting” (these occurred in a man). A lady had: “Oppression of chest, could not expand the lungs, with a feeling as if she had swallowed food without chewing, and it distressed her stomach.” In a doctor it “increased the pain of inflammatory gout,” and “evidently increased the paroxysm of a pain which came on every afternoon.” The *Treasury of Botany says: *”M. *glauca is a low-growing, deciduous tree, called in America Swamp Sassafras, from the nature of the locality in which it grows, and from the resemblance in its properties to *Laurus sassafras. It is also called Beaver-tree, because the root is eaten by beavers, which animals also make use of the wood in constructing their nests.”.

John Henry Clarke

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