Carya Alba


Carya Alba homeopathy medicine – drug proving symptoms from Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica by TF Allen, published in 1874. It has contributions from R Hughes, C Hering, C Dunham, and A Lippe….


  Common name: Shellbark or Shagbark hickory.

Introduction

Carya alba, Nutt.

Natural order, Juglandaceae.

Face.

Appearance clay-colored. Face swollen.

Mouth.

Gums swelled, began to bleed and turn black, and she could not move her lips without occasioning a profuse discharge from them.

Stomach.

Appetite for animal food bad. Appetite gone (after 17 days).

Abdomen.

Abdomen much swelled (after 17 days).

Stool.

Discharge of black-colored blood by stool (after 17 days).

Respiratory Organs.

Breathing short.

Respiration difficult.

Heart and Pulse.–(10).

Pulse small and quick. Pulse weak and irregular.

Extremities in General.

Extremities swollen.

General symptoms.

On the least excoriation of the skin, the blood would gush out, of a very dark color. Blood gushed from gums, nostrils, ears, and several other parts (after 17 days). Want of strength.

Skin.

Whole body, including face, covered with livid spots, from size of one inch in diameter to that of a pin’s head; the largest resembled a bruise, the smaller were sometimes red, resembling flea-bites.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.