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Quercus Glandium Spiritus

Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica · William Boericke

Open remedy: Querc.

For educational use by students and qualified practitioners. Not medical advice. Consult a registered homeopath.

Spirit distilled from Tincture of Acorn Kernels

General

Used first by Rademacher for chronic spleen affections; SPLEEN- DROPSY. Antidotes effects of Alcohol. Vertigo; deafness, with noises in head. TAKES AWAY CRAVING FOR ALCOHOLICS; give dose as below for several months. Dropsy and liver affections. Useful in gout, old malarial cases with flatulence.

Relationship

Compare: ANGELICA (in tincture, five drops, three times daily, produces disgust for liquor; also for atony of different organs, dyspepsia, nervous headache, etc.; chronic bronchitis to increase expectoration.) CEANOTH.; LACH.; NAT. MUR.; HELIANTHUS (spleen enlarged and painful.)

Dose

Ten drops to a teaspoonful of the distilled spirit three to four times a day. A passing diarrhoea often appears for a time when using it. Curative effect. Quercus acts well in trituration of the acorn 3x in splenic cases, flatulence, old malaria and alcoholic history. (Clark.).

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