Library · Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica
For educational use by students and qualified practitioners. Not medical advice. Consult a registered homeopath.
Chestnut Leaves
A useful remedy in WHOOPING-COUGH, especially in the early stage, with dry, ringing, violent, spasmodic cough. Desire for warm drinks. Very thirsty. Loss of appetite. Diarrhoea. Thick urine.
Lumbago, weak back, can hardly straighten up.
Compare: Pertussin Whooping-cough (when symptoms return again after being allayed. Dros.; Mephitis; Naphthal.; Ammon. brom.
Tincture.
These titles sit beside the repertory: Allen’s Keynotes, Anshutz on the twelve tissue remedies, Boericke’s materia medica, Clarke’s Dictionary, Hering, Jones, Kent’s lectures, Nash, and Boger’s Synoptic Key. Philosophy includes Hahnemann’s Organon (5th and 6th), Kent, Close, Burnett, Haehl, Gibson Miller, Royal, J. H. Allen, and Anshutz. Clinical, therapeutics, regional works, and short remedy pictures follow the same shelf.
Chapter text is on this shelf for study: open a title, then a heading. When a medicine appears in more than one materia medica, switch authors on the chapter to compare how each describes it. For educational use by students and qualified practitioners. Not medical advice.
