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Castanea Vesca

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Sweet Chestnut · Castanea Sativa · "The Whooping Cough Sweet Chestnut"

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🎯 A remedy primarily indicated for the early stages of whooping cough characterized by violent, spasmodic coughing.

📖 Boericke writes:

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.

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💊 Dosage & Potency

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

Tincture

Mother Tincture

Primary Dosage

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🔄 Compare With

Naphthalinum →Mephitis Putorius →Ammonium Bromatum →Pertussin →Drosera Rotundifolia →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Castanea Vesca is listed in 4 rubrics across 3 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 2 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Respiratory System2 Stomach1 Skin1