Castanea vesca
Chestnut Leaves
Boericke, Pocket Manual of Homœopathic Materia Medica, 9th ed., 1927, p. 179
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. Diarrhœa. Thick urine.
Lumbago, weak back, can hardly straighten up.
Relationship
Compare: Pertussin—W hooping-cough (when symptoms return again after being allayed. Dros.; Mephitis; Naphthal.; Ammon. brom.
The book’s Dose section is left out: Samepath quotes the books but gives no dosing advice.