CASCARA. S AND CASCARILLA:

CASCARA SEGRADA

COMMON NAME: Sacred bark. Rhamnus Purshiana.
NATURAL ORDER: Rhamnacae.
HABITAT: California.
PREPARATION: Extract of bark.
Historical dose: Tincture and all potencies, tincture to sixth potency.


Cascara sagrada is a palliative for constipation, fifteen drops of fluid extract here it restores normal function by its tonic effects, but it has a wider sphere of action, as careful provings will show.

CLINICAL: Constipation.
Rheumatism.

This well-known purgative because it has been found curative in cases of sub-acute and chronic rheumatism with constipation. Pathogenic effects on patients taking it for constipation have been recorded: Vomiting, severe griping, hemorrhage.

In one case temporary insanity from a home made decoction of the bark. In two cases cholera symptoms were produced. Only material doses have been used. Chronic indigestion, cirrhosis and jaundice. Hemorrhoids and constipation. Gastric headache. Broad, flabby tongue, foul breath.

Must wait for minutes before flow starts then first in drops.

Rheumatism of muscles and joints with obstinate constipation.

Hemorrhoids with severe constipation.

COMPARE

(1) Hydr., Nux-v.

(2) Rhammus Californica - tincture for constipation, tympanites and appendicitis and especially
Rheumatism.












CASCARILLA



COMMON NAME: Sweet bark, Croton eleuteria.
NATURAL ORDER: Euphorbiaceae.
PREPARATION: Tincture of bark.
Historical dose: Tincture and all potencies, first to third potency.
AUTHORITIES: Stapf, Archiv, f. Hom., 15, 1, 184.


Cascarilla has a family resemblance to the other Euphorbians. It acts prominently on the digestive tract.

CLINICAL: Anemia. Anus, bleeding from. Constipation. Cough. Diarrhoea. Dropsy.
Hemoptysis. Hemorrhages. Intermittents.

Its leading symptoms are Sensation of swelling deep down in throat. Accumulation of mucus in throat. Hunger after meals and feeling of emptiness. Aversion to smell of tobacco smoke.

The concussion of every step is felt painfully in stomach. Griping preceding morning stool. The abdominal symptoms are > by warm drinks. Moving about in abdomen as if hot water undulating there. Boils in inguinal region. Diarrhoea with backache and lassitude.

Lassitude and muscular weakness are marked throughout.

Constant slight urging with gnawing pain high up in rectum. Constipation, stools hard, in pieces, covered with mucus. Passes bright blood with or without stool, in large quantities, causing weakness.

Short, dry cough from tickling in trachea. Haemoptysis. Stitch upward in left side of chest. Backache and weakness. Inclination to lie down. Sleep with clear consciousness. Heat with thirst for warm drinks (intermittents).


Aggravations:
(When smoking), Bitter, etc., taste in mouth. (Walking), Pressure in epigastric region.

Amelioration: (On standing still), Chilliness disappears.

COMPARE:

(1) Crot-t. - Better from warm drinks.

(2) Chin. - Effects of loss of blood intermittents.

3) Graph. - Mucus with stools.

LIST OF REFERENCES:

1) ALLEN.T.F. --- ENCYCLOPEDIA PURE MATERIA MEDICA.
2) BOERICKE.W. --- A NEW MANUAL OF HOMOEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA AND REPERTORY.
3) CLARKE. J.H. ---- A DICTIONARY OF PRACTICAL MATERIA MEDICA.
4) MURPHY ROBIN ---- LOTUS MATERIA MEDICA.

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