Coto Bark. A bark of unknown botanical origin (*N. O. Lauraceae?) obtained from Bolivia. Tincture. Trituration of alkaloid Cotoin.
Clinical
Diarrhoea. Tubercular diarrhoea.
Characteristics
The bark has been used in medicine as a diarrhoea remedy, probably from aboriginal tradition. Hansen says it is especially valuable in “chronic tubercular, watery diarrhoea, very copious and exhausting.” Substantial doses only have been used.
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica