Quebrecho

      Aspidosperma quebracho. White Quebracho. *N. O. Apocynaceae. Tincture and trituration of the bark. Trituration and solutions of the alkaloid Aspidospermine and its salts.

Clinical

Asthma. Cardiac asthma. Fever.

Characteristics

*Quebracho is a Brazilian fever remedy from which the alkaloid *Aspidospermine has been isolated. This is in small, very brilliant, white crystals, sparingly soluble in water, readily soluble in alcohol and ether. Hale says *Queb. produces in animals respiratory paralysis, slowed heart, and paralysis of extremities. It relieves dyspnoea in phthisis and pleurisy, but without influencing the fever. The 1X relieved asthma *with livid face, and dyspnoea with cyanosis is frequently relieved by it. Hale gives these cases as relieved by it: (1) Mitral incompetence and stenosis with *severe nocturnal dyspnoea. (2) Fatty heart (*Queb. had no influence on the oedema, which was removed by Digitalis). Jos. P. Cobb (quoted ***A.H., xxvii. 74) records a case of heart affection of some duration in a man, 24. There was some enlargement, especially of right side, much dyspnoea, and a slight enlargement, especially of right side, much dyspnoea, and a slight mitral murmur. Following this were signs of emphysema and severe attacks of asthma. Rales were heard, and “pearls’ of rounded gelatinous masses were expectorated. *Aspidospermine 3x gave more relief than any other remedy.

John Henry Clarke

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