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Juglans cinerea is a homeopathic remedy. It is a single remedy, not a mix. Its Latin name is Juglans cinerea, and it is also known as Butternut.
It is made from the butternut tree, a walnut tree of eastern North America. Homeopaths use the fresh inner bark. They have used it most often for itchy skin rashes, headache, and a heavy, sore feeling under the right ribs.
The bark is watered down again and again to make the remedy. At the common 30C strength, none of the plant is left. No human trial shows it works better than a dummy pill (placebo), and long use in a tradition is not proof that something works.
Homeopathy rests on an idea, not on a known body process. The idea is that a plant which causes signs in a well person can ease those same signs when it is watered down a great deal.
Each step of the process mixes one part of the last batch with many parts of water or alcohol, then shakes it. By 30C, the odds of even one atom of butternut being left are close to zero. There is no way we know of for a liquid to hold an effect once the plant is gone.
Low strengths are a different story. The mother tincture and strengths like 1X or 3X still hold real bark. Butternut bark is a harsh laxative (it makes you empty your bowels), so these forms can act on your gut in a real way.
When people feel better after a 30C dose, the likely reasons are the calm of the visit, time passing, and placebo. Those effects are real to the person, but they do not come from the remedy itself.
You will most often see:
Sugar pellets or tablets, sold at strengths such as 6C, 30C or 200C.
Liquid drops in an alcohol and water base.
Low strengths such as 1X or 3X, and the mother tincture, which still hold real plant matter and act on the bowel.
The raw bark is also sold as a herb outside homeopathy. That is not the same product, and it is far stronger.
Butternut bark was a common home laxative among settlers and Native peoples in eastern North America. Army doctors used it during the American Civil War.
American homeopaths took it up in the 1800s. Constantine Hering and later William Boericke listed it as a minor remedy for skin rashes, headache and right-side liver complaints. It has stayed a small, second-line remedy ever since.
See a doctor soon if your skin or the whites of your eyes turn yellow, if pain under your right ribs gets worse or keeps coming back, or if a rash spreads, weeps or comes with a fever.
Get help the same day for severe belly pain, blood in your stool or vomit, diarrhoea that lasts more than two days, or signs of losing too much fluid such as dizziness, a dry mouth and passing very little urine.
Call emergency services for a sudden, very bad headache, trouble breathing, swelling of the face, lips or throat, or fainting.
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The published evidence for Juglans cinerea is weak or absent. That usually means no controlled trial has tested it, not that a trial found it ineffective — the two are different, and we grade only what has been published.
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