Materia Medica
Aahl
Tea
Nervous sleeplessness, heart troubles, palpitation, and dyspepsia of old tea-drinkers.
Head
Temporary mental exaltation. Ill-humored. Sick headache radiating from one point. Sleepless and restless. Hallucinations of hearing. Cold damp feeling at lack of head.
Stomach
Sinking sensation at episgastrium. Faint, one feeling. [Scp.; Hyd.; Oleand,] Craves acids, Sudden production of wind in large quantities.
Abdomen
Borborygmi. Liability to hernia.
Female
Soreness and tenderness in ovaries. [Lach., Naja; Vespa.]
Heart
Anxious oppression. Prrcordial distress. Palpitation; unable to lie on left side. Fluttering. Pulse rapid, irregular, intermittent.
Sleep
Sleepy in daytime; sleepiness at night, with vascular excitement and restlessness, and dry skin. Horrible dreams cause no horror.
Modalities
Worse, night, on walking in open air, after meals. Better warmth: warm bath.
Relationships
Antidote: Kali hypophos.; Thuja; Frrr.; Beer. (Coffee-drinkers should drink wine: tea drinkers should drink beer.)
Dose
Third to thirtieth potency. Theine %-% grain hypodermically for sciatica and supraorbital neuralgia. 739