Materia Medica
Cinchona Officinalis
Peruvian Bark -- China
Debility from exhausting dischaiges, from loss of vital fluids, together with a nervous erethism, calls for this remedy. Periodicity is most marked. Sensitive to draughts Seldom indicated in the earlier stages Of acute disease. Chronic gout. Chronic suppurative pye- his. 'Mind.'-- 241 position to hurt other people's feelings. Sudden cry- ing and tossing about.
Head
As if skull would burst. Sensation as if brain were balancing to and fro, and striking against skull, receiving great pain. [Sulph.; Sulph. ac.] Intense throbbing of head and carotids. Spasmodic headache in vertex, with subsequent pain, as if bruised in sides of Face flushed after hamorrhages, or sexual ex- cesses, or loss of vital fluids. Relieved from pressure and warm room. Scalp sensitive; worse combing hair. Aches worse in open air, from temple to temple. Worse by contact. current of air, stepping. Dizzy when walk- ing.
Eyes
Blue color around eyes. Hollow eyes. Yel- lowish sclerotic. Black specks, bright dazzling ill- sions; night blindness in anremic retina. Spots before Photophobia. Distortior of eyeballs. Intermit- tent ciliary neuralgia. Pressure in eyes. Amaurosis; scalding lachrymation.
Ears
Ringing in ears. External ear sensitive to touch. Hearing sensitive to noise. Lobules red and swollen.
Nose
Checked catarrh. Easily bleeding from nose, especially on rising.( Coryza, sneezing, watery d dis- charge. Violent dry sneezing. Cold sweat about nose.
Face
Sallow complexion. Face bloated ; red.
Mouth
Toothache ;. better pressing teeth firmly to- ether, and by warmth. Tongue coated thick, dirty; tip burns, succeeded by ptyalism. Bitter taste. Food tastes too salty.
Stomach
Tender, cold. Vomiting of undigested food. Slow digestion. Weight after eating. Il ef- fects of tea. 1 Hungry without appetite. Flat taste. Darting pain crosswise in hypogastric region. Milk dis- agrees. Hungry longing for food, which lies undi- gested. Flatulence; belching gives no relief; worse eat- ing fruit.
Abdomen
Much flatulent colic; better bending double. Tympanitic abdomen. Pain in right hypochon- drium. Gallstone colic. [Triumfetta semitriloba.] Liver and spleen swollen and enlarged. Jaundice. In- ternal coldness of stomach and abdomen. Gastro-duo- denal catarrh.
Stool
Undigested, frothy, yellow; painless; worse at night, after meals, during hot weathier, from fruit, milk, beer. Very weakening, with much flatulence. Dif- ficult even when soft. [Alum.; Plat.]
Male
Excited lascivious fancy. Frequent emis- sions, followed by great weakness. Orchitis.
Female
Menses too early. Dark clots and abdomi- nal distention. Profuse menses with pain. Desire too strong. Bloody leucorrhma. Painful heaviness in pelvis.
Respiratory
Influenza, withdebility. Cannot breathe with head low. Labored, slow respiration; con- stant choking. Suffocative catarrh; rattling in chest; vio- lent, backing cough after eztry meal. Hamorrhage from lungs. Dyspnoea, sharp pain in ieft lung. [Mille- fol.; Ferr., phos.]
Back
Sharp pains across kidneys, worse movement and at night. Knife-like pains around back. (D. Mac- Farlan.)
Extremities
Pains in limbs and joints, as if sprained; worse, slight touch; hard pressure relieves. Joints swollen; very sensitive, with dread of open air. Great debility, trembling, with numb sensation. Averse to exercse; sensitive to touch. Weariness of joints; worse, mornings and when sitting.
Skin
Hxtreme sensitiveness to touch, but hard pressure relieves. Coldness; much sweat. One hand icy cold, the other warm. Anasarca. [Ars.; Apis.] Dermatitis; erysipelas. Indurated glands; scrofulous ulcers and caries.
Sleep
Drowsiness. Unrefreshing or constant stupor. Wakens early. Protracted sleeplessness. Anxious, frightful dreams with confused consciousness on waking, so that the dream cannot be rid of and fear of dream remains. Snoring, especially with children.
Fever
Intermittent, paroxysms anticipate; return every week. All stages well marked. Every little ex- ertion causes free perspiration. Chil generally in fore- noon, commencing in breast; thirst before chill, and little and often. Debilitating night-sweats.
Modalities
Worse, slightest touch. [Plumb; Caps.]. Draught of air; every other day; loss of vital fluids; at night; after eating; bending over. Better, bending double; hard pressure; open air ; better warmth.
Relationships
Antidotes: Arn.; Ars.; Nux; Ipec. Compare: Ccphalanthus - Button Bush —Intermit- tent fever, sore throat. rheumatic symptoms, vivid dreams). Ars.; Cedron; Nat. sulph. Cydonia vulgaris -- Quince (supposed to be of use to strengthen the sex- ual organs and stomach). Complementary: Ferrum; Calc. phos.
Dose
Tincture, to thirtieth potency.