Alstonia Scholaris
Dita Bark
από William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory
Malarial diseases, with diarrhœa, dysentery, anæmia, feeble digestion, are the general conditions suggesting this remedy. Characteristics are the gone sensation in stomach and sinking in abdomen, with debility. A tonic after exhausting fevers .
Abdomen
Violent purging and cramp in bowels. Heat and irritation in lower bowels. Camp diarrhœa, bloody stool, dysentery ; diarrhœa from bad water and malaria. Painless watery stools (Phosph ac). Diarrhœa immediately after eating.
Relationship
Compare: Similar in action to Alstonia constricta , the bitter bark or native quinine of Australia. Ditain (active principle, is anti-periodic, like quinine, but without unpleasant effects). Cinchona (similar in diarrhœa, chronic dyspepsia and debility). Hydrastis; Fer cit et chin .
Dose
Tincture to third potency. Locally, for ulcers and rheumatic pains.