China officinalis
By Adolph von Lippe — Keynotes and Red Line Symptoms of the Materia Medica
Common name: peruvian bark.
Headache, aggravated by a draft of air, in the open air, and from the slightest contact, and relieved by hard pressure.
INTENSE THROBBING HEADACHE, AFTER EXCESSIVE HÆMORRHAGE (Carb-V., Ferr.) (Bt.).
Over-sensitiveness, low-spirited with aversion to all noise (Coff., Nat-M., Nux-V., Sulph.).
Long lasting congestive headache (Bell., Lach., Nat-M., Sang., Verat-V.), with deafness and noises in the ears (Carb-V., Lyc., Nat-M., Phos., Sep., Sulph.) (Br.).
DEBILITY FROM LOSS OF FLUIDS (AN EXCELLENT INDICATION IN DEBILITATING PERSPIRATION.
Heaviness of the head, with loss of sight, fainting and ringing in the ears (Puls., Sep., Sulph.) (Hr.).
Unrefreshing sleep or constant sopor; worse after 3 A.M.; wakens early (A.).
AILMENTS FROM LOSS OF VITAL FLUIDS, ESPECIALLY HÆMORRHAGES, EXCESSIVE LACTATION, DIARRHŒA, OR SUPPURATIONS (Carb-V., Ferr., Phos.) (A.).
Headache, worse from sitting or lying; must stand or walk, after hæmorrhage or sexual excesses. (A.)
Headache: as if the skull would burst (Bry.); intense throbbing of head and carotids, with flashed face (Bell.) (A.).
Attacks of pain, caused by the slightest touch of the body and then increasing gradually and becoming very severe.
Sleeplessness at night; he lies awake nearly all night, thinking, restless and uneasy, and miserable the next day (Hm.).
The parts on which one lies go to sleep (Calc., Graph., Puls., Rhus-T.).
Restlessness of the affected parts.
One hand icy cold, the other warm (Dig., Ipec., Puls.) (A.).
Thick, dirty, yellow coating upon the tongue, with bitter taste (Bry., Chel., Nat-P., Nat-S.) (Bt.).
Complete loss of appetite, especially in people suffering from malaria (Carb-V., Ferr., Nat-S., Puls., Sep.) (Bt.).
Much colic every afternoon (Lyc.) (Bt.).
Excessive flatulence of stomach and bowels; fermentation or borborygmus (A.).
Great longing for acids (Ant-C., Ars., Calc., Cov-R., Hep., Mag-C., Phos., Puls., Sec., Sep., Sulph., Thuj., Verat.) (Bt.).
Sour vomiting of water, mucus and food (Nat P., Nux-V., Sulph-Ac.) (J.).
CANINE HUNGER, ESPECIALLY AT NIGHT (Aran., Ign., Lyc., Phos., Psor., Sep., Sulph., Tarent.) (Bt.)
Colic: at a certain hour each day; periodical, from gall-stones (Chel., Card-M.); worse at night and after eating; better from bending double (Bell., Coloc.) (A.).
Enormous distension of the abdomen, feels packed full not relieved by eructations or dejections. (Bt.).
Abdomen feels full and tight as if stuffed; eructations give no relief. (Bt.).
Diarrhœa of yellow, watery, undigested stools, with much flatulence and no pain (Podo., Puls., Sulph.) (Bt.).
After eating fruit, undigested stools, sometimes in voluntary (Hr.).
Diarrhœa, of watery or undigested food, mostly at night (Ferr., Puls., Sulph.) (Bt.).
HÆMORRHAGES: OF MOUTH, NOSE, BOWELS OR UTERUS; LONG CONTINUED (Carb-V., Phos.) (A.)
Dyspnœa: wants to be fanned (Ant-T., Apis, Carb-V., Ferr., Med., Sulph.) (K.).
DISPOSITION TO HÆMORRHAGES FROM EVERY ORIFICE OF THE BODY (Carb-V., Crot-H., Ferr., Lach., Merc., Nit-Ac., Phos., Sec.), WITH RINGING IN THE EARS, FAINTING, LOSS OF SIGHT, GENERAL COLDNESS, SOMETIMES CONVULSIONS (Ferr., Phos., Sec.) (A.).
HÆMORRHAGE AFTER LABOUR (Arn., Ipec., Sec.) (N.),
AMAUROSIS (Arg-M., Bell., Con., Gels., Kali-I., Nat-M., Phos., Puls., Sec., Sil., Stram., Sulph.) (Br.).
NIGHT BLINDNESS (Bell., Chels., Hyos., Lyc., Merc., Nit-Ac., Puls., Stram., Verat., Zinc.) (Br.).
Spots before eyes (Alum ., Caust., Con., Cycl., Jab., Kali-C., Phos., Sulp., Verat-V.) (Br.).
FREQUENT SEMINAL EMISSIONS, FOLLOWED BY GREAT WEAKNESS (Gels., Kali P., Phos-Ac., Sulph.) (Br.).
Fever returns every seventh or fourteenth day (Ars., Sulph.) (A.).
General shaking chill over whole body (N.).
Intermittent fever without thirst or thirst only between the cold and hot stage.
Weakening night-sweats till morning (Ant-T., Ars., Carb-V., Lach., Lyc., Nit-Ac., Psor.) (Hr.).
PAROXYSMS COME ON AN HOUR OR TWO EARLIER, EVERY DAY, OR EVERY OTHER DAY. (Ars., Ign., Nat-M., Nux-V.) (Bt.).
The three stages are sharply marked-chill, fever and perspiration.
The chill may be absent, but the fever and perspiration must be present (Bt.).
THE SWEAT IS GENERALLY PROFUSE AND EXHAUSTIVE (Carb-V., Merc., Nat-M., Phos., Sulph.) (Bt.).
Recent intermittents, with gastro-bilious symptoms, followed or accompanied by exhaustive perspiration (Bt.).
The malarial fever of China never returns at night (an exception to the general rule of China) (A.).
Sweats profusely all over on being covered, or during sleep (Con.) (A.).
Sees faces on closing the eyes (Bell., Calc., Op.) (K.).
Full of plans and projects, especially in the evening and at night (Coff.) (Hm.).
She thinks she is very unfortunate, and constantly harassed by enemies (G.).
Apathetic, indifferent, taciturn (Aur., Ign., Nat-M., Phos-Ac., Sep.) (A.).
Despondent, gloomy; has no desire to live, but lacks courage to commit suicide (Aur., Hep., Merc., Nit-Ac., Nux-V.) (A.).
Face pale, hippocratic (Carb-V., Sec., Verat.) ; eyes sunken and surrounded by blue margins (Cina, Staph.); pale, sickly expression, as after excesses (Carb-V., Nat-M., Phos-Ac.) (A.).
Toothache, while nursing the child (A.).
Toothache, better from pressing teeth firmly together and by warmth (Br.).
Is of service in intermittent fever, which may be often tertian or double tertian, quotidian or double quotidian type (Bl.).
Appetite wanting in foggy weather (K.).
Anorexia; appetite returns after eating a mouthful (Anac., Calc., Mag-C., Sabad.) (K.).
The food is apt to lay a long time in the stomach and is finally vomited undigested (D.).
Liver and spleen swollen and enlarged (Calc., Chel., Merc., Nat-M., Nux-V., Podo.) (Br.).
Jaundice (Chel., Iod., Nat-S., Nux-V., Sep., Sulph.) (Br.).
Dropsy following excessive loss of fluids (N.).
Palpitation of the heart (Carb-V., Ferr., Kali-C., Lach., Lyc., Nat-M., Puls.) (G.).
Scalp sensitive to touch; roots of hair hurt, when hair is moved (N.).
Salivation (years after having taken mercury) uninterrupted day and night (N.).
Consequences of onanism and excessive seminal losses (Phos-Ac.) (N.).
AGGRAVATION: At night; from the least draught of air; after drinking milk; every other day; from the slightest contact; from motion; after eating or drinking from walking; from motion; and from loss of fluids.
AMELIORATION: From hard pressure from bending double; and from lying down.
RELATIONSHIP. Compare: Arn., Ars., Bell., Calc., Carb-V., Cedr., Coff., Ferr., Graph., Lyc., Merc., Nat-M., Nux-V., Phos-Ae., Phos., Puls., Sec., Sep., Sulph., and Tarant.
ANTIDOTES: Arn., Ars., Carb-V., Ferr., Ipec., Lach., Nat-M., Nux-V., Puls., Sep., Sulph., and Verat.
CHINA ANTIDOTES: Ars., Cupr., Ipec., Ferr., and Merc.,
Is useful in bad effects from excessive tea drinking. (Puls.).
COMPLEMENTARIES: Calc-P., Carb-V., and Ferr