Thea Chinensis
Tea
By William Boericke โ Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory
(THE)
Nervous sleeplessness, heart troubles, palpitation, and dyspepsia of old tea-drinkers. Produces most of the sick headaches Tabacum antidotal (Allen).
Head
Temporary mental exaltation. Ill-humored. Sick headache radiating from one point. Sleepless and restless. Hallucinations of hearing. Cold damp feeling at back of head.
Stomach
Sinking sensation at epigastrium. Faint, gone feeling ( Sep; Hyd; Oleand ). Craves acids. Sudden production of wind in large quantities.
Abdomen
Borborygmi liability to hernia.
Female
Soreness and tenderness in ovaries.
Heart
Anxious oppression. Prรฆcordial 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.
Relationship
Antidote: Kali hypophos; Thuja; Ferr; Kali hyd (Material doses for tea-taster's cough).
Dose
Third to thirtieth potency.
Theine 1/4-1/2 grain hypodermically for sciatica and supra-orbital neuralgia.