by Timothy F. Allen — The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
Alstonia (constricta?).
Dr. Augustus Cathcart, Am. Hom., vol. i, p. 142, effects of large doses (from the bark).
Invariably producing great debility and general prostration, or low fever -often also with diarrhœa- and when pushed sufficiently far, rigors, sweats (usually cold), and other symptoms resembling fever and ague.
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Alstonia appears in 2 of the 13 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.
“Bitter Bark. Native Quinine Bark. (New South Wales and Queensland. A. scholaris, growing in India and Malabar, is probably identical in effects.) N. O. Apocynaceæ. Tincture of the bark. Debility / Diarrhœa / Dysentery / Fevers / Lactation, excessive, effects of / Leucorrhœa / Lienteria / Palpitation / Pregnancy…”
Kent's Repertory lists Alstonia in 9 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic.
