Thea Chinensis

Tea

by William Boericke — 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. Præcordial 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.

Thea Chinensis across the other classic books

Thea Chinensis appears in 4 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.

Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“ENCYCLOPEDIA OF Thea chinensis. Natural order , Camelliaceæ. Common name , Tea. Preparation , Tincture or trituration of the leaves. Authorities.”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“chinensis. Tea. N. O. Ternströmiaceæ (Genus, Camellia). Infusion. Tincture. Trituration of Theine. Delirium; tremens / Mania; suicidal / homicidal / Megrim / Nervousness / Neuralgia / Paralysis / Sleeplessness The use of Tea has spread from the older civilisations of the East to the newer ones of the West. Tea…”
Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Sensation of complete relaxation of the stomach, with qualmishness and nausea, and discharge of water from the mouth; her stomach felt as if hanging down like an empty bag, and heavy.”

Thea Chinensis in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Thea Chinensis in 145 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in MIND (42), HEAD (22), EXTREMITIES (17), STOMACH (17), GENERALITIES (11).

MIND - EXCITEMENT,excitable
GENERALITIES - WEAKNESS,enervation - beer - amel.
HEAD - SHOCKS,blows,jerks,etc. - drinking cold water,on
HEAD - WEAKNESS - pain,after
MIND - DELUSIONS, - bells - hears ringing of - door bell
MIND - DELUSIONS, - dragged from the lowestabyss of darkness,at night,on waking
MIND - PLEASURE - waking,on from a dream of murder
SLEEP - FALLING asleep - beer,after
SLEEP - FALLING asleep - wine,after
EXTREMITIES - ERUPTION - Lower Limbs - pimples - bleeding
EXTREMITIES - ERUPTION - Lower Limbs - pimples - painful
EXTREMITIES - ERUPTION - Shoulder - pimples - painful
EXTREMITIES - ERUPTION - Thigh - pimples - painful
EXTREMITIES - ERUPTION - Upper Limbs - pimples - painful
FACE - DISCOLORATION - pale - lying, - while
SLEEP - SLEEPINESS - beer,after
GENERALITIES - WEAKNESS,enervation - excitement,after
MIND - CONCENTRATION - active
MIND - DELUSIONS, - bells - hears ringing of
MIND - FEAR - death,of - sudden,of

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