China Boliviana

Cinchona Boliviana (a variety of Cinchona calisaya growing further north). N. O. Rubiaceæ. Tincture of bark.

Clinical

Aphthæ / Corns / Coryza / Hands, red / Mouth, commissures ulcerated / Pneumonia / Wry-neck

Characteristics

China Bol. was proved by Modiedo, and the proving is accepted by Hering. It presents the main features of Chi. off., but some are peculiar and deserve separate mention. Among these are: Ulceration of commissures of mouth. Cough with dagger-like pains in base of right lung. Rigidity of nape of neck. Hands red; hot; or cold and sticky. There is also sticky sweat about anus. Flatulence, disturbed and dreamful sleep, and sensitiveness to touch are common to both.

1. Mind

Cowardice. Gloom alternating with serenity. Alternation of bad and good humour. Fits of rage, blasphemes.

2. Head

Vertigo as after a drunken fit, voracious appetite. Headache in morning on awaking; leaves during the day, or lasts all day and leaves during sleep.

3. Eyes

Violent pains like a stab in l. eye, followed by itching and tears.

4. Ears

Detonation as of a cannon in r. ear. Ringing, humming, whistling sounds.

5. Nose

Much sneezing on awaking with smell of fresh pus. Sensation of incipient cold with tight feeling and pain in throat. Violent cold in head. Mucus from posterior nares.

6. Face

Aphthæ on inner surface of lips; ulceration of commissures.

8. Mouth

Mouth bitter, morning on waking.

9. Throat

Constriction and burning in throat.

10. Appetite

Hunger, or lack of appetite; repugnance to meat. After eating: weight in stomach; cold; sneezing; sleepy and desire to sleep in evening.

11. Stomach

Much gas rises from stomach.

12. Abdomen

Pain in both hypochondria and under ribs on waking in the morning. Pain in splenic region.

13. Anus

Biting in anus as from worms; excoriated sensation. Viscous sweat on anus.

15. Male Sexual Organs

Pollutions exceedingly weakening. Excoriation on inner and lower part of prepuce. Gleet and ulceration of prepuce.

17. Respiratory Organs

Cough with pain in r. lung, as from a dagger buried there; at times makes breathing laborious; burning in eyes; extremities cold. Unbearable pain in r. lung, extends to region of liver, sensitive to touch.

20. Neck and Back

Nape of neck rigid, cannot turn head to r.; any sudden movement causes a snap or crack. Wry-neck. Pain in: l. shoulder; in l. buttock, and also in r. hip-bone on sitting up in bed.

22. Upper Limbs

Hands red; vessels distended. Hands hot, even in cold and rainy weather. Hands cold, sticky.

23. Lower Limbs

Legs and feet icy cold, as if blown on by wintry wind. Painful corns.

26. Sleep

Dreams: of sea; of fishes; of swimming; of bathing; of journeys by land and sea; of vomiting worms.