- Allen HC — The keynotes that separate this remedy from its nearest neighbours.
“Peruvian Bark (Rubiaceae) For stout, swarthy persons; for systems, once robust, which have become debilitated, "broken down" from exhausting discharges (Carbo v.). Apathetic, indifferent, taciturn (Phos. ac.); despondent, gloomy, has no desire to live, but lacks courage to commit suicide. Ailments: from loss of vital…”
- Allen TF — A compiled symptom record drawing on proving reports and other named observations.
“Cinchona officinalis, Hooker. Nat. order , Rubiaceæ; Common names , China (Ch. hard), Quinquina, Cortex Peruvianus (Peruvian bark). Preparation , Tincture of the bark (or triturations). Authorities.”
- Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Peruvian Bark-China (CINCHONA OFFICINALIS) Debility from exhausting discharges, from loss of vital fluids, together with a nervous erethism , calls for this remedy. Periodicity is most marked. Sensitive to draughts. Seldom indicated in the earlier stages of acute disease. Chronic gout. Chronic suppurative pyelitis…”
- Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“ACHING APPETITE, CHANGED BLACK, dark, etc. BLOOD SEPSIS, etc. BONES. BURSTING, splitting, etc.(Comp. Shattered) CALCULI, atheroma, etc. CHEST, internal CHILLY, cold COATED FEELING COITION, Agg. COLDNESS, Partial CONSTRICTION, tight band, gathered together, squeezing, etc. COUGH. COUGH, incessant DIGESTION AFFECTED…”
- Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“BLOOD. CIRCULATION. SECRETIONS: Digestive. Organs. Liver. Spleen. Nerves. VITAL LOSSES. TOUCH. Jar. Noise. PERIODICALLY: Alternate days (Ars. Nat-m.). Cold; drafts; wind. Open air. Eating; fruit; milk. Mental exertion. Hard pressure (Lach.). Loose clothes. INTERMITTENCY. PROFUSE, EXHAUSTING DISCHARGES, HÆMORRHAGES…”
- Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Cinchona officinalis. Cinchona calisaya. Peruvian bark. N. O. Rubiaceæ. Tincture of the dried bark. Abscess / Alcoholism / Amblyopia / Anæmia / Aphthæ / Apoplexy / Appetite, disordered / Asthma / Back, weakness of / Bilious attack / Catarrhal affections / Coma / Constipation / Cough / Debility / Delirium / Diarrhœa /…”
- Farrington — The differential diagnosis — remedy families narrowed through direct clinical comparison.
“RUBIACEAE. Rubiaceae: Rubia tinctoria (Madder); Galium (Also a red dye); Cinchona; Ipecacuanha; Coffea; Mitchella; Gambier. To-day, gentlemen, we have before us an order of plants from which we derive three very valuable drugs, Cinchona, Ipecacuanha and Coffea. This order also gives us Gambier (a drug not used in our…”
- Guernsey — The leading characteristics — a compact bridge from repertory result to remedy study.
“The chief key-note calling for the use of China is found in the sufferings caused by the loss of fluids, such as hæmorrhage, galactorrhœa, seminal emissions, diarrhœa, etc.; debility of the system, whether much fluid has been lost, or only a little; for any disease or troubles occurring periodically, at certain…”
- Hahnemann (MMP) — The proving record — numbered observations closest to Hahnemann's primary materia medica.
“(Cinchona Bark) (The alcoholic tincture of the thin tubular as well as the royal bark, Cinchona officinalis.) From vol. iii, 2nd edit., 1825. Excepting opium I know no medicine that has been more and oftener misused in diseases, and employed to the injury of mankind, than cinchona bark. It was regarded not only as…”
- Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“1. Cinchona Calisaya, also called Cinchona Regia or Cinchona Flava, Royal or genuine yellow bark. 2. Cinchona de Huanuco, grey or silver Cinchona ; and, 3. Cinchona Rubra, or Red Cinchona.”
- Hughes & Dake — The source evidence — provings and poisonings retained with their experimental context.
“CHINA . Cinchona Calisaya, Wedd. Peruvian bark. Nat. Ord., Rubiacea. I. Provings.-I . HAHNEMANN, Fragmenta de Viribus. Contains 122 symptoms from self, and 99 from authors . 2. IBID., Mat. Med. Pura, vol. iii of original, vol. i of translation . Contains 427 symptoms from self, 575 from 21 fellow-observers, and 141…”
- Kent — The mental and general picture — how Kent organizes the remedy’s historical symptom portrait.
“Now we shall take up the study of Cinchona, or China. Persons who have suffered much from neuralgias due to malarial influences, who have become anaemic and sickly from repeated haemorrhages, are likely to develop symptoms calling for China. China produces a gradually increasing anaemia, with great pallor and…”
- Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Indifference and apathy. Disposition to be alone. Ill-humor, with disposition to hurt other people's feelings. Nervous irritation, with slowness of ideas. Full of projects and ideas, especially in the evening and at night. Congestion of blood to the head, with twitching in the temples. Headache, from suppressed coryza.”
- Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“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.)…”
- Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“Debility and other complaints after excessive loss of fluids, blood-letting, etc. Hæmorrhages profuse, with faintness, loss of sight and ringing in the ears. Great flatulence, with sensation as if the abdomen were packed full; not > by eructation or passing flatus. Painless diarrhœa (yellow, watery, brownish…”
- Nash (Respiratory) — The respiratory picture — the cough, the breathing, and the expectoration that separate one remedy from another.
“China off. and Ferrum are remedies that are to be considered in cases of pronounced anæmia, the former especially in those cases which have been brought there by hæmorrhages or other loss of fluids such as seminal or suppurative, etc., etc. In these cases we will find great weakness, anæmic headaches with ringing or…”
- Nash (Testimony) — The outcome — what the remedy did once the characteristic symptoms were matched.
“Rheumatism. (38) Case.—Mrs. Dr. Keese was attacked with a severe inflammatory rheumatism of the knee. The swelling was very red and painful. There was high temperature, quick pulse, great restlessness and exceeding sensitiveness to the pain. Aconite brought very little if any relief, and Bryonia next on account of the…”
- Nash (Typhoid) — The course of the illness — which remedy fits which phase, and why.
“China officinalis.—If the patient has lost a large amount of blood already, and there is fainting, ringing in the ears, loss of sight and especially if later on or during convalescence the effects of the loss of blood are long lasting. China officinalis is also good for the night sweats, or sweats on the least effort…”
- Roberts — Location, sensation, and modality — the three-fold basis Roberts used to separate remedies.
“(China officinalis) Cinchona has been more or less overlooked in the study of rheumatic troubles, yet it holds a place of no mean importance. It is more apt to be called for in those who have lost large quantities of the normal fluids of the body, who are attacked with muscular or inflammatory rheumatism. If fever is…”
- Tyler — The whole picture — temperament and leading symptoms drawn as one portrait.
“THOUGH Hahnemann wrote in his wonderful preface to the Provings of CHINA—Cinchona Bark—Cinchona officinalis “Excepting opium I know no medicine that has been more and oftener misused in diseases, and employed to the injury of mankind, than cinchona bark,” yet, it was quinine that revealed Homeopathy to Hahnemann. This…”
