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Results of vital losses. Periodicity. Profuse
exhausting discharges, haemorrhages. Tinnitus. Flatulent bloating. Stools
lienteric, bloody, painless.
Intermittent fevers with drenching sweats at night.
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SYNONYM
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China officinalis, China rubra.
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COMMON NAME
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Peruvian Bark.
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FAMILY
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Rubiaceae.
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PREPARATION
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The dried bark is used for the preparation.
China is placed by Teste in the Ferrum group along with Plb, Phos, Carb-an,
Puls, Zinc, all of which have the property of remaking the altered blood, or
for increasing for the time being, in a healthy person the relative amount of
globulin, haematin, fibrin, etc.
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A/F
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| - | Bad effects of quinine; mercury |
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MODALITIES
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| < | Periodically - alternate days
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| < | Cold; drafts, wind, open air
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MIND
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| - | INTROVERTED, intense and touchy individuals with a
tendency to take offense especially in teen-agers. Difficult to express
feelings. Child cannot express affection with words. So sensitive, cannot
speak or look at you during interview.
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| - | Superficial attention <, deep attention >.
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| - | Great excitability, nervous erethism, fantasies of heroic deeds at night,
causing sleeplessness, with embarrassment at the same time the next day
"Welter mitty thoughts" - Morrison.
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| - | Fear of animals, even domestic DOGS. Fear of instincts.
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| - | Gloomy, morose, depressed, apathetic, indifferent, no desire to live, no
courage to commit suicide.
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| - | SENSITIVE, especially oversensitive to noise. Sensitive to external
impressions, insults.
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| - | Fixed idea: "an enemy is pursuing me".
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| - | Poetic, ARTISTIC, idealistic. Refined senses. Great imagination. At night
when they go to sleep, fantasize things, being the hero of the situation.
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| - | Aversion to exercises. Dread of physical and mental work. Disposed to be
quarrelsome and angry.
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| - | Constant irritation. At the edge of being overwrought. At edge of nervous
capacity.
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| - | Misplacing words in later stage.
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| - | In between Nat-m and Nux-v.
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| - | Rubrics: Delusion, that he is unfortunate, persecuted, tormented, hindered at
work.
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| - | Gets frustrated, contemptuous. Indolent, indifferent, hopeless. Suicidal,
but lacks courage. Fancying, theorizing, planning. |
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GUIDING INDICATIONS
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| - | Broken down constitutions; persons once robust,
strong healthy and swarthy, who have now become weak debilitated and
exhausted by LOSS OF VITAL FLUIDS.
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| - | PERIODICITY of all complaints.
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| - | Profound DEBILITY from exhausting discharges and loss of vital fluids.
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| - | Haemorrhages with much debility, trembling, ringing, buzzing in the ears.
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| - | Sensitiveness of the whole system especially to TOUCH physically.
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| - | Disposition to HAEMORRHAGE from all orifices.
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| - | Pains < slightest TOUCH > hard pressure.
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| - | Dropsical condition after anemia, from loss of vital fluids.
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| - | Fullness and FLATULENCE - whole abdomen is enormously distended not >
from eructations or only temporary >. Everything eaten turns into gas.
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| - | GALL STONE colic periodic < eating > bending double.
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| - | Desire for SWEETS, sour, pungent, refreshing things, stimulants, highly
seasoned food, salt. Aversion:fat, fruit.
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| - | Painless nocturnal DIARRHOEA, frequent; from fish, fruits, milk, beer.
Blackish stools with undigested food; ineffectual urging.
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| - | Intermittent FEVERS - PERIODICITY well marked, returns every 7th or 14th
day, never at night. Anticipatory type of fever.
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| - | Chill preceded by palpitation, anxiety and hunger; coming generally in
forenoon, increased by drinking water. Chill of short duration. Thirst before
chill but not during. Chill not > external heat.
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| - | Heat long lasting with desire to uncover, with thirstlessness or insatiable
thirst. Redness of face, with delirium, with high fever.
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| - | Sweat stage - debilitating profuse sweat, with great thirst during sweat.
Perspiration which does not >. Soreness in liver and spleen and great
flatulence. Fever with headache.
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| - | Headache - due to haemorrhages; sexual excesses, suppressed coryza.
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| - | Occipital pain with sensation as if the skull would burst.
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| - | With confusion and dullness.
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| - | Headache < slightest touch but > hard pressure.
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| - | Assosiated with nausea or vomiting of bile and mucus.
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| - | Throbbing carotids, head & face flushed. |
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KEYNOTES
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- Much marked periodicity of complaints especially
of fevers.
- Toothache while nursing the child.
- Diarrhoea only at night < fruits.
- Pains are < slightest touch > hard pressure.
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NUCLEUS OF REMEDY
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| - | A/F loss of vital fluids, haemorrhages, sexual
excesses, abuse of mercury.
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| - | Periodicity well marked.
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| - | Profound debility. Debility and nervous erythrism from exhausting diseases.
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| - | Flatulent dyspepsia as concomitant to all complaints.
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| - | Intermittent fevers with periodicity, insatiable thirst and profuse,
debilitating sweat. |
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CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS
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- A/F loss of vital fluids.
- Persons now debilitated; previously strong and robust.
- Great sensitiveness to touch but > hard pressure.
- Flatulence - everything eaten turns into gas, not better by eructation.
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REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS
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Complementary: Ferr
Follows Well: Calc-p, Ferr
Inimical: Dig, Selen
Antidoted By: Aran-d, Ars, Carb-v, Eup-per, Ferr, Ip, Merc, Nat-m,
Nux-v, Puls, Rhus-t, Sep, Sulph, Verat
It Antidotes: Ars, Calc, Cham, Coff, Ferr, Hell, Iod, Merc, Sulph,
Verat
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