China 200 Uses, Benefits – Cinchona Officinalis 30

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Great debility, from loss of vital fluids
Distension of whole abdomen, belching gives no relief
Intermittent paroxysms of fever with severe chills followed by sweat only on single parts which is very debilitating

Source: Vegetable kingdom
Synonyms: Cinchona officinalis Linn, Peruvian bark
Family: Rubiaceae
Prover: Dr Hahnemann in 1790
Duration of Action: Upto 7 days
Miasmatic Background: Psora
Temperament: Nervous
Diathesis: Haemorrhagic
Thermal Relationship: Very chilly patient

Introduction and History: Cinchona is of great interest for homeopaths, as it is the first remedy with which Hahnemann experimented and discovered homeopathic science. The discovery and history of this is remarkable. Countess Ann, wife of the fourth Count of Cinchona, was cured of tertian fever by the use of this bark in 1638. Its virtues were known to Europe in 1640. This is of particular interest to homeopaths since Hahnemann was studying the plant when he discovered the law of similars.

Habit and Habitat: It is a native of South America and is cultivated in Java, India, Jamaica and Sri Lanka. It is a slender tree, 7 to 10 metres high. It is rough, brown, yellow with black and whitish markings on the bark. The bark is obtained from the branches, trunk and roots.

Preparation and Parts Used: The bark is used in the preparation of mother tincture. Higher potencies are prepared from the mother tincture.

Constitution and Physiognomy

It is best suited to persons with a ‘BROKEN DOWN’ constitution due to loss of vital fluids and abuse of quinine, also from exhausting discharges.
Face is pale, Sunken, very thin, dry; person has a billious constitution.
The body, once robust, strong, healthy and stout, has now become weak and debilitated.

Ailments From: Loss of vital fluids, onanism, anger, alcohol, abuse of quinine and mercury, chill, bad effects of drinking tea, fruits, draught of air, mental emotions, tobacco, etc.

Seat of Action (Pharmacodynamics): Blood, circulation, brain, mind, nerves, liver, spleen, mucous membranes, gastrointestinal tract, respiratory system, cardiovascular system.

Active Principles (Chemical Constituents): It contains 25 alkaloids. Main are quinine, quinidine, cinchonine and cinchonidine.

Physio-pathological Changes (Pathology)

Acts upon the ganglionic nervous system producing a condition of general depression and exhaustion.
It has a toxic action upon all protoplasm, particularly active in preventing amoeboid movement. It also modifies the digestive functions. It inhibits enzyme action, thus retarding tissue metabolism.
Acts upon the heart and circulation, destroying the oxygenation power of blood. The quantity and quality of blood is changed which causes a fall in blood pressure and initiates haemorrhage. Blood becomes thin and watery.
Has a special affinity for the spleen and liver. It causes congestion, hyperaemia and produces jaundice. It reduces hyperpyrexia.
It has the power to produce fever of different types, especially intermittent type of fever.

Characteristic Mental Symptoms (Psychology)

Exalted fancy with slow flow of ideas. Chooses wrong expressions.
Cheerfulness alternating with gloom. Excessively anxious, solicited about trifles.
Apathetic, disobedient, taciturn, despondent, great anxiety with despondency.
Patient has no desire to live, but lacks courage to commit suicide.
Patient is very irritable, does not like physical and mental work.
Ideas and projects crowd on his mind, especially in the evening preventing sleep.
Patient thinks himself unfortunate and fancies he is opposed by everybody.
Dread of dogs and other animals, especially at night time.
Patient lost in thoughts. Sudden crying and tossing about in despair.
Patient inclined to be angry and disposed to be quarrelsome.
Fixed idea that he is unhappy, persecuted by enemies.
Delirium after closing eyes, sees figures of people.
Compelled to jump out of bed. Wants to destroy himself, but lacks courage.
Dullness and heaviness of head, giddiness, as from Sitting up at night, fainting and sleeplessness.

Characteristic Physical Guiding Symptoms

Periodicity: Periodicity is generally found in intermittent fever and neuralgia. Paroxysm for two to three hours, each attack returns every seven or fourteen days, every three months, etc.

Flatulence: Whole abdomen enormously distended, with a desire to belch. Belching gives no relief or gives only temporary relief.

Oversensitiveness: Body is very sensitive to touch, lightest touch is unbearable to a diseased part; hard pressure relieves the pain of the same.

Bleeding: From every outlet of the body. Blood generally dark and clotted, oppressed breathing with a desire to be fanned.

Fainting: Ringing in ears, fainting, loss of sight, general coldness, sometimes convulsions.

Headache: Headache as if the skull would burst, intense throbbing of head and carotids, face flushed, must stand or walk, after haemorrhage or sexual excesses.

Intermittent fever: Paroxysm of intermittent fever, anticipates it from two to three hours, each attack returns every seven or fourteen days; Sweats only on the covered parts or during sleep.

Weakness: Great debility, trembling, aversion to exercise, sensitive to touch, weakness due to loss of vital fluids.

Pains: Tearing or drawing pains in every joint, all the bones; Soreness all over the body.

Draining: Insomnia, debility, headache, neuralgia and other complaints resulting from loss of animal fluids, particularly from nursing, Salivation, Seminal emissions and bleeding.

Thirst: Thirst of China is remarkably guiding in intermittent fever. Thirst before chill. Thirst ceases as soon as chill begins. Heat without thirst or thirst may begin as chill is over. Great thirst during sweat.

Converse effects: Hunger and yet want of appetite, loathing, violent hunger. though the patient is impotent there is sexual excitement; slight pressure or touch is intolerable, hard pressure relieves.

Diarrhoea: Chronic diarrhoea, painless, debilitating with emaciation and aggravation at night. Emission of a large quantity of flatulence, sometimes very foetid.

Colic: Colic at a certain hour each day, periodical, from gall stones; worse at night and after eating, better bending double.

Sleep: Unrefreshing sleep or constant drowsiness, wakes early in the morning.

Feeling: Patient feels one hand icy cold and the other hand warm.

Toothache: Toothache while nursing the child.

Sweat: Sweats day and night, as soon as one sleeps, during intermittent fever or after the abuse of quinine.

Aversions: Aversion to fatty things, warm food, exercise, bread and meat.

Irritability: Great irritability and sensitiveness of the whole nervous system.

Desires: Desire for wine, cold things, coffee, highly seasoned food, sour things and sour fruits.

Climacteric: After climacteric there is profuse haemorrhage; acute diseases often result in dropsy with ringing and buzzing sound in the ears.

Important Characteristic Features

Intermittent fever (malaria): It is a valuable remedy in the treatment of intermittent fever. It is indicated in ague fever or malaria, that may be of the tertian, quotidian type, or the paroxysm may return every seventh or fourteenth day. Periodicity is well marked in the fevers. The various stages of fever are well marked, that is, chill, heat and perspiration.

(i) Chill: Chill comes generally in the forenoon. Chill of the whole body and of short duration. Thirst before and after but not during chill stage. Chill returns every week. The patient wants to be near the fire. Chill with palpitation, anxiety, hunger and sometimes headache; dry teasing cough during chill. The remedy may be said to be one of the thirstless remedies in fever.

(ii) Heat: This stage is long lasting, usually without thirst. The patient desires to uncover with a fiery red face during delirium. Even if there is great thirst, the patient wants water only to wet the mouth. During the fever the veins appear enlarged and there is congestion of the head.

(iii) Sweat: This stage comes immediately after the fever stage. There is profuse debilitating sweat; great thirst during sweat. Sweat does not give any relief to the patient. There is marked restlessness, great hunger or loss of appetite, spleen and liver is enlarged and sore, oedema, bodyache, congestion and anaemia, periodical return of symptoms. Apyrexia is marked with great weakness, scanty urine and brick dust sediment.

Haemorrhages: Profuse with faintness, loss of sight and ringing in the ears. Haemorrhage is from any orifice of the body. Blood is apt to be dark and clotted. Flow is so profuse as to have almost produced a bloodless condition. Coldness of the face and of the whole body. Features show the presence of collapse, gasping for breath; wants to be fanned – because he thinks that he gets more oxygen by fanning. Fanning is not for cooling purposes.

Distension of abdomen: ‘Uncomfortable distension of abdomen, with a wish to belch, or sensation as though the abdomen were packed full, not relieved by eructation.’ These patients feel so full and oppressive that they can hardly breathe and still will feel hungry at meal time. There is fermentation. It seems as if all the food is turned into gas.

Bitter taste. Milk disagrees. There is loud rumbling and rolling in bowels. Flatulent colic, especially after eating and at night. Emission of large quantities of flatus. Sometimes there are griping pains. Offensive flatus.

General Modalities

Aggravation: At night, from slightest touch, wet weather, draught of air, loss of vital fluids, after eating, every other day.

Amelioration: Deep pressure, while fasting, by bending double, from warmth, open air, lying down.

Remedy Relationships

Complementary: Ferr.

Follows well: Arn, Ars, Asaf, Bell, Calc-p, Carb-v, Lach, Merc, Ph-ac, Puls, Sulph, Verat.

Antidotes: Arn, Ars, Calc, Carb-v, Eup-per, Ferr, Ip, Lach, Merc, Nat-m, Nux-v, Puls, Rhus-t, Sep, Sulph, Verat.

Inimical: Dig, Sel.

Comparison

Sweats day and night, as soon as one sleeps or even when closing the eyes: Chin, Con.

Dropsy, after haemorrhage; suppressed intermittents; abuse of quinine: Carb-v, Chin, Ferr.

Bad effects from loss of blood: Chin, Ham.

Flatulence in abdomen not relieved by belching: Chin, Lyc.

Diarrhoea from oysters: Brom, Lyc.

Potency: 3x, 6x, 12x, 30x, 200, 1000.

Dosage: Tincture to stop craving for alcohol. Sixth potency for gall stone colic and jaundice. High potencies work when low potencies fail in very acute conditions.

Repetition: Repetition bears well when symptoms call for the remedy, otherwise single dose is enough.

Therapeutic Value: Abdominal disorders, Alcoholism, Amblyopia, Anaemia, Catarrhal affections, Constipation, Deafness, Diarrhoea, Dropsy, Dyspepsia, Gall stone colic, Haemorrhage, Headache, Hectic fever, Impotence, Intermittent fever, Jaundice, Liver and spleen affections, Onanism, Pain, Respiratory troubles, Rheumatism, Sleep disorder, Suppuration, Vertigo.

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