CINCHONA 

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Cinchona


PERUVIAN BARK 


RUBIACEAE 


DR HAHNEMANN 


C2 I N C2 H3 O N A3 



C2 –

  •  Constitution “broken down” from exhausting discharge (Carb. v.), for stout, swarthy persons; once robust, which become debilitated. 
  • Colic: at a certain hour each day; periodical, from gall stones (Card. M.); worse at night and after eating; better bending double (Coloc.). 


I – 

  • Intermittent fever; paroxysm anticipates from two to three hours  each attack (Chin. s.); returns every seven or fourteen days; never at night; sweats profusely all over on being covered, or during sleep. 


N –

  •  No relief from belching (belching relieves Carb. V.); < after eating fruit (Puls.); Excessive flatulence of stomach and bowels; fermentation, borborygmus.  


C2 –

  •  Climacteric after with profuse haemorrhages; acute disease often result in dropsy.   
  • Constant sopor or unrefreshing sleep < after 3 a.m., wakens early. 


H3 –

  •  Headache: as if the skull would burst; intense throbbing of head and carotids, face flushed; from occiput over whole head; < sitting or lying must stand or walk; after haemorrhage or sexual excesses. 
  • Hippocratic pale face; eyes sunken and surrounded by blue margins; pale sickly expression as after excesses; toothache while nursing the child.  
  • Haemorrhage from every orifice of the body – disposition, with ringing in ears, fainting, loss of sight, general coldness, sometimes convulsions. 


O – 

  • One hand icy cold, the other warm (Dig., Ipic., Puls.) 


N – 

  • Nervous system – excessive irritability and sensitiveness of the whole nervous system: great debility, trembling aversion to exercise; sensitive to touch, to pain, to drafts of air. 


A3 –

  •  Apathetic, indifferent, taciturn (Phos. ac.); despondent, gloomy, has no desire to live, but lacks courage to comit suicide. 
  • Ailments: from loss of vital fluids, especially haemorrhages, excessive lactation, diarrhea, suppuration (Chin. S.): of malarial origin, with marked periodicity; return every other day. 
  • All the bones – drawing or tearing pains in every joint. Periosteum, as if strained, sore all over; obliged to move limbs frequently, as motion gives relief; renewed by contact, and then gradually increase to a great height.  


GENERAL MODALITIES 


AGGRAVATION – From slightest touch, draught of air every other day, loss of vital fluids, at night, after eating and bending over. 


AMELIORATION – By bending double hard pressure, open air and warmth. 


RELATIONS. 


Complementary to: Ferrum met. 

Antidotes: Heper Sulph., Nux vom. 

Antidoted by: Nat. Mur., Carbo veg. 

Antidote to: Ars., Calc., Cham., Ferr., Hell., Iod., Merc., Sulph., Ver. Alb. 

Incompatible: After Dig., Selen. 



SEE ALSO

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