CINCHONA OFFICINALIS


Homeopathic remedy Cinchona Officinalis drug symptoms and indications from Condensed Materia Medica by Constantine Hering, published in 1877….


      Peruvian Bark. HAHNEMANN. Rubiaceae.

Mind

      Chooses wrong expressions, or misplaces them.

Slow train of ideas.

Ideas and projects crowd on his mind, especially in evening.

Fixed idea that he is unhappy, persecuted by enemies.

Delirium after depletion; on closing eyes, sees figures of persons.

Compelled to jump out of bed; wants to destroy himself, but lacks courage.

Inclined to reproach and vex others.

Dislike to all mental or physical exertion.

Low-spirited, gloomy, has no desire to live.

Dread of dogs and other animals at night.

Inconsolable anxiety, even to suicide.

Indifference, apathy.

Ill-humor.

Stubborn, disobedient, longing for dainties; face pale, or at times red; restless all night; children.

Intolerance of sensual impressions.

Nervous irritation.

Worse exerting the mind.

Sensorium

      Dulness of head, giddiness, as from sitting up at night and sleeplessness.

Heaviness of the head, fainting, loss of sight, ringing in ears; cold surface. After hemorrhage, Vertigo : after loss of animal fluids; from anaemia; head feels weak, can hardly hold it erect; with the chill; on raising the head; with nervous erethism, hysterical excitability; with fainting.

Dulness of the head, as from coryza or intoxication.

Heaviness of the head, increasing vertigo.

Inner Head

      Intense throbbing headache; carotids throb.

After loss of blood.

Stitches from temple to temple.

Sensation as if head would burst, with sleeplessness; worse from motion or any jar; better in the room and when opening the eyes.

Whole head feels bruised; worse from exerting the mind.

Headache from suppressed coryza; worse in open air, or exerting mind.

Brain feels Bruised; worse on moving, even opening his eyes; scalp sensitive; worse at night.

Headache in occiput after sexual excesses or onanism.

Headache, worse from draught of air, in the open air, slightest touch; better from hard pressure.

Headache from occiput over whole head from morning until afternoon; worse lying, must stand or walk; drives to madness.

Tearing, drawing, oppressive pains, as from load on head.

Outer Head

      Burning in forehead, with hot sweat on it.

Scalp sensitive to touch, roots of hair hurt when hair is moved.

Scalp feels as if the hair was grasped roughly by the hand.

Profuse sweat on head, especially when walking in open air.

Eyes

      Nocturnal blindness.

Worse form light; better in the dark.

Scintillations, or black motes before eyes.

Amblyopia in drunkards; after masturbation, tendency of blood to head.

Pressure in eyes, as from drowsiness.

Letters pale, surrounded by white borders.

Dilated, not very sensitive pupils.

Pressure, as from sand in eyes; photophobia; eyes hot, red; or, dim and faint, as if filled with smoke.

Ears

      Fine ringing in ears, debility.

Hardness of hearing; humming in ears.

Stitches in the ears.

Tearing pains in ears, worse from the least touch; ears red; stitches, with ringing.

Nose

      Smell too acute.

Dry coryza, toothache, lachrymation; much sneezing.

Nosebleed, anaemia; ringing in ears; face pale, fainting.

Habitual nosebleed, especially morning, on rising.

Face

      Face hot, when entering room from open air.

Veins of face distended.

Face : red, during fever; hollow, pale, or livid with atrophy; pale, blue around the eyes; yellow; earthy; grey; yellow or black; hippocratic.

Neuralgia, periodical attacks; pains excessive, skin sensitive to least touch; part feels weak; face alternately red and pale; pains from left to right; mostly in infraorbital and maxillary branches.

Lower Face

      Lips : burning; swollen; dry, hard, cracked, blackish; blackish and shriveled.

Submaxillary glands swollen, painful during swallowing.

Teeth

      Toothache, veins in forehead and hands distended; throbbing pain.

Toothache while infant sucks the breast.

Toothache worse from least contact, moving body, tea, open air, or current of air; better from pressing teeth together.

Toothache during sweat.

Swelling of gums; mouth dry.

Tongue etc.

      Taste : too acute; putrid, morning; bitter in back part of throat; flat, watery.

Food tastes bitter or too salty.

Tongue white; or yellow; thick, dirty coating.

Tongue white, mornings; child restless all night; no appetite for breakfast.

Tongue black, or raw, as if burned.

Burning as from pepper on tip of tongue, followed by ptyalism.

Mouth

      Salivation day and night, years after mercury, great weakness, especially of stomach.

Throat

      Throat feels rough, scrapped, producing a sore sensation on swallowing.

Difficult deglutition, as from contraction of the oesophagus.

Gangrene of throat.

Desires Aversions

      Longs for spirits; sweets; sour, cooling things; roasted coffee.

Children dainty, desire various things without knowing what.

Wants highly seasoned food.

Canine hunger; worse at night.

Voracious appetite. Atrophy.

Violent thirst for cold water; drinks little and often.

Loathing of food as if he had overeaten.

Averse to bread; to beer; to butter; to meat; to fat things; to warm food.

Loss of appetite in foggy weather.

Loss of appetite, nausea, desire to vomit.

Aversion to all food, even when thinking of it; dread of labour; drowsy by day; yellow eyes.

Eating and Drinking

      Worse drinking wine and other liquors.

Worse after breakfast. Sour eructations after milk.

Gastric symptoms from : eating fish; excessive use of tea; sour wine; new beer; impure water; fruit.

Warm drinks impede digestion.

Worse from smoking.

Nausea and Vomiting

      Heart-burn, after milk.

Belching, sour rising.

Eructations tasting of the food; or are bitter.

Vomit : Sour; blackish; bloody; worse at night.

Frequent vomiting.

Stomach

      Pulsations in pit of stomach.

Heavy pressure in stomach after small quantity of food.

Cold feeling in stomach; constant satiated feeling, yet can eat, but feels worse afterwards.

Fulness in stomach and bowels; flatulence; belching does not relieve.

Slow digestion, food remains long in stomach; especially if eaten too late in the day.

Haematemesis; great loss of blood, weak, pale, cold hands and feet : stomach very sensitive to touch.

Gastralgia after depletion; acidity; bloating after food or drink; satiety; relieved by motion.

Stomach feels sore, as if ulcerated, cannot bear slight touch.

Hypochondria

      Pain in hepatic region, as from subcutaneous ulceration; worse from touch.

Swollen, hard liver.

Colic form gall-stones.

Gastro-duodenal catarrh after loss of fluids or severe illness.

Enlarged spleen.

Aching, stitching pains in spleen when walking slowly; pains extend in direction of long axis of spleen.

Abdomen

      Pressing-aching below navel.

Flatulence from excessive tea drinking.

Colic better bending double.

Colic worse at night and after eating.

Colic at a certain hour each afternoon; ” months colic.” Abdomen distended, wants to belch.

Abdomen as if packed full, not relieved by belching.

Tympanitic abdomen, pressure as from a hard body; or, spasmodic, constricting pains from incarcerated flatulence; worse at night or after depletion; also in typhus, worse mornings.

Strangulated hernia; gut (the intestine) black; after operation.

Stool etc.

      Stools : loose, brownish, painless, with feeling of debility; frothy, painless, diarrhoeic, with fermentation in bowels; after sour beer; painless, black; thin, large, with passage of wind, mornings; offensive undigested, or white, papescent, at night; yellow, watery, involuntary; cadaverous-smelling, chocolate colored, worse at night.

Diarrhoea comes on gradually, more and more watery, pale, pinkish, with rapid emaciation.

Constipation : large accumulation; stool difficult, even if soft; after long purging. Mucous discharge from the rectum.

Bleeding piles, burning and itching.

Tingling in the anus.

Urine

      Frequent micturition.

Burning at orifice of urethra, especially painful. from rubbing of clothes.

Urine : turbid, dark, scanty; white, turbid, with white sediment; pale, becoming cloudy or depositing a dingy, yellow, loose sediment.

Scanty, greenish-yellow, brick-dust sediment.

Pinkish sediment.

Male Sexual Organs

      Sexual desire; lascivious fancies; Impotence, with lascivious fancies.

Nocturnal emissions, frequent and debilitating, Consequences of excessive or long-continued seminal losses : onanism.

Painful swelling of spermatic cord and testicle, especially the epididymis; tearing in the left testicle and left side of prepuce; cramp-like, contractive pain in the testicles, evenings. After gonorrhoea.

Contractive pain in urethra.

Female Sexual Organs

      Ovaritis from sexual excess or hemorrhage, parts very sensitive to slight touch.

Dropsy : of ovaries; of uterus.

Congestion to the uterus, fulness, pressing and heaviness, worse when walking.

Menses : too early, profuse, black clots, with spasm in chest and abdomen; painful.

Metrorrhagia, blood dark, fainting convulsions.

Discharge of bloody serum, alternating with pus.

Leucorrhoea : instead of menses, with itching; with spasmodic uterine contractions, painful bearing down to vulva and anus; menses increased.

Painful induration in the vagina.

Pregnancy

      Nymphomania of lying-in-women.

Abdomen; abdomen distended, belching does not relieve.

C. Hering
Hering got the degree of M. D. from the University of Wuezburg with highest honours. The theme of his thesis was "De'Medicina Futura" (The medicine of future). Hering left Germany for West Indies and finally arrived at Philadelphia in Jan, 1833. He established a homeopathic school at Allentown, Pennsylvania, commonly known as "Allentown Academy". Soon he became very popular as a physician. He is known as the 'Father of Homeopathy' in America.