China


China homeopathy medicine – drug proving symptoms from Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica by TF Allen, published in 1874. It has contributions from R Hughes, C Hering, C Dunham, and A Lippe….


  Common names: China (Ch. hard), Quinquina, Cortex Peruvianus (Peruvian bark).

Introduction.

Cinchona officinalis, Hooker. Natural order: Rubiaceae; Preparation:Tincture of the bark (or triturations).

Mind.– Emotional.

Excessive excitability, with despondency and intolerance of noise. Dreadful feeling of excitement. Lively the whole evening, though with staring eyes.(* A kind of unnatural excitement, as in the so-called tonic cures of ordinary physicians when they are unable to cure a patient of his disease and still wish to stimulate strength, power, and activity for a few hours. -H. *). Uncommonly lively in the forepart of the night until 2 A.M. Feels intoxicated; inclined to be jolly.

Slightly intoxicated after each dose. Slight intoxication (2 ounces). (Delirium). (* From its use in intermittent fever. -H.

*). (Delirium during the fever). Completely beside himself and in despair; tosses about in bed. From time to time she falls into a weeping mood without any external cause, brought on by some self-made imaginary whim, for example, fancied need, something that she could not eat it satisfy her appetite, etc. (after twenty hours). Moaning, complaining, and screaming. Quiet mood.

(* It seems to be the curative action. -H. *). He is quite and will not answer. Obstinate silence; he will answer nothing.

Silent, ill humored, disinclined to talk (during the first days). Earnest mood. Absence of the usual lively mood; he prefers to be alone. Sadness, despair. Discouragement. Gloomy mood; has no desire to live. What usually appears to him bright and joyous seems now unattractive, unworthy, and shallow. Despondency. Inconsolable. Anxiety. Anxiety at night, on waking from frightful dreams. (Great anxiety, death) (* Effects of China taken during the chill of an intermittent fever. -H. *).(Excessive anxiety). Intolerable anxiety (about 8 P.M. and 2 A.M).; he springs out of bed and wishes to take his own life, but does not go near the open window, or take a knife; with heat of the body, without thirst. Nameless anxiety.

Excessively anxious carefulness. An excessively anxious solicitude about trifles (after one hour and a half). In the morning on waking, anxious thoughts and ideas. (Hypochondriac troubles). Ill humor, amounting to the most violent wrath, so that he could have stabbed himself. Fretful, though neither sad nor quarrelsome, but not inclined to rapid thought. Fretful and irresolute; she is unable to accomplish her aim, and consequently is indignant (after a few hours).

Complaining fretfulness. Sighing fretfulness. Internally very fretful. He is peevish, ill-humored, and easily angered (after four hours). Peevish when excited, at other times stupid, perplexed, embarrassed. Extremely inclined to become angry, and to seek every opportunity for being angry; afterwards quarrelsome, and inclined to grieve and reproach others (after two hours). Morose, inclined to anger. Discontent; he consider himself unhappy, and thinks he is hindered and tormented by every one (after five hours). Discontented and sensitive mood, inclined to anger. He despises everything (after one hour). Want of docility. Disobedience. During a cheerful mood, sudden, transient screaming, and tossing about the bed, without any apparent or visible cause. Indifference to all external impressions, with disinclination to talk.

Intellectual.

Desire for work, to read, to write, to reflect; a general remarkable activity and industriousness. (* Curative action. *) He has many ideas, a variety of things occupy his mind; he builds castles in the air (after a few hours). A large number of projects. He makes many plans for the future. He makes many plans and reflects upon their execution; many ideas crowd upon him at once. His head is full of many plans which he would like to execute, in the evening No desire for work; he is inactive. Disinclination for mental labor, with sleepiness.

Disinclination for intellectual and serious business. Disinclination to think; alternating condition of cheerfulness and gloominess, for three hours (after two hours). His perception is slow, has great aversion to motion, and is more inclined to sit and lie. Slow flow of ideas. He is rapt in thought (as if the flow of ideas stood still), (after three hours). Periodic stoppage of thought. If he wakes at night he is unable to collect his senses. He cannot arrange his thoughts in order; he makes mistakes when writing or speaking, places words in reversed order; the talking of others disturbs him very much (after two hours). (Stupidity).

Head.

Confusion and Vertigo.

Confusion of the head. Confusion, extending over the whole head, lasting half an hour (after three-quarters of an hour).

Confusion of the head in the forehead. Confusion of the head like catarrh (after nine days). Confusion of the head, like a dizziness, from dancing, and as in coryza. Confusion of the head, with tensive pain in the forehead and orbits.

Confusion of the head, as after intoxication, with pressure in the temples. Confusion and emptiness in the head, with indolence of the body, as from night-watching and loss of sleep (after one hour). The head is very much confused in the morning, as after intoxication, with dryness of the mouth. Vertigo. Vertigo; the head is inclined to sink backward, in every position, though it is more severe while walking and on moving the head (after six hours). Vertigo; the head is inclined to sink backward; more violent on motion and when walking, relieved when lying (after a few minutes). Vertigo in the occiput, while sitting. Vertigo with faintness; she staggered and could not walk straight. At first vertigo and a dizzy nausea, followed by general sensation of heat. On waking at night he is dizzy, so that he does not dare to rise.

General Head. Blood rises to the head, the forehead is hot, the limbs cold. (* With the Cinchona fever there is very frequently rush of blood to the head, 87, 124, usually with redness and heat of the face, 12 16, frequently with chilliness of the rest of the body, 1201, 1214, 1215, with external coldness, 1171, 1202, or only internally perceptible heat in the face, with cheeks cold to the touch, and cold sweat on the forehead, 1219. -H. *) Head somewhat affected (2nd day). Stupefaction of the head with pressure in the forehead (after a quarter of an hour). (heaviness in the head). Heaviness of the head; at noon a dizziness rises into the head, without pain. Heaviness of the head and weariness of all the limbs, in the morning on waking from sleep. Heaviness of the head, which is inclined to sink backwards, while sitting. Headache like a heaviness and heat in it, worse on turning the eyes, together with jerking pains in the temples. Headache.

Headache, now in one part, now in another part of the brain.

Headache, alternating with frightful dreams throughout the night.

Headache, weariness, followed by some coldness. Dull, stupefying headache, in the morning of waking. Headache, so sensitive that it seems as thought the skull would burst; the brain beats in waves against the skull. Headache, as if the brain were pressed together from both sides and out at the forehead, very much aggravated by walking in the open air. Headache, as if the brain were gathered into a ball, with excessive excitement of the mind, uneasiness, with excessive and over strained fantasies. A kind of pressure, like a congestion in the head, with sweat on the forehead (after half an hour). Headache, first a pressure in the forehead, afterwards extending over the whole head.

Painful pressure and pressing in the head toward the forehead, as if everything in the head were too heavy and would be pressed out, relieved by strong pressure with the head (after three hours). Pressive headache, especially in the occiput. Pressive headache, aggravated in the open air (after nine hours). Pressive headache half an hour after dinner; it lasts until going to sleep. Violent pressive headache deep in the brain, and a sensation of constriction, especially in the right side of the forehead and in the occiput, very much worse when walking. The brain seems pressed by much blood.

An uninterrupted, dull, cutting pain, extending from both temples and the occiput to the orbits, more sensitive and aggravated on motion and on stopping. Sticking headache, especially in the left frontal region (after one hour and a half). Single stitches shoot from the inner ear through the brain, as if to pass out through the top of the head. Tearing in many places in the head, aggravated by walking, or by moving the head, aggravated by moving the head. Violent jerking-tearing in several places in the head, aggravated on motion and when walking, relieved when lying (after one hour). Tearing headache from the right occipital bone to the right frontal eminence.

Headache, as if the brain were sore, increased on the slightest touch of the head on any part of the head, but especially by fixed attention, or by deep thought, or even by talking. Headache, when walking in the wind, consisting of a bruised and sore sensation. Violent hammering in the head, extending into the temples. Forehead. Frontal headache. Headache above the orbit, which begins in the forenoon, is very much aggravated by walking, but disappears after dinner (after eighteen hours). Burning pain, with hot sweat of the forehead. A pressure like a fullness in the head, just above the eyes (after two hours). Tensive pain in forehead and orbits. Digging headache in the left side of the forehead, while sitting unoccupied, or when occupied about something in which he is not interested. Drawing pain in the forehead. Drawing headache from the occiput to the forehead, as if the whole forehead were drawn together, this ends in the temples as a throbbing; disappears on walking, but returns when sitting or standing, and is relieved by pressure of the hand. Headache from afternoon till evening, a pressure in the middle of the forehead. Sticking pressure on the forehead above the nose, and on the cheeks (after thirty-two hours). Sticking pressure in the right frontal eminence, more violent on touch (after ten minutes). Sticking pressure externally on the left frontal eminence, together with vertigo and some nausea in the throat. Pressive pain in the right side of the forehead. Pressive headache in the forehand; on bending backward it changed to the temples, where it becomes worse; while sitting, it was located only in the forehead. Pressive headache when walking, at first across the forehead, and then in the temples (after six hours). A little weight about forehead in morning, which disappeared about middle of day (second day). Sticking headache in the forehead (while sitting). Pressive-sticking headache in the forehead and in the temple of one side (after four hours). A severe burning stitch between the forehead and vertex. Jerking-tearing in frontal eminences. Headache, like a jerking, towards the forehead, always worse until evening, when it disappears. If he puts the hand to the forehead he feels a pain moving back and forth. Temple. Headache in the temple. Headache in the temples like a dry coryza. Pressing together in the temples (after five hours).

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.