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Alstonia Constricta
Q to 3XAlstAlstonia Constricta · Australian Bitter Bark / Native Quinine · "The Australian Quinine Bark"
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🎯 It acts primarily on the digestive system to address debility and malabsorption, often accompanied by low-grade fever or diarrhea.
📖 Clarke writes:
Bitter Bark. Native Quinine Bark. (New South Wales and Queensland. A. scholaris, growing in India and Malabar, is probably identical in effects.) N. O. Apocynaceae. Tincture of the bark.
👤 Characteristics
Sphere of Action & Core States
•Produces great debility and prostration
•Low fever, often with diarrhoea
•Exceedingly bitter
•Debility from lack of digestive power in the stomach or general assimilative power
•No relation to purely nervous debility
Temperament & Physical Profile
•Pale face
•Flushing on least excitement
Leading Mental & Emotional Indicators
•At the moment she falls asleep, wakes up suddenly, becoming wide awake
•Violent palpitation of the heart and throbbing in blood-vessels, accompanied by a numb sensation of the tongue
Key Characteristics & Guiding Symptoms
•Tongue generally has a dirty white coat, especially at base; though it may be clean
•Nausea is WORSE morning, before breakfast, or at irregular times, especially when depending on reflex irritation from disturbance of pelvic organs
•Empty, gone feeling in stomach or whole abdomen at irregular times
•Tearing, dragging-down sensation in hypogastrium, as if everything would escape from the vulva
•Food seems to remain in stomach a long time undigested
•Diarrhoea of undigested food immediately after eating; has to leave table before finishing a meal
•Leucorrhoea and bearing-down WORSE by walking
•Swollen feeling in right ovarian region
•Sharp shooting pain from left side of stomach through to back (spleen)
•WORSE By exertion
•BETTER Lying down
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Diarrhea of undigested food occurring immediately after eating, forcing the patient to leave the table.
Clarke
Dragging-down sensation in the lower abdomen as if everything would escape from the vulva.
Clarke
Empty, gone feeling in the stomach or whole abdomen at irregular times.
Clarke
Sudden waking at the moment of falling asleep with violent heart palpitations and throbbing vessels.
Clarke
Nausea occurring before breakfast or due to reflex irritation from pelvic organ disturbance.
Clarke
Tongue has a dirty white coat, especially at the base.
Clarke
Sharp shooting pain from the left side of the stomach through to the back.
Clarke
Numb sensation of the tongue accompanying heart symptoms.
Clarke
Swollen feeling in the right ovarian region.
Clarke
Pale face that flushes on the least excitement.
Clarke
🩺 Systems & Indications
🦴Back
Back, pain, fever, during
🔑 Modalities
↓Worse from
Walking
leucorrhea
bearing-down sensation
↑Better from
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Helonias Dioica →Cedron →
📚 Sources & References
✓ Kent's Materia Medica↗✓ Clarke's Dictionary↗Boericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraAllen's EncyclopediaPhatak's Concise MM
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