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Alstonia Scholaris

Q / 30CAlstonia

Devil Tree · Dita Bark · "The Malarial Tonic"

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🎯 A tonic remedy for malarial conditions, chronic diarrhea, and general debility.

📖 Boericke writes:

Malarial diseases, with diarrhoea, dysentery, anaemia, feeble digestion, are the general conditions suggesting this remedy. Characteristics are the gone sensation in stomach and sinking in abdomen, with debility. A tonic after exhausting fevers.

👤 Constitution

•Typically a patient who is weak, anemic, and suffering from the after-effects of exhausting fevers or digestive disturbances.

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

A tonic after exhausting fevers.

introduction

Painless watery stools (Phosph ac).

abdomen

🩺 Systems & Indications

🔵Abdomen

Useful for treating chronic diarrhea, dysentery, and abdominal cramping, especially following malarial infection or consumption of bad water.

Violent purging and cramp in bowels.

Heat and irritation in lower bowels.

Camp diarrhoea, bloody stool, dysentery; diarrhoea from bad water and malaria.

Painless watery stools (Phosph ac).

Diarrhoea immediately after eating.

💊 Dosage & Potency

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

Tincture

Mother Tincture

Primary Dosage

Decimal

🌿 Remedy Relationships

⏭️ Similar

Alstonia Constricta →China Officinalis →Hydrastis Canadensis →Cinchona Boliviana

🔄 Compare With

Hydrastis Canadensis →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Alstonia Scholaris is listed in 21 rubrics across 7 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 8 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Abdomen12 Generalities2 Stomach2 Nervous System2 Circulatory System1 Female Sexual System1 Fever1

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