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China Officinalis

30C / 200CChina

Peruvian Bark · Cinchona · "The Debility After Fluid Loss Remedy"

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🎯 It acts primarily on the body's vital energy following the loss of fluids, addressing debility, periodic fevers, and digestive disturbances.

📖 Boericke writes:

Peruvian Bark-China

(CINCHONA OFFICINALIS)

Debility from exhausting discharges, from loss of vital fluids, together with a nervous erethism, calls for this remedy. Periodicity is most marked. Sensitive to draughts. Seldom indicated in the earlier stages of acute disease. Chronic gout. Chronic suppurative pyelitis. Post operative gas pains, not relief from passing it.

👤 Constitution

•Typically anemic, weak, and sensitive individuals who have suffered from exhausting illnesses or fluid loss, often showing a sallow complexion and a nervous, irritable temperament.

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Pressure in eyes.

eyes

Flatulence; belching of bitter fluid or regurgitation of food gives no relief; worse eating fruit.

stomach

Hiccough.

stomach

Tympanitic abdomen.

abdomen

Dark clots and abdominal distention.

female

Suffocative catarrh; rattling in chest; violent, hacking cough after every meal.

respiratory

Pains in limbs and joints, as if sprained; worse, slight touch; hard pressure relieves.

extremities

Extreme sensitiveness to touch, but hard pressure relieves.

skin

🩺 Systems & Indications

🧠Mind

Useful for mental exhaustion, despondency, and restlessness caused by overactive thoughts.

Apathetic, indifferent, disobedient, taciturn, despondent.

Ideas crowd in mind; prevent sleep.

Disposition to hurt other people's feelings.

Sudden crying and tossing about.

🔑 Modalities

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💊 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 to 30th

Other

Primary Dosage

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🤝 Complementary

Ferrum Metallicum →Calcarea Carbonica →Calcarea Phosphorica →

🚫 Antidotes

Arsenicum Album →Nux Vomica →Arnica Montana →Ipecacuanha →

🔄 Compare With

Sulphur →CephalanthusArsenicum Album →Cedron →Natrium Sulphuricum →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

China Officinalis is listed in 643 rubrics across 23 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 257 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Abdomen89 Stomach62 Fever60 Head59 Female Sexual System54 Nervous System51 Locomotor System39 Respiratory System33 Generalities31 Modalities24 Mind21 Male Sexual System21 Face15 Eyes14 Skin14 Circulatory System13 Ears13 Nose8 Teeth5 Taste5 Urinary System5 Mouth4 Tongue3

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