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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 anervous 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
↓Worse from
↑Better from
💊 Dosage & Potency
Tincture to 30th
Other
🕒As directed
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🤝 Complementary
Ferrum Metallicum →Calcarea Carbonica →Calcarea Phosphorica →
🚫 Antidotes
Arsenicum Album →Nux Vomica →Arnica Montana →Ipecacuanha →
🔄 Compare With
Sulphur →Cephalanthus →Arsenicum Album →Cedron →Natrium Sulphuricum →
📚 Sources & References

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