Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

Great restlessness. "Trembling and itching of the limbs.Weariness. Indolence. Indisposition to work".The neuralgias are more common in the head and face than in the lower parts of the body, in thelimbs and in extremities.It has sharp, febrile attacks, such as found in pneumonia with chill; and in inflammation of theliver. It has cured intermittent fever, coming in the afternoon and evening.Itching of the skin. Jaundice. It has cured old putrid ulcers.CHINA OFFICINALIS [chin] [Kent’s](Cinchona) Now we shall take up the study of Cinchona, or China. Persons who have sufferedmuch from neuralgias due to malarial influences, who have become anaemic and sickly from repeatedhaemorrhages, are likely to develop symptoms calling for China.China produces a gradually increasing anaemia, with great pallor and weakness. It is sometimesindicated in plethoric individuals, but this is the exception, and even in this class we find that thesymptoms are tending towards the cachectic state, which is avoided by the prompt action of theremedy.Throughout the body there is a gradually increasing sensitivity, a gradually increasingirritability of the nerves; the nerves are always in a fret, so that these people will say: "Doctor, what isthe matter with me, I am so nervous?" Everywhere there are twining, tearing, cutting pains-in the limbsEverywhere there are twining, tearing, cutting pains-in the limbs and over the body. And so great is thesensitiveness to touch that the nerves can many times be outlined; as, for instance, the little nerves inthe fingers, because of their extreme sensitiveness. The China patient grows increasingly sensitive totouch, to motion, to cold air, so that he is chilled from exposure. The pains are brought on by exposureto the wind, by cold air, and are increased by motion and touch. Old malarial conditions that have beensuppressed with quinine; gradually increasing pallor, bloodlessness, cachexia, until the patient isalways catching cold, has liver troubles, bowel troubles, disordered stomach, is made miserable andsick by nearly everything he does. He cannot eat fruit without having indigestion; he cannot eat sourthings. He is debilitated, pale, waxy, suffers from pains, such as are found in quinine subjects, andbreaks out into a perspiration upon the least exertion.This patient bleeds easily; bleeds from any orifice of the body- from the nose, from the throat,from the uterus. And after haemorrhage complaints come on. Running through the remedy as a generalconstitutional state is a tendency to congestion and often inflammation in connection withhaemorrhages. Inflammation of the part that bleeds or of distant parts. For instance, a women aborts,has a haemorrhage, but with apparently no provocation, inflammation of the uterus or of the lungs setsin.With these inflammations there is also great irritability of the tissues, tearing pains, cramping inthe muscles and actual convulsions. When a China patient bleeds a little, for instance, in confinement,right in the midst of the bleeding convulsions come on. You would scarcely need to think of any otherremedy.Secale is the one other medicine that has this, but the two do not look alike. Secale wants thecovers all off and the windows open, even in cold weather . If a draft of air blows on a China patient,while in labor, she may go into convulsions. In the midst of labor the pains cease and convulsions comeon. Another feature about this inflammation is its rapid progress and intensity, quickly going intogangrene. Inflammation after haemorrhage and the parts rapidly turn black.China has a fulness of the veins. Not exactly a varicose condition, but a sort of paralysis of thecoatings of the veins.The veins become full during fever.All of these complaints are such as we find in broken down constitutions, in feeble, sensitivepatients, especially in sensitive women. Sensitive to the odors of flowers, of cooking, of tobacco.Weak, relaxed, emaciated, pale, with feeble heart, feeble circulation and tendency to dropsy. Dropsyruns through the remedy; anasarca and also dropsy of shut sacs. A peculiar thing about this dropsy isthat it comes after haemorrhage. In the anaemic typical China patient.Catarrhal condition of all mucous membranes. Gastro-duodenal catarrh, ending in jaundice. Oldliver subjects with jaundice.They have lived for a long time under the influence of the malarial miasm. Feeble, sensitive,anaemic. We see such cases in the South and South-west, and along the Mississippi Valley.Periodicity is regarded as the most important indication for China, but it is a mistake.Periodicity is the symptom upon which Quinine is given. China has periodicity, but in no greater