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China 200 Uses, Benefits – Cinchona Officinalis

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By Dr G. P. Singh - 10th July 2017 8066 0

Great debility, from loss of vital fluids

Distension of whole abdomen, belching gives no relief
Intermittent paroxysms of fever with severe chills followed by sweat only on
single parts which is very debilitating

Source: Vegetable kingdom

Synonyms: Cinchona officinalis Linn, Peruvian bark
Family: Rubiaceae
Prover: Dr Hahnemann in 1790
Duration of Action: Upto 7 days
Miasmatic Background: Psora
Temperament: Nervous
Diathesis: Haemorrhagic
Thermal Relationship: Very chilly patient

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Introduction and History: Cinchona is of great interest for homeopaths, as it is the

first remedy with which Hahnemann experimented and discovered homeopathic
science. The discovery and history of this is remarkable. Countess Ann, wife of the
fourth Count of Cinchona, was cured of tertian fever by the use of this bark in 1638. Its
virtues were known to Europe in 1640. This is of particular interest to homeopaths
since Hahnemann was studying the plant when he discovered the law of similars.

Habit and Habitat: It is a native of South America and is cultivated in Java, India,
Jamaica and Sri Lanka. It is a slender tree, 7 to 10 metres high. It is rough, brown,
yellow with black and whitish markings on the bark. The bark is obtained from the
branches, trunk and roots.
Preparation and Parts Used: The bark is used in the preparation of mother tincture.
Higher potencies are prepared from the mother tincture.

Constitution and Physiognomy

1. It is best suited to persons with a ‘BROKEN DOWN’ constitution due to loss of
vital fluids and abuse of quinine, also from exhausting discharges.
2. Face is pale, Sunken, very thin, dry; person has a billious constitution.
3. The body, once robust, strong, healthy and stout, has now become weak
and debilitated.

Ailments From: Loss of vital fluids, onanism, anger, alcohol, abuse of quinine and
mercury, chill, bad effects of drinking tea, fruits, draught of air, mental emotions,
tobacco, etc.
Seat of Action (Pharmacodynamics): Blood, circulation, brain, mind, nerves, liver,
spleen, mucous membranes, gastrointestinal tract, respiratory system, cardiovascular
system.
Active Principles (Chemical Constituents): It contains 25 alkaloids. Main are
quinine, quinidine, cinchonine and cinchonidine.

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Physio-pathological Changes (Pathology)

1. Acts upon the ganglionic nervous system producing a condition of general
depression and exhaustion.
2. It has a toxic action upon all protoplasm, particularly active in preventing amoeboid
movement. It also modifies the digestive functions. It inhibits enzyme action, thus
retarding tissue metabolism.
3. Acts upon the heart and circulation, destroying the oxygenation power of blood. The
quantity and quality of blood is changed which causes a fall in blood pressure and
initiates haemorrhage. Blood becomes thin and watery.
4. Has a special affinity for the spleen and liver. It causes congestion, hyperaemia and
produces jaundice. It reduces hyperpyrexia.
5. It has the power to produce fever of different types, especially intermittent type of
fever.

Characteristic Mental Symptoms (Psychology)

1. Exalted fancy with slow flow of ideas. Chooses wrong expressions.
2. Cheerfulness alternating with gloom. Excessively anxious, solicited about trifles.
3. Apathetic, disobedient, taciturn, despondent, great anxiety with despondency.
4. Patient has no desire to live, but lacks courage to commit suicide.
5. Patient is very irritable, does not like physical and mental work.
6. Ideas and projects crowd on his mind, especially in the evening preventing sleep.
7. Patient thinks himself unfortunate and fancies he is opposed by everybody.
8. Dread of dogs and other animals, especially at night time.
9. Patient lost in thoughts. Sudden crying and tossing about in despair.
10. Patient inclined to be angry and disposed to be quarrelsome.
11. Fixed idea that he is unhappy, persecuted by enemies.
12. Delirium after closing eyes, sees figures of people.
13. Compelled to jump out of bed. Wants to destroy himself, but lacks courage.
14. Dullness and heaviness of head, giddiness, as from Sitting up at night, fainting and
sleeplessness.

Characteristic Physical Guiding Symptoms

Periodicity: Periodicity is generally found in intermittent fever and neuralgia.
Paroxysm for two to three hours, each attack returns every seven or fourteen days,
every three months, etc.

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Flatulence: Whole abdomen enormously distended, with a desire to belch. Belching

gives no relief or gives only temporary relief.

Oversensitiveness: Body is very sensitive to touch, lightest touch is unbearable to a

diseased part; hard pressure relieves the pain of the same.

Bleeding: From every outlet of the body. Blood generally dark and clotted, oppressed
breathing with a desire to be fanned.

Fainting: Ringing in ears, fainting, loss of sight, general coldness, sometimes

convulsions.

Headache: Headache as if the skull would burst, intense throbbing of head and
carotids, face flushed, must stand or walk, after haemorrhage or sexual excesses.

Intermittent fever: Paroxysm of intermittent fever, anticipates it from two to three

hours, each attack returns every seven or fourteen days; Sweats only on the covered
parts or during sleep.

Weakness: Great debility, trembling, aversion to exercise, sensitive to touch, weakness

due to loss of vital fluids.

Pains: Tearing or drawing pains in every joint, all the bones; Soreness all over the
body.

Draining: Insomnia, debility, headache, neuralgia and other complaints resulting from
loss of animal fluids, particularly from nursing, Salivation, Seminal emissions and
bleeding.

Thirst: Thirst of China is remarkably

guiding in intermittent fever. Thirst before
chill. Thirst ceases as soon as chill begins.
Heat without thirst or thirst may begin as
chill is over. Great thirst during sweat.
Converse effects: Hunger and yet want of
appetite, loathing, violent hunger. though
the patient is impotent there is sexual
excitement; slight pressure or touch is
intolerable, hard pressure relieves.

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Diarrhoea: Chronic diarrhoea, painless, debilitating with emaciation and aggravation

at night. Emission of a large quantity of flatulence, sometimes very foetid.
Colic: Colic at a certain hour each day, periodical, from gall stones; worse at night and
after eating, better bending double.
Sleep: Unrefreshing sleep or constant drowsiness, wakes early in the morning.
Feeling: Patient feels one hand icy cold and the other hand warm.
Toothache: Toothache while nursing the child.
Sweat: Sweats day and night, as soon as one sleeps, during intermittent fever or after
the abuse of quinine.
Aversions: Aversion to fatty things, warm food, exercise, bread and meat.
Irritability: Great irritability and sensitiveness of the whole nervous system.
Desires: Desire for wine, cold things, coffee, highly seasoned food, sour things and
sour fruits.
Climacteric: After climacteric there is profuse haemorrhage; acute diseases often
result in dropsy with ringing and buzzing sound in the ears.

Important Characteristic Features

Intermittent fever (malaria): It is a valuable remedy in the treatment of intermittent
fever. It is indicated in ague fever or malaria, that may be of the tertian, quotidian type,
or the paroxysm may return every seventh or fourteenth day. Periodicity is well marked
in the fevers. The various stages of fever are well marked, that is, chill, heat and
perspiration.
(i) Chill: Chill comes generally in the forenoon. Chill of the whole body and of short
duration. Thirst before and after but not during chill stage. Chill returns every week.
The patient wants to be near the fire. Chill with palpitation, anxiety, hunger and
sometimes headache; dry teasing cough during chill. The remedy may be said to be one
of the thirstless remedies in fever.

(ii) Heat: This stage is long lasting, usually without thirst. The patient desires to
uncover with a fiery red face during delirium. Even if there is great thirst, the patient
wants water only to wet the mouth. During the fever the veins appear enlarged and
there is congestion of the head.
(iii) Sweat: This stage comes immediately after the fever stage. There is profuse
debilitating sweat; great thirst during sweat. Sweat does not give any relief to the
patient. There is marked restlessness, great hunger or loss of appetite, spleen and liver
is enlarged and sore, oedema, bodyache, congestion and anaemia, periodical return of

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symptoms. Apyrexia is marked with great weakness, scanty urine and brick dust
sediment.
Haemorrhages: Profuse with faintness, loss of sight and ringing in the ears.
Haemorrhage is from any orifice of the body. Blood is apt to be dark and clotted. Flow
is so profuse as to have almost produced a bloodless condition. Coldness of the face
and of the whole body. Features show the presence of collapse, gasping for breath;
wants to be fanned – because he thinks that he gets more oxygen by fanning. Fanning
is not for cooling purposes.
Distension of abdomen: ‘Uncomfortable distension of abdomen, with a wish to belch,
or sensation as though the abdomen were packed full, not relieved by eructation.’
These patients feel so full and oppressive that they can hardly breathe and still will feel
hungry at meal time. There is fermentation. It seems as if all the food is turned into gas.
Bitter taste. Milk disagrees. There is loud rumbling and rolling in bowels. Flatulent
colic, especially after eating and at night. Emission of large quantities of flatus.
Sometimes there are griping pains. Offensive flatus.

General Modalities
Aggravation: At night, from slightest touch, wet weather, draught of air, loss of vital
fluids, after eating, every other day.
Amelioration: Deep pressure, while fasting, by bending double, from warmth, open
air, lying down.

Remedy Relationships
Complementary: Ferr.
Follows well: Arn, Ars, Asaf, Bell, Calc-p, Carb-v, Lach, Merc, Ph-ac, Puls, Sulph,
Verat.
Antidotes: Arn, Ars, Calc, Carb-v, Eup-per, Ferr, Ip, Lach, Merc, Nat-m, Nux-v, Puls,
Rhus-t, Sep, Sulph, Verat.
Inimical: Dig, Sel.

Comparison
Sweats day and night, as soon as one sleeps or even when closing the eyes: Chin,
Con.
Dropsy, after haemorrhage; suppressed intermittents; abuse of quinine: Carb-v,
Chin, Ferr.
Bad effects from loss of blood: Chin, Ham.
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Flatulence in abdomen not relieved by belching: Chin, Lyc.

Diarrhoea from oysters: Brom, Lyc.
Potency: 3x, 6x, 12x, 30x, 200, 1000.
Dosage: Tincture to stop craving for alcohol. Sixth potency for gall stone colic and
jaundice. High potencies work when low potencies fail in very acute conditions.
Repetition: Repetition bears well when symptoms call for the remedy, otherwise
single dose is enough.
Therapeutic Value: Abdominal disorders, Alcoholism, Amblyopia, Anaemia,
Catarrhal affections, Constipation, Deafness, Diarrhoea, Dropsy, Dyspepsia, Gall stone
colic, Haemorrhage, Headache, Hectic fever, Impotence, Intermittent fever, Jaundice,
Liver and spleen affections, Onanism, Pain, Respiratory troubles, Rheumatism, Sleep
disorder, Suppuration, Vertigo.

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