INTRODUCTION
CHIN. Cinchona Officinalis, Peruvian Bark. Hahnemann’s “Mat. Medorrhinum Pura,” II. Duration of Action: from two three weeks.
COMPARE WITH
Am., Arnica., Arsenicum, Asa-f., Baryta, Belladonna, Bryonia, Calcarea, Caps., Carb- v., Chamomilla, China, Cina., Cuprum, Digitalis, Ferrum, Graphites, Hell-sulph., Iodium, Ipecac., Lachesis, Lycopodium, Mercurius, Mur-ac., Natr., Natr.-mur., Nux- vom., Phosph., Phosphorus-ac., Pulsatilla, Rhus, Sambucus-n., Sp., Silicea, Stann., Sulphur, Thuja, Veratrum China is most frequently indicated after: Arnica., Arsenicum, Ipecac., Mercurius, Phosph.-ac., Veratrum After China are frequently suitable: Arsenicum, Belladonna, Carb.-v puls Veratrum
ANTIDOTES
Arnica, Arsenicum, Belladonna, Calcarea, Caps., Carb.-v., Cina, Ferrum, Ipecac., Mercurius Natr., Natr.-mur, Nux-v., Pulsatilla, Sepia, Sulphur, Veratrum China antidotes: Ars, Asa-f., Aurum, Cuprum, Ferrum, Hell, Ipecac., Mercurius, Sulphur, Veratrum Selen aggravate the pains occasioned by China.
GENERAL SYMPTOMS
Excessive irritability and sensitiveness of the whole nervous system, the objects related to the different, senses affect them too powerfully. Excessive nervous sensibility, with a morbid feeling of general weakness. Feeling of internal malaise as from impending illness. Pain of all the limbs, particularly the joints, as if bruised, particularly during rest (when sitting or lying). Painful weariness in the limbs, as after a long journey on foot, or after exhaustion by the loss of animal fluid, with constant disposition to stretch, move, or shift the position of the limbs. 1. NOTE BY HAHNEMANN. The weakness alluded to in this paragraph, as if caused by a great loss of animal fluids, the symptoms indicating a disturbance in the digestive organs, the ailments after a meal, the easily-excited sweat, especially on the back, during motion and sleep, and the affections of the head, constitute precisely that kind of weakness for which Cinch is a specific, and which affects, without almost any exception, persons who have lost a portion of their strength by haemorrhages and frequent venesection, galactorrhoea, excessive lactation, coition, onanism, involuntary emission of semen, profuse natural or artificial sweat in disease, natural or artificial diarrhoea. When Cinch is given for any other kind of weakness, which is not
the disease itself, its exhibition may be followed by the most pernicious consequences, and may even endanger life. Indeed, even in these cases, it produces and excitement, but it is not a natural excitement, it is an over-straining of the vital powers of thee patient, which may be followed by a perfect collapse, or may entail upon the patient a cachectic condition of the system which it is either difficult or frequently impossible to sure. Painful weariness in the joints, with pressure as if a load, particularly in the morning, in bed, or when sitting, increasing the longer he sits or lies. Pain as if strained in every joint, in the bones and periosteum, with drawing and lacerating, particularly in the small of the back, back, knees, and thighs. Oppression in all the limbs, as if the clothes were too tight, after a walk in the open air. Heaviness in every limb, particularly the thighs. Languor of the whole body, with trembling of the hands. Inertia. Aversion to every kind of mental or physical labor. Languor when walking, also when sitting. Languid condition of the mind and body. Languid feeling about the stomach and chest, in the open air, with a feeling of weakness and prostration. Lassitude and languor, mental and physical. Languor, with inability to collect one’s senses, particularly on rising from a seat, or one is scarcely able to keep the head erect, and drops to sleep. Weariness. Dread of exercise. Wants to be lying or sitting all the time. Chronic debility. Excessive debility, with great disposition to sweat, during motion and sleep. Lameness, with difficult walking, which tires one out soon, as if the legs were too heavy. Great sinking of strength. Trembling debility, with dilation of the pupils. Alternation of weakness and a feeling of great strength, particularly in the joints. Weakness from loss of animal fluids, or after severe and exhausting illness. Stiffness in all the joints, particularly when rising from bed (morning or after the siesta), or with languor, paleness, and inability to collect one’s senses, when raising the head in the least while in a recumbent posture. Internal tremor in the limbs with a feeling of coolness. Spasmodic jactitation of the muscles in various parts of the body. Darting, lacerating, increased by contact, particularly in thee hands and feet. Tensive drawing in the bones, less in a recumbent posture, but becoming so much more violent afterwards. Tensive pains. Wandering rheumatic pains, particularly at the commencement of a walk, or alternating with pains in internal organs. Pain with lameness or weakness of the affected parts. Uneasiness in the affected parts, obliging one to move them continually. Pithy and numb sensation of single parts. The limbs go to sleep when lying on them. The bones in the joints are painful as if bruised when lying still, less during motion. Cracking of the joints. Ailments occasioned by a current of air, even the slightest. Twitching of the limbs. Fainting fits. Apoplexy and loss of consciousness. Asphyxia. Emaciation, particularly of the upper and lower limbs. Atrophy, emaciation, particularly of children.
CHARACTERISTIC PECULIARITIES
The pains are aggravated or excited by contact, also at night or after a meal. The characteristic pains of China are: darting- lacerating, or lacerating with pressure.
SKIN
Painful and excessive sensitiveness of the skin of the body all over, even in the palms of the hands. Stinging, pulling, or also burning and titillation in various parts of the skin. Itching of the skin. Skin flaccid and dry. Yellow color of the skin, jaundice. Chlorosis. Swelling of the limbs. General anasarca, particularly after excessive depletion. Arthritic and rheumatic, hard red swellings. Erysipelatous swelling of the whole body. Ostitis. Caries of the bones. Stinging itching in wounds. Boring, with painful sensitiveness in the ulcers. Beating pain in the ulcer, only when moving the part.. Burning and pressure in the ulcer. Ichor which has a putrid smell. Humid gangrene.
SLEEP
Great drowsiness in the daytime, constant, irresistible, particularly when sitting, with sudden falling asleep. Drowsiness, with palpitation of the heart. Falling asleep late, and sleeplessness from abundance of ideas. Sleeplessness after midnight, with drowsiness. Restless night-sleep, with tossing about and frequent waking, sometimes waking with a start, and inability to collect one’s senses. Unrefreshing sleep, too short, waking too early. Pinching pressure in the umbilical region, in the evening in bed, frightful fancies, and starting whenever he is on the point of dropping to sleep. Symptoms at night, in bed: aching pain in the head, with sleeplessness (until midnight); restlessness, which does not permit of any sleep; anxiety on waking, from frightful dreams; inability to collect one’s senses on waking, or vertigo on waking, which is increased by raising the head; canine hunger, sweat all over, on waking from a restless sleep, or sweat of the hair only and on the forehead, with slight chills over the back; sweat whenever he covers himself in thee least, or towards morning. During sleep: distortion of the eye-balls; moaning and whining, in children. A number of dreams at night; confused, absurd dreams, with frequent waking in a state of half consciousness. Frightful, heavy, anxious dreams, horrid, with inability to collect one’s senses on waking, and continuance of the anguish, fear, and uneasiness. Early in the morning, on waking. Great languor; muddled condition of the head; feeling as if he had not slept enough, and pressure in the temples, when shaking the had, after a deep and soporous night’s sleep; sensation throughout the body, as if bruised and broken; dullness of the head; heat in the head and oppression of the chest.
FEVER
Coldness of the whole body. Internal coldness, particularly in the arms and hands, or with shuddering and shaking over the whole body. Coldness of the hands and feet, even in a warm room. Coldness of the lower limbs, with warmth of the chest and face. Coldness of the limbs, with congestion of blood to the head and heat of the forehead, or attended with shuddering and nausea. Shuddering over the whole body, with goose-flesh, or with cold hands and oppression of the mind. Shuddering early in the morning, with cold hands, nausea, and quick pulse. Chilliness over the whole body, sometimes as if cold air were blowing on the skin, particularly when walking, with shuddering over the arms, loins, and thighs when sitting. Chilliness, particularly in the back. Chilliness in the open air, with trembling and shuddering over the thighs, or with sensation as if cold water were running over the thighs, with coldness of the hands and chattering of the teeth. Increased chilliness after drinking. Shaking chilliness over the whole body, with icy coldness of the hands, or with internal coldness, or in the evening in bed, or early in the morning with debility of the legs, or with shuddering which is sometimes accompanied with coldness of the hands and oppression of the mind. Intermittent fevers, particularly quotidian or tertian, or double-quotidian. Fevers commencing with shaking and chilliness, generally in the evening or afternoon, less frequently early in the morning, followed by heat and then sweat at night. Chilliness, then coldness of the hands; after that, shuddering. Two paroxysms of chilliness, after which heat. Chilliness alternating with heat, in the afternoon, with languor of the lower limbs and aggravation in the open air. Mingled paroxysms of chilliness and sweat, with continual feeling of heat and redness in the face. Intermittent fevers, with languor, particularly of the feet, Congestion of blood to the head with pressure in the head, swelling and painfulness of the spleen and liver, loss of appetite, bitter taste, bitter eructations, and bitter vomiting, yellow color of the skin and face, short, spasmodic cough, stitches in the chest, great debility and pain in the limbs, colic, pains in the back, thirst before or after the chilliness, or during the sweating stage, rarely during the heat, and scarcely ever during the chilly stage. Previous to the paroxysms (shuddering, coldness, chilliness): various secondary phenomena, such as: palpitation of the heart, frequent sneezing, anguish nausea, great thirst, canine hunger, headache, oppressive colic. During thee chilly stage (shuddering or coldness): headache, nausea, absence of thirst, vertigo, congestion of the head, paleness of the face, coldness of the hands and feet, gagging and vomiting of mucus. After thee chilly stage: thirst. During the hot stage: dryness of the mouth and lips, with burning; redness of the face, headache, canine hunger, delirium, pulse quick and full, violent desire for cold drinks, accompanied with stinging in various parts of the skin, absence of thirst, inclination to uncover one’s self, or else chilliness and shuddering when uncovering one’s self in the least; distended veins, with readily-dilating pupils, dry lips without thirst after midnight. After the heat: thirst also particularly in the evening, with dryness of the palate, thirst and hunger, with coldness and grumbling in the abdomen after a meal. Increased temperature of the body, heat to others and to one’s self over the whole body. Strong feeling of heat all over, with red cheeks, heat of the trunk and arms, and moist forehead, or with coldness of the limbs, dry heat the whole day; flushes of heat, with desire for cold drinks; burning heat with throbbing of the arteries, burning of the ears and forehead, and a feeling of internal heat in the cheeks, hands, and feet. Heat in the head, with distention of the veins. Heat in the forehead, with rush of blood to the head and coldness of the limbs. Acute fevers, with profuse sweat. Bilious fevers. Gastric fevers. Mucous fevers. Rheumatic and catarrhal fevers. Typhoid fevers. Putrid fevers. Hectic fevers, particularly after great loss of animal fluids. Pulse quick and hard, also with flushes of heat mingled with paroxysms of chilliness and cold sweat on the back. Quick and irregular pulse. Slow, feeble pulse. Copious sweat. Sweat when walking in the open air, also profuse sweat. Readily excited sweat during sleep and motion. Sweat early in the morning, also during sleep, greasy sweat. Cold sweat all over the body, or only in the face, with thirst. Sweat after the febrile heat, particularly at night, only on the back and forehead with thirst, or general and exhausting sweat. Exhausting night-sweats.
