China Officinalis



Fever

Shiverings, with shuddering, or feverish trembling commonly without thirst. Cold in the body, with congestion in the head, heat and redness of the face, and forehead hot. General increase of heat, with veins swollen, without thirst. After the heat, violent thirst. Shiverings with headache, nausea, adipsia, vertigo, congestion in the head, paleness of the face, cold in the hands and in the feet, and vomiting of mucus. Shivering more violent after drinking. Heat, with dryness of the mouth, and of the lips, which are burning, redness of the face, headache, morbid hunger, delirium, pulse full and quick. Heat, with prickings here and there, and burning thirst. Heat, with strong inclination to be uncovered, or shivering as soon as one is uncovered. Quotidian fever, or every two days, tertian, commencing chiefly or shivering commencing chiefly in the evening or in afternoon, or in the morning, by shivering with trembling, followed by heat and nocturnal sweat. Internal violent chill with icy cold hands and feet, and congestion to the head. In the evening, in bed, he cannot get warm. Fever, with pressive pain, and congestion in the head, soreness and swellings of the liver and of the spleen, bitter and bilious risings and vomitings, yellowish colour of the skin and of the face short, convulsive cough, great weakness, pains in the limbs, and painful stitches in the chest. The attacks of fever are often preceded by sufferings, such as palpitation of the heart, sneezing, anguish, nausea, excessive thirst, bulimy, headache, pressive colic, etc. Chilliness over the whole body. The thirst is generally felt only before or after the shiverings, or during the sweat, rarely during the heat (or only desire for cold drink), and scarcely ever during the shiverings. Pulse small, weak, hard and rapid, less frequent after eating, irregular. Ready perspiration during sleep, during movement (and from exercise in the open air). Perspiration very profuse, and very debilitating. Perspiration on the side on which he lies. Suppressed perspiration. Nocturnal debilitating sweats. Oily sweat in the morning.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica