CINCHONA


Clarke gives the toxic effects of homeopathy drug Cinchona and its therapeutic uses in non-toxic doses in his book The ABC Manual of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, published in 1901….


      Peruvian Bark.-China.

CHARACTERISTICS.

      Destroys the malarial plasmodium. Neuralgic, inflammatory and other affections which periodically recur. Feebleness from loss of blood or from nursing. Muscular relaxation causing indigestion, and diarrhoea. Asthenic pneumonia. Labor pains weak and ineffectual. Threatened abortion and premature delivery due to ill-health and muscular weakness.

TOXIC EFFECTS.

      Highly poisonous to protozoa and infusoria.1. General muscular and cardiac debility; great acceleration of the pulse and stertorous breathing, or pulse slow and weak. Pale and bloated face sunken eyes.2. Arteries lose tone and elasticity, and capillaries become distended. Diminution of red and increased number of white corpuscles.3. Cold perspiration.4. Great mental depression, sense of fullness in the head. Unsteadiness of gait.5. Great congestion of the internal ear and labyrinth, with bloody exudation. Ear drum may be swollen into a bladder-like body by serous exudation. Tinnitus aurium, giddiness deafness.6. Dyspnoea and noisy asthmatic respiration. Bloody sputum.7. Haematuria.8. Erythematous and papular eruptions after eating, flatulent distention of the bowels, diarrhoea, as if mixed with undigested food, or bilious, black-looking diarrhoea.10.

DOSE.

      Extractum cinchonae fluidum, 2-60 m.

Tinctura cinchonae, 5 m.-4 dr.

Quininae sulphas, I-20 gr.

Quinine in doses of from one to three grains every two hours should be used to destroy the malarial parasite and thus control its various manifestations. For other state small doses of the tincture or fluid extract may be used.

THERAPEUTIC USES.

      Malarial fever.1.

Vertigo with headache, accompanied with nausea and vomiting, from malaria.1.

Deafness in weak and debilitated people from loss of vital fluids: tinnitus aurium.3-6.

Intermittent headaches: pains come on shortly after rising and continue until the afternoon, accompanied by dizziness and sometimes, violent vomiting. Pale, loss of appetite and strength, and wants to lie down all the time.1-2.

Neuralgia of the fifth nerve, and ordinary face ache, especially where periodicity is marked. Frightful dreams which arouse the patient when he is on the point of falling asleep, accompanied by a sense of oppression and anxiety.1.

Auditory vertigo (mal de Meniere).6.

Great debility: trembling and averse to all exercise, from malaria or loss of animal fluids: general oedema.1-2-3.

Rheumatic or neuralgia pains, extremely severe, set in at regular daily intervals.1.

Sciatica but great nervous restlessness, general agitation wakefulness, and delirious sort of cerebral irritation.3.

Patient who have become enfeebled by suckling, or by bleeding, venereal excesses, diarrhoea, etc.3.

At night, suffocative cough, with stitches in the chest: cannot breathe with head low.7.

Much oppression of the chest with hemoptysis.7.

Abdomen feels full, eructations give no relief.

Fermentation in abdomen from eating fruit.10.

Diarrhoea of water and undigested food: worse at night, usually painless in character.10.

Diarrhoea of the aged.10.

Intermittent, spasmodic labor pains: she cannot bear to be touched.2.

Labor pains cease from hemorrhage: can not bear the hands to be touched.2-3.

Feeble and ineffectual pains from bad conditions of health: tends to prevent exhausting hemorrhages.2-3.

Menorrhagia, the blood coming away in black lumps.9.

Prevents abortion and premature delivery due to general ill health and malarial cachexia.1-2.

Inflammatory affections as well as other diseases which periodically recur such as hemorrhages spasmodic asthma laryngismus stridulus, whooping cough, etc.1-3-7.

Asthenic pneumonia. 2-3-4-7.

Profuse sweating with general debility from exhausting diseases.2-4. (Bathe with quinine I dram to I pint of alcohol).

Erythema nodosum.9.

Erysipelas.9.

Hematuria. 8.

George Hardy Clark
Clark, George H. (George Hardy) 1860-1941 was the author of: Homeopathic Treatment of Asthenopia; Lee and Clark's Cough and expectoration : a repertorial index of their symptoms; The A B C Manual of Materia Medica and Therapeutics; A system for the care and training of children; The Black Plague and Its Control.