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Medicines
1. Cainca
2. China boliviana
3. Cinchona officinalis
4. Coffea cruda
5. Coffea tosta
6. Gallium aparine (considered by some a sub order of Rubiaceae)
7. Ipecacuanha
8. Mitchella
9. Rubia tinctorum
General features:
1. Over
sensitiveness
Cinchona: Scalp sensitive, < combing hair. Skin extreame
sensitive to touch. Sensitive to draughts. Eyes sensitive to
light (photophobia). External ear sensitive to touch. Hearing –
Sensitive to noise. Joint swollen, very sensitive with dread of
open air. General aggravation from slightest touch and draughts
of air.
Ipecacuanha: Over sensitive to heat and cold.
Coffea cruda:Extreme sensitiveness is the characteristic of
coffea. Intolerance of pain. Complaints from sudden emotions,
joy etc. Skin hypersensitive. Head pain from noise, smell, and
narcotics.
Mind: Impressionable, especially to pleasurable impression.
Hyper sensitiveness of vulva and vagina.
2. Ailments
with periodicity
Cinchona: Ailments returns every other day. Intermittent fever.
Returns every 7th or 14th day.
Ipecacuanha: Intermittent fever: in beginning of irregular cases
with nausea or from gastric disturbance. Intermittent dyspepsia,
every other day at the same hour. Periodical orbital neuralgia
with lachrymation, photophobia and smarting in eyelids.
3. Hemorrhagic
tendency
Cinchona: Haemorrhages: of mouth, nose, bowels or uterus-
long continued. Disposition to haemorrhage from every orifice of
the body, with ringing in ears, fainting, loss of sight, general
coldness, sometimes convulsion. Ailments especially after
haemorrhages.
Ipecacuanha: Haemorrhage: active or passive, bright red from all
orifice of the body. Uterine, profuse, clotted; heavy oppressed
breathing during; stitches from navel to uterus. Whooping cough
with bleeding from nose or mouth.
Mitchella: Haemorrhages from all orifices.
4.
Constitutionally –lean thin people
Coffea cruda: Adapted to tall, lean, stooping person, dark
complexion, sanguine choleric temperament.
Cinchona: For systems, once robust, which have become
debilitated, broken down from exhausting discharges.
Lean thin people (Murphy): - Chin, Coff, Ip.
5. Temperament – bilious
Constitution, temperaments, bilious (Murphy): - Chin, Ip.
6. Ailments from abuse of alcohol or aggravation from alcohol
Food -- alcohol, general, abuse of ailments from (Murphy):
- Chin, Coff, Ip.
7. Dreams- frightful Chin, Coff, Ip, Mit.
Pleasant Coff, Chin.
8. Tendency to
take cold easily
Chin, Coff, IP.
9. Blue colour
around the eyes
Cinchona: Face pale, Hippocratic eyes sunken and surrounded
by blue margins; sickly expression after excesses
Ipecacuanha: Blue rings around the eyes.
10. Aggravation
from fruits Chin, Ip.
11. Aggravation from physical exertion Chin, Coff, Ip.
12. Nature of pain – pressing pain -internally and externally
Chin, Coff, Ip.
13. Menses –too
early and profuse Cinchona:
Menses too early. Dark clots and abdominal distension.
Profuse menses with pain.
Coffea cruda: Menses too early and long lasting. Dysmenorrhoea,
large clots of black blood.
Ipecacuanha: Menses too early and too profuse. Profuse, bright,
gushing with nausea.
14. Neuralgia
Cinchona: Intermittent ciliary neuralgia.
Coffea cruda: Prosopalgia extending to molar teeth, ears
forehead and scalp. Crural neuralgia; worse motion afternoon and
night. Better by pressure.
Ipecacunha: Periodical orbital neuralgia with lachrymation,
photophobia and smarting eyelids.
15. Predominant
action over the GIT with aversion to food
Cinchona: Excessive flatulence of stomach and bowels.
Belching gives no relief. Aggravation after eating fruits.
Periodical colic (at a certain hour each day)
Coffea cruda: Intolerance of tight clothing around the waist due
to gastric troubles. Excessive hunger.
Ipecacuanha: Adapted to cases where gastric symptoms
predominate. In all cases with constant and continual nausea.
Stomach feels relaxed, as if hanging down. Flatulent cutting
colic.
Food aversion to (Murphy): - Chin, Coff, Ip.
16. Action on heart and produce palpitation
Coffea cruda: Violent irregular palpitation especially after
excessive joy or surprise. Rapid high-tension pulse.
Cinchona: Irregular with weak rapid beats followed by strong
hard beats.
Coffea tosta: Heart affection where there is troublesome
palpitation from heart irritability, and in general nervous
excitement.
Mitchella: Uneasy feeling as if its action was being interfered
with beats irregular.
17. General
aggravation at night Coff, Chin, Ip.
18. Mentally- dull, sad, depressed Chin, Coff, Ip, and Mit.
19. Many of them have relieving effects of fatigue.Cainca,
Coffea, Cinchona. |
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