Peruvian Bark-China
- Debility from exhausting discharges, from loss of vital fluids, together with a nervous erethism, calls for this remedy.
- Periodicity is most marked.
- Sensitive to draughts.
- Seldom indicated in the earlier stages of acute disease.
- Chronic gout.
- Chronic suppurative pyelitis.
- Post operative gas pains, not relief from passing it.
Mind
- Apathetic, indifferent, disobedient, taciturn, despondent.
- Ideas crowd in mind; prevent sleep.
- Disposition to hurt other people's feelings.
- Sudden crying and tossing about.
Head
- As if skull would burst.
- Sensation as if brain were balancing to and fro, and striking against skull, receiving great pain (Sulph; Sulph ac).
- Intense throbbing of head and carotids.
- Spasmodic headache in vertex, with subsequent pain, as if bruised in sides of head.
- Face flushed after hemorrhages, or sexual excesses, or loss of vital fluids.
- Relieved from pressure and warm room.
- Scalp sensitive; worse combing hair.
- Aches worse in open air, from temple to temple.
- Worse by contact, current of air, stepping.
- Dizzy when walking.
Eyes
- Blue color around eyes.
- Hollow eyes.
- Yellowish sclerotica.
- Black specks, bright dazzling illusions; night blindness in anemic retina.
- Spots before eyes.
- Photophobia.
- Distortion of eyeballs.
- Intermittent ciliary neuralgia.
- Pressure in eyes.
- Amaurosis; scalding lachrymation.
Ears
- Ringing in ears.
- External ear sensitive to touch.
- Hearing sensitive to noise.
- Lobules red and swollen.
Nose
- Checked catarrh.
- Easily bleeding from nose, especially on rising.
- Coryza, sneezing, watery discharge.
- Violent dry sneezing.
- Cold sweat about nose.
Face
- Sallow complexion.
- Face bloated; red.
Mouth
- Toothache; better pressing teeth firmly together, and by warmth.
- Tongue coated thick, dirty; tip burns, succeeded by ptyalism.
- Bitter taste.
- Food tastes too salty.
Stomach
- Tender, cold.
- Vomiting of undigested food.
- Slow digestion.
- Weight after eating.
- Ill effects of tea.
- Hungry without appetite.
- Flat taste.
- Darting pain crosswise in hypogastric region.
- Milk disagrees.
- Hungry longing for food, which lies undigested.
- Flatulence; belching of bitter fluid or regurgitation of food gives no relief; worse eating fruit.
- Hiccough.
- Bloatedness better by movement.
Abdomen
- Much flatulent colic; better bending double.
- Tympanitic abdomen.
- Pain in right hypochondrium.
- Gall-stone colic (Triumfetta semitriloba).
- Liver and spleen swollen and enlarged.
- Jaundice.
- Internal coldness of stomach and abdomen.
- Gastro-duodenal catarrh.
Stool
- Undigested, frothy, yellow; painless; worse at night, after meals, during hot weather, from fruit, milk, beer.
- Very weakening, with much flatulence.
- Difficult even when soft (Alum; Plat).
Male
- Excited lascivious fancy.
- Frequent emissions, followed by great weakness.
- Orchitis.
Female
- Menses too early.
- Dark clots and abdominal distention.
- Profuse menses with pain.
- Desire too strong.
- Bloody leucorrhea.
- Seems to take the place of the usual menstrual discharge.
- Painful heaviness in pelvis.
Respiratory
- Influenza, with debility.
- Cannot breathe with head low.
- Labored, slow respiration; constant choking.
- Suffocative catarrh; rattling in chest; violent, hacking cough after every meal.
- Hemorrhage from lungs.
- Dyspnea, sharp pain in left lung.
- Asthma; worse damp weather.
Heart
- Irregular with weak rapid beats followed by strong, hard beats.
- Suffocative attacks, syncope; anemia and dropsy.
Back
- Sharp pains across kidneys, worse movement and at night.
- Knife-like pains around back (D. MacFarlan).
Extremities
- Pains in limbs and joints, as if sprained; worse, slight touch; hard pressure relieves.
- Sensation as of a string around limb.
- Joints swollen; very sensitive, with dread or open air.
- Great debility, trembling, with numb sensation.
- Averse to exercise; sensitive to touch.
- Weariness of joints; worse, mornings and when sitting.
Skin
- Extreme sensitiveness to touch, but hard pressure relieves.
- Coldness; much sweat.
- One hand ice cold, the other warm.
- Anasarca (Ars; Apis).
- Dermatitis; erysipelas.
- Indurated glands; scrofulous ulcers and caries.
Sleep
- Drowsiness.
- Unrefreshing or constant stupor.
- Wakens early.
- Protracted sleeplessness.
- Anxious, frightful dreams with confused consciousness on waking, so that the dream cannot be rid of and fear of dream remains.
- Snoring, especially with children.
Fever
- Intermittent, paroxysms anticipate; return every week.
- All stages well marked.
- Chill generally in forenoon, commencing in breast; thirst before chill, and little and often.
- Debilitating night-sweats.
- Free perspiration caused by every little exertion, especially on single parts.
- Hay fever, watery coryza, pain in temples.
Modalities
- Worse, slightest touch. Draught of air; every other day; loss of vital fluids; at night; after eating; bending over.
- Better, bending double; hard pressure; open air; warmth.
Relationship
- Antidotes: Arn; Ars; Nux; Ipec.
- Compare:-
- Quinidin--(Paroxysmal tachycardia and auricular fibrillation. Heart is slowed, and the auriculo-ventricular conduction time is lengthened. Dose 1/2 grain t.i.d).
- Cephalanthus--(Button Bush-Intermittent fever, sore throat, rheumatic symptoms, vivid dreams).
- Ars; Cedron; Nat sulph.
- Cydonia vulgaris-Quince (supposed to be of use to strengthen the sexual organs and stomach).
- Complementary: Ferrum; Calc phos.
Dose
- Tincture, to thirtieth potency.
