Peruvian Bark (Rubiaceae)
- For stout, swarthy persons; for systems, once robust, which have become debilitated, "broken down" from exhausting discharges (Carbo v.).
- Apathetic, indifferent, taciturn (Phos. ac.); despondent, gloomy, has no desire to live, but lacks courage to commit suicide.
- Ailments: from loss of vital fluids, especially haemorrhages, excessive lactation, diarrhoea, suppuration (Chin. s.); of malarial origin, with marked periodicity; return every other day.
- After climacteric with profuse haemorrhages; acute diseases often result in dropsy.
- Pains: drawing or tearing; in every joint, all the bones.
- Periosteum, as if strained, sore all over; obliged to move limbs frequently, as motion gives relief; renewed by contact, and then gradually increase to a great height.
- Headache: as if the skull would burst; intense throbbing of head and carotids, face flushed; from occiput over whole head; < sitting or lying, must stand or walk; after haemorrhage or sexual excesses.
- Face pale, hippocratic; eyes sunken and surrounded by blue margins; pale, sickly expression as after excesses; toothache while nursing the child.
- Excessive flatulence of stomach and bowels; fermentation, borborygmus, belching gives no relief (belching relieves, Carbo v.); < after eating fruit (Puls.).
- Colic: at a certain hour each day; periodical, form gall-stones (Card. m.); worse at night and after eating; better bending double (Coloc.).
- Great debility, trembling, aversion to exercise; sensitive to touch, to pain, to drafts of air; entire nervous system extremely sensitive.
- Unrefreshing sleep or constant sopor; < after 3 a. m.; wakens early.
- Haemorrhages: of mouth, nose, bowels or uterus; long continued; longing for sour things.
- Disposition to haemorrhage from every orifice of the body, with ringing in ears, fainting, loss of sight, general coldness, sometimes convulsions (Fer., Phos.).
- Pains are < by slightest touch, but > by hard presure (Caps., Plumb.).
- One hand icy cold, the other warm (Dig., Ipec., Puls.).
- Intermittent fever: paroxysm anticipates from two to three hours each attack (Chin. s.); returns every seven or fourteen days; never at night; sweats profusely all over on being covered, or during sleep (Con.).
Relations
- Complementary: Ferrum.
- Follows well: Cal. p. in hydrocephaloid.
- Compare: Chin. s. in intermittent fever, anticipating type.
- Incompatible: after, Dig., Sel.
- Is useful in bad effects from excessive tea drinking or abuse of chamomile tea, when haemorrhage results.
Aggravation
- From slightest touch; draft of air; every other day; mental emotions; loss of vital fluids.
Amelioration
- Hard pressure; bending double.
