THEA CHINENSIS

Tea


  • Nervous sleeplessness, heart troubles, palpitation, and dyspepsia of old tea-drinkers. 
  • Produces most of the sick headaches. 
  • Tabacum antidotal (Allen).

Head

  • Temporary mental exaltation. 
  • Ill-humored. 
  • Sick headache radiating from one point. 
  • Sleepless and restless. 
  • Hallucinations of hearing. 
  • Cold damp feeling at back of head.

Stomach

  • Sinking sensation at epigastrium. 
  • Faint, gone feeling (Sep; Hyd; Oleand). 
  • Craves acids. 
  • Sudden production of wind in large quantities.

Abdomen

  • Borborygmi liability to hernia.

Female

  • Soreness and tenderness in ovaries.

Heart

  • Anxious oppression. 
  • Precordial distress. 
  • Palpitation; unable to lie on left side. 
  • Fluttering. 
  • Pulse rapid, irregular, intermittent.

Sleep

  • Sleepy in daytime; sleepiness at night, with vascular excitement and restlessness, and dry skin. 
  • Horrible dreams cause no horror.

Modalities

  • Worse, night, on walking in open air, after meals. 
  • Better warmth; warm bath.

Relationship

  • Antidote: 
    • Kali hypophos; Thuja; Ferr; 
    • Kali hyd (Material doses for tea-taster's cough).

Dose

  • Third to thirtieth potency.
  • Theine 1/4-1/2 grain hypodermically for sciatica and supra-orbital neuralgia.