# Cinchona Officinalis (HMT)

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Remedy
- **Alternative Names:** China
- **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
Cinchona 261

China is prepared from the Cinchona tree.  The well-known anti-
malarial medicine quinine is prepared  from the bark of the same tree.
In homoeopathy, this is called Ci nchona but it is more commonly
known as China.  An effective and useful medicine, it is extremely
beneficial to annul the bad aftereffects of malaria.  It is used in the
majority of malaria cases.  Cinchona overcomes the symptoms of
malarial fever, which it suppresses.  In most malarial patients, the
symptoms continue to exist in a suppressed form.  These after effects
and suppressed symptoms of malaria are amenable to treatment with
homoeopathic China.  Sometimes, it can be useful in the treatment of
malaria fever as such.  Normally in the cold weather, one does not feel
too thirsty.  But when intense thirst is felt in cold weather and fever
becomes high, the patient feels thirst y again.  In this particular
symptom, probably the best treatment would be China.

It has been repeatedly said that in the case of mala ria, no medicine
should be given when the fever is  coming on.  The best time to
administer medicine is when the feve r is subsiding or has subsided or
there is an onset of a new attack of  fever.  After the malarial attack,
the malarial parasites settle in the liver.  Thus the ideal time to
administer medicine is when the ma larial parasites are on their way to
settle in the liver.  Most of them will be destroyed with treatment but
if some happen to survive, they will definitely become weakened.
Similarly, the treatment should be repeated after the next episode of
fever.  The statement I have made seems philosophical, but it is a hard
fact that I have personally obser ved time and time again, and many
other homoeopaths will agree with me.

China is also very useful in curing the weakness and other side
effects of malarial fever .  Its patient is very sensitive to touch.
Movement aggravates his condition. Cold air is unbearable.  All the
nerves happen to become very exc itable.  Mental fatigue and physical
weakness are typical signs of China.   The patient becomes extremely
irritable, careless, depressed and bad-tempered.  He cannot
concentrate.  While talking to others, the conversation is often
interrupted.  The associated severe headache that spreads down the

Cinchona 262
neck feels better by applying pressure and in a warm room.  There is a
feeling of throbbing over the forehe ad.  The patient does not tolerate
light pressure, yet at the same time he feels relief by deep pressure.
Touch, a draft of air and a thump of  anything aggravate the headache.
Darkish blue rings form around the eyes.  Due to the affliction of the
liver, the eyes become yellow and f eel heavy.  Vision becomes dim,
and temporary blindness may also ensue.

Digestion is slowed down .  Fruit and sour food hurt the stomach.
Food is not digested properly.  Th e abdomen distends.  China would
be ideal to treat the inflammation of liver and spleen with jaundice and
pain at the gall bladder area, if the patient’s constitution matches that
of China.  In this condition, Ch ina 30 should be used continuously
over a long period.

The China patient has a tendency to bleed.  There is bleeding from
the throat, nose and uterus , which is also associated with cramps.
Periods start before their due time.  Leucorrhoeal discharge is mixed
with blood.  China would be an important remedy during childbirth
when labour pains stop due to blee ding and convulsions start, if the
other symptoms of the patient are also  of the nature of China.  Post-
partum bleeding continues for a longer period and smells foul.

The arms and legs of a China patient hurt as if sprained and jolted.
The tonic contractions of the mu scles, like epilepsy,  and the
paralytic weakness of the affected part is also a symptom of China.
There is a rush of blood towards the head, ringing in the ears  and
blackout in the eyes.  In the stat e of commotion, the patient becomes
unconscious.  The patient feels restle ss and sleepless due to weakness
after losing blood.  In women, afte r bleeding and due to nursing the
child, anaemia develops.  They sweat at night.  The skin feels cold.
One hand feels cold and the other wa rm.  The hands and feet of China
feel weak and shaky.  The gums swell and the teeth become loose,
resulting in a severe pain on chewing , as if the teeth have become
too long.  Taste is bitter.  Food also  feels bitter or ex tremely salty in
taste.  Thereby, the patient hates food.  Milk upsets the stomach.  The
associated chronic form of diarrhoea is aggravated at night.  Unlike
China, the diarrhoea of Petroleum starts during the day and stops
before the night sets in.

Cinchona 263
In China, the abdomen becomes distended but the flatus does not
smell.  This particular symptom is saliently described in homoeopathic
books.

Adjuvants: Ferrum Phos, Calcaria Phos
Antidotes: Arnica, Arsenic, Nux Vomica, Ipecac
Potency: Generally 30; otherwise 200 or 1000

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