Cinchona Officinalis is one of the remedies in homeopathy useful in treating a variety of diseases, is an indispensable remedy, proved and incorporated in Homeopathy by Dr.Samuel Hahnemann
Cinchona Officinalis is commonly known as Peruvian Bark or China.
It is prepared from the bark of the cinchona tree with a few more active principles that are present in it and possess medicinal properties.
It belongs to the family Rubiaceae.
The crude substance for preparation is made from the bark of the Chinchona tree.
The bark is powdered it is taken and mixed with alcohol, to form the tincture only then its dynamic curative power is aroused by homeopathy.
Cinchona Officinalis is a great homeopathic remedy, which leads to the discovery of Homoeopathy by Dr.Hahnemann.
Cinchona Officinalis Constitution/ Personality
Cinchona Officinalis is suited to persons who are broken down or pumped out constitution, due to exhausting discharges and loss of vital fluids, and abuse of quinine.
It is suited to persons who were robust, strong, and healthy stout, swarthy persons who have become weak and exhausted by loss of vital fluids due to conditions like hemorrhages, diarrhea, suppuration, and lactation.
It is suited to people with nervous temperament and in general Hemorrhagic diathesis, the gland is swollen inflamed, and in the initial stages of inflammation.
Guiding symptoms of Cinchona Officinalis
Cinchona Officinalis is indicated for ailments resulting from the loss of vital body fluids, such as hemorrhages, excessive lactation, diarrhea, and suppuration. This remedy addresses the negative effects of tea drinking, abuse of chamomilla, quinine, emotional stress, exposure to drafts, and loss of sleep.
It is often used to treat dropsy, whether generalized or localized, stemming from anemia or the loss of vital fluids. The remedy is particularly effective for individuals with a tendency to hemorrhage from various orifices of the body.
Cinchona Officinalis is beneficial for chronic fatigue syndrome that follows significant fluid loss due to bleeding, such as menstruation, hemorrhoids, or childbirth, as well as from sexual excess.
Symptoms typically occur alongside profound debility, trembling, aversion to exercise, and heightened sensitivity to touch or drafts of air.
This remedy addresses pain that worsens with light touch but improves with hard pressure. It also alleviates excessive irritability and sensitivity of the nervous system, with marked shaking chills throughout the body.
Cinchona Officinalis is suitable for malarial cachexia and chronic fever accompanied by liver and spleen issues.
Additionally, it is indicated for painless nocturnal diarrhea, especially when associated with debilitating sweats. This remedy is effective when symptoms exhibit a clear periodicity.
Medicine Uses
This article will cover from head to toe all the complaints body. And wherever the symptoms are matched, this medicine can be used-
Mind symptoms
The Cinchona Officinalis patient exhibits apathy, indifference, taciturnity, gloominess, ill-humor, and despondency. This remedy is indicated in the last stages of depression when the individual is indifferent to their surroundings, has suicidal thoughts, and lacks a desire to live.
It addresses mental irritability, with a marked aversion to both physical and mental work. The patient may feel discontented with themselves and others, perceiving themselves as unfortunate and believing they are opposed and tormented by everyone around them.
Cinchona Officinalis is beneficial for insomnia, particularly when the mind is crowded with thoughts, preventing sleep.
Patients may experience sudden bouts of crying and tossing in despair. Additionally, there may be a dread of dogs and other animals, aversion to exercise, and a tendency toward anger and quarrelsomeness.
Head symptoms
Cinchona Officinalis is indicated in treating migraine and sick headaches due to loss of vital fluids, sexual excess or hemorrhages, and headache resulting from sleeplessness or suppressed coryza.
There is a headache from occiput extending to the whole head.
There is a sensation as if the skull would burst as if the brain were balancing to and fro and is striking against the skull causing great pain.
The headache causes confusion and dullness as if intoxicated, there is the intense throbbing of the carotids, and the head is inclined to draw backward.
headache with vertigo on waking up at night, and there is nausea and vomiting from sour food, bile, and mucus.
Eyes symptoms
Cinchona Officinalis is a remedy in homeopathy for various eye disorders, including hollowness of the eyes with a blue coloration around them.
It is effective for yellowish sclera commonly observed in alcoholics and individuals with liver cirrhosis suffering from jaundice.
This remedy addresses night blindness and is helpful in treating vitamin A deficiency.
It also aids in conditions related to the retina with poor blood supply, often referred to as anemic retina, leading to black specks in front of the eyes, bright dazzling illusions, and spots before the eyes.
Cinchona Officinalis is indicated for photophobia accompanied by distortion of the eyeballs and intermittent ciliary neuralgia, along with pressure in the eyes and scalding lachrymation.
Ears symptoms
Cinchona Officinalis is a remedy for tinnitus, where the patient experiences ringing in the ears, and the external ear is sensitive to touch.
The sense of hearing is amplified, making the patient sensitive to noise, and the earlobes may appear red and swollen.
Nose symptoms
Cinchona Officinalis is a remedy for allergic rhinitis, characterized by checked catarrh of the nose. It is indicated for epistaxis, with easy bleeding from the nose, especially upon rising.
During rhinitis, the patient experiences coryza, sneezing, and a watery discharge, along with violent dry sneezing and cold sweat around the nose.
Mouth symptoms
Cinchona Officinalis is a remedy for gingivitis, characterized by swollen gums and throbbing pain in the teeth, which improves by pressing the teeth firmly together and with warmth.
The tongue appears thickly coated, dirty-looking, and has a burning sensation at the tip, accompanied by ptyalism and profuse saliva day and night. Patients may experience a bitter taste in the mouth and find that food tastes excessively salty.
The lips and face may be swollen and bloated, with the lips being dry, coated black, and puffed, indicative of dehydration.
Face symptoms
Cinchona Officinalis is a remedy for a bloated face due to liver disorders, presenting with a sallow complexion and a reddish face.
The face may appear sunken, blackish, bluish, and puffy, with deep-set eyes and dark circles around them. It is indicated for facial neuralgia, where the face aches and is irritated by the slightest touch.
Additionally, it is used in cases of erysipelas, characterized by a sallow complexion and redness of the face.
Throat symptoms
Cinchona Officinalis is a remedy for sore throat, characterized by hoarseness of voice and suffocation due to edema of the glottis.
It is also indicated for throat affections with expectoration of clear or blood-stained mucus, particularly following influenza fever.
Chest symptom
Cinchona Officinalis is a remedy for asthma that occurs in damp weather and worsens under similar conditions. It is indicated for influenza accompanied by debility, where the patient struggles to breathe in a low head position.
Breathing is labored with slow respiration and a constant sensation of choking in the chest. There is suffocative catarrh, rattling in the chest, and a violent, hacking cough following meals.
It is also used for hemorrhages from the lungs and for dyspnea accompanied by sharp pain in the left lung.
Heart symptoms
Cinchona Officinalis is indicated in heart complications that occur secondary to hemorrhages or heavy blood loss, the heart is irregular with weak rapid heartbeats followed by strong, hard beats.
There are suffocative attacks, with syncope as a complication of anemia and dropsy.
Stomach symptoms
Cinchona Officinalis is a remedy for gastric disorders that occur due to malaria infection or as a sequel to malaria, characterized by tenderness of the stomach and a cold sensation.
It addresses stomach issues arising from excessive tea drinking, with symptoms including vomiting of undigested food and slow digestion.
Patients may experience a feeling of weight in the stomach after consuming too much tea, alongside hunger without appetite and darting pain across the hypogastric region. It is indicated when milk disagrees with the patient, who feels hungry but experiences undigested food in the stomach.
This remedy is effective for flatulence and bloatedness, which improve with movement. It also helps with water brash, presenting as belching of bitter fluid or regurgitation of food that provides no relief, particularly worse after eating fruit.
Hiccoughs that improve in the open air are another indication for its use.
Abdomen and Rectum symptoms
Cinchona Officinalis is a remedy for flatulent colic that improves by bending double. It addresses tympanitic abdomen with pain in the right hypochondrium.
This remedy is useful for gallstone colic, where pain in the right hypochondrium leads to an enlarged liver and spleen. It is indicated for cases of enlarged liver and liver cirrhosis causing jaundice.
Additionally, it is effective for gastro-duodenal ulcers, particularly when there is a sensation of internal coldness in the stomach and abdomen, accompanied by burning soreness in the gastro-duodenal region.
It is indicated when stools are undigested, frothy, yellow, painless, and worsen at night, after meals, during hot weather, or following the consumption of fruit, milk, and beer.
After stools, the patient may experience severe weakening of the gastric system, with significant flatulence and difficulty passing stools, even when they are soft.
Male symptoms
Cinchona Officinalis acts on the male genital system, particularly in cases of impotence resulting from excessive indulgence in sexual activities.
It addresses chronic fatigue and weakness of the genitals after the loss of vital fluids due to hemorrhages, influenza, or malaria.
The patient may experience inadequate erections, often linked to alcoholism or the adverse effects of tea drinking.
Female symptoms
Cinchona Officinalis has a significant action on the female genital system, particularly for treating excessive menstrual blood loss (menorrhagia). It is indicated when the first menses occur too early, are profuse with pain, and last too long, characterized by dark clotted blood.
The female genital areas may be very sensitive to touch but can be relieved by hard pressure.
This remedy is effective for purulent leucorrhea replacing menses, suggesting an infection in the pelvis. It also addresses metrorrhagia, which presents with profuse blood flow and heaviness in the abdomen, along with flatus and constipation.
Cinchona Officinalis is useful for uterine weakness and infertility following malaria infection. It is indicated in cases of dysmenorrhea, particularly with severe pain in the right ovary.
Additionally, it addresses soreness, burning, and itching in the vagina and surrounding areas, which may lead to urinary tract infections. This remedy is also indicated for ovarian tumors, characterized by heaviness and tenderness in the abdominal and uterine regions.
Hand and Leg symptoms
Cinchona Officinalis is a remedy for later stages of rheumatism, where the hands and legs, including the knees and ankles, are swollen and painful. It addresses rheumatic pains in the metatarsal bones and the phalanges of the toes, which worsen with contact but not with motion.
This remedy is effective for rheumatism characterized by swelling on the dorsum of the left hand, blue nails, and soft swelling of the soles. It is indicated for weakness in the knees, accompanied by uneasiness in the legs, causing the patient to curve and draw them up.
Additionally, it is helpful when there is hot swelling of the right knee that is painful to the touch.
Cinchona Officinalis is also indicated for paralysis of the hands, with trembling noted when writing. It is effective for rheumatism in the hand when one hand is icy cold while the other is warm.
This remedy addresses varicose veins, where the legs exhibit over-sensitivity of the nerves due to loss of fluids.
It is indicated when there is numbness in the legs where one lies, along with severe congestion, enlarged veins, and emaciation of the affected leg.
Back symptoms
Cinchona Officinalis is a remedy for muscle aches in the back, characterized by sharp pains across the kidneys that worsen with movement and at night. The patient may experience knife-like pains around the back.
It is indicated when there is a sensation of soreness and a feeling of being broken down in the back after lying down, along with complete exhaustion due to loss of vital fluids.
Skin symptoms
Cinchona Officinalis is a remedy for treating skin disorders such as dermatitis and erysipelas, indicated when the skin is extremely sensitive to touch, with relief from hard pressure.
It is indicated for coldness of the skin accompanied by excessive sweating, where one hand is ice cold while the other is warm.
This remedy is also used for anasarca that occurs after the loss of vital fluids, hemorrhages, and sexual excess.
It is indicated for indurated glands of the neck and throat, scrofulous ulcers, or bed sores that develop after blood loss and caries.
Fever symptoms
Cinchona Officinalis is a great remedy for meningitis, and malarial fever, in which there are intermittent, paroxysms of heat and chills, the patient anticipates it before commencing, fever returns every week.
It is indicated when all stages are well marked. The Chill is generally in the forenoon, commencing in the breast; thirst before chill, there is the tendency to drink water little and often.
It is indicated when there are debilitating night sweats, there is free perspiration caused by every little exertion, especially on single parts.
It is a great remedy, used by many homeopaths for Hay fever, with watery coryza, and pain in temples.
Apyrexia is marked by debility, restlessness, loss of appetite, hunger, and anemia.
Modalities
Modalities are the factors that, increase or decrease the complaints in a patient.
They are categorized as aggravating factors and amelioration factors.
Aggravating factors make the condition of the illness worst, while the amelioration factor makes the condition of the disease better.
It can be time, any part of the day, season, position, or any applications, etc.
Aggravated By
The condition of Cinchona Officinalis is worse, Worse, the slightest touch. Draught of air; every other day; loss of vital fluids; at night; after eating; bending over.
Symptoms are worse from getting wet, touching, or under pressure.
There is time aggravation of symptoms, mostly in the afternoon, at 3:00 pm, and on the right side.
Amelioration By
The conditions of Cinchona Officinalis are better by bending double; hard pressure in case of headache; in the open air.
Relationship with Other Medicine
Complementary Medicines
This remedy completes the process of cure that is started by the first medicine given.
The remedies complementary to Cinchona Officinalis are Ferrum Metallicum; Calcarea phosphoricum.
Similar Medicines
These remedies have many similarities in action but are different in origin, which means the source from which the medicine is prepared is another.
Remedies similar to Cinchona Officinalis are Ferrum phosphoricum.
Compatible
These are the remedies that are suitable to be used together.
It is compatible with Belladonna, Ferrum metallicum.
Incompatible to
Cinchona Officinalis is incompatible after Digitalis, Selenium.
Antidoted by
The bad effects of Cinchona Officinalis are antidoted by Natrum muriaticum and Crabo Vegatablis
It antidotes
It antidotes the effects of Mercury.
Cinchona Officinalis Dosage & Potencies
The dosage and potency of the medicine depend on the individual case.
Cinchona Officinalis 30 Uses
Lower potency is given when very few symptoms of the patient match with the medicine and help the doctor only to diagnose the disease condition.
It is used in treating dropsy, and puffiness of the skin, weakness after blood loss.
This potency requires frequent repetition, 3-4 times a day, till the expected result is seen.
Cinchona Officinalis 200 Uses
This is considered as higher potency; they are given when the majority of mental symptoms and physical symptoms of Cinchona Officinalis match.
It is useful in Asthma and Rheumatism.
Higher potencies are advisable to be not repeated very often; they act for a long duration of days, so the second dose is repeated every 7-days or every 15-days once.
Cinchona Officinalis 1M Uses
This is very high potency.
One should give it only after careful case analysis, where all medicinal symptoms of Cinchona Officinalis and that given by the patient match perfectly.
It is useful in cases of Delirium, Alcoholism, and Tobacco habit.
One should not repeat 1 M potency.
It is given 30 days once and waiting for symptoms to disappear.
Cinchona Officinalis (Mother Tincture) Uses
The mother tincture of Cinchona Officinalis is used to treat Malaria fever which needs frequent repetition.
Take 10 drops of mother tincture in half a cup of water three times a day till the improvement occurs.
Cinchona Officinalis 3X/6X Uses
This lower potency of Cinchona Officinalis works well to treat the conditions like Anemia, acne, and gallstones.
Take 2-3 drops of dilution directly on the tongue thrice a day for 3 months.
Clinical Indication of Cinchona Officinalis
- Alcoholism
- Amblyopia
- Anemia
- Aphthae
- Apoplexy
- Appetite, disordered
- Asthma
- Bilious attack
- Catarrhal affections
- Constipation
- Cough
- Debility
- Delirium
- Diarrhea
- Dropsy
- Dyspepsia
- Ears, deafness
- Erysipelas
- Facial neuralgia
- Gall-stone colic
- Haemorrhages
- Hemorrhoids
- Headache
- Hectic fever
- Hip-joint disease
- Impotence
- Influenza
- Intermittent fever
- Jaundice
- Labour
- Leucorrhoea
- Liver cirrhosis
- Malaria disease
- Menstruation disordered
- Neuralgia
- Peritonitis
- Perspiration is excessive.
- Psoriasis
- Rheumatism
- Sleep, disorders
- Spleen, affections
- Tinnitus
- Tobacco habit
- Varicose veins
- Vertigo
Side Effects of Cinchona Officinalis
Homeopathic medicines are prepared by potentization where the dynamic curative power of the medication is aroused, so homeopathic medicines produce negligible side effects.
If any side effects of Cinchona Officinalis like weakness and fatigue are seen, then it can be antidoted by Natrum muriaticum and Carbo Vegetabilis.
Remember that homeopathic remedies should be prescribed based on individual symptoms and characteristics. It’s crucial to consult with a qualified homeopath for proper evaluation and personalized treatment. Homeopathy focuses on treating the whole person, so a detailed case study is necessary to select the most appropriate remedy.
Homeopathic medicines should be taken only when prescribed by a homeopathic physician. Self-medication may aggravate the original conditions.