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 a great remedy in homeopathy when all the ailments are a result of loss of vital body fluids, in form of hemorrhages, sexual excess, excess lactation, diarrhea, and suppuration.
It is a wonderful remedy for treating the bad effects of tea drinking, or abuse of chamomilla, quinine, mental emotions, a draught of air, from fruits, and loss of sleep.
Cinchona Officinalis is used by many homeopaths in treating symptoms of Dropsy either generalized or localized from anemia, loss of vital fluids, and hemorrhages.
It is a great remedy for treating the disposition to hemorrhages from every orifice of the body.
It is a great remedy for treating hemorrhages, the patient has got a disposition to hemorrhages from every orifice of the body.
It is a great remedy for treating chronic fatigue syndrome that occurs in people after the loss of vital fluids in form of bleeding hemorrhages from menstruation, piles, or following childbirth, also due to sexual excess.
It is indicated most of the symptoms are occurring with profound debility, trembling, aversion to exercise, and very sensitivity to touch or to a draught of air.
It is a great pain remedy, the pain is aggravated by the slightest touch, but is better by hard pressure.
It is a wonderful remedy for excessive irritability and sensitiveness of the whole nervous system, shaking chills all over the body is well-marked.
It is a great remedy for malarial cachexia and chronic fever with liver and spleen complaints.
It is a wonderful remedy for the treatment of painless nocturnal diarrhea, it is indicated when there is debilitating sweat with nocturnal diarrhea.
It is a great remedy in treating cases when the periodicity of symptoms is well marked.
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 is very much apathetic, indifferent, taciturn, gloomy, ill-humored, and despondent.
It is a wonderful remedy for the last stage of depression when the person is so much indifferent to the surroundings and wants to commit suicide, and has got no desire to live.
It is a wonderful remedy for treating the mental state of irritability of the nerves, there is a dislike of bodily and mental work.
The person is discontented with himself and others, he thinks himself unfortunate and fancies he is opposed and tormented by everybody.
It is a wonderful remedy for insomnia, when there are ideas crowded in their mind preventing sleep, their mind is crowded with thoughts, suddenly start crying and tossing about in despair.
There is the dread of dogs and other animals, aversion to exercise, he is disposed to be angry and quarrelsome.
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 great remedy in homeopathy for eye disorders their hollowness of eyes with blue color around eyes.
It is a great remedy for yellowish sclerotic that is commonly observed in alcoholics and people with liver cirrhosis, suffering from jaundice.
It is a great remedy for night blindness, thus helpful in the treatment of deficiency of vitamin -A.
It is a wonderful remedy for the retina with poor blood supply usually called an anemic retina leading to black specks in front of the eyes, there is a bright dazzling illusion and spots before the eyes.
It is a great remedy for Photophobia with distortion of the eyeballs and intermittent ciliary neuralgia, there is pressure in the eyes, and scalding lachrymation.
Ears symptoms
Cinchona Officinalis is a wonderful remedy for tinnitus, the patient hears ringing in the ears and the external ear is sensitive to touch.
The sense of hearing becomes amplified and the patient is sensitive to noise, the ear lobules are red and swollen.
Nose symptoms
Cinchona Officinalis is a wonderful remedy for allergic rhinitis and there is a checked catarrh of the nose.
It is a wonderful remedy for epistaxis, there is easy bleeding from the nose, especially on rising.
During the rhinitis the patient has Coryza, sneezing, watery discharge, there is violent dry sneezing, and cold sweat about the nose.
Mouth symptoms
Cinchona Officinalis is a wonderful remedy for gingivitis the gums are swollen there is throbbing pain in the teeth better by pressing teeth firmly together, and by warmth.
The Tongue is coated thick, is dirty looking and the tip burns, succeeded by ptyalism, and profuse saliva day and night.
There is a bitter taste in the mouth, and the food tastes too salty. The lips and face are swollen and bloated.
The lips are dry, coated black, and puffed, indicative of dehydration.
Face symptoms
Cinchona Officinalis is a great remedy for bloated face due to liver disorders there is a sallow complexion and a reddish face.
The face is sunken blackish, bluish, and puffy, swollen, eyes are sunken deep with dark circles around the eyes.
It is a wonderful remedy for face neuralgia, the face aches and is irritated by the slightest touch.
It is indicated for Erysipelas with sallow complexion and redness of the face.
Throat symptoms
It is a great remedy for sore throat, there is hoarseness of voice, and suffocation due to edema of the glottis.
It is a great remedy for throat affection in which there is expectoration that is clear or blood-stained mucus, after influenza fever.
Chest symptom
Cinchona Officinalis is a great remedy for asthma when it occurs in damp weather and is worse in damp weather.
It is a great remedy for influenza with debility, the patient cannot breathe with a head low position.
The breathing is labored, respiration is slow, and sensation of constant choking in the chest.
There is suffocative catarrh and rattling in the chest and a violent, hacking cough after every meal.
It is a wonderful remedy for hemorrhages from the lungs.
It is a great remedy for dyspnoea and 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 wonderful remedy for gastric disorders, that occur due to malaria infection or the following malaria, the re is the tenderness of the stomach and it feels cold
It is a great remedy for stomach disorders that occur as ill effects of excess tea drinking, there is vomiting of undigested food, there is slow digestion.
There is a feeling of weight in the stomach after eating excess tea. The patient is hungry without appetite and has darting pain crosswise in the hypogastric region.
It is a great remedy when milk disagrees with the patient who is hungry longing for food, and the food lies undigested in the stomach.
It is a wonderful remedy for flatulence, and bloatedness better by movement
It is a great remedy for water brash there is belching of bitter fluid or regurgitation of food which gives no relief; worse eating fruit.
It is a wonderful remedy for hiccoughs better in the open air.
Abdomen and Rectum symptoms
Cinchona Officinalis is one of the top listed remedies for flatulent colic that is better by bending double.
It is a wonderful remedy for the Tympanitic abdomen, with pain in right hypochondrium.
It is useful in Gallstone colic with pain in right hypochondrium leading to swollen liver and spleen.
It is a great remedy for enlarged liver, and liver cirrhosis causing Jaundice.
It is a great remedy for gastro duodenal ulcers, indicated when there is an internal coldness of the stomach and abdomen, and pain-burning soreness in the gastro-duodenal region.
It is indicated when the stools are undigested, frothy, yellow, painless, and worse at night, after meals, during hot weather, from fruit, milk, and beer.
After stools, there is a severe weakening of the gastric system, with much flatulence and severe constipation there is difficulty in passing stools even when soft.
Male symptoms
Cinchona Officinalis has a wonderful action on the male genital where there is impotence due to excessive indulgence in sexual activities.
There is chronic fatigue and weakness of the genitals after the loss of vital fluids due to hemorrhages, and influenza, malaria.
The patient suffers from inadequate erections mostly due to alcoholism or as the ill effect of tea drinking.
Female symptoms
Cinchona Officinalis has got wonderful action on female genitals, for treating excess menstrual blood loss menorrhagia, the first menses are too early, profuse with pain, too long-lasting with dark clotted blood, the female genital parts are very sensitive to touch but relieved by hard pressure.
It is a great remedy for treating purulent leucorrhoea in place of menses, indicative of infection, in the pelvis.
It is a wonderful remedy for treating Metrorrhagia with profuse blood flow and heaviness in the abdomen, flatus, and constipation,
It is a wonderful remedy for uterine weakness and infertility after malaria infection.
It is a great remedy for Dysmenorrhoea, with severe pain in the ovary mostly the right-sided ovary is affected.
It is indicated when there is great soreness, burning, and itching in the vagina and surrounding area in contact leading to urinary tract infection.
It is indicated in ovarian tumors, with heaviness and tenderness over the abdomen and uterine region.
Hand and Leg symptoms
Cinchona Officinalis is a wonderful remedy for later stages of Rheumatism, hands s, and legs, the knees and ankles are swollen and painful.
It is a great remedy for Rheumatic pains in the metatarsal bones and the phalanges of the toes, worse from contact, not from motion.
It is a wonderful remedy for Rheumatism with swelling of the dorsum of the left hand with blue nails, the feet, there is soft swelling of the soles.
It is a great remedy for weakness in the knees, and there is uneasiness in the legs, obliging him to curve them and draw them up. It is indicated when there is hot swelling of the right knee, painful to the touch.
It is a wonderful remedy for paralysis of hands there is trembling of hands when writing. It is of great effectiveness when prescribed for rheumatism of the hand when there is the icy coldness of one hand, while the other is warm.
It is a great remedy for varicose veins the legs are over-sensitiveness of the nerves, from loss of fluids.
It is indicated when there is numbness of the legs affected on which one lies, there is severe congestion the veins are much enlarged and there is emaciation of the affected leg.
Back symptoms
Cinchona Officinalis is a great remedy for muscle aches of the back, there are sharp pains across the kidneys, worse on movement and at night, there are knife-like pains around the back.
It is indicated when there is a sensation as if the back is sore and broken down after the patient has to lie down, and is completely exhausted due to loss of vital fluids.
Skin symptoms
Cinchona Officinalis is a wonderful remedy for treating disorders of the skin like dermatitis, and erysipelas it is indicated when the skin is extremely sensitive to touch, but hard pressure relieves the symptom.
It is indicated in the coldness of the skin with much sweat. One hand is ice cold, the other warm.
It is a wonderful remedy for treating Anasarca that occurs after loss of vital fluids, hemorrhages, and sexual excess.
It is a wonderful remedy for Indurated glands of the neck and throat; scrofulous ulcers or bed sores 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.