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General
THEA CHINENSIS Tea (THE)
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.
Praecordial 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.