Cinchona Officinalis

Cinchona has been more or less overlooked in the study of rheumatic troubles, yet it holds a place of no mean importance.

It is more apt to be called for in those who have lost large quantities of the normal fluids of the body, who are attacked with muscular or inflammatory rheumatism.

If fever is present it is either intermittent or remittent ; there is hard red swelling of the joints ; the parts affected are excessively sensitive to touch but > by hard pressure ; the characteristic tearing jerking pains, with the peculiar symptoms of the hack — make a unique group of symptoms that indicates Cinchona unquestionably as the remedy.

Cinchona is compatible with Calc. phos. and Ferrum ; it is complementary to the latter.

HEAD AND EYES . — (China)

EVERY DAY BETWEEN 8 AND 9 A.M. AN ATTACK OF VIOLENT PAIN IN EYE WHICH BECOMES INFLAMED ; AT NOON ALL SYMPTOMS DISAPPEAR.

RHEUMATIC OPHTHALMIA ; CONJUNCTIVA INFLAMED AND RED ; PHOTOPHOBIA.

RHEUMATIC HEADACHE, INTENSE WAVE-LIKE PAIN, FROM A DRAFT OF AIR.

RHEUMATIC PAIN IN MUSCLES OF FACE.

NECK AND BACK . — (China)

SHOOTING PAINS IN NAPE OF NECK.

Drawing pain in nape and on side of spine.

PRESSURE AS FROM A STONE BETWEEN THE SCAPULAE.

SENSITIVENESS OF SPINE TO TOUCH.

STITCHES IN LEFT SIDE OF BACK.

TENSIVE PAIN IN SMALL OF BACK AS FROM A HEAVY LOAD OR AFTER LONG STOOPING.

UNENDURABLE PAIN IN SMALL OF BACK LIKE A CRAMP OR AS IF BRUISED, < FROM EVERY MOTION.

LAME DRAWING AND REARING PAIN IN SMALL OF BACK.

PAIN IN SIDES OF CHEST AS IF BRUISED.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES . — (China)

ACHING IN SHOULDER AND SCAPULAE, < FROM LEAST PRESSURE.

PARALYTIC TEARING PAINS IN BONES OF ARMS.

Trembling of hands.

One hand cold, the other warm.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES . — (China)

Limbs feel as if he had been on a long walk.

Darting tearing pain in limbs.

SENSATION IN BONE OF THIGHS AS IF PERIOSTEUM HAD BEEN SCRAPED WITH A KNIFE.

PAIN IN RIGHT KNEE UP TO THIGH or down to leg.

HOT SWELLING OF RIGHT KNEE, PAINFUL TO SLIGHTEST TOUCH.

Knees weak on walking.

SENSATION AS IF GARTERS WERE TIED TOO TIGHTLY ABOUT LEGS.

LIMBS GO TO SLEEP EASILY AND FREQUENTLY.

ARTHRITIC PAINS IN METATARSAL BONES AND PHALANGES.

HOT ARTHRITIC SWELLING OF FEET.

ARTHRITIC SWELLING AND PAIN OF GREAT TOE < BY SLIGHTEST TOUCH AND MOTION ; < NIGHTS.

TEARING JERKING PAIN IN VARIOUS PARTS OF LIMBS

EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL — (China)

Trembling of all the limbs.

Numbness of limbs ; THEY GO TO SLEEP WHEN LYING ON THEM.

LAXITY OF LIMBS.

HEAVINESS OF LIMBS, ESPECIALLY THIGHS.

PAINFUL TENSION AS OF A BAND ABOUT LIMBS.

TEARING JERKING PAIN IN MUSCLES AND JOINTS, < BY TOUCH.

DARTING TEARING IN HANDS AND FEET.

JOINTS ARE SWOLLEN AND VERY SENSITIVE TO TOUCH.

TENSIVE DRAWING PAIN IN BONES.

JOINTS . — (China)

HARD RED HOT SWELLING.

CONCOMITANTS . — (China)

CONFUSION OF MIND.

HEADACHE AS IF IT WOULD BURST, PAROXYSMS IN WAVES.

RINGING OF EARS.

TONGUE COATED WITH BITTER TASTE.

SENSE OF WEIGHT IN HEPATIC AND SPLENIC REGIONS.

URINE SCANTY WITH BRICK DUST SEDIMENT.

GREAT WEAKNESS AND PROSTRATION.

EXCESSIVE SENSITIVENESS OF ALL THE NERVES.

EXCESSIVELY SENSITIVE TO THE SLIGHTEST TOUCH.

BODY VERY SORE.

DIRTY YELLOW SKIN.

PERSPIRATION VERY PROFUSE AND DEBILITATING, ESPECIALLY AT NIGHT.

FEVER, CHILL AND SWEAT.

EMACIATED.

FAINTNESS.

AGGRAVATIONS . — (China)

AT NIGHT.

FROM SLIGHTEST TOUCH.

Wet weather.

FROM MOTION OF PART.

AMELIORATIONS . — (China)

WHILE FASTING.

DEEP PRESSURE.