Thea chinensis
as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927
Tea
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General
Nervous sleeplessness, heart troubles, palpitation, and dyspepsia of old tea- drinkers. Produces most of the sick headaches Tabacum antidotal (Allen).
Modalities
Worse, night, on walking in open air, after meals. Better warmth; warm bath.
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. Præcordial 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.
Relationships
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.
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