CHINA OFFICINALIS

Source indications

Boericke's Materia Medica

  • Debility from exhausting discharges
  • nervous erethism
  • periodicity
  • sensitive to draughts
  • chronic gout
  • chronic suppurative pyelitis
  • post operative gas pains
  • apathetic
  • indifferent
  • disobedient
  • taciturn
  • despondent
  • ideas crowd in mind
  • disposition to hurt other people's feelings
  • sudden crying and tossing about
  • sensation as if brain were balancing to and fro and striking against skull
  • intense throbbing of head and carotids
  • spasmodic headache in vertex
  • face flushed after hemorrhages
  • scalp sensitive
  • dizzy when walking
  • blue color around eyes
  • hollow eyes
  • yellowish sclerotica
  • black specks before eyes
  • bright dazzling illusions
  • night blindness in anemic retina
  • spots before eyes
  • photophobia
  • distortion of eyeballs
  • intermittent ciliary neuralgia
  • pressure in eyes
  • amaurosis
  • scalding lachrymation
  • ringing in ears
  • external ear sensitive to touch
  • hearing sensitive to noise
  • lobules red and swollen
  • checked catarrh
  • easily bleeding from nose
  • coryza
  • sneezing
  • watery discharge
  • violent dry sneezing
  • cold sweat about nose
  • sallow complexion
  • face bloated
  • red face
  • toothache
  • tongue coated thick and dirty
  • tip of tongue burns
  • ptyalism
  • bitter taste
  • food tastes too salty
  • tender stomach
  • cold stomach
  • vomiting of undigested food
  • slow digestion
  • weight after eating
  • ill effects of tea
  • hungry without appetite
  • flat taste
  • darting pain crosswise in hypogastric region
  • milk disagrees
  • hungry longing for food which lies undigested
  • flatulence
  • belching of bitter fluid
  • regurgitation of food
  • hiccough
  • bloatedness
  • much flatulent colic
  • tympanitic abdomen
  • pain in right hypochondrium
  • gall-stone colic
  • liver and spleen swollen and enlarged
  • jaundice
  • internal coldness of stomach and abdomen
  • gastro-duodenal catarrh
  • undigested stool
  • frothy stool
  • yellow stool
  • painless stool
  • weakening stool
  • difficult stool
  • excited lascivious fancy
  • frequent emissions
  • orchitis
  • menses too early
  • dark clots during menses
  • abdominal distention
  • profuse menses with pain
  • desire too strong
  • bloody leucorrhea
  • painful heaviness in pelvis
  • influenza with debility
  • cannot breathe with head low
  • labored slow respiration
  • constant choking
  • suffocative catarrh
  • rattling in chest
  • violent hacking cough after every meal
  • hemorrhage from lungs
  • dyspnea
  • sharp pain in left lung
  • asthma
  • irregular heart with weak rapid beats followed by strong hard beats
  • suffocative attacks
  • syncope
  • anemia
  • dropsy
  • sharp pains across kidneys
  • knife-like pains around back
  • pains in limbs and joints as if sprained
  • joints swollen
  • great debility
  • trembling
  • numb sensation
  • averse to exercise
  • weariness of joints
  • extreme sensitiveness to touch
  • coldness of skin
  • much sweat
  • one hand ice cold
  • other hand warm
  • anasarca
  • dermatitis
  • erysipelas
  • indurated glands
  • scrofulous ulcers
  • caries
  • drowsiness
  • unrefreshing sleep
  • constant stupor
  • wakens early
  • protracted sleeplessness
  • anxious dreams
  • frightful dreams
  • confused consciousness on waking
  • snoring
  • intermittent fever
  • paroxysms anticipate
  • chill generally in forenoon commencing in breast
  • thirst before chill
  • debilitating night-sweats
  • free perspiration caused by every little exertion
  • hay fever
  • watery coryza
  • pain in temples