Sunday 3 March 2013

Cinchona officinalis. Kader Kochi.


Synonyms

Peruvian bark, Jesuit bark, China bark, Quina, Kina-Kina.


Constituents

Evergreen tree. Height 15 meters. Bark. Plant contains salicylic acid, quinine, quinidine, cinchonine, chinchonidine, quinamine, tannic acid, volatile oil, gum, sugar, and wax. Bitter.


Therapeutics

This is a gastric tonic. 

It is medicine for nasal catarrh, body pain, chillness, malaria, and intermittent fever (Quebracho).

It is medicine for sepsis.

It is medicine for amenorrhea. 

It is medicine for diarrhoea.

It is medicine for neuralgia.

It is medicine for hair loss, and greyness (Jaborandi).

It is medicine for hyperglycaemia.

It is medicine in alcoholic addiction.

It is stimulant medicine and it gives warmth to body as the alcohol does. 

It has bacteriolytic and plasmodium parasite-lytic activities. 

It is a strong cardiac depressant (Prolonged QT interval; Cumulative action).

It inhibits excretion of waste materials through kidney (Coffee).

It is remedy for fever without thirst, chillness with desire to uncover in intermittent fever, and malaria.

It is remedy for aseptic meningitis.

It is remedy for hypothermia, hypotension, and hypoglycaemia.

It is remedy for leucopoenia, thrombocytopenia, bleeding, and purpura. 

It is remedy for haemolytic anaemia & thalassemia (Arsenic album). 

It is remedy for weakness due to blood loss.

It is remedy for over sensitiveness of all senses (Hepar sulph, Nux vomica, Zingiber).

It is remedy for color blindness.

It is remedy for deafness, and noise in ear.

It is remedy for cardiac weakness, prolongation of QT interval, and paroxysmal ventricular tachycardia.

It is remedy for arthritis.

It is remedy for muscular dystrophy. 

It is remedy for cramps in legs, dystonia, and Parkinson’s disease.

It is remedy for inflammation, and generalized vasculitis.

It is remedy for inflammation in spleen.

It is remedy for chronic renal failure due to coagulation defects.

It is remedy for stone & cancer in bladder.

It is remedy for hyperhidrosis (Mercurius).

It is remedy for hyper pigmentation, and sunburn.

It is remedy for auto immune diseases (Alfalfa, Secale cor).

It is remedy for acute viral infections.

It had been used in water as elixir.

Antidote of cinchona is Arsenic album.

It is a panacea in herbal medicine (Camphor, Ricinus communis, Ginger, Allium sativa, Asafoetida, Alfalfa, Nux vomica, Ginseng, Viscum album).

It is the national tree of Peru.

Word “Quina” means holy bark. Quin means fair.


Dose 

1 to 3 drops (Descending dose).

Dilution (Ascending potency).




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