Materia Medica de A a Z

THEA CHINENSIS (SINENSIS) (thea)

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 (Hydr); Oleand (Olnd)]. Craves acids. Sudden production of wind in large quantities.

Abdomen

Borborygmi liability to hernia.

Female

Soreness and tenderness in ovaries.

Anxious oppression. Pracordial 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 (Kali-hp); Thuj; Ferr; Kali hyd (Kali-i) (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.