Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Remedy
Chapter:
665.25.06
665.25.06 Alstonia constricta
English: Bitter Bark.
Mind
Very despondent; thinks she will die.
Rebellious, nervous.
General
Sensation: constricting.
Time: < 9 am.
Aversion: food, appetite always poor.
Food: < bad water, < decayed vegetable matter.
Physical: < exertion; > lying down.
Body
Energy: debility, weakness, cachexia, prostration, < fever, parturition, under-lactation, diarrhoea.
Vertigo: fainting spells, < after menses.
Fever: exhausting, rigours, sweats cold, ague; intermittent, < quinine, malaria; scarlatina; typhoid.
Face: pale, flushing, < least excitement; emaciated.
Mouth: tongue numb, coated white, very red edges.
Heart: violent palpitation, throbbing in blood-vessels, < waking.
Stomach: empty, gone; atonic dyspepsia; indigestion; cramp, < after midnight; nausea, vomiting, < mornings, < getting up, > lie down.
Abdomen: weak; sinking; sharp shooting pain, stomach to back, spleen; violent purging, cramp, heat, irritation.
Rectum: diarrhoea, atonic, painless, < summer, < heat, < eating, < soldiers; dysentery; stool undigested food, watery; constipation.
Urinary: urine deposits, sediment.
Female: menses dirty brown; leucorrhoea, yellowish-brown, weakening; pain cramping, tearing, dragging, bearing-down, < walking; pain, swelling, right ovarian region, < pressure.
Back: backache, shooting pains.