Thea sinensis thea

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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).
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. Praecordial 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; 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.