Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica
China Officinalis chin.
Region
BLOOD. CIRCULATION. SECRETIONS: Digestive. Organs. Liver. Spleen. Nerves.
Worse
VITAL LOSSES. TOUCH. Jar. Noise. PERIODICALLY: Alternate days (Ars. Nat-m.). Cold; drafts; wind. Open air. Eating; fruit; milk. Mental exertion.
Better
Hard pressure (Lach.). Loose clothes.
General
INTERMITTENCY. PROFUSE, EXHAUSTING DISCHARGES, HÆMORRHAGES, etc. (Abro. Calc-hyp. Pho-ac.). Weak, oversensitive and nervous; everything upsets him, light, noise, odors, pain, etc. Hard swelling. Bursting. Rheumatism. Neuralgia. Emaciation. Anæmia. Dropsy.
Particulars
Stubborn. Disobedient. Vertigo; falls backward. Throbbing, bursting, swashing, or bruised feeling in brain, < temples. Sore scalp, < touching hair. Hot red ears. Tinnitus; then vertigo. Deafness. Pale, earthy, sickly look; bluish about eyes. Teeth throb; < sucking. Acute, sour or bitter taste, or eructations. Craves delicacies. Quick satiety. Anorexia. Loud belching, without relief (Arg-n.). Slow digestion. Sore stomach. Thirst for cold water that aggravates diarrhœa. Periodical liver symptoms (Quas.). Gall-stones. Swelled liver and spleen. Flatulent bloating. Tympanitis. Pain from rectum into genitals. STOOLS; LIENTERIC; dark; foul; watery; BLOODY; painless; < eating; < night. Dark, profuse, clotted menses. Blood spitting. Puffing, rattling, breathing. Every motion excites palpitation and takes his breath. Suppurative phthisis (Hep.). Painfully sore chest and interscapular spine. Heavy pressure (load) on shoulders, between scapulæ or on sacrum. Twitching in knees. As of a band about legs. Pain in marrow. Drowsy. Heavy, snoring sleep. Anxious dreams. Swelled veins (hands, face). Marked prodrome. Clearly staged chill, heat and sweat. Chill, then thirst, then heat, then thirst. Red, hot face, with cold hands. Hectic. Sleeplessness, as a prodrome. Thirst during apyrexia. DRENCHING SWEATS; AT NIGHT, < least motion; from weakness, etc. Tropical fevers. Sepsis.
Related
Complementary: Carb-v. Fer. Kali-c. Related: Carb-v.