Alstonia Scholaris alst-s.

Dita Bark

Malarial diseases, with diarrhœa, dysentery, anæmia, feeble digestion, are the general conditions suggesting this remedy. Characteristics are the gone sensation in stomach and sinking in abdomen, with debility. A tonic after exhausting fevers.

Violent purging and cramp in bowels. Heat and irritation in lower bowels. Camp diarrhœa, bloody stool, dysentery; diarrhœa from bad water and malaria. Painless watery stools (Phosph ac). Diarrhœa immediately after eating.

Compare: Similar in action to Alstonia constricta, the bitter bark or native quinine of Australia. Ditain (active principle, is anti-periodic, like quinine, but without unpleasant effects). Cinchona (similar in diarrhœa, chronic dyspepsia and debility). Hydrastis; Fer cit et chin.

Tincture to third potency. Locally, for ulcers and rheumatic pains.

A tincture is prepared from the bark of this tree (natural order Apocynaceæ).

Violent purging and cramp in the bowels, vertigo and general weakness; sharp purging, with pain, uneasiness in bowels and heat and irritation in the lower bowel.

Camp diarrhœa of undigested food; bloody; especially of malarial origin, from drinking bad water, or even dysenteric symptoms, with great prostration. ▶ Has been used in India for the malarial fevers of that country, and it has also been found valuable as a tonic in the debility following exhausting fevers.