CHINA OFFICINALIS

REMEDY OF THE DAY: CHINA OFFICINALIS or Cinchona Officinalis, Quinina, Peruvian bark used to make Tincture. Used to treat Malaria. Dr. Samuel Hahnemann as a chemist, and translating Alder Bonhaler pharmacophea found this paragraph: "It is precisely to prove a remedy in a healthy body, after asuring its odor, taste, give a small dose and pay attention to all efects produced, the pulse, the respiration, the secression, etc., and only then after observing all the sympthoms produced in a healthy body, then you can prove them in an ill one. He kept this idea, and translationg Treatise on Materia Medica of Dr. Cullen observes the contradictory hypothesis about the use of Cinchona, a Peruvian plant used to treat Malaria, his desire to experiment the plant on a healthy person arised very strongly so Hahnemann desided to try it on himself. So he triturated the plant, diluted it, drank 4 dracmas of the tincture, he also prepared a tea and gave it to his friends and after a week, his friends and himself had all the sympthoms of malaria. In his second book Hahnemann wrote: I drank, to prove, twice a day 4 dracmas (one dracma equal 3.24 centigrams) of pure China. my extremities and fingers turned cold, I felt sleepy and dreadful feeling my heart was beatting, I was shaking although it was not winter, weariness of the body, and of my limbs, pulsation on my head, redness of the cheeks and the ear lobes, thirst and finally all these sympthoms are characteristic of the intermittent fever. All these paroxisms presented three to four hours long each time, reappearing if I drank the same dose. So I stopped drinking and my health returned. So Homeopathy was born 1790 first plant proved by Samuel Hahnemann itself. BeatrizHH - for ILH 30-11-10 !