KEY SYMPTOMS

Exhaustion after fluid loss, great imagination, desire for alcohol and for sweet or spicy foods, oversensitivity.

REMEDY PROFILE

China is thought to work best for idealistic, artistic people. Despite problems articulating their feelings, they prefer meaningful talk to trivial chat, but their own intensity often tires them, causing irritability, laziness, depression, violence, or intolerance. Easily offended, they may feel paranoid and mistreated, or that they have been born unfortunate, as if the world is hostile to them. A highly active imagination can lead to a preoccupation with future plans and to egocentric, heroic fantasies that later cause embarrassment.

Physical symptoms may be linked to weaknesses in the liver and digestive system and generally include a dislike of butter and
other fatty foods, and cravings for alcohol and foods that are sweet or spicy.

The remedy is used for exhaustion following illness or extreme fluid loss. It is also given for fever, insomnia, gastric upsets, and headaches.

SOURCE DETAILS

ORIGIN

Native to the tropical forests of South America, but now grown in southeast Asia, India, Sri Lanka, and East Africa.

BACKGROUND

In the 17th century, Jesuits used quinine, extracted from Peruvian bark, as a cure for malaria. It was widely adopted in Europe as a treatment for fevers.

PREPARATION

The bark is macerated in alcohol for at least five days, before being filtered, diluted, and then succussed.

COMMON NAMES

Peruvian bark, cinchona bark, Jesuit’s bark, china bark, calisaya bark, loxa bark, red bark, yellow cinchona.