Thea Sinensis thea.

Nervous sleeplessness; heart troubles, etc., of old tea-drinkers, palpitation of the heart, can't lie down.

Tea (THE)

Nervous sleeplessness, heart troubles, palpitation, and dyspepsia of old tea-drinkers. Produces most of the sick headaches Tabacum antidotal (Allen).

Temporary mental exaltation. Ill-humored. Sick headache radiating from one point. Sleepless and restless. Hallucinations of hearing. Cold damp feeling at back of head.

Sinking sensation at epigastrium. Faint, gone feeling (Sep; Hyd; Oleand). Craves acids. Sudden production of wind in large quantities.

Borborygmi liability to hernia.

Soreness and tenderness in ovaries.

Anxious oppression. Præcordial distress. Palpitation; unable to lie on left side. Fluttering. Pulse rapid, irregular, intermittent.

Sleepy in daytime; sleepiness at night, with vascular excitement and restlessness, and dry skin. Horrible dreams cause no horror.

Worse, night, on walking in open air, after meals. Better warmth; warm bath.

Antidote: Kali hypophos; Thuja; Ferr; Kali hyd (Material doses for tea-taster's cough).

Third to thirtieth potency.

Theine 1/4-1/2 grain hypodermically for sciatica and supra-orbital neuralgia.

Sensation of complete relaxation of the stomach, with qualmishness and nausea, and discharge of water from the mouth ; her stomach felt as if hanging down like an empty bag, and heavy.

Thea chinensis. Tea. N. O. Ternströmiaceæ (Genus, Camellia). Infusion. Tincture. Trituration of Theine.

Delirium; tremens. Mania; suicidal; homicidal. Megrim. Nervousness. Neuralgia. Paralysis. Sleeplessness.

The use of Tea has spread from the older civilisations of the East to the newer ones of the West. Tea contains an alkaloid, Thein , which is by some considered identical with Coffein , and both tea and coffee are used to stimulate jaded faculties and enable persons to endure fatigue, and get more enjoyment out of themselves than they could obtain by mere food. But coffee and tea are different in their effects though they may be alike in their chemistry. The after-effect of all stimulation is reaction; unless it is kept off by a repetition of the stimulant as the effect of the last dose wears off. The sign that the last dose of Tea is wearing off is a nervous, restless, depressed, ill-tempered state, which is visible in persons who rely on tea, at about 5 p.m. Another symptom is an all-gone, sinking sensation at the epigastrium. Excessive tea-drinking is a fruitful source of neuralgia and insomnia. It is often noticed in persons who have sensitive kidneys that they can never take tea when they are going anywhere, because they are compelled to pass water almost immediately after. The symptoms of the Schema are made up of observed effects of overdosing and some direct provings. In a woman who was addicted to eating tea, very pronounced delirium tremens resulted, indistinguishable from that caused by alcohol, though there was no alcoholism in the case. A woman who kept a pot of tea boiling on the stove and drank several bowlfuls every day developed both suicidal and homicidal mania; impulse to jump out of the window; to cut her baby's throat and throw it downstairs ( Thea cm, Fincke, cured). A friend of mine who had been many years in the East and was used to one-storey houses, on his return to this country had a curious impulse to jump out of the window, which he traced to tea-drinking, and which disappeared when he left it off. The homicidal impulse appeared in the dreams of one prover (Teste), who was so far from being horrified by his dream-murders that he even took pleasure in them after awaking. The talkativeness of Thea is one of its chief allurements. Among tea-tasters, who do not drink the tea they taste, but only hold it in the mouth a short time, yet long enough for the mouth to absorb some, there is sometimes developed what is known as tea-tasters' paralysis, affecting mostly the lower limbs, with loss of sensation of both upper and lower. This case has been recorded: A man after drinking tea had pain in epigastrium going through to back, with feeling as if he wanted to be sick and could not, > sitting down and stretching himself out. Thuja 30 cured. Guernsey gives these as indications for Thea: "Nervous sleeplessness; heart troubles, &c., of old tea-drinkers; palpitation of the heart, can't lie down." Peculiar Sensations of Thea are: As if a foreign body in throat. As if on the verge of fainting. As if the stomach hung down relaxed in the body like an empty bag. As if the weight of a sheet on the feet would crush the toes. Cold sensations are prominent; cold, damp feeling at back of head; with pain spreading thence to eyes; also dryness; and swelling of mucous membrane. The symptoms are: < At night; on walking in open air; after meals. > Warmth, external (applying hand or warm clothes to occiput). < By cold water. > Warm bath.

Antidoted by: Thuj., Fer., Beer. Hering says Coffee-drinkers should drink wine, tea-drinkers should drink beer. Beer caused in one tea-drinker relaxation of bowels which was > by Port wine. But Beer relieved in others nausea; irregularity of pulse; weakness; sleeplessness; nervousness and want of confidence. Compare: Gone, faint feeling; sick-headache radiating from one point and pain in left ovary, Sep. Averse to work, especially writing, Hydrast. Relaxed feeling in stomach, Ipec. Desire for acids, Ver., Sul., Ant. c., Phos., Sbi.

Delirium; with ecstasy, laughed incessantly, talked in rhyme. — Delirium tremens (from eating tea). — Sensation as if impelled to suicide, to jump out of the window, put her baby in the boiler with the clothes, cut its throat while cutting bread, throw it downstairs (from excessive tea-drinking, cured with Thea cm, Fincke). — Temporary exaltation. — Disposition to quarrel at the most harmless speech. — Great nervous excitability with exaltation of intellectual faculties. — Nervousness and want of confidence. — Peevish; ill-humoured. — Nocturnal fright, suicidal thoughts. — During the sleepless nights the mind was in a state of most active and persistent thinking in spite of all attempts at forgetfulness ( Thein , gr. 12).

Vertigo; with darkness before eyes; sudden in open air. — Rush of blood to head, with sensation of fulness, esp. in forehead over eyes. — Excessively disagreeable headache with throbbing of carotids. — Sick-headache; chiefly at menstrual period; pain seems to begin in l. ovary and stomach and go to head. — Neuralgic pain in nape like a cold flat-iron between skin and skull passing over whole cranium to forehead region, excruciating. — Throbbing, shooting in temples extending to nose; with great acuteness of smell. — Every heart throb felt at vertex. — In occiput: tearing pain; feeling of damp coldness; electric shocks; pain extends to r. shoulder; > application of hand or warm cloth. — Scalp tender; on vertex; can scarcely comb hair.

Eyes: unusually bright, with dilated pupils; glittering; dry, with neuralgia of eyes. — Sight: dim; dark before eyes; fiery lines; sparks.

Neuralgic pains in cartilages of ears, with icy coldness; impossible to warm them; pains extend to malar bones. — Hallucinations of hearing; for four nights in succession waked thinking he heard the door bell distinctly. — Roaring in ears.

Nose-bleed before menses. — Sensation at root of nose as if epistaxis would occur. — Dryness; soreness of nose.

Wild, distressed expression. — Face: pale; with congested redness; flushed.

Teeth frequently decayed. — Tongue: clean and pale; red; blistered; painful as if scalded. — Whole buccal cavity dry and sensitive. — Much viscid saliva. — Bitter taste in mouth.

Diphtheritic sore throat. — Uneasy feeling in pharynx, as if obstructed by a foreign body. — Painless swelling of mucous membrane.

Very hungry, but little satisfies. — Empty feeling, and faintness. — Thirst; but every mouthful of cold water affects the head like a shock. — Craves acids; lemons. — Nausea; and vomiting after eating (cured). — Vomits bile, never food, when pain at its height. — Weakness about stomach; it seems to hang in the body like an empty bag. — Empty, sinking, craving, gone feeling; pressure; tickling; sensitiveness, at stomach.

After lunch, stitch below ribs, r. to l. side, in paroxysms. — Intestines relaxed. — Liability to hernia.

Swelling of lower end of rectum, with slight itching. — Chronic relaxed bowels < by beer, > by port wine. — Constipation.

Very marked increase of urine. — Must pass water immediately after drinking tea.

Erections. — Unnatural excitement.

Soreness and tenderness of r. ovary. — Menses delayed, scanty, with severe cramp-like, uterine bearing down from beginning to end of period.

Œdema of respiratory tract. — Scraping in larynx. — Hoarseness. — Cough: dry; severe and bloody expectoration. — Respiration increased in frequency and amplitude. — Breathlessness on least exertion. — Paroxysm of asphyxia.

Chest: oppressed; constricted; fluttering in l. side with fulness about clavicles, and feeling, of suffocation; tight across upper part compelling her to sit up in bed.

Anxiety in præcordium. — Anxious oppression, anguish. — Spasm in region of heart. — As if on the verge of fainting. — Palpitation; violent. — Pulse: full, quick; feeble, irregular, intermittent.

Paralysed numbness of extremities. — Joints of hands and feet tender. — Nervous excitability in wrists, hands, and feet.

Violent pains inside arms under elbow wake her after half an hour. — Hand trembled violently, could not be held still more than a few seconds; regular writing impossible ( Thein , gr. 12).

Sensation in under side of either or both thighs, as if circulation had ceased, causing great uneasiness and desire to kick out leg to restore sensibility. — Neuralgic pains in outer hamstrings. — Restlessness of feet. — Sensation as if the weight of a sheet even would crush toes.

Enormous indolent swellings or tumours appear successively on back, thighs, hands, scrotum and penis, each lasting two days (Teste). — Trembling. — Epilepsy (in a child from swallowing a concentrated infusion). — Convulsions. — Languor. — Faintness. — < Afternoon.

Skin dry as if pores obstructed. — Skin of finger-ends peels from excessive dryness. — Eruption of red, indolent pimples. — Itching, crawling, prickling in different parts.

Sleeplessness. — Awoke suddenly as from a struggle of incubus. — Nightmare (esp. from green tea). — Horrible dreams, of murdering people; caused me no horror, and even after waking I found pleasure for a long time in the hideous remembrance.

Intense coldness passing over whole head. — Lowered temperature. — Hands and face cold as marble, and bedewed with clammy perspiration. — Almost immediate increase of general heat. — Excessive internal heat, with flushes of heat on the surface, coming and going quickly. — Disposition to perspire. — Bedewed with chilly moisture.

A tincture is made of Pekœ-tea (Camellia Thea, Link).

Loss of weight diminished. ▶ Lean; and pale. ▶ Trembling. ▶ Convulsions, agg. limbs. ▶ Epilepsy. ▶ Twitching like the sensation caused by electric sparks, in different parts, agg. forearms, hands and finger-joints. ▶ Agitation; first in, limbs, extending from muscles to nervous centres. ▶ Inclination to lie down. ▶ Weakness; for two hours after breakfast; agg. every meal; with pain in small of back; as if knees would not support body. ▶ Sinking, craving, fluttering feeling. ▶ Faintness; which vexed him; becoming a cramplike pain after every meal, reaching into throat and often waking her at night. ▶ Incapable of muscular action. ▶ Symptoms of paralysis, numbness of limbs and partial loss of use of limbs. ▶ If wine or beer were drunk after the tea the sleeplessness and malaise were not felt, but if strong beer were drunk before the tea it diminished the frequently of the pulse and caused comfort and buoyancy of mind and body. ▶ Aggravation in afternoon; A. if I drank it fasting. ▶ Feeling of great ease.

Delirium; and unconsciousness, ecstasy, he laughs and talks in rhyme; delirium tremens, wandering about the house, imagining that evil spirits and people were seeking to harm her, sleeplessness, twitching of face and limbs, later wandering about the wharves and attempting to drown herself. ▶ Agreeable exhilaration of mind and body, contentment, placidity, increase of intellectual and physical vigor, without noticeable reaction. ▶ Temporary exaltation, greater confidence in himself. ▶ Excitement from animated conversation and intense thinking, then refreshing sleep; E., with clearness of intellect; then debilitating influence upon nervous system and lumbar portion of spinal marrow. ▶ Cordiality, brilliancy of intellect, conversation fluent, interesting, witty, then the opposite state, with irritability, sensitiveness and quarrelsome mood.

Sensation as if impelled to commit suicide, to jump out of the window, to put her baby into the boiler with the clothes, to cut its throat when cutting the bread, to throw it down stairs. ▶ Nervousness at the sound of the night-bell; N., amel. beer, with want of confidence. ▶ Anguish. ▶ Terror. ▶ Fright at night, sinister thoughts, invincible propensity to analyze his life, to look at it on the dark side and to resolve it into its most hopeless realities. ▶ Anxiety. ▶ Apprehension of something dreadful about to happen, fear of sudden death, would never go out alone at times impulse to commit some horrible crime, to murder her children, so that she trembled for their safety. ▶ Weeps easily. ▶ Peevish; and taciturn; and disinclined to write or think; and averse to everything and to fatigue. ▶ Averse to movement; to conversation. ▶ Sadness in some, cheerfulness in others. ▶ Gloomy. ▶ Heavy and dizzy in forehead.

Aptitude for study increased, more capable of sustained attention. ▶ Greater power of receiving impressions, it disposes to pensive meditation, causes activity of ideas, attention is easily fixed, sensation of health and gayety; but after an hour nervous troubles, such as yawning, irritability, pains in epigastrium, palpitation, trembling of limbs and sadness, with these symptoms insupportable insomnia, with excitation, then lassitude and headache. ▶ Ideas dull and confused. ▶ Memory weak; lost. ▶ Incapable of any occupation. ▶ Insensibility in evening.

Aching; in morning and evening, often with nausea; with throbbing of carotids; or backache. ▶ Sick headache; every week, with soreness of head, then weakness; agg. during menses, pain begins in left ovary and stomach and passes to head, throbbing shooting through temples, extending down nose, with acuteness of smell, vomiting of bile when the pain is at its height, exertion causes vomiting during the headache. ▶ Congestion; with fulness, agg. over eyes. ▶ Vertigo; with darkness before eyes; sudden, as if about to lose consciousness in evening when walking in open air.

Frontal pain. ▶ Frontal heaviness, agg. walking, with vertigo; agg. walking, with compression. ▶ Vertigo in vertex, with heat and pulsation. ▶ On both sides of base of cerebellum and in nape, neuralgic pain like a cold flat-iron between skin and skull, extending over cranium and over forehead to eyes. ▶ Sharp twitching pain in right occipital protuberance, with feeling of damp coldness, afterwards the pain extends to nape, right shoulder and right arm, amel. application of hand or warm cloth. ▶ Sudden tensive pain in occiput, almost in nape. ▶ Scalp painful to touch; on vertex.

Tea is one the most fruitful causes of "sick-headache."

Glittering. ▶ Dryness from mental exercise during a sleepless night, then neuralgia of them. ▶ Pupils dilated. ▶ Vision dim. ▶ Vision of sparks; flashing, fiery lines darting from eyes and radiating outward from axis of vision.

Neuralgic pain in cartilages, with coldness, the pains extending to molars and cheek-bone. ▶ Ringing. ▶ Roaring. ▶ Hallucination of hearing, for five night he though he heard the door-bell, it often woke him with a start.

Soreness of internal edge. ▶ Constant desire to pick it. ▶ Dryness. ▶ Sensation at root as if epistaxis would occur.

Pale; with circumscribed redness; and lips; and cheeks easily flushed. ▶ Red; cheek. ▶ Wild and distressed expression.

Teeth diseased. ▶ Tongue pale; T. red, with white slime; stinging as from blisters, with pain as if scalded, and on top red spots and white blisters. ▶ Scraping of soft palate. ▶ Dryness and sensitiveness. ▶ Salivation, with hunger, afterwards dryness of mouth, scanty viscid saliva, with satiety and a little thirst. ▶ Offensive breath in morning on waking. ▶ Filled with viscid saliva after drinking. ▶ Taste bitter. ▶ Taste of tea extending from throat to stomach.

Diphtheritic soreness. ▶ Painless swelling of mucous membrane of pharynx. ▶ Dryness. ▶ Uneasiness as from a foreign body in pharynx.

Appetite great with faintness at the dinner-hour; great but easily satisfied then satiety. ▶ Craving for acids; especially lemons. ▶ Longing for tea, which removed the goneness and gave vigor for a short time, often loathed the tea, but could not resist it, thirsty, but could not bear cold water, every mouthful affected her head like a shock. ▶ Loss; with craving at pit of stomach. ▶ Loathing of food till noon, then she eats sparingly. ▶ Dislikes cold water. ▶ Lack of thirst.

Exhausting eructations. ▶ Nausea; in pit of stomach; amel. diarrhœa, with general discomfort and sweat; amel. a glass of sherry or beer, with weakness and irregular pulse; with discomfort in stomach; with salivation. ▶ Weak feeling in stomach, which seems to hang in this body like an empty bag. ▶ Vomiting of bile; of the meal which she had lately taken. ▶ Spasms from slight exertions. ▶ Pyrosis. ▶ Pain in epigastrium; agg. eating, amel. before breakfast, and in umbilical region; cramplike and pressing, after every meal; reaching into throat and often waking her at night. ▶ Sensitiveness of epigastrium; with feeling as if caved in. ▶ Tickling in pit, causing dry cough, which shakes the whole digestive organization, bringing on neuralgic head symptoms. ▶ Heartburn. ▶ Burning in region of pylorus.

Emptiness; in epigastrium; in pit after eating, with pain; with craving; with craving and with fluttering in left side; with excitability and constriction, preventing deep breathing; with oppression, benumbed feeling and with tossing about groans at every breath, occasionally rubbing her stomach violently.

Borborygmi, and agg. epigastric region. ▶ Relaxation of fibres of intestines. ▶ Paroxysmal stitches below ribs, extending from right towards left side, after luncheon. ▶ Liability to hernia. ▶ Cutting above umbilicus, extending to pit of stomach, there becoming intense and radiating thence over chest causing sick faint feeling, sometimes three or four pains in quick succession, but oftener one long slow pain every four or five minutes, then spasmodic belching, pain agg. towards morning, then frequent watery stools, with flatus and pain, then nervous depression the least thought of any exertion seemed overpowering, heavy sleep the second night and exhaustion, agg. next morning, eyes sunken face pallid, tremor of hands, even on lifting a small vial, all movements slow, halting, feeling in brain that everything must stop.

Tumefaction of lower end of R., with itching. ▶ Diarrhœa frequent; chronic D., agg. beer, amel. port wine. ▶ Constipation. ▶ Stool hard in part, the rest scarcely formed; S. irregular and costive; S. scanty; frequent.

Pain in vesical region, with tenderness and frequent desire to urinate, scanty discharge, biting and smarting after urinating. ▶ Urine diminished. ▶ Urea increased. ▶ Urine decreased, contains less water, solids, urea, uric acid, oxalic acid, sulph. acid, sulph. of potash, chloride of sodium, phosphate of magnesia and salts by incineration, but more ammonia, muriate of ammonia, potash, chloride of potassium, phos. acid, phosphate of soda, phosphate of lime, volative salts and extractives.

Erections. ▶ Excitement. ▶ Soreness of right ovary. ▶ Menses only once in seven weeks, scanty, with cramplike, bearing-down pain, generally has nosebleed before menses (it is not quite evident that tea caused these symptoms, but it undoubtedly aggravated them).

Symptoms of swelling of mucous lining of R. and digestive tracts. ▶ Scraping in larynx. ▶ Constriction of larynx, with dry hacking cough. ▶ Hoarseness, almost aphonia. ▶ Cough, with bloody expectoration; dry C. during on day. ▶ Suffocation. ▶ Apparent asphyxia every five or six minutes. ▶ Gasping. ▶ Respiration irregular and oppressed. ▶ Respiration. ▶ Increased; in frequency and amplitude. ▶ Breathless at least; attempt to walk; on ascending stairs, with palpitation.

Oppression; and anxiety. ▶ Constriction. ▶ Tightness across upper part, obliging her to sit up in bed. ▶ Fulness in clavicles, with feeling of suffocation; F. about clavicles, with fluttering in left side.

Sibilant râle. ▶ Spasmodic pain in region; with feeling as if continually falling into deliquium. ▶ Anguish in region. ▶ Anxious oppression. ▶ Præcordial anxiety after tea at supper, with a sleepless night, but if excited by lively conversation or by continued thinking the anxiety disappeared and he had a refreshing sleep. ▶ Uneasiness. ▶ Præcordial distress as if about to faint. ▶ Palpitation; at night, with inability to lie on left side; with dilation and thinning of heart; with pain in region of heart; at times, at other times heart seemed motionless. ▶ Fluttering, then momentary suspension of its action and long-continued swoonings.

Rapid; and full; and irregular, often intermittent; then slower, irregular and intermittent; and small feeble. ▶ Slow and weak in some cases, in others fluttering or intermittent; S., irregular, small, at times hardly perceptible. ▶ Irregular and scarcely perceptible. ▶ Irregular, intermittent almost imperceptible, with anxiety in præcordium or sensation in pit of stomach as in incipient faintness, then frequent paroxysms of asphyxia like nightmare, with spasmodic pain in præcordial region, with intermittent, irregular, at times suppressed respiration.

Trembling. ▶ Pain on inside of arms above elbows, waking her at night. ▶ Joints of hands and feet tender and sensitive to touch. ▶ Nervous excitability of wrists, feet and hands. ▶ Trembling of hands; and arm. ▶ Pain in sciatic nerve. ▶ Sensation on under side of thighs as if circulation had ceased, with sensation of paralysis, causing nervousness and desire to kick in order to restore sensibility. ▶ Neuralgic pain in outer hamstrings. ▶ Inability to lift the affected leg, sometimes right, sometimes left. ▶ Restlessness of feet in evening. ▶ Sensation as if the weight of a sheet would crush toes.

Peeling of ends of fingers from dryness. ▶ Pimples red, indolent or slightly painful, sometimes in clusters, over neck, shoulders, and agg. thighs, they are easily broken, bleed a little and dry up soon. ▶ Timer, circumscribed, almost indolent movable, in thickness of derma, in lumbar region, the skin covering it is a lively pink, tension of integuments is felt even to the hips, with itching, afterwards a similar tumor on outer and upper part of right thigh, and on one palmar aspect of right wrist, the hand engorged, preventing writing, then the same symptoms simultaneously on scrotum, penis and prepuce, appearing like an enormous hydrocele and a phimosis, the parts are indolent, all these tumefactions require two days for their resolution. ▶ Crawling under various parts of skin, with pricking and itching, causing irritability. ▶ Itching of different parts, agg. anteriorly on thighs, next day it extends to legs and agg. ankles and insteps.

Sleepy; in the daytime. ▶ Sleeplessness; till morning; all night; from 10 P.M. till 2 A.M., with irritation and persistent thinking; amel. beer; with vascular excitement; with restlessness; with dryness and heat of skin and tossing about. ▶ Tardy slumbers, with anxiety in limbs more rapid action of heart, sweat on præcordial region, dry heat of other parts. ▶ Troubled sleep, waking at intervals. ▶ Frequent starting from sleep. ▶ Woke suddenly as from a struggle of incubus. ▶ Waking in night in agitation (from green tea after a hearty dinner), with oppression of head, sensation of approaching death, or sometimes he seemed dragged from the lowest abyss of darkness back to the world, from which during his paroxysm he felt himself gradually sink. ▶ Nightmare. ▶ Dream that I murdered in cold blood boys and girls, these crimes caused no emotion, and long after waking I found pleasure in the remembrance of the dream.

Coldness; of skin; passing over head; deathly or cartilages of ears from least draught of air; of hands and feet, with clammy sweat on them. ▶ Heat; internal with flushes upon the surface. ▶ Sweat; chilly. ▶ Dry skin.