# Thea Sinensis

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Herbal Remedy
- **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm
- **Temperament:** Chilly
- **Aggravation Time:** Night

## Keynote Indications
Neuralgia and insom nia. All-gone, sinking sensation at the epigastrium. Nervous 
sleeplessness, heart troubles, palpitations and dyspepsia of old tea -drinkers. Sensitive kidneys. Sick head-
aches. Allen noted it was antidotal to Tab.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Better warmth, warm bath, applying hand or warm clothes to occiput. Worse at night, from cold 
water, walking in open air. Worse after meals.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Nervousness and want of confidence.
- Great nervous excitability with exaltation of intellectual faculties.
- Ill-humored.
- Peevish.
- Disposition to quarrel at the most harmless speech.
- Nocturnal fright, suicidal thoughts.
- Tempo rary mental exaltation.
- Delirium with ecstasy, laughed incessantly, 
talked in rhyme.
- Delirium tremens.
- Mania.
- Suicidal and homic idal.
- Impulses to kill.
- Impulse to jump out of the 
window.
- Nervousness and want of confidence.
- Great nervous excitability with exaltation of intellectual faculties.
- Ill-humored.
- Peevish.
- Disposition to quarrel at the most harmless speech.
- Nocturnal fright, suicidal thoughts.
- Tempo rary mental exaltation.
- Delirium with ecstasy, laughed incessantly, 
talked in rhyme.
- Delirium tremens.
- Mania.
- Suicidal and homic idal.
- Impulses to kill.
- Impulse to jump out of the 
window.

### Vertigo
- Vertigo with darkness before eyes, sudden in open air.
- COMMENTS - The symptoms are made up of observed effects of overdosing and some direct provings.
- A 
woman who was addicted to dri nking tea showed very pronounced delirium tremens indistinguishable from 
that caused by alcohol, though there was no alcoholism in the case.
- Another woman, who kept a pot of tea boiling on the stove and drank several bowls every day, developed both 
suicidal and homicidal mania, impulse tojump out of the window, to cut her baby’s throat or throw it downstairs.
- Thea 100,000c, Fincke, cured.
- A man who had been many years in the East and was used to one-story houses, on his return to the West had 
a curious impulse tojump out of the window, which he traced to tea -drinking and which disappeared when he 
left it off.
- Teste noted that the homicidal impulse appeared in the dreams of one prover, who was so far from being 
horrified by his dreammurders 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.
- A man, after drinking tea, had pain in his epigastrium going through to his back with a fee ling as if he wanted 
to be sick and could not, better sitting down and stretching out.
- Thuj.
- 30c cured.
- Guernsey gave these as indications for Thea, “Nervous sleeplessness, heart troubles, of old tea -drinkers, 
palpitations of the heart, can’t lie down.”

### Head
- Rush of blood to head.
- Sick headache radiating from one point.
- Sleepless and restless.
- Hallucinations 
of hearing.
- Cold damp feeling at back of head.
- Scalp tender can scarcely com b hair.
- Rush of blood to head.
- Sick headache radiating from one point.
- Sleepless and restless.
- Hallucinations 
of hearing.
- Cold damp feeling at back of head.
- Scalp tender can scarcely com b hair.

### Eyes
- Eyes are unusually bright.
- Dilated pupils.
- Neuralgia of eyes.
- Sight is dim, dark before eyes, fiery lines, 
sparks.

### Ears
- Neuralgic pains in cartilage of ears.
- Roaring in ears.
- Hallucinations of hearing.

### Face
- Wild, distressed expression.
- Face is pale, with congested redness, flushed.

### Mouth
- Bitter taste in mouth.
- Much vis cid saliva.
- Whole mouth cavity dry and sensitive.
- Tongue clean and 
pale.
- Tongue red, blistered, painful as if scalded.
- Teeth frequently decayed.
- Nose - Dryness, soreness of nose.
- Sensation at root of nose as if nosebleed would occur.
- Nosebleed before 
menses.

### Throat
- Scraping in larynx.
- Hoarseness.
- Diphtheria sore throat.
- Painles s swelling of mucus membrane.
- Uneasy feeling in pharynx, as if obstructed by a foreign body.

### Chest
- Oppressed and constricted.
- Fluttering in left side and feeling of suffocation.
- Anxious oppression.
- Precordial distress.
- Palpitation, unable to lie on left side.
- Fluttering.
- Pulse rapid, 
irregular 
Thea sinensis intermittent.
- Kidneys - Very marked increase of urine.
- Must pass water immediately after drinking tea.
- Edema of respiratory tract.
- Breathing increased in frequency and amplitude.
- Breathlessness on least 
exertion.
- Paroxysm of asphyxia.
- Cough is dry, severe and bloody expectoration.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- A sinking sensation at the epigastrium.
- Faint, gone feeling (Sep., Hydr., Olean.).
- Weakness about 
stomach.
- Sudden production of wind in large quantities.
- Nausea, and vomiting after eating.
- Vomits bile, when 
pain at its height.
- Temperature - Intense coldness passing over whole head.
- Lowered t emperature.
- Hands and face cold as 
marble.
- Beaded with chilly moisture.
- Excessive internal heat with flushes of heat on the surface, coming and 
going quickly.
- Disposition to perspire.
- Borborygmi.
- After lunch, stitch below ribs in paroxysms.
- Intestines relaxed.
- Liability to hernia.
- Very hungry, but little satisfies.
- Thirst, but every mouth ful of cold water affects the head like a shock.
- Craves acids, lemons.

### Urinary & Genital
- Erections.
- Unnatural excitement.
- Soreness and tenderness in ovaries.
- Menses delayed, scanty with severe cramp-like pains.
- Uterine 
bearing down from beginning to end of period.

### Extremities
- Paralyzed numbness of limbs.
- Joints of hands and feet tender.
- Nervous excitability in wrists, hands, 
and feet.
- Hand trembled violently.
- Restlessness of feet.
- Neuralgic pains in outer hamstrings.
- Sensation as if 
the weight of a sheet even would crush toes.

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

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

### Generalities
- As if on the verge of fainting.
- As if a foreign body in throat.
- 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 t he toes.
- Cold sensations 
are prominent, cold, damp feeling at back of head with pain spreading thence to eyes, also dryness and 
swelling of mucus membrane.