ALSTONIA SCHOLARIS
Dita Bark
Malarial diseases, with diarrhoea, dysentery, anaemia, feeble digestion, are the regular prerequisites suggesting this remedy. Characteristics are the long past sensation in belly and sinking in abdomen, with debility. A tonic after hard fevers.
Abdomen.–Violent purging and cramp in bowels. Heat and inflammation in decrease bowels. Camp diarrhoea, bloody stool, dysentery; diarrhoea from terrible water and malaria. Painless watery stools (Phosph ac). Diarrhoea without delay after eating.
Relationship.–Compare: Similar in motion to Alstonia constricta, the bitter bark or native quinine of Australia. Ditain (active principle, is anti-periodic, like quinine, however barring disagreeable effects). Cinchona (similar in diarrhoea, persistent dyspepsia and debility). Hydrastis; Fer cit et chin.
Dose.–Tincture to 1/3 potency. Locally, for ulcers and rheumatic pains.
