THEA.
Thea chinensis.
Natural order
, Camelliaceæ.
Common name
, Tea.
Preparation
, Tincture or trituration of
the leaves.
Authorities.
1,
Practische Mittheilungen, 1827, p. 30 (Journ. de la Soc. Gall. Roth,
Mat. Méd. Pure, vol. 1, p. 511), Madame N., T. Chin.; 2, E. Percival, Dublin Hosp. Rep., 1818, p.
220, a man, unaccustomed to drinking tea, took some very strong green
tea three times in one day; 3, Dr.
Harvey, ibid., a man who was up all night and drank much strong tea; 4, Gunther, Buchner’s Repertorium, vol. 9,
ser. 2 (Journ. de la Soc. Gall. Roth, Mat. Méd. Pure, vol. 1); 5 to 13,
John Cole, Lancet, 1832-3 (2), p. 274) 5,
effects of excessive tea-drinking on a woman æt. thirty-five years; 6, Mrs. R., just recovering from an attack of
catarrhal fever, drank more than the usual quantity of strong black tea;
7, a woman, æt. thirty years, drank
tea excessively; 8, Miss P. A., æt.
thirty years, was accustomed to drink much strong green tea; 9, a woman, æt. twenty-five years, drank tea
night and morning; 10, Mr. M., an
excessive tea-drinker, who had been subject to fainting fits, drank a
large quantity of strong green tea after having 12 ounces of blood taken
away; 11, Mrs. T., æt. thirty-five
years, an excessive tea-drinker; 12,
Mrs. S., æt. twenty years, drank a large quantity of black tea; 13, effects on a lady, a devoted slave to the
teapot; 14, Kremers, Casper’s Woch.,
1833 (Frank’s Mag., 1, 290), a man took an infusion of 3 ounces of very
strong black tea within three hours; 15,
Z. für H. Kl., 4, 65; 16, same,
effects of 2 to 10 grains of pure Thein; 17,
Dr. A. Teste, Journ. de la Soc. Gall., ser. 1, vol. 2, 1851, p. 234, T.
Sinen.; 18, Dr. Bücker, Archiv. des
Ver. für gem. Arbiet, band 1, heft 2, p. 213 (Brit. and For. Med.-Chir.
Rev., 1853 (2), p. 426), he determined the exact amount of food and
water (each of known composition) taken, the amount of exercise, the
exact amount of urine and its constituents, and of fæces, and of
expired carbonic acid; the amount of perspiration was calculated; these
experiments were continued for seven days; in the second series the
experiment was conducted in the same manner, only cold tea was
substituted for water; 19, G. G.
Sigmond, M.D., Lancet, 1838-9 (2), p. 782, common effects of
tea-drinking; 20, same, Brit. and
For. Med.-Chir. Rev., 1840 (1), p. 135, effects of green tea on some
persons; 21, Dr. Moleschott, De
l’Alimentation et du Rgime, 1858, p. 169 (Marvaud, Les Aliments
d’Épargne, 1874, p. 324), general effects; 22,
Henry S. Purdon, Med. Circular, vol. 26, 1865, 65, effects of excessive
tea-drinking observed in women in Belfast Charitable Institution; 23, Medicus, Month. Hom. Rev., vol. 11, 1867,
drank black tea as strong as possible, without sugar or cream, generally
a cup before rising, a pint at breakfast, and a pint and a half between
10 and 11 P.M.; symptoms disappeared after discontinuing the use of tea,
but always returned after resuming; 24,
H. M., Month. Hom. Rev., vol. 11, 1867, p. 510, effects of habitual use
of black tea (with green tea all is intensified). (25 to 28,
C. Wesselhœft, M.D., New Eng. Med. Gaz., vol. 2, 1857, p. 169.); 25, a lady over forty years of age, drank
tea, often three times a day, and for a few weeks lived almost entirely
on it; 26, a lady, over fifty years
of age, just recovered from acute bronchitis, the cough and pulmonary
symptoms had disappeared, had drank for years two cups of hot strong tea
three times a day; 27, a young lady,
æt. twenty-two years, had lived almost exclusively on strong hot tea
for eleven years; 28, an Irish cook,
æt. thirty-three years, had drunk it three times daily for years
instead of taking proper meals; 29,
R. R. Gregg, H. Quart., vol. 2 (Raue’s Rec., 1871, p. 32). (30 to 37,
Wibmer, Wirkung der Arzneimittel.) 30,
Lettsom’s Nat. History, effects on a woman; 31,
same, effects of 30 grains of tea in powder three or four times a day; 32, Whytt, took a cup of strong tea on an
empty stomach before breakfast; 33,
Murray, feeling rather weak, took a cup of strong tea; 34, Tode, a child drank a cup of strong tea; 35, Erdmann, Hufeland’s Journ., vol. 64,
effects of continued use; 36,
Newnham, a cup of strong green tea relieved at once tormenting
hemicrania with throbbing in arteries; 37,
same, experimented on three other persons, each of whom took a third of
an infusion of 1 ounce of best green tea digested for twenty minutes, in
a pint of boiling water; 38, E. I.
Dixon, Practitioner, vol. 9, 1872, p. 265, a middle-aged woman subsisted
mostly on bread and butter and hot tea, generally drinking a pint and a
half or more of latter daily; 39, J.
Adams, U. S. Med. Invest., new ser., vol. 6; 40,
U. V. Miller, North Am. Journ., new ser., 4, 1873, p. 87, effects on C.
T., æt. twenty-seven years, of drinking two cups of green tea at one
meal; 41, Marraud, Les Aliments
d’Épargne, 1874, p. 324, general effects; 42,
S. Swan, New York Journ. of Hom., vol. 2, 1874, p. 202, from various
provings of Thea sinen., symptoms with (Oo.), produced by Oolong tea.
MIND.
►
Delirium, [16]. ► Symptoms of delirium, [18]. ►
Delirium with great ecstasy; the patient laughed incessantly, talked
constantly in rhyme, showed us that he felt extraordinarily well, [14]. ►
Sensation as if impelled by some uncontrollable power to commit suicide,
to jump out of the window, to put her baby in the boiler with the
clothes, to cut its throat while cutting bread, to throw it downstairs
(in a woman who kept a pot of tea boiling on the stove and drank several
bowlfuls every day; cured with Thea cm., Fincke), [42]. ► Temporary
exaltation of mind; has greater confidence in himself (after Thein, 14
grains), [42]. ► An exciting, and subsequently a
debilitating, influence upon the nervous system in general and the
lumbar portion of the spinal marrow, [39].
► At first a genial cordiality, a
brilliancy of intellect, with conversation fluent, interesting, and
sparking with wit; then the opposite state supervenes, with great
irritability and sensitiveness, so that there is a disposition to
quarrel at the most harmless speech or act (Oo.), [42]. ►
Feeling of great ease, [42]. ► Great nervous excitability, with
clearness of the intellectual faculties, [42].
[10.] ►
A most uncomfortable state of nervousness and want of confidence,
relieved by beer (after an hour or so), [24].
► The sound of the “night
bell” made me terribly nervous, [23].
► Taciturn and peevish, [42]. ►
Morose, taciturn; he is unwilling to utter a word, [1]. ► Gloomy,
heavy, and dizzy in the forehead, [42].
► Weeps easily, [27]. ►
Feeling of anxiety and trembling, [37].
► Uneasy state of mind, characterized
by Lehmann as mental anguish (after Thein, 12 grains), [42]. ► The
mind is in an excessively uncomfortable and anxious state, which admits
not the slightest rest, whether seated, lying, or reading (after Thein,
12 grains), [42]. ► Appeared to be actuated by the greatest
terror, and said: “I have called upon you to request you would let
me in and allow me to die in your house,” [3]. [20.] ► Nocturnal fright; 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, [17]. ►
Peevishness, with aversion to everything and to the least fatigue, [42]. ►
Excessively ill-humored; everything became unpleasant to her,
whereas she had been very cheerful previously; she was disinclined to
think or write, [42]. ► Dislike to conversation, [42]. ► Very
bad temper; disposition entirely changed; usually cheerful, she becomes
morose; all mental exertion, even writing; is disagreeable to her, [1]. ►
Is irritable and cross, [27]. ► Excessively irritable and weak,
complaining chiefly of empty gone feeling at the epigastrium, [26]. ►
Marked increase of intellectual aptitude without special exaltation of
the imagination; he is conscious of greater aptitude for study, and the
mind is unusually capable of sustained attention, [17]. ► It
increases the power of receiving impressions; it disposes to pensive
meditation, and causes greater activity and flow of ideas; the attention
easily becomes fixed upon any subject; it causes a general sensation of
health and gayety. After an hour, there is associated a distressing and
insupportable insomnia, with great, prolonged, nervous excitation,
followed by lassitude and headache, [21].
► During the sleepless night, the
mind was in a state of most active and persistent thinking, in spite of
all attempts at forgetfulness (Thein, 12 grains), [42]. [30.] ► Mind obscured, [16]. ►
Weakness of memory, [33]. ► In the evening fits of insensibility,
lasting three or four hours, [11].
HEAD.
►
Vertigo. ► Vertigo, [32]. ►
Great vertigo, with darkness before the eyes (in a tea-drinker, cured
with Thea 1, 200), [42]. ► Intoxication, [33]. ►
Giddiness, [19]. ► When walking in the open air, she
suddenly feels giddy, as if about to lose consciousness (in the
evening), [1]. ► General Head. ►
Determination of blood to the head, with sensation of fulness,
especially in the forehead over the eyes, [40].
► Congestion of brain, [18]. [40.] ► Headache, [16].
► Excessively disagreeable headache,
with throbbing of the carotids, [42].
► Violent pain in the head, [19]. ►
A prolific cause of sick headache, [29].
► Sick headache occurring every week,
so violent that nothing afforded relief; great soreness of the head, and
weakness when the acute pain subsided, [42].
► Has either headache or backache, [27]. ►
For more than three years, she was subject to sick-headache; these came
on chiefly at the catamenial period, and also frequently in the
intervals; the pain seems to begin in the left ovary and stomach, whence
it seems to pass to the head, [28].
► Neuralgic pain commencing in the
nape of the neck, and on both sides of the base of cerebellum,
comparatively like a cold flat-iron introduced between the skin and
skull, thence passing up over the whole cranium, descending over the
forehead down to the eyes, with excruciating suffering, [42]. ►
Frequent headaches, [26]. ► Severe headache in the morning and in the
evening, often with nausea, [25]. ► Forehead. [50.]
► Heaviness and compression in the
forehead, principally when walking, [42].
► Heaviness, vertigo in the forehead,
especially when walking, [1]. ► Intense pain in forehead, [42]. ► Temples.
► Pains through the temples,
throbbing, shooting, extending down to the nose. Attacks attended with
great acuteness of the olfactory organs, [28].
► Vertex. ► Vertex; heat and vertex vertigo, with
sensation of pulsation at vertex, can feel every heart-throb there, [40]. ►
Occiput. ► She suddenly
feels a tensive pain in the lowest portion of the occiput, almost in the
nape of the neck (in half an hour), [1].
► From the beginning of the third
day, neuralgic pain, with feeling of damp coldness in the occiput. The
fixed seat of this pain, which consists of very sharp and rapid
twitching like electric shocks, is the right occipital protuberance. It
extends more slowly to the nape of the neck, to the right shoulder, and
even the arm of the same side. It was relieved by the application of the
hand, or of a warm cloth, [17]. ► External Head. ►
Skin of the head and scalp tender and painful to the touch (Oo.), [42]. ►
Great tenderness of scalp on vertex; can scarcely comb the hair, [42].
EYE.
►
Bright eye, [27]. ► Eyes unusually bright, with dilated
pupils, [26]. [60.] ►
Eyes glittering, [25]. ► Dryness of the eyes from much mental
exercise during a sleepless night, followed by neuralgia of the eyes
(Oo), [42]. ►
After awhile the eyes became dry, and resulted in neuralgia of the eyes
(Thein, 12 grs.), [42]. ► Pupils dilated, [25], [27],
[28]. ►
Dimness of sight, [19]. ► Darkness before the eyes, with vertigo, [42]. ►
Flashing, fiery lines darting from the eyes, and radiating outward from
the axis of vision, [40]. ► Sparks before the eyes, [16].
EAR.
►
Neuralgic pains in the cartilage of the ears, with icy coldness of the
parts, seeming almost impossible to restore warmth to them (Oo.). The
pains extend to the molar teeth and cheek-bones (Oo.), [42]. ►
Roaring in the ears, [16]. [70.] ►
Hallucinations of the sense of hearing. For five nights in succession he
thought he heard the door-bell very distinctly. This hallucination,
which was renewed at different hours, followed me even into my sleep,
and awakened me frequently with a start, [17].
NOSE.
►
Generally has nosebleed before the menses set in, [27]. ►
Soreness of the internal edge of the nose (Oo.), [42]. ►
Constant desire to pick the nose (Oo.), [42].
► Great dryness in nose (Oo.), [42]. ►
Sensation at root of nose, as if epistaxis would occur, [40].
FACE.
►
Wild and distressed expression of countenance, [6]. ► Pale
face, [19]. ►
Face pale, with circumscribed redness of the cheeks, [26]. ► Face
flushed, [6], [12], [27].
[80.] ►
Cheeks flushed, [25]. ► Cheeks easily flushed, [28].
MOUTH.
►
The teeth are frequently diseased, [22].
► Tongue clean and somewhat pale, [38]. ►
Tongue red, with white slime (Oo.), [42].
► Tongue suffers from stings like
blisters; red spots and white blisters on the top of the tongue;
exceedingly painful, as if scalded with boiling hot liquid (Oo.), [42]. ►
Intolerably offensive breath on waking in the morning, [1]. ►
Sensation of scraping at the soft palate, [1].
► The whole buccal cavity feels dry
and sensitive (Oo.), [42]. ► A great deal of saliva in the mouth,
during the first hours, with sensation of hunger. Six hours after,
unpleasant dryness of the mouth, scanty, viscid saliva, with feeling of
satiety, although he had eaten very little, with a little thirst. After
drinking, the mouth is filled with viscid saliva, [1]. [90.] ► Bitter taste in mouth, [42].
THROAT.
►
Diphtheritic sore throat, [42]. ► Painless swelling of the mucous membrane
of the pharynx, [17]. ► Uneasy feeling in the pharynx, as if it
was obstructed by a foreign body, [17].
STOMACH.
►
Appetite and Thirst. ► The
appetite is not so good. Sometimes I feel as if very hungry, but a
little satisfies me, and a feeling of satiety quickly succeeds (sixth
day), [17]. ►
Appetite returns two hours earlier than common. There is an empty
feeling in the stomach, and a sort of faintness at the habitual dinner
hour, although he had eaten as hearty a breakfast as usual, [17]. ►
He lost his appetite for dinner if he drank a cup of tea previous to his
meal, [30]. ►
Bad appetite, [22]. ► Complete loss of appetite for many days, [25]. ►
Loathing of food until noon; then she eats, but very sparingly, [1]. [100.]
► She is thirsty, but cannot bear
cold water, every mouthful affects her head like a shock, [23]. ►
Extreme thirst, or rather craving for acids, especially for lemons, [25]. ►
She often felt a loathing against tea, but still could not resist it, [25]. ►
No thirst, but craving for acids, [27].
► Dislikes cold water, [26]. ► She
never feels thirsty, and never drinks cold water, [27]. ► Heartburn.
► Occasionally a slight degree of
heartburn, [38]. ► Pyrosis, [22].
► Nausea and Vomiting. ► Distressing nausea, [19]. ► Slight
nausea, lasting two hours, [23]. [110.] ►
Nausea and vomiting after eating; cured, [42].
► Vomiting of bile occurs, but never
of food, when the pain has reached its height, [26]. ►
Exertion produces vomiting during the headache, [26]. ►
Generally vomited the meal which she had lately taken, [5]. ►
Disposition to vomit; a double dose increases this inclination, the sick
feeling, and the disagreeable feeling in the stomach, [31]. ► Stomach.
► Digestion is sensibly accelerated,
without noticeable disturbance, [17].
► Sensation in the pit of the stomach
as if one would vomit, [15]. ► Exceedingly unpleasant feeling of
weakness of the stomach; sense of disgust, with nausea and accumulation
of saliva in the mouth. His stomach seems to hang in his body like an
empty bag; sensation such as results from cleaning out the stomach by an
emetic, [1]. ►
Sensation of emptiness and nervous excitability, with constriction,
preventing a deep-drawn breath (Oo.), [42].
► The feeling of emptiness in the
stomach is more decided than the distress caused by night-watching at
dinnertime (second day), [17]. [120.] ►
Frequent attacks of spasms of the stomach, any slight exertion would
suffice to bring on the attack, so that she could scarcely walk without
being seized with it, [7]. ► She was seized with a great sense of
sinking and oppression at the stomach. In a quarter of an hour she was
tossing about, groaning loudly with every breath, occasionally rubbing
her stomach with great violence. She described the pain as a dull
aching, benumbed feel, with an extreme sense of sinking and oppression, [6]. ►
Sinking and craving in the stomach, with fluttering in the left side, [11]. ►
Great emptiness and craving at the pit of the stomach, [25]. ►
Complained of a faint, gone feeling,
which had troubled her for years; these sensations had recently assumed
the character of intolerable dull pain after every meal, cramplike and
pressing, reaching up into the throat, and often waking her from sleep
at night, [27]. ► Complaining chiefly of empty, gone
feeling at epigastrium, [26]. ► Slight pressure in the epigastrium (in a
quarter of an hour), [1]. ► Sudden and oft-repeated pressure at the
epigastrium, [1]. ► Pain after eating, with sinking and
emptiness at the pit of the stomach, [5].
► Pain in the epigastrium and
umbilical regions, not of an acutely spasmodic, but of a severely aching
character; this pain came on at irregular intervals, but principally a
short interval after eating, and was on some days scarcely ever absent,
except before breakfast; there was no abdominal nor spinal tenderness,
nor were there any neuralgic foci, [38].
[130.] ►
Tickling in the pit of the stomach, causing presently a dry cough, which
increases in violence till it shakes the whole digestive organization,
bringing on neuralgic head-symptoms described above, with excruciating
pains, seemingly unendurable (Oo.), [42].
► Great sensitiveness of the
epigastrium, feels as if she “had caved in.” [28].
ABDOMEN.
►
After luncheon, painful stitch below the ribs, extending from the right
towards the left side, and returning in paroxysms, [1]. ►
Relaxation of the fibres of the abdominal intestines, [4]. ►
Transient borborygmi in the abdomen, and especially in the epigastric
region, [1]. ►
Liability to hernia, [4].
RECTUM.
►
Tumefaction of the inferior extremity of the rectum, with a very slight
itching, [1].
STOOL.
►
Chronic relaxation of the bowels; aggravated by beer, relieved by port
wine, [24]. ►
Relaxation of the bowels, profound constipation (Japan tea), [42]. ►
Three or four stools daily, of natural consistence, but formed very
thin, [17]. [140.] ►
In the daytime, two stools instead of one, [17]. ► Three
natural stools during the day (second day), [17]. ► The
stools have become very irregular, in part hard and dry, the rest
scarcely formed (sixth day), [17].
► Stools irregular and costive, [25]. ►
Costiveness, [22]. ► Constipation in some, [35]. ►
Excessive constipation, [28].
URINARY ORGANS.
►
Very marked increase of urea, [16].
SEXUAL ORGANS.
►
Erections, [16]. ► Unnatural excitement of the sexual
organs, [39]. [150.] ►
Soreness and tenderness of the right ovary, [28]. ► Menses
appear only once in seven weeks, are scanty and accompanied by severe
uterine cramplike, bearing-down pains, from beginning to end of
menstrual period. It is not quite evident that these symptoms arose in
consequence of the tea, but were undoubtedly aggravated by it, [27].
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
►
All the signs of an œdematous swelling, perhaps general but more
probably partial, of the mucous lining of the respiratory and digestive
tracts, phenomena evidently analogous to those which were brought out on
the skin, and which are, relatively to my constitution, the symptoms
characteristic of Tea, [17]. ► Scraping in the larynx (sixth to twelfth
day), [17]. ► Voice. ►
Hoarseness, amounting almost to aphonia (sixth to twelfth day), [17]. ►
Cough and Expectoration. ►
Dry cough during one day, [17]. ► Severe cough and bloody expectoration, [13]. ►
Respiration. ► Respiration
is greatly increased, the respirations being increased in frequency and
amplitude, [41]. ► Respiration irregular and oppressed, [2]. ►
Gasping for breath, [2]. [160.] ►
Unable to go upstairs, without experiencing great breathlessness and
palpitation of the heat, [8]. ► Great breathlessness on the least attempt
at walking, [9]. ► Sensation of suffocation, [19]. ► Slight
fits of apparent asphyxia recurred every five or six minutes, [2]. ►
Frequent paroxysms of asphyxia, like nightmare, with violent spasmodic
pain in the præcordial region, with intermittent, irregular, at times
suppressed respiration, [15].® 2000
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