NPLEX II Homeopathy Practice Test

Periodic fever with a regular interval pattern is a classic keynote for Cinchona (China). In homeopathic materia medica, Cinchona officinalis is strongly associated with malarial-type intermittent fevers, where the chill, heat, and sweat recur in predictable cycles, and the patient often feels exhausted and hypersensitive. The aversion to touch is a distinctive symptom described with this remedy, reflecting a heightened sensitivity and desire to avoid contact, which fits Cinchona’s picture of debility and overstimulation after periodic illness. The other options point to different symptom clusters—Colocynthis for colicky abdominal pain relieved by bending double, and Conium for constitutional weakness and degenerative states—not the characteristic intermittent fever with touch aversion. Cina is simply another spelling of the same remedy, so the core match remains Cinchona for periodic malarial fever with aversion to touch.