Plant
Cina
Worm-seed
Repertory abbreviation: Cina
This is a children's remedy, corresponding to many conditions that may be referred to intestinal irritation, such as worms and accompanying complaints. An irrita bility of temper, variable appetite, grinding of teeth, and even convulsions, with screams and violent jerkings of the hands and feet, are all within its range of action. The Cina patient is hungry, cross, ugly, and wants to be rocked. Pain in shocks. Skin sensitive to touch.
Mind
Ill-humor. Child very cross; does not want to be touched, or crossed, or carried. Desires many things, but rejects everything offered. Abnormal con- sciousness, as if having committed some evil deed.
Head
Headache, alternating with pain in abdomen. Relieved by stooping. [Mezer.] Pain in head when using eyes.
Eyes
Dilated pupils; yellow vision. Weak sight from masturbation. Strabismus from abdominal irri- tation. Eycstrain, especially when presbyopia sets in. Pulsation of superciliary muscle.
Ears
Digging and scratching in ears. 239
Nose
Itching of nose all the time. Wants to rub it and pic at it. Bores at nose till it bleeds.
Face
Intense, circumscribed redness of cheeks. Pale, hot, writh dark rings around eyes. Cold perspira- tion. White and bluish about the mouth. Grits teeth during sleep. Choreic movements of face and hands.
Stomach
Gets hungry soon after a meal. Hungry, digging, gnawing sensation. Epigastric c pain; worse, first waking in morning and before meals. Vomiting and diarrhcea immediately after eating or drinking. Vomiting with a clean tongue. Desires many and dif- ferent things. Craving for sweets.
Abdomen
Twisting pain about navel. [Spig.] ' Bloated and hard abdomen. Night terrors of children; cries out, screams, wakes frightened. Troubles while yawning. Screams and talks in sleep. Grits teeth.
Stool
White mucus, like small pieces of popped corn, preceded by pinching colic. Itching of anus. [Teuc.] Worms. [Sabad.; Naphth.; Nat. phos.] Urinr.- Turbid, white; turns milky on standing. In- voluntary at night.
Female
Uterine hamorrhage before puberty.
Respiratory
Gagging cough in the morning. Whooping-cough. . Violent recurring paroxysms, as of down in throat. ( Cough ends in a spasm. Cough so violent as to bring tears and ternal pains; feels as if something had been torn off. Periodic; returning spring and fall. Swallows after coughing. Gurgling from throat to stomach after coughing. Child is afraid to speak or move for fear of ringing on paroxysm of coughing. After coughing, moaning, anxious, gasps for air and turns pale.
Extremities
Twitching and jerking distortion of limbs, trembling. Paralyzed shocks; patient will jump suddenly, as though in pain. Child throws arms from side to side. Norturnal convulsions. Sudden inward ierking of fugers of right hand. Child strctchies out feet spasmodically. Left foot in constant spasmodic motion.
Sleep
Child gets on hands and knees in sleep; on
Fever
Liglit chill. Much fever, associated with clean tongue. Much hunger; colicky pains; chilliness, with thirst. Cold sweat on forehead, nose, and hands. In Cina fever, face is cold and hands warm.
Modalities
IW'orse, looking fixedly at an object, from worms, at night, in sun, in summer.
Relationships
Compare : Hclinintochorios — Worin- moss (acts very powerfully on intestinal worms, es- pecially the lumbricoid.) Teucrium; Ignat.; Cham.; Spig. Santonin (often preferable in worm affections; same symptoms as Cina. Lightning pains of locomotor ataxia (l gr. doses, also in laryngeal crises of tabes). Antidote: Camp.; Caps.
Dose
First to third attenuation. For nervous irri- table children, thirtieth and two-hundredth preferable. Santonin in first (with care) and third trituration.