CINA
(Worm-seed)
This is a children’s remedy –
big, fat, rosy, scrofulous, corresponding to many conditions that may be
referred to intestinal irritation, such as worms and accompanying complaints.
An irritability 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 consciousness, 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 irritation. Eyestrain, especially when
presbyopia sets in. Pulsation of superciliary muscle.
Ears :- Digging and scratching in ears.
Nose :- Itching of nose all the time. Wants to rub it and
pick at it. Bores at nose till it bleeds.
Face :- Intense, circumscribed redness of cheeks. Pale, hot,
with dark rings around eyes. Cold perspiration. 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 pain; worse, first waking in morning and before
meals. Vomiting and diarrhoea immediately after eating or drinking. Vomiting
with a clean tongue. Desires many and different things. Craving for sweets.
Abdomen :- Twisting pain about naval. [Spig.] Bloated and hard abdomen.
Stool :- White mucus, like small pieces of popped corn,
preceded by pinching colic. Itching of anus. [Teuc.] Worms. [Sabad., Naphth.,Nat.Phos]
Urine :- Turbid, white; turns milky on standing. Involuntary at
night.
Female :- Uterine hemorrhage 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 sternal 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 bringing 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.
Nocturnal convulsions. Sudden inward jerking of fingers of right hand. Child
stretches out feet spasmodically. Left foot in constant spasmodic motion.
Sleep
:- Child
gets on hands and knees in sleep; on abdomen. Night terrors of children; cries
out, screams, wakes frightened. Troubles while yawning. Screams and talks in sleep.
Grits teeth.
Fever
:- Light
chill. Much fever, associated with clean tongue. Much hunger; colicky pains;
chilliness, with thirst. Cold sweat on forhead, nose and hands. In Cina fever,
face is cold and hands warm.
Modalities
:- Worse, looking fixedly at an object, from worms, at night, in sun, in summer.
Relationship
:-
Compare
: Santonin
– (often
preferable in worm affections; same symptoms as Cina; corresponding to the
“pain in shocks” produced by Cina. Visual illusions, yellow sight; violent light not
recognized, colors not distinguishable. Urine deep saffron color. Spasms and
twitchings, chronic gastric and intestinal troubles sometimes removed by a single
does (physiological) os Santonin. Dahlke.)
Helmintochortos – Worm-moss (acts very powerfully on
intestinal worms, especially the lumbricoid.) Teucrimum; Ignat.; Cham.; Spig.
Antidote:
Camph.;
Caps.
