Cina Materia Medica
Artemisia cina, Wormseed
Cina can be used for the treatment of worms – thread or round worms
Affinity to digestive and nervous system
Nervous system can bring on violent spasms: convulsive twitches
Ailments that come on from fright, being scolded, they then have their stomach disordered with indigestion and later breed worms
Remedy can be used during dentition/teething
Cina should be considered when there is chorea, convulsions, enuresis and fever with cold face and warm hands
They wake with rolling of the head (D/D Apis, Belladonna) > shaking head
Irritation to nose: desires to pick their nose. Rubs finger in nose often till it bleeds
APPEARANCE
Circumscribed red patch on the cheeks and often a noticeable pallor about the mouth and nose
Blue rings around eyes
Pale and weak
G.I.T.
Tend to have affections of the stomach, worse after eating even a moderate meal.
If taken in the evening they will have terrible dreams.
Can have canine hunger or no appetite at all
Sour eructation’s e.g. sour milk brought up
There can be a peculiar gurgling sound heard going from the throat to the stomach when they are swallowing
Gets hungry soon after meal and has feeling of emptiness
NERVOUS SYSTEM
Convulsions
Convulsions, child becomes suddenly stiff, there is a gurgling noise as if water were poured out of a bottle from the throat to the abdomen
Convulsions in children when they are scolded or punished
Teeth sensitive to cold water
Hallucinations of smell, taste and sight
Hydrocephalus
COUGH
Whooping cough plus sneezing
When coughing a peculiar twitching of right hand
After coughing, moaning, anxious, gasps for air and turns pale
Child afraid to speak, or move for fear of bringing on paroxysm of coughing
MENTALS
Obstinate (as a mule)
Touchiness (aggravated by touch)
Aggravated by being looked at
Cannot bear to be looked at
Skin sensitive to touching: Child refuses to have hair cut
Likes to be carried
Can be cross and ugly (not as marked as Cham)
Easily offended by slightest thing
Sensitive body and mind
Nothing pleases for any length of time
Desires many things, but rejects everything offered
Can throw things away after a short time (when given)
Indisposition to play
Older child hits out and kicks
Child picks at bedclothes
Child who did not get all they wanted
Likes to be rocked in sleep
Irritability > rocking fast
Likes to sleep on stomach on hands and knees
Wants to be carried but gives no relief
Child cannot be quieted
Anxious evening and before midnight
As if frightened jumps out of bed, sees imaginary objects, scream, trembles and talks hurriedly.
Child cries piteously if taken hold of or carried.
Causeless weeping
The symptoms of Cina are < night, before midnight, open air, cold air, cold water. Child wakes up frightened
< Touch, worms, vexation, being looked at, yawning, during sleep, full moon
> Rocking, lying on abdomen, shaking head, wiping eyes
MODALITIES
Tends to be chilly and sensitive to draughts
Craving for sweets, appetite is ravenous with great thirst
Sleep is restless with jerking and nightmares
CAUSATION
Worms, yawning
RUBRICS
Capriciousness
Caressed, aversion to being
Discontented, displeased, dissatisfied, everything with
Fear, approaching, of others, children cannot bear to have anyone come near them
Carried desire to be
Indifference, caresses, to
Appetite, increased during fever
Throws things
NOTES
Cina belongs to the psoric miasm.
Cina is closely allied to Chamomilla. The main feeling of both these remedies is that they are not getting enough attention from their parents.
Chamomilla reacts by being demanding and loud shrieking, and they become quiet when they are carried. Chamomilla is not as intensely irritable as Cina
Cina becomes irritable and has temper tantrums – throws things and pushes away the parents.
Cina’s behaviour is pest-like demanding of attention and complaining
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