Key-Notes to the Materia Medica

Cina cina.

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General

Troubles, causing a constant desire to rub, pick, or bore into the nose.

Gastric

Hunger; extreme hunger (sometimes hunger may come on in the middle of the night, as in children, or one may feel hungry a few minutes after a hearty meal).

Stool

Stool with ascarides; with maw worms (short thick worms); vomiting and diarrhœa immediately after eating or drinking, particularly after drinking.

Fever

Chilliness with thirst; cold perspiration; one red cheek and one pale at the same time. Vomiting during the fever, with a clean tongue.

Children

Extreme ill-humor and naughtiness in children; they strike at you; nothing pleases them, or not for any length of time; gritting the teeth during sleep; wetting the bed (when accompanied by picking of the nose, great hunger, restless sleep, etc.); tossing all about the bed when asleep; crying out, as if in delirium.

Sexual

Female: Metrorrhagia; womb-troubles in general.

Sensations

Pain as if beaten; cramp pain in the muscles; pain as if paralyzed; shocks as from pain--the patient will jump suddenly, as though he felt pain.

Generalities

Affections of the left side; left lower extremity. Pale color of the face, with bluish color around the mouth. Urine milky and turbid. Epilepsy; epilepsy with consciousness. Simple stretching of the limbs; yawning in general; concomitant complaints to yawning,--i.e., troubles that occur whenever one yawns. Weak sight, resulting from masturbation. Audible gurgling from the throat to the stomach after coughing. Rigidity of the body.

Worse

From looking fixedly at an object: from outside pressure; from worms, ascarides or lumbrici; when yawning.

Remedies following

Calc. carb, China, Ignat., Platin., Nux vom., Rhus tox., Pulsat.