Cina cina.

NERVES: Cerebro-spinal. ABDOMEN. Digestive tract. Eyes. Mucous membranes. Children. (Left side.).

TOUCH. Worms. Vexation. Looked at. DURING SLEEP. Full moon. Staring. Yawning.

Lying on abdomen. Wiping eyes. Motion.

The greater the emaciation the greater the hunger. Bruised soreness. Painfully sore to motion and touch. Stiffens out; < if crossed, looked at, during cough, etc. Twitchings. Spasms; < worms; unilateral.

TOUCHY. Nervous. Ugly, cross, petulant and dissatisfied. Wants to be rocked. Dilated pupils. Squint. Colored vision. Eyes fatigue, > rubbing. Nostrils drawn in. PICKS AND BORES AT NOSE. Dark rings about eyes. BLUISH WHITE ABOUT MOUTH. Sickly, pale face; during cough. GRINDS TEETH; during sleep. Chews and swallows in sleep. Worms. Noisy swallowing. Canine or gnawing hunger; after eating; after vomiting; alternating with anorexia; precedes chill or follows sweat. Hard, distended abdomen. Twisting at navel, > pressure. White, watery stool. Bed-wetting; < every full moon. MILKY URINE. Regularly recurrent, choking cough, then gurgling down throat. Tosses arms and legs from side to side. Restless sleep; lies on abdomen; cries out; wakes in terror. Fever, with pale face (Bry.). Cold sweat about nose and forehead.

Complementary: Calc-c. Dros. Ratan. Related: Cham. Nat-p.

Adapted to children with dark hair, very cross, irritable, ill-humored, want to be carried, but carrying gives no relief; does not want to be touched; cannot bear you to come hear it; averse to caresses; desires many things; but rejects everything offered (compare, Ant. t., Bry., Cham., Staph.). Constantly digging and boring at the nose; picks the nose all the time; itching of nose; rubs nose on pillow, or on shoulder of nurse (Mar. v.). Children, suffering from worms; pitiful weeping when awake, starts and screams during sleep; grinding of teeth (Cic., Sulph.); ascarides (Mar. v.). Face is pale; sickly white and bluish appearance around mouth; sickly, with dark rings under the eyes; one cheek red, the other pale (Cham.). Canine hunger: hungry soon after a full meal; craving for sweets and different things; refuses mother's milk. Urine; turbid when passed, turns milky and semi-solid after standing; white and turbid; involuntary. Cough: dry with sneezing; spasmodic, gagging in the morning; periodic, returning spring and fall. Child is afraid to speak or move for fear of bringing on a paroxysm of coughing (Bry.).

Compare: Ant. c., Ant. t., Bry., Cham., Kreos., Sil., Staph., in irritability of children. In pertusis, after Drosera has relieved the severe symptoms. Has cured aphonia from exposure when Acon., Phos. and Spong. had failed. Is frequently to be thought of, in children, as an epidemic remedy, when adults require other drugs. Santonie sometimes cures in worm affections when Cina seems indicated, but fails (Mar. v., Spig.).

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

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

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

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.

Female: Metrorrhagia; womb-troubles in general.

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.

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.

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

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

Great hunger soon after eating; desires many and different things. Worm affections; face pale white 'about the mouth, boring nose with finger, grinding teeth at night, great hunger, restless sleep, fever, etc.

Worm-seed (CINA)

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.

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.

Headache, alternating with pain in abdomen. Relieved by stooping (Mezer). Pain in head when using eyes.

Dilated pupils; yellow vision. Weak sight from masturbation. Strabismus from abdominal irritation. Eyestrain, especially when presbyopia sets in. Pulsation of superciliary muscle.

Digging and scratching in ears.

Itching of nose all the time. Wants to rub it and pick at it. Bores at nose till it bleeds.

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.

Gets hungry soon after a meal. Hungry, digging, gnawing sensation. Epigastric pain; worse, first waking in morning and before meals. Vomiting and diarrhœa immediately after eating or drinking. Vomiting with a clean tongue. Desires many and different things. Craving for sweets.

Twisting pain about navel (Spig). Bloated and hard abdomen.

White mucus, like small pieces of popped corn, preceded by pinching colic. Itching of anus (Teuc). Worms (Sabad; Naphth; Nat phos).

Turbid, white; turns milky on standing. Involuntary at night.

Uterine hæmorrhage before puberty.

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.

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.

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.

Light 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.

Worse, looking fixedly at an object, from worms, at night, in sun, in summer.

Compare: Santonin--(often preferable in worm affections; same symptoms as Cina; corresponding to the "pain in shocks" produced by Cina. Visual illusions, yellow sight; violet light not recognized, colors not distinguishable. Urine deep saffron color. Spasms and twitchings, chronic gastric and intestinal troubles sometimes removed by a single dose (physiological) of Santonin. Dahlke). Helmintochortos-Worm-moss (acts very powerfully on intestinal worms, especially the lumbricoid). Teucrium; Ignat; Cham; Spig.

Antidote: Camph; Caps.

Third attenuation. For nervous irritable children, thirtieth and two-hundredth preferable. Santonin in first (with care) and third trituration.

The child is cross and ugly, kicks and strikes, wants to be carried or rocked or don't want to be touched or looked at; wants things and pushes them away when offered.

Frequently boring the nose with the fingers.

Pale sickly look about the eyes, or white and blue about the mouth.

Frequent swallowing as if something came up in the throat.

Alternate canine hunger or no appetite at all.

Urine turns milky on standing.

Frequent sudden attacks of very high fever, with glowing red hot face, with paleness around mouth and lips, or sometimes alternates with pale face with dark bluish ring around the eyes.

Here is a truly unique remedy that none but the homœopathist knows how to use. The old school chagrined at our success with it, and not willing to resort to our small doses, have bungled with its alkaloid, doing more harm than good, and at last have come to sneer at the idea of children being troubled with worms at all. I have known of several instances of the kind and it has become so common in the region where I practice that the people often ask me -"Doctor, do you believe in worms? Old school doctors don't. I have found several worms that my child has passed, and have come to you to see if you can do anything for them." It is of great advantage to us Homœopaths to cure the little patients, whether we believe in worms or not. But Cina is not always the remedy for worms. But it is perhaps the oftenest indicated remedy for complaints arising from lumbricoides, or children infested with the animal. Another thing I have proven to my entire satisfaction, and that is, that it is more efficacious for these cases in the 200th or highest potencies than in the alkaloid or lower potencies. Now I say this in order to induce those who have lost faith in the remedy to try it high, according to well-known indications as laid down in our Materia Medica. So many "lose the good they oft might win by fearing to attempt." Let us look at a few of the leading symptoms. The wormy child will be very restless nights, "screams out sharply in its sleep," making one think of Apis, but other symptoms appear which rules Apis out. The child is cross and ugly like Chamomilla, kicks and strikes the nurse, wants to be carried (Chamomilla) or rocked, or don't want to be touched or looked at (Antimonium crud.), desires things and then refuses them when offered (Bry. and Staphisagria), or, unlike Chamomilla, it cries if any one tries to take hold of or carry it. Isn't that a perfect picture of the mind of a wormy child? When these symptoms appear in a child we may sometimes be at a stand between Cina and Chamomilla, but close watching will generally decide. For instance, if you watch or inquire of the nurse you will find that it alternates between a red-hot face, glowing with a bright redness of both cheeks, and a pale, sickly face, with dark rings or circles around the eyes; or, again, red face with great paleness around the mouth and nose. This is Cina. If the face is frequently red and hot on one side and pale and cold on the other, it is Chamomilla. Then again, on inquiry, or we may observe ourselves, the child is boring or picking its nose a great deal of the time, grinds its teeth when asleep, and jumps and jerks in its sleep, frequently swallowing as if something came up into the throat, or even choking and coughing for the same cause. Such a combination is not found under any other remedy. Both Chamomilla and Cina have profuse and pale urine, but Cina urine becomes milky after standing awhile. Cina has alternating canine hunger and no appetite at all. Cina is one of our best remedies for whooping cough, also jerking, trembling, twitching and even convulsions; but in all these affections I have found it efficacious when the aforementioned worm symptoms were present. I once had, at one time, and in one family, five cases of typhoid fever, and they were all very sick. There was no mistake about the diagnosis, and I speak thus positively, because some think. that a child under the age of six years cannot have this disease. This child, five years of age, was the last one of the family attacked with the disease, and it persued the same course as the others in its regular rise and fall of temperature, bloating of abdomen, diarrhœa and other symptoms common to this disease. This being in the earlier years of my practice, and Cina not being set down in the textbooks as a remedy for typhoid, I selected as well as I could from the usual remedies for typhoid. I knew perfectly that she had Cina symptoms all mixed in with those already mentioned, and as the case "got no better fast," I resolved to give a few doses of Cina anyway, and to my surprise I found my patient much better every way at my next visit and the improvement progressed right along to complete recovery. I had to learn several such lessons as that was in my "kittenhood" of homœopathic practice before I learned for good, that, for purposes of prescribing, the name of the disease was of little account. Since I settled that question, I have had frequent opportunities to help my younger brethren out of difficulties along the same line, and they have been as much astonished as I was.

Piteous complaints and weeping. Ill-humor ; the child is averse to being caressed and rejects every thing which is offered. The child will not be touched. Disposition to be offended by trifling jests.

The head falls to the side and is jerked backwards, with twitches in the limbs and cold perspiration of the face. Headache, before and after the epileptic attacks ; after attacks of intermittent fever. The headache is aggravated by walking in the open ail, and from exertions of the mind. Cold perspiration on the head (forehead) and on the pale, cold, bloated face, with blueness around the mouth ; twitching of the limbs and sleepiness, worse at night (after attacks of hooping-cough and epilepsy).

Pain in the eyes when using them at night by the candle-light. Dilatation of the pupils. When looking at a thing steadily (reading) he sees it as through a gauze, which is relieved by wiping the eyes. Weakness of sight (from onanism). Aversion to, light.

Bleeding of the nose and from the mouth, with burning in the nose. Disposition to bore in the nose. The child rubs the nose constantly, and bores with the fingers in the nose until blood comes out. Sneezing, violent, with stitches in the temples. Stoppage of the nose in the evening ; fluent coryza at noon the nose burns.

Paleness of the face, with sickly appearance around the eyes. Bloated, pale face, with blueness around the mouth. Pale, cold face, with cold perspiration. Pain (tearing) in the zygomata, aggravated or renewed by contact and pressure.

Grinding of the teeth. Sensitiveness of the teeth to cold air and cold water. The teeth feel sore.

Sensation of dryness and roughness of the mouth, especially of the palate. Inability to swallow, especially fluids.

Canine hunger ; he is hungry soon after a full meal. The child refuses to take the mother's milk. Increased thirst.

Vomiting (and diarrhœa) after drinking. Vomiting of lumbrici (and ascarides) ; of food and mucus. Vomiting during the fever, with clean tongue. Vomiting of the food and of bile. Frequent hiccough.

Cutting and pinching pain in the abdomen from worms. Pain in the pericardial region, oppressing the breathing. Painful twisting around the navel. Unpleasant sensation of warmth in the abdomen. Bloated abdomen, especially in children. Feeling of emptiness in the abdomen. Audible gurgling from the throat into the stomach when drinking.

Involuntary diarrhœic, white stools. Discharges of lumbrici and of ascarides. Itching of the anus.

Involuntary emission of urine (at night). Turbid urine.

Women. Menstruation too early and too profuse. Hæmorrhage from the uterus. Labor-like pains in the abdomen, frequently recurring, as if the menses would appear.

Oppression of the chest, as from a cramp-like, contracted sensation in the chest. Short, interrupted breathing. Respiration wheezing and panting. Suffocative attacks. Hoarseness, with much mucus in the larynx and trachea. Dry, spasmodic cough, preceded by rigidity of the body and unconsciousness. Hooping-cough, in violent periodically returning attacks, from a titilating sensation in the throat, as of a feather, and much tough mucus -in the morning without expectoration, in the evening with difficult expectoration of white, occasionally blood-streaked, mucus which is tasteless ; worse in the morning and in the evening ; better during the night ; aggravated by drinking, walking in the open air, pressing on the larynx, when lying on the right side, in the cold air, and when awaking from sleep. Burning, stitches, and soreness in the chest.

Pain in the small of the back, as if bruised.

Upper. Twitching of the fingers. Spasmodic contraction of the hand. Weakness of the hand ; he can hold nothing with it. Cramp-like drawing pains in the arms and hands. Sprained feeling in the wrist-joint. Lower. Rigidity of the lower limbs ; spasmodic stretching and twitching of the feet.

Epileptic attacks, especially at night, with or without consciousness, lying on the back ; violent screams and violent jerks of the hands and feet. The body is stretched out and becomes rigid. Dull stitches in different parts of the body. Twitching and distortions of the limbs.

Sleeplessness, with restlessness, crying and lamentations. At night, restless, tossing about, and crying (children). Wakes in the morning, restless and lamenting, in a start.

Pulse small, hard, and rapid. Chilliness, with shaking or trembling, ascending from the upper part of the body to the head. Chill, with coldness of the pale face and heat of, the hands. Chill, not relieved by external heat, with great paleness of the face, and mostly in the evening. Heat, mostly in the face and head, often with paleness of the face. Heat at night, with thirst. Perspiration, generally cold, on the forehead, around the nose, and on the hands. After the perspiration (sometimes before the chill) vomiting of food ; at the same time canine hunger.

Suitable for children, especially when they suffer from worms. When touched, or when moving, the body feels sore. External pressure renews or aggravates the suffering. Bad effects from onanism (eyes). Aggravation at night ; on looking fixedly at an object ; from external pressure.

The unexpanded flower-heads (commonly called "seeds") of several varieties of Artemisia maritima. Semen cinæ. Flores Cinæ. Artemisia contra. Wormseed. N. O. Compositæ. Tincture.

Abdomen, distended . Anæmia. Anus, irritation of . Asthenopia. Asthma. Bronchitis. Borborygmi . Chorea. Colic . Convulsions. Cough . Dentition. Diarrhœa. Enuresis. Eyes, affections of . Hydrocephaloid. Intermittent fever. Leucorrhœa . Neuralgia. Remittent fever. Scarlatina. Sight, affections of. Spasms. Strabismus. Twitchings. Urine, milky . Whooping-cough. Worms.

Cina is the source of the alkaloid Santoninum . It is pre-eminently a worm medicine, as it causes all the symptoms which characterise helminthiasis both mental, nervous, and bodily. It corresponds more to the effects of lumbrici than to those of other worms. There is irritation of the nose, causing constant desire to rub, prick, or press into it. In children there is extreme ill-humour and naughtiness. Nothing pleases them for any length of time; gritting teeth during sleep; wetting the bed (when accompanied by picking nose, great hunger, restless sleep); tossing all about the bed in sleep; crying out as if in delirium Sherbino has found "getting on hands and knees in sleep" a strong indication for it. But Cina is much more than a mere worm-medicine. Many symptoms appear to be reflex from abdominal irritation. A characteristic feature is: Extreme sensitiveness of mind and body: offended by the slightest thing; peevish and obstinate; aversion to be caressed. Over-sensitiveness of surface: cannot endure to be approached, touched, or pressed upon; touch induces or aggravates spasms. Child cannot bear to have head combed or brushed. Aversion to light. Strabismus; with sickly look and dark circles round eyes; yellow vision. Asthenopia, defective accommodation; yellow vision. Ravenous hunger; sinking immediately after a meal. Difficult swallowing of liquids; clucking noise from throat to stomach. Nocturnal enuresis; urine white, turbid, at times fetid. Larynx extremely sensitive, touching it causes suffocative spasm. Cough excited by sensation of feather down in throat. Reflex cough; caused by writing or reading (to oneself). In fever there is thirst with chill; face pale and cold; hands warm; nausea or vomiting of bile or ingesta. Charles Mohr ( H. M ., January, 1898) commends it for: anæmic persons suffering from indigestion and non-assimilation of food; or after acute illness when they have headache, vertigo, and neuralgia. In the cachectic who have pains in the belly and deranged abdominal functions, and suffer nervously. For asthenopia from onanism, when reading by artificial light is next to impossible; eyes feel veiled, need constant wiping. Spasmodic strabismus from abdominal irritation. Spasmodic asthma after food that disagrees, "sensation as if sternum lies too close to back, embarrasses breathing and causes anxiety and sweat." Prosopalgia of supra- and infra-orbital region and zygoma chiefly, pains pressing, screwing, with hyperæsthesia. Gastralgia, enteralgia, and fevers when the leading symptoms are present. Nash ( Leaders in Typhoid Fever ) mentions two cases of typhoid in which Cina proved curative, the indications being "Intense circumscribed redness of the cheeks , and frequent and violent rubbing of the nose ." S. C. Ghose has recorded ( H. W ., September, 1899) a striking cure by Cina 6 and 200 of a case of infantile remittent fever, in which the classical symptoms of the drug were present; the fever came on very irregularly. The symptoms of Cina are < night; before midnight child wakes up frightened. < From open air; cold air; cold water. < Yawning. Child lies on belly, or on hands and knees, during sleep. Guernsey says Cina is suited to complaints which are concomitant to yawning, which come on whenever one yawns.

Antidoted by: Camph., Caps., Chi., Pip. nig. Antidote to: Caps., Chi., Merc. Follows well: Dros. and Ant. t. Compare: In aversion to be touched, Ant. c., Ant. t., Hep. Sil., Thu. gurgling along œsophagus when swallowing fluids, Helleb., Cupr. difficult swallowing liquids, Bell., Caust., Hyo., Ign., Lach., Lyc., Pho.; in cough < by reading or writing, Mang., Meph., Nux, Plat. in white stools, Dig.; in ravenous hunger, Ars., Calc., Iod., Sil. Staph.; aversion to be caressed, Ars., Lach.; in squint, Alm.; in asthenopia and defective accommodation, Artem. v. (but Art. v. has dizziness from coloured light; and Cina has > from rubbing). Teste places Cina in the Arsen. group from its analogy in the digestive sphere. Cham. has many points of contact with Cina and some opposite conditions.

Worms. Yawning.

Lachrymose and plaintive humour. — A child cries when it is touched; is averse to being caressed. — Continual inquietude, with desire for things of all kinds, which are rejected some moments after. — Disposition to be offended by trifling jests. — Great anguish and anxiety on walking in the open air. — Delirium.

Headache, alternately with pressure on the abdomen. — Numbing pressure, as from a load, which weighs upon the head, esp. when walking in the open air. — The head falls to the side and is jerked backwards, with twitches in the limbs and cold perspiration of the face. — Tearing, drawing cephalalgia, aggravated by reading or meditation. — Headache before and after the epileptic attacks; after attack of intermittent fever. — Dull pains in the head, with eyes fatigued, chiefly on waking in the morning. — Cold perspiration on the head (forehead) and on the pale, cold, bloated face, with blueness around the mouth; twitching of the limbs and sleepiness, worse at night (after attacks of whooping-cough and epilepsy).

Aching in the eyes, when fatiguing them by reading; when using them at night by the candle-light. — Convulsive movements of the muscles of the eyebrows. — Confusion of sight, on reading, which disappears on rubbing the eyes. — Pupils dilated. — Weakness of sight (from onanism). — Weak sight, with photophobia and pressure on the eyes, as if sand had been introduced into them. — When looking at a thing steadily (reading) he sees it as through a gauze, which is relieved by wiping the eyes.

Epistaxis; also bleeding from the mouth. — Inclination to put the fingers into the nose. — The child rubs the nose constantly, and bores with the fingers in the nose until blood comes out. — Flow of pus from the nose. — Violent sneezing, which provokes a sensation of pressure on the temples, and seems as though it would burst the chest. — Fluent coryza, with sensation of burning in the nostrils. — Stoppage of the nose, in the evening. — Fluent coryza at noon. — The nose burns.

Paleness of face, with livid circle under the eyes. — Earth-coloured complexion. — Face, puffed and bluish, esp. round the mouth. — Face alternately pale and cold, or red and hot. — Pale, cold face, with cold perspiration. — Cramp-like pains and successive pullings in the cheek-bones, aggravated or renewed by contact and pressure.

Toothache, provoked by the air and cold drinks. — Pains, as from excoriation, in the teeth. — Grinding of the teeth.

Sensation of dryness and roughness of the mouth, esp. of the palate.

Inability to swallow, esp. liquids.

Increase of thirst. — Hunger shortly after a meal. — Voracity. — Bulimy. — Aversion of the sucking child to the milk of its mother. — 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. — Bitter taste of bread. — Vomiting, or diarrhœa immediately after eating or drinking, esp. drinking. — Vomiting of mucus and of ascarides. — Vomiting during the fever, with tongue clean. — Bilious vomiting. — Disagreeable risings.

Audible gurgling from the throat into the stomach when drinking. — Frequent hiccough. — Pain in the precordial region oppressing the breathing.

Obstinate pinchings in the abdomen. — Pinching or cramp-like pressure transversely across upper abdomen, after a meal. — Painful twisting about navel. — Cutting and pinching pain in the abdomen from worms. — Painful rolling in the region of the navel, which is very sensitive to the touch. — Cramp-like, frequently recurring pains in the abdomen, as when the catamenia are about to appear. — Unpleasant sensation of warmth in the abdomen. — Bloated abdomen, esp. in children. — Feeling of emptiness in the abdomen.

Stool with maw-worms (short, thick worms). — Loose evacuations of the consistence of pap. — Discharge of ascarides, and of other worms by the anus. — Itching of the anus. — Diarrhœa of bile, and of stercoraceous matter. — Loose, involuntary, whitish evacuations.

Frequent want to make water, with profuse discharge. — Wetting the bed. — Urine soon becomes turbid. — Involuntary emission of urine (at night). — Urine milky.

Catamenia premature, and too abundant. — Metrorrhagia. — Womb-troubles in general.

Short, interrupted breathing. — Respiration wheezing and panting. — Abundance of mucus in the larynx, which is constant, and compels continual hawking. — Gagging cough in morning after rising; irritation thereto (as from dust); is renewed by inspiration after a long interval. — Cough, excited by taking a deep inspiration. — Dry, tickling cough induced by reading (to oneself). — Hoarse, transient cough in the evening. — Dry cough, with cramp, want of breath, anxiety, paleness of face, and groans after the paroxysm; or with stiffness of the body, and bleeding from the nose and mouth. — Cough, with sudden starts, and loss of consciousness. — Before coughing, child raises herself suddenly, tosses wildly about, the whole body becomes stiff, she loses consciousness, just as if she would have an epileptic fit, then follows the cough. — Whooping-cough in violent, periodically returning attacks, from a titillating sensation in the throat, as of a feather, and much tough mucus: — in the morning without expectoration, in the evening with difficult expectoration of white, occasionally blood-streaked mucus, which is tasteless; worse in the morning and in the evening; better during the night, aggravated by drinking, walking in the open air, pressing on the larynx, when lying on the right side, in the cold air, and when awaking from sleep.

Difficulty of respiration, and anxious oppression of the chest, as if the sternum were compressing the lungs. — Respiration short, often interrupted, or rattling. — Spasmodic digging in the chest, as if it were going to burst. — Jerking and digging shootings in the chest. — Burning, stitches., and soreness in the chest.

Pains, as from a bruise, in the loins, < by motion. — Drawing-tearing pain along whole spine. — Drawing or jerking pains in middle of spine.

Tearing and paralytic pullings in the arms. — Cramp-like tearings in the arms and in the hands. — Contraction and starting of the hand and of the fingers. — Sprained feeling in the wrist-joint. — Weakness of the hand, which suffers everything to escape from it.

Paralytic or cramp-like pains, and pullings in the legs. — Spasmodic stretching and twitching of the feet. — Cramp-like extension of the legs.

Paralytic, tractive pains in the limbs. — Pressure and squeezing, with dull shootings, or cramp-like tearings, pullings and jerkings, or burning shootings in different parts. — Twitching of limbs. — Convulsions, and distortion of the limbs. — Nocturnal epileptic convulsions, followed by headache. — Epileptic convulsions (esp. at night, with or without consciousness) with cries, bending backwards of the back, and violent movements of the hands and feet. — Tetanic stiffness of the whole body. — External pressure < , or renews the sufferings. — Painful sensibility of all the limbs, on movement, and on being touched. — Affections of the l. side; l. lower extremity. — The majority of the sufferings appear at night, or when seated, and are < in the morning and in the evening. — Heaviness in the limbs.

Frequent yawning, with trembling and shuddering. — Nocturnal sleeplessness, with agitation, tears, cries, heat, and anguish; in children. — Wakes in the morning, restless and lamenting, in a start. — Child gets on hands and knees in sleep; on abdomen.

Pulse small, hard, and rapid. — Frequent shuddering, with trembling, even near the fire. — Quotidian fevers, or tertian, with bulimy, nausea, tongue clean, diarrhœa, pupils dilated, and emaciation. — Shivering in the evening. — Strong febrile heat, with delirium, tossing, and agitation. — Chilliness, with shaking or trembling, ascending from the upper part of the body to the head. — Chill, with coldness of the pale face and heat of the hands. — Heat at night, with thirst. — Chilliness with thirst. — After the perspiration (sometimes before the chill) vomiting of food (with a clean tongue); at the same time canine hunger. — Heat, esp. in the head, with paleness, or yellowish colour of the face, and livid circle under the eyes, or with redness of the cheeks. — After the fever, headache. — Cold sweat on the forehead, around the nose, and on the hands.

Loss of consciousness and frothing from mouth.
Hallucinations of sight, smell and taste.
Children wake up in evening or before midnight with fear or fright, jump up, see sights, scream, tremble and talk about it with much anxiety.
Delirium and crying out.
Child is whining and complaining ; very restless even during sleep ; it will not lie awake five minutes without crying ; it must be rocked, carried, or dandled upon the knee constantly, day and night ; does not want to be touched ; cannot bear you to come near
it ; desires many things which it refuses when offered ; is not pleased or satisfied with anything ; uneasy and distressed all the time ; throws away everything given it, and cries about nothing ; often sullen and unwilling to play during day.
Pitiful weeping when awake. θ Hydrocephaloid.
Child cries piteously if one takes hold of it, or carries it.
Great earnestness and sensitiveness ; he is offended at slightest joke.
Fretting excites cough.
Usually good-natured child was cross, fretful, irritable and dissatisfied with everything, and passed urine involuntarily, with prostration. θ After remittent fever.
Child, though weak, was cross and obstinate, and cried when his will was not humored. θ Bronchitis.
Child exceedingly cross, cries and strikes at all around him.

Weak, hollow, empty feeling in head, with inclination to vomit.
Stupefying headache, especially in forehead, then also in occiput ; when walking in open air.
A slow stitch, extending from upper orbital margin deep into brain.
Swashing sensation in forehead when shaking head.
Drawing pain in right temple in a vertical direction, on coughing feels as if it would burst.
Drawing from left frontal eminence to root of nose, causing confusion of head.
Intermitting pressure, as from a heavy weight, as if brain pressed down on middle of vertex ; pressure increases and renews pain.
Dull headache, with sensitiveness of eyes in morning.
Stupefying headache brought on by eating or mental labor.
Headache, before and after epileptic attacks and after attacks of intermittent fever.
Headache : with pain in chest and back ; caused by fixing eyes steadily upon some object, as when sewing ; < from pressure ; alternating with pain in abdomen ; > by stooping.
Heat mostly in head during fever, with yellow color of face and blue rings around eyes.
Hydrocephaloid and inflammation of brain.

Head falls to side and is jerked backward, with twitches in limbs and cold perspiration on face.
Child leans its head sideways, all the time. θ Hydrocephaloid.
Turning head from one side to other. θ Hydrocephaloid.
Head very hot ; could not bear to have it touched. θ Scarlatina.
Dislikes having head combed or brushed, from sensitiveness of scalp. θ Scarlatina.
Better by shaking head.

Chronic weakness of sight, with aching in eyes and photophobia. θ Result of onanism.
Pains renewed by looking steadily at an object, as in sewing. θ Amenorrhœa.
When looking at a thing steadily, reading, he sees it as through a gauze, which is relieved by wiping eyes.
Pressure in eyes as if sand had got in, especially when reading.
Can see more clearly for awhile after rubbing eyes.
On rising from bed, black before eyes, with dizziness in head and faintness, totters to and fro ; > on lying down.
Optical illusions in bright colors ; blue, violet, yellow or green.
Aversion to light.
Pain in eyes when using them at night by candlelight.
Pupils dilated.
Itching of inner canthus.
From 9 A. M. to 1 P. M., daily, soreness over and in left eye, in l. side of nose, forehead and temples to occiput.
Pulsation of superciliary muscles ; a kind of convulsion.
Drooping and heaviness of lids.
Looks sickly about eyes, with paleness of face.
Eyes staring. θ Chorea.
Eyeballs convulsively turned upward, showing only whites, or fixed and staring, with dilated pupils.
Spots on cornea.
Strabismus, dependent upon helminthiasis ; child has a pale, sickly look, blue rings around eyes, pains about umbilicus, frequent urination, boring of nose, etc.

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Cina is pre-eminently a child's remedy, but it is suitable for conditions in adults that are seldom thought of. A marked feature running through is touchiness, mental and physical.

The child wants something, but does not know what. The child is aggravated by touch and even by being looked at, and is worse from seeing strangers. The skin is sensitive to touch. The scalp and back of the neck, the shoulders and arms are so sensitive, that it is almost a soreness as if bruised. The hyperesthesia is both mental and physical. The old routine of giving Cina for worms need not go into your notes, for if you are guided by symptoms the patient will be cured and the worms will go.

This patient is disturbed by everything, worse after eating even a moderate meal. The child takes a moderate supper and dreams all night, jerks and twitches in sleep, rouses up in a fright, talks excitedly about what he has dreamed, thinks it is real, and sees dogs, phantoms, and frightful things lie has dreamed about.

The dream is prolonged into the wakeful hours. Screams and trembles, with much anxiety on waking; whines and complains. While this little patient is aggravated by being handled yet he wants to be carried and kept busy, like Chamomilla; although not so intensely irritable as that remedy, yet he must be carried. At first on taking him out of the crib he screams when taken bold of; the first touch aggravates.

This aggravation from touch and sensitiveness runs through the convulsions and fevers, with delirium, glassy eyes, drawn mouth and white ring around the nose and mouth. With a disordered stomach he has convulsions after eating, with the head drawn back and glassy eyes.

The stomach is sour and the child is always spitting up sour milk and belching sour wind. The child smells sour.

The mother says that

"Baby has a worm breath," but the same odor is present when there are no worms. In the convulsions there are loss of consciousness and frothing at the mouth.

Hallucinations of smell, sight and taste, in the delirious state, after taking cold, or on waking from sleep; wakes up with the delusion. Things taste and smell differently. The senses of taste and touch are exaggerated or perverted.

In some cases of internal hydrocephalus, not with enlarged skull but with increase of the fluid in the ventricles and central canal of the spinal cord, the patients take on Cina symptoms. Rolling of the head frequent headaches; sensitiveness to jar; cannot be touched or tapped along the spinal cord without headache always worse in the sun - the head is hot and the feet are cold in the sun.

Cina will cure some of these cases. They cannot stand any kind of disturbance; it produces a convulsion. They cannot be punished because they go into convulsions. If the iter a tertio ad quartum ventriculum is closed they will be incurable, the internal pressure will go on and they will die from it. Such congenital states are incurable.

Dull headache with sensitiveness of the eyes. Headache before and after epileptic attacks and after intermittents. Before and during the headache sensitiveness of the skull. Cina children cannot have the hair combed, and the Cina woman must have her hair down in head and nerve complaints.

There is coldness of the, extremities and also some itching of the skin, but the head symptoms are predominant. From slight disturbances of the mind he cannot digest, and he has diarrhoea. The complaints are aggravated in summer; the heat affects the brain, arrests his functions, and on comes diarrhoea with green, slimy stools or white stools, and the child vomits.

It is pre-eminently brain in Cina; the orders are not received from the brain and so stomach symptoms develop, and worms hatch out. If he is cured the healthy gastric juice will chase the worms out

The child turns his head from side to side.

The pains are sometimes better from turning the head from side to side. You will see this in sensitive women, who must have their hair down; rolling the head relieves, not shaking as in the text, that is too violent.

All sorts of colors before the eyes. Objects look yellow. It is useful in sensitive women, sensitive nervous women, who are always worse from using the eyes, and get pain in the head and eyes from sewing. It is like Ruta in that respect, symptoms of eye-strain. It is not so much indicated in young people but more when presbyopla is beginning in middle-aged women, and there is the effort to strain the eyes on fine work or print.

Rubs the eyes and can then see more clearly. On rising from the bed blackness before the eyes; different colors, especially yellow. Strabismus when worms are present, depending really on brain trouble because the worms are dependent upon that.

Face sunken, pallid, wings of nose drawn in. Blue ring or gray streak around the mouth.

"A sure sign of worms," the mother says.

Child rubs its nose with the hands or on the pillow or on the nurse's, shoulder. Child bores into the nose until the blood come. The sickly aspect is striking, but it is representative of brain trouble, central trouble. The brain symptoms are the highest and most important. It frightened, whipped, or scolded, the brain is disturbed and the stomach disordered.

They get indigestion and breed worms; white or blue appearance about the mouth, grinding of the teeth during sleep. Before the child has teeth it has a chewing motion, a side to side movement. Sensitiveness of the teeth to the cold air and cold water.

Bleeding from the mouth, and nose. Inability to swallow liquids; they gurgle down the oesophagus before and after convulsions. When the head symptoms are present, the milk or water gurgles down the oesophagus with a gurgling cluck. This is present in diarrhoea and vomiting with brain symptoms.

Ars. and Cupr. are also prominent in gurgling down the oesophagus when swallowing. Choreic movements extend to the tongue.

The child or adult is not relieved by eating, is still hungry. The stomach is loaded and yet he is hungry. After vomiting you would expect there would be, an aversion to food, but there is in Cina, the same empty, hungry feeling.

When there is gnawing in the stomach after eating, or when the child has taken all it can hold yet cries for the bottle, or empties its stomach by spitting up and vomiting the food and then reaches out whining and crying for more, think of Cina. Shuddering when drinking wine as if it were vinegar.

Abdomen bard and bloated. Very often the Cina child will flop over on its belly and get to sleep in that way. If it is turned on the side it wakes up again. While in the mother's arms it will go to sleep with the abdomen resting on the mother's shoulder, but when she puts it on the side in bed it wakens.

If you had a child with copious, gushing, violently foetid stool, ameliorated by lying on the abdomen, and it would have another stool if lying any other way, Podoph. would be the remedy. That would not be Cina. The Cina stool is not very copious, and often white.

Gagging cough in the morning. Short, hacking cough at night. Spasmodic cough. Whooping cough.

Oversensitiveness to touch; trembling, spasms, chorea. Spasmodic yawning. Child cannot sleep unless on the belly or in constant motion.

Adapted to the child with dark hair; very cross, irritable, ill-humored; wants to be carried, but carrying gives no relief; does not want to be touched; cannot bear you to come near it; averse to caresses; desires many things but rejects everything offered (Ant. t., Bry., Cham., Staph.); uneasy, distressed; rubs or picks the nose all the time (Arum t.); pitiful weeping when awake; starts and screams during sleep; suffers from worms.

Face is pale; sickly appearance around mouth and eyes; dark rings around the eyes; one cheek red the other pale (Cham.).

Canine hunger; hungry soon after a full meal; craves sweets, and many different things.

Child is afraid to speak or move for fear of bringing on a paroxysm of cough (Bry.).

Urine; turbid when passed, turns milky and semi-solid after standing; white and turbid; involuntary.

Intermittents of nervous, weekly, scrofulous children.

At night.

Quotidian; quartan; tertian; regular; periodicity pronounced; continued fevers of children.

1 P. M., afternoon or evening. At same hour every day (Aran., Ced.). Evening; fever lasting all night (nursing children).

Daily fever (without chill) at same hour.

Intestinal worms; eating sweets and pastry.

Ravenous hunger, nausea, vomiting of food, and diarrhœa, and vomiting of bile (when the stomach is empty); pale face, with blue margins around the eyes.

Without thirst. Febrile shuddering over the whole body, with hot cheeks, without thirst. Chill extends from upper part of body to head, even by the warm stove. Shivering-creeping over the trunk, so that he trembles even by a warm stove, not $>$ by external warmth (chill $<$ by external heat, Ipec.) Coldness of the pale face, with warm hands; cold face; cold cheeks; cold sweat on forehead, nose and hands. Evening paroxysm of nursing children, heat with hunger and thirst continue all night. Chilliness down the spine. Vomiting.

Chill, followed by convulsions and high fever.

"Predominance of coldness, with cold sweat and continued hunger."—J. S. DOUGLAS.

With thirst; mostly in face and head (with red face and bursting headache, Bell.); face puffed, pale especially around the mouth and nose, with red cheeks; picks and bores in the nose with the fingers; rubs the eyes; restless sleep; starts and screams as if frightened; pupils dilated. Rising heat and glowing redness of the cheeks, without thirst, after sleep. Burning heat over the whole face, with redness of the cheeks, and thirst for cold drinks. Daily fever at same hour, with very short breath. Fever daily in the afternoon. Violent fever, with vomiting and diarrhœa (Ver.—see Elat.). Fever; vomiting of food, followed by chill all over, and then heat with great thirst. Canine hunger. Heat worse at night; with thirst; with anxiety. Picking finger ends.

Without thirst; generally light; cold sweat on the forehead, around the nose and on the hands. After the sweat, vomiting of food and canine hunger, at the same time (hunger after paroxysm, Eup.).

Always clean (Chin. s., Psor., Sul.).

Never clear. Hunger even in this stage, though not so marked, or so constant. The child had a craving appetite for some time previous to fever, then loss of appetite and desire only for dainties, with vomiting and whitish diarrhœa. General "worm symptoms" predominate; restless, frightened sleep; urine turbid, turns milky and semi-solid after standing.

The vomiting during prodrome, often during and always after the paroxysm, succeeded by canine hunger with clean tongue, should always call attention to Cina.

In Antimonium crud. the same condition may be present but the tongue is covered with a thick, whitish coating.

In Ipecacuanha the tongue is sometimes clean, but there is nausea, and the vomiting predominates over the diarrhœa.

The prostration of Veratrum is wanting, and the mental symptoms are entirely different.

"The child is very whining, peevish and complaining; weeps piteously if one goes to handle or lead him. Great earnestness and sensitiveness; cannot take a joke. Indifference to all impressions.

Restlessness. Greediness. Cannot be composed by things at other times agreeable, or by caresses."—CARROLL DUNHAM.

"Cina is frequently the epidemic remedy for children when adults require other drugs. Is always to be thought of in patients between two and ten years of age."—A. McNEIL.

Canine hunger; the sickly bluish-white circles around mouth; the mental irritability; peevish, whining, com- plaining children; general "worm symptoms."

Craves sweets; too serious or sensitive for joking.

Pitiful weeping when awake.
As if frightened, jumps out of bed, sees imaginary objects, screams, trembles, talks hurriedly, anxious; evening and before midnight.
Child doses not want to be touched; cannot bear you to come near it; desires many things which it refuses when offered; is not pleased or satisfied with anything; uneasy and distressed all the time.

Weak, hollow, empty feeling in the head, with inclination to vomit.

Stupefying headache, especially in the forehead, then also in occiput; when walking in open air.
Headache, pain in chest and back, caused by fixing eyes steadily upon some object, as when sewing; worse from pressure.
Dull headache, with sensitiveness of the eyes, in morning.
Intermittent pressure, as from a heavy weight, as if the brain were pressed down on the middle of the vertex; pressure increases and renews the pain.
Drawing from the left frontal eminence to the root of nose, causing confusion of head.
Headaches are anæmic, hence better stooping, though they are worse from mental exertion.

Child leans its head sideways, all the time.
Turning the head from one side to the other.

Can see more clearly for a while after rubbing the eyes.
On rising from bed, black before the eyes, with dizziness in the head and faintness, totters to and fro; better on lying down; dull headache, with affection of the eyes.
Optical illusions in bright colors.
Pupils dilated.

Dull stitches below the mastoid process.
Cramp-like jerking in the external ear, like earache.

Sneezing, with the whooping-cough.
Violent sneezing, with stitches in the temples.
Bleeding of the nose.
Stoppage of the nose, in the evening.
Itching of the nose.
Boring in the nose, with the finger.
Child rubs the nose on the pillow, on the shoulders of the nurse, or with the hands.

Pale, with sickly look about the eyes; pale and cold; red.
Dark rings around the eyes.
Pain, as if both malar bones were pressed together with pincers; worse from external pressure.

White and bluish about the mouth.

Grinds the teeth at night.

Tongue coated brownish-yellow; whitish.

Much frothy saliva, with rattling phlegm on chest.

Frequent motion, as though, swallowing something.

Desires many and different things.
Desires for bread; great hunger after eating.
Thirst.

On drinking wine, she shudders, as though it were vinegar.

Hiccough during sleep.
Vomiting of mucus.

Constant pressure in the stomach at night, causing restlessness.
Gnawing sensation in the stomach, as from hunger.

Pinching, or cramp-like pressure, transversely across the epigastric region, after a meal.
Boring pain above the navel, passes off when pressing thereon.
Painful twisting about the navel; with a peculiar sickish pressure.
Belly hard and distended.

Diarrhœa after drinking; stools watery, white.
Stool rather hard and black.
Itching at the anus.

Frequent urging, with passage of much urine, all day.
Urine becomes turbid immediately.

Menses too early and profuse.

Child refuses the breast.

Short, at times interrupted.
Inhalation, broken into two.
Oppression of the chest, the sternum seems to lie too close and the breathing becomes oppressed.

Short hacking cough at night.
Hacking cough, followed immediately by an effort to swallow something.
Violent periodically recurring paroxysms of whooping-cough, excited by sensation as if down were in the throat, or by adherent mucus in larynx; after cough, gurgling sound.
Gagging cough, morning after rising; irritation renewed by inspiration.
Hoarse gagging cough, in the evening.
Rattling cough in spells.
Expectoration: whitish, slimy, rarely somewhat bloody, almost tasteless, detached with difficulty.

Stitches in the left side; burning stitches in chest.
Rattling in throat and chest; catarrh, when excessive nervous irritability co-exists.

Pulse small; but hard and accelerated.

Drawing-tearing pain down along the whole spine.
Paralytic feeling in nape of neck.
Tearing-jerking pains in the middle of the spine.
Fatigued pain in the loins, as if he had stood a long time.
Bruised pain in small of back, not aggravated by motion.

Boring, pinching pain in the left upper arm.
Single, small, jerking stitches, now in right, again in left hand.

Paralytic pain in left thigh, near the knee.

Motion: 31. Walking in the open air: 3. Rising from bed: 5. Lying down: 5.

Trembling of the body, with shivering sensation while yawning.
Child complains of being always tired.
Twitching of the limbs; jerking and distortions of limbs.
Convulsive attacks at night.
Spasms of children, with throwing arms from side to side.
Epilepsy, with rigidity and full consciousness.
Convulsions of the extensor muscles; the child becomes suddenly stiff; there is a clucking noise, as though water were poured out of a bottle, from the throat down to the abdomen.
Chorea, the distortions often commence with a shriek, extend to the tongue, œsophagus and larynx, continue even through the night.

Sudden distressing cries in sleep; tossing about in sleep.
Cannot sleep; when falling asleep, starts, screams, turns over, kicks off the bedclothes.

Morning: 3, 27. Evening: 1, 7, 27, 40. Night: 10, 17, 27, 36, 40. Before midnight: 1. Whole day: 21.

External warmth: 40. Open air: 3.

Chill, with shivering and shaking, even near a warm stove; chill ascends from the upper part of the body to the head.
Chill, face pale and cold; hands warm.
Chill not relieved by external warmth, mostly in the evening and with great paleness of the face.
Chill in evening and fever all night. θ Nursing children.
Burning heat over the whole face, with redness of the cheeks and thirst for cold drink.
Fever daily at the same hour.
Heat most severe over the head and face, face pale.
Nightly heat; with thirst, with anxiety.
Sweat generally cold, on the forehead, around the nose and on the hands.
After the sweat (frequently also before the chill) vomiting of food, with canine hunger at the same time.

Recurring daily at the same hour:40.

Right: 32. Left: 3, 28, 32, 33. Above downwards: 31, 36. Below upwards: 40.

Dull twinges sometimes like a pinching, at other like a pressure or a blow, or jerk, or again like an itching, at various places, but especially at the posterior portion of the crest of the ilium, on the hip; the places are painful on pressure, as if sore or bruised.

Touch: 1. Pressure: 3, 6, 8, 19, 43. Rubbing: 5, 7. Scratching: 46.
Child wants to be carried.

Itching unchanged or lessened by scratching.
Furuncles.
Ulcers with scanty discharge.

Dark hair.

Ailments from Capsic., or abuse of chinchon. or Mercur.
Antidotes to Cina: Camphor., Capsic., Cinchon., Pip. nigr.
Santonine relieves asthenopia from some refractive anomaly.

A tincture is prepared from the dried flowers of Artemisia Cina Berg. (wormseed).

From our present knowledge this drug acts similarly to Absinth and other allied plants, producing increased reflex irritability and spasms. ▶ Its symptoms particularly simulate worm affections or peculiar forms of indigestion.

Absinth, Chenopod., Cham., Arn., China, Nux v., Ign., Calc. c., Ferrum.

▶ The child raises herself suddenly before coughing, looks wildly about, becomes stiff, loses consciousness, as if she would have epilepsy, then coughs. ▶ Convulsions; epileptic-like, with consciousness; with distortions of limb in all directions, except that fingers and toes were unaffected, head and trunk were drawn now backward, now forward, now to one side, while arms and legs were thrown about, then shocks through whole body, with motion downward like stamping of feet, jerking of head upward and backward, the shocks were felt by the hand, agg. lower part of chest and upper abdomen, face pale, then livid at last blue, eyeballs turned convulsively upward then directed staringly forward pupil insensible, tongue at times contracted to a cylinder and spasmodically protruded. ▶ Paralytic jerking in various parts, agg. in limbs. ▶ Spasmodic stretching at 4 P.M., then trembling with blue lips and weeping complaints about pain in chest, neck and limbs. ▶ Trembling, with shivering when yawning. ▶ Tossing about even when awake (In a child). ▶ (Convulsive symptoms to be compared with Absinth, Chenopod., etc.).

▶ Sticking here and there in body; here and there on trunk when sitting, agg. on abdomen; S. sometimes like a squeezing, sometimes like a pressure, sometimes like a blow or jerk, sometimes like on itching, now here, now there, in body, now in limbs, arms, feet, toes, now in side or back, now in nasal bones, agg. on posterior part of crest of ilium, on hip, the places pain on pressure as if bruised; cramplike contractive S. in muscles, now of right, now of left thigh, now in muscles of right, now of left upper arm now down small of back, when sitting, amel. walking in open air. ▶ Tearing, in part cutting, in limbs, head and jaws; tensive T. in scapulæ, after eating, agg. touch, and in upper arm, head and nape. ▶ Uneasiness; at night, tossing about on account of discomfort. ▶ Weak; and pale; in morning on rising and nauseated. ▶ Aggravation morning and evening; A. after eating.

▶ Delirium and crying out. ▶ Talking nonsense. ▶ Cannot be quieted by any persuasions; proof against all caresses (Nux v.). ▶ Piteous cries if one attempted to touch or lead him. ▶ Lachrymose and complaining (in a child). ▶ Earnest and sensitive, offended at the slightest joke (Nux v.). ▶ Refuses everything, even the things of which he is usually fond. ▶ Indifferent. ▶ Grunting, croaking and groaning in afternoon. ▶ Anxiety and anguish about heart when walking in open air, as if he had committed a crime. ▶ Unconscious and frothing at the mouth.

Great mental excitement, children wake in fright and scream and tremble. ▶ Children become very fretful, cannot be pleased, and though very weak when sick they are very cross and obstinate and strike everybody (Nux v., Sulph.).

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From our present knowledge this drug acts similarly to Absinth, and other allied plants, producing increased reflex irritability and spasms. Its symptoms particularly simulate worm affections or peculiar forms of indigestion.

The child raises herself suddenly before coughing, looks wildly about, becomes stiff, loses consciousness, as if she would have epilepsy, then coughs.
Convulsions; epileptic-like, with consciousness.
Trembling, with shivering and tossing about, even when awake.
Convulsions, epileptiform, at night.
Convulsions, epileptiform; lying on the back, violent screams and motions of the hands and feet.
Sensitiveness of the whole body to touch and motion.
External pressure renews or aggravates the symptoms.
Dull, sticking pains here and there throughout the body.
Jerkings and distortions of the limbs.
Stiff stretching out of the body.
Paralytic pains in the arms and legs.

Clinical:
Frequently useful for symptoms of spasms in children suffering from worms.
Sometimes useful in true epilepsy.

Child cannot be quieted by any persuasions; proof against all caresses.
Piteous cries if one attempted to touch or lead him.
Lachrymose and complaining.
Earnest and sensitive; offended at the slightest joke.
Unconscious and frothing at the mouth.

Headache in the morning, with pains in the eyes.
Pressive, stupefying headache, < walking in the open air and mental effort; pains in the forepart of the head and then in the occiput.
Sticking pains above the eyes in the forehead, extending deep into the brain.
Drawing pains from the left frontal eminence to the root of the nose, causing confusion, as if the brain were pressed down, < pressure.
Head is jerked backward.

Eyes sunken, with pale face.
Pupils dilated.
Pain in the eyes in the evening when using them by a light.
Vision becomes dim when reading, > temporarily by wiping the eyes.
Photophobia.
A kind of spasm in the superciliary muscles, like a convulsion.
Vision of colors is altered; blue seems green; red, fawn color; white, yellow, etc.

The child bores into the nose until it bleeds.
Violent sneezing.

Face is pale and cold, with cold sweat.
Patient is white and bluish about the mouth.
Face puffy.
Tearing pains in the malar bones, < touch and pressure.
Pains as if pinched and pressed together, < pressure.

Sensitiveness of the teeth to cold air and to cold drinks.
Dryness and rawness of the mouth.

Great hunger soon after eating.
Inordinate desires for different things.
Thirst.
Nausea and vomiting mucus or food, followed by chill, heat and thirst.

Pinching colic as from worms, transversely across the pit of the stomach, after eating.
Twisting pains about the navel.
Abdomen distended, especially in children.

Constipation.
Evacuation of round worms and thread worms.
A whitish, involuntary diarrhœa, watery.

Frequent urging to urinate.
Micturition involuntary, especially at night in bed.
Urine turbid, profuse.

Menstruation too early and profuse.
Uterine hæmorrhage.

Mucus collects in the larynx in the morning after rising, and soon again after expectoration.
Spasmodic, suffocative cough, with a kind of gurgling; the patient catches the breath.
A hoarse, hacking cough in the morning after rising, renewed by inspiration; or hoarse and hacking in the evening; violent paroxysmal.
Anxious, oppressed breathing.
Breath short and interrupted, as from spasms in the chest.
Respiration catching and painful.

Clinical:
Capillary bronchitis in children; screams when approached (Arn.); swallows after coughing, screams and talks in sleep, with rigidity and great paleness of the face; sometimes with jerkings of the limbs and loss of breath.

Tearing, sticking pain in the middle of the spine.
Drawing tearing pains, extending down the spine.
Bruised pain in the small of the back.
A feeling of constriction around the loins.

Twitchings, jerkings and spasms.
Cramplike tearing pains in the arms and hands.
Spasmodic closure of the hands.
Jerking of the fingers.

Tosses about in sleep, with cries and lamentations.

Chill daily at the same hour, followed by heat, without thirst.
Shivering over the whole body, with hot cheeks, without thirst.
Heat daily at the same hour, with short breath.
Heat rises to the face and head, with yellow color of the face and blue rings about the eyes, especially after sleep, without thirst; sometimes with thirst for cold drinks.
Cold sweat on the forehead, nose and hands.

Cin. / Stanto.

Cina,-Pleads her case in terms,
Unequivocal for worms.
Pallow round the mouth and eyes,
Boring in the nose likewise,
Grinding of teeth at night,
Crying out as in fright.
Peevish, fretful state of mind,
Hunger of a gnawing kind.
Twitching limbs-St. Vitus' dance,
Fits with gurgling resonance.
Gagging cough, and urine white,
Wetting of the bed at night.
Leucorrhoea, white as pearl,
Pestering the little girl.
Fever of a remittent kind,
That in case of worms we find.

Stanto,-Has Gagging spells.

Stanto Po-Lo, the Creole, Is attached to the "Queen of the Cup."

Stanto,- Who is subject to Worms,- Is eating at the stand of McCheno, the Spy.

Gagging: Cina, Pod., Lob., Kreo., Tart. e., Ip., Nux v., Cup. (Cough with gagging, Cina, Dro., Kreo., Sep.)

Worms: Cina, Tereb., Stan., Mer. c., Cheno., Spig.

Indicated chiefly in children suffering from symptoms which suggest the presence of worms.

Child is very cross and irritable.

Screams out in sleep, as though frightened; can hardly be made to go to sleep again; gritting of teeth during sleep.

Does not want to be touched or carried.

Nose itches; child rubs it constantly, pokes into it and fusses with it until it bleeds.

Mouth pale, bluish; blue circles under the eyes; face looks sickly.

Appetite extremely variable; refuses common food and craves all kinds of "stuff;" faintness in stomach and belly.

Great craving for sweets.

Abdomen hot; sore above the navel; colicky pain, better from pressure.

Itching at the anus, almost intolerable, relieved by cool water.

Urine turbid, white, milky upon standing.

Involuntary escape of urine.

Attacks of fever, with cold face and hot hands.

Twitching of the muscles of the face.

Worse at night; from looking fixedly at any object.

Better from pressure (colic), from cool water.

Piteous complaining and howling. Peevishness: The child is insensible to caresses and rejects everything that is offered. Dread. Children resist being held. Whimpering and crying, especially when touched.

Pressive, numbing headache, first in forehead then in occiput, with profuse, fluent coryza. Pressure as of a load or stone on, with painful pressing on upper eyelids. Headache before and after attacks of epilepsy or intermittent fever. Sinks sideways, or is jerked backward. Worse: Walking in open air, mental exertion. Better: Stooping, moving the head, sitting, lying.

Pain in evening, from straining them by artificial light. Dim vision when reading, disappears from wiping. Dilated pupils. Photophobia. Blue rings around. Lachrymation.

Bleeding from, and from mouth. Epistaxis, with burning in. Children continually rub and bore into, even until it bleeds. Fluent coryza, with burning in, with purulent mucus. Violent sneezing with continuous bursting pain in head and chest or piercing pain in temples.

Pale, cold, with cold sweat. Pale, sickly color of. Puffed, with bluish white color about mouth. Faceache, tearing in zygoma worse by touch and pressure.

Gnashing of. Sensitive to both cold air and drinks.

Dryness and rawness in. Inability to swallow. Audible gurgling from throat down into abdomen.

Appetite: Hunger, immediately after meals, incessant. Increased thirst.

Vomiting: With the fever. Of worms. OF mucus and ingesta. Of bile.

Pinching bellyache from worms. Painful twisting about navel. Distension of especially in children. Gurgling in.

Constipation. Discharge of ascarides and round worms, with pappy diarrhoea. Diarrhoea after drinking. Whitish diarrhoea, passed involuntarily.

Itching of.

Involuntary urination, particularly at night in bed.

Menses: Too early, and too profuse. Uterine hemorrhage.

Short interrupted, crowing. Anxious oppression of, as from spasms of chest. Wheezing, whistling.

In violent, periodically recurring paroxysms, excited by a feeling as of feather down in throat, and by a quantity of mucus therein, dry in morning, in evening, expectoration of a whitish slimy, rarely bloody, almost tasteless substance, detached with difficulty. Dry, spasmodic, with shortness of breath and twitching in limbs. Spasmodic, with stiffness and a pale face.

Much mucus in, with hoarseness. Thrusts in.

Spasms of. Gurgling in. Seems too narrow. Burning, piercing and soreness in.

Bruised pain in lumbar region. Sense of constriction about loins.

Cramp - like tearing in arms and hands. Spasmodic closure of hands. Twitching of fingers. Weakness of hands, with inability to grasp objects tightly.

Spasmodic twitching and stretching out of feet.

Dull stitches here and there over body. Jerkings and distortions of limbs. Rigid. Extension of body Paralytic pain in arms and legs. Worm affections of children. Epileptic attacks with or without consciousness. Nightly epileptiform convulsions. Epilepsy, lies upon his back, with violent shrieking and bearing about with hands and feet. Intolerance of touch and motion. External pressure renews or intensifies the symptoms. After effects of loss of vital fluids. Twitching of limbs, and sleep (after paroxysms of epilepsy or whooping cough.)

Nightly restlessness and sleeplessness. Yawning and shivering and trembling. Restless tossing about and sore at night in bed. Starting in.

Pulse: Small, but hard and accelerated. Chill: With shuddering and shaking, it runs from upper part of body to head, even when near a warm stove. With a cold, pale face, and warm hands. With thirst. Not relived by external warmth, mostly in evening, with great paleness of face. Heat: Greatest on head and face, but also with a pale face. Nightly, with thirst and anxiety. Sweat: Generally cold on forehead, nose, face and hands. Vomiting of ingesta, with ravenous hunger after the sweat (often also before the chill sets in).

Allied Remedies: Bell., CAPS., Chin., Dros., Hyos., Merc., Phos., Verat-a.

Complementary: Dros., Calc. Sul.

Twitches and contortions of the limbs.

Violent screaming attacks at night, the patient afficted lying on the back and striking and kicking with the hands and feet.

There is grinding of the teeth and the child bores with his fingers into the nose.

The child does not want to be touched.

At night sleeplessness, with restlessness and tossing about.

Worm complaints in children.

Face pale (cold, with cold perspiration).

Involuntary discharged (urine and whitish diarrhoeic stool).

Whooping cough with stiffness of the child before it and with great paleness of the face.

Canine hunger, during or before the intermittent fever.