Cina

▲   GENERAL

General

Cina 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.

Dose

For nervous irritable children, thirtieth and two hundredth preferable. Santonin

▲   MODALITIES ETC

Worse

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

▲   RELATIONSHIPS

Compare

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 Crocus Sativus ^Saffron color. Spasms and twitchings, chronic gastric and intestinal troubles sometimes removed by a single dose (physiological) of Santonin ( Dahlke.) Helminthochortos - Worm-moss (acts very powerfully on intestinal worms, especially the lumbricoid.) Teucrium Marum Verum ^Teucrium; Ignatia ^Ignat.; Chamomilla ^Cham.; Spigelia Anthelmia ^Spig.

Antidotes

Antidote; Camphora ^Camph.; Capsicum Annuum ^Caps.

▲   MIND

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.

Behaviour; striking; in children

Emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition

impulsive; capriciousness

indifference, apathy, etc.; to caresses

irritability; in children

Quiet, peace (or lack of); cannot be quieted

▲   HEAD

Headache

Headache, alternating with pain in abdomen

Relieved by stooping ( Mezereum ^Mezer.) Pain in head when using eyes.

▲   EYES

Eyes

Dilated pupils; yellow vision

Weak sight from masturbation

Strabismus from abdominal irritation

Eyestrain, especially when presbyopia sets in

Pulsation of superciliary muscle.

Skin around eyes (see face); sickly look around the eyes

Sunken

Vision

Colours and shapes in front of eyes

colours; blue

colours; bright

colours; green

colours; violet

colours; yellow

Exertion of vision

▲   EARS

Ear

Digging and scratching in ears.

▲   FACE

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.

Coldness

with chill

Expression; sickly

Heat

burning

Perspiration

cold

Skin

discoloration; bluish; around the mouth

discoloration; pale

during chill

during heat

around mouth

discoloration; red

glowing red

on waking

▲   NOSE

Nose

Itching of nose all the time

Wants to rub it and pick at it

Bores at nose till it bleeds.

Itching

rubs; constantly

Picking nose

boring in, with fingers

until it bleeds

with mental ailments

Discharge

Sneezing

▲   MOUTH

Gums and teeth

Teeth; grinding; during sleep

▲   THROAT

Throat

Sounds

gullet gurgling; during convulsion

gullet gurgling; after coughing

▲   CHEST

Respiration

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 of move for fear of bringing on paroxysm of coughing

After coughing, moaning, anxious, gasps for air and turns pale.

Difficult (dyspnea)

Impeded, obstructed

Interrupted

breathing in

coughing

▲   COUGH

Cough

Morning; after rising

Asthmatic

Choking; morning, after rising

Comes on suddenly

Intermittent

Suffocating

morning; after rising

▲   ABDOMEN

Abdomen

HUNGRY, digging, gnawing sensation

Desires many and different things

Craving for sweets.

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

Stomach

appetite; capricious (hunger, but knows not for what, or refuses things when offered)

appetite; changeable

appetite; increased (hunger in general); before chill

appetite; increased (hunger in general); at unusual time

appetite; ravenous, excessive; eating increases the hunger; soon after eating

desires, cravings; cold drinks

desires, cravings; many things

disordered; not relieved by eating

disordered; after eating

pain; gnawing, biting

retching; with cough

thirst; during chill

without thirst; during heat

Eating

Gets hungry soon after a meal

Epigastric pain; worse, first waking in morning and before meals

Stomach

appetite; ravenous, excessive; with severe wasting (food not absorbed)

Nausea

gagging (see nausea); from coughing (see retching)

Vomiting

Vomiting and diarrhoea immediately after eating and drinking

Vomiting with a clean tongue

Stomach; vomiting; intermittent

▲   RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

Rectum

Diarrhoea; with fever; during fever

Worm

complaints

resembling an earthworm

Stool

White mucus, like small pieces of popped corn, preceded by pinching colic

Itching of anus (Teucrium Marum Verum ^Teucr.) Worms ( Sabadilla ^Sabad.; Naphthalin ^Napht.; Natrum Phosphoricum ^Nat-phos.)

Mucous, slimy; white; like little pieces of popped corn

▲   GENITALS ETC

Urine

Turbid, white; turns milky on standing

Involuntary at night.

Cloudy

Womb

Female; Uterine hemorrhage before puberty.

▲   EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Extremities, limbs

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.

Movements and positions

convulsion

convulsion; extensor muscles

jerking

upper limbs

fingers

lower limbs

stretched out; arms; with sudden attacks of disease

twitching

Stiffness; before cough

▲   FEVER AND CHILL

Fever and chill

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.

Evening

Night

▲   GENERALITIES

Sleep and dreams

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.

Dreams; frightful

Restless

Yawning

Convulsions

Convulsions

children

with consciousness

extensor muscles

from worms

Generalities

Morning

Pain

paralytic

sore, bruised

sudden, sharp; muscles; jerking

Pressure

Symptoms not symmetrical; left

Twitching; twitching, involuntary movements (chorea)

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