Cina


Cina signs and symptoms of the homeopathy medicine from the Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica by J.H. Clarke. Find out for which conditions and symptoms Cina is used…


      The unexpended flower-heads (commonly called “seeds”) of several varieties of Artemisia maritima. Semen cine. Flores cine. Artemisia Cintra. Wormseed. *N. O. Compositae. Tincture.

Clinical

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

Characteristics

*Cina is the source of the alkaloid *Santoninum. It is pre- eminently a worm medicine, as it causes all the symptoms which characterize helminthiasis both mental, nervous, and bodily. It corresponds more to the effects of lumbrici then 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 extremes 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 had 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 or liquid, 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 of 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: anemic 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 infraorbital region and zygoma chiefly, pains pressing, screwing, with hyperaesthesia. 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 worse night, before midnight child wakes up frightened. Worse From open air, cold air, cold water. Worse 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.

Relations.

*Antidoted by: Camph., Caps., Chi., Pip-n. *Antidote to: Caps., China, Mercurius *Follows well: Drosera and Ant-t. *Compare: In aversion to be touched, Ant-c., Ant-t., Hepar Silicea, Thu., gurgling along oesophagus when swallowing fluids, Helleborus, Cuprum, difficult swallowing liquids, Belladonna, Causticum, Hyoscyamus, Ignatia, Lachesis, Lycopodium, Phosphorus, in cough worse by reading or writing, Mang., Meph., Nux- v., Platina, in white stools, Dig, in ravenous hunger, Arsenicum, Calcarea, Iodium, Silicea Staphysagria, aversion to be caressed, Arsenicum, Lachesis, in squint, Alumina, in asthenopia and defective accommodation, Art. (but Art-v. has dizziness from coloured light, and Cina has better from rubbing). Teste places Cina in the Arsenicum Group from its analogy in the digestive sphere. Chamomilla has many points of contact with Cina and some opposite conditions.

Causation

Worms. Yawning.

SYMPTOMS.

Mind

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 moment after. Disposition to be offended by trifling jests. Great anguish and anxiety on walking in the open air. Delirium.

Head

Headache, alternately with pressure on the abdomen. Numbing pressure, as from a load, which weighs upon the head, especially 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).

Eyes

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 seems it as through a gauze, which is relieved by wiping the eyes.

Nose

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.

Face

Paleness of face, with livid circle under the eyes. Earth- coloured complexion. Face, puffed and bluish, especially 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.

Teeth

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

Mouth

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

Throat

Inability to swallow, especially liquids.

Appetite

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 diarrhoea immediately after eating or drinking, especially drinking. Vomiting of mucous and of ascarides. Vomiting during the fever, with tongue clean. Bilious vomiting. Disagreeable risings.

Stomach

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

Abdomen

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, especially in children. Feeling of emptiness in the abdomen.

Stool and Anus

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. Diarrhoea of bile, and of stercoraceous matter. Loose, involuntary, whitish evacuations.

Urinary Organs

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

Female Sexual Organs.

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

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica