Symptoms
1. Children (esp. dark-haired) with worm affections; pale face, white about the mouth, boring of nose with finger, grinding of teeth at night, restless sleep, hunger, fever, etc.
2. Ill-humour; cannot be quieted; dislikes caresses; rejects everything offered; may want to be carried but is no better.
3. Spasmodic affections esp. convulsions, chorea, whooping cough; from intestinal irritation, particularly worms.
4. Ravenous appetite; hunger soon after d full meal; graves many and different things, sweets.
5. Fever, remittent, stimulating worm fever; intermittent, in children, daily attacks at same hour; no thirst during chill or heat.
Note. The alkaloid Santonine is specific for Ascaris Lumbricoidis.