Cina

COMMON NAME:

      WORM SEED.

Symptoms

      Is principally a children’s remedy, corresponding to many conditions that may be referred to intestinal irritation, such as worms, etc. (D.).

Worm complaints in children (Belladonna, Calcarea, Calcarea phos., Ferrum, Graphites, Ipecac., Kali- M., Kali-P., Lachesis, Lycopodium, Mercurius, Natrum muriaticum, Phosphorus, Sepia, Silicea, Sulphur, Zincum met.).

THERE IS GRINDING OF THE TEETH AND THE CHILD BORES WITH HIS FINGERS INTO THE NOSE.

Face pale (cold, with cold perspiration); (Camph., Carbo vegetabilis, Secale, Veratrum).

At night sleeplessness, with restlessness and tossing about (Aconite, Arsenicum, Kali- P., Rhus toxicodendron).

Involuntary discharges (urine and whitish diarrhoeic stool.).

THE CHILD DOES NOT WANT TO BE TOUCHED (Ant-C., Arnica, Chamomilla, Kali carb.).

Violent screaming attacks at night, the patient afflicted lying on the back and striking and kicking with the hands and feet (Belladonna, Hyoscyamus, Lycopodium, Stramonium).

Sickly, pale face, with rings around the eyes (Staphysagria); gritting of the teeth at night; canine hunger, or variable appetite; the child picks its nose and cries out in its sleep; jerking of hands and feet; urine milky (D.).

The child wakes in a fright, screams, trembles and can not be quieted; they are proof against all caresses; they are cross, irritable, nervous and peevish; they want to be rocked (Chamomilla) (D.).

Ill-humored; wants to be carried, but carrying gives no relief (A.).

Disposition to be offended by trifling jest.

There is no child more contemptible than the Cina. He is easily excited; weak; screams, strikes and bites; is cross and obstinate (R.).

Twitches and contortions of the limbs (Belladonna, Cicuta, Cuprum, Hyoscyamus, Ignatia, Nux vomica, Opium, Stramonium).

Desires many things, but rejects everything offered (Chamomilla) (A.).

Frequent swallowing, as if to swallow something down the throat (Bt.).

Tossing during sleep (Bt.).

One cheek red, the other pale (Chamomilla).

Sensation as if there is a ball rising in the throat (Asafoetida, Ignatia, Mosch.) (Bt.).

Refuses mother’s milk (Ant-C., Lachesis, Mercurius, Silicea, Stann., Stramonium) (A.).

Craving for sweets and different things (Kreosotum, Phosphorus) (A.).

CANINE HUNGER: HUNGRY SOON AFTER A FULL MEAL (Chin-S., Iodium, Lycopodium, Phosphorus) (A.).

CANINE HUNGER, DURING OR BEFORE THE INTERMITTENT FEVER.

Belly hard and distended, with mucous stools (Bt.).

Alternate canine hunger, or no appetite at all (N.).

Weeping during coughing (Ant-T., Arnica, Belladonna, Hepar). (K.).

Stools mixed with lumbrici (Calcarea, Mercurius, Natrum phos., Sulphur). (Bt.).

Itching of the anus (Aloe., Calcarea, Causticum, Graphites, Lycopodium, Mercurius, Sulphur) (Bt.).

Constantly digging and boring at the nose; picks the nose all the time; itching of the nose; rubs the nose on the pillow, or on the shoulder of the nurse (Merc- V.) (A.).

Cough ends in a spasm (Cuprum, Ipecac.) (Br.).

Diarrhoea always after drinking (Argentum nitricum, Arsenicum, Crot-T., Ferrum, Ferr-Arsenicum, Nux- V., Podophyllum, Tromb., Veratrum) (Bt.).

Pinching colic in the umbilical region (Bt.).

REGULARLY RECURRENT, CHOKING COUGH, THEN GURGLING DOWN THE THROAT (B.).

WHOOPING COUGH WITH STIFFNESS OF THE CHILD BEFORE IT AND WITH GREAT PALENESS OF THE FACE.

Child is afraid to speak or move for fear of bringing on a paroxysm of coughing (Bryonia) (A.).

Lachrymation with cough (Euphr., Natrum muriaticum, Pulsatilla, Squil.) (K.).

THE URINE TURNS MILKY AFTER STANDING A LITTLE (Acid phosphoricum., Stann.) (G.).

Spasms of children resembling epilepsy (Belladonna, Calcarea, Cuprum, Lachesis, Stramonium, Sulphur) (Bt.).

Stiffens out during cough (B.).

Vision gets dim, can see more clearly for a while rubbing the eyes (N.).

Weak sight from masturbation (Phosphorus) (Br.).

Aversion to light (Conium Natrum mur., Nux vomica).

Dilated pupils (Ang-N., Belladonna, Calcarea, China, Gelsemium, Hyoscyamus, Mang., Secale, Stramonium) (B.).

Coloured vision (Agaricus, Belladonna, Bryonia, Calcarea, Cicuta, Cyclamen, Digitalis, Iodium, Kali bichromicum, Magnesia phos., Mercurius, Natrum muriaticum, Phosphorus, Pulsatilla, Sepia, Stramonium, Sulphur) (B.).

GREEN OR YELLOW VISION (Cannabis indica, Cantharis, Cyclamen, Digitalis, Kali-Arsenicum, Kali carb., Lac- C., Sepia, Stront., Sulphur, Zincum met.) (Br.).

Fever with pale face (Arsenicum, Cocc., Croc., Ipecac., Lycopodium, Natrum muriaticum, Pulsatilla, Rhus toxicodendron, Sepia, Spongia, Thuja, Veratrum) (B.).

Cold sweat about the nose and forehead (B.).

PALE SICKLY LOOK ABOUT THE EYES OR WHITE AND BLUE ABOUT THE MOUTH (N.).

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

Pain in the head when using the eyes (Natrum muriaticum, Ruta.) (Br.).

Rising heat and glowing redness of the cheeks, without thirst; after sleep; with worm symptoms (N.).

MUCH FEVER, ASSOCIATED WITH CLEAN TONGUE (Br.).

Fever daily at the same hour (Cact.) (C.).

THIRST DURING CHILL (Apis, Arnica, Caps., Eup-P., Ignatia, Natrum muriaticum, Nux vomica, Pyrog., Sepia, Silicea, Tuberculinum, Veratrum) (K.).

Worm complaints of children; with convulsions (N.).

Frequent hiccough (Am-M., Arsenicum, Ars-I., Cicuta, Cyclamen, Hyoscyamus, Ignatia, Iodium, Lycopodium, Magnesia phos., Mercurius, Nat-Arsenicum, Natrum carbonicum, Natrum muriaticum, Nicc., Nux-M., Nux vomica, Secale, Stramonium, Teucrium).

Vomiting of lumbrici and ascarides; of food and mucus.

Feeling of emptiness in the abdomen (Carb-An., Ignatia, Sepia, Sulphur).

Sleeplessness with restlessness, crying and lamentations (Belladonna, Hyoscyamus, Pulsatilla).

Child will sleep only when violently rocked (N.).

Child flops over on its belly; sleeps better that way (N.).

AGGRAVATION:

      At night; on looking fixedly at an object; from external pressure; in sun; in summer; from worms; and when yawning.

AMELIORATION:

      From motion; when lying on the abdomen; and from wiping the eyes.

RELATIONSHIP:

      ANTIDOTES: Camph., Caps., China, and Ipecac.

Compare: Ant-C., Ant-T., Belladonna, Bryonia, Calcarea, Chamomilla, Kreosotum, Natrum muriaticum, Nux vomica, Silicea, Staphysagria, and Sulph. in irritability of children.

Useful in pertussis, after Drosera has relieved the severe symptoms. Santonine (the alkaloid of Cina) sometimes cures in worm affections when Cina seems indicated, but fails.

CINA ANTIDOTES: Caps., China, and Mercurius

Adolph Lippe

Adolph Lippe (born near Goerlitz, Prussia, 11 May 1812; died in Philadelphia, 23 January 1888) was a homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. Adolph got a legal education at Berlin. After completing his legal studies, Lippe became interested in homeopathy, and emigrated to the United States in 1837 to further his study. In 1838, he enrolled in the North American Academy of Homeopathy at Allentown, Pennsylvania, from where he graduated in 1841. He settled in Philadelphia, where from 1863 until 1868 he was professor of materia medica in the Homeopathic College of Pennsylvania. Besides some essays and treatises from the French, German, and Italian which became standards, Lippe was the author of:
Comparative Materia Medica (Philadelphia, 1854)
Text-Book of Materia Medica (1866)