Cina

Drug Details of Cina matricaria, causation, generals and particulars of cina ,compositae drug

1. Cina Maritima Dr Saroj R. Sawant M.D.(HOM.)

2. Common name Artemisia cina , commonly known as  santonica  ,  Levant wormseed , and  wormseed , is an Asian species of herbaceous perennial in the daisy family.

3. Its dried flower heads are the source of the  vermifugic  drug  santonin   since ancient times.  Its common names arise from its known ability to expel worms .

4. family Compositae

5. habitat It is native to China, Pakistan,  Russia, Turkestan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan.

6. Active principle This herb's ingredient - santonin - still continues to be used in medications for treating worms to this day.

7. prover Way back in 1829,   Samuel Hahnemann  proved the efficacy of Cina and believed that the helpful remedial attributes of the herb went further than its conventional performance in herbal medicine.

8. Causation Helminthiasis

9. characters Adapted to children with dark hair

10. characters Very cross, irritable, ill-humored

11. characters Want to be carried, but carrying gives no relief

12. characters Does not want to be touched; cannot bear you to come hear it; averse to caresses;

13. characters Desires many things; but rejects everything offered (compare, Ant. t., Bry ., Cham., Staph.).

14. characters 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.).

15. characters Children, suffering from worms; pitiful weeping when awake, starts and screams during sleep; grinding of teeth ( Cic ., Sulph .); ascarides (Mar. v.).

16. characters “Getting on hands and knees in sleep" 

17. characters Face is pale; sickly white and bluish appearance around mouth; sickly, with dark rings under the eyes; one cheek red, the other pale (Cham.).

18. characters Canine hunger: hungry soon after a full meal; craving for sweets and different things; refuses mother's milk. Canine hunger, during or before the intermittent fever.

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

20. characters Cough: dry with sneezing; spasmodic, gagging in the morning; periodic, returning spring and fall.

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

22. characters Twitches and contortions of the limbs.

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

24. characters At night sleeplessness, with restlessness and tossing about.

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

26. characters anemic persons suffering from indigestion and non-assimilation of food, or after acute illness when they have headache, vertigo, and neuralgia.

27. characters Guernsey says Cina is suited to complaints which are concomitant to yawning, which come on whenever one yawns.

28. modality 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.

29. Relations       Antidoted by: Camph ., Caps., Chi., Pip-n.       Antidote to: Caps., Chin., Merc .       Follows well: Dros . and Ant-t.      

30. Compare In aversion to be touched, Ant-c., Ant-t., Hep . Sil ., Thu., gurgling along oesophagus when swallowing fluids, Hell., Cupr ., difficult swallowing liquids, Bell., Caust ., Hyos ., Ign., Lach ., Lyc ., Phos ., in cough worse by reading or writing, Mang ., Meph ., Nux -v., Plat., in white stools, Dig, in ravenous hunger, Ars ., Calc., Iod ., Sil . Staph., aversion to be caressed, Ars ., Lach ., in squint, Alum., in asthenopia and defective accommodation, Art. (but Art-v. has dizziness from colored light, and Cina has better from rubbing).