CINA.
Artemisia maritima, var. Stechmanniana, Besser; (A Lecheana, Karel et
Kiril; A. maritima, var. pauciflora, Weber).
Nat. order
, Compositæ; Common names,
Flores Cinæ (Semen Cinæ), Wormseed, Wurmsamen.
Preparation
, Tincture of the flower heads (commonly called
seeds).
Authorities.
1, Hahnemann,
R. A. M. L.; 2, Ahner, ibid.; 3,
Gross, ibid.; 4, Langhammer, ibid.; 5, Rückert, ibid.; 6, Stapf,
ibid.; 7, Andry, De gener. vermin. observ., ibid.; 8, Bergius, Mat. Med. Observations, ibid.; 9, Pelargus, Obs. I, 8, 31, 279, obs. of overdosing, ibid.; 10, Noack, effects of a teaspoonful of the powder in a boy of 2
1/2, Hygeia, 16, 81; 11, Schmid, a boy of 5 took several
large doses of the seeds, Deutsche Klin., 1852; 12,
Archive für Hom., 16, 2, 206, effects of powder on children; 13,
von Linstow, effects of 10 grammes of seeds on a girl of 10, apparently suffering from
worms, Vjhrsch. f. Ger. Med., xxi, 1, 80, 1874 (S. J., 165, 21).
MIND.
► Emotional. ► *Delirium, [1]. ► *Delirium, and crying out, [12].
► *Cries piteously if one takes hold of it or carries it
(after three hours), [1]. ►
*The child is whining and complaining, [6].
► Moaning and groaning (in the afternoon), [1]. ► Great anxiety and
apprehension, while walking in the open air, as if something evil had happened to him (after
thirty-seven hours), [4]. ►
*Great earnestness and sensitiveness; he is offended at the slightest joke, [4]. ►► *Cannot be
quieted by any persuasions; remains proof against all caresses, [1]. ► Scorns everything, even
those things of which he is usually fond, [1]. [10.] ► Indifference; neither
agreeable nor disagreeable things make he slightest impression upon him, [4]. ► Intellectual. ► *Loss of consciousness and frothing from mouth, [12].
HEAD.
► Vertigo. ► Vertigo, [11]. ► General Head. ► The
child leans the head to one side, [1]. ► Headache aggravated by reading and reflecting, relieved by
stooping, [3]. ►
Headache, with sensation of general discomfort, [5]. ► Violent headache, [9].
[in a child with Ss. 1 and 186. -Hughes.] ► *Stupefying
internal headache, on walking in the open air, especially in the forehead, afterwards also
in the occiput (after three hours), [4]. ► Dull headache, with affection of the eyes, in the morning,
[5]. ► Headache as
if the whole head were screwed in, with confusion, [3].
[20.] ► A dull
drawing pain within the head, immediately after eating and afterwards, aggravated by reading
and by mental labor, [5]. ►
Some headache the whole day, a tearing pressure; it also extends into the malar bone, [1]. ► Pressive pain in
the head the whole day, at evening also in the forehead, [5].
► Dull stitches in the brain, especially in the left
parietal region (after one hour and a half), [5]. ► Forehead. ► Pain, as
if the upper part of the frontal bone were forcibly pressed together from both sides, [3]. ► *Drawing from the left
frontal eminence to the root of the nose, causing confusion of the head, [3]. ► Pressure in the
frontal bone, afterwards with a waving, like a beating of waves, [3]. ► Drawing pressure in the
left side of the forehead, [3]. ►
A pressive stupefying pain externally in the forehead and temples, which at last involves
the whole head, while sitting (after thirty-six hours), [4].
► Pain pressing from above downward externally in the
forehead, as if it were gradually pressed down (after three-quarters of an hour), [4]. [30.] ► Dull stitches in the frontal bone above the right temple,
forcibly extending deep into the head; they threaten to stupefy him, [3]. ► Paralytic-like tearing in
the left frontal eminence, with stupefaction of the head; immediately after in the right
frontal eminence, [3]. ►
Temples. ► Cramplike drawing in the temples,
increased by external pressure, [3]. ► Pressive pain, like a fine tearing, in the left temporal
region; disappears on moving the head (after eleven hours), [4].
► Tensive tearing pain in the right temple, [5]. ► Vertex. ► *On the middle of the vertex an intermitting pressure, as from a
heavy weight, as if the brain were pressed down; pressure increases and renews the pain,
[1]. ► Parietals.
► A small spot on the right parietal bone seems numb and
asleep, [3]. ► A
pressing-out pain in the right parietal bone and right side of the forehead, on waking from
sleep, [1]. ►
Drawing-tearing pain in the whole left side of the head, [2].
EYE.
►► *He looks sickly
about the eyes, with paleness of the face, [3].
[40.] ► Weakness of
the eyes in the morning; the upper lids were so weak that he could scarcely open them,
lasting the whole forenoon, [2]. ►
Sensation of dryness within the eyes, with drawing pressive pain if he exerts the eyes only
a little, while reading, [5]. ►
Dull pain in the eyes, while reading and during mental labor, [5].
► Pressure within the eye, usually with dilatation of the
pupil, [5]. ► Brow and
Orbit. ► Pulsation of the superciliary muscles; a
kind of convulsion, [3]. ► Dull pressure on the lower margin of the orbit; increased and
renewed by pressing upon it, [3]. ► *A slow stitch, extending from above the upper orbital margin deep
into the brain, [3]. ► Lids. ► Dryness of the
lids, with oppressed sensation in them, as from sand in them, in the evening by the light, [3]. ► (Burning in the
eyelids, especially in the inner canthus, in the evening in the light), [3]. ► Crawling in the lids, so
that he is obliged to rub them, [3]. [50.] ► (Agglutination of the
inner canthus with matter, in the morning after rising), [3].
► Burning pain in the external canthus, mingled with
itching on the margin of the upper lid (after two hours), [1].
► Tickling-itching in the right inner canthus, which
obliges him to rub it (after one hour), [4]. ► Tickling-itching in the left external canthus, obliging him
to rub it (after thirty-six hours), [4]. ► Pupil. ► *Pupils dilated,
[13]; (after half an hour), [4]. ► Contracted pupils (after
three hours and a half), [4]. ►
Great contraction of the pupils (after one hour), [5].
► Vision. ►
While reading, it becomes dim before the eyes, so that he can only read by rubbing the eyes
vigorously with the fingers, [2]. ► *On rising from the bed, it becomes black before the eyes, with
dizziness in the head and faintness; he totters to and fro; relieved on lying down,
[1]. ► In the
evening, when he is looking sharply (reading by the light), everything appears as if seen
through a gauze; relieved for a short time by wiping the eyes, [3]. [60.] ►
Blue seems green, carmine red fawn-colored, madder-red bronze-colored, white yellow, [11].
EAR.
► Dull sticking beneath
the mastoid process, like a pinching pressure; when pressed upon it feels as after a bruise
or blow, [3]. ►
Cramplike jerking in the external ear, like an earache, [3].
NOSE.
► Objective. ►► *The child frequently bores into the nose so long that the
blood comes, [1]. ►
*Violent sneezing (after one-eighth of an hour), [4],
[5]. ► Sneezing so
violent that it is felt in the head, and presses out at the temples; a pressing-outward
headache through the temples remains for some time afterwards, [3]. ► Sneezing so violent that it
seems as though the chest would burst out on both sides, followed by a pain, especially in
the right side, [3]. ►
Discharge of purulent matter from the nose, [9]. [With
Ss. 1, 16, 186. -Hughes.] ► A kind of coryza; he is
obliged to blow the nose frequently; it is constantly full of loose mucus (after a few
days), [3]. [70.] ► Violent coryza (after three-quarters of an hour), [4]. ► Stoppage of the
nose in the evening, followed by fluent coryza in the forenoon, [3]. ► Subjective. ► Deep internally, not unpleasant, hot, burning sensation in
the left nostril, as if blood would come, or as after snuffing up brandy, [3]. ► Burning-aching on the
septum of the left nostril, as if one had picked off a scab; aggravated by external touch, [3].
FACE.
► *Face red, [12]. ► Face bluish,
puffy, [6]. ►►
*Face pale and cold, [1]. ► Cheeks. ► *Pain as if both
malar bones were seized by pincers and pressed together; aggravated by external pressure,
[3]. ► Periodic
tensive-tearing pain in the malar bones, wandering from one place to another, aggravated by
pressure, [5]. ►
Cramplike jerking in the malar bone; if the pain has disappeared it is renewed by strong
pressure upon it, but after that it seems to be a constant cramplike or paralytic pain, [3]. ► Lips. [80.] ►► *White and bluish
about the mouth, [9]. [Not found. -Hughes.]
► Lower Jaw. ►
Dull sticking pain in the right ramus of the lower jaw, aggravated by pressure, [5]. ► Some fine
stitches, as with needles, in the left lower jaw, aggravated by pressure with the hand, [2]. ► Jerking pain in
the left lower jaw, [2]. ►
Pressive pain in the submaxillary glands, [1].
MOUTH.
► Toothache, as from
soreness, [1]. ►
Inspiration of air and cold drinks cause pain in the teeth, [1].
► (Several round worms come through the child’s mouth), [6]. ► Dryness and
rawness in the mouth, especially of the palate, with uneasy qualmishness (after three hours
and a half), [4].
THROAT.
► It constantly
obliged to hawk and hack in the morning, on account of much mucus, which constantly collects
in the back of the throat and in the larynx, [3]. [90.] ► Great dryness in the
back of the throat (air-passages), in the morning; a catarrhal sensation, [3]. ► Swallowing. ► *Cannot swallow, [1].
► Inability to swallow; drinks roll around in the mouth a
long time, [6].
STOMACH.
► Appetite and Thirst.
► *Great hunger soon after a meal, [3]. ►► *Desire many and
different things, [1]. ► No appetite, [12]. ► *Thirst, [1], [12]. ► Eructation and
Hiccough. ► Empty eructations in the morning,
fasting, [3]. ►
Eructations tasting of the food, after dinner, [3]. ► Eructations of a bitter acid fluid in the mouth, not long
after a meal, [3]. [100.]
► Frequent hiccough (after one hour and a quarter), [4]. ► Nausea and Vomiting.
► Nausea, with emptiness in the head, [2]. ► Qualmishness in the pit of
the stomach, with creeping shivers, immediately, [3]. ► *Vomiting only mucus, [12].
► *Violent vomiting, [12]. ► Repeated violent vomiting
of yellow water (after ten minutes), [10]. ► Stomach. ► Pain in the
pit of the stomach, impeding respiration (after four hours), [4].
► (Constant pressure in the stomach at night), [1]. ► Dull sticking in
the left side beneath the pit of the stomach, aggravated by pressure, and relieved by deep
inspiration, [3].
ABDOMEN.
► Umbilical.
► Boring pain above the navel, disappearing on pressure, [2]. [110.] ► Pressive pain in the navel after eating, also caused by
pressing upon it, [2]. ►
Violent pain in the navel and in the umbilical region, as if one forcibly pressed the navel
inward, or as if one received a blow there, at first for a short time, afterwards for a long
time, when it was aggravated by pressure, [2]. ► *Painful twisting about the navel, pain also on pressing
upon the navel, [3]. ►
Sudden, deep, sharp, intermitting stitches internally to the left side, near the navel,
especially on inspiration, and always associated with stitches on the inner side of the
shoulder-blade, towards evening (after twelve hours), [6].
► General Abdomen. ►
Crackling of flatulence, and slight inaudible motions in the abdomen, [3]. ► Sensation of emptiness in
the abdomen, with slight passage of flatus (after one hour), [4].
► Continued griping in the abdomen, [9]. ► Cutting-griping in the
abdomen that is only relieved after going to stool (after four hours), [4]. ► Twisting-digging pain in
the upper abdomen (epigastric region), as from a bruise, [3].
► *A pinching or cramplike pressure transversely across the
upper abdomen, in the region of the pit of the stomach, after a meal, [3]. [120.] ► When the headache disappears there is a pressive pain in the
abdomen, and when this disappears the headache returns, [1].
► Intermitting, needle-like stitches in the left side,
similar to gripings in the bowels, while sitting (after ten hours), [4]. ► Hypogastrium and Iliac Regions.
► Cramplike, frequently recurring pains in the abdomen,
as if menstruation would appear (after two hours), [1].
► Violent, single, isolated stitches in the lower part of
the abdomen, on the passage of flatus, [2]. ► Pulsation in the lower abdomen just above the mons veneris,
internally, as from an internal beating of the pulse, [3].
► Cutting colic in the ilium, in the morning, [3].
STOOL.
► *Watery diarrhœa
(after ten minutes), [10].
URINARY ORGANS.
► *Frequent
urging to urinate, with passage of much urine, the whole day (after three hours),
[4]. ► *Urine became
immediately turbid, [1].
SEXUAL ORGANS.
► Hæmorrhage
from the uterus, so long as she continued to use Cina (in a girl of 10 years), [6].
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
► Larynx,
Trachea, and Bronchi. [130.] ► A loud whistling râle in the air-passages, on inspiration;
not heard on expiration (after twelve hours), [4]. ► Disposition to cough caused by deep breathing, [3]. ► Tickling irritation to
cough in the air-passages beneath the manubrium of the sternum, with a whitish mucous
expectoration (after sixteen hours), [4]. ► Tickling irritation to cough low down in the air-passages;
when he coughs, a whitish mucus is expectorated (after twenty-four hours), [4]. ► Cough and Expectoration.
► In the morning he is obliged to cough with such force
in order to loosen the mucus that had accumulated over night, that he tears came into the
eyes, [3]. ► *Paroxysm
of violent cough from time to time, [1]. ► Hollow cough in the morning, after rising; violent shocks
against the upper part of the air-passages, whereby the mucus is loosened, though with
difficulty (after a few days), [3]. ►► *Gagging cough in the morning, after rising; the irritation thereto (as from dust) is renewed by inspiration after a long
interval, [3]. ►
*Hoarse gagging cough, consisting of a few shocks, which is renewed only after long
intervals, in the evening, [3]. ► *After coughing, the child cris au! au! a noise like a gurgling going down is heard; she is anxious, catches her breath, and becomes very pale in the face;
paroxysms lasting two minutes, [1]. [140.] ► Mucus in the larynx,
which he expectorates by voluntary hacking and hawking (after six hours), [4]. ► In the morning, after rising,
mucus hangs in the larynx; he is frequently obliged to hawk it up, after which it soon
collects again, [3]. ► Respiration. ►
Rattling respiration while walking in the open air, as if there were much mucus in the
chest, without being obliged to raise it (after six hours), [4].
► Very short breath, with very loud rattling in the
chest, [6]. ► Very
short breath at times, with interruptions, so that some
inspirations are omitted, [1]. ► Very short rattling respiration, [1]. ► Difficult loud respiration
(after half an hour), [1]. ►
Dyspnœa while standing (lasting half an hour), with anxiety whereby he sweats very much on
the chest, [2].
CHEST.
► Oppression of the
chest on inspiration, [3]. ►
Some stitches in the chest from time to time, [5]. [150.] ► Fine pinching on the
clavicle, like the pressure of a dull pain, [3]. ► Front. ► Pinching pain
on the sternum, when writing, [3]. ► Aching in front of the sternum by itself, [3]. ► Painful digging in the
upper part, beneath the sternum, [3]. ► Cramplike digging pain beneath the sternum, as if the chest
would be pressed asunder, [2]. ►
A kind of oppression of the chest; the sternum seems too close to the chest, and the
respiration seems oppressed, [5]. ► Dull stitches near the sternum on one of the cartilages of
the ribs increased by pressing upon it and by expiration, relieved by inspiration, [3]. ► Two dull piercing
stitches in rapid succession beneath the clavicle, near the sternum, on deep inspiration,
not felt on expiration; pressure was painful, [3]. ► With the morning cough, the upper part of the chest hurts
(beneath the upper part of the sternum), and when with difficulty he has loosened something,
the place pains for a long time, is sore and burning, as if something had been torn off, [3]. ► Sides. ► Cramplike contraction of the left half of the chest, [3]. [160.] ► Pinching pain in the left side of the chest, between the
second and third ribs, [2]. ►
Pinching pains in the left side of the chest, aggravated by every inspiration (after thirty
hours), [2]. ► A
pressing-out pain, now in the left side of the chest, now in the small of the back; the
latter seems as from much stooping, especially on expiration (after four hours), [4]. ► Sudden oppressive
pain on the left side of the chest, [2]. ► Boring-sticking pain in the right side below the ribs,
disappearing on pressure, [2]. ►
Pinching-sticking pain in the left side of the chest, lasting a quarter of an hour, [2]. ► Jerking-sticking
pains in the right side of the chest, between the sixth and eighth ribs, not affected by
pressure or respiration, [2]. ►
Sudden jerking stitches in the left side of the chest, between the fifth and sixth ribs, [2].® 2000
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