Hand Book of Materia Medica and
Homœopathic Therapeutics.By T. F. Allen.
Presented by .
Cina.
A tincture is prepared from the dried flowers of
Artemisia Cina Berg. (wormseed).
General Action :- ►
From our
present knowledge this drug acts similarly to Absinth
and other allied plants, producing increased reflex irritability and
spasms. ► Its symptoms particularly simulate worm affections or
peculiar forms of indigestion.
Allies :- ►
Absinth,
Chenopod., Cham., Arn., China, Nux v., Ign., Calc. c., Ferrum.
Generalities :- ►
►
The child raises herself suddenly before coughing, looks wildly about,
becomes stiff, loses consciousness, as if she would have epilepsy, then
coughs. ► Convulsions ;
epileptic-like, with consciousness ; with distortions of
limb in all directions, except that fingers and toes were unaffected, head
and trunk were drawn now backward, now forward, now to one side, while
arms and legs were thrown about, then shocks through whole body, with
motion downward like stamping of feet, jerking of head upward and
backward, the shocks were felt by the hand, agg. lower part of chest and
upper abdomen, face pale, then livid at last blue, eyeballs turned
convulsively upward then directed staringly forward pupil insensible,
tongue at times contracted to a cylinder and spasmodically protruded.
► Paralytic jerking in various parts, agg. in limbs. ►
Spasmodic stretching at 4 P.M., then trembling with
blue lips and weeping complaints about pain in chest, neck and limbs. ►
Trembling, with shivering when yawning. ► Tossing about even when
awake (In a child). ►
(Convulsive symptoms to be compared with Absinth,
Chenopod., etc.).►
►
Sticking here and there in body ; here and there on trunk
when sitting, agg. on abdomen ; S. sometimes
like a squeezing, sometimes like a pressure, sometimes like a blow or
jerk, sometimes like on itching, now here, now there, in body, now in
limbs, arms, feet, toes, now in side or back, now in nasal bones, agg. on
posterior part of crest of ilium, on hip, the places pain on pressure as
if bruised ; cramplike contractive S. in muscles, now of
right, now of left thigh, now in muscles of right, now of left upper arm
now down small of back, when sitting, amel. walking in open air. ►
Tearing, in part cutting, in limbs, head and jaws ; tensive T. in
scapulæ, after eating, agg. touch, and in upper arm, head and nape.
► Uneasiness ; at night, tossing about on account of
discomfort. ► Weak ; and pale ;
in morning on rising and nauseated. ► Aggravation morning and
evening ; A. after eating.
Mind :- ►
►
Delirium and crying out. ► Talking nonsense. ►
Cannot be quieted by any persuasions ; proof against all caresses
(Nux v.). ►
Piteous cries if one attempted to touch or lead him. ► Lachrymose
and complaining (in a child). ► Earnest and sensitive, offended at
the slightest joke (Nux v.).
► Refuses everything, even the things of which he is usually fond.
► Indifferent. ► Grunting, croaking and groaning in afternoon.
► Anxiety and anguish about heart when walking in open air, as if he
had committed a crime. ► Unconscious and
frothing at the mouth.
Clinical :- ►
Great
mental excitement, children wake in fright and scream and tremble.
► Children become very fretful, cannot be pleased, and though very
weak when sick they are very cross and obstinate and strike everybody (Nux
v., Sulph.).
Head :- ►
Leaning to one side (in
a child). ► Sticking in brain, agg. left side of vertex. ►
Tearing, extending into malar-bone. ► Aching ; in
morning, with affection of eyes ; agg. reading and
reflecting amel. stooping ; with general discomfort ; internal
stupefying, on walking in open air, agg. in sinciput, then also in occiput ;
as if screwed in, with numbness ; drawing, after eating, agg. reading
and mental labor. ► Vertigo ; on
rising from bed, amel. lying down, with blackness before eyes, faintness
and tottering.
Forehead :- ►
►
Sticking about orbital margin extending deep into brain ;
in bone above right temple, extending deep into head and threatening to
stupefy him. ► Paralytic tearing in left, then right eminence, with
stupefaction of head. ► Pain in evening ; pressing downward
externally ; as if upper bones were pressed together from both
sides ; stupefying, externally, when sitting and in temples, at last
involving whole head. ► Pressure in bone with internal beating as of
waves ; drawing P. in left side of sinciput. ►
Drawing from left eminence to root of nose, causing confusion of head.►
Tearing in left temporal region, amel.
moving head ; tensive T. in right temple. ► Pressing-out pain
in temples after sneezing. ► Cramplike drawing in temples, agg.
pressure. ► Intermittent weight in middle
of vertex, as if brain were pressed down (Calc.
ph.), agg. pressure.
► Drawing tearing in whole left side of head. ► Pressing out
pain in right parietal bone on waking, and in right side of forehead.
► A spot on right parietal bone feels numb and asleep.
Clinical :- ►
Cerebral symptoms of meningeal irritability, especially in those
suffering from worms, particularly with swollen, hot abdomen.
Eyes :- ►
►
Sickly look about with pallor of face. ► Pain during
reading and mental labor. ► Pressure internally. ► Dryness
when reading, with drawing pain on extending them. ► Weakness in
morning, upper lids so weak all the forenoon that he could scarcely open
them. ► Pupils dilated ;
contracted. ► (Inner canthi agglutinated in morning after rising.).
► Burning pain in outer canthus, with itching on margin of upper
lid. ► (burning in lids in evening by the light, agg. inner
canthus.). ► Dryness of lids in evening by the light, with sensation
of sand in them. ► Crawling in lids. ► Tickling itching in
right inner canthus ; in left outer canthus. ►
Pulsation of superciliary muscles, a kind of convulsion.
► Pressure on lower margin of orbit, agg. pressure. ► Vision
dim when reading amel. rubbing eyes ; in evening. ► Blue seems
green, carmine-red fawn-colored, madder-red bronze, and white seems yellow
(Santonine).
Clinical :- ►
Asthenopia, vision becomes blurred on attempting to read. ►
Strabismus from worms.
Ears and Nose :- ►
►
Sticking below mastoid process, like a pinching, and on pressure a bruised
feeling. ► Cramplike jerking in external ear. ►
The child bores into the nose until the blood comes (Compare Arum
tri.). ► Violent sneezing.
► Burning deep in left nostril as if blood would come or as after
snuffing up brandy. ► Burning aching on septum of left nostril, as
if one had picked off a scab, agg. external touch. ► Fluent
coryza ; in forenoon, then stoppage of nose in evening. ► Nose
constantly full of loose mucus in morning, necessity to blow it
frequently. ► Purulent discharge from nose.
Clinical :- ►
The
child constantly picks its nose, is very restless, cries and wets the
bed.
Face :- ►
►
Pale and cold. ► White and bluish about the mouth. ►
Red. ► Bluish, puffy. ►
Pain in malar-bones as if seized by pincers and pressed together, agg.
pressure (Verbasc.).
► Periodic, wandering tensive-tearing in malar-bone, agg. pressure.
► Cramplike jerking in malar-bone, renewed by strong pressure, then
cramplike or paralytic pain. ► Sticking in left lower jaw, agg.
pressure ; in right ramus, agg. pressure. ► Jerking pain in
left lower jaw.
Clinical :- ►
Twitching of muscles of the face and about the eyes, especially with
disordered stomach and bowels. ► Pallor around nose and mouth
particularly marked, with worms, sometimes one cheek is hot and the
other pale, sometimes the whole face is burning hot ; the symptoms
very rapidly (Cham.).
► Neuralgia of the malar-bone as if pinched with pincers, agg.
pressure (Verbasc.).
Mouth and Throat :- ►
(Round
worms come through the child’s mouth.). ► Toothache from cold drinks
and inspiration of air ; T. as from soreness. ► Dryness of
mouth and rawness, agg. palate, with uneasy qualmishness. ► Pain in
submaxillary glands. ► Mucus in back of throat and in larynx in
morning, causing hawking and hacking. ►
Inability to swallow.
Stomach :- ►
►
Great hunger soon after a meal (China,
Calc. c., Nux v.). ► Desires
many and different things. ► No appetite. ►
Thirst. ► Empty eructations in morning fasting. ►
Eructations tasting of food after eating. ► E. of a bitter, acrid
fluid after eating. ► Frequent hiccough. ► Nausea, with
emptiness in head ; N. in pit of stomach, with creeping shivers. ►
Vomiting of mucus only ; of food, then general chill, then heat with
great thirst ; violent ; repeated, violent of yellow
water. ► Sticking in left side beneath pit, agg. pressure, amel.
deep inspiration. ► Twisting, digging in epigastric region, as from
a bruise. ► Pain in pit, impeding respiration. ► (Pressure at
nigh.).
Clinical :- ►
Unnatural hunger, the child wants a great variety of things, refuses
ordinary food. ► Vomiting of mucus.
Abdomen :- ►
Crackling of flatus
and inaudible motions. ► Griping ; cutting, amel. stool.
► Pain ; alternating with headache ; labor-like, as before
menstruation. ► Emptiness, with silent passage of flatus. ►
Heat becoming a griping. ► Pinching or
cramplike pressure transversely across, in region of pit of stomach, after
eating. ► Intermittent sticking in left side when
sitting ; suddenly in left side near navel towards evening, agg.
inspiration and always associated with stitches on inner side of scapula. ►
Twisting about navel and pain on pressure upon navel. ►
Boring above navel, amel. pressure. ► Pain at navel after eating and
on pressure ; pain in region as from pressure inward of navel or as
from a blow, afterwards agg. inspiration. ► Cutting in ilium in
morning. ► Pulsation internally above mons veneris.
Clinical :- ►
Distended, hard, sore. ► Abdomen swollen, hot, very sore above the
navel, where there is a great deal of colic, sometimes amel. pressure (Pod.).
Rectum and Stool :- ►
Single
stitches in lower part on passage of flatus. ►
Watery diarrhœa.
Clinical :- ►
Diarrhœa of white mucus in little pieces like popcorn. ► Passes
worms, both round and thread-worms.
Urinary and Sexual Organs :- ►
►
Frequent urging to urinate and much urine. ► Turbid urine.
► Saffron-yellow urine, containing flakes of mucus. ►
Hæmorrhage from uterus (in a girl of ten years).
Clinical :- ►
Involuntary micturition (Ferr.).
► Frequent desire to urinate all day.
Respiratory Organs :- ►
►
Mucus hangs in larynx in morning after rising, soon collecting again after
expectoration. ► Loud whistling whooping on inspiration,
not on expiration. ► Tickling irritation to cough in trachea
beneath, sternum, with whitish mucous expectoration. ► Dryness of
trachea in morning, a catarrhal sensation.►
► Cough,
then the child cries au ! au ! ►
A gurgling going downward is heard, she
is anxious, catches her breath and is pale. ►
Hoarse, hacking C. in morning after rising, the
irritation thereto (as from dust) renewed by inspiration ; hoarse,
hacking, in shocks in evening ; violent paroxysmal ;
in morning so violent in order to loosen the mucus that tears came into
his eyes ; hollow, in morning after rising, in violent shocks against
upper part of air-passages, with difficult loosening of mucus. ►
Disposition to cough caused by deep breathing. ► Expectoration of
mucus from larynx.►
►
Respiration short, with omission of
some inspirations. ► Short, rattling ; on walking in
open air, as from much mucus in chest. ► Dyspnœa when standing,
with anxiety and sweat on chest. ► Difficult, loud R.
Clinical :- ►
Capillary bronchitis in children, screams when approached (Arn.),
swallows after coughing, screams and talks in sleep. ► Whooping
cough.
Chest :- ►
Stitches ;
beneath left clavicle, near sternum, on deep inspiration, with pain on
pressure ; on one of the cartilages of the ribs, near sternum, agg.
pressure, amel. inspiration ; jerking in right side between sixth and
eighth ribs not affected by respiration ; sudden jerking in left
between fifth and sixth ribs ; boring in middle of right side below
ribs, amel. pressure ; intermittent prickling, burning, in side on
one of the true ribs ; pinching, in left. ► Pinching in left,
between second and third ribs ; in left, agg. inspiration ; on
sternum when running ; on clavicle, like the pressure of a dull
point.►
Digging beneath upper part of
sternum ; cramplike, beneath sternum, as if chest would be pressed
asunder. ► Feeling as if it would burst out at both sides when
sneezing then pain, agg. right side. ► Pressing-out pain alternately
in left chest and in small of back, the latter seems as from much
stooping, agg. expiration. ► Aching anteriorly under sternum ;
beneath upper part of sternum during morning cough, then after difficult
loosening of something soreness and burning ; sudden oppressive in
left. ► Sternum seems to press on lungs. ► Cramplike
contraction in left half. ► Tightness on inspiration.
Heart and Pulse :- ►
Trembling of
heart. ► Pulse small, contracted.
Neck and Back :- ►
Boring
sticking in right cervical muscles, rhythmical with beat of pulse, amel.
moving neck. ► Paralytic sensation in nape. ► Sticking in
middle of spine, amel. motion. ► Tearing
sticking in middle of spine ; in upper part of spine,
extending to right scapula. ► Drawing
tearing down spine. ► Spine feels as if broken when lying
on back ; in evening when lying on side. ► Stickling on outer
margin of right scapula. ► Aching in scapulæ if he moves them. ►
Bruised pain in small of back. ► Pain in loins as if he had stood
long (Arn.). ► Pain
in loins and spine as if weary, on bending backward or to one side.
► Pain in lumbar region after eating, as from a band just above hip.
► Paralytic drawing in loins.
Extremities :- ►
Twitching.
► Convulsions. ► Cramplike tearing in muscles now of right,
now of left leg, now of right, now of left forearm, amel. walking in open
air. ► Paralytic pain in arms and legs. ► Sensitiveness on
motion and touch.
Upper Extremities :- ►
Sticking
in front of left shoulder ; on top of left. ► Pinching on top
of shoulder. ► Tensive tearing in arms, with paralytic pain and on
taking hold of them bruised pain. ► Paralytic pain in arm, so that
it must hang down ; P. drawing pain through right arm, agg. hanging
down or resting on anything, agg. on anything hard. ► Paralytic
sensation in right arm like a stiffness of the joints, so that he cannot
move it.
Upper Arm :- ►
Drawing tearing in
right, amel. pressure. ► Pinching in right, amel. motion ; boring,
in left. ► Paralytic drawing from upper part down to
middle, agg. motion, and bruised pain on pressure. ► Bruised pain
above elbow.
Elbow :- ►
Tearing in right when
at rest. ► Intermittent paralytic pain externally in bend like a
jerking.
Forearm :- ►
Paralytic jerking
downward on lower surface, agg. at the pint where it begins. ►
Drawing tearing in right contractive tearing like a cramp in muscles of
left, close to wrist, amel. motion. ► Drawing digging in left.
► Cramplike pain in muscles on bending ; C. pain on violent
stretching of arm in morning after rising, agg. from elbow downward, and
in wrists on bending hands back and forth when arms are outstretched.
Wrist :- ►
Pinching boring in
right. ► Feeling as if dislocated. ► Drawing pain.
Hand :- ►
Intermittent cramplike
contraction. ► Jerking sticking, now left,
now right. ► Sticking in left, extending to little
finger ; in upper end of metacarpal bone of ring finger, and on
pressure bruised pain. ► Jerking tearing in hollow of left, agg.
stretching out hand.
Finger :- ►
Cramplike
jerking ; sudden jerking inward of right. ► Spasmodic
contraction inward of right middle, with cramplike pain. ► Cramplike
pain in muscles of outer side of left little, agg. motion. ► Bruised
pain in ball of thumb on pressure and on moving metacarpus of thumb
towards hollow of hand. ► Drawings ; paralytic, in ring.
► Burning pain in proximal joint of middle. ► Crawling in tip
of thumb as if asleep ; C. in last joint of thumb almost as after
being asleep.
Lower Extremities :- ►
Thigh.
► Tearing in left hip and nates ; drawing, in anterior side of
right thigh, amel. violent motion. ► Boring outward below gluteals
when sitting, amel. pressure and motion. ► Pain in great trochanter
when walking as if he had fallen upon it. ► Pain in nates when
sitting as if wearied by long sitting. ► Cramplike pain in anterior
muscles of left when standing. ► Paralytic pain in left not far from
knee.
Knee :- ►
Intermittent
sticking ; single stitches in patella.
Leg :- ►
Spasmodic stretching (in
a child). ► Paralytic twitching in forepart, between tibia and
fibula. ► Intermittent sticking as with a fork in left tibia, just
below knee. ► Tearing in middle of left calf when sitting. ►
Digging in left tibia below knee. ► Cramplike pain in muscles, now
of right, now of left, on walking in open air, amel. standing and sitting.
Foot :- ►
Spasmodic motion of
left, at last immobility, abduction far from body (in a child). ►
Twitching-tearing in interior of left. ► Sticking in ball of right.
► Tearing, sticking in left heel when sitting.
Skin :- ►
Miliary rash. ►
Red itching pimples. ► Boil surrounded by an induration, on cheek.
► Burning sticking here and there, amel. scratching. ►
Prickling, itching crawling, amel. scratching. ► Itching tickling on
border of right hand near thumb and index. ► Itching here and there
at night ; left on back of left hand, amel. scratching ; voluptuous,
in front of anus.
Sleep :- ►
Yawning. ►
Sleepiness all day ; in afternoon ; overpowering ; in
evening ; when sitting he must lie down. ►
Sleeps when erect with head leaned backward or to right. ► Tossing
about in sleep, with lamentations and cries about colic.
► Sleepless. ► Waking with weeping complaints, groaning
hiccough and restless motion. ► Frequent waking from unpleasant or
busy dreams. ► Dreams anxious ; tiresome ; absurd.
Fever :- ►
Chill ; daily
at the same hour, then heat, without thirst (Ign.).
► Shivering over whole body ; with hot
cheeks, without thirst (Ign.).
► S. creeping over trunk, so that it
trembled ; over upper part of body, extending to head, as
if the hair would stand up ; creeping over thigh. ► Cold
cheeks. ► Cold face, with warm hands. ► Cold hands in morning
and creeping chills. ► Cool skin.►
► Heat ;
in evening and night ; every afternoon, then increased sweat and deep
sleep ; daily at the same hour, with short
breath ; daily in afternoon, from 1 P.M.
onward, then several attacks of chill with thirst, coldness in hands and
feet, then heat of the pale face, agg. heat of hands and feet, with
cutting colic ; with vomiting and diarrhœa ; (with redness of
face, then sweat, without thirst). ► H.
mostly in head during fever, with yellow color of face and blue rings
around eyes. ► Rising H. and
redness of cheeks after sleep, without
thirst (Ign., Cham.) ;
H. over face, with redness of cheeks and thirst
for cold drinks. ► H. creeping over knees, with sensation
as if a glowing coal were near the knee. ► Internal H., with heat
and redness of face.►
Sweat ; cold
on forehead, nose and hands. ► Dry skin.
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