CINA

CINA. [Cina] Wormseed. Hahnemann. Compositae.

► Pitiful weeping when awake. ► As if frightened, jumps out of bed, sees imaginary objects, screams, trembles, talks hurriedly, anxious ; evening and before midnight. ► Child doses not want to be touched ; cannot bear you to come near it ; desires many things which it refuses when offered ; is not pleased or satisfied with anything ; uneasy and distressed all the time.

► Weak, hollow, empty feeling in the head, with inclination to vomit.

► Stupefying headache, especially in the forehead, then also in occiput ; when walking in open air. ► Headache, pain in chest and back, caused by fixing eyes steadily upon some object, as when sewing ; worse from pressure. ► Dull headache, with sensitiveness of the eyes, in morning. ► Intermittent pressure, as from a heavy weight, as if the brain were pressed down on the middle of the vertex ; pressure increases and renews the pain. ► Drawing from the left frontal eminence to the root of nose, causing confusion of head. ► Headaches are anaemic, hence better stooping, though they are worse from mental exertion.

► Child leans its head sideways, all the time. ► Turning the head from one side to the other.

► Can see more clearly for a while after rubbing the eyes. ► On rising from bed, black before the eyes, with dizziness in the head and faintness, totters to and fro ; better on lying down ; dull headache, with affection of the eyes. ► Optical illusions in bright colors. ► Pupils dilated.

► Dull stitches below the mastoid process. ► Cramp-like jerking in the external ear, like earache.

► Sneezing, with the whooping-cough. ► Violent sneezing, with stitches in the temples. ► Bleeding of the nose. ► Stoppage of the nose, in the evening. ► Itching of the nose. ► Boring in the nose, with the finger. ► Child rubs the nose on the pillow, on the shoulders of the nurse, or with the hands.

► Pale, with sickly look about the eyes ; pale and cold ; red. ► Dark rings around the eyes. ► Pain, as if both malar bones were pressed together with pincers ; worse from external pressure.

► White and bluish about the mouth.

► Grinds the teeth at night.

► Tongue coated brownish-yellow ; whitish.

► Much frothy saliva, with rattling phlegm on chest.

► Frequent motion, as though, swallowing something.

► Desires many and different things. ► Desires for bread ; great hunger after eating. ► Thirst.

► On drinking wine, she shudders, as though it were vinegar.

► Hiccough during sleep. ► Vomiting of mucus.

► Constant pressure in the stomach at night, causing restlessness. ► Gnawing sensation in the stomach, as from hunger.

► Pinching, or cramp-like pressure, transversely across the epigastric region, after a meal. ► Boring pain above the navel, passes off when pressing thereon. ► Painful twisting about the navel ; with a peculiar sickish pressure. ► Belly hard and distended.

► Diarrhoea after drinking ; stools watery, white. ► Stool rather hard and black. ► Itching at the anus.

► Frequent urging, with passage of much urine, all day. ► Urine becomes turbid immediately.

► Menses too early and profuse.

► Child refuses the breast.

► Short, at times interrupted. ► Inhalation, broken into two. ► Oppression of the chest, the sternum seems to lie too close and the breathing becomes oppressed.

► Short hacking cough at night. ► Hacking cough, followed immediately by an effort to swallow something. ► Violent periodically recurring paroxysms of whooping-cough, excited by sensation as if down were in the throat, or by adherent mucus in larynx ; after cough, gurgling sound. ► Gagging cough, morning after rising ; irritation renewed by inspiration. ► Hoarse gagging cough, in the evening. ► Rattling cough in spells. ► Expectoration : whitish, slimy, rarely somewhat bloody, almost tasteless, detached with difficulty.

► Stitches in the left side ; burning stitches in chest. ► Rattling in throat and chest ; catarrh, when excessive nervous irritability co-exists.

► Pulse small ; but hard and accelerated.

► Drawing-tearing pain down along the whole spine. ► Paralytic feeling in nape of neck. ► Tearing-jerking pains in the middle of the spine. ► Fatigued pain in the loins, as if he had stood a long time. ► Bruised pain in small of back, not aggravated by motion.

► Boring, pinching pain in the left upper arm. ► Single, small, jerking stitches, now in right, again in left hand.

► Paralytic pain in left thigh, near the knee.

► Motion : 31. Walking in the open air : 3. Rising from bed : 5. Lying down : 5.

► Trembling of the body, with shivering sensation while yawning. ► Child complains of being always tired. ► Twitching of the limbs ; jerking and distortions of limbs. ► Convulsive attacks at night. ► Spasms of children, with throwing arms from side to side. ► Epilepsy, with rigidity and full consciousness. ► Convulsions of the extensor muscles ; the child becomes suddenly stiff ; there is a clucking noise, as though water were poured out of a bottle, from the throat down to the abdomen. ► Chorea, the distortions often commence with a shriek, extend to the tongue, oesophagus and larynx, continue even through the night.

► Sudden distressing cries in sleep ; tossing about in sleep. ► Cannot sleep ; when falling asleep, starts, screams, turns over, kicks off the bedclothes.

► Morning : 3, 27. Evening : 1, 7, 27, 40. Night : 10, 17, 27, 36, 40. Before midnight : 1. Whole day : 21.

► External warmth : 40. Open air : 3.

► Chill, with shivering and shaking, even near a warm stove ; chill ascends from the upper part of the body to the head. ► Chill, face pale and cold ; hands warm. ► Chill not relieved by external warmth, mostly in the evening and with great paleness of the face. ► Chill in evening and fever all night. θ Nursing children. ► Burning heat over the whole face, with redness of the cheeks and thirst for cold drink. ► Fever daily at the same hour. ► Heat most severe over the head and face, face pale. ► Nightly heat ; with thirst, with anxiety. ► Sweat generally cold, on the forehead, around the nose and on the hands. ► After the sweat (frequently also before the chill) vomiting of food, with canine hunger at the same time.

► Recurring daily at the same hour :40.

► Right : 32. Left : 3, 28, 32, 33. Above downwards : 31, 36. Below upwards : 40.

► Dull twinges sometimes like a pinching, at other like a pressure or a blow, or jerk, or again like an itching, at various places, but especially at the posterior portion of the crest of the ilium, on the hip ; the places are painful on pressure, as if sore or bruised.

► Touch : 1. Pressure : 3, 6, 8, 19, 43. Rubbing : 5, 7. Scratching : 46. ► Child wants to be carried.

► Itching unchanged or lessened by scratching. ► Furuncles. ► Ulcers with scanty discharge.

► Dark hair.

► Ailments from Capsic., or abuse of chinchon. or Mercur. ► Antidotes to Cina : Camphor., Capsic., Cinchon., Pip. nigr. ► Santonine relieves asthenopia from some refractive anomaly.