CINA MARITIMA
Botanical name : Artemisia cina Linn.
Common name : Worm seed.
Family: Compositae.
Proved by : Dr. Hahnemann.
Introduction
Cina Maritima is a dried flower head are the source of vermifugic drug santonin. It’s common name is due to its worm killing ability.
KEY WORDS
C – convulsions from being scolded, caprious.
I – Irritability
N – Nervous
A – Artemisia cina Linn.
M – mother’s milk aversion
A – Alternating hunger
R – dark Ring around eyes
I – Indifference to caresses
T – Throw things away
I – Indisposition to play during younger age
M – Milky urine
A – Aggravation
SPHERE OF ACTION
Nerves, eyes, gastrointestinal tract, mucus membrane, urinary organ, brain, respiratory system.
CLINICAL PATHOGENESIS
Anemia, Astma, Bronchitis, convulsions, Dentition, Diarrhoea, Enuresis, Neuralgia, Wooping cough, Worms, Eyes, Leucorrhoea.
CONSTITUTION
Children with dark hair, frequent worm infestations, irritable, wants to be carried but not satisfied even after carrying, hates to be touched, averse to caresses, demands many things but rejects when offered.
AILMENTS
Worms, over eating, sweets, eating chalk, coal, charcoal.
GUIDING FEATURES
• child suffering with worms, pitiful weeping after wake up.
• screams during sleep as in delirium.
• Grinding teeth.
• extreme sensitivity of mind, can’t take even a slight joke.
• canine hunger, hunger soon after a meal.
• turbid urine, becomes milky if left to stand.
• bores nose continuously till blood approach.
• Periodic cough returning every spring.
MENTAL GENERALS
• Irritable and peevish.
• Demands many things but rejects by throwing when offered.
• Distressed all the time.
• Pitiful weeping after waking up.
• screams in sleep, frightened, jumps out of bed, sees imaginary objects.
• Does not let anybody to touch.
• sensitive, can’t take even slightest jokes.
PHYSICAL GENERALS
• Desires many things but refuses when offered.
• Aversion to mother’s milk.
• canine hunger, gets hunger immediately after a meal.
PARTICULARS
• childrens doesn’t let to cut their hair.
• optical illusions in bright colours like blue, violet, yellow, green.
• constant digging of nose, sometimes even leading to bleeding.
• canine hunger, sufferings in abdomen due to worms.
• Itching in the rectum, release of ascarides, lumbrici in stool.
• turbid urine, turns milky and semisolid if left to stand.
• Whooping cough which returns every spring.
• face is pale, cheeks are red, whitish bluish appearance around mouth.
• Sleeps on abdomen.
GENERAL MODALITIES
AGGRAVATION : Night, before midnight, after eating sweets, overeating, open and cold air.
AMELIORATION : After carried, lying on abdomen, mother’s shoulder, turning head side to side.
RELATION
Chamomilla, Antimonium crude, Antimonium tart, kreostene, silecea, Staphysagria.
Worked by : Laxmi Murugan (2nd BHMS)
