Worm-seed
- This is a children's remedy, big, fat, rosy, scrofulous, corresponding to many conditions that may be referred to intestinal irritation, such as worms and accompanying complaints.
- An irritability of temper, variable appetite, grinding of teeth, and even convulsions, with screams and violent jerkings of the hands and feet, are all within its range of action.
- The Cina patient is hungry, cross, ugly, and wants to be rocked.
- Pain in shocks.
- Skin sensitive to touch.
Mind
- Ill-humor.
- Child very cross; does not want to be touched, or crossed, or carried.
- Desires many things, but rejects everything offered.
- Abnormal consciousness, as if having committed some evil deed.
Head
- Headache, alternating with pain in abdomen.
- Relieved by stooping (Mezer).
- Pain in head when using eyes.
Eyes
- Dilated pupils; yellow vision.
- Weak sight from masturbation.
- Strabismus from abdominal irritation.
- Eyestrain, especially when presbyopia sets in.
- Pulsation of superciliary muscle.
Ears
- Digging and scratching in ears.
Nose
- Itching of nose all the time.
- Wants to rub it and pick at it.
- Bores at nose till it bleeds.
Face
- Intense, circumscribed redness of cheeks.
- Pale, hot, with dark rings around eyes.
- Cold perspiration.
- White and bluish about the mouth.
- Grits teeth during sleep.
- Choreic movements of face and hands.
Stomach
- Gets hungry soon after a meal.
- Hungry, digging, gnawing sensation.
- Epigastric pain; worse, first waking in morning and before meals.
- Vomiting and diarrhea immediately after eating or drinking.
- Vomiting with a clean tongue.
- Desires many and different things.
- Craving for sweets.
Abdomen
- Twisting pain about navel (Spig).
- Bloated and hard abdomen.
Stool
- White mucus, like small pieces of popped corn, preceded by pinching colic.
- Itching of anus (Teuc).
- Worms (Sabad; Naphth; Nat phos).
Urine
- Turbid, white; turns milky on standing.
- Involuntary at night.
Female
- Uterine hemorrhage before puberty.
Respiratory
- Gagging cough in the morning.
- Whooping-cough.
- Violent recurring paroxysms, as of down in throat.
- Cough ends in a spasm.
- Cough so violent as to bring tears and sternal pains; feels as if something had been torn off.
- Periodic; returning spring and fall.
- Swallows after coughing.
- Gurgling from throat to stomach after coughing.
- Child is afraid to speak or move for fear of bringing on paroxysm of coughing.
- After coughing, moaning, anxious, gasps for air and turns pale.
Extremities
- Twitching and jerking distortion of limbs, trembling.
- Paralyzed shocks; patient will jump suddenly, as though in pain.
- Child throws arms from side to side.
- Nocturnal convulsions.
- Sudden inward jerking of fingers of right hand.
- Child stretches out feet spasmodically.
- Left foot in constant spasmodic motion.
Sleep
- Child gets on hands and knees in sleep; on abdomen.
- Night terrors of children; cries out, screams, wakes frightened.
- Troubles while yawning.
- Screams and talks in sleep.
- Grits teeth.
Fever
- Light chill.
- Much fever, associated with clean tongue.
- Much hunger; colicky pains; chilliness, with thirst.
- Cold sweat on forehead, nose, and hands.
- In Cina fever, face is cold and hands warm.
Modalities
- Worse, looking fixedly at an object, from worms, at night, in sun, in summer.
Relationship
- Compare:
- Santonin--(often preferable in worm affections; same symptoms as Cina; corresponding to the "pain in shocks" produced by Cina. Visual illusions, yellow sight; violet light not recognized, colors not distinguishable. Urine deep saffron color. Spasms and twitchings, chronic gastric and intestinal troubles sometimes removed by a single dose (physiological) of Santonin. Dahlke).
- Helmintochortos-Worm-moss (acts very powerfully on intestinal worms, especially the lumbricoid).
- Teucrium; Ignat; Cham; Spig.
- Antidote: Camph; Caps.
Dose
- Third attenuation.
- For nervous irritable children, thirtieth and two-hundredth preferable.
- Santonin in first (with care) and third trituration.
