Description

Cina (Mother Tincture)

Common Name: Worm-seed

Causes & Symptoms for Cina 

  • The conditions that may be referred to intestinal irritation, such as worms and accompanying complaints.
  • Grinding of teeth,  convulsions, with screams and violent jerkings of the hands and feet indicates Cina.
  • It is pre-eminently a worm medicine, children’s remedy.

Mind and Head 

  • Ill-humour and naughtiness, great anguish and anxiety on walking in the open air. Dull pains in the head, with eyes fatigued.
  • Extreme sensitiveness of mind and body, offended by the slightest thing, aversion to be caressed indicates Cina.

Eyes, ear, nose 

  • Weakness of sight, Convulsive movements of the muscles of the eyebrows.
  • There is irritation of the nose, causing constant desire to rub, prick, or press into it, Fluent coryza, with sensation of burning in the nostrils.
  • Stoppage of the nose, in the evening.

Mouth and Throat 

  • Face pale and cold, hands warm, grits teeth during sleep.
  • Cramp-like pains and successive pullings in the cheek-bones is relieved with Cina.
  • Dry, tickling cough induced by reading.

Stomach and abdomen

  • Vomiting with a clean tongue, Craving for sweets. Gets hungry soon after a meal.
  • Epigastric pain; worse, first waking in morning , hunger may come on in the middle of the night, as in children, frequent hiccough.
  • Cutting and pinching pain in the abdomen from worms.
  • Bloated abdomen, especially in children.

Stool and Anus

  • Itching of the anus,  Loose, involuntary, whitish evacuations.
  • Stool with maw-worms, thick worms indicates Cina.

Urinary complaints

  • Urine white, turbid, at times fetid.
  • Involuntary emission of urine at night.

Female complaints

  • Uterine hemorrhage before puberty.

Neck and Back

  • Pains, as from a bruise, in the loins, is relieved with Cina.

Extremities

  • Sprained feeling in the wrist-joint, cramp-like tearings in the arms and in the hands.
  • Cramp-like extension of the legs is relieved with Cina.