CINA

Cina, commonly known as Wormseed, is a homoeopathic medicine prepared from the unexpanded flower-heads (commonly called “seeds”) of several varieties of Artemisia maritima, belonging to the Compositae family. Traditionally recognized for its action against intestinal worms, Cina is especially effective in treating children with worm-related complaints, nervous irritability, and digestive disturbances. It is particularly suited to children who are cross, irritable, restless, and suffer from abdominal pains, teeth grinding, and sleep disorders. Cina not only targets parasitic infestations but also aids in managing behavioral, gastrointestinal, and respiratory issues linked to intestinal irritation.

Common Name: Wormseed
SBL’s Cina can be helpful in the following conditions:

Worm Infestation and Intestinal Irritation

• Helps eliminate worms with symptoms such as white mucus stool resembling popped corn.
• Aids in relieving twisting abdominal pain around the navel and bloating with a hard abdomen.
• Cina maritima manages constant itching of the nose and anus; child bores at nose until it bleeds.
• Supports children with symptoms of grinding teeth, pale or hot faces, dark eye rings, and bloated stomachs.

Behavioral and Nervous Disorders in Children

• Useful in irritable, cross, ugly-tempered children who reject everything offered.
• Aids in managing abnormal behavior marked by desires for many things, yet rejecting all.
• Helps with choreic movements of face and hands, irritability, and emotional outbursts.
• Relieves jerking and twitching of limbs, sudden spasms, and convulsions, especially at night.

Sleep Disorders and Night Terrors

• Manages disturbed sleep with screaming, talking, and frightful dreams.
• Supports relief in children who sleep on their abdomen or on hands and knees.
• Helps in night terrors, where the child cries out, screams, or wakes up frightened.

Diarrhoea and Appetite Issues

• Aids in hunger soon after eating and gnawing, digging epigastric pain, worse on waking or before meals.
• Helps manage vomiting and diarrhoea immediately after eating or drinking.
• Supports cravings for sweets and unusual appetite patterns.

Headache and Mucosal Complaints

• Relieves headache that alternates with abdominal pain and is better by stooping.
• Helps in weak vision, dilated pupils, and yellow-tinged vision.
• Manages eyestrain and strabismus from abdominal irritation.
• Aids in relieving persistent nose itching, rubbing, and nasal bleeding from boring.

Whooping Cough & Gagging Spasm

• Helps in managing whooping-cough with violent recurring paroxysms.
• Supports relief from coughs that cause gagging, spasms, and chest pain.
• Manages post-cough symptoms such as gasping, moaning, and gurgling from throat to stomach.
• Useful in coughs where the child fears to speak or move due to fear of triggering another attack.

Turbid Urine and Uterine Bleeding

• Cina aids in managing turbid, milky urine and involuntary urination at night.
• Supports uterine bleeding occurring before puberty.

Twitching and Convulsions

• Helps relieve twitching, jerking, and spasmodic movements of limbs.
• Manages sudden inward jerking of fingers, stretching of feet, and jumping as though in pain.
• Aids in controlling nocturnal convulsions and trembling in children.

Fever and Sweating

• Supports treatment of light chills and fevers with clean tongue and hunger.
• Helps manage colicky pains and chilliness with thirst.
• Aids in relieving cold sweat on forehead, nose, and hands.
• In Cina-type fever, face is cold and hands are warm—a distinct symptom.