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Cina Maritima

30C / 200CCina

Wormseed · Levant Wormseed · "The Worm Remedy"

cina.PolychrestPlantCommonPsoric

🎯 A remedy primarily for children suffering from intestinal irritation, worms, and associated nervous irritability or convulsions.

📖 Boericke writes:

(CINA)

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.

👤 Constitution

•Typically a big, fat, rosy, scrofulous child who is irritable, cross, and wants to be rocked or carried.

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Pain in shocks.

introduction

Pulsation of superciliary muscle.

eyes

Pale, hot, with dark rings around eyes.

face

White and bluish about the mouth.

face

Choreic movements of face and hands.

face

Twisting pain about navel (Spig).

abdomen

Gurgling from throat to stomach after coughing.

respiratory

Sudden inward jerking of fingers of right hand.

extremities

Child stretches out feet spasmodically.

extremities

Troubles while yawning.

sleep

🩺 Systems & Indications

🧠Mind

Prescribe for children who are extremely irritable, demanding, and difficult to please.

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.

🔑 Modalities

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💊 Dosage & Potency

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

Decimal

📝Third attenuation.

Primary Dosage

200C

Centesimal

📝For nervous irritable children.

30C

Centesimal

📝For nervous irritable children.

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🚫 Antidotes

Camphora →Capsicum Annuum →

🔄 Compare With

Teucrium →Ignatia Amara →Chamomilla →Spigelia Anthelmia →Santonin →Viola Odorata →Urinum

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Cina Maritima is listed in 179 rubrics across 20 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 77 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Respiratory System26 Nervous System24 Abdomen22 Fever17 Stomach13 Urinary System13 Mind11 Locomotor System10 Eyes9 Face9 Modalities8 Nose5 Head3 Teeth2 Female Sexual System2 Ears1 Mouth1 Tongue1 Generalities1 Skin1

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