(Wormseed)
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. 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 and drinking. Vomiting with a clean
tongue. Desires many and different things. Craving for sweets. | ||
| Abdomen.
Twisting pain about navel. Bloated and hard abdomen. | ||
| Stool. White
mucus, like small pieces of popped corn, preceded by pinching colic.
Itching of anus. Worms. [Nat-p.] | ||
| 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 more 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: Ign.; Cham. Antidote: Caps. | ||
| Dose. Third
attenuation. For nervous irritable children, thirtieth and two hundredth
preferable. |