# Cina Maritima

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Herbal Remedy
- **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm
- **Temperament:** Chilly
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
Cina is preeminently a worm remedy, as it causes all the symptoms which characterize 
worm infestation, both mental, nervous and bodily. It corresponds more to the effects of lumbrici then to those 
of other worms. 
Reflex symptoms from abdominal irrita tion. Extreme sensitiveness of mind and body :  offended by the 
slightest thing, peevish and obstinate, aversion to be caressed. Child cannot bear  to have hair combed or 
brushed. 
Irritation of the nose,  causing constant desire to rub, prick or press into it. Grinding teeth during sleep.  
Restless sleep, tossing all about the bed. Child lies on belly or on hands and knees during sleep. Nocturnal 
bedwetting, urine white, turbid, at times fetid. 
Over-sensitiveness of skin, cannot endure to be approached touched or pressed upon. Whole body is painfully 
sore to motion and touch, bruised soreness. Hair is sensitive to touch. 
Touch induces or aggravates spasms. Twitching, spasms. Convulsions with screams and violent jerkings of 
the hands and feet. Convulsions with consciousness. Chorea. Unilateral. Children throw arms from side to side 
during spasms. Paraplegia with unnatural hunger. 
Variable appetite. Greater the hunger, greater the emaciation.  Scrofulous. Sour smell of body especially 
children. Children during dentition. 
Pain comes in shocks.  Jumps suddenly as though he felt pain. Trembling with shiver ing, when yawning. 
Complaints concomitant to yawning, which comes on whenever someone yawns.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Worse from vital losses. Worse cold wind.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Excitable nervous and sleepless.
- Talks rapidly and easily angered.
- Excitable nervous and sleepless.
- Talks rapidly and easily angered.

### Head
- Headache, alternating with pain in abdomen, relieved by stooping (Mez.).
- Headache from straining 
eyes.
- Headache from sewing.
- Pain in head when reading or staring.
- Hea dache, before and after epileptic 
attack.
- Turning the head from one side to other.
- Child leans his head sideways all the time.
- Women must let 
hair down during headache.
- Children cannot tolerate to have their hair combed.
- Anemic headache, better 
stooping, worse mental exertion.
- Weak, hollow, empty sensation in head with inclination to vomit.
- Stupefying 
headache.
- Meningeal irritability, from worms.
- Headache, alternating with pain in abdomen, relieved by stooping (Mez.).
- Headache from straining 
eyes.
- Headache from sewing.
- Pain in head when reading or staring.
- Hea dache, before and after epileptic 
attack.
- Turning the head from one side to other.
- Child leans his head sideways all the time.
- Women must let 
hair down during headache.
- Children cannot tolerate to have their hair combed.
- Anemic headache, better 
stooping, worse mental exertion.
- Weak, hollow, empty sensation in head with inclination to vomit.
- Stupefying 
headache.
- Meningeal irritability, from worms.

### Eyes
- Dark rings around the eyes.
- Dilated pupils.
- Photophobia.
- Pulsation of ciliary muscle.
- Eyestrain, 
especially when presbyopia sets in.
- Strabismus from abdominal irritation, from worms.
- Eyebrows twitch when 
staring at any object.
- Drooping and heaviness of lids.
- Fatigue of eyes from sewing.
- Eyestrain with headache.
- Pain in eyes when reading o r staring.
- Sensations as if sand had got into eyes, worse when reading.
- Lachrymation during cough.
- Spots on cornea.
- Itching of inner canthus.

### Ears
- Cramplike jerking in external ear, like earache.
- Digging and scratching in ears.
- Dull stitches below 
mastoid process.
- Hearing impaired.

### Face
- Face alternately pale and cold, or red and hot.
- Face puffy.
- Bluish white about the mouth.
- Pale with 
dark ri ngs around eyes.
- Pale with sickly look during cough.
- Pale streak down centre of face.
- Cold 
perspiration.
- Grinds teeth during sleep.
- Chorea movements of face and hands.
- Tearing pain, in malar bones, 
worse touch and pressure.
- One cheek red, the other pale.
- T witching of muscles about eyes and face, with 
disordered stomach and bowels.

### Mouth
- Sensitiveness of teeth to cold air and to cold drinks.
- Grinds teeth at night during sleep.
- Chews and 
swallows in sleep.
- Much frothy saliva with rattling mucus on chest.
- Foul breath.
- Bitter taste before chill.
- Dryness 
and rawness of mouth, palate.
- Clean tongue.
- Whitish sore place on margin of tongue, very painful to touch.
- Tongue coated brownish-yellow.
- Nose - Itching of nose all the time.
- Picks and bores at nose, until it bleeds.
- Wants to rub nose and pick at it.
- Child picks its nose and cries out in sleep.
- Sneezing with whooping cough.
- Nostrils drawn in.
- Violent 
sneezing with stitches in temples.
- Slimy discharge from nose.
- Bleeding from nose and mouth, with burning in 
nose.
- Nosebleed, dark blood, with pain in forehead.
- Stoppage of nose in evening.
- Perspiration - Cold sweat on forehead, nose and hands.
- Sour smell of body  especially children.
- After the 
sweat or before the chill, vomiting of food, with canine hunger at the same time.

### Chest
- Veins stand out like whip-cord.
- Ears - Frying or sizzling in ears.
- Angina pectoris.
- Acute pain in chest.
- Tuberculosis cough.
- Bleeding from the lungs.
- Asthma.
- Bronchitis.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Ravenous hunger, worse two hours after meals better when stomach is full.
- Loss of appetite.
- COMMENTS - Has cured attacks of pain occurring two hours after meals, relieved by a cup of milk or light 
food.
- With the first trituration, Nash cured a boy of eight who had several abscesses in and around the knee join t.
- The tibia was ulcerated and the ragged edge of the bone protruded through the surface.
- There was emaciation, 
loss of appetite and he was as pale as a corpse.
- The appetite returned at once in great force.
- Sore throbbing in spleen.
- Mesenteric tuberculosis.
- Hunger voracious after eating.
- Gets hungry soon after a meal with feeling of emptiness.
- Indigestion.
- Canine hunger.
- Hunger during or before intermittent fever.
- Aversion to mother's milk.
- Bread tastes bitter.
- Desires many and different things.
- Craving for sweets, bread.
- Refuses ordinary food and desires dainties.
- Eats 
alot but doesn't gain weight.
- Malassimilation.
- Children are hungry, the greater the hunger the greater the 
emaciation.
- Hypoglycemia.
- Thirst for cold drinks.
- Difficult swallowing of liquids.

### Urinary & Genital
- Bad effects on masturbation, weakness of sight.
- Itching of genitals.
- Child refuses breast.
- Aversion to mother's milk.
- Uterine hemorrhage before puberty.
- Menses too 
early and profuse.
- Labor -like pains frequently recurring, as if menses woul d appear.
- Labor -like pains during 
pregnancy.
- Spasmodic yawning in amenorrhea.

### Extremities
- Habitually cold limbs.

### Neck & Back
- Drawing, tearing pains down along whole spine.
- Tearing, jerking pain in middle of spine.
- Paralytic 
feeling in nape.
- Bruised pain in lumbar region, not worse motion.
- Lancinating pain in upper part of spinal 
column extendind to right scapula.
- Causations - Ill effects of parasites, worms.
- Chest - Sternum as if lying too close to back.
- Cramplike, 
contracted sensation.
- Constriction of right side, with difficult breathing.
- Chest as if pressed together from both 
sides.
- As if chest was full of mucus.
- Sharp pain in left side.
- Burning and soreness in chest.
- Two dull piercing 
pains in quick succession near sternum.
- Constitutions - Generally hungry, cross, ugly and wants to be rocked.
- Children who are big, fat, rosy and 
scrofulous, they stiffen out, when looked at, during cough or when they become cross.
- Cough - Gagging cough in the morning.
- Whooping cough.
- Violent cough recurring paroxysms, as of down 
in throat.
- Cough ends in spasm.
- Cough so violent 
as to bring tears and stern um pains, feels as if something had been torn off.
- Child is afraid to speak of move 
for fear of bring ing on paroxysm of coughing.
- Periodic cough, returning spring and fall.
- Swallows after 
coughing.
- After coughing, moaning, anxious, gasps for air and turns pale.

### Skin
- Exhausting night sweat (Merc.).
- Acne with pustules all over the body.

### Sleep
- Starts in sleep.