Cina Maritima

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Cina Maritima Reference Specimen Botanical Specimen and Materia Medica Identification
🌿 Traditional Herbal Medicine Profile This page outlines the crude botanical applications, traditional herbal infusions, and active properties of Cina Maritima. Herbal preparations act biochemically on body tissues.
GENERAL
  • 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 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.
  • ParaplegiaParalysis of the lower half of the bodyParalysis that affects all or part of the trunk, legs, and pelvic organs, usually due to spinal cord injury. with unnatural hunger.
  • Variable appetite.
  • Greater the hunger, greater the emaciation.
  • ScrofulousProne to swollen glands or tuberculosisRelating to scrofula, a constitutional tendency to tuberculous swelling of the lymph nodes..
  • Sour smell of body especially 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
HERBAL PROPERTIES & MODALITIES
  • Worse from vital losses.
  • Worse cold wind
HERBAL INTERACTIONS & SAFETY
📊 Comparative Herbal Actions:

Compare: (1) Calc-p., Calc-i., Glon., Bar-c. (2) Kali-c. - excessive sweating, weakness, pallor,
Cact. - heart and arteries.

MIND
  • 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.
EYES
  • Dark rings around the eyes.
  • Dilated pupils.
  • PhotophobiaExtreme sensitivity to lightAn abnormal intolerance to light, causing eye discomfort, squinting, or pain in bright environments..
  • 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.
  • AnginaChest pain from reduced heart blood flowA condition marked by severe pain in the chest, often also spreading to the shoulders, arms, and neck, caused by an inadequate blood supply to the heart. pectoris.
  • Acute pain in chest.
  • Tuberculosis cough.
  • Bleeding from the lungs.
  • AsthmaChronic respiratory disease causing difficulty breathingA condition characterized by spasms in the bronchi of the lungs, causing difficulty in breathing, typically from an allergic reaction or hypersensitivity..
  • BronchitisInflammation of the bronchial tubesInflammation of the mucous membrane in the bronchial tubes, typically causing bronchospasm and coughing.
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 triturationGrinding raw substance into powderThe process of grinding an insoluble dry substance with milk sugar (lactose) in a mortar to prepare the base of a remedy., 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 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
GENITALS ETC
  • Bad effects on masturbation, weakness of sight.
  • Itching of genitals.
  • Child refuses breast.
  • Aversion to mother's milk.
  • Uterine hemorrhageProfuse bleeding from a ruptured blood vesselAn escape of blood from a ruptured blood vessel, especially when profuse. before pubertyAdolescent sexual maturity phaseThe stage of physical growth and hormonal changes when a child's body matures into an adult body capable of reproduction..
  • Menses too early and profuse.
  • Labor -like pains frequently recurring, as if menses woul d appear.
  • Labor -like pains during pregnancy.
  • Spasmodic yawning in amenorrheaAbsence of menstrual periodsAn abnormal absence of menstruation.
EXTREMITIES, LIMBS
  • Habitually cold limbs
BACK AND NECK
  • 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

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📚 Literature Citation & References:
This clinical profile is compiled from: Andrew Chevallier, FNIMH — Herbal Remedies (Eyewitness Companions), and Dr. David Keifer, MD — Herbal Remedies Reference Guide. Synced with traditional botanical use and pharmacological outlines.
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