Cina maritima
E. B. Nash tarafından — Leaders in Respiratory Organs
Historical reference for practitioners and students. The statements below reflect the named author’s homeopathic teaching and do not establish treatment effectiveness. This text is not medical advice and must not replace appropriate diagnosis or care.
PERTUSSIS (Whooping Cough).
If, instead of becoming loose and wheezing, it continues dry and hard, and hurts the head and stomach or abdomen, is < in the morning or after eating, Nux vomica is better. Belladonna and Nux vomica given early in the case will sometimes so modify it as to need very little medicine afterwards. If the case does not come to us until after the whooping stage is already on, there are a large number of remedies which will have to be chosen from. If the case is in a young child, the cough is violent and the child becomes stiff during the paroxysm, it chokes and swallows as if trying to swallow something down; it looks pale with pale streaks around mouth and nose rubs its nose, urine profuse or milky after standing awhile, we have a case for Cina, which will often do wonders. With Drosera the paroxysms are very violent, drawing the whole abdomen spasmodically inward, vomiting of food or mucus, and bleeding from the nose, and sometimes the mouth.
COUGH.
Character—Generally dry; spasmodic, or continual hacking; paroxysmal.
Excited or caused by helminthiasis.
Aggravated—< at night, or fretting, drinking, walking in open air; pressing on larynx; when awaking from sleep.
Ameliorated—> sometimes at night.
Concomitants—Gagging, spasms, twitching, unconsciousness, rattling, vomiting; rubbing the nose, paleness around mouth and nose; alternate canine hunger and loss of appetite, restlessness and screaming in sleep, flashes of intense fever with intensly circumscribed red cheeks.
All this, as is well known, is a picture of helminthiasis, which will complicate and aggravate almost every form of disease in children. It is not necessary; it is not best to give this drug in its alkaloid to expel the worms, but will do much better in the potencies. Yet I have found as I have with other alkaloids, such as Quinine and Strychnia, that when the Cinchona, Nux vomica or Cina seemed indicated and did not work satisfactorily, the alkaloid would. T do not know why. One thing must be guarded against, viz., prescribing the remedy for “worrums” regardless of indications. I knew an intractable case of rheumatism which resisted Bryonia, which seemed indicated, which was promptly cured by Cina, which has symptoms similar to the Bryonia.