CINA Q

Adven Cina (Wormseed)

A key paediatric remedy for worm infestation, irritability, and neuro-gastro disturbances

Prepared from the unexpanded flower-heads of Artemisia maritima, this medicine is a classic choice in homoeopathy for intestinal worms and associated behavioural disturbances, especially in children. It has a marked action on the digestive tract, nervous system, and respiratory passages, particularly where irritability, restlessness, and abdominal irritation are prominent.

Key Indications

Worm Infestation & Intestinal Irritation

• Helps manage intestinal worms, especially in children
• Characteristic itching of nose and anus, with constant rubbing
• Abdomen bloated, hard, with twisting pain around navel
• Stool may show white mucus (popped-corn like)
• Associated signs: teeth grinding, dark eye rings, pale face

Behavioral & Nervous Symptoms (Cina Child)

• Child is irritable, cross, dissatisfied—rejects everything offered
• Desires many things but refuses them when given
• Helps in restlessness, jerking, twitching, and spasmodic movements
• Supports emotional instability and sudden outbursts

Sleep Disturbances & Night Terrors

• Disturbed sleep with screaming, frightful dreams, and restlessness
• Child may sleep on abdomen or in knee-chest position
• Frequent night terrors and sudden waking with fear

Digestive Issues & Appetite Changes

• Hunger soon after eating, with gnawing epigastric pain
• Vomiting or diarrhoea immediately after food or drink
• Craving for sweets with digestive irritation

Respiratory Complaints (Whooping Cough Type)

• Useful in whooping cough with violent paroxysms
• Cough leads to gagging, choking, and chest pain
• Child fears to talk or move due to triggering cough

Neuromuscular & Convulsive States

• Helps in twitching, jerking, spasms, and convulsions, especially at night
• Sudden inward jerking of fingers, stretching of limbs
• Supports control of nocturnal convulsions in children

Urinary & Other Features

• Useful in turbid, milky urine and bedwetting
• May support cases of early uterine bleeding (pre-puberty)

Fever Pattern

• Fever with hunger, clean tongue, and colicky pains
• Characteristic: cold face with warm hands
• Cold sweat on forehead, nose, and hands