Artemisia cina, also known as santonica, Levant wormseed, and wormseed, is a species of herbaceous perennial native to parts of Asia and Eastern Europe. Its dried flower heads contain santonin, which has been used as an herbal vermifuge since ancient times to expel worms. In 1829, Samuel Hahnemann proved the efficacy of Cina and found it helped treat symptoms beyond just expelling worms, such as irritability, restlessness, cough, and urinary issues. The herb and its ingredient santonin are still used in some herbal medications today to treat parasitic worm infections.

1. Dr Saroj R. Sawant
M.D.(HOM.)

2. Artemisia cina, commonly known
as santonica , Levant wormseed,
and wormseed, is an Asian species
of herbaceous perennial in the daisy
family.

3. Its dried flower heads are the source
of the vermifugic drug santonin
since ancient times.
Its common names arise from its
known ability to expel worms.

4. Compositae

5. It is native to China, Pakistan,
Russia, Turkestan, Kazakhstan,
and Kyrgyzstan.

6. This herb's ingredient - santonin -
still continues to be used in
medications for treating worms to
this day.

7. Way back in 1829, Samuel
Hahnemann proved the efficacy of
Cina and believed that the helpful
remedial attributes of the herb went
further than its conventional
performance in herbal medicine.

8. Helminthiasis

9. Adapted to
children with
dark hair

10. Very cross,
irritable,
ill-humored

11. Want to be
carried, but
carrying gives
no relief

12. Does not want to
be touched;
cannot bear you
to come hear it;
averse to caresses;

13. Desires many
things; but rejects
everything offered
(compare, Ant. t., Bry.,
Cham., Staph.).

14. Constantly digging
and boring at the
nose; picks the nose
all the time; itching of
nose; rubs nose on
pillow, or on shoulder
of nurse (Mar. v.).

15. Children, suffering
from worms; pitiful
weeping when awake,
starts and screams
during sleep; grinding
of teeth
(Cic., Sulph.); ascarides
(Mar. v.).

16. “Getting on
hands and
knees in sleep"

17. Face is pale; sickly
white and bluish
appearance around
mouth; sickly, with
dark rings under the
eyes; one cheek red, the
other pale (Cham.).

18. Canine hunger: hungry
soon after a full meal;
craving for sweets and
different things;
refuses mother's milk.
Canine hunger, during or
before the
intermittent fever.

19. Urine; turbid when
passed, turns milky
and semi-solid after
standing; white and
turbid; involuntary.

20.  Cough: dry with
sneezing; spasmodic,
gagging in the
morning; periodic,
returning spring and
fall.

21.  Child is afraid to
speak or move for fear
of bringing on a
paroxysm of coughing
(Bry.).

22.  Twitches and
contortions of the
limbs.

23.  Violent screaming
attacks at night, the
patient afficted lying
on the back and
striking and kicking
with the hands and
feet.

24.  At night sleeplessness,
with restlessness and
tossing about.

25.  Whooping cough with
stiffness of the child
before it and with
great paleness of the
face.

26.  anemic persons
suffering from
indigestion and non-
assimilation of food,
or after acute illness
when they have
headache, vertigo, and
neuralgia.

27.  Guernsey says Cina is
suited to complaints
which are
concomitant to
yawning, which come
on whenever one
yawns.

28.  The symptoms of Cina
are worse night,
before midnight child
wakes up frightened.
Worse From open
air, cold air, cold
water.
Worse Yawning.
Child lies on belly, or
on hands and knees,
during sleep.

29. Antidoted by:
Camph., Caps., Chi.,
Pip-n.
Antidote to: Caps.,
Chin., Merc.
Follows well: Dros.
and Ant-t.

30.  In aversion to be touched,
Ant-c., Ant-t., Hep. Sil., Thu.,
 gurgling along oesophagus
when swallowing fluids,
Hell., Cupr.,
 difficult swallowing
liquids,
Bell., Caust., Hyos., Ign.,
Lach., Lyc., Phos.,
 in cough worse by reading
or writing,
Mang., Meph., Nux-v., Plat.,
 in white stools,
Dig,
 in ravenous hunger,
Ars., Calc., Iod., Sil. Staph.,
 aversion to be caressed,
Ars., Lach.,
 in squint,
Alum.,
 in asthenopia and
defective accommodation,
Art. (but Art-v. has dizziness
from colored light, and
Cina has better from
rubbing).