He has a good appetite and has hardly ever fallen ill.
Last month however, he began to cough, mostly at night, while he was asleep.
Clinically, he was found to be quite normal.
He was given all the routine medicines one would give in such a case, for symptomatic relief, but they gave him no relief.
In fact, his nocturnal spasms increased in frequency and duration, and he began to sleep very poorly because of them.Investigations turned in negative reports.
Finally, more out of having run out of medicines to give him, I gave him a potentised herbal extract of ARTEMISIA VULGARIS, called Cina in Homeopathy, as a routine de-worming exercise.
From the next day, he began to pass bunches of small wriggling worms from his anus.
By the end of the week he must have passed more than two hundred of them! ( And mind you, he had been given a course of Mebendazole, a worm medicine, barely a month before ).
Simultaneously, the nocturnal spasms reduced and a week later, the cough stopped altogether.
In this case, the cough was due to the larvae of thread ( pin ) worms, which used to migrate through his lungs and moult at night, thus causing irritation in his windpipes and lung cells!
Dr. Jayashree Joshi, MD
(affordable Online Health Consultations)
E mail : joshi@herbaltradition.com
