Cina
as H.C. Allen recorded it in Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica, 1899
Artemisia cina
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Keynotes
Cina
Worm Seed. Compositce.
Adapted to children with dark hair, very cross, irritable, ill-humored, want to be carried, but carrying gives no relief; does not want to be touched; cannot bear you to come near it; averse to caresses; desires many things, but rejects everything offered (compare. Ant. t., Bry., Cham., Staph.).
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.).
Children, suffering from worms; pitiful weeping when awake, starts and screams during sleep; grinding of teeth (Cic., Spig.) ; ascarides (Mar. v.).
Face is pale; sickly white and bluish appearance around mouth ; sickly, with dark rings under the eyes; one cheek red, the other pale (Cham.).
Canine hunger : hungry soon after a full meal; craving for sweets and different things ; refuses mother’s milk.
Urine; turbid when passed, turns milky and semisolid after standing; white and turbid; involuntary.
Cough: dry with sneezing; spasmodic, gagging in the morning; periodic, returning spring and fall.
Child is afraid to speak or move for fear of bringing on a paroxysm of coughing (Bry.).
Kreos., Sil., Staph., in irritability of children.
In pertussis, after Drosera has relieved the severe symptoms.
Has cured aphonia from exposure when Acon., Phos. and Spong. had failed.
Is frequently to be thought of, in children, as an epidemic remedy, when adults require other drugs.
Santonine sometimes cures in worm affections when Cina seems indicated, but fails (Mar. v., Spig.).
What the other books say about Cina
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Cina in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Cina in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
- Cina in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
- Cina in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.
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Cite this page. H.C. Allen. Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica. 3rd edition (1910). Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel. Cina — Keynotes, pp. 95–96. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/allen/cina. Published 1910: public domain in the US (before 1931) and in India (author died 1909). Replaces B. Jain's 2005 "rearranged and classified" edition (© the publisher), per the owner's decision of 13 Sep 2026. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.