Cina appears in 12 of the 13 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.
- Allen HC — The keynotes that separate this remedy from its nearest neighbours.
“Worm Seed. (Compositae) 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 hear it; averse to caresses; desires many things; but rejects everything offered (compare, Ant. t., Bry., Cham…”
- Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“Artemisia maritima, var. Stechmanniana, Besser; (A Lecheana, Karel et Kiril; A. maritima, var. pauciflora, Weber). Nat. order , Compositæ; Common names , Flores Cinæ (Semen Cinæ), Wormseed, Wurmsamen. Preparation , Tincture of the flower heads (commonly called seeds). Authorities. Emotional. Delirium, 1. Delirium, and…”
- Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Worm-seed (CINA) This is a children's remedy,-big, fat, rosy, scrofulous, corresponding to many conditions that may be referred to intestinal irritation, such as worms and accompanying complaints. An irritability of temper, variable appetite, grinding of teeth, and even convulsions, with screams and violent jerkings…”
- Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“NERVES: Cerebro-spinal. ABDOMEN. Digestive tract. Eyes. Mucous membranes. Children. (Left side.). TOUCH. Worms. Vexation. Looked at. DURING SLEEP. Full moon. Staring. Yawning. Lying on abdomen. Wiping eyes. Motion. The greater the emaciation the greater the hunger. Bruised soreness. Painfully sore to motion and touch…”
- Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“The unexpanded flower-heads (commonly called "seeds") of several varieties of Artemisia maritima. Semen cinæ. Flores Cinæ. Artemisia contra. Wormseed. N. O. Compositæ. Tincture. Abdomen, distended / Anæmia / Anus, irritation of / Asthenopia / Asthma / Bronchitis / Borborygmi / Chorea / Colic / Convulsions / Cough /…”
- Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Wormseed. Compositæ. It is known that the drug brought to market under the name "wormseed" does not consist of seed, but of the undeveloped flowers mixed with the scales of the calyx and pedicles of different species of the genus Artemesia. Semen Cina Levanticæ, consisting of small ovate-oblong, green-yellow flower…”
- Kent — The mental and general picture — who the patient is, before what the remedy cures.
“Cina is pre-eminently a child's remedy, but it is suitable for conditions in adults that are seldom thought of. A marked feature running through is touchiness , mental and physical. Child: The child wants something, but does not know what. The child is aggravated by touch and even by being looked at, and is worse from…”
- Lippe (KN) — Only the symptoms Lippe considered reliable enough to prescribe on.
“Twitches and contortions of the limbs. Violent screaming attacks at night, the patient afficted lying on the back and striking and kicking with the hands and feet. There is grinding of the teeth and the child bores with his fingers into the nose. The child does not want to be touched. At night sleeplessness, with…”
- Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Piteous complaints and weeping. Ill-humor; the child is averse to being caressed and rejects every thing which is offered. The child will not be touched. Disposition to be offended by trifling jests. The head falls to the side and is jerked backwards, with twitches in the limbs and cold perspiration of the face…”
- Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common name: worm seed. Is principally a children's remedy, corresponding to many conditions that may be referred to intestinal irritation, such as worms, etc. (D.). Worm complaints in children (Bell., Calc., Calc-P., Ferr., Graph., Ipec., Kali-M., Kali-P., Lach., Lyc., Merc., Nat-M., Phos., Sep., Sil., Sulph., Zinc.).”
- Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“The child is cross and ugly, kicks and strikes; wants to be carried or rocked or don’t want to be touched or looked at; wants things and pushes them away when offered. Frequently boring the nose with the fingers. Pale sickly look about the eyes, or white and blue about the mouth. Frequent swallowing as if something…”
