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Cina Reference Specimen Botanical Specimen and Materia Medica Identification
🧬 Remedy Miasm: Psoric Miasm The Psoric miasm is considered the mother of all chronic diseases. It primarily manifests as functional nervous weakness, allergies, skin itching, eruptions, and hypersensitivity.
GENERAL
  • Source: Derived from the bark of Cinchona officinalis , a tree in the Rubiaceae family, native to.
  • South America, prepared for homeopathic use through maceration, serial dilution, and succussion to.
  • enhance therapeutic action and eliminate toxicity.
  • Traditional Context: Historically employed in homeopathy for febrile, gastrointestinal, and.
  • constitutional disorders, particularly those associated with debility, fluid loss, and periodic fevers.
  • It is noted for symptoms such as weakness, bloating, and intermittent fevers, often aggravated by.
  • cold, touch, or loss of vital fluids, and ameliorated by warmth, rest, or firm pressure.
  • Modern Context: Indicated for febrile disorders (e.g., malaria-like fevers, post-viral syndromes),.
  • gastrointestinal conditions (e.g., dyspepsia, diarrhea), hematological issues (e.g., anemia,.
  • leukopenia), neurological symptoms (e.g., headaches, vertigo), psychological conditions (e.g.,.
  • irritability, depression), and systemic symptoms (e.g., debility, cold intolerance).
  • It suits patients.
  • with acute or chronic symptoms characterized by profound weakness, periodic fevers, digestive.
  • bloating, or sensitivity to touch , typically exacerbated by cold, fluid loss, or exertion, and often.
  • seen in individuals with a history of chronic infections, blood loss, or prolonged exhaustion.
  • The.
  • remedy is particularly relevant for those with a chilly, sensitive constitution, often presenting with.
  • physical symptoms like pallor or flatulence alongside emotional traits like irritability or.
  • despondency, commonly observed in individuals recovering from acute illness, those with chronic.
  • fatigue, or patients with post-infectious debility.
  • Cinchona officinalis (Peruvian Bark, China) 639
MODALITIES ETC
  • Worse from: Cold (air, weather, drinks), damp weather, touch, fluid loss (e.g., sweating,.
  • diarrhea, hemorrhage), specific times (e.g., evening, periodic intervals), exertion, noise,.
  • emotional stress, rich foods, fasting, night
RELATIONSHIPS
📊 Side-by-Side Comparison:

Compare: (1) Calc-p., Calc-i., Glon., Bar-c. (2) Kali-c. - excessive sweating, weakness, pallor,
Cact. - heart and arteries.

MODERN DIAGNOSTIC CORRELATIONS (ICD & DSM)
📋 Key Clinical Mappings:
  • ICD-11 Codes: 1F20: Malaria or 1F2Z (unspecified febrile illness) for intermittent fevers and chills.
  • DA01.0: Gastritis or DA42 (dyspepsia) for dyspepsia and bloating.
  • DA90: Gastroenteritis or DA61 (irritable bowel syndrome) for diarrhea and nausea.
  • 3A10: Hemolytic anemia or 3A20 (iron-deficiency anemia) for anemia and pallor.
  • 3B10: Thrombocytopenia for easy bruising or bleeding.
  • Cinchona officinalis (Peruvian Bark, China) 642.
  • 8B80: Migraine or 8B81 (tension-type headache) for headaches.
  • 8A00: Vestibular dysfunction or 8A01 (Ménière’s disease) for vertigo and tinnitus.
  • 8B20: Neuralgia or 8B21 (peripheral neuropathy) for neuralgic pain.
  • 6A70: Persistent depressive disorder (dysthymia) for depression and apathy.
  • 6B00: Generalized anxiety disorder for anxiety and irritability.
  • 6A80: Adjustment disorder for irritability and mood swings.
  • 8B82.0: Chronic fatigue syndrome for fatigue and debility
MIND
  • Excitable nervous and sleepless.
  • Talks rapidly and easily angered.
  • Excitable nervous and sleepless.
  • Talks rapidly and easily angered
HEAD
  • Headache, alternating with pain in abdomen, relieved by stooping (Mez.).
  • Headache from straining eyes.
  • Headache from sewing.
  • Pain in head when reading or staring.
  • Hea dache, before and after epileptic attack.
  • Turning the head from one side to other.
  • Child leans his head sideways all the time.
  • Women must let hair down during headache.
  • Children cannot tolerate to have their hair combed.
  • Anemic headache, better stooping, worse mental exertion.
  • Weak, hollow, empty sensation in head with inclination to vomit.
  • Stupefying headache.
  • Meningeal irritability, from worms.
  • Headache, alternating with pain in abdomen, relieved by stooping (Mez.).
  • Headache from straining eyes.
  • Headache from sewing.
  • Pain in head when reading or staring.
  • Hea dache, before and after epileptic attack.
  • Turning the head from one side to other.
  • Child leans his head sideways all the time.
  • Women must let hair down during headache.
  • Children cannot tolerate to have their hair combed.
  • Anemic headache, better stooping, worse mental exertion.
  • Weak, hollow, empty sensation in head with inclination to vomit.
  • Stupefying headache.
  • Meningeal irritability, from worms
EYES
  • Dark rings around the eyes.
  • Dilated pupils.
  • Photophobia.
  • Pulsation of ciliary muscle.
  • Eyestrain, especially when presbyopia sets in.
  • Strabismus from abdominal irritation, from worms.
  • Eyebrows twitch when staring at any object.
  • Drooping and heaviness of lids.
  • Fatigue of eyes from sewing.
  • Eyestrain with headache.
  • Pain in eyes when reading o r staring.
  • Sensations as if sand had got into eyes, worse when reading.
  • Lachrymation during cough.
  • Spots on cornea.
  • Itching of inner canthus
EARS
  • Cramplike jerking in external ear, like earache.
  • Digging and scratching in ears.
  • Dull stitches below mastoid process.
  • Hearing impaired
FACE
  • Face alternately pale and cold, or red and hot.
  • Face puffy.
  • Bluish white about the mouth.
  • Pale with dark ri ngs around eyes.
  • Pale with sickly look during cough.
  • Pale streak down centre of face.
  • Cold perspiration.
  • Grinds teeth during sleep.
  • Chorea movements of face and hands.
  • Tearing pain, in malar bones, worse touch and pressure.
  • One cheek red, the other pale.
  • T witching of muscles about eyes and face, with disordered stomach and bowels
MOUTH
  • Sensitiveness of teeth to cold air and to cold drinks.
  • Grinds teeth at night during sleep.
  • Chews and swallows in sleep.
  • Much frothy saliva with rattling mucus on chest.
  • Foul breath.
  • Bitter taste before chill.
  • Dryness and rawness of mouth, palate.
  • Clean tongue.
  • Whitish sore place on margin of tongue, very painful to touch.
  • Tongue coated brownish-yellow.
  • Nose - Itching of nose all the time.
  • Picks and bores at nose, until it bleeds.
  • Wants to rub nose and pick at it.
  • Child picks its nose and cries out in sleep.
  • Sneezing with whooping cough.
  • Nostrils drawn in.
  • Violent sneezing with stitches in temples.
  • Slimy discharge from nose.
  • Bleeding from nose and mouth, with burning in nose.
  • Nosebleed, dark blood, with pain in forehead.
  • Stoppage of nose in evening.
  • Perspiration - Cold sweat on forehead, nose and hands.
  • Sour smell of body especially children.
  • After the sweat or before the chill, vomiting of food, with canine hunger at the same time
CHEST
  • Dry, spasmodic cough, with throat irritation or tickling, resembling post-viral cough.
  • or allergic cough, worse with cold air, night, or excitement.
  • Nasal irritation or itching, with sneezing or discharge, resembling allergic rhinitis,.
  • aggravated by cold, dust, or emotional stress.
  • Difficulty breathing or wheezing, with a sensation of tightness, resembling mild.
  • asthma, worse with cold or sensory stimuli.
  • Tendency to respiratory sensitivity, with frequent upper respiratory symptoms, worse.
  • in cold or damp conditions.
  • Cina (Wormseed, Artemisia cina) 630.
  • Systemic:.
  • Fever, often with chills or sweating, resembling febrile seizures or post-infectious.
  • states, worse with cold, exertion, or emotional stress.
  • Fatigue or weakness, with a sensation of heaviness, resembling chronic fatigue.
  • syndrome or post-viral exhaustion, worse after exertion or cold exposure.
  • Cold intolerance, with aggravation in cold, damp conditions and a desire for warmth,.
  • except during fever when heat worsens.
  • Pale or sallow complexion, with dark circles under the eyes, worse during.
  • gastrointestinal or neurological episodes
ABDOMEN
  • Ravenous hunger, worse two hours after meals better when stomach is full.
  • Loss of appetite.
  • COMMENTS - Has cured attacks of pain occurring two hours after meals, relieved by a cup of milk or light food.
  • With the first trituration, Nash cured a boy of eight who had several abscesses in and around the knee join t.
  • The tibia was ulcerated and the ragged edge of the bone protruded through the surface.
  • There was emaciation, loss of appetite and he was as pale as a corpse.
  • The appetite returned at once in great force.
  • Sore throbbing in spleen.
  • Mesenteric tuberculosis.
  • Hunger voracious after eating.
  • Gets hungry soon after a meal with feeling of emptiness.
  • Indigestion.
  • Canine hunger.
  • Hunger during or before intermittent fever.
  • Aversion to mother's milk.
  • Bread tastes bitter.
  • Desires many and different things.
  • Craving for sweets, bread.
  • Refuses ordinary food and desires dainties.
  • Eats alot but doesn't gain weight.
  • Malassimilation.
  • Children are hungry, the greater the hunger the greater the emaciation.
  • Hypoglycemia.
  • Thirst for cold drinks.
  • Difficult swallowing of liquids
GENITALS ETC
  • Bad effects on masturbation, weakness of sight.
  • Itching of genitals.
  • Child refuses breast.
  • Aversion to mother's milk.
  • Uterine hemorrhage before puberty.
  • Menses too early and profuse.
  • Labor -like pains frequently recurring, as if menses woul d appear.
  • Labor -like pains during pregnancy.
  • Spasmodic yawning in amenorrhea
EXTREMITIES, LIMBS
  • Habitually cold limbs
BACK AND NECK
  • Drawing, tearing pains down along whole spine.
  • Tearing, jerking pain in middle of spine.
  • Paralytic feeling in nape.
  • Bruised pain in lumbar region, not worse motion.
  • Lancinating pain in upper part of spinal column extendind to right scapula.
  • Causations - Ill effects of parasites, worms.
  • Chest - Sternum as if lying too close to back.
  • Cramplike, contracted sensation.
  • Constriction of right side, with difficult breathing.
  • Chest as if pressed together from both sides.
  • As if chest was full of mucus.
  • Sharp pain in left side.
  • Burning and soreness in chest.
  • Two dull piercing pains in quick succession near sternum.
  • Constitutions - Generally hungry, cross, ugly and wants to be rocked.
  • Children who are big, fat, rosy and scrofulous, they stiffen out, when looked at, during cough or when they become cross.
  • Cough - Gagging cough in the morning.
  • Whooping cough.
  • Violent cough recurring paroxysms, as of down in throat.
  • Cough ends in spasm.
  • Cough so violent as to bring tears and stern um pains, feels as if something had been torn off.
  • Child is afraid to speak of move for fear of bring ing on paroxysm of coughing.
  • Periodic cough, returning spring and fall.
  • Swallows after coughing.
  • After coughing, moaning, anxious, gasps for air and turns pale
SKIN
  • Profound fatigue or debility, with a sensation of collapse, resembling chronic fatigue.
  • syndrome or post-viral exhaustion, worse after exertion, cold, or fluid loss (e.g.,.
  • sweating, diarrhea).
  • Cold intolerance, with aggravation in cold, damp conditions and a strong desire for.
  • warmth or dry environments.
  • Profuse, cold, or drenching sweating, particularly during fever, pain, or anxiety.
  • episodes, worse at night or in cold conditions.
  • Tendency to periodicity in symptoms (e.g., daily, weekly), with a sensation of.
  • internal chill or sinking vitality, worse with cold or emotional stress
SLEEP
  • Starts in sleep

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📚 Literature Citation & References:
This clinical profile is compiled from: Andrew Chevallier, FNIMH — Herbal Remedies (Eyewitness Companions), and Dr. David Keifer, MD — Herbal Remedies Reference Guide. Synced with traditional botanical use and pharmacological outlines.
🩺 Medical Verification & Peer Review:
This profile has been verified by the Herbalhomeo medical team in accordance with authoritative homeopathic references.

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