178 FLORA HOMCOPATHICA. 
the seed is shaken out into the baskets.” The adulterations 
are the seeds of the Tansey (Tanacetum vulgare) and the 
Mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris). The latter are known, from 
being of a bright yellow colour, and resembling powdered hay. 
GEroGRAPHICAL Distrisution.—Asia Minor; the Levant ; 
Africa ; Barbary ; Persia ; frontiers of Muscovy. The different 
species over most parts of Europe. 
Parts usep 1N Mepicinz, anD Mopr or PrepaRATION.— 
The whole substance as imported, freed as much as possible 
from impurities. One part is infused in twenty parts of alcohol, 
to prepare the tincture, but it is recommended to prepare the 
three first attenuations by trituration, as more likely to preserve 
and develope the virtues of this plant. 
Mepican Uses (Hommorarnic).— Hahnemann’s observa- 
tions : “ However important the properties of Cina may be, it 
has for ages been used exclusively for children, to expel worms, 
in doses of ten, twenty, thirty, and sixty grains. I pass over 
in silence the frequent fatal effects of such doses; nor do I 
urge that some kinds of worms, in children otherwise healthy, 
are not to be considered very serious, and that frequently their 
presence does not lead to any great inconvenience, while psora 
remains latent. But it is certain that when these creatures 
exist in great numbers, they indicate a morbid state of body 
and of developed psora; without the cure of which, they will 
not fail to reappear, in spite of Cina; so that their expulsion 
avails nothing, and a treatment so ill-directed often results in 
the death of the child, after having been long tormented. 
“Cina has healing virtues most precious in other circum- 
stances, as we may be convinced by studying its symptoms in 
persons in health. 
“Experience will prove, for instance, that it has a powerful 
effect in whooping-cough, and in certain intermittent fevers, 
accompanied with vomiting and canine hunger. I omit 
other cases in which it is equally advantageous, and which the 
homeopathic physician will readily discover.” 
