Aethusa cynapium
aeth-cynFool's Parsley The characteristic symptoms relate mainly to the brain and nervous system, connected with gastro-intestinal disturbance. Anguish, crying, and expression of uneasiness and discontent, lead to this remedy most frequently in disease in children, during dentition, summer complaint, when, with the diarrhœa, there is marked inability to digest milk, and poor circulation. Symptoms set in with violence.
Aethusa cynapium — Materia Medica
Aethusa cynapium — mind · William Boericke
Restless, anxious, crying. Sees rats, cats, dogs, etc. Unconscious, delirious. Inability to think, to fix the attention. Brain fag. Idiocy may alternate with furor and irritability.
Aethusa cynapium — general · James Tyler Kent
Before Aethusa was known a certain class of cases of cholera infantum, and vomiting and diarrhea in children, all resulted fatally, because there was no remedy that looked like such serious cases. Death is stamped on the face from the beginning, and if there are any remedies in the book that save life this is one of them. It applies to the cases that come on very suddenly in hot weather in infancy, with extreme prostration. The mother does not suspect the child is sick until she takes it from the crib; only a few hours before it was well; but when cholera infantum is prevalent in hot weather, this little one fills its stomach with milk and almost before it has had time to coagulate or form into curds the milk comes up partly in curds and partly liquid, and accompanying the vomiting there is a thin, yellow greenish, slimy stool. The child has the appearance as if it were dying, pale Hippocratic face, there is a whitish-blue pallor around the lips, the eyes are sunken and there is a sunken condition around the nose. The mother is astonished and sends for the doctor hurriedly. The child sinks into an exhausted sleep. It wakes up and again fills the stomach with milk which comes up again in a few minutes, partly in curd and partly liquid, and again there is the awful exhaustion, deathly appearance and prolonged sleep. Without Aethusa, in two or three days the undertaker gets that child.
Aethusa cynapium — black letter · Margaret Lucy Tyler
A drawn condition, beginning at the ala nasi, and extending to the angle of the mouth, gave the face an expression of great anxiety and pain. Intolerance of milk : the children throw up their milk almost as soon as swallowed, curdled or not curdled, in from ten to fifteen minutes, by a sudden and violent vomiting ; then weakness makes them drowsy for some minutes. Vomiting curdled milk.
Aethusa cynapium — peculiar · Margaret Lucy Tyler
Liable to transports of rage. Fury : frenzy. Imagined she saw rats run across the room. Imagines he sees dogs and cats. Great anxiety and restlessness. Fretful and cross in open air : better in room. Awkwardness : discontent. Stupefaction, as if of a barrier between his organs of sense and external objects. Lies stretched out without consciousness. Vertigo with sleepiness. He cannot keep upright. Moist tongue, white-coated after milk. Or, tongue feels too dry. Or, copious salivation. Aphthae : pungent heat in mouth and throat, bilftculty in swallowing. Taste : sweet ; insipid ; bitter ; salt ; of onions ; of cheese. Slow speech : speech almost prevented. Inflamed aphthae and pustules in throat : condition almost desperate. Itching and scraping in oesophagus. Inability to swallow. Horrible vomiting. Copious greenish vomiting. Vomits bloody mucus. Tearing pain, pit of stomach, extending into oesophagus. Coldness of abdomen, objective and subjective : with coldness in lower extremities. Sensation of pressure as of a band round chest. Swelling of mammary gland. Violent palpitations of heart ; resounds in head. Distressing pain, occiput and nape of neck, extending down spine. A feeling as if pain in back would be ameliorated by straighten ing and bending stiffly backwards, as in opisthotonos. Numbness of arms ; heaviness ; weakness ; cramps : con traction of fingers. Formication referred to bones of lower limb. Bloating : whole body becomes swollen and livid. Violent epileptic spasms, with clenched thumbs, red face, eyeballs turned down, pupils dilated, insensible, milky foam from mouth, clenched teeth, small hard, frequent pulse. Spasms : delirium ; stupor. Stiffness of whole body. Inability to hold head erect, or to sit up. Whole body bluish-black. He cannot bear to be uncovered during the sweat.
Aethusa cynapium — introduction · Margaret Lucy Tyler
(Fools’ Parsley) One of our minor, but very precious remedies. Generally thought of as a remedy of childhood : of babies who cannot tolerate milk : of sudden vomiting : of water, copious ; of greenish phlegm : of weakness and drowsiness after vomiting—after " fearful vomit ing ” , with or without diarrhoea and extreme colic. Also a remedy of ” idiotic children ”. But its virtues extend beyond the times of childhood. It was Dr. Clarke’s great remedy for a form of examination funk, as will be seen later, in a quotation from his Dictionary. The “ funk ” that Acthusa banishes is portrayed in its provings :—“ unable to read anything, after over-taxation of the mental faculties ” ; “ in capacity to think : confused ” ; " cannot retain any idea ” ; “ great anxiety ” ; “ Head confused : brain feels bound up ”. In other words, the condition—we have all been through it—when working tp our limit for an exam., we find it is useless to attempt further study; a condition of mental repletion with non-assimilation, when the greatest efforts to wrestle with things that may be demanded are a mere waste of time :—they refuse to go in : and when the only hope is to lay aside books and chance it, or—Aethusa. Another form of examination funk asks for Argentum nitricum. Here the condition is not that of “ stalemate ”, but of acute anxiety, worry, .and premonition of failure. The victim is hurried ; tormented with anxiety, and with nerves unstrung.--Inlensç apprehension—even to diarrhoea, before the mildest ordeal (Gels.). Argentum nitricum is a remedy of great mental strain and appre hension : Aethusa of simple sense of incapacity, . . . that is as we see it. Aethusa more violently upsets the stomach—with its extreme vomiting : while Argentum nitricum bloats the stomach with flatulent dyspepsia : as if it would burst with wind.
Aethusa cynapium — modalities · H.C. Allen
Aggavation: After eating or drinking; after vomiting; after stool; after spasm.
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