Aethusa cynapium
as H.C. Allen recorded it in Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica, 1899
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Keynotes
Æthusa cynapium
Fool’s Parsley. Umhelliferce.
Especially for children during dentition in hot summer weather ; children who cannot hear milk.
Great weakness : children cannot stand ; unable to hold up the head (Abrot.) ; prostration with sleepiness.
Idiocy in children : incapacity to think ; confused.
An expression of great anxiety and pain, with a drawn condition and well-marked linea nasalia.
Features expressive of pain and anxiety.
Herpetic eruption on end of the nose.
Complete absence of thirst (Apis, Puls. — rev. of Ars.).
Intolerance of milk : cannot hear milk in any form; it is vomited in large curds as soon as taken; then weakness causes drowsiness (compare, Mag. c. ).
Indigestion of teething children ; violent, sudden vomiting of a frothy, milk-white substance; or yellow fluid, followed by curdled milk and cheesy matter.
Regurgitation of food an hour or so after eating; copious greenish vomiting.
Epileptic spasms, with clenched thumbs, red face, eyes turned downwards, pupils fixed and dilated; foam at the mouth, jaws locked; pulse small, hard, quick.
Weakness and prostration with sleepiness; after vomiting, after stool, after spasm.
Relation.— Similar: to. Ant. c., Ars., Cal., Sanic.
Aggravation. — After eating or drinking; after vomiting; after stool; after spasm.
What the other books say about Aethusa cynapium
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Aethusa cynapium in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Aethusa cynapium in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
- Aethusa cynapium in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
- Aethusa cynapium 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. Aethusa cynapium — Keynotes, pp. 15–19. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/allen/aethusa-cynapium. 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.