Aethusa cynapium
as Ernest Albert Farrington recorded it in Clinical Materia Medica, being a course of lectures delivered at the Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, 1908
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Lecture
Lecture XLIII — The Umbelliferae — Conium maculatum, Ammoniacum gummi, Asafoetida, Aethusa cynapium; the Berberidaceae — Berberis and Podophyllum
iETHUSA CYNAPIUM.
sEtkusa cynapium is a frightful poison, having narcotic properties as well as paralyzing effects. The principal use we make of the drug arises from its action on the stomach. It produces a deathly nausea and sickness, with vomiting. In the case of a child the vomit consists of curdled milk, which is often green. After vomiting, the child falls back exhausted and goes to sleep. It awakens hungry, eats and vomits again. The face is pale, and there are dark rings about the eyes. The analogue here is Antimonium crudum, which differs from sEthusa in having a white-coated tongue. Calcarea oslrearum or Calcarea acetica, has vomiting of curdled milk, and the child is apt to have diarrhoea with sour-smelling stools.
Cicuta virosa, another member of the order, when taken in any quantity produces congestion at the base of the brain and in the medulla oblongata. At first, the patient is rigid, with fixed staring eyes, bluish face and frothing at the mouth and unconsciousness. Next, there passes a shock, or series of shocks, from the head through the body. The jaws are locked, the patient bites the tongue. These spasmodic symptoms are followed by profound exhaustion. These symptoms indicate Cicuta in epilepsy, spasms from worms, and also in some forms of puerperal spasms.
We notice, too, that Cicuta, in addition to these symptoms, develops phenomena which resemble the remote effects of concussion of the brain. The pupils are dilated; there are vertigo and headache, and sometimes epileptiform convulsions.
Cicuta also attacks the skin, producing a pustular eruption, with yellowish honey-colored scabs, particularly about the mouth, and matting the whiskers. It has even cured two cases of epithelioma when the cancerous growth was covered by these honey-colored scabs. Next, we will study the BERBERIDACE^E.
Of this order we have time to study but two drugs, namely, Berberis vulgaris and Podophyllum peltatum.
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 Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
- 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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Create a free accountCite this page. Ernest Albert Farrington. Clinical Materia Medica, being a course of lectures delivered at the Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia. 4th edition, revised and enlarged by Harvey Farrington (1908). Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel. Aethusa cynapium — Lecture, pp. 450–451. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/farrington/aethusa-cynapium. Published 1908: public domain in the US (before 1931) and in India (author died 1885). Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.