Plant

Aethusa Cynapium

Fool's Parsley

Repertory abbreviation: Aeth.

The characteristic symptoms relate mainly to the brain and nervous systein, connected with gastro-intes- tinal disturbance. Anguish, crying, and expression of frequently in disease in children, during dentition, sum- mer complaint, when, with the diarrhocea, there is marked inability to digest milk, and poor circulation. Symp- toms set in with violence.

Mind

Restless, anxious, crying. Sees ats, cats, dogs, etc. Unconscious, delirious. Inability to think, to fx thie attention. Brain fag. [Picric acid.]

Head

Feels bound up, or in a vise. ( Occipital pain extending down spine; better lying down and by pres- sure. Head symptoms relieved by expelling Aatus [Sanguin.] and by stool. Hair feels pulled. Vertigo with drowsiness, with palpitation; head hot after ver- tigo ceases.

Eyes

Photophobia; swc'ling of Meibomian glands. Rolling of eyes cn falling asleep. Eyes drazen down- ward; pupils dilated.

Ears

Feel obstructed. Sense of something hot from Hissing sound.

Nose

Stopped up with much thick mucus. Her- petic eruption on tip of nose. Frequent ineffectual de- sire to sneeze.

Face

Pufcd, red-spotted, collapsed. Expression anxious, full of pain; linea nasalis marked.

Mouth

Dry. Apththa. Tongue seems too long. Burning and pustules in throat, with difficult swallowing.

Stomach

Intolerance of milk; vomited as soon as swallowed or in large curds. [Valer.] Regurgitation of food about an hour after eating. Violent vomiting of a white frothy matter. Nausea at sight of food. Painful contraction of stoniach. Vomiting, with sweat and great weakness, accompanied by anguish and dis- ress, followed by sleepiness. Stomach feels turned up- side down, with burning feeling up to the chest. Tear- ing pains in the stomach extending to cesophagus.

Abdomen

Cold, internal and external, with aching pain in bowels. Colic, followed by vomiting, vertigo, and weakness. Tense, infated, and sensitive. Bubbling sensation around navel.

Stool

Undigested, thin, greenish, preceded hy colic, with tenesmus, and followed by exhaustion and drowsi- ness. Cholera infantum; child cold, clammy, stupid. with staring eyes and dilated pupils. Obstinate consti- pation; feels as if all bowel action is lost. Choleraic affections in old age.

Urinary

Cutting pain in bladder, with frequent urging. Pain in Iidneys.

Female

La:cinating pains in sexual organs. Pim- ples; itching when warm. Menses watery. Swelling of mammary glands, with jancinating pains.

Respiratory

Diffcu!t, oppressed, anxious respira- tion, crampy constriction. Sufferings render patient specchless.

Heart

Violent palpitation, with vertigo, headache and restlessness. Pulse rapid, hard and small. Back and Extremities. — Want of power to stand up or hold head up. Back feels as if in a vise. Aching in small of back. Weakness of lower extremities. Fingers ant thumbs clenched. Numbness of hands and feet. Violent spasms. Squinting of eyes downward.

Skin

Excoriation of thighs in walking. Easy per- spiration Surface of body cold and covered with climmy sveat. Ivunphatic glands swollen. Itching eruption around yoints. Skin of hands dry and shrunken. Ecchymosis. Anasarca.

Sleep

Disturbed by violent startings; cold per- spiration. Dozing after vomiting or stool. Child is so exhausted, it falls asleep at once.

Fever

Great heat; no thirst. Profuse, cold sweat. Must be covered during sweat.

Modalities

Worse, 3 to 4 A.M., and evenings; warmth, summer. Better in open air and company. Compare: Athamantha (confused head, vertigo better lying down, bitter taste and saliva. Hands and feet icy cold) ; Antimon.: Calc.; Ars.; Cicuta. Complemen- tary: Calc.

Dose

Third to thirtieth potency.

Source: Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 8th ed. by William Boericke (1922), p. 20. Public domain.

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