Aethusa Cynapium

• ▸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.

Incapacity to think; confused.—Loss of comprehension; as if a barrier between the

senses and external objects.—Idiocy, in some cases alternating with furor—Great anxiety and

restlessness, followed by violent pains in head and abdomen.—Bad humour;

irritability.—Irritability, esp. in the afternoon, and in the open air——Delirium: sees cats and dogs;

tries to jump out of the window.—Loquacious gaiety.

• ▸Feels bound up, or in a vise.
• ▸Occipital pain extending down spine; better lying down and by pressure.
• ▸Head symptoms relieved by expelling flatus (Sanguin) and by stool.
• ▸*Hair feels pulled. Vertigo with drowsiness, with palpitation; head hot after vertigo ceases.

Head confused; brain feels bound up.—Vertigo, with sleepiness, can't raise the

• ▸head.
• ▸—Headache in whole front part of head.
• ▸—Heaviness in the forehead.
• ▸—Sensation, as if both

sides of the head were in a vice.—Distressing pains in the occiput, down nape of neck, and

spine.—Heat rises to the head; the body becomes warmer; the face becomes red and the giddiness

• ▸ceases.
• ▸—Stitches and pulsations in the head.
• ▸—Can't hold head up, or sit up.
• ▸—Sensation as if

constantly pulled by the hair——The head symptoms are > by expelling flatus.

Photophobia; swelling of Meibomian glands. Rolling of eyes on falling asleep. Eyes drawn downward; pupils dilated.

Looking up < headache and vertigo.—Dilated pupils.—Pupils dilated but sensitive to

• ▸light.
• ▸—Eyes brilliant and prominent.
• ▸—Cornea sunken.
• ▸—Pustules on cornea.
• ▸—Scrofulous

ophthalmia; edges of lids inflamed and agglutinated at night; swelling of Meibomian

glands.—Chronic photophobia.

Feel obstructed. Sense of something hot from ears. Hissing sound.

Stitches in the ears, esp. in the r. ear, as if something hot were streaming from

it—Yellow discharge from r. ear, with stitching pains.—There is great > by inserting the finger

and drawing the parts asunder.

Stopped up with much thick mucus. Herpetic eruption on tip of nose. Frequent ineffectual desire to sneeze.

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

A drawn condition beginning at the ale nasi, and extending to the angles of the mouth,

giving the face an expression of great anxiety and pain.—Tearing in the face, in the malar

bones.—Jaws spasmodically fixed.—Face pale, puffed, and spotted red—Chin and corners of

mouth feel cold.

• ▸Dry.
• ▸Aphthae.
• ▸Tongue seems too long.
• ▸Burning and pustules in throat, with difficult swallowing.

Sticking and tearing in gums.—Taste: bitter; like cheese; like onions sweetish in

morning when awaking.—Tongue: moist; white coat; black feels too long.—Speech slow;

embarrassed.—Aphte in mouth and throat—Copious salivation which > poisoning symptoms.

Sensation of constriction, preventing deglutition—Stinging in the throat, between the

• ▸acts of deglutition.
• ▸—Soft palate red, swollen.
• ▸—Pungent heat in mouth and throat.
• ▸—While eating,

sudden heaviness in forehead.—Spasmodic hiccough.

• ▸Intolerance of milk; vomiting as soon as swallowed or in large curds.
• ▸Hungry after vomiting.
• ▸Regurgitation of food about an hour after eating.
• ▸Violent vomiting of a white frothy matter.
• ▸Nausea at sight of food.
• ▸Painful contraction of stomach.
• ▸Vomiting, with sweat and great weakness, accompanied by anguish and distress, followed by sleepiness.
• ▸Stomach feels turned upside down, with burning feeling up to the chest.
• ▸Tearing pains in the stomach extending to oesophagus.

Intolerance of milk; it is forcibly ejected almost as soon as swallowed; then

weakness causes drowsiness; in nursing children.—Violent vomiting of curdled milk and cheesy

matter.—Violent vomiting of a frothy matter, white as milk. This we may find in men, children,

or pregnant women.—Violent vomiting of green mucus.—Violent vomiting, with diarrhoea, of

green mucus, or (in children) bloody substances.—After vomiting, cold and clammy.

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

Coldness of the abdomen and lower limbs, esp. |., with aching in bowels; > by

warm wet applications.—Sensation of coldness in the abdomen.—Swollen and tense

• ▸abdomen.
• ▸—Cutting, with distension.
• ▸—Cutting, with violent vomiting.
• ▸—Black-bluish swelling of

the abdomen.—Colic, followed by vomiting, vertigo, and weakness.

• ▸Undigested, thin, greenish, preceded by colic, with tenesmus, and followed by exhaustion and drowsiness.
• ▸Cholera infantum; child cold, clammy, stupid, with staring eyes and dilated pupils.
• ▸Obstinate constipation; feels as if all bowel action is lost.
• ▸Choleraic affections in old age.

Diarrhcea: stools bright yellow, or greenish, watery, and slimy, with violent

tenesmus.—Undigested stool or partly so——Loose stools, preceded by cutting in the abdomen,

with tenesmus in the morning, after rising.—Diarrhcea: discharges green, thin, bilious, with

violent tenesmus.—Bloody stools.—Most obstinate constipation, with feeling as if all action of the

bowels had been lost.

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

• ▸Lancinating pains in sexual organs.
• ▸Pimples; itching when warm.
• ▸Menses watery.
• ▸Swelling of mammary glands, with lancinating pains.

Difficult, oppressed, anxious respiration; crampy constriction. Sufferings render patient speechless.

Sufferings of patient render him almost speechless.—Respiration very

difficult and short.—Sensation as if chest were encircled by a band, causing difficult

breathing.—Stitches in |. side of chest—Cough, producing stunning pain in head.

Violent palpitation, with vertigo, headache and restlessness. Pulse rapid, hard and small.

Violent palpitation of the heart, with headache.—Pulse full and rapid;

hard, small, and rapid; small and frequent; irregular; imperceptible.

• ▸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 and thumbs clenched.
• ▸Numbness of hands and feet.
• ▸Violent spasms.
• ▸Squinting of eyes downward.

Distressing pain in occiput and nape of neck, extending down the spine, >

by friction with hot whisky.—Swelling of glands round neck like a string of beads —Sensation as

if the small of the back were in a vice.—A feeling as if pain in back could be > by straightening

out and bending stiffly backward.

• ▸Excoriation of thighs in walking.
• ▸Easy perspiration.
• ▸Surface of body cold and covered with clammy sweat. Lymphatic glands swollen.
• ▸Itching eruption around joints.
• ▸Skin of hands dry and shrunken.
• ▸Ecchymosis.
• ▸Anasarca.

Tettary eruptions, which bleed easily.—Black and blue spots, sometimes like

ecchymoses all over body.—The whole body may be of bluish-black colour.—Anasarca.

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

Dozing of child after vomiting spells, or after the stool.—On falling asleep, rolling of

the eyes, or slight convulsions.—Sleepiness all day; sometimes > in open air.—Sleep prevented by

pains in limbs.

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

Complete absence of thirst, though there is great heat—Cannot bear to be uncovered

during the sweat.—Fever, esp. in morning, with shuddering; shuddering, weariness in extremities,

internal coldness with hot and flushed face; malaise; disposition to delirtum during cold stage;

sweat, after the breaking out of which the previous symptoms disappear.—Sweat on least

exertion.

• ▸Brain-fag.
• ▸Cholera infantum.
• ▸Convulsions.
• ▸Cough.
• ▸Delirtum.
• ▸Diarrhoea.
• ▸Dyspepsia.

• ▸Ear, discharge from.
• ▸Epilepsy.
• ▸Excoriation.
• ▸Eyes, affections of.
• ▸Glands, affections of.
• ▸Headache.

• ▸Herpes.
• ▸Hiccough.
• ▸Idiocy.
• ▸Infantile paralysis.
• ▸Mind, weakness of.
• ▸Sleeplessness.
• ▸Stomach,

disorders of. Trismus. Vomiting.

Characteristics—The symptoms of 4thusa are particularly clearly defined, in fact violence is

one of the notes of its action—violent vomiting, violent convulsions, violent pains, violent

delirium. On the other hand there is prostration and somnolence. "Fool's parsley" has not

received its name for nothing—it is indeed a medicine for "fools." There is great weakness of

mind or body. One very characteristic symptom is: /nability to think or fix the attention. Guided

by this symptom I once gave it to an undergraduate preparing for an examination, with complete

success. He had been compelled to give up his studies, but was able to resume them, and passed

a brilliant examination. To a little waif in an orphan home who suffered from severe headaches

and inability to fix his attention on his lessons I sent single doses of 4thus. at rare intervals, with

very great relief. The little boy asked for the medicine himself subsequently on a return of the old

symptoms. Other mental symptoms are: Idiocy; in some cases alternating with furor.

Hallucinations. Delirium; sees cats and dogs; wants to jump out of bed, or out of the window.

Irritability, especially in open air. Guernsey says: "The mental symptoms peculiar to children,

and frequently of adults, are, great anguish and crying. As the disease progresses the patient

becomes more and more retired in his disposition, and more inclined to weep." Somnolence.

Dotage. Another marked characteristic is: Intolerance of milk; vomiting of everything taken,

especially milk, which is ejected in yellowish or greenish curds. There is great weakness and

exhaustion after vomiting; the child is so exhausted it falls asleep at once. It awakens hungry,

eats, and vomits again. "Hungry after vomiting" is the keynote here. There is also griping, with

diarrhoea, vomiting, crying. For adults who complain of regurgitation of food an hour after it has

been taken £thus., says Guernsey, is invaluable. Also copious vomiting in adults, with a great

feeling of distress; can't tell what the distress is about but still it exists. Adults complain of a

sensation as though the stomach was turned upside down, accompanied by a burning feeling up

to the chest. Tearing pains in stomach extending into cesophagus; abdomen tense, inflated,

sensitive. There is an herpetic eruption on tip of nose. Along with the gastric symptoms there is a

peculiar expression of great anxiety and pain (Linea nasalis), a surface of pearly whiteness on

upper lip bounded by distinct lines from wings of nose to angles of mouth. Other symptoms are:

Sensation of swelling in head and face on entering a room. Sunken comea. Eyeballs convulsed

and directed downwards. Sleep after attacks. Sensation of swelling in hands after walking.

Convulsions, with cold limbs. The pains are lancinating. Swelling of mammary or axillary

• ▸glands, with lancinating pains.
• ▸Prostration; stupid.
• ▸All symptoms < 3 to 4 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸Heat = all

• ▸eruptions to itch intolerably.
• ▸As with Bovist.
• ▸and Aster.
• ▸r.
• ▸symptoms are < by coffee, wine,

drunkenness, cold water, and warmth of bed; > by a walk in the open air, and by conversation. >

In open air (except mental symptoms). The remedy is suited to teething-children and choleraic

affections in old age.

• ▸Compare: Cicut.
• ▸; Coni.
• ▸; Enan.
• ▸croc.
• ▸; Ant.
• ▸crud.
• ▸and Calc.
• ▸c.
• ▸(vomiting of milk);

• ▸Ars.
• ▸; Asar.
• ▸; Cupr.
• ▸; Ipec.
• ▸; Op.
• ▸/t antidotes Opium; and is antidoted by vegetable acids.
• ▸Teste

• ▸places A2thus.
• ▸in the Sulphur group with Cicuta, Con.
• ▸, Aster.
• ▸, Bov.
• ▸, Lobel.
• ▸, Merc.
• ▸, Kreas.

Third to thirtieth potency.

Eruption round the joints, esp. knee, elbow, and ankle —Axillary glands

swollen.—Stiffness of elbow joints—Swelling of forearms and hands.—Thumb and fingers bent

inwards.—Excoriations of thighs from walking.—Paralytic pains in lower extremities; formication

in feet.

24. Generalities——Epileptiform spasms, with clenched thumbs; red face; eyes turned downward;

dilated, staring, immovable pupils; foam at the mouth; teeth set; pulse small, hard,

• ▸accelerated.
• ▸—Spasms, with stupor and delirium.
• ▸—Cold limbs and body convulsed.
• ▸—Great

weakness; children cannot stand; cannot hold up their heads.