Zizia Aurea

Suicidal; depressed; laughing and weeping moods alternate.

Exhilaration; like intoxication; followed by strong desire to sleep.—Depression

following exhilaration.—Laughing and weeping alternately —Depression followed by

exhilaration.—Irritable, low-spirited, indifferent—Nervous irritability and depression,

culminating in a paroxysm of self-dissatisfaction with weeping.—Indolence with

contentment.—Behaviour quiet, with much apparent suffering and sadness.

Increased strength with inclination for exertion —Aspect of grave and chronic

illness —Whole body white and puffy.—(CEdema of face and ankles.—Convulsions,

epilepsy.—Spasms, swooning convulsions, and fainting fits, ending in death in three

• ▸hours.
• ▸—Spasms of face and extremities.
• ▸—Surface of body sensitive to touch.
• ▸—Pains fixed, < by

movement, noise, light, contact; < evening.

Worse, during sleep.

Pressure on top, in right temple, associated with backache.

Giddiness; swimming; light-headedness.—Rush of blood to head and face, with feeling

• ▸of fulness.
• ▸—Sensation of tightness round head.
• ▸—Intensely painful, sharp headache over r.
• ▸eye;

Puls. > first days, not later; fully developed seventh day, must lie still in dark room; < evening

(the usual headache is < morning); associated with backache; < by coughing.—Severe pain in r.

temple, with nausea.—Pressure on top of brain.—Dull pain in occipital region, extending down

neck muscles.

• ▸Redness of both eyes.
• ▸—Pain affects r.
• ▸eye most.
• ▸—Shooting pains through orbits.
• ▸—Sharp

pain through r. orbit, < moving eyeballs, stooping, or stepping. —Eyelids agglutinated on rising

by yellowish muco-purulent secretion.—Stye, r. lid—Stye middle of upper lid, very painful, >

Carb. an.—Eyes sensitive to light.

Nasal catarrh, with sneezing and coughing from first inhalation.—Nasal discharge of

thick mucus.—R. nostril congested, sore; with injection of pharynx and conjunctiva.

Face: pale and puffy.—One cheek red, other pale—Boring pains in cheek-bones.—Dull

pains in jaws.—Painful tenderness in lower jawbone, an inch below root of ear.

Tongue: red and unusually sensitive to cold and warm drinks; covered with whitish

fur; yellow fur on tongue and oppressed respiration; broad, furred in middle, red at tip and

sides.—Mouth dry.—Taste: bitter; bilious.

Mucus increased.—Slight redness of tonsils and palate, with soreness.—Inflamed

pharynx.

Craving for acids and stimulants.—Appetite: diminished;

• ▸lost.
• ▸—Thirst—Nausea.
• ▸—Vomiting: acid, bilious; immoderately.
• ▸—Stomach sensitive to, touch;

pressure = nausea and faintness.

Intermittent neuralgia of left ovary. Acrid, profuse leucorrhoea, with retarded menses.

Increased vascular and nervous excitement.—Leucorrheea: bland;

acrid; acrid at first, later copious and bland.—Profuse menses one day, followed by acrid

leucorrhcea.—Menses appeared in due time but ceased after twelve hours——Sudden suppression

of menses.

Great lassitude following coitus. Sexual power increased.

Involuntary emission two nights in

succession.—Excitement.—Lassitude and prostration after coitus, which had existed a long time,

was completely removed in the proving.

Dry cough, with stitches in chest. Dyspnoea.

Roughness in upper part of larynx whet, inspiring or

• ▸coughing.
• ▸—Larynx raw from coughing.
• ▸—Trachea sensitive to touch.
• ▸—Dry cough, with shooting

pains in chest.—Tight cough, from deep breath; from dryness of larynx.—Short, dry cough, with

severe stitching in r. side and sense of suffocation.—Breathing oppressed, cannot keep lying

down.—Asthma.

Severe pains in pleuree.—Bruised feeling in muscles of chest.—Pressure = pain in

intercostal muscles.—On and around xiphoid cartilage pain and tenderness to touch.—Dull,

aching pain under r. scapula—Severe shooting from front of thorax to scapula.—Sharp pains

from sides and chest to both scapulze.—Severe stitching pains accompanied by feverish

symptoms.—Pleuritic stitches < by coughing or deep breath.

Pains in posterior margin of scapulz, aching, smarting, stinging, with aching in small

of back when at their worst.—Dull pains in loins, < by movement.—Smarting burning in small of

back.

Lameness in muscles of both arms, from shoulder to elbow.—Pricking

sensation in r. arm, with steadily diminished sensibility of the part.

Dragging sensation in both hips.—Unusually tired feeling in legs after

slightest exertion.

Unusual tired feeling. Chorea, especially during sleep. Fidgety legs (Tarant). Lameness in arms and spasmodic twitching.

Drowsiness; with sense of fatigue Sleep prevented by pains.—During sleep:

spasmodic twitches; talking; unpleasant dreams.

Chilliness and heat alternating with faintness, nausea, pain in r. temple, redness of

eyeballs, dry and red tongue, and thirst for cold water —Chilliness accompanied by spasmodic

twitchings of muscles of face and upper limbs, followed by fever.—Fever, with headache, pain in

back, thirst—Fever with stitching pain in chest—Some sense of heat and fulness in both

cheeks.—Flushed cheeks, hot head, visible pulsations of carotid and temporal arteries, coldness

of hands and feet, drowsiness and irritability—Redness and heat of cheeks.—Hot flushes in face

and head followed by perspiration.

• ▸Asthma.
• ▸Brain, affections of.
• ▸Catarrh.
• ▸Chorea, in sleep.
• ▸Convulsions.
• ▸Dropsy.

• ▸Epilepsy.
• ▸Hypochondriasis.
• ▸Hysteria.
• ▸Influenza.
• ▸Leucorrhoea.
• ▸Menses, suppression of.
• ▸Migraine.

Ovary, intermittent neuralgia of. Pleurisy. Stye.

Characteristics—The Meadow Parsnip is a common plant indigenous to the United States on

the moist banks of streams and in open wet woods, where it flowers in June and July. Rafinesque

speaks of it as vulnerary, antisyphilitic, and sudorific (Millspaugh). Marcy proved Ziz. on

himself and some others, and symptoms of poisoning have been added. Exhilaration with

increased physical strength was noted; but a slight amount of exercise caused fatigue. The

spasms and convulsions of the Umbelliferze were elicited. The generative organs in both sexes

were excited. Ziz. is indicated in uterine affections characterised by increased nervous and

vascular excitement. The menses are profuse, and followed by acrid leucorrhcea. Burning,

smarting backache. Spasmodic movements of face and limbs. Mind first exhilarated, then

depressed, finally indifferent. The restlessness of Ziz. runs into chorea; and the chorea has this

distinguishing feature, that the movements continue or are even < during sleep. Connected with

the uterine congestion there is migraine, the region of the right eye being most affected. There

was tush of blood to the head. Marcy considered Ziz. especially suitable in brain affections;

catarrhal, asthmatic, and pleuritic diseases; in ovarian neuralgia. Among Peculiar Symptoms are:

Surface of body paler than natural; white, puffy appearance of whole body. Laughs and weeps

• ▸alternately.
• ▸One cheek red.
• ▸Craves acids and stimulants.
• ▸The symptoms are: < By touch.
• ▸Pressure

= pain in intercostal muscles; on stomach = nausea and faintness. < Lying; stooping; motion;

coughing.

• ▸Antidoted by: Puls.
• ▸(migraine), Carb.
• ▸an.
• ▸(stye).
• ▸Compare: One cheek red, Cham.

• ▸Uterine congestion, backache, indifference, Sep.
• ▸Chorea in sleep, Trn.
• ▸As if in a dream, Amb.
• ▸,

• ▸Anac.
• ▸, Calc.
• ▸, Can.
• ▸1.
• ▸, Con.
• ▸, Cup.
• ▸, Med.
• ▸, Rhe.
• ▸, Val.
• ▸, Ver.
• ▸Laughing alternately with weeping,

• ▸Calc.
• ▸, Ign.
• ▸, Merc.
• ▸, Nux m.
• ▸, Puls.
• ▸, Stram.

Compare: Agar; Stram; Tarant; Cicuta; Aethusa.

Tincture, to third potency.