AETHUSA CYNAPIUM
Fool’s Parsley
The attribute signs relate basically to the intelligence and frightened system, related with gastro-intestinal disturbance. Anguish, crying, and expression of uneasiness and discontent, lead to this treatment most often in sickness in children, in the course of dentition, summer time complaint, when, with the diarrhoea, there is marked incapacity to digest milk, and terrible circulation. Symptoms set in with violence.
Mind.–Restless, anxious, crying. Sees rats, cats, dogs, etc. Unconscious, delirious. Inability to think, to repair the attention. Brain fag. Idiocy may also alternate with furor and irritability.
Head.–Feels sure up, or in a vise. Occipital ache extending down spine; higher mendacity down and via pressure. Head signs and symptoms relieved through expelling flatus (Sanguin) and by way of stool. Hair feels pulled. Vertigo with drowsiness, with palpitation; head warm after vertigo ceases.
Eyes.–Photophobia; swelling of Meibomian glands. Rolling of eyes on falling asleep. Eyes drawn downward; scholars dilated.
Ears.–Feel obstructed. Sense of some thing warm from ears. Hissing sound.
Nose.–Stopped up with a great deal thick mucus. Herpetic eruption on tip of nose. Frequent ineffectual want to sneeze.
Face.–Puffed, red-spotted, collapsed. Expression anxious, full of pain; linea nasalis marked.
Mouth.–Dry. Aphthae. Tongue appears too long. Burning and pustules in throat, with tough swallowing.
Stomach.–Intolerance of milk; vomiting as quickly as swallowed or in massive curds. Hungry after vomiting. Regurgitation of meals 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 brilliant weakness, accompanied through affliction and distress, accompanied by using sleepiness. Stomach feels grew to become upside down, with burning feeling up to the chest. Tearing pains in the belly extending to oesophagus.
Abdomen.–Cold, inner and external, with aching ache in bowels. Colic, accompanied via vomiting, vertigo, and weakness. Tense, inflated, and sensitive. Bubbling sensation round navel.
Stool.–Undigested, thin, greenish, preceded with the aid of colic, with tenesmus, and accompanied by way of exhaustion and drowsiness. Cholera infantum; baby cold, clammy, stupid, with staring eyes and dilated pupils. Obstinate constipation; feels as if all bowel motion is lost. Choleraic affections in ancient age.
Urinary.–Cutting ache in bladder, with established urging. Pain in kidneys.
Female.–Lancinating pains in sexual organs. Pimples; itching when warm. Menses watery. Swelling of mammary glands, with lancinating pains.
Respiratory.–Difficult, oppressed, anxious respiration; crampy constriction. Sufferings render affected person speechless.
Heart.–Violent palpitation, with vertigo, headache and restlessness. Pulse rapid, tough and small.
Back and Extremities.–Want of electricity to stand up or preserve head up. Back feels as if in a vise. Aching in small of back. Weakness of decrease extremities. Fingers and thumbs clenched. Numbness of palms and feet. Violent spasms. Squinting of eyes downward.
Skin.–Excoriation of thighs in walking. Easy perspiration. Surface of physique bloodless and blanketed with clammy sweat. Lymphatic glands swollen. Itching eruption round joints. Skin of fingers dry and shrunken. Ecchymosis. Anasarca.
Fever.–Great heat; no thirst. Profuse, bloodless sweat. Must be included in the course of sweat.
Sleep.–Disturbed with the aid of violent startings; bloodless perspiration. Dozing after vomiting or stool. Child is so exhausted, it falls asleep at once.
Modalities.–Worse, three to four am, and evenings; warmth, summer. Better in open air and company.
Compare: Athamantha (confused head, vertigo higher mendacity down, bitter style and saliva. Hands and ft icy cold); Antimon; Calc; Ars; Cicuta. Complementary: Calc.
Dose.–Third to thirtieth potency.
