Aethusa Cynapium

AeTHUSA CYNAPIUM. [Aethus.] Fool's Parsley. Nenning. Umbelliferae.

► Lies unconscious, dilated pupils, staring eyes (child). ► Incapacity of mind to think, confused ; idiocy. ► Great sadness when alone ; hallucinations and delirium. ► Anxiety and restlessness, afterwards headache and colic. ► Irritability, especially in the afternoon and in the open air.

► Vertigo : with sleepiness, can't lift the head up ; giddiness ceases and head gets hot ; with palpitation.

► Violent pain, as if brain were dashed to pieces. ► Pressing pain in the forehead, as if it would split, at its height vomiting and finally diarrhoea. ► Headache ceases, with discharge of flatus downwards. ► Stitches and pulsations in the head. ► Distressing pain in the occiput, nape and down the spine, better from bending stiffly backwards. ► Sensation as if both sides of the head were in a vice.

► Objects seem much larger than natural. ► Eyes brilliant, protruding ; dilated pupils. ► Chronic photophobia ; scrofulous ophthalmia ; swelling of the meibomian glands ; edges of the lids inflamed, adhere at night, must be washed open in the morning.

► Yellow discharge from right ear, with stitching pains.

► Nose stopped up with thick mucus ; frequent but ineffectual desire to sneeze.

► Expression of anxiety, with well-marked linea nasalis. ► Face : puffed, spotted red ; pale.

► Chin and corners of the mouth feel cold.

► Stinging or tearing in the gums.

► Aphthae in mouth and throat salivation. ► Feeling as if the tongue were too long. ► Taste : bitter ; like cheese ; like onions ; sweetish in the morning. ► Speech impeded, slow.

► Soft palate, red and swollen.

► Burning thirst. ► Desire for wine, or aggravation from its use.

► While eating : sudden heaviness in forehead. ► After eating : pain below navel, lienteric stool, dry cough.

► Violent sudden vomiting : of frothy white substance ; of yellow fluid, followed by curdled milk and cheesy matter. Cannot bear milk in any form. ► Vomiting of greenish phlegm, similar to the stools. ► The milk is forcibly ejected soon after being taken ; then weakness causes drowsiness. θ Nursing children. ► Regurgitation of food an hour or so after eating.

► Painful contractions of the stomach so severe as to prevent vomiting. ► Tearing, rending pains in pit of stomach, extending to the oesophagus.

► Lancinating in the right hypochondrium, in the afternoon. ► Painful pressing, burning, stitching, left hypochondrium. ► Shooting in left hypochondrium, often and long-continued. ► Soreness and painfulness in both hypochondria.

► Coldness of abdomen and lower limbs, with aching of bowels, relieved by warm, wet applications. ► Bluish-black swelling of the abdomen. ► Colic, followed by vomiting, vertigo and weakness.

► Diarrhoea : stools bright, yellowish, then green and slimy, later greenish-grey ; green, thin, bilious or bloody mucus, stools undigested ; greenish mucus, with bile, much pain and tenesmus.

l[21] Urine. ► Pain in the kidneys, worse from sneezing worse from deep inhalation and lying. ► Cutting pains in bladder, with frequent calls to urinate. ► Urine : red, sediment white ; copious, clear as water ; too frequent after exertion.

► Right testicle drawn up, with pain in kidneys.

► Labor-pains too weak, not regular.

► Short breath, interrupted by hiccough.

► Stitches in left side of chest.

► Palpitation, with vertigo and headache. ► Pulse : frequent, small, somewhat hard and unrhythmical.

► Sensation as if the small of the back were in a vice. ► Painful furuncle in the sacral region.

► Numbness of the arms, aching about the scapulae, extending to the arms. ► Sensation as if the arms had become much shorter.

► Boring and shooting in lower limbs, with great weariness. ► Lancinating and drawing from left hip into the thigh. ► Laming ache in the middle of right thigh while sitting ; better when moving. ► Lancinating from right heel into the sole. ► Crawling in the feet.

► Epileptiform spasms, with clenched thumbs, red face, eyes turned downwards, dilated, staring, immovable pupils, foam at the mouth, teeth set, pulse small, hard, accelerated. ► Spasms, with stupor or delirium. ► Restlessness, with excessive anguish. ► Great weakness ; children cannot stand ; cannot hold up head.

► Dozing of child after vomiting spells or after stool. ► On falling asleep, rolling of eyes or slight convulsions.

► Coldness, rigors, stiffness of the limbs.

► Right : 6, 18, 22, 33. Left : 18, 28, 33.

► Sensation as if head, face and hands were swollen ; worse after washing ; better coming in room. ► Sensation as of a band around the head and chest. ► Sensation of parts as if in vice ; head ; chest ; small of back.

► Ecchymosis, black and blue spots all over.

► Eruption, itching when exposed to heat. ► Liability to excoriation of the thighs when walking. ► Red spots on the skin. ► Little water blisters, itching in bed. ► Tetters bleed easily. ► Reddish-blue spots on trunk and left leg.

► Children, during dentition.

► Collaterals : Cicut., Conium, Oenanth., Croc. ► Concordances : Ant. crud. (vomiting of milk) ; Arsen. ; Asar. ; Calc. ostr. (vomiting of milk) ; Cuprum ; Ipec. ; Opium. ► It antidotes Opium, and is antidoted by vegetable acids.