Zizia Aurea
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General
Zizia.
Zizia aurea. Thapsium aureum. Carum aureum. Meadow Parsnip. N. O. Umbelliferae. Tincture of root.
Clinical
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 Umbelliferae 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 leucorrhoea.
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 rush 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.
Relations
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. i., Con., Cup., Med., Rhe., Val., Ver. Laughing alternately with weeping, Calc., Ign., Merc., Nux m., Puls., Stram.
Mind
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.
Head
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.
Eyes
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.
Nose
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
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.
Mouth
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.
Throat
Mucus increased
Slight redness of tonsils and palate, with soreness
Inflamed pharynx.
Stomach
Craving for acids and stimulants
Appetite: diminished; lost
Thirst
Nausea
Vomiting: acid, bilious; immoderately
Stomach sensitive to, touch; pressure = nausea and faintness.
Male Sexual Organs
Involuntary emission two nights in succession
Excitement
Lassitude and prostration after coitus, which had existed a long time, was completely removed in the proving.
Female Sexual Organs
Increased vascular and nervous excitement
Leucorrhoea: bland; acrid; acrid at first, later copious and bland
Profuse menses one day, followed by acrid leucorrhoea
Menses appeared in due time but ceased after twelve hours
Sudden suppression of menses.
Respiratory Organs
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.
Chest
Severe pains in pleurae
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 scapulae
Severe stitching pains accompanied by feverish symptoms
Pleuritic stitches < by coughing or deep breath.
Back
Pains in posterior margin of scapulae, 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.
Upper Limbs
Lameness in muscles of both arms, from shoulder to elbow.—Pricking sensation in r. arm, with steadily diminished sensibility of the part.
Lower Limbs
Dragging sensation in both hips.—Unusually tired feeling in legs after slightest exertion.
Generalities
Increased strength with inclination for exertion.—Aspect of grave and chronic illness.—Whole body white and puffy.—Oedema 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.
Skin
Itching pimples on forehead, wrists, and legs.
Sleep
Drowsiness; with sense of fatigue
Sleep prevented by pains
During sleep: spasmodic twitches; talking; unpleasant dreams.
Fever
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.