Aethusa cynapium

 Generalities

 – If affects Brain and nervous system, connected with gastro-intestinal disturbances.

 – Violence is one of the key notes of its action.

 – Violent; vomiting, convulsions, pains, delirium.

 – On the other hand there is profound prostration and stupor, and lack of reaction, even speechless.

 – Mind and body becomes weak.

 – It is specially useful in children during dentition and summer complaints when anguish, crying and expression of uneasiness, and discontent are present.

 – As the disease progresses the patient becomes more and more retired in his disposition, and more inclined to weep.

 – In epileptiform spasms, the thumbs are clenched, face becomes red, eyes turned downwards, pupils dilate and staring, foam at mouth.

 – Patient can not stand, sit up or hold the head up.

 – Weak nervous and prostrated from overwork.

 – Dotage.

 – Lancinating pains.

 – Parts feel screwed together.

 – Improperly fed babies.

 – Children who lack the power to hold their heads up, with no particular ailment, sometimes they can’t even stand or bear any weight on their limbs.

 Worse

 – 3 to 4 a.m.  and evening.

 – Warmth; hot weather.

 – Milk.

 – Detention.

 – Frequent eating.

 – Over-exertion.

 Better

 – Open air, by walking in open air.

 – Conversation.

 Mind

 – Inability to think or fix attention, from overstudy.

 – Delirium, sees cats, dogs and rats etc.

 – Idiocy, alternate with furor.

 – Wants to jump out of bed or out of window.

 – Examination funk from simple sense of incapacity.

 – Idiotic children.

 – Awkward.

 Head

 – distressing pains in the occiput down nape of neck and spine amel. lying down and pressure.

 – Head symptoms are amel. by passing flatus and by stool.

 – Hair feels pulled.

 – Vertigo; with sleepiness, with palpitation, with weakness.

 – Can not raise head.

 – Head hot after vertigo.

 – Squeezing headache, with vertigo agg. walking and looking upward.

 – Dizzy and drowsy.

 Eyes

 – Photophobia (chronic).

 – Eyes brilliant and protruding.

 – Eyes drawn downwards.

 – Cornea sunken.

 – Objects seem larger or double.

 – Swelling of meibomian glands.

 – Rolling of eyes on falling asleep.

 Ears

 – As if something hot streaming out.

 – Feels obstructed; amel. by inserting the fingers and drawing the parts apart.

 Nose

 – Herpetic eruptions on tip of nose.

 – Frequent ineffectual desire to sneeze.

 – Alae nasi drawn in.

 Face

 – Sunken; pale, puffed, spotted, red.

 – Linea nasalis marked.

 – Blue white pallor about the lits.

 – Deathly aspect.

 – Chin and corners of mouth feel cold.

 Mouth

 – Tongue seems too long.

 – Aphthae in the mouth.

 – Speech slow embarrassed.

 – Speechless.

 – Taste bitter; of onions; of cheese; sweetish in morning.

 Stomach

 – Nibbling appetite.

 – Intolerance of milk.

 – Violent sudden vomiting of milk as soon as swallowed or Inlarge curds.

 – Hungry after vomiting.

 – LIMPNESS AND DEEP SLEEP AFTER VOMITING.

 – DEATHLY NAUSEA.

 – Regurgitation of food long after eating.

 – Vomiting of frothy matter white as milk; or yellow fluid.

 – Stomach feels tuned upside down.

 – Digestion affected from brain exhaustion.

 – Retching.

 Abdomen

 – Black bluish swelling of abdomen, coldness of abdomen, subjective and objective, with coldness of legs, with aching in bowels amel. warm application.

 – Colic, followed by vomiting, vertigo and weakness.

 – Bubbling sensation around navel.

 Stools

 – Yellow green slimy diarrhoea.

 – Stools undigested.

 – Obstinate constipation, with feeling as if all the action of the bowels has been lost.

 – Choleraic affection of old age.

 Urinary

 – Cutting in bladder with frequent urging.

 Male

 – Right testicle drawn up with pain in kidney.

 Female

 – Menses watery.

 – Swelling of mammary glands with lancinating pain.

 – Pimples on external parts; itching on getting warm.

 Respiratory

 – Short breath interrupted by hiccough.

 – Suffering renders the patient speechless.

 – Crampy constriction in chest.

 – Cough causes pain in head.

 – Stitches in left side of chest.

 Heart

 – Violent palpitation, with virtigo, headache and restlessness.

 – Pulse rapid, hard, small, unrhythmical.

 Neck and back

 – Want of power to stand to hold up head.

 – Small of back as if in vise.

 – Swelling of glands around neck like string of beads.

 – A feeling as if pain in back could be amel. by straightening out and bending stiffly backwards.

 Extremities

 – Fingers and thumbs bent inwards or clenched.

 – Sensation as if arms had become much shorter.

 – Numbness of hands and feet.

 – Heaviness, weakness, contraction of fingers.

 – Excoriation of thighs on walking.

 Skin

 – Lymphatic glands swelled like strings of beads.

 – Skin cold and covered with cool clammy sweat.

 – Eruptions, itching; around the joints amel. from heat.

 – Ecchymosis.

 – Anasarca.

 – Whole body may be blue, black.

 Fever

 – Great heat without thirst.

 – Must be covered during sweat.

 – Sweating, on slightest physical effort.

 Sleep

 – Disturbed by violent startings any or by cold perspiration.

 – Dozing after vomiting or stool.

 – Rooling of the eyes or slight convulsion on falling asleep.

 Complementary

 – Calc.

 Related

 – Ant-c; Cic.

Source: Phatak Materia Medica