Fool’s Parsley. Nenning. Umbelliferae.
Mind
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.
Sensorium
Vertigo : with sleepiness, can’t lift the head up; giddiness ceases and head gets hot; with palpitation.
Inner Head
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.
Eyes
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.
Ears
Yellow discharge from right ear, with stitching pains.
Nose
Nose stopped up with thick mucus; frequent but ineffectual desire to sneeze.
Face
Expression of anxiety, with well-marked linea nasalis. Face : puffed, spotted red; pale.
Lower Face
Chin and corners of the mouth feel cold.
Teeth
Stinging or tearing in the gums.
Tongue etc.
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.
Throat
Soft palate, red and swollen.
Desires Aversions
Burning thirst.
Desire for wine, or aggravation from its use.
Eating
While eating: sudden heaviness in forehead.
After eating: pain below navel, lienteric stool, dry cough.
Nausea and Vomiting
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. Nursing children.
Regurgitation of food an hour or so after eating.
Stomach
Painful contractions of the stomach so severe as to prevent vomiting.
Tearing, rending pains in pit of stomach, extending to the oesophagus.
Hypochondria
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.
Abdomen
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.
Stool etc.
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.
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.
Male Sexual Organs
Right testicle drawn up, with pain in kidneys.
Pregnancy
Labor pains too weak, not regular.
Breathing
Short breath, interrupted by hiccough.
Lungs
Stitches in left side of chest.
Heart, Pulse
Palpitation, with vertigo and headache.
Pulse : frequent, small, somewhat hard and unrhythmical.
Back
Sensation as if the small of the back were in a vice.
Painful furuncle in the sacral region.
Upper Limbs
Numbness of the arms, aching about the scapulae, extending to the arms.
Sensation as if the arms had become much shorter.
Lower Limbs
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.
Position etc.
Moving : Walking : Bending backward: Cannot stand : Lying :.
Nerves
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.
Sleep
Dozing of child after vomiting spells or after stool.
On falling asleep, rolling of eyes or slight convulsions.
Time
Morning : Afternoon : Night :.
Temperature and Weather
Headache better walking in the open air.
Frequently indicated in summer.
Heat : Moist warmth: Room : Open air : Washing :.
Chill Fever Sweat
Coldness, rigors, stiffness of the limbs.
Sides
Right : Left :.
Sensation
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.
Tissues
Ecchymosis, black and blue spots all over.
Skin
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.
Stages and States
Children, during dentition.
Relationship
Collaterals : Cicut, Conium, OEnanth, Croc.
Concordances : Ant. crud (vomiting of milk); Arsen; Asarum europaeum; Calcarea ostr. (vomiting of milk); Cuprum; Ipec; Opium.
It antidotes Opium, and is antidoted by vegetable acids.