Aethusa


Aethusa homeopathy medicine – drug proving symptoms from Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica by TF Allen, published in 1874. It has contributions from R Hughes, C Hering, C Dunham, and A Lippe….


  Common names: Fool’s Parsley; (Fr). Petite Cigue; (Germ). Gleisse,.

Introduction

Aethusa cynapium, L.

Natural order: Umbelliferae.

Hundspetersilie; (Ital). Cicuta minore.

Preparation: Tincture, from the whole flowering plant.

Mind.

Rage.

Liable to transports of rage.

Fury.

Frenzy.

Delirium.

Delirium, mania.

Imagined she saw rats run across the room.

Delirium; he imagines he sees dogs and cats.

Delirium; he jumps out of window.

Hilarity, talkativeness, facetiousness.

Very lively (second day); (seems to be secondary action).

In the forenoon, gay, good-tempered; in the afternoon, sad and anxious.

Toward noon, better mood.

Sadness, when alone.

The disposition becomes retiring and tearful, as in nostalgia.

Anxiety and dejection.

Anxiety.

Restless anxiety. Great anxiety and restlessness; soon afterward violent pains in the head and abdomen.

Fright.

Apprehension.

Very cross and fretful (afternoons).

Fretful and cross in open air; after re-entering the room, better (a quarter of an hour).

She looks very fretful and serious and does not speak willingly, during heat of head.

Awkwardness; discontent, even to vexation.

Excessive sensitiveness.

Very great and long-lasting nervous susceptibility.

A fixed idea, which she cannot throw off, of a garment made the day previous; she also dreamed of it.

Slowness or unsettled state of his ideas, even to absence of thought.

Loss of comprehension; a king of stupefaction, as if there was a barrier between his organs of sense and external objects.

Stupidity.

Stupefaction.

Stupor.

Perfectly unconscious (boy aged 8).

Senseless.

The child lay unconscious.

He lies stretched out, without consciousness.

Head.

Head confused; brain feels bound up (two and a half hours).

The head is confused during the coryza.

The head is heavy and confused.

Somewhat stupid in the head, like intoxication, soon after taking. Feeling in the head as if shattered (afternoons).

Vertigo.

Vertigo in the open air.

Vertigo when sitting down, aggravated on trying to rise from his seat.

Vertigo after the colic.

Vertigo after every new dose; disappears in open air.

Vertigo even in open air; must lean against something so as not to fall.

Vertigo with sleepiness; eyes will close (soon after).

Vertigo with sleepiness, on sitting and after rising up (a quarter of an hour).

Sudden attack of vertigo on sitting; disappears after rising (second day).

The vertigo is more especially felt toward midday.

Giddiness in the head.

Giddiness and oppressive headache.

Dizziness; he cannot keep upright.

Dizziness, with headache.

Dizziness and sleepiness.

Violent headache.

Headache.

Frequent headache.

Pains in head.

Great pain.

Headache, with green vomiting.

Most horrible pains in head, stomach, and abdomen.

The pains in the head stop for awhile, when eating, but soon return.

The pains of the head return periodically, and are often accompanied with pale face, trembling in the jaws and pains in the precordial region.

The pains of the head are felt especially when he wakes up; they are easily brought on by getting chilled; sleep causes them to cease, and they are ameliorated by emission of flatulence.

Heat in head and burning in face, for half an hour (one and a half hours).

Heat rushes to the head, with increased warmth in whole body, redness of face, and relief of vertigo (second day).

Flushes of heat in the head, with increased bodily warmth.

Feeling of tension in the head.

Beating and sticking in whole head (afternoons).

Tearings and shootings in different direction in the head.

Tearing pain in the head.

On entering a room, a hustling, now here, now there, in the head, though only for a short time.

Throbbing in the head.

Headache; throbbing in head, on entering a room from open air (seventh day).

Pains in the forepart of the head.

Headache in the whole forepart of the head, as if strongly compressed behind and above.

Violent pains in forehead, as if the head were compressed with all force, behind and above.

Pain in forehead.

Violent pains in forehead.

Sudden painless sense of heaviness in forehead, that seems to press down the lids, with ill-humor during dinner (second day).

Great sense of heaviness in whole forehead, that would press down the head, with great ill-humor while sitting (second day).

Pressive but dull pains in forehead, and then on right side of occiput (a quarter of an hour).

Feeling in forehead as if something turned itself round therein (third day).

Throbbing in the forehead, with sense of heaviness in occiput.

Sticking in the forehead, on turning head to the right (afternoons).

Throbbing in left frontal region, very painful (fourth day).

Pain at the eyebrows. Tension above the root of the nose.

Tearing pain across the eyes.

Jerking-tearing over left eye, in orbit, on sitting (second day). Convulsive tearing above left eye, in frontal sinus, when sitting.

Pain in left temple, on a small spot, as if a vessel were torn out (for two minutes) (Second day).

A sudden crack in right temple (afternoons).

Sticking in left temporal region; then throbbing of this part (one and a quarter hours).

A stitch in left temple; then drawing into the head (one and a quarter hours).

Violent stitching and throbbing in left temple, disappearing on pressure, but returning (two and a half hours).

Pain in the vertex.

Dull pain at the vertex (one and a half hours).

Painful sticking and throbbing on vertex; disappears on rubbing (afternoons).

Very painful sticking-tearing in left side of head.

Stitches and throbbing at the right parietal bone.

Sticking and throbbing on upper part of right parietal bone (two hours).

Tearing and throbbing in right side of head, then again sticking in left half (five hours).

Painful screwing-together from both sides of the head; jerkings in right side of head; then sticking under left female breast; very sensitive, especially on inspiration (afternoons).

Sticking and beating in upper part of right side of occiput (five hours).

Distressing pains in occiput and nape of neck, etc. (see Neck).

A crack in right occiput pierces the whole head, extends to right side (afternoons).

Tearing-sticking from occiput forwards (afternoon).

Sense of contraction at the hairy scalp.

The head is inclined to fall backwards.

After soup, all troubles disappear, but return in half an hour.

Confusion and Vertigo.

The head is confused during the Coryza.

Vertigo.

Vertigo on awaking.

Vertigo, with sleepiness, during and after rising from a seat (after quarter of an hour).

Vertigo after every new dose disappearing in the open air.

Vertigo with sleepiness; the eyes close involuntarily, soon after a dose.

Vertigo in the open air.

Vertigo, even in the open air; she was obliged to support herself to prevent falling.

Sudden attack of vertigo while sitting, disappearing after rising (second day).

Vertigo when sitting down, aggravated on trying to rise from his seat.

The vertigo is more especially felt towards midday 4.

The head is inclined to fall backwards.

Head dull, brain seems bound up (after two hours and a half).

Rush of heat into the head, with increased warmth of the whole body, redness of the face, and relief of the vertigo (second day).

Head, face, and hands seem swollen, after walking in the open air; disappearing in the house (after one hour).

Heavy, undefined sensation in the head, like a general headache.

Violent headache.

General headache.

The pains in the head are felt especially when he wakes up; they are easily brought on by getting chilled; sleep causes them to cease, and they are ameliorated by emission of flatus.

The pains of the head return periodically, and are often accompanied with pale face, trembling in the jaws, and pain in the precordial region.

Feeling of tension in the head.

Raging here and there in the head on entering the house, though lasting only a short time.

Sensation as if shattered in the head, in the afternoon.

Slight constricted feeling about the head.

Painful screwing together from both sides of the head.

Tearing pain in the head.

Beating and sticking in the whole head, in the afternoon.

Throbbing in the head.

Headache, throbbing in the head on entering the house from the open air (seventh day).

Forehead.

Sensation of great heaviness in the whole forehead, which seems to press the head downward, with great ill-humor, while sitting (second day).

Sudden painless sensation of heaviness in the forehead, it seems to press down the eyelids, with fretful humor; during dinner (second day).

Headache in the forehead, shooting up over the eyes.

Aching in brows, a feeling of constriction.

Awoke with intense frontal headache, with sensation of constriction from points vertically over each eye; relieved by pressure.

Violent pains in the forepart of the head, as if the head were compressed posteriorly and superiorly, with great force.

Intermittent pains in the forehead, located vertically over each eye, in lines.

Sensation of tension, as of a band passing around the forehead, and made fast at each zygoma.

A sensation in the forehead as if something were turning around in it (third day).

Forehead feels constricted, and yet sensation of pressure, as from within outward.

Pressive but dull pain in the forehead, and then on the right side of occiput (after one quarter of an hour).

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.