AEthusa cynapium, L. Natural order of plants. Umbelliferae. A tincture is prepared from the whole plant when in flower.
General Action
This plant, formerly supposed to be poisonous, is now proved to be harmless; large quantities can be taken with impunity; it seems, however, to possess a disagreeable essential oil which provokes nausea and vomiting and causes other symptoms. It is particularly useful in gastro-intestinal disorders of children (vomiting, diarrhoea, and even convulsions).
Allied Drugs.-Sulph., Sul-ac., Tart-emet., Kali-b., Ox-ac., Ip., Gratiola, Gam.
Generalities
Hands, head and face seem swollen after walking in open air, (>) in the house. Clothes seem loose. Secretions diminished. Stabbing pain. Seething in blood in morning on waking. Uneasiness. Weakness, with sleepiness in afternoon. Amelioration in open air; after entering house; after broth.
Clinical A case of infantile paralysis, with the characteristic indications for AEthusa, is reported cured.
Mind
Anxiety. dullness like intoxication. Earnestness. Excited, lively in forenoon, apprehensive, sad in afternoon. Fixed idea of a garment which she had made the previous day, and of which she dreamed. Fretfulness; in afternoon; in open air, (>) in house; (>) towards noon. Does not talk willingly.
Head
Aching; seeming to come from teeth; pulsating on entering house. Brain seems bound up. Constriction. Drawing upward in. dullness. Pulsation, especially r. side and backward, with heaviness; pulsation and sticking in afternoon. Raging here and there on entering house. Painful screwing together from both sides. Shattered feeling in afternoon. Vertigo; in open air; during and after rising from a seat; (>) open air; sudden while sitting, (>) rising.
Forehead
Aching; crampy, with disposition to contract eye brows; intermittent, in lines vertically over each eye; pulsating l. In forepart of head, pain as if compressed posteriorly and superiorly Constriction from points vertically over each eye, (>) pressure; constriction and yet pressure outward; constriction of brows. Heaviness which seems to press head downward, when sitting; heaviness which presses down eyelids, during dinner. Pressure in sinuses. Pulsation. Shooting up over eyes. Sticking, in afternoon on turning head to r. Jerking tearing in l. sinus while sitting. Tension as from a band fastened at each zygoma. Sensation as if something were turning around in it.
Temple
Aching as if a blood vessel had been torn out of l. Pulsation, l. Sticking shooting in l. Sticking, l.; and pulsation, (>) pressure. Sudden tearing in r., in afternoon. Aching in l. mastoid process.
Vertex
Aching. Painful sticking and beating, in afternoon, (>) rubbing.
Parietals
Sticking in l. half of head; inward in upper part of l. bone; sticking and pulsating in upper part of r. bone. Tearing and pulsation in r.; sticking tearing in l. Twitching in r., in afternoon.
Occiput
Aching in r., occasional. Heaviness. Sticking and pulsation in upper part of r.; tearing stitches extending forward from, in afternoon. Tearing in r. side, shooting through whole head and extending to r. side, in afternoon.
Eye
Burning as from smoke, in house. Watery.
Ear
Sticking shooting in l. Sticking in l.; into r.; in r.; (>) boring, (>) rubbing; in r.; preceded by stitches in r. hypochondrium, in afternoon; in l., with sensation of heat coming out of it, alternating with stitches in l. costal region. Stopped sensation, with hardness of hearing, which lasted longer in l. ear. Stuffiness in r. Tearing, (>) rubbing; sticking, in afternoon, in r.; about l., extending to top of head Twitching.
Clinical It is reported to have cured a discharge from the r. ear associated with spasms, stupor and vomiting of milk.
Nose
Much thick mucus. Ulcerative pain, as if there were an open spot in left fossa. Pressure in upper passages. Sneezing; inclination to in l. nostril. Stitches externally, l. side Stoppage; sudden, morning, after waking.
Face
Sensation of fulness and heat. Hollow cheeked. Stitch like the tapping of a finger in middle of l. cheek, with tearing, in r., tearing in l. in cold air. Lips dry. Tearing in lower lip extending into neighboring teeth, in afternoon. Tearing in r. lower jaw.
Mouth
Teeth; grumbling in a r. lower back tooth; a r. lower decayed molar, sensitive, (<) touch; tickling in l. upper teeth. Gums, stitches here and there; sticking and tearing, now r., now l. Tongue dry. Mouth, burning; dryness; salivation. Taste insipid; metallic; slimy, with dryness; sweetish; sweetish morning after waking; tastelessness to food.
Throat
Burning. Dryness. Hawking, frequent; inclination for hawking and for spitting. Stitches when not swallowing. Desire to swallow, as if to keep something down; sensation as if she could not swallow, with spasmodic contraction in r. side of throat and ear, in afternoon while sitting. OEsophagus, burning; warmth and uneasiness.
Stomach
Indisposed to eat, with fair appetite. Thirst. Eructations, tasting of broth; eructations burning oesophagus and throat; empty in afternoon; of food; rancid; hot, sour waterbrash. Nausea; at sight of food; in mouth and pharynx; extending down oesophagus to stomach, with rumbling and gurgling in stomach and upper abdomen and fluttering in stomach. Hiccough in afternoon. Retching and throwing up phlegm. Burning. Feeling as before diarrhoea, and in bowels. Griping. Heaviness. Feeling of indigestion; and in upper abdomen. Feeling as after a spree. Sticking in side near stomach, extending deeply inward on sitting bent, (>) becoming erect. Feeling as if something turned about, then heat rising into chest. Uneasiness, as before gastric catarrh; uneasiness and warmth.
Clinical For vomiting of milk (in young children), especially of curdled milk, this remedy is unrivalled; associated with this condition or consequent upon the gastric derangement there may be diarrhoea of a this yellow or greenish character (Gratiola Gamboge). Some very obstinate cases of gastrointestinal catarrh have been cured by AEthusa, and it has even arrested convulsions and paralytic symptoms which doubtless had their origin in indigestion. The vomiting or evacuation by the bowels of curds of milk is quite a characteristic indication.
Abdomen
Coldness; in region of tranverse colon; in upper. Cramps in small intestines quickly shifting from place to place. Cutting above umbilicus, cutting in lower, with urging to stool. Griping in umbilicus, then two soft stools. Gurgling and rumbling in upper and in stomach, with nausea and fluttering in stomach. Sensation of a load in upper. Sensation in upper, as after a dose of medicine. Movements, then a stool, which is first hard, then soft; painful movements below navel, with desire for stool, after morning broth. Pain as before diarrhoea; pain in upper, and in stomach, as from something indigestible. Pressure in l. hypochondrium and burning, with stitches. Rush as of boiling water in umbilical region. Stitch in r. hypochondrium, then in r. ear, in afternoon; in l. hypochondrium; in l. hypochondrium, with burning,(>) rubbing; burning stitches at one time in r. hypochondrium, at another in l. loin; sticking in hypochondriac region, extending backward, in afternoon.
Warmth in upper.
Anus
Clawing, with straining, during hard stool. Tenesmus after soft stool. Urging to stool, with cutting in abdomen; urging after morning broth, with painful movements below navel. Stool hard; first part hard, then soft; loose, yellow and sour; two soft.
Urine
Diminished. Increased; pale, of sweet odor.
Sexual desire
diminished; strong, on waking.
Cough
Dry, in paroxysms, after dinner. Frequent short, hacking.
Chest
Burning, as from a glowing iron, in a spot below l. breast. Crampy constriction r. Digging and tension in front of r. axilla. Stitch in region of r. ribs, in afternoon; beneath l. mamma in afternoon, (<) inspiration; in middle of chest, 6.30 P.M., during inspiration on rising after sitting bent, (<) deep breathing; acute in middle of sternum, then burning in same spot, (>) pressure, but returning; in l. costal region, alternating with sticking in and sensation of heat coming out of l. ear; deep internally beneath l. female breast, in afternoon. Tension in front of r. axilla, evening when knitting.
Heart
Crampy constriction, with a feeling as if he could not take a long breath. Pulse rapid; slow and soft.
Neck and Back
Neck – Drawing pain as if a tendon or bloodvessel would be torn out, in r. side, (>) rubbing. Stitch inward in l. muscles. Tearing in a spot on r. side; in tendons of r. side; pulsating in spot on tendons of l. side. Sticking twitching in nape. Back.- Aching in small of; heavy aching across kidneys, morning on waking. Drawing in r. lumbar region while walking, (>) sitting. Pain between scapulae. morning on waking. Screwed-together feeling in small of. Stitch between scapulae; in r. lumbar region, then pressure; burning at one time in l. loin, then in r. hypochondriac region.
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.