AEthusa Cynapium

COMMON NAMES:

      FOOL’S PARSLEY; GARDEN HEMLOCK.

Symptoms

      Useful in gastro-intestinal troubles, especially in gastro-intestinal troubles, especially in gastro-intestinal catarrh and convulsions of children during dentition (C.).

Dozing of Child after vomiting spells (Ant-T.), or after the stool (Nux-M). (C.).

Head feels bound up, or in a vise (Argentum nitricum) (Br.).

Regurgitation of food an hour or so after eating; copious greenish vomiting (A.).

VIOLENT VOMITING OF CURDLED MILK (Calcarea, Magnesia carb., Iris) AND CHEESY MATTER (C.)

Complete absence of thirst (Apis, Pulsatilla; reverse of Arsenicum) (A.).

CANNOT BEAR MILK IN ANY FORM (A.).

INTOLERANCE OF MILK; IT IS FORCIBLY

EJECTED ALMOST AS SOON AS SWALLOWED:

THEN WEAKNESS CAUSES DROWSINESS; IN NURSING CHILDREN (C.).

Cholera infantum: after much purging and vomiting the child becomes cold, clammy, stupid, loses consciousness. and often lies with staring eyes and dilated pupils (G.).

HUNGRY AFTER VOMITING; EATS AND VOMITS AGAIN (N.).

The buccal cavity is usually very dry (G.).

Stool: undigested or partly so (Ant-C.) green, thin, bilious, with violent tenesmus before and after stool; bright yellow, or greenish, watery, slimy stools, with crying and drawing up of the feet in infants (G.)

An expression of great anxiety and pain, with a drawn condition and well- married linea nasalia (A.).

Herpetic eruption on the tip of nose (Br.).

Deathly aspect; blue white pallor about lips (B.).

Sweat with aversion to uncovering (B.).

Vertigo, during and after rising from a seat (L.).

Idiocy in children (Bar-C.); incapacity to think; confused (A.).

Awkwardness (Apis., Bovista, Ignatia, Lachesis, Natrum muriaticum Nux vomica) (F.).

Headache: violent pain, as if the brain were dashed to pieces, with a desire to have a band fastened tightly around head (L.).

Great weakness; children cannot stand; unable to hold up the head (Abrotanum); prostration with sleepiness.

Epileptic spasms with clenched thumbs red face, eyes turned downwards, pupils fixed and dilated; foam at the mouth jaws locked; pulse small. hard and quick (A.).

BRAIN FAG (Anacardium, Kali-P) (Br.).

STUDENTS CANNOT CONCENTRATE THEIR MIND ON THEIR WORK AND PREPARE FOR AN EXAMINATION (Kali-P, Nux vomica) (Bl.).

INABILITY TO THINK OR TO FIX ATTENTION (Br.).

Profound exhaustion and lack of reaction (B.).

AGGRAVATION:

      After eating or drinking, after vomiting; after stool, after spasm; during dentition; from milk; and during hot weather.

AMELIORATION:

      From covering: from tightly bandaging the head; and during rest.

RELATIONSHIP:

      Similar to: Ant-C., Arsenicum, Calcarea, Cicuta, Sanicula, Sepia, and Sulph.

Complementary: Calc-C.

Adolph Lippe

Adolph Lippe (born near Goerlitz, Prussia, 11 May 1812; died in Philadelphia, 23 January 1888) was a homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. Adolph got a legal education at Berlin. After completing his legal studies, Lippe became interested in homeopathy, and emigrated to the United States in 1837 to further his study. In 1838, he enrolled in the North American Academy of Homeopathy at Allentown, Pennsylvania, from where he graduated in 1841. He settled in Philadelphia, where from 1863 until 1868 he was professor of materia medica in the Homeopathic College of Pennsylvania. Besides some essays and treatises from the French, German, and Italian which became standards, Lippe was the author of:
Comparative Materia Medica (Philadelphia, 1854)
Text-Book of Materia Medica (1866)