Aethusa [Aeth]
Intolerance of milk.
Face expresses anxiety and pain.
Linea nasalis–pearly whiteness on upper lip bounded by a distinct line to angles of mouth.
Violent vomiting: of milk: after milk.
Stool undigested: thin: green: bilious.
Violent straining before and after stool.
Collapse– almost as bad as Arsenicum only not restless.
A remedy of violence–violent vomiting– violent convulsions–violent pains–violent diarrhoea.
Arsenicum [Ars]
Worse at night, 1 to 3 a.m.
Rapid emaciation; exhaustion and collapse.
Intense restlessness. ( Pyrog.) (opp. of Aethusa)
Painless, offensive, watery stools.
There may be simultaneous vomiting and diarrhoea. ( Ipecac.)
After cold drinks; when heated; in older persons after ices.
Thirst for cold water, immediately vomited.
Coldness of extremities.
Pale cadaverous face.
Skin dry, wrinkled, toneless.
Camphor [Camph]
Skin cold as marble (Carbo veg.), but child will not remain covered.
Great prostration and diarrhoea. Give a drop of the strong tincture on sugar. Repeat in 5 to 15 minutes if case urgent. Keep Camphor away, from Homoeopathic medicines.
Pyrogen [Pyrog]
Extreme restlessness: has to keep on moving.
Only momentary relief from moving, but has to move for that relief. (Comp. Rhus.)
Diarrhoea with frightfully offensive stools ( Baptisia).
Profuse, watery, painless stools, with (?) vomiting.
(One has seen Pyrogen almost magic for sudden, very exhausting attacks of summer diarrhoea.).
