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Fool's Parsley: Aethusa cynapium for Confused, Idiotic Children Unable to Tolerate Milk
- 1. aethusa cynapium Dr Saroj R. Sawant M.D.(HOM.)
- 2. introduction • Aethusa cynapium is an annual herb in the plant • Common name: - Fool’s parsley • Source: Vegetable kingdom • Synonyms: Dog poison, Fool’s parsley, Lesser hemlock
- 3. introduction Family: Umbelliferae Habitat- Native to Europe, western Asia, and northwest Africa.
- 4. introduction • Prover: Dr Nenning in 1828 • Duration of Action: 20 to 30 days • Part used- Tincture of whole flowering plant.
- 5. Sphere of action It affects BRAIN and nervous system, connected with gastrointestinal disturbances.
- 6. Masters quotes Generally thought of as a remedy of childhood : of babies who cannot tolerate milk
- 7. Masters quotes Dr Clarke • He calls it indeed a medicine for " fools ". There is great weakness of mind or body. • One very characteristic symptom is : Inability to think, or fix the attention.
- 8. Masters quotes It was Dr. Clarke's Aethusa of simple sense of incapacity, great remedy for a form of examination funk, " unable to read anything, after over-taxation of the mental faculties " ; " incapacity to think : confused " ; " cannot retain any idea " ; " great anxiety "
- 9. Masters quotes Allen (Keynotes), draws attention to complete absence of thirst. And, not only the intolerance of milk, but the great weakness of children ; even to idiocy.
- 10. Masters Quotes Nash points out that . . . The absence of thirst rules for Aethusa instead of Arsenicum."
- 11. Masters quotes • Aethusa is worse from coffee, and has a desire for wine, but the mental symptoms are increased after taking it …….Dr J. T. Kent
- 12. Masters quotes Guernsey says: "The mental symptoms peculiar to children, and frequently of adults, are, great anguish and crying. As the disease progresses the patient becomes more and more retired in his disposition, and more inclined to weep."
- 13. Masters quotes Violence is one of the key notes of its action. Violent; vomiting, convulsions, pains, delirium. On the other hand there is profound prostration and stupor, and lack of reaction, even speechless. …….Dr S. R. Phatak
- 14. Adaptability Especially for • children during dentition • in hot summer weather when anguish, crying and expression of uneasiness, and discontent are present. • children who cannot bear milk • Miasmatic Background: Psora, syphilis and sycosis • Temperament: Confused and idiotic • Diathesis: Scrofulous Thermal Relationship: Hot patient
- 15. characters Great weakness; children cannot stand; unable to hold up the head (Abrot.); prostration with sleepiness.
- 16. characters Idiocy in children; incapacity to think; confused.
- 17. characters An expression of great anxiety and pain, with a drawn condition and well-marked linea nasalia.
- 18. characters Features expressive of pain and anxiety.
- 19. characters Herpetic eruption on end of the nose.
- 20. characters Complete absence of thirst (Apis, Puls. - rev of Ars.).
- 21. characters Intolerance of milk: cannot bear milk in any form; it is vomited in large curds as soon as taken; then weakness causes drowsiness (compare Mag. c.).
- 22. characters Indigestion of teething children; violent, sudden vomiting of a frothy, milk-white substance; or yellow fluid, followed by curdled milk and cheesy matter.
- 23. characters Regurgitation of food and hour or so after eating; copious greenish vomiting.
- 24. characters Epileptic spasms, with clenched thumbs, red face, eyes turned downwards, pupils fixed and dilated; foam at the mouth, jaws locked; pulse small, hard, quick.
- 25. characters Weakness and prostration with sleepiness; after vomiting, after stool, after spasm.
- 26. modality Worse • 3 to 4 a.m. and evening. • Warmth; hot weather. • MILK. • Dentition. • After eating or drinking; • Over-exertion. • After vomiting; after stool; after spasm.
- 27. modality Better • Open air, • By walking in open air. • Conversation.
- 28. comparison Cicut.; Coni.; Croc.; Ant. crud. and Calc. c. (vomiting of milk); Ars.; Asar.; Cupr.; Ipec.; Op.
- 29. Relations.- • It antidotes Opium; and is antidoted by vegetable acids. • Teste places it in the Sulphur group with Cicuta, Con., Aster., Bov., Lobel., Merc., Kreos.