Brain-fag. Cholera infantum. Convulsions. Cough. Delirium. Diarrhœa. Dyspepsia. Ear, discharge from. Epilepsy. Excoriation. Eyes, affections of. Glands, affections of. Headache. Herpes. Hiccough. Idiocy. Infantile paralysis. Mind, weakness of. Sleeplessness. Stomach, disorders of. Trismus. Vomiting.

The symptoms of Æthusa are particularly clearly defined, in fact violence is one of the notes of its action─violent vomiting, violent convulsions, violent pains, violent delirium. On the other hand there is prostration and somnolence. "Fool's parsley" has not received its name for nothing─it is 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. Guided by this symptom I once gave it to an undergraduate preparing for an examination, with complete success. He had been compelled to give up his studies, but was able to resume them, and passed a brilliant examination. To a little waif in an orphan home who suffered from severe headaches and inability to fix his attention on his lessons I sent single doses of Æthus. at rare intervals, with very great relief. The little boy asked for the medicine himself subsequently on a return of the old symptoms. Other mental symptoms are: Idiocy; in some cases alternating with furor. Hallucinations. Delirium; sees cats and dogs; wants to jump out of bed, or out of the window. Irritability, especially in open air. 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." Somnolence. Dotage. Another marked characteristic is: Intolerance of milk; vomiting of everything taken, especially milk, which is ejected in yellowish or greenish curds. There is great weakness and exhaustion after vomiting; the child is so exhausted it falls asleep at once. It awakens hungry, eats, and vomits again. "Hungry after vomiting" is the keynote here. There is also griping, with diarrhœa, vomiting, crying. For adults who complain of regurgitation of food an hour after it has been taken Æthus., says Guernsey, is invaluable. Also copious vomiting in adults, with a great feeling of distress; can't tell what the distress is about but still it exists. Adults complain of a sensation as though the stomach was turned upside down, accompanied by a burning feeling up to the chest. Tearing pains in stomach extending into œsophagus; abdomen tense, inflated, sensitive. There is an herpetic eruption on tip of nose. Along with the gastric symptoms there is a peculiar expression of great anxiety and pain (Linea nasalis), a surface of pearly whiteness on upper lip bounded by distinct lines from wings of nose to angles of mouth. Other symptoms are: Sensation of swelling in head and face on entering a room. Sunken cornea. Eyeballs convulsed and directed downwards. Sleep after attacks. Sensation of swelling in hands after walking. Convulsions, with cold limbs. The pains are lancinating. Swelling of mammary or axillary glands, with lancinating pains. Prostration; stupid. All symptoms < 3 to 4 a.m. Heat = all eruptions to itch intolerably. As with Bovist. and Aster. r. symptoms are < by coffee, wine, drunkenness, cold water, and warmth of bed; > by a walk in the open air, and by conversation. > In open air (except mental symptoms). The remedy is suited to teething-children and choleraic affections in old age.

Compare: Cicut.; Coni.; Œnan. croc.; Ant. crud. and Calc. c. (vomiting of milk); Ars.; Asar.; Cupr.; Ipec.; Op. It antidotes Opium; and is antidoted by vegetable acids. Teste places Æthus. in the Sulphur group with Cicuta, Con., Aster., Bov., Lobel., Merc., Kreas.

Incapacity to think; confused.─Loss of comprehension; as if a barrier between the senses and external objects.─Idiocy, in some cases alternating with furor.─Great anxiety and restlessness, followed by violent pains in head and abdomen.─Bad humour; irritability.─Irritability, esp. in the afternoon, and in the open air.─Delirium: sees cats and dogs; tries to jump out of the window.─Loquacious gaiety.

Head confused; brain feels bound up.─Vertigo, with sleepiness, can't raise the head.─Headache in whole front part of head.─Heaviness in the forehead.─Sensation, as if both sides of the head were in a vice.─Distressing pains in the occiput, down nape of neck, and spine.─Heat rises to the head; the body becomes warmer; the face becomes red and the giddiness ceases.─Stitches and pulsations in the head.─Can't hold head up, or sit up.─Sensation as if constantly pulled by the hair.─The head symptoms are > by expelling flatus.

Looking up < headache and vertigo.─Dilated pupils.─Pupils dilated but sensitive to light.─Eyes brilliant and prominent.─Cornea sunken.─Pustules on cornea.─Scrofulous ophthalmia; edges of lids inflamed and agglutinated at night; swelling of Meibomian glands.─Chronic photophobia.

Stitches in the ears, esp. in the r. ear, as if something hot were streaming from it.─Yellow discharge from r. ear, with stitching pains.─There is great > by inserting the finger and drawing the parts asunder.

Herpetic eruption at tip.

A drawn condition beginning at the alæ nasi, and extending to the angles of the mouth, giving the face an expression of great anxiety and pain.─Tearing in the face, in the malar bones.─Jaws spasmodically fixed.─Face pale, puffed, and spotted red.─Chin and corners of mouth feel cold.

Sticking and tearing in gums.─Taste: bitter; like cheese; like onions sweetish in morning when awaking.─Tongue: moist; white coat; black feels too long.─Speech slow; embarrassed.─Aphtæ in mouth and throat.─Copious salivation which > poisoning symptoms.

Sensation of constriction, preventing deglutition.─Stinging in the throat, between the acts of deglutition.─Soft palate red, swollen.─Pungent heat in mouth and throat.─While eating, sudden heaviness in forehead.─Spasmodic hiccough.

Intolerance of milk; it is forcibly ejected almost as soon as swallowed; then weakness causes drowsiness; in nursing children.─Violent vomiting of curdled milk and cheesy matter.─Violent vomiting of a frothy matter, white as milk. This we may find in men, children, or pregnant women.─Violent vomiting of green mucus.─Violent vomiting, with diarrhœa, of green mucus, or (in children) bloody substances.─After vomiting, cold and clammy.

Coldness of the abdomen and lower limbs, esp. l., with aching in bowels; > by warm wet applications.─Sensation of coldness in the abdomen.─Swollen and tense abdomen.─Cutting, with distension.─Cutting, with violent vomiting.─Black-bluish swelling of the abdomen.─Colic, followed by vomiting, vertigo, and weakness.

Diarrhœa: stools bright yellow, or greenish, watery, and slimy, with violent tenesmus.─Undigested stool or partly so.─Loose stools, preceded by cutting in the abdomen, with tenesmus in the morning, after rising.─Diarrhœa: discharges green, thin, bilious, with violent tenesmus.─Bloody stools.─Most obstinate constipation, with feeling as if all action of the bowels had been lost.

Sufferings of patient render him almost speechless.─Respiration very difficult and short.─Sensation as if chest were encircled by a band, causing difficult breathing.─Stitches in l. side of chest.─Cough, producing stunning pain in head.

Violent palpitation of the heart, with headache.─Pulse full and rapid; hard, small, and rapid; small and frequent; irregular; imperceptible.

Distressing pain in occiput and nape of neck, extending down the spine, > by friction with hot whisky.─Swelling of glands round neck like a string of beads.─Sensation as if the small of the back were in a vice.─A feeling as if pain in back could be > by straightening out and bending stiffly backward.

Eruption round the joints, esp. knee, elbow, and ankle.─Axillary glands swollen.─Stiffness of elbow joints.─Swelling of forearms and hands.─Thumb and fingers bent inwards.─Excoriations of thighs from walking.─Paralytic pains in lower extremities; formication in feet.

Epileptiform spasms, with clenched thumbs; red face; eyes turned downward; dilated, staring, immovable pupils; foam at the mouth; teeth set; pulse small, hard, accelerated.─Spasms, with stupor and delirium.─Cold limbs and body convulsed.─Great weakness; children cannot stand; cannot hold up their heads.

Tettary eruptions, which bleed easily.─Black and blue spots, sometimes like ecchymoses all over body.─The whole body may be of bluish-black colour.─Anasarca.

Dozing of child after vomiting spells, or after the stool.─On falling asleep, rolling of the eyes, or slight convulsions.─Sleepiness all day; sometimes > in open air.─Sleep prevented by pains in limbs.

Complete absence of thirst, though there is great heat.─Cannot bear to be uncovered during the sweat.─Fever, esp. in morning, with shuddering; shuddering, weariness in extremities, internal coldness with hot and flushed face; malaise; disposition to delirium during cold stage; sweat, after the breaking out of which the previous symptoms disappear.─Sweat on least exertion.

Aethusa cynapium

• If affects Brain and nervous system, connected with gastro-intestinal disturbances.

- 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.

• Mind and body becomes weak.

• It is specially useful in children during dentition and summer complaints when anguish, crying and expression of uneasiness, and discontent are present.

• As the disease progresses the patient becomes more and more retired in his disposition, and more inclined to weep.

• In epileptiform spasms, the thumbs are clenched, face becomes red, eyes turned downwards, pupils dilate and staring, foam at mouth.

• Patient can not stand, sit up or hold the head up.

• Weak nervous and prostrated from overwork.

• Dotage.

• Lancinating pains.

• Parts feel screwed together.

• Improperly fed babies.

• Children who lack the power to hold their heads up, with no particular ailment, sometimes they can't even stand or bear any weight on their limbs.

• 3 to 4 a.m. and evening.

• Warmth; hot weather.

• Milk.

• Detention.

• Frequent eating.

• Over-exertion.

• Open air, by walking in open air.

• Conversation.

- Inability to think or fix attention, from overstudy.

• Delirium, sees cats, dogs and rats etc.

• Idiocy, alternate with furor.

• Wants to jump out of bed or out of window.

• Examination funk from simple sense of incapacity.

• Idiotic children.

• Awkward.

• distressing pains in the occiput down nape of neck and spine amel. lying down and pressure.

• Head symptoms are amel. by passing flatus and by stool.

• Hair feels pulled.

• Vertigo; with sleepiness, with palpitation, with weakness.

• Can not raise head.

• Head hot after vertigo.

• Squeezing headache, with vertigo agg. walking and looking upward.

• Dizzy and drowsy.

• tophobia (chronic).

• Eyes brilliant and protruding.

• Eyes drawn downwards.

• Cornea sunken.

• Objects seem larger or double.

• Swelling of meibomian glands.

• Rolling of eyes on falling asleep.

• As if something hot streaming out.

• Feels obstructed; amel. by inserting the fingers and drawing the parts apart.

• Herpetic eruptions on tip of nose.

• Frequent ineffectual desire to sneeze.

• Alae nasi drawn in.

• Sunken; pale, puffed, spotted, red.

• Linea nasalis marked.

• Blue white pallor about the lips.

• Deathly aspect.

• Chin and corners of mouth feel cold.

• Tongue seems too long.

• Aphthae in the mouth.

• Speech slow embarrassed.

• Speechless.

• Taste bitter; of onions; of cheese; sweetish in morning.

• Nibbling appetite.

• Intolerance of milk.

• Violent sudden vomiting of milk as soon as swallowed or In large curds.

• Hungry after vomiting.

• LIMPNESS AND DEEP SLEEP AFTER VOMITING.

• DEATHLY NAUSEA.

• Regurgitation of food long after eating.

• Vomiting of frothy matter white as milk; or yellow fluid.

• Stomach feels tuned upside down.

• Digestion affected from brain exhaustion.

• Retching.

• Black bluish swelling of abdomen, coldness of abdomen, subjective and objective, with coldness of legs, with aching in bowels amel. warm application.

• Colic, followed by vomiting, vertigo and weakness.

• Bubbling sensation around navel.

• Yellow green slimy diarrhoea.

• Stools undigested.

• Obstinate constipation, with feeling as if all the action of the bowel s has been lost.

• Choleraic affection of old age.

• Cutting in bladder with frequent urging.

• Right testicle drawn up with pain in kidney.

• Menses watery.

• Swelling of mammary glands with lancinating pain.

• Pimples on external parts; itching on getting warm.

• Short breath interrupted by hiccough.

• Suffering renders the patient speechless.

• Crampy constriction in chest.

• Cough causes pain in head.

• Stitches in left side of chest.

• Violent palpitation, with vertigo, headache and restlessness.

• Pulse rapid, hard, small, unrhythmical.

• Want of power to stand to hold up head.

• Small of back as if in vise.

• Swelling of glands around neck like string of beads.

• A feeling as if pain in back could be amel. by straightening out and bending stiffly backwards.

• Fingers and thumbs bent inwards or clenched.

• Sensation as if arms had become much shorter.

• Numbness of hands and feet.

• Heaviness, weakness, contraction of fingers.

• Excoriation of thighs on walking.

• Lymphatic glands swelled like strings of beads.

• Skin cold and covered with cool clammy sweat.

• Eruptions, itching; around the joints amel. from heat.

• Ecchymosis.

• Anasarca.

• Whole body may be blue, black.

• Great heat without thirst.

• Must be covered during sweat.

• Sweating, on slightest physical effort.

• Disturbed by violent startings any or by cold perspiration.

• Dozing after vomiting or stool.

• Rolling of the eyes or slight convulsion on falling asleep.

• Calc.

• Ant-c; Cic.

Inability to think or fix attention, idiocy, alternating with furor.

A drawn condition beginning at the alae nasi and extending to the angle of the mouth (linea nasalis).

A drawn condition beginning at the alae nasi and extending to the angle of the mouth, giving the face an expression of great anxiety and pain.

Vomiting of milk in very large curds; children who cannot bear milk.

Hungry after vomiting. Eats and vomits again.

With gastric symptoms distinct linea nasalis, lips drawn tightly over the teeth.

Dozing of child after vomiting spells, or after stool.

Especially for children during dentition in hot summer weather; children who cannot bear milk. Great weakness; children cannot stand; unable to hold up the head (Abrot.); prostration with sleepiness. Idiocy in children; incapacity to think; confused. An expression of great anxiety and pain, with a drawn condition and well-marked linea nasalia. Features expressive of pain and anxiety. Herpetic eruption on end of the nose. Complete absence of thirst (Apis, Puls. - rev of Ars.). 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.). Indigestion of teething children; violent, sudden vomiting of a frothy, milk-white substance; or yellow fluid, followed by curdled milk and cheesy matter. Regurgitation of food and hour or so after eating; copious greenish vomiting. Epileptic spasms, with clenched thumbs, red face, eyes turned downwards, pupils fixed and dilated; foam at the mouth, jaws locked; pulse small, hard, quick. Weakness and prostration with sleepiness; after vomiting, after stool, after spasm.

. - Similar: to Ant. c., Ars., Cal., Sanic.

. - After eating or drinking; after vomiting; after stool; after spasm.