Æthusa cynapium
Allen, Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica, 3rd ed., 1910, p. 19
Fool’s Parsley. Umhelliferce.
Keynotes
Especially for children during dentition in hot summer weather ; children who cannot hear 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 nasalis. 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 hear 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 an 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. Relation.— Similar: to. Ant. c., Ars., Col., Sanic. Aggravation. — After eating or drinking; after vomiting; after stool; after spasm.