Aethusa Cynapium

▲   GENERAL

General

The characteristic symptoms relate mainly to the brain and nervous system, connected with gastro-intestinal disturbance. Anguish, crying, and expression of uneasiness and discontent, lead to Aethusa Cynapium most frequently in disease in children, during dentition, summer complaint, when, with the diarrhoea, there is Marked inability to digest milk, and poor circulation. Symptoms set in with Violence.

▲   MODALITIES ETC

Worse

Worse, 3 to 4 A.M. and evenings; warmth, summer.

Better

BETTER in open air and company.

▲   RELATIONSHIPS

Compare

Compare: Athamanta(confused head, vertigo better lying down, bitter taste and saliva. Hands and feet icy cold); Antimon.; Calc Carb ^Calc.; Arsenicum Album ^Ars.; Cicuta Virosa ^Cicuta.

Complementary

Complementary: Calc.

▲   MIND

Mind

Restless, Anxious, crying

Sees rats, cats, dogs, etc

Unconscious, delirious

Inability to think, to fix the attention

Brain fag

Idiocy may alternate with furor and irritability.

▲   VERTIGO, DIZZINESS

Vertigo

vertigo with drowsiness, with palpitation; head hot after vertigo ceases.

▲   HEAD

Head

Feels bound up, or in a vise

Head symptoms relieved by expelling flatus ( Sanguinaria Canadensis ^Sang.) and by stool

Headache

Occipital pain extending down spine; better lying down and by pressure

Scalp

Hair feels pulled

▲   EYES

Eyes

Photophobia; Swelling of meibomian glands

Rolling of eyes on falling asleep

Eyes drawn downward; pupils dilated.

▲   EARS

Ear

Feel obstructed

Sense of something hot from ears

Hissing sound.

▲   FACE

Face

PUFFED, red-spotted, collapsed

Expression anxious, full of pain; Linea nasalis marked.

Expression; anxious

Appearance as if dead (see sunken)

Skin

drawn, pulled

out-breaks on skin; cold sores, herpes; nose

▲   NOSE

Nose

Stopped up with much thick mucus

Herpetic eruption on tip of nose

Discharge

Frequent ineffectual desire to sneeze.

▲   MOUTH

Mouth

Dry

Aphthae

Burning and pustules in throat, with difficult swallowing.

Tongue

Tongue seems too long

▲   CHEST

Chest

Heart; Violent palpitation, with vertigo, headache and restlessness

Pulse rapid, hard and small.

Respiration

Difficult, oppressed, anxious respiration; crampy constriction

Sufferings render patient speechless.

▲   SKIN

Skin

Excoriation of thighs in walking

Easy perspiration

Surface of body covered with clammy sweat

lymphatic glands swollen

Itching Eruption around joints

Skin of hands dry and shrunken

Ecchymosis

Anasarca.

▲   BACK AND NECK

Back

Want of power to stand up or hold head up

Back feels as if in a vise

Aching in small of back.

▲   ABDOMEN

Abdomen

Regurgitation of about an half hour after eating

Painful contraction of stomach

Stomach feels turned upside down, with burning feeling up to the chest

Tearing pains in the stomach extending to oesophagus.

Cold, internal and external, with aching pain in bowels

Colic, followed by exhaustion and drowsiness.

Stomach; indigestion; after milk

Eating

Nausea at sight of food

Vomiting

Stomach; Intolerance of milk; vomiting as soon as swallowed or in large curds

Hungry after vomiting

Violent vomiting of a white frothy matter

Vomiting, With sweat and great weakness, accompanied by anguish and distress, followed by sleepiness

Stomach

vomiting

vomiting; after drinking; after milk

vomiting; milk

curdled

▲   RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

Rectum

Cholera; in babies

Diarrhoea; in children

Stool

Undigested, thin, greenish, preceded by colic, with tenesmus, and followed by exhaustion and drowsiness

Cholera infantum; child cold, clammy, stupid, with staring eyes and dilated pupils

Obstinate constipation; feels as if all bowel action is lost

Choleraic affections in old age.

Urinary Organs.

Cutting pain in bladder, with frequent urging

Pain in kidneys.

▲   GENITALS ETC

Genitals

Female; Lancinating pains in sexual organs

Pimples; itching when warm

Swelling of mammary glands, with lancinating pains.

Menses

Menses watery

▲   EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Extremities, limbs

Weakness of lower extremities

Fingers and thumbs clenched

Numbness of hands and feet

Violent spasms

Squinting of eyes downward.

▲   FEVER AND CHILL

Fever and chill

Great heat; no thirst

Profuse, cold sweat

Must be covered during sweat.

▲   GENERALITIES

Sleep and dreams

Disturbed by Violent startling; cold perspiration

Dozing after vomiting or stool Child is so exhausted, it falls asleep at once.

Generalities

Eating and food; milk

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