Aethusa cynapium

Common names: fool's parsley; garden hemlock.

Useful in gastro-intestinal troubles, especially in gastro-intestinal catarrh and convulsions of children during dentition (C).

Dozing of child after vomiting spells (Ant-T.), or after the stool (Nux-M.) (C.).

Head feels bound up, or in a vise (Arg-N.) (Br.).

Regurgitation of food an hour or so after eating; copious greenish vomiting (A.).

VIOLENT VOMITING OF CURDLED MILK (Calc., Mag-C., Iris) AND CHEESY MATTER (C.).

Complete absence of thirst (Apis, Puls.; reverse of Ars.) (A.).

CANNOT BEAR MILK IN ANY FORM (A.).

INTOLERANCE OF MILK; IT IS FORCIBLY EJECTED ALMOST AS SOON AS SWALLOWED: THEN WEAKNESS CAUSES DROWSINESS; IN NURSING CHILDREN (C.).

Cholera infantum: after much purging and vomiting the child becomes cold, clammy, stupid, loses consciousness, and often lies with staring eyes and dilated pupils (G.).

HUNGRY AFTER VOMITING; EATS AND VOMITS AGAIN (N.).

The buccal cavity is usually very dry (G.).

Stool: undigested or partly so (Ant-C.); green, thin, bilious, with violent tenesmus before and after stool; bright yellow, or greenish. watery, slimy stools, with crying and drawing up of the feet in infants (G.).

An expression of great anxiety and pain, with a drawn condition and well-marked linea nasalia (A.)

Herpetic eruption on the tip of nose (Br.).

Deathly aspect; blue white pallor about lips (B).

Sweat with aversion to uncovering (B.).

Vertigo, during and after rising from a seat (L.).

Idiocy in children (Bar-C.); incapacity to think; confused (A.).

Awkwardness (Apis. Bov., Ign., Lach., Nat-M., Nux-V.) (F.).

Headache: violent pain, as if the brain were dashed to pieces, with a desire to have a band fastened tightly around head (L.).

Great weakness; children cannot stand; unable to hold up the head (Abrot.); prostration with sleepiness.

Epileptic spasms, with clenched thumbs, red face, eyes turned downwards, pupils fixed and dilated; foam at the mouth, jaws locked; pulse small, hard and quick (A.).

BRAIN FAG (Anac., Kali-P.) (Br.).

STUDENTS CANNOT CONCENTRATE THEIR MIND ON THEIR WORK AND PREPARE FOR AN EXAMINATION (Kali-P., Nux-V.) (Bl.).

INABILITY TO THINK OR TO FIX ATTENTION (Br.).

Profound exhaustion and lack of reaction (B.).

AGGRAVATION: After eating or drinking, after vomiting; after stool; after spasm; during dentition; from milk; and during hot weather.

AMELIORATION: From covering; from tightly bandaging the head; and during rest.

RELATIONSHIP: Similar to: Ant-C., Ars., Calc. Cic., Sanic., Sep. and Sulph.

Complementary: Calc-C.