Petroselinum Sativum appears in 8 of the 13 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.
- Allen HC — The keynotes that separate this remedy from its nearest neighbours.
“Parsley. (Umbelliferae.) Intermittent fever: complicating traumatic or chronic urethritis or stricture; with abdominal affections and perverted or defective assimilation. Thirsty and hungry, yet as soon as they begin to eat or drink they loose all desire (rev. of, Cal.). Sudden urging to urinate (Canth.). Child…”
- Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“Carum petroselinum, Benth. (Petroselinum sativum, Hoffm., Apium petroselinum, L.) Natural order , Umbelliferæ. Common names , Parsley, Petersilie, Le Persil. Preparation , Tincture of the whole plant. Authority , Bethmann, Archiv. f. Hom., 18, 3, 34, symptoms observed. Discharge of a milky fluid from the urethra…”
- Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Carum petroselinum. Petroselinum sativum. Apium petroselinum. N. O. Umbelliferæ. Tincture of whole fresh plant when coming into bloom. Catheter fever / Cystitis / Dysuria / Gleet / Gonorrhœa / Gravel / Intermittent fever / Night-blindness / Priapism Petrosel. is referred to by Hahnemann as a gonorrhœal remedy when…”
- Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Parsley. Umbelliferæ. Tincture of the whole fresh plant when coming into bloom. CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. Bethmann, Archives, vol. 18, p. 34, Roth, Gazette, 1850, p. 588 ; Sonnenberg, A. H. Z., vol. 56, p. 76 ; Gonorrhœa , Attomyr, Hahnemann, Gross, Vehsemeyer, Müller, Wurda, Pleyl, Schreter, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 92…”
- Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Stool whitish, like clay; chronic diarrhœa. Agglutination of the orifice of the urethra by mucus. Albuminous yellow discharge from the urethra; gonorrhœa. Daring micturition, burning and tingling from the perinæum through the whole urethra. Drawing, afterwards itching in the fossa navicularis.”
- Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common name: parsley. Acts decidedly upon the urethral mucous membrane, producing a considerable degree of irritation and inflammation (C.). The urinary symptoms give the keynotes for this remedy (Br.). Piles with much itching (Aloe, Ign., Nux-V., Sulph.) (Br.). Thirsty and hungry, yet as soon as they begin to eat or…”
- Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“It has a very characteristic indication for its administration, viz.: “Great and sudden desire to urinate,” children stand and jump right up and down from pain and urging. This is mostly found in chronic cases (especially after gonorrhœa) after the inflammation has extended backward to the neck of the bladder. Another…”
