Zizia aurea

Meadow Parsnip

by William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory

Historical reference for practitioners and students. The statements below reflect the named author’s homeopathic teaching and do not establish treatment effectiveness. This text is not medical advice and must not replace appropriate diagnosis or care.

(THASPIUM AUREUM - ZIZIA)

Hysteria, epilepsy, chorea, hypochondriasis, come within the sphere of this remedy.

Mind

Suicidal; depressed; laughing and weeping moods alternate.

Head

Pressure on top, in right temple, associated with backache.

Male

Great lassitude following coitus. Sexual power increased.

Female

Intermittent neuralgia of left ovary. Acrid, profuse leucorrhœa, with retarded menses.

Respiratory

Dry cough, with stitches in chest. Dyspnœa.

Extremities

Unusual tired feeling. Chorea, especially during sleep. Fidgety legs ( Tarant ). Lameness in arms and spasmodic twitching.

Modalities

Worse, during sleep .

Relationship

Compare: Agar; Stram; Tarant; Cicuta; Aethusa .

Dose

Tincture, to third potency.

Zizia aurea across the other classic books

Zizia aurea appears in 6 of the 21 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 TF — A compiled symptom record drawing on proving reports and other named observations.
“[The old name should be retained, especially as botanists differ in opinions whether it should now be Thapsium (Gray), or Carum (Bentham and Hooker).] Carum aureum, Bentham and Hooker. Thapsium aureum, Nutt. (Smyrnium aureum, Linn; Zizia aurea, Koch). Natural order , Umbelliferæ. Common name , Meadow parsnips…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“aurea. Thapsium aureum. Carum aureum. Meadow Parsnip. N. O. Umbelliferæ. Tincture of root. Asthma / Brain, affections of / Catarrh / Chorea, in sleep / Convulsions / Dropsy / Epilepsy / Hypochondriasis / Hysteria / Influenza / Leucorrhœa / Menses, suppression of / Migraine / Ovary, intermittent neuralgia of / Pleurisy…”
Hale — The introduction story — early pathogenetic and clinical evidence for medicines new to Hale's generation.
“(Meadow Parsnip.) Botanical Description. — This is a perennial herb, growing by moist river banks, flowering in June. Stem branched, one to two ternately divided or parted (or rarely some of the root-leaves simple and heartshaped), the divisions or leaflets oblong-lanceolate, very sharply cut, serrate, with a…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Meadow Parsnips. Umbelliferæ. The tincture is prepared from the root. Proving by Marcy, assisted by Fulgraff, in 1855, N. Am. Jour. of Hom., vol. 4, p. 52. Exhilaration : like intoxication ; of all faculties, followed by a strong desire to sleep ; lasting twelve hours, then great depression for several days. Laughing…”
Hughes & Dake — The source evidence — provings and poisonings retained with their experimental context.
“ZIZIA, Zixia aurea, Koch Smyrnium aureum, L 5 Thapsinm aurcum, Nutt.5 Carum axreum, ‘Bentham and Hooker, “Meadow panm'p., Nat. Ord, Unieligere 1. Provinge—1. Dt. MaRcy, three other men, and one woman, made prosings of Z,,all taking. sod il (5 dr. every 4 h. til effete were produced) save one, ho Used ist dil. and…”

Zizia aurea in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Zizia aurea in 66 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in HEAD (18), MIND (11), EXTREMITIES (7), BACK (6), COUGH (5).

EXTREMITIES - MOTION - convulsive
GENERALITIES - PAIN - stitching - internally
BACK - PAIN - aching - fever - during
EXTREMITIES - WEAKNESS - Leg - eating agg. - exertion slight,after
HEAD - PAIN, - cutting,darting,stabbing - Forehead - coughing,on
MIND - DISCONTENTED,displeased,dissatisfied,etc. - weeping amel.
GENERALITIES - CHOREA - sleep amel.
HEAD - PAIN, - cutting,darting,stabbing - coughing,when
CHEST - PAIN - stitching - Sides - right - coughing,on
EXTREMITIES - ERUPTION - Wrist - pimples - itching
FACE - ERUPTIONS - pimples - forehead - itching
MIND - CHEERFUL,gay,happy - followed by irritability,etc. - melancholy
EXTREMITIES - ERUPTION - Leg - pimples - itching
MOUTH - BROAD,Tongue seems too
COUGH - TIGHT
HEAD - PAIN, - pains in back,with
EXTREMITIES - ERUPTION - Upper Limbs - pimples - itching
EXTREMITIES - ERUPTION - Wrist - pimples
BACK - PAIN - aching - Lumbar region - motion - on
HEAD - PAIN, - Temples - right

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