Æthusa Cynapium aeth.

Æthusa cynapium, L. Natural order of plants, Umbelliferæ. A tincture is prepared from the whole plant when in flower.

This plant, formerly supposed to be poisonous, is now proved to be harmless; large quantities can be taken with impurity; it seems, however, to possess a disagreeable essential oil which provokes nausea and vomiting and causes other symptoms. ▶ It is particularly useful in gastro-intestinal disorders of children (vomiting, diarrhœa, and even convulsions).

Sulph., Sul. ac. , Tart. emet., Kali-b., Ox-ac., Ip., Grat., Gam.

Hands, head and face seem swollen after walking in open air, amel. in the house. ▶ Clothes seem loose. ▶ Secretions diminished. ▶ Stabbing pain. ▶ Seething in blood in morning on waking. ▶ Uneasiness. ▶ Weakness, with sleepiness in afternoon. ▶ Amelioration in open air; after entering house; after broth.

A case of infantile paralysis, with the characteristic indications for Æthusa, is reported cured.

It is reported to have cured a discharge from the right ear associated with spasms, stupor and vomiting of milk.

For vomiting of milk (in young children), especially of curdled milk, this remedy is unrivalled associated with this condition or consequent upon the gastric derangement there may be diarrhœa of a thin yellow or greenish character (Gratiola, gamboge). ▶ Some very obstinate cases of gastrointestinal catarrh have been cured by Æthusa, and it has even arrested convulsions and paralytic symptoms, which doubtless had their origin in indigestion. ▶ The vomiting or evacuation by the bowels of curds of milk is quite a characteristic indication.

Anxiety. ▶ Dullness like intoxication. ▶ Earnestness. ▶ Excited, lively in forenoon, apprehensive, sad in afternoon. ▶ Fixed idea of a garment which she had made the previous day, and of which she dreamed. ▶ Fretfulness; in afternoon; in open air, amel. in house; amel. towards noon. ▶ Does not talk willingly.

Aching; seeming to come from teeth; pulsating on entering house. ▶ Brain seems bound up. ▶ Constriction. ▶ Drawing upward in. ▶ Dullness. ▶ Pulsation, especially right side and backward, with heaviness; pulsation and sticking in afternoon. ▶ Raging here and there on entering house. ▶ Painful screwing together from both sides. ▶ Shattered feeling in afternoon. ▶ Vertigo; in open air; during and after rising from a seat; amel. open air; sudden while sitting, amel. rising.

Aching; crampy, with disposition to contract eyebrows; intermittent, in lines vertically over each eye; pulsating left. ▶ In forepart of head, pain as if compressed posteriorly and superiorly. ▶ Constriction from points vertically over each eye, amel. pressure; constriction and yet pressure outward; constriction of brows. ▶ Heaviness which seems to press head downward, when sitting; heaviness which presses down eyelids, during dinner. ▶ Pressure in sinuses. ▶ Pulsation. ▶ Shooting up over eyes. ▶ Sticking, in afternoon on turning head to right. ▶ Jerking tearing in left sinus while sitting. ▶ Tension as from a band fastened at each zygoma. ▶ Sensation as if something were turning around in it.

Aching as if a bloodvessel had been torn out of left. ▶ Pulsation, left. ▶ Sticking shooting in left. ▶ Sticking, left ; and pulsation, amel. pressure. ▶ Sudden tearing in right, in afternoon. ▶ Aching in left mastoid process.

Aching. ▶ Painful sticking and beating, in afternoon amel. rubbing.

Sticking in left half of head; inward in upper part of left bone; sticking and pulsating in upper part of right bone. ▶ Tearing and pulsation in right; sticking tearing in left. ▶ Twitching in right, in afternoon.

Aching in right; occasional. ▶ Heaviness. ▶ Sticking and pulsation in upper part of right; tearing stitches extending forward from, in afternoon. ▶ Tearing in right side, shooting through whole head and extending to right side, in afternoon.

Burning as from smoke, in house. ▶ Watery.

Sticking shooting in left. ▶ Sticking in left ; into stitches in right hypochondrium, in afternoon; in left, with sensation of heat coming out of it, alternating with stitches in left costal region. ▶ Stopped sensation, with hardness in left costal region. ▶ Stopped sensation, with hardness of hearing which lasted longer in left ear. ▶ Stuffiness in right. ▶ Tearing, amel. rubbing; sticking, in afternoon, in right; about left, extending to top of head. ▶ Twitching.

Much thick mucus. ▶ Ulcerative pain, as if there were an open spot in left fossa. ▶ Pressure in upper passages. ▶ Sneezing; inclination to, in left nostril. ▶ Stitches externally, left side. ▶ Stoppage; sudden, morning, after waking.

Sensation of fulness and heat. ▶ Hollow-cheeked. ▶ Stitch like the tapping of a finger in middle of left cheek, with tearing. ▶ Malar bones; crampy aching, agg. left ; sticking and tearing, in right; tearing in left in cold air. ▶ Lips dry. ▶ Tearing in lower lip extending into neighboring teeth, in afternoon. ▶ Tearing in right lower jaw.

Teeth; grumbling in a right lower back tooth; a right lower decayed molar, sensitive, agg. touch; tickling in left upper teeth. ▶ Gums, stitches here and there; sticking and tearing, now right, now left. ▶ Tongue dry. ▶ Mouth, burning; dryness; salivation. ▶ Taste insipid; metallic; slimy, with dryness; sweetish; sweetish morning after waking; tastelessness to food.

Burning. ▶ Dryness. ▶ Hawking, frequent; inclination for hawking and for spitting. ▶ Stitches when not swallowing. ▶ Desire to swallow, as if to keep something down; sensation as if she could not swallow, with spasmodic contraction in right side of throat and ear, in afternoon while sitting. ▶ Œsophagus, burning; warmth and uneasiness.

Indisposed to ear, with fair appetite. ▶ Thirst. ▶ Eructations, tasting of broth; eructations burning œsophagus and throat; empty in afternoon; of food; rancid; hot, sour waterbrash. ▶ Nausea; at sight of food; in mouth and pharynx; extending down œsophagus to stomach, with rumbling and gurgling in stomach and upper abdomen and fluttering in stomach. ▶ Hiccough in afternoon. ▶ Retching and throwing up phlegm. ▶ Burning. ▶ Feeling as before diarrhœa, and in bowels. ▶ Griping. ▶ Heaviness. ▶ Feeling of indigestion; and in upper abdomen. ▶ Feeling as after a spree. ▶ Sticking in side neat stomach, extending deeply inward on sitting bent, amel. becoming erect. ▶ Feeling as if something turned about, then heat rising into chest. ▶ Uneasiness, as before gastric catarrh; uneasiness and warmth.

Coldness, in region of transverse colon; in upper. ▶ Cramps in small intestines quickly shifting from place to place. ▶ Cutting above umbilicus; cutting in lower, with urging to stool. ▶ Griping in umbilicus, then two soft stools. ▶ Gurgling and rumbling in upper, and in stomach, with nausea and fluttering in stomach. ▶ Sensation of a load in upper. ▶ Sensation in upper, as after a dose of medicine. ▶ Movements, then a stool, which is first hard then soft; painful movements below navel, with desire for stool, after morning broth. ▶ Pain as before diarrhœa; pain in upper, and in stomach, as from something indigestible. ▶ Pressure in left hypochondrium and burning, with stitches. ▶ Rush as of boiling water in umbilical region. ▶ Stitch in right hypochondrium, then in right ear, in afternoon; in left hypochondrium; in left hypochondrium, with burning, amel. rubbing; burning stitches at one time in right hypochondrium, at another in left loin; sticking in hypochondriac region, extending backward, in afternoon. ▶ Warmth in upper.

Clawing, with straining, during hard stool. ▶ Tenesmus after soft stool. ▶ Urging to stool, with cutting in abdomen; urging after morning broth, with painful movements below navel. ▶ Stool hard; first part hard, then soft; loose, yellow and sour; two soft.

Diminished. ▶ Increased; pale, of sweet odour. ▶ Sexual desire diminished; strong, on waking.

Dry, in paroxysms, after dinner. ▶ Frequent short, hacking.

Burning, as from a glowing iron, in a spot below left breast. ▶ Crampy constriction right. ▶ Digging and tension in front of right axilla. ▶ Stitch in region of right ribs, in afternoon; beneath left mamma in afternoon, agg. inspiration; in middle of chest, 6.30 P.M., during inspiration on rising after sitting bent, agg. deep breathing; acute in middle of sternum, then burning in same spot, amel. pressure, but returning; in left costal region, alternating with sticking in and sensation of heat coming out of left ear; deep internally beneath left female breast, in afternoon. ▶ Tension in front of right axilla, evening when knitting.

Crampy constriction, with a feeling as if he could not take a long breath. ▶ Pulse rapid; slow and soft.

▶ ▶ Neck. ▶ Drawing pain as if a tendon or bloodvessel would be torn out, in right side, amel. rubbing. ▶ Stitch inward in left muscles. ▶ Tearing in a spot on right side; in tendons of right side; pulsating in spot on tendons of left side. ▶ Sticking twitching in nape. ▶ Back. ▶ Aching in small of; heavy aching across kidneys, morning on waking. ▶ Drawing in right lumbar region while walking, amel. sitting. ▶ Pain between scapulæ, morning on waking. ▶ Screwed-together feeling in small of. ▶ Stitch between scapulæ; in right lumbar region, then pressure; burning at one time in left loin, then in right hypochondriac region.

Shoulder, paralyzed feeling in left, then in right forearm; painful tension in left then right forearm, paralytic pain in left while sitting; sticking in tendons of right while using hand; sticking tearing in middle of left, along upper surface, to wrist; tearing in middle of left, along upper surface, to wrist; tearing in spot on inner surface of left ; tension in tendons of left while knitting, amel. moving fingers; sudden weakness while knitting; darkness near right wrist extending to little finger. ▶ Stitch in left external styloid process. ▶ Hand; tearing on back of right, in tendons of thumb; tearing in metacarpal bone of index, left and right. ▶ Thumb, sticking in ball of left, on flexing, amel. extending thumb; stiff feeling left twitching tearing as in marrow, between first and become joints of left ; twitching of left. ▶ Fingers, fine sticking on left side of tip of right index, amel. pressure; tearing in lower surface of third joint of right little; tearing between little and ring, agg. stretching them.

Weakness. ▶ Hip, pinching externally, in right; sticking and drawing into left thigh; tension in right in afternoon. ▶ Thigh, paralytic pain in middle of right while sitting, amel. motion; sticking in upper part of left. ▶ Sticking in right knee in evening when standing. ▶ Tearing deep in right instep in afternoon. ▶ Tearing sticking in right heel, extending into sole as far as ball of foot. ▶ Sticking in right sole below heel.

Dry, white, leathery, pinched look. ▶ Face red. ▶ Skin of hands dry and shrunken, especially palmar surface. ▶ Painful boil on sacral region.

▶ Sleepiness; in afternoon; amel. open air.

Chilliness, internal and external; internal and external, with sleepiness, in forenoon; coldness in, around and behind right ear, seeming to be in bone; of feet and limbs, nearly to knees. ▶ Shivering on entering house. ▶ Heat general; glowing feeling over whole body; morning on waking; heat of head; and burning in face; rushing to heat; in forehead, with pressure; in face; with full sensation; burning on right side of nose, then as with a glowing needle externally in pit of stomach; heat extending up back in afternoon; burning externally in small of back, amel. rubbing; general peripheral warmth. ▶ Sweat; on forehead.