Æthusa Cynapium aeth.

Lies unconscious, dilated pupils, staring eyes (child).
Incapacity of mind to think, confused; idiocy.
Great sadness when alone; hallucinations and delirium.
Anxiety and restlessness, afterwards headache and colic.
Irritability, especially in the afternoon and in the open air.

Vertigo: with sleepiness, can't lift the head up; giddiness ceases and head gets hot; with palpitation.

Violent pain, as if brain were dashed to pieces.
Pressing pain in the forehead, as if it would split, at its height vomiting and finally diarrhœa.
Headache ceases, with discharge of flatus downwards.
Stitches and pulsations in the head.
Distressing pain in the occiput, nape and down the spine, better from bending stiffly backwards.
Sensation as if both sides of the head were in a vice.

Objects seem much larger than natural.
Eyes brilliant, protruding; dilated pupils.
Chronic photophobia; scrofulous ophthalmia; swelling of the meibomian glands; edges of the lids inflamed, adhere at night, must be washed open in the morning.

Yellow discharge from right ear, with stitching pains.

Nose stopped up with thick mucus; frequent but ineffectual desire to sneeze.

Expression of anxiety, with well-marked linea nasalis.
Face: puffed, spotted red; pale.

Chin and corners of the mouth feel cold.

Stinging or tearing in the gums.

Aphthæ in mouth and throat salivation.
Feeling as if the tongue were too long.
Taste: bitter; like cheese; like onions; sweetish in the morning.
Speech impeded, slow.

Soft palate, red and swollen.

Burning thirst.
Desire for wine, or aggravation from its use.

While eating: sudden heaviness in forehead.
After eating: pain below navel, lienteric stool, dry cough.

Violent sudden vomiting: of frothy white substance; of yellow fluid, followed by curdled milk and cheesy matter. Cannot bear milk in any form.
Vomiting of greenish phlegm, similar to the stools.
The milk is forcibly ejected soon after being taken; then weakness causes drowsiness. θ Nursing children.
Regurgitation of food an hour or so after eating.

Painful contractions of the stomach so severe as to prevent vomiting.
Tearing, rending pains in pit of stomach, extending to the œsophagus.

Lancinating in the right hypochondrium, in the afternoon.
Painful pressing, burning, stitching, left hypochondrium.
Shooting in left hypochondrium, often and long-continued.
Soreness and painfulness in both hypochondria.

Coldness of abdomen and lower limbs, with aching of bowels, relieved by warm, wet applications.
Bluish-black swelling of the abdomen.
Colic, followed by vomiting, vertigo and weakness.

Diarrhœa: stools bright, yellowish, then green and slimy, later greenish-grey; green, thin, bilious or bloody mucus, stools undigested; greenish mucus, with bile, much pain and tenesmus.

Right testicle drawn up, with pain in kidneys.

Labor-pains too weak, not regular.

Short breath, interrupted by hiccough.

Stitches in left side of chest.

Palpitation, with vertigo and headache.
Pulse: frequent, small, somewhat hard and unrhythmical.

Sensation as if the small of the back were in a vice.
Painful furuncle in the sacral region.

Numbness of the arms, aching about the scapulæ, extending to the arms.
Sensation as if the arms had become much shorter.

Boring and shooting in lower limbs, with great weariness.
Lancinating and drawing from left hip into the thigh.
Laming ache in the middle of right thigh while sitting; better when moving.
Lancinating from right heel into the sole.
Crawling in the feet.

Moving: 33. Walking: 33. Bending backward: 3. Cannot stand: 36. Lying: 21.

Epileptiform spasms, with clenched thumbs, red face, eyes turned downwards, dilated, staring, immovable pupils, foam at the mouth, teeth set, pulse small, hard, accelerated.
Spasms, with stupor or delirium.
Restlessness, with excessive anguish.
Great weakness; children cannot stand; cannot hold up head.

Dozing of child after vomiting spells or after stool.
On falling asleep, rolling of eyes or slight convulsions.

Morning: 5. Afternoon: 1, 28. Night: 5.

Headache better walking in the open air.
Frequently indicated in summer.
Heat: 46. Moist warmth: 19. Room: 43. Open air: 1. Washing: 43.

Coldness, rigors, stiffness of the limbs.

Right: 6, 18, 22, 33. Left: 18, 28, 33.

Sensation as if head, face and hands were swollen; worse after washing; better coming in room.
Sensation as of a band around the head and chest.
Sensation of parts as if in vice; head; chest; small of back.

Ecchymosis, black and blue spots all over.

Eruption, itching when exposed to heat.
Liability to excoriation of the thighs when walking.
Red spots on the skin.
Little water blisters, itching in bed.
Tetters bleed easily.
Reddish-blue spots on trunk and left leg.

Children, during dentition.

Collaterals: Cicut., Conium, Œnanth., Croc.
Concordances: Ant. crud. (vomiting of milk); Arsen.; Asar.; Calc. ostr. (vomiting of milk); Cuprum; Ipec.; Opium.
It antidotes Opium, and is antidoted by vegetable acids.