Æthusa Cynapium aeth.

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

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Region

BRAIN. Nerves. Digestion. Occiput. Neck. Glands. Liver.

Worse

MILK. Hot weather. Dentition. Frequent eating. Over-exertion.

General

Violent onset, profound exhaustion and lack of reaction, even speechless; as in cholera infantum, convulsions, etc. Can't stand or hold head up. Weak, nervous and prostrated; from over-work. Can't fix attention. Parts feel screwed together. Lancinating pains. Distress in occiput and nape. Violent convulsions.

Particulars

Weepy; < as disease progresses. Dizzy and drowsy (Gel.). Squeezing headache, > passing flatus. Eyes turn down. Face sunken. Deathly aspect; blue white palor about lips. White linea nasalis. Tongue feels too long. Nibbling appetite. Regurgitates food long after eating (Kre.). Violent sudden vomiting of milk. DEATHLY NAUSEA. VOMITS LARGE, HARD CURDS, THEN LIMPNESS AND DEEP SLEEP. Retching. Digestion ceases from brain exhaustion. Stomach seems turned upside down. Bubbling at navel. Yellow-green, slimy diarrhœa. Watery menses. Lymphatics swelled, like a string of beads. Eruptions that itch from heat. Ecchymoses. Cool, clammy skin. Heat without thirst. Sweat (cold) with aversion to uncovering.

Related

Complementary: Calc-c. Related: Ant-c. Cic.

Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica

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Keynote

Especially for children during dentition in hot summer weather; children who cannot bear milk. Great weakness; children cannot stand; unable to hold up the head (Abrot.); prostration with sleepiness. Idiocy in children; incapacity to think; confused. An expression of great anxiety and pain, with a drawn condition and well-marked linea nasalia. Features expressive of pain and anxiety. Herpetic eruption on end of the nose. Complete absence of thirst (Apis, Puls. - rev of Ars.). Intolerance of milk: cannot bear milk in any form; it is vomited in large curds as soon as taken; then weakness causes drowsiness (compare Mag. c.). Indigestion of teething children; violent, sudden vomiting of a frothy, milk-white substance; or yellow fluid, followed by curdled milk and cheesy matter. Regurgitation of food and hour or so after eating; copious greenish vomiting. Epileptic spasms, with clenched thumbs, red face, eyes turned downwards, pupils fixed and dilated; foam at the mouth, jaws locked; pulse small, hard, quick. Weakness and prostration with sleepiness; after vomiting, after stool, after spasm.

Relations

Similar: to Ant. c., Ars., Cal., Sanic.

Aggravation

After eating or drinking; after vomiting; after stool; after spasm.

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General

This remedy is one of the most important in the Materia Medica, and is not so well known as it should be; it is largely characterized by intolerance of milk. (See Stomach.)

The mental symptoms peculiar to children, and frequently to adults, are great anguish and crying; restlessness, followed by pains in head and abdomen. As the disease progresses, the patient becomes more and more retired in his disposition, and more inclined to weep.

In the delirium of adults, it is fancied that cats and dogs are seen. There is a disposition to jump out of bed: if they are out of bed, will try to jump out of the window: or if they are in bed, will jump out and start for the window.

Patient will lie stretched out in an unconscious state; we often see children in this condition.

Head

Feels bound up or as if in a vise. Distressing pain in occiput, down nape of neck and spine. Stupefaction; unable to remain in an upright position; vertigo when seated, which is increased by motion; vertigo with sleepiness. The head symptoms are relieved by expelling flatus.

Eyes

Scrofulous ophthalmia; swelling of the meibomian glands; chronic inflammation of the edges of the lids--during the night the eyelids become so closely adhered to each other, that they must be washed open in the morning; pustules on the cornea; pupils dilated, but sensitive to light; objects seem much larger than they really are; chronic photophobia; staring, dilated pupils.

Ears

Yellowish discharge from the right ear; troublesome hissing in the ears. In the troubles of the ears, hissing, etc., there is great alleviation by inserting the finger, and drawing the parts asunder.

Nose

Herpetic eruption on the end of the nose. Often stopped up with a very thick mucus; frequent ineffectual desire to sneeze.

Face

The symptoms are very important, and are more particularly applicable to children. On first glancing at a child, we see an expression of great anxiety and pain, with linea nasalis, which is a surface of pearly whiteness on the upper lip, bounded by a distinct line from the outer nasal orifices to the angles of the mouth. This symptom is more characteristic of Æthusa than of any other medicine. The face is puffed, and speckled with red spots.

Mouth

The buccal cavity is usually very dry.

Aphthæ over the mouth; salivation; persons describe a sensation as if the tongue were too long, and pressing against the teeth; it seems long, they cannot use it well. Taste bitter.

Throat

Pustules in the throat; making the patient almost desperate; burning in throat; great difficulty in swallowing.

Stomach

Regurgitation of food an hour or so after it has been taken. Violent vomiting of a frothy matter, white as milk, This we may find in men, children, or pregnant women. We may put down the following as a positive symptom occurring under this remedy: Very often in the summer a sick child cannot retain milk, either its mother's, or that of the cow. The child may take a good supply of it, but immediately it will all be vomited, and the little sufferer will fall over exhausted. It may take more milk shortly, when there will be the same result. The fault is not in the milk, but with the child, which this remedy will speedily correct.

A diarrhœa of curdled milk often accompanies the vomiting of milk, or an obstinate constipation with much worrying, fretting, etc. We sometimes find these symptoms of diarrhœa and vomiting in cholera infantum and summer complaints.

Copious vomiting in adults, with a great feeling of distress; can't tell what the distress is about, but still it exists. Vomiting and diarrhœa of greenish mucus, and of bloody mucus; vomiting with perspiration and great weakness, accompanied by anguish and distress. Cold perspiration; very violent pains in the stomach. Adults complain of a peculiar sensation, as though the stomach were turned upside down, accompanied by a burning feeling up to the chest.

Tearing pains in the stomach, extending into the œsophagus; colicky pains, with diarrhœa, also with constipation; bubbling sensation in the umbilical region, similar to the bubbling of boiling water, or water bubbling up in a spring.

Abdomen

Very cold sensation in whole of upper abdomen; internal and external coldness of abdomen, with aching pain in bowels and coldness of lower extremities. Colic followed by vomiting, vertigo, and weakness. Excessive griping pains in; tense, inflated and sensitive, especially in region of the liver.

Stool

Undigested or partly so; 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. Constipation, most obstinate, with feeling as if all action of bowels had been lost. Cholera infantum; after much purging and vomiting the child becomes cold, clammy, stupid, loses consciousness and will often lie with staring eyes and dilated pupils.

Urine

Cutting pains in the bladder with frequent calls to urinate; urine is often red, sometimes white sediment.

Sexual

Female: Lancinating pains in sexual organs; pimples on external parts, itching exceedingly when she gets warm; catamenia are very watery. Swelling of the mammary glands with heat and redness, with lancinating pains, which are the characteristic pains for this remedy.

Chest

Sufferings of the patient render him almost speechless; the disease has a tendency to entirely deprive him of speech. Respiration often becomes hoarse and hissing; very difficult, painful, and anxious respiration. Cough, with stunning pain in the head; the cough producing the pain. Sensation as if the chest were encircled by a band, which appears to cause an oppressed and difficult breathing. Swelling of the lymphatic glands around the neck, like a string of beads. Swelling of the axillary glands, particularly if accompanied by the lancinating thrusts. Violent palpitation of the heart.

Joints

Eruption around the joints, particularly the knee, elbow, ankle. All eruptions of Æthusa itch intolerably when exposed to the heat, or when they become warm. Tettery eruptions, which bleed easily; black and blue spots, sometimes like ecchymosis, all over the body, showing a very low state of the system. This remedy also cures anasarca.

Sleep

Child can't sleep on account of frequent startings; it gets almost asleep when it awakens with a sudden start; the patient falls asleep for a short time, then awakens and keeps awake for a long time. Restlessness with excessive anguish.

Fever

Complete absence of thirst, though there is great heat, characteristic of Æthusa. Cannot bear to be uncovered during the sweat. Profuse cold perspiration.

Pulse rapid, hard, and small; sometimes irregular; often in a very low state of the system the pulse is imperceptible. Black tongue and bilious diarrhœa in typhus fevers.

Generalities

Agitation and very painful distress; great general weakness, often coming suddenly, particularly in children; also considerable emaciation. Want of power to hold the head up; also to stand up. W e find this condition in children, where there is no particular sickness, but the child can't stand up; can't bear its weight on its limbs.

Epileptic form of convulsion when the thumbs are bent inward, face red, eyes turned down (which is peculiar, as in epilepsy they are usually turned up), pupils dilated and immovable, white, milky froth before the mouth, teeth set, pulse usually small, temperature of the skin natural. The convulsions are very violent; violence seeming to be characteristic.

This remedy is most frequently indicated in the summer. It often comes in very nicely where the child is much run down, and nothing seems to do any good--Arsen., Calc. carb., Silic.,--everything seems to fail; and then comes in Æthusa.

Unusual liability to excoriation of the thighs in walking. Great disposition to perspire on the slightest physical effort.

Æthusa is a great liver and stomach remedy, other symptoms agreeing. Trismus in a very violent form.

Skin

Whole body may be of bluish-black color, or black and blue spots may appear.

Worse

From 3 to 4 A.M.; also towards evening.

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Red line symptom

A drawn condition, beginning at the alae nasi, and extending to the angle of the mouth, giving the face an expression of great anxiety and pain. Intolerance of milk, in nursing children, it is forcibly ejected almost as soon as swallowed, then weakness causes drowsiness. Violent vomiting of curdled milk and cheesy matter. Spasms during dentition, with clenched thumbs, red face, eyes turned downwards, dilated, staring, immovable pupils, foam at the mouth, teeth set, pulse small, hard, accelerated. Great weakness, child cannot stand, or hold up its head.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Fool's Parsley

General

The characteristic symptoms relate mainly to the brain and nervous system, connected with gastro-intestinal disturbance. Anguish, crying, and expression of uneasiness and discontent, lead to this remedy most frequently in disease in children, during dentition, summer complaint, when, with the diarrhœa, there is marked inability to digest milk, and poor circulation. Symptoms set in with violence.

Mind

Restless, anxious, crying. Sees rats, cats, dogs, etc. Unconscious, delirious. Inability to think, to fix the attention. Brain fag. Idiocy may alternate with furor and irritability.

Head

Feels bound up, or in a vise. Occipital pain extending down spine; better lying down and by pressure. Head symptoms relieved by expelling flatus (Sanguin) and by stool. Hair feels pulled. Vertigo with drowsiness, with palpitation; head hot after vertigo ceases.

Eyes

Photophobia; swelling of Meibomian glands. Rolling of eyes on falling asleep. Eyes drawn downward; pupils dilated.

Ears

Feel obstructed. Sense of something hot from ears. Hissing sound.

Nose

Stopped up with much thick mucus. Herpetic eruption on tip of nose. Frequent ineffectual desire to sneeze.

Face

Puffed, red-spotted, collapsed. Expression anxious, full of pain; linea nasalis marked.

Mouth

Dry. Aphthæ. Tongue seems too long. Burning and pustules in throat, with difficult swallowing.

Stomach

Intolerance of milk; vomiting as soon as swallowed or in large curds. Hungry after vomiting. Regurgitation of food about an hour after eating. Violent vomiting of a white frothy matter. Nausea at sight of food. Painful contraction of stomach. Vomiting, with sweat and great weakness, accompanied by anguish and distress, followed by sleepiness. Stomach feels turned upside down, with burning feeling up to the chest. Tearing pains in the stomach extending to œsophagus.

Abdomen

Cold, internal and external, with aching pain in bowels. Colic, followed by vomiting, vertigo, and weakness. Tense, inflated, and sensitive. Bubbling sensation around navel.

Stool

Undigested, thin, greenish, preceded by colic, with tenesmus, and followed by exhaustion and drowsiness. Cholera infantum; child cold, clammy, stupid, with staring eyes and dilated pupils. Obstinate constipation; feels as if all bowel action is lost. Choleraic affections in old age.

Urinary

Cutting pain in bladder, with frequent urging. Pain in kidneys.

Female

Lancinating pains in sexual organs. Pimples; itching when warm. Menses watery. Swelling of mammary glands, with lancinating pains.

Respiratory

Difficult, oppressed, anxious respiration; crampy constriction. Sufferings render patient speechless.

Heart

Violent palpitation, with vertigo, headache and restlessness. Pulse rapid, hard and small.

Back and Extremities

Want of power to stand up or hold head up. Back feels as if in a vise. Aching in small of back. Weakness of lower extremities. Fingers and thumbs clenched. Numbness of hands and feet. Violent spasms. Squinting of eyes downward.

Skin

Excoriation of thighs in walking. Easy perspiration. Surface of body cold and covered with clammy sweat. Lymphatic glands swollen. Itching eruption around joints. Skin of hands dry and shrunken. Ecchymosis. Anasarca.

Fever

Great heat; no thirst. Profuse, cold sweat. Must be covered during sweat.

Sleep

Disturbed by violent startings; cold perspiration. Dozing after vomiting or stool. Child is so exhausted, it falls asleep at once.

Modalities

Worse, 3 to 4 am, and evenings; warmth, summer. Better in open air and company.

Compare: Athamantha (confused head, vertigo better lying down, bitter taste and saliva. Hands and feet icy cold); Antimon; Calc; Ars; Cicuta. Complementary: Calc.

Dose

Third to thirtieth potency.

Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics

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Leaders

Is one of our best remedies for vomiting in children. The milk comes up as soon as swallowed, by a great effort, after which the child becomes greatly relaxed and drowsy; or if the milk stays down longer it finally comes up in very sour curds, so large that it would seem almost impossible the child could have ejected them. if this condition of the stomach is not cured the case will go on to cholera infantum, with green watery or slimy stool, colic and convulsions. The convulsions of this remedy are peculiar, in that the eyes turn downward instead of up or sidewise. If the case still progresses unfavourably there is an appearance of sunkenness in the face with linea nasalis, which is a surface of pearly whiteness on the upper lip, bounded by a distinct line from the outer nasal orifice to the angles of the mouth.

This last symptom is more characteristic of Æthusa than any other remedy. Æthusa has complete absence of thirst. The prostration and anxiety are very marked, but the absence of thirst rules for Æthusa instead of Arsenicum album. Vomiting of large curds (sour) is also found under Calcarea ostrearum, but with this remedy we have at the same time sour stools, and then sweaty head, and open fontanelles as well as Calcarea temperament would generally be found in the case.

There is another very peculiar symptom of Æthusa that has been cured twice to my knowledge by this remedy, viz.: Imagined she saw a rat or mouse run across the room. In both these cases the symptom occurred in hard worked, nervous women, but the symptom was very persistent and annoying. Æthusa not only cured the aberration but improved the general health. I always use it in the 200th potency.

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Mind and Disposition

Bad humor, irritability, especially in the afternoon, and in the open air. Anxiety. Delirium.

Head

Giddiness, with sleepiness. Stitches and pulsations in the head. Heaviness in the forehead. Heat rises to the head ; the body becomes warmer ; the face becomes red and the giddiness ceases. Sensation, as if both sides of the head were in a vice.

Eyes

Eyes brilliant and protruding. Pupils dilated and insensible.

Ears

Stitches in the ears, especially in the right ear, as if something hot were streaming from it.

Face

Tearing in the face, in the malar bones.

Throat

Sensation of constriction, preventing deglutition. Stinging in the throat, between the acts of deglutition.

Taste

Taste sweetish, especially in the morning, when awaking.

Stomach

Violent vomiting (in children) of curdled milk ; of green mucus. Violent vomiting, with diarrhœa-green mucus, or (in children) bloody substances.

Abdomen

Sensation of coldness in the abdomen. Black bluish swelling of the abdomen.

Stool

Loose stools, preceded by cutting in the abdomen, with tenesmus in the morass, after rising. Diarrhœa-discharges green, thin, bilious, with violent tenesmus. Bloody stools.

Back

Sensation, as if the small of the back were in a vice.

Generalities

Epileptic spasms, with clenched thumb, red face, eyes turned downwards, pupils fixed, dilated, foam at the mouth, jaws locked, small, hard and quick pulse. Spasms, with stupor and delirium.

Sleep

Sleepiness all day ; sometimes better in the open air.

Conditions

Coldness, stiffness and rigor of the limbs. Sensation of parts, as if they were in a vice (head, small of back).

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General

Æthusa cynapium. Fool's Parsley. (Europe.) N. O. Umbelliferæ. Tincture of whole flowering plant.

Clinical

Brain-fag. Cholera infantum. Convulsions . Cough. Delirium. Diarrhœa. Dyspepsia. Ear, discharge from. Epilepsy. Excoriation . Eyes, affections of. Glands, affections of. Headache . Herpes. Hiccough . Idiocy. Infantile paralysis. Mind, weakness of. Sleeplessness. Stomach, disorders of. Trismus. Vomiting .

Characteristics

The symptoms of Æthusa are particularly clearly defined, in fact violence is one of the notes of its action ─ violent vomiting, violent convulsions, violent pains, violent delirium. On the other hand there is prostration and somnolence. "Fool's parsley" has not received its name for nothing ─ it is indeed a medicine for "fools." There is great weakness of mind or body. One very characteristic symptom is: Inability to think or fix the attention . Guided by this symptom I once gave it to an undergraduate preparing for an examination, with complete success. He had been compelled to give up his studies, but was able to resume them, and passed a brilliant examination. To a little waif in an orphan home who suffered from severe headaches and inability to fix his attention on his lessons I sent single doses of Æthus . at rare intervals, with very great relief. The little boy asked for the medicine himself subsequently on a return of the old symptoms. Other mental symptoms are: Idiocy; in some cases alternating with furor. Hallucinations. Delirium; sees cats and dogs; wants to jump out of bed, or out of the window. Irritability, especially in open air. Guernsey says: "The mental symptoms peculiar to children, and frequently of adults, are, great anguish and crying. As the disease progresses the patient becomes more and more retired in his disposition, and more inclined to weep." Somnolence. Dotage. Another marked characteristic is: Intolerance of milk; vomiting of everything taken, especially milk, which is ejected in yellowish or greenish curds. There is great weakness and exhaustion after vomiting; the child is so exhausted it falls asleep at once . It awakens hungry, eats, and vomits again. "Hungry after vomiting" is the keynote here. There is also griping, with diarrhœa, vomiting, crying. For adults who complain of regurgitation of food an hour after it has been taken Æthus ., says Guernsey, is invaluable. Also copious vomiting in adults, with a great feeling of distress; can't tell what the distress is about but still it exists. Adults complain of a sensation as though the stomach was turned upside down, accompanied by a burning feeling up to the chest. Tearing pains in stomach extending into œsophagus; abdomen tense, inflated, sensitive. There is an herpetic eruption on tip of nose. Along with the gastric symptoms there is a peculiar expression of great anxiety and pain ( Linea nasalis ), a surface of pearly whiteness on upper lip bounded by distinct lines from wings of nose to angles of mouth. Other symptoms are: Sensation of swelling in head and face on entering a room. Sunken cornea. Eyeballs convulsed and directed downwards. Sleep after attacks. Sensation of swelling in hands after walking. Convulsions, with cold limbs. The pains are lancinating. Swelling of mammary or axillary glands, with lancinating pains. Prostration; stupid. All symptoms < 3 to 4 a.m. Heat = all eruptions to itch intolerably. As with Bovist . and Aster. r . symptoms are < by coffee, wine, drunkenness, cold water, and warmth of bed; > by a walk in the open air, and by conversation. > In open air (except mental symptoms). The remedy is suited to teething-children and choleraic affections in old age.

Relations

Compare: Cicut.; Coni.; Œnan. croc.; Ant. crud. and Calc. c. (vomiting of milk); Ars.; Asar.; Cupr.; Ipec.; Op. It antidotes Opium; and is antidoted by vegetable acids. Teste places Æthus. in the Sulphur group with Cicuta, Con., Aster., Bov., Lobel., Merc., Kreas.

Mind

Incapacity to think; confused. ─ Loss of comprehension; as if a barrier between the senses and external objects. ─ Idiocy, in some cases alternating with furor. ─ Great anxiety and restlessness, followed by violent pains in head and abdomen. ─ Bad humour; irritability. ─ Irritability, esp. in the afternoon, and in the open air. ─ Delirium: sees cats and dogs; tries to jump out of the window. ─ Loquacious gaiety.

Head

Head confused; brain feels bound up. ─ Vertigo, with sleepiness, can't raise the head. ─ Headache in whole front part of head. ─ Heaviness in the forehead. ─ Sensation, as if both sides of the head were in a vice. ─ Distressing pains in the occiput, down nape of neck, and spine. ─ Heat rises to the head; the body becomes warmer; the face becomes red and the giddiness ceases. ─ Stitches and pulsations in the head. ─ Can't hold head up, or sit up. ─ Sensation as if constantly pulled by the hair. ─ The head symptoms are > by expelling flatus.

Eyes

Looking up < headache and vertigo. ─ Dilated pupils. ─ Pupils dilated but sensitive to light. ─ Eyes brilliant and prominent. ─ Cornea sunken. ─ Pustules on cornea. ─ Scrofulous ophthalmia; edges of lids inflamed and agglutinated at night; swelling of Meibomian glands. ─ Chronic photophobia.

Ears

Stitches in the ears, esp. in the r. ear, as if something hot were streaming from it. ─ Yellow discharge from r. ear, with stitching pains. ─ There is great > by inserting the finger and drawing the parts asunder.

Nose

Herpetic eruption at tip.

Face

A drawn condition beginning at the alæ nasi, and extending to the angles of the mouth, giving the face an expression of great anxiety and pain. ─ Tearing in the face, in the malar bones. ─ Jaws spasmodically fixed. ─ Face pale, puffed, and spotted red. ─ Chin and corners of mouth feel cold.

Mouth

Sticking and tearing in gums. ─ Taste: bitter; like cheese; like onions sweetish in morning when awaking. ─ Tongue: moist; white coat; black feels too long. ─ Speech slow; embarrassed. ─ Aphtæ in mouth and throat. ─ Copious salivation which > poisoning symptoms.

Throat

Sensation of constriction, preventing deglutition. ─ Stinging in the throat, between the acts of deglutition. ─ Soft palate red, swollen. ─ Pungent heat in mouth and throat. ─ While eating, sudden heaviness in forehead. ─ Spasmodic hiccough.

Stomach

Intolerance of milk; it is forcibly ejected almost as soon as swallowed; then weakness causes drowsiness; in nursing children. ─ Violent vomiting of curdled milk and cheesy matter. ─ Violent vomiting of a frothy matter, white as milk. This we may find in men, children, or pregnant women. ─ Violent vomiting of green mucus. ─ Violent vomiting, with diarrhœa, of green mucus, or (in children) bloody substances. ─ After vomiting, cold and clammy.

Abdomen

Coldness of the abdomen and lower limbs, esp. l., with aching in bowels; > by warm wet applications. ─ Sensation of coldness in the abdomen. ─ Swollen and tense abdomen. ─ Cutting, with distension. ─ Cutting, with violent vomiting. ─ Black-bluish swelling of the abdomen. ─ Colic, followed by vomiting, vertigo, and weakness.

Stool

Diarrhœa: stools bright yellow, or greenish, watery, and slimy, with violent tenesmus. ─ Undigested stool or partly so. ─ Loose stools, preceded by cutting in the abdomen, with tenesmus in the morning, after rising. ─ Diarrhœa: discharges green, thin, bilious, with violent tenesmus. ─ Bloody stools. ─ Most obstinate constipation, with feeling as if all action of the bowels had been lost.

Respiratory Organs

Sufferings of patient render him almost speechless. ─ Respiration very difficult and short. ─ Sensation as if chest were encircled by a band, causing difficult breathing. ─ Stitches in l. side of chest. ─ Cough, producing stunning pain in head.

Heart and Pulse

Violent palpitation of the heart, with headache. ─ Pulse full and rapid; hard, small, and rapid; small and frequent; irregular; imperceptible.

Neck and Back

Distressing pain in occiput and nape of neck, extending down the spine, > by friction with hot whisky. ─ Swelling of glands round neck like a string of beads. ─ Sensation as if the small of the back were in a vice. ─ A feeling as if pain in back could be > by straightening out and bending stiffly backward.

Limbs

Eruption round the joints, esp. knee, elbow, and ankle. ─ Axillary glands swollen. ─ Stiffness of elbow joints. ─ Swelling of forearms and hands. ─ Thumb and fingers bent inwards. ─ Excoriations of thighs from walking. ─ Paralytic pains in lower extremities; formication in feet.

Generalities

Epileptiform spasms, with clenched thumbs; red face; eyes turned downward; dilated, staring, immovable pupils; foam at the mouth; teeth set; pulse small, hard, accelerated. ─ Spasms, with stupor and delirium. ─ Cold limbs and body convulsed. ─ Great weakness; children cannot stand; cannot hold up their heads.

Skin

Tettary eruptions, which bleed easily. ─ Black and blue spots, sometimes like ecchymoses all over body. ─ The whole body may be of bluish-black colour. ─ Anasarca.

Sleep

Dozing of child after vomiting spells, or after the stool. ─ On falling asleep, rolling of the eyes, or slight convulsions. ─ Sleepiness all day; sometimes > in open air. ─ Sleep prevented by pains in limbs.

Fever

Complete absence of thirst, though there is great heat. ─ Cannot bear to be uncovered during the sweat. ─ Fever, esp. in morning, with shuddering; shuddering, weariness in extremities, internal coldness with hot and flushed face; malaise; disposition to delirium during cold stage; sweat, after the breaking out of which the previous symptoms disappear. ─ Sweat on least exertion.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

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Mind

Lies unconscious, dilated pupils, staring eyes (child).
Loss of comprehension ; a kind of stupefaction, as if there was a barrier between senses and external objects.
Unable to read after overexertion of mental faculties.
Incapacity to think ; confused.
Cannot retain any idea.
Idiocy, in some cases alternating with furor.
Idiotic children.
Hallucinations.
Imagined she saw rats run across room.
Delirium : imagines he sees cats and dogs ; jumps out of window ; even with the chill.
After a glass of wine, mind symptoms became predominant.
Cries of anguish (in a child).
Well-disposed, serene, in forenoon ; in afternoon, ill-humored, anxious and sad.
Great sadness when alone.
Anxiousness, sensation as if a heavy load was lying on chest.
Constant anxiety and weak feeling.
Great anxiety and restlessness ; soon afterwards, violent pains in head and abdomen.
Moroseness : with heavy feeling in forehead ; with heat in head.
Bad humor, irritability, especially in afternoon, and in open air.
Great agitation.
Anxiety and restlessness. θ Megrim.
After social talking, all symptoms disappear.

Sensorium

A kind of stupefaction, as if there was a barrier between his organs of sense and external objects.
Dizziness, with headache.
Head confused ; brain feels bound up.
Dizziness ; he cannot keep erect.
Vertigo : with sleepiness, can't raise head ; giddiness ceases and head gets hot ; with palpitation.
Vertigo and weakness.
Complete insensibility ; eyes staring, pupils dilated.
Stupor.

Inner head

Heaviness in forehead ; ill humor.
Headache in whole forepart of head, as if strongly compressed, behind and above.
Sensation as if both sides of head were in a vise.
Pressing pain in forehead, as if it would split ; at its height vomiting and finally diarrhœa.
All day throbbing pain in left forehead, temple and side of head, > by pressure (felt as though she would like a band tightly fixed around head) and in open air, < by walking.
Stitches and pulsations in head.
Violent pain, as if brain was dashed to pieces.
Headache with vertigo, < walking and looking upward.
Violent headache, with thirst and nausea.
Headache ceases, with discharge of flatus downward.
Headache since five weeks, after checked menses.
Pains in head return periodically, are often accompanied by pale face, trembling in jaws and pains in precordial region.
Heat rises to head ; body becomes warmer ; face becomes red and giddiness ceases.

Outer head

Distressing pain in occiput, nape and down spine, > by friction with hot whiskey.
Inability to hold head erect or to sit up.
Sensation as if she was constantly pulled by the hair.

Sight and eyes

Looking upward increases headache with vertigo.
Pupils dilated, but sensitive to touch.
Pupils dilated, staring eyes, stupid. θ Cholera infantum.
Chronic photophobia.
Objects seem much larger than natural.
Vision confused, sometimes objects appear double.
Great pain in eyes ; eyes inflamed and bloodshot.
Eyes brilliant and protruding.
Eyeballs turned downward. θ Convulsions of children.
Pustules on cornea.
Chronic inflammation of edges of eyelids.
Adhesion of eyelids in morning, requiring them to be softened by a fluid to prevent pulling out lashes.
Scrofulous ophthalmia ; swelling of Meibomian glands.

Hearing and ears

Stitches in ears, especially in right ; sensation as if something hot was streaming from it.
Yellow discharge from right ear, with stitching pains.

Smell and nose

Nose stopped up with thick mucus ; frequent but ineffectual desire to sneeze.
Herpetic eruption at end of nose.

Upper face

Tearing in face, in malar bones.
Face wears a cold expression.
Displeased morose face, during headache.
Face pale. θ Megrim.
Face sunken, earthy pale, withered. θ Cholerine.
Red, sunken face.
Œdematous swelling of cheeks.
Circumscribed and painful swellings in face, transient and flying from place to place.
Heat in face with trembling in head. θ Cholerine.
Face pale, puffed and spotted red.
A drawn condition, beginning at alæ nasi, and extending to angle of mouth, gave face an expression of great anxiety and pain.
The features have an expression of anguish and pain.

Lower face

Trembling of jaws.
Inability to swallow ; lower jaw is fixed to upper.
Chin and corners of mouth feel cold.

Teeth and gums

Stinging or tearing in gums.

Taste, speech, tongue

Taste : bitter ; like cheese ; like onions ; sweetish in morning when awaking.
Speech impeded, slow.
Feeling as if tongue was too long. θ Aphthæ.
Moist tongue.
Tongue black.

Inner mouth

A very copious salivation relieved poisoning symptoms.
Aphthæ in mouth and throat ; tongue feels as if too long.

Palate and throat

Soft palate, red and swollen.
Burning in throat.
Sensation of pungent heat in mouth and throat, with great difficulty in swallowing.
Sensation of constriction, preventing deglutition.
Stinging in throat, between acts of deglutition.
Inflamed aphthæ and pustules in throat, making patient's condition almost desperate.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Thirst with total loss of appetite for every kind of aliment.
Burning thirst ; t.
Desire for wine, aggravation from its use.
Intolerance of milk.

Eating and drinking

While eating : sudden heaviness in forehead.
After eating : pain below navel, lienteric stool, dry cough.
Regurgitation of food an hour or so after eating.
Suitable to children who cannot bear milk.
Worse from coffee.
Desire for wine, but mental symptoms are increased.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Spasmodic hiccough. θ Megrim. θ Cholerine.
Empty eructation. θ Megrim.
Violent sudden vomiting ; of a frothy milk-white substance ; of yellow fluid, followed by curdled milk and cheesy matter.
Vomiting of greenish phlegm, similar to stools.
The milk is forcibly ejected soon after taken ; then weakness causes drowsiness. θ Nursing children.
Profuse vomiting of water. θ Young children.
Copious greenish vomiting.
Gripes accompanied by fearful vomiting, weakness and indescribable anguish.
Vomits bloody mucus, with swollen abdomen.
Vomiting spells at height of headache. θ Megrim.
After vomiting, cold and clammy. θ Cholera infantum.
Vomiting, with diarrhœa.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Tearing, rending pains in pit of stomach, extending to œsophagus.
Pain in pit of stomach and abdomen, followed by nausea, with or without vomiting.
Cramp in stomach. θ Megrim.
Painful contractions of stomach so severe as to prevent vomiting. θ Cholerine.
Sense of pungent heat in stomach.
Complaints with cramp in stomach and cries and anguish.

Hypochondria

Painfulness of epigastric region, nausea.
Stitches in epigastrium.
Lancinating in right hypochondrium, in afternoon.
Painful pressing, with burning and stitching in left hypochondrium.
Shooting in left hypochondrium, often and long continued.
Soreness and painfulness in both hypochondria.
Liver hard, yellowish, spleen livid, tongue black ; t.

Abdomen and loins

Excessive griping pains in belly.
Colic, with diarrhœa.
Excessive griping pain in abdomen.
Colic, followed by vomiting, vertigo and weakness.
Cutting and violent vomiting.
Cutting, with distension of abdomen.
Contracted and tense abdomen.
Abdomen puffed sensitive to touch ; convulsions of children. θ Gastroenteritis.
Violent colic, followed by death of the boy.
Abdomen distended, with tension ; t.
Sensation of coldness in abdomen.
Coldness of abdomen and lower limbs, especially left one, with aching of bowels ; > by warm, wet applications.
Black bluish swelling of abdomen.

Stools and rectum

Loose stools, preceded by cutting in abdomen, with tenesmus in morning, after rising.
A thin stool finishes headache. θ Megrim.
Stools of partly digested food, shortly after a meal or at night.
Diarrhœa ; discharges green, thin, bilious, with violent tenesmus before and after stool. θ Convulsions of children. θ Gastroenteritis.
Bright yellow or greenish, watery, slimy stools ; crying, drawing up feet. Child, æt. 6 months.
Evacuations of a thin, bright yellow or greenish fluid, mixed with much bile, with severe tenesmus.
Greyish-green fluid stools. θ Cholerine.
Bloody stools.
With stools, painful contraction in stomach. θ Cholerine.
Most obstinate constipation, with feeling as if all action of bowels had been lost.

Urinary organs

Pain in kidneys, < from sneezing, deep inhalation and lying down.
Cutting pains in bladder, with frequent calls to urinate.
Urine : red, sediment white ; copious, clear as water ; too frequent after exertion.
Nocturnal enuresis, with vomiting of coagulated milk after sucking bottle ; greenish watery diarrhœa.
No urine. θ Cholerine.

Male sexual organs

Right testicle drawn up, with pain in kidneys.

Female sexual organs

Checked catamenia.
Menses checked by a warm bath. θ Headache.
Menses watery.
Lancinating pains in sexual organs.
Pimples on external parts, itching when patient becomes warm.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

Labor-pains : too weak ; not regular.
Violent stinging pain in mamma ; t.
Intolerance of milk ; child by a sudden and violent effort throws it up, curdled or not ; then weakness makes it drowsy for some minutes.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

No voice. θ Cholerine.
The sufferings seem to render him speechless.

Respiration

Short breath, interrupted by hiccough.
Short, anxious, whistling breathing, while lying on back.
Great dyspnœa ; t.

Cough

Cough, with stunning pain in head.

Inner chest and lungs

Stitches in left side of chest.
Sensation as if chest was in a vise, with difficult breathing.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Anxiety in precordia ; t.
Violent palpitation of heart.
Palpitation : with headache ; with vertigo ; with weariness and exaltation ; t.
Pulse frequent, small, some what hard and unrhythmical.
Pulse full, rapid.
Weak intermittent pulse, with palpitation and headache.
Pulse feeble, sometimes not to be felt, much exhausted. θ Cholerine.
Slow strong beats of heart, stupor and death (dog).

Neck and back

Distressing pain in occiput and nape of neck, extending down spine, > by friction with hot whiskey.
Lymphatic ganglions of neck swollen, like beads.
Sensation as if small of back was in a vise.
Painful furuncle in sacral region.
A feeling as if pain in back would be > by straightening out and bending stiffly backward, as in opisthotonos.

Upper limbs

Axillary glands swollen.
Sensation as if arms had become much shorter.
Numbness of arms.
Aching about scapulæ, extending to arms.
Thumb and fingers bent inward. θ Convulsions of children.

Lower limbs

Excoriations of thighs from walking.
Boring and shooting in lower limbs, with great weariness.
Lancinating and drawing from left hip into thigh.
Laming ache in middle of right thigh while sitting ; > when rubbing.
Lancinating in sole, from right heel as far as balls of toes.
Crawling in feet.

Limbs in general

Coldness, stiffness and rigor of limbs.
Cold limbs and body convulsed.
Eruption in neighborhood of joints.

Rest. position. motion

Cannot keep erect : when dizzy.
Inability to raise head : with vertigo.
Cannot sit up.
Cannot stand : from weakness.
Lying down : pain in kidneys.
Lying on back : short, anxious, whistling breathing.
Sitting : laming ache in right thigh.
Exertion : urinates too frequently ; sweats therefrom.
Walking : throbbing headache < ; headache with vertigo < ; excoriation of thighs ; languor and listlessness to such a degree that he supports himself with difficulty.

Nerves

Trembling at heart with anxious restlessness.
Body convulsed, with cold limbs ; t.
Epileptic spasms, with clenched thumbs, red face, eyes turned downward, pupils fixed, dilated ; foam at mouth, jaws locked ; small, hard and quick pulse.
Spasms, with stupor and delirium.
General malaise.
Convulsions. θ Gastroenteritis.
Weakness after colic.
Great weakness ; children cannot stand ; cannot hold up head.
Great weakness and prostration, with sleepiness.
He lies stretched out without consciousness.

Sleep

Sleepiness all day.
Longing for sleep.
Dozing of child after vomiting spells or after stool.
On falling asleep, rolling of eyes or slight convulsions.
Sleep after headache. θ Megrim.
Sopor, dilated pupils ; t.
Sleep restless first hours.
Restless night ; great disposition to slumber, but calm repose is prevented by frequent startings and excessive agitation.
Deep sleep, with snoring.
Sopor, dilated pupils and death (dog).

Time

Night : stools of partly digested food ; enuresis and vomiting ; restless, cannot sleep, though disposed to.
From 3 to 4 A. M. : aggravation of all symptoms.
Morning : sweetish taste on awaking ; tenesmus.
Day : sleepy.
Forenoon : well disposed and serene.
Afternoon : ill-humored, anxious and sad ; lancinating in r. hypochondrium.
Towards evening : aggravation of all symptoms.
At 6 P. M. : cramps in stomach.

Temperature and weather

Frequently indicated in Summer.
Open air : relieves throbbing in head.
Room : relieves mental conditions ; relieves sensation of swelling of head, face and hands.
Warmth : causes itching.
Warmth of bed : causes vesicular eruption to itch.
Heat : causes itching and burning.
Moist heat : relieves itching, and coldness in abdomen and lower limbs.
Warm bath : checked catamenia.
Hot whiskey : friction > pain in occiput, neck and spine.
Washing : increases sensation of swelling of head, face and hands.

Fever

Delirium even during cold stage.
Coldness, rigors, stiffness of limbs.
Skin hot, dry ; absence of thirst.
Sweat : from least exertion ; cannot bear uncovering ; profuse, cold ; malaise and tendency to delirium >.

Attacks, periodicity

Periodical headache. θ Megrim.

Locality and direction

Right : discharge from ear ; stitches in ear ; sensation of something hot streaming from ear ; lancinating in hypochondrium ; testicle drawn up ; laming ache in middle of thigh.
Left : throbbing in head ; pressing, burning, stitching and shooting in hypochondrium ; coldness of leg ; stitches in chest ; lancinating and drawing from hip into thigh ; appearance and disappearance of reddish-blue spots on leg.
Fly from place to place : painful swellings in face.

Sensations

Sensation as if head, face and hands were swollen ; < after washing ; > coming into room.
As if a heavy load was lying on chest ; as if there was a barrier between his organs of sense and external objects ; brain feels bound up ; compressed feeling in head ; as if both sides of head were in a vise ; as if forehead would split ; as if brain was
dashed to pieces ; as if she was pulled by the hair ; as if something hot was streaming from ear ; as if tongue was too long ; indescribable anguish with gripes ; as if all action of bowels had been lost ; as if chest was in a vise ; anxiety in
precordia ; as if small of back was in a vise ; as if arms had become shorter.
Pain : in eyes ; in pit of stomach and abdomen ; in hypochondria ; below navel, after eating ; in kidneys ; in furuncle, sacral region.
Griping : in abdomen.
Distressing pains : in occiput, nape and down spine.
Boring : in lower limbs.
Lancinating : in left hypochondrium ; in female sexual organs ; from left hip into thigh ; in sole, from right heel to balls of toes.
Cutting : in abdomen ; in bladder.
Stitches : in head ; in ears ; in right ear ; in epigastrium ; in l. hypochondrium ; in left side of chest.
Stinging : in gums ; in throat ; in mamma.
Shooting : in left hypochondrium ; in lower limbs.
Tearing : in face, in malar bones ; in gums ; in pit of stomach.
Rending : in pit of stomach.
Burning : in throat ; in left hypochondrium ; of herpetic eruption.
Drawing : from left hip into thigh.
Pressing pain : in forehead ; in left hypochondrium.
Aching : in bowels ; about scapulæ ; extending to arms.
Soreness : in hypochondria.
Throbbing pain : in left side of head.
Pulsations : in head.
Stunning pain : in head.
Crawling : in feet.
Heaviness : in forehead.
Constriction : in throat.
Contraction : painful, or stomach.
Cramp : in stomach.
Laming ache : in middle of right thigh.
Heat : in forehead ; in face ; pungent, in mouth and throat.
Coldness : of chin and corners of mouth ; in abdomen ; of lower limbs ; of limbs.
Numbness : of arms.
Stiffness : of limbs.
Itching : of pimples ; of water-blisters ; of eruption in heat.
Dryness : of skin.

Tissues

Ecchymoses ; black and blue spots all over.
Whole body livid and swollen, and death of boy ; poisoning.
Anasarca.
Wasting away of children.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Touch : abdomen sensitive.
Pressure : relieves throbbing headache.
Rubbing : with hot whiskey relieves pain in occiput, neck and spine ; relieves laming ache of right thigh.

Skin

Dryness of skin.
Dry burning skin ; red spots.
Cool skin. θ Cholerine.
Hard knots in skin.
Liability to excoriation of thighs when walking.
During one day, appearance and disappearance of reddish blue spots on trunk and left leg, causing an apprehension of spotted fever ; aggravation of all symptoms towards evening and during night, 3 to 4 A. M.
Tetters bleed easily.
Little water-blisters ; itching in bed.
Eruption itching when exposed to heat.
Herpetic eruptions ; itching and burning during head.
Phlyctenular eruption ; t.

Stage of life, constitution

Children, during dentition.
Old woman during cholera season. θ Cholerine.

Relations

Similar to : Ant. Crud . (vomiting of milk) ; Aren. ; Asar. ; Calc. ostr . (vomiting of milk) ; Cuprum ; Ipec. ; Opium .
Related to Cicut., Conium, Œnanth. croc .
Is antidoted by vegetable acids.
It antidotes Opium .

Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

James Tyler Kent · Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Séror HTML text (Kent d. 1916; public domain)

Generalities

Before Aethusa was known a certain class of cases of cholera infantum, and vomiting and diarrhea in children, all resulted fatally, because there was no remedy that looked like such serious cases.

Death is stamped on the face from the beginning, and if there are any remedies in the book that save life this is one of them.

It applies to the cases that come on very suddenly in hot weather in infancy, with extreme prostration.

The mother does not suspect the child is sick until she takes it from the crib; only a few hours before it was well; but when cholera infantum is prevalent in hot weather, this little one fills its stomach with milk and almost before it has had time to coagulate or form into curds the milk comes up partly in curds and partly liquid, and accompanying the vomiting there is a thin, yellow greenish, slimy stool.

The child has the appearance as if it were dying, pale Hippocratic face, there is a whitish-blue pallor around the lips, the eyes are sunken and there is a sunken condition around the nose. The mother is astonished and sends for the doctor hurriedly. The child sinks into an exhausted sleep.

It wakes up and again fills the stomach with milk which comes up again in a few minutes, partly in curd and partly liquid, and again there is the awful exhaustion, deathly appearance and prolonged sleep.

Without Aethusa, in two or three days the undertaker gets that child. That is pretty nearly the whole story of Aethusa.

It has delirium, it has excitement, it has mental disturbances of various kinds, but they are acute and accompany the brain troubles.

A certain class of infants come down sick in the hot weather, in the hot nights, and they get brain trouble, and from that time the stomach quits business, the bowels become relaxed, and everything put into the stomach either comes up or goes right through.

This occurs especially in those infants that have been fed as the ordinary everyday mother feeds her baby and how is that?

Every time it cries she puts it to the breast or feeds it. Well, now; let us think a bit. Every doctor ought to think a little, once in a while. Now meditate a trifle as to whether that is a wise or foolish thing to do.

It takes about two hours or two hours and a half for the ordinary baby's stomach to transact good wholesome business in digesting the milk taken, and it ought to have a rest of half an hour or so, and when we get up to three hours and the baby cries then it is probably hungry and will be glad to take some more and digest it.

Any shorter interval of feeding than that is bad practice, it would be just the same thing if the child should take half teacupful of milk and let it partly digest, and in a little while take little more, and then later add a little more.

It commences to spit up its food and it is sour, and the very first spell of hot weather that comes brings on head trouble. Only the toughest children will stand this bad method.

I have watched these children and seen them stand it until the summer. The doctor must put his foot down, and put it down violently, and make them see he means it.

The old woman comes in and says:

"That doctor does not know anything" and the baby must be fed.

Now Aethusa suits improperly fed babies. It is at the head of the list of medicines for that condition; that is, when digestion has absolutely ceased from brain trouble.

Stomach and digestion

So far as busy doctors have discovered the call for this remedy, it has been mostly among babies, but adults sometimes take on an Aethusa state, when digestion has absolutely ceased from brain trouble and from excitement.

It has cured dyspepsia from constant feeding, in those nibblers, those hungry fellows who are always eating, always nibbling, always taking crackers in their pockets until there comes a time when the stomach ceases to act.

It also suits cases of indigestion from head troubles, with hot head, vomiting, exhaustion, sweat and long sleep.

Convulsions

Aethusa has convulsions in children.

Sometimes the brain trouble does not affect the stomach, but the child goes into convulsions, with clammy hands, deathly countenance, and the sweat, exhaustion and sleep.

"Convulsions, great weakness and prostration, with sleepiness. Dosing of the child after vomiting and after stool, with convulsions."

In the Aethusa patient there is much in the face and aspect to indicate a remedy; so much can be seen and comes within the observation, and so little questioning is necessary, that a sort of snap-shot prescribing can be done, but it is not to be recommended.

A busy physician, one who really and truly studies his Materia Medica, learned the principles, will in time do a great deal of what seems to be snap-shot prescribing, but he really does not do so, because he puts together many things that outsiders would not think of.

Aethusa then shows itself upon the surface, whereas in many remedies there is nothing seen upon the surface because they manifest themselves in any or deeper sensations.

Let me lay a case before you to illustrate this. For instance, take a robust looking fellow, who declares himself fairly well, out to lunch with you.

You have noticed for some time that his nose is all the time peeling off at once there is a star.

He never talks about his health.

Pretty soon, while lunching, the door slams and he jumps. That is the second point. Then he tells you how much he eats, how well it affects him, how good he feels after eating, and you have noticed yourself that he eats a good deal.

You have not said one word about his health to him. You have not asked him to tell you any symptoms. Finally you shove the pitcher of milk over to him, and he says:

"Oh, I can't drink milk; if I take milk it gives me diarrhoea; I never think of taking it."

Who could not prescribe for that fellow without taking him into the office?

Who would think of anything but Natrum carb. for such a case?

Sometimes you can find out the whole story by getting a stubborn patient to go and dine with you.

The Therapeutics of Fevers

H. C. Allen · The Therapeutics of Fevers · 1902 Library of Congress printing (Allen d. 1909; public domain)

Characteristic

Especially for children during dentition in hot summer weather; children who cannot bear milk.

Great weakness: children cannot stand; unable to hold up the head (Abrot., Cal. p., Sil.); prostration with sleepiness.

Idiocy in children: incapacity to think; confused.

Features expressive of great anxiety and pain, with a drawn condition and well-marked linea nasalia.

Herpetic eruption on end of nose.

Complete absence of thirst (Apis, Puls., rev. of Ars.).

Intolerance of milk: cannot bear milk in any form; it is vomited in large curds as soon as taken; then weakness causes drowsiness (compare Mag. c.).

Indigestion of teething children; violent, sudden vomiting of a frothy, milk-white substance; or yellow fluid, followed by curdled milk and cheesy matter.

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

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

Weakness and prostration with sleepiness; after vomiting, after stool, after spasm.

Aggravation

After eating or drinking; after vomiting; after stool; after spasm.

Chill

Violent, without thirst, through whole body with gen- eral and external coldness.

Coldness of abdomen, objective and subjective (Tab.); with red face; with horripilation; with rigors and stiffness of limbs; with delirium; chin and corners of mouth feel cold.

Heat

General; skin hot and dry; with complete absence of thirst.

Sweat

From least exertion; profuse, cold; on going to sleep

(China); cannot bear to be uncovered during (Acon., Nux); relieves malaise and delirium.

Analysis

The fever usually occurs in nursing children, dur- ing dentition, in the morning; with marked lassitude, prostration and delirium. The complete absence of thirst, the intolerance of milk and other gastric phenomena make its selection easy.