Zizia Aurea ziz.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Meadow Parsnip (THASPIUM AUREUM - ZIZIA)

General

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.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1st edition (1900-02, three volumes); homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML digitization

General

Zizia aurea. Thapsium aureum. Carum aureum. Meadow Parsnip. N. O. Umbelliferæ. Tincture of root.

Clinical

Asthma. Brain, affections of. Catarrh. Chorea, in sleep. Convulsions. Dropsy. Epilepsy. Hypochondriasis. Hysteria. Influenza. Leucorrhœa. Menses, suppression of. Migraine. Ovary, intermittent neuralgia of. Pleurisy. Stye.

Characteristics

The Meadow Parsnip is a common plant indigenous to the United States on the moist banks of streams and in open wet woods, where it flowers in June and July. Rafinesque speaks of it as vulnerary, antisyphilitic, and sudorific (Millspaugh). Marcy proved Ziz . on himself and some others, and symptoms of poisoning have been added. Exhilaration with increased physical strength was noted; but a slight amount of exercise caused fatigue. The spasms and convulsions of the Umbelliferæ were elicited. The generative organs in both sexes were excited. Ziz . is indicated in uterine affections characterised by increased nervous and vascular excitement. The menses are profuse, and followed by acrid leucorrhœa. Burning, smarting backache. Spasmodic movements of face and limbs. Mind first exhilarated, then depressed, finally indifferent. The restlessness of Ziz . runs into chorea; and the chorea has this distinguishing feature, that the movements continue or are even < during sleep. Connected with the uterine congestion there is migraine, the region of the right eye being most affected. There was rush of blood to the head. Marcy considered Ziz . especially suitable in brain affections; catarrhal, asthmatic, and pleuritic diseases; in ovarian neuralgia. Among Peculiar Symptoms are: Surface of body paler than natural; white, puffy appearance of whole body. Laughs and weeps alternately. One cheek red. Craves acids and stimulants. The symptoms are: < By touch. Pressure = pain in intercostal muscles; on stomach = nausea and faintness. < Lying; stooping; motion; coughing.

Relations

Antidoted by: Puls. (migraine), Carb. an. (stye). Compare: One cheek red, Cham. Uterine congestion, backache, indifference, Sep. Chorea in sleep, Trn. As if in a dream, Amb., Anac., Calc., Can. i., Con., Cup., Med., Rhe., Val., Ver. Laughing alternately with weeping, Calc., Ign., Merc., Nux m., Puls., Stram.

Mind

Exhilaration; like intoxication; followed by strong desire to sleep. ─ Depression following exhilaration. ─ Laughing and weeping alternately. ─ Depression followed by exhilaration. ─ Irritable, low-spirited, indifferent. ─ Nervous irritability and depression, culminating in a paroxysm of self-dissatisfaction with weeping. ─ Indolence with contentment. ─ Behaviour quiet, with much apparent suffering and sadness.

Head

Giddiness; swimming; light-headedness. ─ Rush of blood to head and face, with feeling of fulness. ─ Sensation of tightness round head. ─ Intensely painful, sharp headache over r. eye; Puls . > first days, not later; fully developed seventh day, must lie still in dark room; < evening (the usual headache is < morning); associated with backache; < by coughing. ─ Severe pain in r. temple, with nausea. ─ Pressure on top of brain. ─ Dull pain in occipital region, extending down neck muscles.

Eyes

Redness of both eyes. ─ Pain affects r. eye most. ─ Shooting pains through orbits. ─ Sharp pain through r. orbit, < moving eyeballs, stooping, or stepping. ─ Eyelids agglutinated on rising by yellowish muco-purulent secretion. ─ Stye, r. lid. ─ Stye middle of upper lid, very painful, > Carb. an . ─ Eyes sensitive to light.

Nose

Nasal catarrh, with sneezing and coughing from first inhalation. ─ Nasal discharge of thick mucus. ─ R. nostril congested, sore; with injection of pharynx and conjunctiva.

Face

Face: pale and puffy. ─ One cheek red, other pale. ─ Boring pains in cheek-bones. ─ Dull pains in jaws. ─ Painful tenderness in lower jawbone, an inch below root of ear.

Mouth

Tongue: red and unusually sensitive to cold and warm drinks; covered with whitish fur; yellow fur on tongue and oppressed respiration; broad, furred in middle, red at tip and sides. ─ Mouth dry. ─ Taste: bitter; bilious.

Throat

Mucus increased. ─ Slight redness of tonsils and palate, with soreness. ─ Inflamed pharynx.

Stomach

Craving for acids and stimulants. ─ Appetite: diminished; lost. ─ Thirst. ─ Nausea. ─ Vomiting: acid, bilious; immoderately. ─ Stomach sensitive to, touch; pressure = nausea and faintness.

Male Sexual Organs

Involuntary emission two nights in succession. ─ Excitement. ─ Lassitude and prostration after coitus, which had existed a long time, was completely removed in the proving.

Female Sexual Organs

Increased vascular and nervous excitement. ─ Leucorrhœa: bland; acrid; acrid at first, later copious and bland. ─ Profuse menses one day, followed by acrid leucorrhœa. ─ Menses appeared in due time but ceased after twelve hours. ─ Sudden suppression of menses.

Respiratory Organs

Roughness in upper part of larynx whet, inspiring or coughing. ─ Larynx raw from coughing. ─ Trachea sensitive to touch. ─ Dry cough, with shooting pains in chest. ─ Tight cough, from deep breath; from dryness of larynx. ─ Short, dry cough, with severe stitching in r. side and sense of suffocation. ─ Breathing oppressed, cannot keep lying down. ─ Asthma.

Chest

Severe pains in pleuræ. ─ Bruised feeling in muscles of chest. ─ Pressure = pain in intercostal muscles. ─ On and around xiphoid cartilage pain and tenderness to touch. ─ Dull, aching pain under r. scapula. ─ Severe shooting from front of thorax to scapula. ─ Sharp pains from sides and chest to both scapulæ. ─ Severe stitching pains accompanied by feverish symptoms. ─ Pleuritic stitches < by coughing or deep breath.

Back

Pains in posterior margin of scapulæ, aching, smarting, stinging, with aching in small of back when at their worst. ─ Dull pains in loins, < by movement. ─ Smarting burning in small of back.

Upper Limbs

Lameness in muscles of both arms, from shoulder to elbow. ─ Pricking sensation in r. arm, with steadily diminished sensibility of the part.

Lower Limbs

Dragging sensation in both hips. ─ Unusually tired feeling in legs after slightest exertion.

Generalities

Increased strength with inclination for exertion. ─ Aspect of grave and chronic illness. ─ Whole body white and puffy. ─ Œdema of face and ankles. ─ Convulsions, epilepsy. ─ Spasms, swooning convulsions, and fainting fits, ending in death in three hours. ─ Spasms of face and extremities. ─ Surface of body sensitive to touch. ─ Pains fixed, < by movement, noise, light, contact; < evening.

Skin

Itching pimples on forehead, wrists, and legs.

Sleep

Drowsiness; with sense of fatigue. ─ Sleep prevented by pains. ─ During sleep: spasmodic twitches; talking; unpleasant dreams.

Fever

Chilliness and heat alternating with faintness, nausea, pain in r. temple, redness of eyeballs, dry and red tongue, and thirst for cold water. ─ Chilliness accompanied by spasmodic twitchings of muscles of face and upper limbs, followed by fever. ─ Fever, with headache, pain in back, thirst. ─ Fever with stitching pain in chest. ─ Some sense of heat and fulness in both cheeks. ─ Flushed cheeks, hot head, visible pulsations of carotid and temporal arteries, coldness of hands and feet, drowsiness and irritability. ─ Redness and heat of cheeks. ─ Hot flushes in face and head followed by perspiration.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

Constantine Hering · The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica · 1879–91

General

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.

Mind

Exhilaration : like intoxication ; of all faculties, followed by a strong desire to sleep ; lasting twelve hours, then great depression for several days.
Laughing and weeping moods in alternation.
Depression of spirits : with disgust of life, followed by great exhilaration and desire for conversation.
Irritability, with lowness of spirits and indifference to everything.
Nervous irritability and depression of spirits ; self-dissatisfaction, with weeping.
Indolence, with contentment.
Dreamy, imaginative mood.
Behavior quiet, with much apparent suffering and sadness.

Sensorium

Giddiness ; swimming in head.

Inner head

Rush of blood to head and face, with feeling of fulness.
Sensation of tightness around head.
Headache sharp over right eye, begins slightly on second day and increases until eighth (Pulsatilla 6, which promptly relieved it until third day, but feebly on seventh) ; in its full development on seventh day, headache is grievous, with nausea, inclination to bilious vomiting, need to lie still in a darkened and quietroom ; < from light, noise and jar ; permanent on right side, not shifting ; at its worst pain descends behind right ear into neck ; lips parched as from fever ; severe backache between or at borders of shoulder blades ; forehead is affected by a sharp cutting pain by jar of coughing.
Severe pain in right temple, with nausea.
Pressure upon top of brain.
Acute aching pain in whole left side of head, increased by light or noise.
Dull pains in occipital region, extending down muscles of neck.
Affections of brain and nervous system.

Sight and eyes

Eyes sensitive to light, watery.
Redness of both eyes.
While both eyes exhibit a diffused injection, right eye is more particularly the seat of painful and quite unaccustomed symptoms.
Smarting of lids.
Shooting pains through orbits.
Sharp pains in right orbit, < by moving eyeball, by stooping or stepping.

Smell and nose

Nasal catarrh with sneezing and coughing.
Nasal discharge of thick mucus.
Obstruction and soreness of right nostril, which is painful to touch.
Right nostril only is affected, it became sore and tender to external touch ; a diffused injection of mucous membrane covering arches of pharynx, with ordinary sensations of catarrhal sore throat ; conjunctival membrane exhibited a similar diffused injection.
Catarrhal, asthmatic and pleuritic maladies.

Upper face

Face pale and puffy.
Redness of one cheek and paleness of other.
Boring pains in cheek bones.

Lower face

Dull pains in jaws.
Painful tenderness over lower jawbone, an inch below root of ear.

Taste, speech, tongue

Taste : bitter, bitter, bilious, after sick-headache.
Redness of tongue, with unusual sensitiveness to cold and warm drinks.
Tongue covered with a whitish fur.
Yellow fur upon tongue, and oppressed respiration.
Tongue broad, furred in middle and reddened at tip and sides.

Inner mouth

Dryness of mouth.

Palate and throat

Increased secretion of mucus in throat.
Slight redness of tonsils and palate, with soreness of throat.
Inflammation of mucous membrane of pharynx.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Craving for acids and stimulants.
Loss of appetite.
Thirst.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Nausea.
Acid and bilious vomiting.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Stomach sensitive to touch.
Pressure occasioning nausea and faintness.

Male sexual organs

Involuntary emissions two nights in succession.
Excitement of male genital organs.
Lassitude and prostration after connection.

Female sexual organs

Profuse menstrual discharge, followed by acrid leucorrhœa.
Catamenia appeared in due time, but ceased after twelve hours.
Sudden suppression of menses.
Leucorrhœa : bland and profuse ; acrid ; commences on second day and continues, slight as to quantity, and at first acrid, afterward more bland and copious ; with retarded or suppressed menses ; chronic, attended by irritation of spine or brain.
Uterine affections, with increased vascular and nervous excitement.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Roughness in upper portion of larynx when inspiring or coughing.
Raw and smarting sensation in larynx from coughing.
Sensitiveness of trachea to touch.

Respiration

Respiration accelerated and oppressed.
Respiration oppressed, yellow fur upon tongue.
Asthmatic respiration, with inability to retain recumbent position.
She cannot draw a full breath, without severe pain, it catches her about sixth rib in front, and pierces through to back, right side.

Cough

Dry cough, with shooting pains in chest.
Tight cough caused by taking a deep inspiration, or by dryness of larynx.
Short, dry cough, attended by severe stitching pains in right side, and a sense of suffocation.
Cough hard, dry and short, with stitching pain in right side, from region beneath sixth rib down as far as two inches below xiphoid cartilage.

Inner chest and lungs

Dull, aching pains under right scapula.
Severe shooting pain extending from front part of thorax to scapula.
Sharp pains, extending from sides of chest to both shoulder blades.
Severe stitching pains in chest, accompanied by feverish symptoms.
Pleuritic stitches in right side, much increased by coughing, or taking or attempting to take a long breath.
Pleural symptoms severe, painful.

Outer chest

Bruised feeling in muscles of chest.
Pressure excites pain in intercostal muscles.
Over xiphoid cartilage and at circumscribed spots on each side, about size of a fifty-cent piece, two inches below, there is a painful tenderness to external touch.

Neck and back

Dorsal symptoms painful, perhaps sympathetic with uterine sphere ; their seat is at posterior lateral margins of scapulæ, generally < on left side ; pains aching, smarting and stinging.
Dull pains in loins increased by movement.
Smarting-burning pain in small of back.

Upper limbs

Lameness in muscles of both arms, from shoulders to elbows.
Pricking sensation in right arm, with slightly diminished sensibility of part.

Lower limbs

Dragging sensation in both hips.
Unusually tired feeling of legs, after slightest muscular exertion.

Rest. position. motion

Lying : asthmatic breathing <.
Stooping : pain in right orbit <.
Motion : of eyeball, pain in right orbit < ; pains in loins < ; desire for, but causes fatigue ; spasmodic movements <.
Coughing : cutting pain in forehead ; pleuritic stitches in r. side <.
Stepping : pain in right orbit <.

Nerves

Increased physical strength, with inclination for muscular exertion.
General aspect and sensation of prover were those of grave and chronic deterioration of health.
Sensitiveness of entire surface of body to touch.
Great desire to move about, with apparent increase of strength, but slight exercise causes fatigue.
Spasmodic movements of muscles of face and extremities.
Before spasms labor pains cease, and feels pains in epigastrium.
Convulsions, epilepsy.
Chorea, with twitchings during sleep ; spasmodic movements of muscles of face and extremities ; < by movement, noise, light or contact.
Intermittent neuralgia of left ovary.

Sleep

Drowsiness, with a sense of lassitude and fatigue.
Sleep is sound until sixth night, when it is prevented by pain.
Spasmodic twitching during sleep. θ Chorea.
Talking during sleep.
Sleep disturbed by unpleasant dreams.

Time

Morning : eyelids adhere.

Fever

Chilliness and heat, alternating with faintness, nausea, pain in right temple, redness of eyeballs, dry and red tongue, and thirst for cold water.
Chilliness, accompanied with spasmodic twitching of muscles of face and lower extremities, followed by fever.
Fever, with headache, pain in back, thirst.
Feverish symptoms, accompanying severe stitching pains in chest.
Severe sense of heat and fulness in both cheeks.
Flushed cheeks, hot head, visible pulsations of carotid and temporal arteries, coldness of hands and feet, drowsiness and irritability.
Redness and heat of cheeks.
Hot flushes in face and head followed by perspiration.

Attacks, periodicity

In alternation : laughing and weeping moods.
For twelve hours : great exhilaration ; duration of catamenia.
Two nights in succession : involuntary emissions.
For several days : great depression.

Locality and direction

Left : acute aching in head ; neuralgia of ovary.
Right : sharp pain over eye ; headache ; pain in temple ; pain descends behind ear into neck ; severe pain in temple ; eye < ; stye upon lid ; sharp pain in orbit ; obstruction and soreness of nostril ; piercing pain from sixth rib in front through to back ; stitches in side ; dull aching under scapula ; pricking in arm.

Sensations

Pain : in right temple ; in back.
Severe pain : in right temple.
Sharp pain : over right eye ; in right orbit ; from sides of chest to shoulder blades.
Cutting : in forehead.
Boring : in cheek bones.
Piercing pain : from sixth rib in front through to back, r. side.
Stitches : in right side ; in chest ; pleuritic in right side.
Shooting : through orbits ; in chest ; from front part of thorax to scapula.
Pricking : in right arm.
Stinging : in lateral margins of scapulæ.
Severe aching : between shoulder blades ; in whole left side of head.
Aching : in back.
Smarting : of lids ; in larynx ; in small of back ; in lateral margins of scapulæ.
Burning : in small of back.
Dull pain : in occipital region down muscles of neck ; in jaws ; in loins.
Soreness : of right nostril ; of throat.
Rawness : in larynx.
Dull aching : under right scapula.
Pressure : on top of brain.
Dragging : in both hips.
Bruised feeling : in muscles of chest.
Tenderness : over lower jawbone, an inch below root of ear.
Tightness : around head.
Lameness : in muscles of arms.
Tired feeling : in legs.
Roughness : in larynx.
Fulness : in head and face ; in cheeks.
Heat : in cheeks.
Coldness : of hands and feet Itching : pimples on forehead, wrist and legs.
Dryness : of mouth ; of larynx ; of tongue.
Pains increased by movement, noise ; light or contact.

Tissues

White and puffy appearance of whole body.
Surface of whole body paler than natural.
Face and ankles œdematous.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Touch : right nostril painful ; stomach sensitive ; trachea sensitive ; tenderness over xiphoid cartilage ; entire surface of body sensitive.
Contact : spasmodic movements <.
Pressure : on stomach causes nausea and faintness ; excites pain in intercostal muscles.
Jarring : headache <.

Skin

Itching pimples upon forehead ; wrists and legs.

Relations

Compare : Mygale and Tarent . in chorea.