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Aethusa cynapium. Fool's Parsley.
Aethusa cynapium. Fool’s Parsley.
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1. Intolerance of milk; it is forcibly ejected almost as soon as swallowed; then weakness causes drowsiness; in nursing children. 2. Violent vomiting of curdled milk and cheesy matter. 3. Violent vomiting of a frothy matter, white as milk. This we may find in men, children, or pregnant women. 4. VioRead more
1. Intolerance of milk; it is forcibly ejected almost as soon as swallowed; then weakness causes drowsiness; in nursing children.
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2. Violent vomiting of curdled milk and cheesy matter.
3. Violent vomiting of a frothy matter, white as milk. This we may find in men, children, or pregnant women.
4. Violent vomiting of green mucus.
5. Violent vomiting, with diarrhœa, of green mucus, or (in children) bloody substances.
6. After vomiting, cold and clammy.
7. Swollen and tense abdomen. Cutting, with distension.
8. Cutting, with violent vomiting.
9. Colic, followed by vomiting, vertigo, and weakness.
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1. Great anxiety and restlessness, followed by violent pains in the head and abdomen. 2. Irritability, esp. in the afternoon, and in the open air. 3. Delirium: sees cats and dogs; tries to jump out of the window. 4. Loquacious gaiety. 5. Stitches and pulsations in the head. Can't hold the head up, oRead more
1. Great anxiety and restlessness, followed by violent pains in the head and abdomen.
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2. Irritability, esp. in the afternoon, and in the open air.
3. Delirium: sees cats and dogs; tries to jump out of the window.
4. Loquacious gaiety.
5. Stitches and pulsations in the head. Can’t hold the head up, or sit up. The head symptoms are > by expelling flatus.
6. Yellow discharge from r. ear, with stitching pains. There is great > by inserting the finger and drawing the parts asunder.
7. Herpetic eruption at the tip.
8. Face pale, puffed, and spotted red.
9. Tongue: moist; white coat; black feels too long. Speech slow; embarrassed. Aphtæ in mouth and throat. Copious salivation which > poisoning symptoms.
10. While eating, sudden heaviness in the forehead. Spasmodic hiccough.
11. Intolerance of milk; it is forcibly ejected almost as soon as swallowed; then weakness causes drowsiness; in nursing children.
12. Violent vomiting of curdled milk and cheesy matter.
13. Violent vomiting of a frothy matter, white as milk. This we may find in men, children, or pregnant women.
14. Violent vomiting of green mucus.
15. Violent vomiting, with diarrhœa, of green mucus, or (in children) bloody substances.
16. After vomiting, cold and clammy.
17. Swollen and tense abdomen. Colic, followed by vomiting, vertigo, and weakness.
18. Diarrhœa: stools bright yellow, or greenish, watery, and slimy, with violent tenesmus.
19. Undigested stool or partly so.
20. Loose stools, preceded by cutting in the abdomen, with tenesmus in the morning, after rising.
21. Diarrhœa: discharges green, thin, bilious, with violent tenesmus.
22. Bloody stools.
23. Respiration very difficult and short.
24. Cough, producing stunning pain in the head.
25. Swelling of glands round neck like a string of beads.
26. Eruption around the joints, esp. knee, elbow, and ankle.
27. Axillary glands are swollen.
28. Thumb and fingers bent inwards.
29. Epileptiform spasms, with clenched thumbs; a red face; eyes turned downward; dilated, staring, immovable pupils; foam at the mouth; teeth set; pulse small, hard, accelerated.
30. Spasms, with stupor and delirium.
31. Cold limbs and body convulsed.
32. Great weakness; children cannot stand; cannot hold up their heads.
33. Tettary eruptions, which bleed easily.
34. Black and blue spots, sometimes like ecchymoses all over the body.
35. The whole body may be of bluish-black color.
36. Anasarca.
37. Dozing of the child after vomiting spells, or after the stool.
38. On falling asleep, rolling of the eyes, or slight convulsions.
39. Complete absence of thirst, though there is a great heat in fever.
40. Cannot bear to be uncovered during the sweat in fever.
41. Fever, esp. in the morning, with shuddering; shuddering, weariness in extremities, internal coldness with the hot and flushed face; malaise; disposition to delirium during cold stage; sweat, after the breaking out of which the previous symptoms disappear.
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The Master’s Warning Regarding Aconite (Aconitum Napellus) In his Materia Medica, Hahnemann cautions that Aconite is strictly an acute remedy for the very outset of disease. Its action is confined to functional disturbances and it does not induce or reverse any true tissue change. Once inflammatoryRead more
The Master’s Warning Regarding Aconite (Aconitum Napellus)
In his Materia Medica, Hahnemann cautions that Aconite is strictly an acute remedy for the very outset of disease. Its action is confined to functional disturbances and it does not induce or reverse any true tissue change. Once inflammatory or structural pathology is established, Aconite loses its effectiveness and must be discontinued.
Key Points of the Warning
– Indicated only in the initial stage of acute febrile or inflammatory conditions
– Acts on functional symptoms (sudden heat, anxiety, restlessness)
– No evidence of producing or healing structural/tissue lesions
– Brief duration of action without periodic return of symptoms
– Must be stopped once true inflammation or tissue change appearsContinuing Aconite beyond the first 24–48 hours or after signs of localization (redness, swelling, exudation) goes against the “like cures like” principle, since the remedy’s sphere does not encompass deeper pathological processes.
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1. Dry, burning heat, with extreme thirst, sometimes (esp. at the beginning of the disease), preceded by shiverings, with trembling. 2. Heat, chiefly in the head and face, with redness of the cheeks, shuddering over the entire body, oppressive headache, temper lachrymose, disposed to complaining andRead more
1. Dry, burning heat, with extreme thirst, sometimes (esp. at the beginning of the disease), preceded by shiverings, with trembling.
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2. Heat, chiefly in the head and face, with redness of the cheeks, shuddering over the entire body, oppressive headache, temper lachrymose, disposed to complaining and to contradiction; or, a sensation of heat in the whole body, with redness of the cheeks, pain in the head-on turning the eyes, and levity of mind.
3. Shivering, if uncovered in the least while the heat exists.
4. Cold over the whole body with internal heat, forehead cold, and tips of the earshot; or with redness of cheeks and pains in the limbs; or with a stiffness of the whole body, heat, and redness of one cheek, and coldness and paleness of the other; eyes open and fixed, pupils contracted and dilating with difficulty.
5. Sensation of coldness in the blood vessels.
6. Cold and shivering in the fingers, followed by cramps in the calves of the legs and in the soles of the feet.
7. Heat of face, with mournful and despairing thoughts, and an inclination to vomit, preceded by cold and shiverings in the feet and hands.
8. Shuddering runs up from the feet to the chest.
9. Frequent shudderings, with burning heat and dryness of the skin.
10. Inflammatory fevers and inflammations, with much heat, dry, burning skin, violent thirst, red face, or alternate red and pale face, nervous excitability, groaning and agonized tossing about, shortness of breath, and congestion to the head.
11. Continual sweat, esp. on parts that are covered.
12. Sour sweat.
13. Pulse hard, frequent, and accelerated; full, sometimes intermitting; when slow, almost imperceptible (threadlike).
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Convulsions in teething children. Twitching of single muscles, skin hot and dry in fever.
Convulsions in teething children. Twitching of single muscles, skin hot and dry in fever.
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Paralysis from the exposure of patient to North dry, cold wind.
Paralysis from the exposure of patient to North dry, cold wind.
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1. Loose, watery stools. 2. Stools like chopped spinach. 3. White stools, with dark red urine. 4. Choleraic discharges with collapse, deathly anxiety, and restlessness. 5. Involuntary stools, from paralysis of the anus. 6. Constipation; clay-coloured stools. 7. Nausea and sweating before and after lRead more
1. Loose, watery stools.
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2. Stools like chopped spinach.
3. White stools, with dark red urine.
4. Choleraic discharges with collapse, deathly anxiety, and restlessness.
5. Involuntary stools, from paralysis of the anus.
6. Constipation; clay-coloured stools.
7. Nausea and sweating before and after loose stools.
8. Pains in the rectum. Violent pain in the rectum, with chill and fever, inflammation, tenesmus, bloody discharges (dysentery).
9. Diarrhśa, with a flux of urine and colic.
10. Sensation as a warm fluid escaping from the anus.
11. Flow of urine, with sweat, diarrhśa, and colic.
12. A sensation of drawing with paralytic weakness in the arms and legs.
13. Rapid and general decay of strength.
14. Fainting, esp. when rising, with paleness of the cheeks, which were red when lying.
15. Attacks of fainting, chiefly on rising from a recumbent posture, and sometimes with congestion of blood in the head, buzzing in the ears, deadly paleness of countenance, and shuddering.
16. Congestions (head, chest, heart).
17. Uneasiness, as if from suppressed perspiration, or in consequence of a chill, with pain in the head, buzzing in the ears, colic, and cold in the head.
18. Sensation of cold and of stagnation of blood in all the vessels.
19. Shaking in the limbs.
20. Cataleptic attack, with cries, grinding of the teeth, and hiccough; rigor of the body, and loud lamentations.
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1. A constant desire to cough, produced by irritation or a tickling in the larynx. 2. Inflammation of the larynx and bronchia. 3. Cough from having drunk or smoked. 4. Short and dry cough, principally at night. 5. A convulsive cough, hoarse or croaking, sometimes with a danger of suffocation, and coRead more
1. A constant desire to cough, produced by irritation or a tickling in the larynx.
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2. Inflammation of the larynx and bronchia.
3. Cough from having drunk or smoked.
4. Short and dry cough, principally at night.
5. A convulsive cough, hoarse or croaking, sometimes with a danger of suffocation, and constriction of the larynx.
6. Angina membranacea, with dry cough and quick breathing.
7. Croup.
8. Expectoration of thick and whitish matter, or bloody mucus, or spitting of blood while coughing.
9. Shootings and pains in the chest on coughing.
10. Cough, with stitches in the chest or small of the back.
11. Cough: < after eating or drinking; when lying; evening; night, more after 12 AM ; during sleep; from tobacco smoke; from vexation, esp., fright; when over-heated; from dry, cold winds; from walking in the open air; assuming upright position; from deep inspiration; from speaking.
12. Constriction and anxious oppression of the chest, with the difficulty of breathing.
13. Asthma of Millar.
14. Attack of suffocation, with anxiety.
15. Sensation of heaviness and of compression at the chest.
16. Painful pricking in the chest, chiefly when breathing, coughing, and moving (even the arms).
17. Stitches through the chest and side, esp. when breathing and coughing.
18. Prickings in the side, with lachrymose and plaintive humor, soothed, in some degree, by lying on the back. Pleurisy and pneumonia, esp. with great heat, much thirst, dry cough, and great nervous excitability, only somewhat relieved when lying on the back.
19. Itching in the chest.
20. Pains as of a bruise in the sternum and in the sides.
21. Sensation of anguish in the chest, which interrupts respiration.
22. Short breathing, chiefly during sleep, and on getting up.
23. Breathing painful, anxious, and attended with groans, rapid and superficial, or full, noisy, and with the mouth open.
24. Breathing slowly during sleep.
25. Breath hot.
26. Breath fetid.
27. Attacks of paralysis in the epiglottis, with a tendency to choking.
28. Pain in the larynx.
29. Larynx sensitive to touch and to the inspired air, as if denuded.
30. Laryngeal complaints after straining the voice.
31. A croaking voice.
Known by many different names such as poison parsley, garden hemlock, and dog parsley, Aethusa cynapium is a toxic European weed often mistaken for its parsley look-a-like. Unlike the common herb grown in many gardens, however, this annual plant has dark green foliage with shiny, yellowish-green onRead more
Known by many different names such as poison parsley, garden hemlock, and dog parsley, Aethusa cynapium is a toxic European weed often mistaken for its parsley look-a-like. Unlike the common herb grown in many gardens, however, this annual plant has dark green foliage with shiny, yellowish-green on its undersides. The plant’s flowers are also white rather than yellow. In addition, fool’s parsley, as it is also called, emits an unpleasant odor when bruised. This aroma is similar to that of the much more powerful and poisonous hemlock.
See lessThe plant is also grown in many parts of the United States and Canada, and in spite of its known toxicity, has a past history of use in folk medicine. As a sedative, the herb had been used in the treatment of sleep disorders. Since the plant affects the nervous system, remedies made from the herb were also used to treat convulsions, anxiety, and delirium. In fact, the herbal remedy was thought to relieve a person’s hallucinations of frightening animals. The same remedy was believed to help strengthen concentration as well.
At one time Aethusa cynapium found popularity as a digestive aid. Its use was oftentimes focused on treating young children. For example, fool’s parsley would usually be prescribed for cholera infantum, or the inability to digest milk, as well as for treating bouts of diarrhea. This common remedy also seemed to have more of a positive effect when used in summer or during hot weather. Fool’s parsley was occasionally used for treating vomiting fits as well.
Interestingly, the plant is only deemed poisonous when it’s taken or used fresh. Preparations made from the dried leaves of Aethusa cynapium are not considered harmful, as most of the plant’s toxins are destroyed through the drying process. Most problems occur when this plant is confused with regular parsley, picked fresh, and ingested. Even in small amounts, fool’s parsley can have grave effects.