Description
Information About Dr. Reckeweg Aethusa cynapium
Aethusa cynapium is a homeopathic remedy prepared from a plant commonly known as Fool’s parsley. It has a wide range of action, but primarily it acts on the gastrointestinal tract and is one of homeopathy’s leading remedies for lactose intolerance, especially in children.
Potency: 3X/6/30/200/1M/CM
Product Origin: Germany
Key uses/benefits:
- The medicine acts chiefly on the digestive system. Clinically, it has proven to be beneficial in cases of convulsions and cholera in children, headache, lactose intolerance, herpes, etc. Some of the symptoms that can be treated by this remedy are as follows:
- Complaints suffered by children during dentition come under the scope of this remedy. They suffer from diarrhea with an inability to digest the milk.
- Weak memory and nervous exhaustion. Photophobia and dilated pupils. Swollen face with an expression of anxiety. Aphthous ulcers in the mouth and pustules in the throat.
- Milk is intolerable; it is vomited in large curds as soon as it is taken. Regurgitation of food with vomiting of white frothy substance. Great weakness and distress after vomiting.
- Abdominal colic followed by vomiting and vertigo. Undigested, watery, and greenish stools. Itching eruptions around joints. Summer complaints of children especially regarding milk indigestion often call for this remedy.
Additional information about Aethusa cynapium
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 diarrhśa, there is marked inability to digest milk, and poor circulation. Symptoms set in with violence.
Aethusa Cynapium therapeutic range of actions as per Boericke Materia Medica
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. Aphthć. 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 śsophagus.
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.
