Gems of Homoeopathic Materia Medica

Source	Vegetable kingdom.
Synonyms	Dog Poison, Fool's parsley, Lesser Hemlock
Family	Umbelliferae
Proved by	Dr. Nenning in 1828.
Duration of Action	20 to 30 days.

Introduction & History
It is best for the vomiting in children during dentition period and in summer season.  The plant is very similar to real parsley, and it was thought only the intelligent could differentiate between the two.  Hence named Fool's parsley.

Miasmatic Background	-	Psora,Syphilis, Sycosis
Temperament	-	Confused and idiotic.
Diathesis	-	Scrofulous.
Thermal Relationship	-	Hot patient,

• Being a poison its acts on nervous system and brain and produces paralysing effects due to its narcotic property.
• It acts on mucous membrane of stomach and produces nausea, vomiting, intolerance of milk.
• Due to its action on brain it produces convulsions which are some what epileptiform in character.

• Idiocy in children, inability to think or fix the attention, confused feeling.
• Anxiety and restlessness, afterwards headache and colic.  Great sadness when alone, hallucinations and delirium.  Irritability especially in the afternoon and in the open air.
• More inclined to weep with the progress of disease with excessive anguish.
• Patient imagines that he sees a rat or mouse running across the room.

• Thirstlessness - It is totalled a thirstless remedy.
• Spasms - Epileptiform spasms with clenched thumbs, red face, eyes dilated and turned downwards, immovable pupils, locked jaws with foam at mouth.
• Intolerance of milk - Cannot bear milk in any form, it is vomited in large curds as soon as swallowed, hungry after vomi 'ting with great weakness and causes drowsiness.
• Sleep - Sleeps immediately after vomiting, diarrhoea, spasms and convulsions with indigestion.
• Violence- Onset of symptoms is sudden and violent with great exhaustion and lack of reaction.
• Lancinating Pains - Swelling of the mammary glands with lancinating pains in female sexual organs and mammary glands with heat and redness.
• Indigestion - Indigestion with regurgitation of food after eating.
• Infantile cholera - With vomiting, diarrhoea, dehydration, prostration and sleepiness, face pale, Hippocratic and sunken eyes.
• Glandula7- Swellings - Swelling of mammary glands and glands round the neck.
• Puffiness - Face is puffed and spotted red, pale and white, linea na-salis.
• Eruptions - Round the joints, especially knee, elbow and ankle, herpetic eruptions at tip of nose.
• Fever - Great fever with complete absence of thirst cannot bear to be uncovered during perspiration.
• Want of power- Weakness of lower extremities, want of power to stand up or hold head up, back feels as if in a vise.  Aching in small of back.

Nausea & Vomiting - It is a wonderful remedy in vomiting in children especially during dentition period, hot summer weather.  Child cannot tolerate milk in any form.  Large green curds of milk are vomited, followed by great exhaustion, there is a drawn look about the mouth suggestive of nausea.  The child is very hungry, and soon after eating or nursing vomits with a rush and falls back exhausted.

Aethusa Baby - It is one of the best remedies in children for vomiting, cholera infantum and epilepsy, especially during dentition period, in hot summer weather.  The baby cannot tolerate milk in any form due to peculiar gastric irritation.  The child is very weak and cannot stand up or hold the head up.  Sleepiness is persistent.  The baby is idiotic, confused and has incapacity to think.  Herpetic eruption on the end of the nose.  Epileptiform spasms with clenched thumbs, red face, eyes turned downwards, dilated immoveable pupils, foam at mouth with locked jaws.  Sunken face with well marked linea nasalis.  Pulse is small, quick and hard.  There is great weakness and prostration with sleepiness.