The document provides an overview of the homeopathic remedy Aethusa cynapium, commonly known as Fool's Parsley. It describes the plant's origins and uses, as well as key mental and physical symptoms it addresses including incapacity of thought, vomiting of curds after milk, weakness, and epileptic seizures. Modalities, relationships to other remedies, and comparisons to remedies with similar symptoms are also summarized.

1. AETHUSA CYNAPIUM
By – Dr.Akshata Shanbhag
B.H.M.S., MD( Hom)
Department of Homoeopathic Materia Medica

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OBJECTIVES
• Introduction
• Ailments from
• Mind
• Guiding symptoms
• Particulars
• Modalities
• Clinical
• Remedy relationship
• Comparison of remedies

3. The herb Aethusa cynapium derives its
name from the Arabic term 'ai' denoting 'to
burn'. The Arabic word reveals the plant's
penchant to cause rawness and burning.
The herb's common name - FOOL'S
PARSLEY, matches up with its use in
homeopathy for treating incapacity for
clarity of thoughts as well as focus on
anything.

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INTRODUCTION
• COMMON NAME : Fool’s Parsley
• FAMILY : Umbelliferae
• PART USED : Fresh plant in flower
• PREPARATION : Tincture of whole fresh
plant
• HABITAT : Grows naturally as a
common weed in its place of origin - Europe.
Presently, this plant is also found in the
United States as well as Canada.

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• CONSTITUTION : Suited to teething-
children and choleraic affections in old age.

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AILMENTS FROM
• Dentition
• Hot summer
• Taking milk or milk product
• Over eating or overstudy

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MIND
• Great weakness of mind or body.
• Inability to think or fix the attention.
• 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.
• Great anguish and crying.
• An expression of great anxiety and pain, with a drawn
condition and well-marked linea nasalia. Features
expressive of pain and anxiety.

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VIOLENCE
• Violent vomiting
• Violent convulsions
• Violent pains
• Violent delirium.

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Wakes
hungry
Drinks
milk &
eats.
(Cannot
bear milk
in any
form)
Vomits in
large
curds as
soon as
taken.
Weakness
Drowsine
ss
Great weakness; children
cannot stand; unable to hold up
the head

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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.

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

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GIT
• Mouth : Dry. Aphthæ.
– Tongue seems too long.
– Burning and pustules in throat, with difficult swallowing.
– Complete absence of thirst
• 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.

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• 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.

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

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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.

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MODALITIES
• Worse
– 3 to 4 am, evenings;
– warmth, summer.
– coffee, wine, drunkenness,
– cold water, and
– warmth of bed,
– After eating or drinking; after vomiting; after stool;
after spasm.
• Better
– in open air (except mental symptoms).
– company.
– by a walk in the open air, and
– by conversation.

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CLINICALS
• Bronchitis, Diarrhoea, Eczema, Gastritis,
Gastroenteritis, Herpes, Lactose
intolerance, Otorrhoea.
-When Aethusa fails in vomiting of milk
in large curds, use Valeriana- Dr.
Robert.

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REMEDY RELATIONSHIP
• Complementary: Calc.
• Antitodes : Opium,
• Antidoted by : Vegetable acids.

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COMPARISON OF REMEDIES
AETHUSA ARGENTUM NIT
Examination funk SAME
unable to read anything, after
over-taxation of the mental
faculties
acute anxiety, worry, and
premonition of failure
Remedy of simple sense of
incapacity
remedy of great mental strain and
apprehension
more violently upsets the
stomach-with its extreme vomiting
bloats the stomach with flatulent
dyspepsia: as if it would burst with
wind
diarrhoea, with green mucus. SAME
worse from coffee, and has a
desire for wine, but the mental
symptoms are increased after
taking it.
craving for sweets and sugar,
which disagree

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AETHUSA MEDORRHINUM
Knee chest position SAME
Complaints are better by this
posture
General posture
AETHUSA NAT CARB, IGN, PULS,
CARB VEG, ARN, BELL,
SEP
Intolerance of milk SAME

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REFERENCES
• Allen’s Keynotes
• Boericke Materia medica
• Kent’s Lectures on Materia medica
• Clarke’s dictionary of Materia medica
• M.L.Tyler’s Homoeopathic Drug picture