# Aethusa Cynapium (HMT)

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Remedy
- **Alternative Names:** Fool’s Parsley
- **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
Aethusa Cynapium, if truly analogous to the disease complex, works
wonders.  In allopathy, there is no match for this Homoeopathic
remedy.  This is the best remedy for wasting disease of the children
(marasmus).  The child cannot digest milk; he throws up as soon as
he drinks milk.  The vomiting renders him very weak.  He feels
hungry, takes milk-feed and imme diately vomits again.  The
constipation is severe.  If diarrhoea ensues, the stools are small.
Firstly, they are yellowish in colour and then, turn greenish (bile-
coloured).  There is intense gripin g in the abdomen.  In addition to
diarrhoea, there is a tendency to repeated vomiting of clotted milk.

The majority of the children are se verely constipated.  Diarrhoea is
rare.  The child is usually drowsy and steadily goes on getting weaker.
Once a marasmic child was brought to me who looked terrible.  His
head was large, his face drawn a nd shrivelled, and his body was just a
bony skeleton.  His parents told me that they had tried many
medicines but to no avail, since the child was constipated for over a
month, and threw up after every milk feed.  I gave him Aethusa. Soon
his constipation was relieved, he co uld digest milk and his condition
started improving.  Within a week, the child became hale and hearty.

Marasmus is also found in Abrotanum.  In Abrotanum, the wasting
begins in the legs and then spreads upwards towards the chest and
neck.  In Aethusa, wasting involv es the entire body simultaneously.
Another sign of Aethusa is that with heat, the sickness migrates
towards the head.  For a child with some mental deficiency  and a
tendency to throw up milk immediately after feed, Aethusa is the
remedy.  Aethusa will cure his mental  as well as abdominal problem.
With conventional allopathic treatmen t, if the child is treated for his
abdominal problem, he will become me ntally ill, even insane.  Clear-
cut symptoms of Aethusa warrant the use of Aethusa alone.
In Aethusa Cynapium, the illness comes on with full force followed
by mental and physical exhaustion, drowsiness and delirium.  The
patient is extremely superstitious and hallucinates about cats, dogs and
mice.  He lacks concentration.  He is sad and feels uneasy.  The head
feels tied up in a vice.  There is pain at the back of the head , which

radiates down the neck, shoulders and upper back.  This pain is
relieved by pressure or lying down, as well as after passing stools and
wind (flatus).  Hairs feel stretched.  There is drowsiness, dizziness and
palpitation.  When dizziness ends, the head starts feeling warm.

The eyes are very sensitive to light.  The margins of the eyelids
swell.  The eyeballs roll around duri ng sleep.  The eyes are drawn
downwards.  Things appear larger  than their actual size.  The ears
ache, with a feeling of discharge of warm fluid with hissing sounds.
Thick nasal secretions causes blocka ge of the nose.  The tip of the
nose feels sore.  An ineffective desire to sneeze is typical of Aethusa.
Red marks appear on the face.  The jaws hurt and feel stiff.  The
tongue is dry and feels too long.  Burning and blisters of the throat
make swallowing difficult.  At time s, due to difficulty in breathing
and feeling suffocated, the patient may not even speak.  The chest
feels tight.

Aethusa is very useful in diseases of the women .  During
menstruation, if there is excessive wa tery bleeding and painful
swelling of the breasts, uterine di scomfort and sluggish intestinal
movements (peristalsis), vomiting soon after eating without nausea,
along with some other peculiar symp toms of Aethusa Cynapium, they
will all respond to Aethusa.

The symptoms of Aethusa intensify early in the morning, at about 3 to
4 a.m., with cold water and in warm bedding.  All the symptoms,
except mental, subside in the open air.  Aethusa is very good in
teething diarrhoea of children .  In Aethusa patients, there may also
be numbness of the arms and feet, and developing cramp.  The elbows
are spastic.  Fingers and thumbs clench.  There is numbness in the
hands and the feet.  Aethusa is useful in epilepsy too. The limbs feel
cold and tight along with frothing from the mouth.  The child cannot
hold the head up, vomits immediat ely after milk feed and then
demands milk soon after.

Aethusa is considered useful by some homoeopaths for students who
get confused and very apprehensive in the examination hall.  One dose
of Aethusa Cynapium 2 00 taken on the morning of  the exam is found
very useful.
Adjuvant: Calcaria Carb.
Potency: 30 to 200

## Symptoms by System