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Aethusa cynapium

 - Blue white pallor about lips.

- White linea nasalis. (A drawn condition, beginning at the alae nasi, and extending to the angle of the mouth),

giving the face an expression of great anxiety and pain.

- 4. Lymphatic glands swelled, like a string of beads - round the neck, swelling of meibomian glands, axillary glands,

with lancinating pain.

- 5. Complete absence of thirst though there is great heat.

Mind

- Weak, nervous and prostrated; from over-exertion of mind.

- Inability to think, to fix attention (in students from over-exertion of mind before exams.).

- Great anxiety and restlessness.

- Discontented; stupefied.

Objective

- Deathly nausea, vomits large, hard curds, then limpness and deep sleep.

- Sudden violent vomiting of milk.

- Lymphatics swelled like a string of beads.

- Cool, clammy skin.

- Epileptiform spasms with clenched thumbs.

- Eyes turned downwards.

- Intolerance of milk.

- Inability to think or fix attention; Brain fag.

- Hungry after vomiting; eats and vomits again.

- An expression of great anxiety and pain, with a well-marked Linea nasalis.

Causation (a.f. )

- Over-exertion of mind.

- Gastrointestinal disturbances.

- Improper feeding of babies.

Modalities

- Agg.

- During dentition.

- Milk.

- Hot weather (summer).

- Frequent eating.

- Over-exertion of mind, 3 to 4 a.m. and evening.

- After vomiting; after stool; after spasm.

- Amel.

- Walking in open air.

- Conversation.

Food & drinks

- Appetite, Thirst, Cravings, Aversions : Appetite nibbling. Thirstlessness marked.

- Aversion

- Intolerance of MILK, vomits it as soon as swallowed, in large curds.

- Hungry after vomiting.

- Regurgitation of food long after eating.

- DEATHLY NAUSEA; retching.

- Then exhausted sleep; wakes up hungry, drinks milk and vomits again (Ant.c. does not want to nurse again).

- Averse to wine.

Female

- Menses watery.

- Lancinating pain in mammary glands and sexual organs.

Child

- Intolerance of milk which is vomited immediately in large curds; then exhausted and falls asleep.

- On waking, takes milk and vomits again.

- Constant nibblers.

- Stools either curdled milk or light yellow and greenish.

- Inability to stand or hold head up with no particular ailment.

- Epileptic spasms with clenched thumbs and eyes turned downwards.

Peculiar, uncommon, grand characteristics

- 1. Head

- Head symptoms relieved by passing flatus.

- 2. Mouth

- Speech slow, embarrassed; even speechless from suffering.

- 3. Mouth

- Taste bitter - of onions, of cheese. Sweetish in morning.

- 4. Mouth

- Tongue seems too long.

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- 5. Stomach

- Hungry after vomiting - sensation as if stomach was turned upside down.

- 6. Stomach

- Regurgitation of food an hour after it has been taken (Kreos.).

- 7. Stool

- Stools undigested or obstinate constipation as if all action of the bowels has been lost.

- 8. Gen. Male

- Right testicle drawn up with pain in kidney.

- 9. Back

- Sensation as if pain in the back could be amel. by straightening out and bending backwards.

- 10. Skin

- Heat makes eruptions itch intolerably.

- But cannot be uncovered during sweat.

- 11. General

- Parts feel screwed together.

Cases

- 72. Aethusa :

- Fear on closing eyes (KR. 43); fear before sleep, to close the eyes, lest he should never wake (KR. 47);

Respiration difficult in the dark (KR. 769).

- (Rajan Sankaran - H.H. 1990/306)+

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