Aethusa cynapium, also known as fool's parsley, is an annual herb native to Europe, western Asia, and northwest Africa. It affects the brain and nervous system and is connected to gastrointestinal disturbances. It is considered a remedy for childhood, particularly for babies who cannot tolerate milk, and causes symptoms like weakness, inability to think clearly, confusion, anxiety, and violent vomiting or convulsions. Key indications include intolerance of milk, lack of thirst, herpetic eruptions on the nose, and symptoms made worse by warmth, milk, dentition, exertion, vomiting, or stool. It is used to treat teething issues in children and compares to remedies like Cicuta, Conium,
2. introduction
• Aethusa cynapium is an
annual herb in the plant
• Common name: -
Fool’s parsley
• Source: Vegetable
kingdom
• Synonyms: Dog poison,
Fool’s parsley, Lesser
hemlock
7. Masters quotes
Dr Clarke
• He calls it indeed a medicine
for " fools ". There is great
weakness of mind or body.
• One very characteristic
symptom is : Inability to think,
or fix the attention.
8. Masters quotes
It was Dr. Clarke's Aethusa of
simple sense of
incapacity, great remedy for a
form of examination funk,
" unable to read anything, after
over-taxation of the mental
faculties " ;
" incapacity to think : confused "
;
" cannot retain any idea " ;
" great anxiety "
9. Masters quotes
Allen (Keynotes),
draws attention to
complete absence of
thirst. And, not only
the intolerance of milk,
but the great weakness
of children ; even to
idiocy.
10. Masters Quotes
Nash points out that
. . . The absence of
thirst rules for
Aethusa instead of
Arsenicum."
11. Masters quotes
• Aethusa is worse
from coffee, and has
a desire for wine,
but the mental
symptoms are
increased after
taking it
…….Dr J. T. Kent
12. Masters quotes
Guernsey says:
"The mental symptoms
peculiar to children, and
frequently of adults, are,
great anguish and crying.
As the disease progresses
the patient becomes more
and more retired in his
disposition, and more
inclined to weep."
13. Masters quotes
Violence is one of the key
notes of its action. Violent;
vomiting, convulsions,
pains, delirium. On the
other hand there is
profound prostration and
stupor, and lack of
reaction, even speechless.
…….Dr S. R. Phatak
14. Adaptability
Especially for
• children during dentition
• in hot summer weather when anguish, crying and
expression of uneasiness, and discontent are present.
• children who cannot bear milk
• Miasmatic Background: Psora, syphilis and sycosis
• Temperament: Confused and idiotic
• Diathesis: Scrofulous Thermal Relationship: Hot
patient
21. characters
Intolerance of milk:
cannot bear milk in any
form; it is vomited in
large curds as soon as
taken; then weakness
causes drowsiness
(compare Mag. c.).
26. modality
Worse
• 3 to 4 a.m. and evening.
• Warmth; hot weather.
• MILK.
• Dentition.
• After eating or drinking;
• Over-exertion.
• After vomiting; after stool; after spasm.
29. Relations.-
• It antidotes Opium; and is antidoted by
vegetable acids.
• Teste places it in the Sulphur group
with Cicuta, Con., Aster., Bov., Lobel.,
Merc., Kreos.
