Aethusa
(Aethusa cynapium · Fool’s parsley)
The remedy of babies who cannot keep milk down. In the materia medica, Aethusa is associated with sudden, violent vomiting of milk in curds, followed by exhaustion and sleepiness, along with difficulty concentrating.
Source
Fool’s parsley, a small white-flowered plant of the carrot family
Kingdom
Plant
Abbreviation
Aeth.
Home acute kit
Usually prescribed by a homeopath
The classic picture
(a remedy is chosen when the whole picture fits the person, not from a single symptom)
Cannot tolerate milk in any form; it comes back up soon after, often in large curds
Vomiting or diarrhea is followed by great weakness, and the child falls asleep at once
An anxious, pained expression, with a marked line from the nose to the corner of the mouth
Inability to think or fix the attention; a striking absence of thirst
Tends to feel better
Open air
Company
Tends to feel worse
3 to 4 a.m. and evenings
Warmth and summer heat
After eating or drinking
After vomiting or stool
How it compares
(remedies that are often confused with Aethusa)
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Calcarea carbonica
(Calcarea carbonica)
Classically complementary; Calcarea’s milk troubles come with sour sweat and a slow, steady constitution rather than violent, sudden vomiting.
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Magnesia carbonica
(Magnesia carbonica)
Also has milk intolerance in infants, but with sour-smelling stools and colic rather than Aethusa’s collapse into sleep.
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Antimonium crudum
(Antimonium crudum)
Antimonium crudum vomits with a thick white-coated tongue and irritability; Aethusa with exhaustion and sudden sleepiness.
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From the classic texts
“Anguish, crying, and expression of uneasiness and discontent, lead to this remedy most frequently in disease in children, during dentition, summer complaint, when, with the diarrhoea, there is marked inability to digest milk, and poor circulation.”
“Intolerance of milk: cannot bear milk in any form; it is vomited in large curds as soon as taken; then weakness causes drowsiness”
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