Aethusa cynapium

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Aethusa cynapium
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• Aethusa is prepared from a very common weed of
  Europe known as the Fools Parsley.

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• BRAIN.
• Nerves.
• Digestion.
• Occiput.
• Neck.
• Glands.
• Liver.

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• Aethusa cynapium is a strong poison, having
  narcotic properties as well as paralyzing
  effects.

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• Along with Silica, it was one of the most
  important remedies for vomiting of milk in
  infants.

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• It produces a deathly nausea and sickness, with
  violent vomiting.

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• In the case of a child the vomit consists of
  curdled milk, which is often green but can also
  be white or yellow.

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• After vomiting, the child falls back exhausted
  and goes to sleep.

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• The Aethusa will often have thin, slimy, yellow
  and or green diarrhea preceded by cramps.

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• 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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• 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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• Hippocratic face with linea nasalis and blue
  pallor around mouth.

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• The Aethusa individual remains separate from
  others -- a man apart. Inside he experiences very
  deep, intense emotions, yet he does not
  communicate these emotions to other people.

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• He may be moved to tears, but tears do not
  come. He may feel friendly, but he appears aloof.

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• Because of these feelings the Aethusa patient
  will, at a certain point, decide to stop
  communicating with other people.

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• The emotional injury or disappointment which
  provokes this withdrawal may be very mild. This
  is actually a strong characteristic of Aethusa
  which runs through the remedy.

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• We do not find in Aethusa a prolonged history
  of many bitter disappointments and griefs which
  can account for such introversion or withdrawal.

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• In some cases we see a slow-growing
  disillusionment, a sense that no one has fully
  understood or responded to the patient's intense
  emotions.

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• Some patients may experience a sense of
  alienation. They feel that no real outlet exists
  for their emotions, that no other person could
  truly understand the strong feelings they have
  inside.

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• The Aethusa person becomes a loner. It is not a
  matter of his being unable to communicate in
  fact, during the interview he may be quite
  communicative.

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• Aethusa should not be confused with certain
  other closed personality types, such as Ignatia
  and Natrum muriaticum.

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• Nat-m. and Ign. are highly refined,
  oversensitive, almost hysterical people in whom
  hurts and griefs produce a type of emotional
  cramping or hardening.

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• Aethusa is not hypersensitive, not so refined,
  not hysterical. He has intense feelings which are
  more robust, more primal -- like a child's
  emotions.

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• Such intense emotions must find expression and
  the Aethusa person seems drawn to animals.

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• The Aethusa person who does not want to
  communicate with other human beings may have
  extraordinary communication with animals.

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• The Aethusa person may love animals more than
  he loves any human being. The patient actually
  may say, "I am not interested in the love of
  human beings, only the love of animals."

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• In some cases he may even collect dozens of
  animals he becomes an animal protector. The
  attachment can be so extreme that the patient may
  even consider bequeathing his estate to his
  animals.

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• Aethusa is mentioned in the rubric "delusions
  of animals. Such delusions suggest that even
  when the logical mind is no longer operative,
  there remains a deep subconscious connection with
  animals.

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• After treatment with Aethusa these animal
  collectors begin to give away their animals
  their degree of attachment returns to a normal
  level.

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• An alternative path for the release of the
  emotional energy may be found in Aethusas
  extreme preoccupation with social work.

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• If the strong feelings remain withheld, the
  emotions can overload the subconscious mind. This
  overloading sets the stage for much of the
  pathology of Aethusa.

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• As the subconscious mind overflows, we may
  often see the patient begin to talk to himself.

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• It is a "pouring out" -- symbolically, a verbal
  equivalent of the vomiting and diarrhea of this
  remedy.

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• The Aethusa person is aggravated by the dark.
  The darkness seems to permeate his being
  producing a heavy sensation in his chest.

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• He fears suffocation in the dark and, as a
  consequence, is forced to turn on a light and
  open a window.

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• He also fears death this fear in Aethusa is
  especially peculiar and striking in that it tends
  to occur just at the moment when the patient is
  falling asleep, startling him to wakefulness.

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• In the Repertory Aethusa is the only remedy
  listed under the rubric "Fear of sleep -- fears
  to close his eyes lest he should never wake," a
  very characteristic fear of this remedy.

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• A corollary to this fear is a fear of surgery
  the patient fears that he will not awaken from
  the anesthesia -- an expression of the
  combination of the fear of suffocation and the
  fear to go to sleep.

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• When he finally does drop off to sleep, the
  sleep is restless and often interrupted by
  frequent startings he talks in his sleep and may
  even be prone to somnambulism.

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• Even though he does not express it, the Aethusa
  patient may feel a very strong attachment to his
  family. He may dread the thought of a family
  member dying.

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• However, despite such a strong attachment to
  his relatives, direct emotional contact between
  himself and his family is almost non-existent.

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• In a similar way, the patient may be unable to
  tolerate other situations which may stimulate his
  emotions. He may say, for instance, "I cannot go
  into a doctor's office when there are many sick
  people

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• The emotions in Aethusa find other outlets,
  outlets in the physical body, most notably
  through vomiting or diarrhea.

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• The vomiting and diarrhea of Aethusa possess an
  extreme intensity, bordering on violence.

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• The violence with which food, especially milk,
  that was recently ingested is forcibly ejected
  can be tremendous.

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• The Aethusa patient quickly deteriorates to an
  almost deathly state, so serious is the vomiting.

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• When the emotions remain controlled and without
  outlets for a considerable time, irritability may
  arise, and can become intense rage.

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• In Aethusa sexual activity has disappeared from
  their lives gradually in the same way that
  "communication" with other human beings has
  gradually subsided.

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• Rather than suffering an immediate big reaction
  to their disillusionment, these patients seem to
  become resigned to a life devoid of sex in
  consequence of a series of small but cumulative
  disappointments.

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• Usually however, there is a strong sexual
  desire, but, just as there is a withholding of
  other forms of communication, there can also be a
  withholding of sexual feelings.

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• The Aethusa patient seems to be too serious. He
  will give you the impression of one who seriously
  meditates all the time.

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• The Aethusa face is an old wise face with deep
  furrows.

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• Aethusa dulls the mind and makes it feel empty
  and incapable of perceiving, retaining and
  processing information.

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• It seems to them that is an utter impossibility
  to prepare for an examination because they are
  unable to read anything unable to think or to
  fix their attention.

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• They feel a kind of stupefaction as if a barrier
  were erected between their organs of sense and
  the external objects. This state arises
  especially after having become overtaxed from
  mental exertion.

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• Aethusa children may resemble Calcarea
  phosphorica as both remedies can present
  headaches coupled with inability to focus the
  mind and learn.

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• The mind of Aethusa becomes weak and seems to
  have abandoned all efforts to operate effectively
  in much the same way that the emotions and sexual
  desire have been relinquished with no resistance.

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• Aethusa can be indicated when the student tells
  you that he cannot continue studying despite the
  fact that he has not overexerted himself
  tremendously.

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• There is a peculiar anxiety and restlessness
  that sets in as the mind seems to be giving up
  then a form of sleeplessness ensues with the
  peculiar fear that he may not wake up if he goes
  to sleep.

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• His irritability is aggravated especially when
  walking outside in the open air when indoors, he
  feels better.