Homoeopathy — Page 39
Aethusa Cynapium 39 Aethusa Cynapium (Fool’s Parsley) 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 immediately 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 griping in the abdomen. In addition to diarrhoea, there is a tendency to repeated vomiting of clotted milk. The majority of the children are severely 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 and 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 could 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 involves 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 treatment, if the child is treated for his abdominal problem, he will become mentally 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