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Aethusa Cynapium

30CAethusa
Fool's Parsley · Dog Parsley · "The Intolerance of Milk Remedy"
aeth.PolychrestPlantCommonPsoric
🎯 Acts primarily on the brain and nervous system, particularly in children suffering from severe digestive disturbances and inability to digest milk.
📖 Boericke writes:
Fool's Parsley
The characteristic symptoms relate mainly to the brain and nervous system, connected with disturbance. Anguish, crying, and expression of uneasiness and discontent, lead to this remedy most frequently in disease in children, during , summer complaint, when, with the , there is marked inability to digest milk, and poor circulation. Symptoms set in with violence.
👤 Constitution
Typically children who are weak, anxious, and restless, often with a pale or puffed face and a tendency toward coldness and sweat.
Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Anguish, crying, and expression of uneasiness and discontent, lead to this remedy most frequently in disease in children, during , summer complaint, when, with the , there is marked inability to digest milk, and poor circulation.
introduction
Inability to think, to fix the attention.
mind
Hair feels pulled.
head
with , with ; head hot after ceases.
head
; swelling of Meibomian glands.
eyes
Feel obstructed.
ears
Regurgitation of food about an hour after eating.
stomach
, with sweat and great weakness, accompanied by anguish and distress, followed by sleepiness.
stomach
Undigested, thin, greenish, preceded by , with , and followed by exhaustion and .
stool
Surface of body cold and covered with sweat.
skin
Lymphatic glands swollen.
skin
Itching eruption around joints.
skin
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Useful for children or adults experiencing extreme anxiety, mental confusion, or .
Restless, anxious, crying.
Sees rats, cats, dogs, etc. Unconscious, .
Inability to think, to fix the attention.
.
Idiocy may alternate with furor and irritability.
🔑 Modalities
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💊 Dosage & Potency

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

Third to thirtieth
Centesimal
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🤝 Complementary
Calcarea Carbonica
🔄 Compare With
Calcarea CarbonicaArsenicum AlbumCicuta VirosaAntimon

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

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Aethusa Cynapium is listed in 133 rubrics across 22 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 37 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Stomach20Abdomen20Nervous System16Mind11Head9Modalities9Locomotor System7Fever6Skin6Eyes5Circulatory System5Face3Ears2Mouth2Teeth2Generalities2Urinary System2Female Sexual System2Throat1Nose1Tongue1Respiratory System1

See all 133 rubrics for Aethusa Cynapium