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Pastinaca

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Pastinaca Sativa · Parsnip · "The Parsnip Remedy"

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🎯 Pastinaca acts primarily as a toxic agent affecting the nervous system, causing delirium and suppressing gastric function.

📖 Clarke writes:

Pastinaca sativa. Parsnip. N. O. Umbelliferae. Tincture of roots of second year.

👤 Characteristics

Sphere of Action & Core States

•Poisonous effects of the root of the Parsnip (after the first year)

•State of perfect 'delirium tremens'

•Depressed irritability of the stomach

•Resistance to emetics (emetics would not act)

Leading Mental & Emotional Indicators

•Illusions of vision

•Catching at imaginary objects

•Fighting with one another

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

State of delirium tremens with illusions of vision

Clarke

Gastric nerves so depressed that emetics fail to act

Clarke

Constant motion and attempts to get out of bed

Clarke

Skin red, hot, and swollen with translucent edematous eyelids

Clarke

Blebs and blisters on hands and fingers from contact

Clarke

Incessant talking and incoherent speech

Clarke

Fits of convulsive laughter

Clarke

Staring, vague look with pale face

Clarke

Pulse small, weak, and slow

Clarke

Vomiting of milk in large curds

Clarke

🩺 Systems & Indications

🧠Mind

Consider for acute delirium, hallucinations, and violent or combative mental states.

Delirium tremens.

Quiet delirium, illusions of vision, grasped at imaginary objects

incoherent speech

uninterrupted attempts to get out of bed.

Incessant talking.

Fighting.

Fits of convulsive laughter.

🔑 Modalities

↓Worse from

Evening

delirium

dilated pupils

vague look

pale countenance

trembling tongue

weak pulse

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🔄 Compare With

Zizia Aurea →

📚 Sources & References

✓ Clarke's Dictionary↗✓ Allen's Encyclopedia↗Boericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraKent's Materia MedicaPhatak's Concise MM

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