Genus: Aethusa cynapium
Common name: Fool’s parsley, Dog parsley
Family: Umbelliferae (Carrot or Apiaceae)
With it’s small white blossoms in umbrella shaped clusters called umbels, Aethusa is a member of the carrot family of flowering plants. Its individual flowers have five petals, five sepals, and five stamens. Due to the similarity of Umbelliferae family plants, it is often difficult to distinguish between them. Aethusa looks similar to wild carrot or Queen Anne’s Lace, a wildflower herb that is considered a weed in many places. Root vegetables in this family include parsnips, celery, fennel, and carrots. Culinary herbs in this family include dill, cumin, parsley, and anise. Despite their pretty bouquets, however, some members of the Umbelliferae family are poisonous, including poison hemlock, water hemlock, and fool’s parsley. However, when made into homeopathic remedies, the power of these toxic plants is harnessed for good and can be used to promote healing instead of harm.
Homeopathic remedies have an affinity for specific organs or systems of the body. When used as a homeopathic remedy, Aethusa is useful for disturbances in the gastrointestinal tract, especially for infants or others who have an intolerance to milk. This can be the result when an infant is fed too often, less than every 3 hours. Persons who tend to nibble food all day can also suffer from gastrointestinal derangement. Although the following characteristic doesn’t have to be present in all cases when considering this remedy, an interesting personality trait of Aethusa is a stronger than usual love for animals to the extent that the person devotes his or her entire life to animals and may accumulate a large number of pets. This person is reserved, may be a loner, and yet has strong inward emotions.
Keynotes:
- Reserved loner with intense internal emotions, feels unconnected to people
- Talks to himself out loud
- Collects pets in great numbers, intensely attached to his pets
- Inability to think, brain fag from over study, mental weakness, mental retardation
- Acute vomiting and diarrhea with extreme prostration or drowsiness, especially in newborns
- Great weakness and exhaustion after vomiting
- Wrinkled, old-looking face, even in infants
- Epilepsy, febrile convulsions, with eyes turn downward, especially during teething
- Milk intolerance, lactose intolerance, forceful vomiting of large curds of milk, projectile vomiting
- Gastritis, diarrhea from milk
- Thirstlessness
- Eruptions on the tip of the nose
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