Æthusa Cynapium aeth.
Characteristic
Especially for children during dentition in hot summer weather; children who cannot bear milk.
Great weakness: children cannot stand; unable to hold up the head (Abrot., Cal. p., Sil.); prostration with sleepiness.
Idiocy in children: incapacity to think; confused.
Features expressive of great anxiety and pain, with a drawn condition and well-marked linea nasalia.
Herpetic eruption on end of nose.
Complete absence of thirst (Apis, Puls., rev. of Ars.).
Intolerance of milk: cannot bear milk in any form; it is vomited in large curds as soon as taken; then weakness causes drowsiness (compare Mag. c.).
Indigestion of teething children; violent, sudden vomiting of a frothy, milk-white substance; or yellow fluid, followed by curdled milk and cheesy matter.
Regurgitation of food an hour or so after eating; copious greenish vomiting.
Epileptic spasms with clenched thumbs, red face, eyes turned downwards, pupils fixed and dilated; foam at the mouth, jaws locked; pulse small, hard, quick.
Weakness and prostration with sleepiness; after vomiting, after stool, after spasm.
Aggravation
After eating or drinking; after vomiting; after stool; after spasm.
Chill
Violent, without thirst, through whole body with gen- eral and external coldness.
Coldness of abdomen, objective and subjective (Tab.); with red face; with horripilation; with rigors and stiffness of limbs; with delirium; chin and corners of mouth feel cold.
Heat
General; skin hot and dry; with complete absence of thirst.
Sweat
From least exertion; profuse, cold; on going to sleep
(China); cannot bear to be uncovered during (Acon., Nux); relieves malaise and delirium.
Analysis
The fever usually occurs in nursing children, dur- ing dentition, in the morning; with marked lassitude, prostration and delirium. The complete absence of thirst, the intolerance of milk and other gastric phenomena make its selection easy.