The fool’s parsley and its baby

Dr Batchu Sri Sravan

ABSTRACT
Fool’s Parsley, is a toxic herb from the Apiaceae family, notable for its effects on the nervous system, skin, and mucous membranes. It is particularly beneficial in homeopathy for treating milk intolerance in children, brain fatigue, convulsions, and mental states such as hallucinations and inability to focus. Key symptoms include vomiting greenish curds, stupefaction, and emotional detachment. Its therapeutic scope encompasses gastrointestinal, neurological, and psychological disorders, making it a significant remedy in homeopathic medicine according to different author’s.

KEYWORDS – Concentration, Convulsions, Intolerance, vomiting, homoeopathy

INTRODUCTION
Fool’s parsley, is an annual (rarely biennial) herb belonging to the Apiaceae family, native to Europe, western Asia, and northwest Africa. Fool’s parsley is a small herb that typically grows to about 60 cm in height. It has a smooth, hairless stem that branches at the top and finely divided leaves resembling parsley or carrot tops. The plant produces small, white flowers arranged in umbrella-shaped clusters, followed by small, oval-shaped fruits containing a single seed. This plant has a strong, unpleasant odour, often compared to mouse urine or even dead animals. It primarily acts on the nervous system, glandular system, mucous membrane, and skin.

BABIES
Children affected by Fool’s Parsley experience great weakness of mind or body. They cannot think or fix their attention, especially during dentition in hot summer weather. Complaints are characterized by suddenness and violence, causing severe prostration and somnolence.

According to Dr. Clarke, Fool’s Parsley is a great remedy for examination funk. It addresses brain fatigue from over-study, inability to think, and the sense of incapacity leading to examination failure.

INTOLERANCE OF MILK

ACC TO Dr N.M CHOUDHARY
He says intolerance of milk due to peculiar gastric irritation frequently met with children during dentition.

ACC TO E.A FARRINGTON
Emphasizes the principal use of this drug for its action on the stomach. Symptoms include deathly nausea, sickness, and vomiting. Children who drink milk often expel it forcefully in large quantities. If retained briefly, the milk is vomited in the form of big, thick, greenish curds, leading to drowsiness due to weakness.

CONVULSIONS
Epileptic spasms, with clenched thumbs, red face, eyes turned downward, pupils fixed and dilated; foam at the mouth, jaws locked; pulse small, hard, quick.

ACCORDING TO GEORGE VITHOLKUS
An isolated person — a loner. An unwillingness to communicate or express deep emotions (often without any apparent justifying cause). A strong attachment to animals. The emotional energy may be directed into social work. Fear of going to sleep. Starting with fright on falling asleep.

ACCORDING TO Dr HERING GUIDING SYMPTOMS
Great anxiety and restlessness, followed soon after by violent pains in the head and abdomen. Lies unconscious with dilated pupils and a staring expression in the eyes, accompanied by a loss of comprehension and a sense of stupefaction, as if there were a barrier between the senses and external objects. Imagines seeing rats running across the room. Unable to read after overexertion of mental faculties. After drinking a glass of wine, mental symptoms become predominant. Cries of anguish in a child. Bad humour and irritability, especially in the afternoon and in open air.

CONCLUSION
Aethusa cynapium, or Fool’s Parsley. It affects the nervous system, skin, and mucous membranes. Key symptoms include milk intolerance in children, hallucinations, convulsions, and stupefied states. It treats nervous excitability, convulsions, and gastrointestinal disorders. In homeopathy, it is used for brain fatigue, mental incapacity, and neurological or hysterical conditions.

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Dr. Batchu Sri Sravan
PG Scholar, Department Of Homoeopathic Materia Medica
Father Muller Homoeopathic Medical College and Hospital, Mangalore
Email : batchusrisravan@gmail.com