Æthusa Cynapium aeth.

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.

After eating or drinking; after vomiting; after stool; after spasm.

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.

General; skin hot and dry; with complete absence of thirst.

From least exertion; profuse, cold; on going to sleep

(China); cannot bear to be uncovered during (Acon., Nux); relieves malaise and delirium.

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.