Zizia.
Zizia aurea. Thapsium aureum. Carum aureum. Meadow Parsnip. N. O.
Umbelliferć. Tincture of root.Clinical.─
Asthma. Brain, affections of. Catarrh.
Chorea, in sleep. Convulsions. Dropsy. Epilepsy. Hypochondriasis. Hysteria. Influenza.
Leucorrhśa. Menses, suppression of. Migraine. Ovary, intermittent neuralgia of. Pleurisy.
Stye.
Characteristics.─
The Meadow Parsnip is a common
plant indigenous to the United States on the moist banks of streams and in open wet woods,
where it flowers in June and July. Rafinesque speaks of it as vulnerary, antisyphilitic, and
sudorific (Millspaugh). Marcy proved Ziz. on himself and
some others, and symptoms of poisoning have been added. Exhilaration with increased physical
strength was noted; but a slight amount of exercise caused fatigue. The spasms and
convulsions of the Umbelliferć were elicited. The generative organs in both sexes were
excited. Ziz. is indicated in uterine affections
characterised by increased nervous and vascular excitement. The menses are profuse, and
followed by acrid leucorrhśa. Burning, smarting backache. Spasmodic movements of face and
limbs. Mind first exhilarated, then depressed, finally indifferent. The restlessness of Ziz. runs into chorea; and the chorea has this distinguishing
feature, that the movements continue or are even <
during sleep. Connected with the uterine congestion there is migraine, the region of the
right eye being most affected. There was rush of blood to the head. Marcy considered Ziz. especially suitable in brain affections; catarrhal,
asthmatic, and pleuritic diseases; in ovarian neuralgia. Among Peculiar
Symptoms are: Surface of body paler than natural; white, puffy appearance of
whole body. Laughs and weeps alternately. One cheek red. Craves acids and stimulants. The
symptoms are: < By touch. Pressure = pain in intercostal muscles; on stomach = nausea and faintness. <
Lying; stooping; motion; coughing.
Relations.─
Antidoted by:
Puls. (migraine), Carb. an. (stye). Compare: One cheek
red, Cham. Uterine congestion, backache, indifference, Sep. Chorea in sleep, Trn. As if in a
dream, Amb., Anac., Calc., Can. i., Con., Cup., Med., Rhe., Val., Ver. Laughing alternately
with weeping, Calc., Ign., Merc., Nux m., Puls., Stram.
SYMPTOMS.
1. Mind.─
Exhilaration; like intoxication;
followed by strong desire to sleep.─Depression following exhilaration.─Laughing
and weeping alternately.─Depression followed by exhilaration.─Irritable,
low-spirited, indifferent.─Nervous irritability and depression,
culminating in a paroxysm of self-dissatisfaction with weeping.─Indolence
with contentment.─Behaviour quiet, with much apparent suffering and
sadness.
2. Head.─
Giddiness; swimming; light-headedness.─Rush
of blood to head and face, with feeling of fulness.─Sensation of
tightness round head.─Intensely painful, sharp headache over r. eye; Puls. > first days, not
later; fully developed seventh day, must lie still in dark room; <
evening (the usual headache is < morning); associated
with backache; < by coughing.─Severe
pain in r. temple, with nausea.─Pressure on top of brain.─Dull
pain in occipital region, extending down neck muscles.
3. Eyes.─
Redness of both eyes.─Pain
affects r. eye most.─Shooting pains through orbits.─Sharp
pain through r. orbit, < moving eyeballs, stooping,
or stepping.─Eyelids agglutinated on rising by yellowish muco-purulent
secretion.─Stye, r. lid.─Stye middle of upper lid,
very painful, > Carb. an.─Eyes
sensitive to light.
5. Nose.─
Nasal catarrh, with sneezing and
coughing from first inhalation.─Nasal discharge of thick mucus.─R.
nostril congested, sore; with injection of pharynx and conjunctiva.
6. Face.─
Face: pale and puffy.─One
cheek red, other pale.─Boring pains in cheek-bones.─Dull
pains in jaws.─Painful tenderness in lower jawbone, an inch below root
of ear.
8. Mouth.─
Tongue: red and unusually sensitive to
cold and warm drinks; covered with whitish fur; yellow fur on tongue and oppressed
respiration; broad, furred in middle, red at tip and sides.─Mouth dry.─Taste:
bitter; bilious.
9. Throat.─
Mucus increased.─Slight
redness of tonsils and palate, with soreness.─Inflamed pharynx.
11. Stomach.─
Craving for acids and stimulants.─Appetite:
diminished; lost.─Thirst.─Nausea.─Vomiting:
acid, bilious; immoderately.─Stomach sensitive to, touch; pressure = nausea and faintness.
15. Male Sexual Organs.─
Involuntary emission two
nights in succession.─Excitement.─Lassitude and
prostration after coitus, which had existed a long time, was completely removed in the
proving.
16. Female Sexual Organs.─
Increased vascular and
nervous excitement.─Leucorrhśa: bland; acrid; acrid at first, later
copious and bland.─Profuse menses one day, followed by acrid
leucorrhśa.─Menses appeared in due time but ceased after twelve hours.─Sudden
suppression of menses.
17. Respiratory Organs.─
Roughness in upper part
of larynx whet, inspiring or coughing.─Larynx raw from coughing.─Trachea
sensitive to touch.─Dry cough, with shooting pains in chest.─Tight
cough, from deep breath; from dryness of larynx.─Short, dry cough, with
severe stitching in r. side and sense of suffocation.─Breathing
oppressed, cannot keep lying down.─Asthma.
18. Chest.─
Severe pains in pleurć.─Bruised
feeling in muscles of chest.─Pressure =
pain in intercostal muscles.─On and around xiphoid cartilage pain and
tenderness to touch.─Dull, aching pain under r. scapula.─Severe
shooting from front of thorax to scapula.─Sharp pains from sides and
chest to both scapulć.─Severe stitching pains accompanied by feverish
symptoms.─Pleuritic stitches < by
coughing or deep breath.
20. Back.─
Pains in posterior margin of scapulć,
aching, smarting, stinging, with aching in small of back when at their worst.─Dull
pains in loins, < by movement.─Smarting
burning in small of back.
22. Upper Limbs.─
Lameness in muscles of both
arms, from shoulder to elbow.─Pricking sensation in r. arm, with
steadily diminished sensibility of the part.
23. Lower Limbs.─
Dragging sensation in both hips.─Unusually
tired feeling in legs after slightest exertion.
24. Generalities.─
Increased strength with
inclination for exertion.─Aspect of grave and chronic illness.─Whole
body white and puffy.─Śdema of face and ankles.─Convulsions,
epilepsy.─Spasms, swooning convulsions, and fainting fits, ending in
death in three hours.─Spasms of face and extremities.─Surface
of body sensitive to touch.─Pains fixed, <
by movement, noise, light, contact; < evening.
25. Skin.─
Itching pimples on forehead, wrists,
and legs.
26. Sleep.─
Drowsiness; with sense of fatigue.─Sleep
prevented by pains.─During sleep: spasmodic twitches; talking;
unpleasant dreams.
27. Fever.─
Chilliness and heat alternating with
faintness, nausea, pain in r. temple, redness of eyeballs, dry and red tongue, and thirst
for cold water.─Chilliness accompanied by spasmodic twitchings of
muscles of face and upper limbs, followed by fever.─Fever, with
headache, pain in back, thirst.─Fever with stitching pain in chest.─Some
sense of heat and fulness in both cheeks.─Flushed cheeks, hot head,
visible pulsations of carotid and temporal arteries, coldness of hands and feet, drowsiness
and irritability.─Redness and heat of cheeks.─Hot
flushes in face and head followed by perspiration.® 2000
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