# Zizia Aurea

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Emotional Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Evening

## Keynote Indications
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. Millspaugh noted that Rafinesque spoke 
of it as vulnerary, anti-syphilitic and sudorific. 
Marcy proved Ziz. on hims elf and some others, and symptoms of poisoning have been added. Marcy 
considered Ziz. espe cially suitable in brain affections, catarrhal, asthmatic and pleuritic diseases, and in 
ovarian neuralgia. 
Exhilaration with increased physical strength, but a slight amount of exercise caused fatigue. The spasms and 
convulsions of the Umbelliferae were elicited. The generative organs in both sexes were excited.  
Ziz. has spasmodic movements of the muscles of face and limbs. Chorea, twitching during sleep. Convulsions, 
epilepsy. Spasms of face and limbs. Spasms, swooning convulsions and fainting fits, ending in death in three 
hours. Surface of body sensitive to touch. 
Whole body white and puffy. Edema of face and ankles. Aspect of grave and chronic illness. Hypochondriasis, 
desire to commit suicide. Increased strength with inclination for exertion.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Pains fixed, worse by move ment. Worse noise, light, evening. Worse contact, to uch, motion. 
Worse lying, stooping, coughing. Pressure causes pain in intercostal muscles. Pressure on stom ach causes 
nausea and faintness.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Exhilaration like intoxication, fol lowed by strong desire to sleep.
- Laughing and weeping alternately.
- Depression fol lowed by exhilaration.
- Nervous irritability an d a state of depression.
- Paroxysms of self -
dissatisfaction with weeping.
- Low-spirited indifferent.
- Indolence with contentment.
- Behavior quiet with much apparent suffering and sadness.
- Exhilaration like intoxication, fol lowed by strong desire to sleep.
- Laughing and weeping alternately.
- Depression fol lowed by exhilaration.
- Nervous irritability an d a state of depression.
- Paroxysms of self -
dissatisfaction with weeping.
- Low-spirited indifferent.
- Indolence with contentment.
- Behavior quiet with much apparent suffering and sadness.

### Vertigo
- Giddiness, swimming, lightheadedness.
- COMMENTS - Ziz.
- is indicated in uterine disorders characterized by increased nervous and vascular 
excitement.
- The menses are profuse and followed by acrid leucorrhea.
- Uterine congestion with migraine, 
particularly affecting the region of the right eye.
- Rush of blood to the head.
- Flushed cheeks, hot head.
- One cheek red.
- Visible pulsations of carotid and temporal 
arteries (Bell.).
- Coldness of hands and feet, drowsiness and irritability.
- Surface of body paler than natural, 
white, puffy appearance of whole body.
- Laughs and weeps alternately.
- Craves acids and stimulants.
- Burning, smarting backache.
- Spasmodic movements of face and limbs.
- Mind first exhilarated, then depressed, 
finally indifferent.
- Restlessness, running into chorea, the movements continue or are even worse during sleep.

### Head
- Rush of blood to head and face with feeling of fullness (Bell.).
- Sensa tion of tightness around head.
- Intensely painful, sharp headache over right eye (Sang.).
- Fully deve loped headache on seventh day, must lie 
still in dark room, worse evening.
- Headache associated with backache, worse by coughing.
- Severe pain in 
right temple with nausea.
- Pressure on top of brain.
- Dull pain in occipital region, extending down neck muscles.
- Rush of blood to head and face with feeling of fullness (Bell.).
- Sensa tion of tightness around head.
- Intensely painful, sharp headache over right eye (Sang.).
- Fully deve loped headache on seventh day, must lie 
still in dark room, worse evening.
- Headache associated with backache, worse by coughing.
- Severe pain in 
right temple with nausea.
- Pressure on top of brain.
- Dull pain in occipital region, extending down neck muscles.

### Eyes
- Redness of both eyes.
- Pain affects right eye most.
- Shooting pains through orbits.
- Sharp pain through 
right orbit, worse moving eyeballs, stooping or step ping.
- Eyelids agglutinated on rising by yellowish muco -
purulent secretion.
- Styes, right lid.
- Styes middle of upper lid, very painful.
- Sensitive to light (Nat -m.).

### Face
- Pale and puffy.
- One cheek red, other pale.
- Boring pains in cheekbones.
- Dull pains in jaws.
- Painful 
tenderness in lower jawbone, an inch below root of ear.

### Mouth
- Bitter, bilious taste.
- Dry mouth.
- Tongue red and unusually sensitive to cold and warm drinks.
- Tongue 
covered with whitish fur, yellow fur.
- Tongue is broad, furred in middle, red at tip and sides.
- Oppressed 
 
 
respiration.
- Nose - Nasal catarrh with sneezing and coughing from first inhalation.
- Nasal discharge of thick mucus.
- Right 
nostril congested, sore with injection of pharynx and conjunctiva.

### Throat
- Mucus increased.
- Slight redness of tonsils and palate with soreness.
- Inflamed pharynx.

### Chest
- Severe pains in pleurae.
- Pleuritic stitches worse by coughing or deep breath.
- Bruised feeling in 
muscles of chest.
- Pres sure causes pain in intercostal muscles.
- Pain and tenderness on and around xi phoid 
cartilage.
- Dull, aching pain under right scapula.
- Severe shooting from front of thorax to scapula.
- Sharp pains 
from sides and chest to both scapula.
- Severe stitching pains accompanied by feverish symptoms.
- Trachea sensitive to touch.
- Roughness in upperpart of larynx when inspiring or coughing.
- Larynx raw 
from coughing.
- Dry cough with shooting pains in chest.
- Tight cough from deep breath from dry ness of larynx.
- Short, dry cough with severe stitching in right side and sense of suffocation.
- Breathing oppressed, cannot keep 
lying down.
- Asthma.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Stomach sensitive to touch, pressure causes nausea and faintness.
- Nausea.
- Acid, bilious vomiting, 
immoderately.
- Temperature - Chilliness and heat alternating with faintness, nausea, pain in right temple, redness of eyeballs, 
dry and red tongue and thirst for cold water.
- Chilliness acco mpanied 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 fullness in 
both cheeks.
- Redness and heat of cheeks.
- Hot flushes in face and head followed by perspiration.
- Appetite is diminished or lost.
- Thirst.
- Craving for acids and stimulants.

### Urinary & Genital
- Excitement.
- Involuntary emissions at night.
- Lassitude and prostration after se.
- Increased vascular and nervous excitement.
- Sudden suppression of men ses.
- Menses appeared in 
due time but ceased after twelve hours.
- Profuse menses one day, followed by acrid leucorrhea.
- Leucorrhea 
acrid at first, later copious and bland.

### Extremities
- Lameness in muscles of both arms from shoulder to elbow.
- Pricking sensation in right aim with steadily 
diminished sensibility of the part.
- Dragging sensation in both hips.
- Unusually tired feeling in legs after slightest 
exertion.

### Neck & Back
- Pain in posterior margin of scapula.
- Aching, smarting, stinging with aching in small of back when at 
their worst.
- Smarting burning in small of back.
- Dull pains in loins, worse by movement.

### Skin
- Itching pimples on forehead, wrists and legs.

### Sleep
- Drowsiness with sense of fatigue.
- Sleep prevented by pains.
- During sleep spasmodic twitches, talking, 
unpleasant dreams.