CICUTA VIROSA.
Cicuta virosa, Linn. (“Cicuta aquatica” is Phellandrium
aquaticum). Nat. order, Umbelliferæ. Common names, Water Hemlock, Cowbane; (G.) Wasserschierling,
Wütherich; (Fr.) La cigue vireuse.
Preparation
, Tincture of the fresh root, collected when the
plant begins to flower (Hahnemann).
Authorities.
1, Hahnemann,
R. A. M. L., 6, 263; 2, F. H—n, ibid.; 3, Hornburg, ibid.; 4,
Langhammer, ibid.; 5, Allen, Synopsis, poisoning, ibid.;
6, Bresl. Samml., 1729, poisoning, ibid.; 7, Wepfer, de cicuta aquatica, ibid., with additions from
Wibmer’s details of the cases of poisoning; 8, Lembke,
proving with repeated doses of 10 to 200 drops of tincture, A. H. Z., 51, 109; 9, Tragus, effects of an infusion of root in a woman, Wibmer; 10, Scaliger, effects of eating root, Wibmer; 11, Reimann, ibid.; 12,
Gäritz, two girls, aged 4 and 6, ate the root, ibid.; 13,
Box, in Schwenke, from Wibmer; 14, Blom, a man ate root,
ibid.; 15, Ettinger, effects of eating the root, ibid.; 16, Trew, ibid.; 17,
Bennewitz, child ate the root, Frank’s Magazine, 1, 39; 18,
Meyer, ibid.; 19, Allihn, Hartlaub and Trinks, R. A. M.
L., 3, 359, poisoning; 20, Velten, seven children ate
the root, Casp. Woch., 1840, No. 19; 21, Schleiser, a
girl ate the plant, Hempel’s Mat. Med., 2, 183; 22,
Willson, effects of eating root, Lancet, Sept. 1871; 23,
Lenden, three boys ate the root, B. and F. Med.-Chir. Rev., April, 1866; 24, a student took 15 grammes of root in half an hour, Schmidt’s
Jahrb., 1; 25, L’Art Méd., 20, 460, case of poisoning
by an omelette containing Cicuta.
MIND.
► Emotional. ► *Aberration of mind, singing, performing the most grotesque
dancing-steps, shouting, [25]. ► Delirium, [9], [10], [22]; (in two
hours), [24]. ►
Delirium; after an unusual sleep heat of the body; she sprang out of bed, danced, laughed,
and did all sorts of foolish things, drank much wine, jumped about, clapped her hands, and
grew very red in the face; the whole night, [7]. ► Intoxication, [9]. ► Feels as if intoxicated, while sitting, standing, and walking
(after five minutes), [2]. ►
Drunkenness, [5]. ►
Drunkenness, reeling, [6]. ►
Excited, with apprehension concerning the future; everything which could befall him seemed
to be dangerous, [1]. ►
He did not believe that he was living under ordinary relations; everything seemed strange
and almost fearful to him; it seemed as though he had awakened from an acute fever and saw
all kinds of visions, though without physical sick feeling, [1].
[10.] ► It seemed as
though he was a child of 7 or 8 years, as if objects were very lovely and attractive to him,
as toys to a child, [1]. ►
Likes to be alone and is disinclined to speak, with diminished power of comprehension, [8]. ► Laughing and
biting, [12]. ►
Weeping, moaning, and howling, [5]. ► Lively mood, inclined to work, with a feeling of lightness on
walking or making any other muscular exertion, [8]. ► Quiet disposition; he was exceedingly contented with his condition
and with himself, and was very happy, [4].
[Curative action. -Hahnemann.] ► Sadness for several
days, [6]. [Not found. -Hughes.] ►
When others were lively he was sad, [1]. ► (Gloominess for two days after the headache), [1]. ► Dejection (second day), [19]. [20.] ► Anxiety, [7]. ► Anxiety; he is excessively affected by sad stories, [6]. [Not found. -Hughes.] ►
(Anxiety, sweat on the face, and trembling of the hands about noon; a feeling at the heart,
in the middle of the chest, as if he would become faint), [1].
► *He thought of the future, with anxiety, and was
constantly sad, [1]. ►
Great fearfulness; she feels stitches in the left side of the head, from fright, on every
opening of the door, and every word, though not spoken aloud, [2].
► He believed he would die, [22]. ► Contempt and scorn for
mankind; he avoided them, abhorred their follies excessively, and his disposition seemed to
tend towards misanthropy; he withdrew himself into solitude, [4].
► Want of confidence in mankind, with misanthropy; he
forsook society, remained alone and reflected upon their errors and about himself, [4]. ► Suspicious, [1]. ► He was indifferent
to everything, and began to doubt whether he was really in the condition in which he found
himself, [1]. [30.]
► Insensibility, [14].
► Intellectual. ►
Weakness of mind, [19]. ►
*Mental torpor, [25]. ► *Dull and stupid (after ten minutes), [2]. ► Disinclined to work,
morose, ill-humored, [8]. ►
Loss of ideas; loss of sensation, [5], [6]. ► Confusion of
ideas, and rapid change of thought from one to another subject, [8]. ► He confuses present events
with the past, [1]. ►
Stupor, [18]. ►
Stupefaction, [15], [17]. [40.] ► Loss of consciousness, [16].
► Loss of consciousness, and delirium, [15]. ► Complete loss of
consciousness, [18]. ►
*Became insensible, and convulsed generally, [23].
► Quite insensible, [21].
HEAD.
► Confusion and Vertigo.
► Confusion of the head, in the morning after rising, [1]. ► Confusion of the
forehead, [8]. ►
More or less confusion of the forehead, [8]. ► Stupefaction and heaviness of the head (after seventy-four
hours), [4]. ► *Vertigo,
[7], [18];
(second day), [19]; (soon after), [20], [22]. [50.] ► Vertigo, while
walking, as if he would fall toward to the left (after seventy-two hours), [4]. ► Vertigo, reeling, [6]. [Not found. -Hughes.] ►
Vertigo; he fell to the earth, [5]. ► Giddiness (after half an hour), [22]. ► Fell down from giddiness, [20]. ► Dizzy, [7]. ► Reeling, [12]. ► Reeling, so that
she believes she would fall (after six hours), [2]. ► Reeling and tottering, while walking (after eighty-two
hours), [4]. ► General
Head. ► Jerking and twitching of the head,
[2]. [60.] ► Head bent backward (a kind of opisthotonos), [6]. ► If she is allowed to sit
quietly a long time her head gradually sinks down, while her eyes remain staring at the same
point, so that when the head has sunk low down the pupils lie almost under the upper lid;
when she has ceased with a kind of internal jerk, whereby she suddenly returns to
consciousness for a short time, she again falls into a similar insensible condition,
wherefrom she is aroused from time to time by an internal shivering, which seems to her like
a chill, [2]. ►
Dulness in the head, with a shaking chill; with stiffness of the neck, and sensation as if
the muscles were too short, [2]. ►
Anxiety in the head, [2]. ►
Strange feeling in head, [24]. ►
Heaviness in the head, while sitting, [3]. ► Heaviness of the head and chest, [7]. ► On stooping, it seems as
though the head would fall forward (after eighty hours), [4].
► Headache, [12]. ► Head feels too full and heavy, [8].
[70.] ► Compressive
headache from both sides, [2]. ►
Headache, in the morning on waking, as if the brain were loose, and shaking on walking; when
he thought how the pain should be described it had disappeared, [1]. ► (Violent headache for two
days, followed by a sick feeling in the abdomen, a sticking which extends from the nose and
the right eye to the occiput), (after fifteen days), [1].
► Pressure deep in the brain in various places, [8]. ► Sticking headache,
[7]. ► The headache
is relieved by passage of flatus, [1]. ► The headache disappears while sitting upright, [1]. ► Forehead. ► Heaviness in the forehead, [8].
► Heaviness and heat in the forehead, [8]. ► Heaviness and pain in the
forehead, [8]. [80.]
► Heaviness in the forehead, with pressure deep in the
brain, [8]. ► Pain,
with fulness in the forehead and right temple, afterwards in the left, [8]. ► Pressure in the forehead, [8]. ► Pressure in the
left frontal bone, [3]. ►
Pressive pain beneath the left frontal eminence, [8]. ► Pressure in the forehead and in the muscles of the left upper
arm, [8]. ►
Pressive pain beneath the bones in various places in the forehead, [8]. ► Pressive, stupefying headache
external in the forehead, more during rest (after one and thirty-six hours), [4]. ► Sticking pain in
the frontal bone, [3]. ►
Tearing pain beneath the bones in the upper part of the forehead, extending to the vertex, [8]. [90.] ► Pulsation in forehead, with heat and violent action of the
heart, [3]. ►
Hammering pain in the forehead from morning till evening (after two hours), [2]. ► Temples. ► Strong pulsation of the temporal arteries, perceptible to the
finger, [8]. ►
Painful pressure in the right temple, between the skin and bones, [8]. ► Tearing in the left temple,
[8]. ► Vertex.
► Pressure on the vertex beneath the bones, [8]. ► Parietals. ► One-sided headache, like a pressure, rather external, [1]. ► Repeated pressure
beneath the bones of the left side or the head, [8]. ► Tearing beneath the bones of the head on the right side, [8]. ► Tearing in the
bones of the head of the left side, with internal pulsation and confusion deep in the brain,
[8]. [100.] ► Tearing pain through the left side of the brain, more towards
the top of the skull, extending from before backwards, [8].
► Occiput. ►
Heaviness in the occiput, [8]. ►
Heaviness deep in the occiput, [8]. ► *Severe headache in the occiput, like a dull pressure,
and as with some coryza (after forty-eight hours), [1].
► Tearing in the bones in the right side of the occiput, [8]. ► External. ► Profuse eruption on the scalp and face, [2]. ► Crawling, as from ants, in
the forehead (after two minutes), [2].
EYE.
► Objective. ► Eyes prominent, [7]. ► Eyes protruding from the head, [6].
[Not found. -Hughes.] ► Staring looks, [6]. [Not found. -Hughes.] [110.]
► Staring look, almost without winking; it seems as
though a gray fog were before the eyes, [8]. ► Staring look at one and the same point, whereby everything
looks like black cloth (after six minutes), [2]. ► *Staring (after quarter of an hour); she stares with unaltered look at one and the same place, and cannot help it,
although she wishes to do so very much, wherewith she has not entire control of her senses,
and must be very much excited to answer correctly; she makes a visible effort by turning the
head to abandon objects with her eyes, but by so doing she loses her consciousness, and
everything becomes black before her eyes, [2]. ► Subjective. ► *Very much
inclined to stare at objects, [8]. ► Slight pressure in the eyes on reading, [8]. ► Brow and Orbit. ► Twitching of the orbicularis beneath the lower lid, [1]. ► Pressive pain
beneath the left brow, in the bones; it then extends towards the temple and left zygoma, [8]. ► Drawing stitches
in the eyebrows (after twelve hours), [4]. ► Lids. ► Pressure upon
the lids, [8]. ►
Pressure in the right inner canthus, so that he was obliged to close the eyes and press them
together, in order to relieve it, [3]. [120.] ► Sticking in the left
lids, [8]. ►
Stitches in the eyelids, [8]. ►
Tearing in the eyelids, [8]. ►
Pupil. ► Pupils dilated soon after taking, [8]. ► *Pupils dilated and
fixed, [21]. ►►
*Pupils dilated and insensible, [18]. ► Pupils much dilated, [8].
► Pupils very large, [8].
► Pupils contracted, [8].
► *Pupils sometimes contracted, sometimes dilated, [8]. [130.] ► *Pupils at first contracted (after one hour and a half to
two hours and a half), afterwards much dilated (after
eight to nine hours), [4]. ►
Pupils at first excessively contracted, soon afterwards excessively dilated, [3]. ► Pupils small; pressure in
the eyes, with sensitiveness to light (in very foggy weather), with at times bright gray
spots before the eyes, [8]. ►
Vision. ► *Eyes sensitive to light, [24]. ► Eyes sensitive to
daylight, [8]. ►
Everything seems very distinct and brighter than usual; with small pupils, [8]. ► When she fixes her gaze
upon an object she does not see it distinctly; everything runs together as after looking too
long at one and the same object; when, as we say the eyes give out, [2]. ► Obscuration of vision, [7]. ► Black points
obscure the vision while reading, [8]. ► The white snow is blinding, and on looking away from it to a
dark wall, a gray curtain seems to cover the left portion of the vision, [8]. [140.] ►
All objects seem to move to and fro, from one side to another, although everything has its
proper form (after ten minutes), [2]. ► She believes she is wavering to one side or the other, or
that objects about her are moving to and fro; it seems as though nothing stood still, but
everything was moving from side to side, like a pendulum, [2].
► All objects seem to move in a circle, especially while
he is sitting, lasting several hours (after two hours), [2].
► She thinks she is obliged to remain or sit very still,
because she sees nothing steady or firm before her, and she also thinks that she herself
wavers; everything blinds her (after fifteen minutes), [2].
► *When she attempts to stand, she wishes to hold on to
something, because objects seem now to come nearer, and now to recede from her, [2]. ► *At one time objects
seem double, and of a black color; at another time she hears with difficulty, [2]. ► Bright spots
before the eyes, at times, [8]. ►
Bright points and stripes before the vision, [8]. ► A bright point seemed to float before the right eye, mingled
with dark streaks and specks, [8].
EAR.
► Flow of blood from
the ears, [6]. [150.]
► Sore pain behind the left ear, [3]. ► Sore sensation behind the
left ear, as after a bruise or blow, [3]. ► Pain behind the right ear, such as would remain from a bruise
or blow, [3].
HEARING.
► *She does not hear
well unless one speaks loudly to her, and she pays attention, [2]. ► Cracking in the right ear,
on swallowing, [2]. ►
Violent ringing in the left ear, [3]. ► Roaring in the ears, [18].
► Roaring in both ears, worse in the room than in the
open air, [2].
NOSE.
► Very frequent
sneezing, without coryza (after twenty-nine hours), [4].
► Nose stopped, [8].
[160.] ► Stoppage of
the nose, [8]. ►
Stoppage of the nose, together with profuse secretion of mucus in it, [1]. ► Yellow discharge from the
nose, [1]. ►
Discharge of bright-red blood from the right nostril (three teaspoonfuls), [8]. ► Slight touching of the nose
renewed the bleeding from the right nostril, [8]. ► Dryness in both nostrils, as if they were stopped, without
any mechanical hindrance, [8]. ►
The right wing of the nose pains, as if sore, as after a blow or bruise, [3].® 2000
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