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CONIUM. – THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PURE MATERIA MEDICA By TIMOTHY F. ALLEN, A.M., M.D.

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CONIUM.


THROAT.

► Objective.
► Spasm of the throat, [17].
[410.] ► Frequent
hawking of mucus, [1]. ►
Subjective.
► Constant desire to hawk, [50]. ► Strange rising in the throat, with a sense of stuffing, as if something was lodged there, [43].
► Dryness of throat and constriction, [62]. ► Sensation as of a large
body in the throat, [37]. ►
Constriction of the throat, [52]. ► Feeling as if something were coming up the throat to choke
her, [59]. ► As
often as she bows the head the throat becomes constricted and she chokes, a sensation as
though the neckband were too tight, so that she is obliged to grasp her throat, with
blackness before the eyes and dark redness of the face, [50].
► Fulness in the throat (one hour and a half); almost to
suffocation (two hours), [63]. ►
Drawings in the muscles of the throat and chest, [37].
[420.] ► Sticking in
the throat, especially on empty swallowing, soon after taking, lasting an hour, [37]. ► Sore throat; a
sore pain on swallowing, [1]. ►
Scraping in the throat, [37]. ►
Scraping in the throat, with cough at night, [1]. ► Much tickling in the throat, with provocation to dry cough,
while sitting, [37]. ►
Itching in the throat, with irritation to a hacking cough
, [1]. ► Tonsils. ► During the dose, from 55 to 85 drops, there was
shooting-drawing pain in the tonsils, without any abnormal appearance about them, and
burning in the gullet. These symptoms continued in greater intensity from 100 to 200 drops.
This was felt a fortnight after the last dose, [38]. ► Fauces. ► Great
dryness of the fauces, with a feeling of constriction of the larynx, [60]. ► Swallowing. ► If she goes into the wind she is obliged to swallow very
much, [1]. ►
Difficult swallowing, [1]. [430.]
► Impeded swallowing, [17].
► Loss of deglutition, [62].
► Inability to swallow water, [56]. ► External Throat. ► Increase of the goitre, [1].
   

STOMACH.

► Appetite.
► Great hunger, though with nausea, as though she had
eaten to satiety, [50]. ►
Appetite increased, [38]. ►
Great longing for salt and salty things, [1]. ► Great desire for acids, [1].
► Diminished appetite (first four days), [1]. ► Loss of appetite, [9], [28], [23], [24]. [440.] ► Complete loss of
appetite, and great weakness in the stomach, [24]. ► Diminished desire for food and tobacco smoke, [1]. ► Thirst. ► Thirst, [10], [18]. [According to Fothergill, with S. 497, 1306. -Hughes.]
► Much thirst every afternoon, [1]. ► Violent thirst, [49]. ► Excessive thirst
the whole day (after seventy-four hours), [4]. ► Great longing for coffee, [1].
► Eructation and Hiccough. ►
Eructations, especially towards evening, [1]. ► Eructations, tasting of the food often six hours after a
meal, [1]. ►
Eructations, tasting of the food without inclination to vomit, with uprisings, [1]. ► Up to a dose of 50
drops he only noticed some eructations; and sometimes, after taking it, rumbling in the
bowels, which passed into gripings, or pressure in the epigastrium, [38]. [450.] ► Frequent eructations, [1].
► Incomplete eructations after breakfast, [1]. ► Incomplete eructations,
followed by pain in the stomach, [1]. ► Many empty eructations, without taste or smell, [1]. ► Frequent empty
eructations
, especially in the morning, [1].
► Sour eructations in the evening, [1]. ► Sour eructations after
eating, [1]. ►
Sourish eructations, with burning in the stomach, [1].
► *Offensive eructations, [31]. [Not found. -Hughes.] ► Acidity
rises from the stomach after eating
, [1]. [460.] ► Rising of some food
from the stomach, with eructations, [1]. ► Hiccough, [1], [52]. ► Hiccough on
beginning supper, [1]. ►
Heartburn.
► Heartburn, [43]. ► Heartburn in the evening, [1]. ► Rancid heartburn, [1]. ► Nausea and Vomiting.
► Nausea, [37],
[64]. ► Nausea in
the morning, disappearing after a stool, [1]. ► Nausea in the evening, with great weakness, so that speaking
is disagreeable, [1]. ►
Nausea, with sensation of satiety after eating, [1]. [470.] ► Nausea and
inclination to vomit after every meal, [1]. ► Twenty minutes afterwards, and while attending to her usual
duties, she experienced nausea and giddiness, [42]. ► Nausea, with pressive headache in the nape of the neck,
vertex, and forehead, after dinner, [1]. ► Nausea, frequent and complete loss of appetite, [24]. ► Nausea and
inclination to vomit, [18]. ►
Some nausea (first hour), [63]. ►
Constant retching and nausea, [55]. ► Inclination to vomit, [15].
► Inclination to vomit after eating, followed by
hiccough, with the usual taste and good appetite, [1].
► Inclination to vomit, with eructations and weakness, [20]. [480.] ► Ineffectual efforts to vomit, [62].
► The patient had vomited several times, [61]. ► Frequent vomiting, with
complete loss of appetite, [24]. ► *Violent vomiting, [17].
► Vomiting of mucus in the afternoon, with headache,
nausea, and subsequent numerous eructations, [5]. ► Stomach. ► Flatulent
distension of the stomach, [1]. ►
The stomach is frequently distended by flatulence, [1].
► Internal uneasiness in the pit of the stomach, which is
attended with haste in all his actions, and difficult breathing, [37]. ► [Anxiety in the region of
the stomach], [32]. [This, with S. 322, 342, 769, 858,
1281, arose from overloading the stomach; all disappeared after an emetic. -Hughes.] ► His stomach is tormented with acidity, with flat and bad
taste, [1]. [490.]
► Cardialgia, [54].
► Sense of fulness and repletion
of the stomach
, [43]. ►
Sensation of heat in the gastric region (after fifteen minutes, seventeenth day), [39]. ► Tightness of the
pit of the stomach on leaning backward, with choking of respiration and speech, [1]. ► Contractive pain
in the stomach, with sensation of coldness in it, with coldness in the back, waking her in
the morning from sleep, [1]. ►
Griping in the stomach, which afterwards becomes dull in the intestines, [1]. ► Griping in the stomach,
which contracts the chest, with griping in the back and many eructations, waking her from
sleep, [1]. ►
Spasmodic pinching in the stomach, [18]. ► Cramplike pain in the stomach, [1].
► Cramp in the stomach, [28].
[500.] ►
Cramp in the stomach, like a griping and constriction, between 1 and 2 A.M., [1]. ► Drawing pain, extending
from the pit of the stomach to the throat, with short, difficult respiration, in the
morning, after rising and after stool (eleventh day), [1].
► Pressure, extending from the pit of the stomach up to
the throat, as if a round body rose up (second day), [1].
► Pressure in the pit of the stomach as from fulness,
mingled with stitches, aggravated by inspiration and motion, [1].
► Dull burning sensation at the epigastrium, [64]. ► Pressure in the
pit of the stomach, as if it were twisted about, followed by some stitches in the side of
the chest, even in the morning, [1]. ► Pressure and sore raw feeling at pit of stomach, [43]. ► Severe pressure
in the epigastric region, with inclination to vomit, which gradually extended to the left
side of the abdomen, [49]. ►
Dull pressure, followed by sensation of heat of the stomach, [37].
► Sudden cutting in the stomach on eating a light meal, [37]. [510.] ► Sudden thrusts deep in the pit of the stomach, [37]. ► Stitches in the epigastric
region towards evening, [1]. ►
Fine stitches in the pit of the stomach, [6]. ► Sensation of soreness and rawness in the stomach, [1]. ► Sore pain in the
pit of the stomach, as if suppurating, in the morning, while lying and turning about in bed,
for three mornings (thirteenth day), [1].
   

ABDOMEN.

► Hypochondria.
► The venous vessels of the liver and the sinuses of the
dura mater were gorged, [61]. ►
*Painful tension about the hypochondria, as from a constricting band, [1]. ► Pressive-tensive pain in
the left hypochondrium, extending to the side of the lower abdomen, [1]. ► Sharp drawing in the
anterior lobe of the liver, [1]. ►
Pressive pain in the liver, while walking, [1]. [520.] ► Stitching in the
hepatic region before the appearance of menstruation, mostly at night, while lying, and
especially on inspiration (twenty-third day), [1]. ► *Sticking pain in the hepatic region, at intervals (after
sixteen hours), [1]. ►
Sticking pain in the left hypochondrium in the morning, while lying in bed, with oppression
of breathing; disappearing on rising, [1]. ► Stitches beneath the border of the left ribs, while sitting, [37]. ► Stitches beneath
the margin of the ribs on the right side, [37]. ► *Stitches in the hepatic region, [1]. ► Stitches in the hepatic
region, impeding respiration, [1]. ► Transient stitches in the left hypochondrium, [37]. ► Painful tearing in the hepatic
region
, [1]. ►
Abdominal pulsation on the left side beneath the eighth and ninth ribs, afterwards severe
stitching in the same place, [37]. [530.] ► Sharp drawing jerking
under the right ribs, [1]. ►
Umbilical.
► Cuttings deep in the umbilical
region, [37]. ►
Cutting pains to the left of the umbilicus, piercing like lightning, [37]. ► Dull drawing in a small
spot just below the umbilicus, [1]. ► Drawing pain in the abdomen, in the umbilical region, soon
after eating, [2]. ►
Drawing colic in the umbilical region, in the morning, after rising, [2]. ► Pain in the abdomen in the
umbilical region, as if the intestines were bruised, after supper, [2]. ► General Abdomen. ► Swelling of the abdomen, [17],
[23]. ► Distension
and fulness of the abdomen, in the afternoon, [1]. ► Distension of the abdomen like a flatulent colic, in the
evening, with coldness of one foot, [1]. [540.] ► Distension of the
upper abdomen, after eating, with pressure in the stomach, which anxiously impedes
respiration, [1]. ►
Distension of the abdomen, after the midday nap, [1]. ► Hardness and excessive distension of the abdomen in the
evening after eating; the navel was protruded, which makes her sleep uneasy, [1]. ► Flatulent distension of the
abdomen, soon after taking a little milk, [1]. ► Swelling of the mesenteric glands, [22]. ► *Trembling of the whole
abdomen, [49]. ►
Accumulation of flatulence immediately after eating, which is then passed in great quantity,
with much noise and with relief, [1]. ► Rumbling and gurgling in the abdomen, [1]. ► Much rumbling in the
abdomen (appears after every dose of medicine), [37]. ► Gurgling in the left side of the abdomen, [1]. [550.] ►
Emission of much flatus with the stool, together with pressing, dragging, and cutting in the
rectum, [1]. ►
Violent emissions of much flatus, [1]. ► Emission of cold flatus, [1].
► Passage of much flatus (after eighteen hours), [1]. ► Passage of
offensive flatus, [1]. ►
Flatulence is easily passed, immediately, [1]. ► Great weariness and exhaustion of the abdominal muscles,
after breakfast, [1]. ►
A peculiar sensation in the upper abdomen as after a fright, caused by the noise of opening
a door; a feeling as if diarrhœa would follow, [37]. ► From coughing, pain in both sides of the abdomen, [1]. ► Pain in the
abdomen, while laughing, [1]. [560.]
► Pain in the abdomen, aggravated by pressure, [37]. ► Pain in the
abdomen above the hips, while walking, [1]. ► [Violent pain in the abdomen with chilliness], [32]. [The patient under treatment by Conium for the mammary scirrhus
had a chill in the street; had this and 638, and died with dysentery. -Hughes.] ► Excessive pain in the bowels, [22].
► Tension in the right side of the abdomen, on deep
breathing, [1]. ►
Tension in the abdomen, with jerking contraction, extending up towards the chest, with
pressive and griping pain, for several minutes (second day), [1].
► A very constricted spot in the colon, [22]. ► Griping in the abdomen, before
the discharge of the leucorrhœa
, [1]. ► Griping and pressure in the bowels, [1]. ► Severe griping in the
bowels, as in diarrhœa, [1]. [570.]
► Fine pinching in the abdominal muscles, above the
navel, on bending the body forward, [6]. ► Pinching pains in the abdomen, as if diarrhœa would come on,
[43]. ► A sticking
digging in the left side of the abdomen, [1]. ► Drawing sensation in the abdomen, after drinking, [1]. ► Drawing pains in
the abdomen, while walking (after three hours), [2]. ► Burning pressure in the abdomen, [49]. ► Oppression of the abdomen,
[1]. ► Cutting in
the left side of the abdomen, as if a bunch would protrude there, [1]. ► Cutting in the abdomen, before
the emission of flatus
, [1]. ► Violent cutting in the abdomen every day, especially in the
right side, [1]. [580.]
► Transient cutting in the abdomen, before every stool, [1]. ► Sticking in the
upper abdomen, in the morning, on waking, worse on motion, [1].
► Transient sticking pains in the abdomen (eighth day), [1]. ► Stitches in the
left side of the abdomen (after two days), [1]. ► Stitches in the abdomen, with lightning-like stitches through
the glans penis, [37]. ►
Sharp stitches in the abdominal muscles on the left side below the navel, at short
intervals, shooting from within outward, [6]. ► Suddenly awakened at night by a sharp stitch deep in the left
side of the abdomen, followed by severe sticking deep in the right side of the chest, so
that inspiration was impeded, followed by long-continued boring in the ball of the left
great toe, which continued to be felt on waking in the morning, [37]. ► Cutting stitches in the
bowels, as with a knife (fourth day), [5]. ► Sore tearing at intervals, extending from the epigastric
region into the sides of the abdomen, as if everything were being torn out of the abdomen,
several mornings, [1]. ►
The child complains of colic with the cough, [1]. ► Griping colic, only immediately after stool, [1]. [590.] ►
Cutting colic in the morning, after chilliness for two hours, with headache and nausea, [4]. ► Colic after
eating, in the morning, with great fulness of the stomach and of the chest the whole day, [1]. ► Cutting colic deep
in the bowels, with good appetite and sleep at night, [1].
► Cutting colic, with diarrhœa (twelfth day), [1]. ► Most violent
coliclike pains, [32]. [A woman could not take more
than 4 grains a day without this. -Hughes.-] ► Drawing
bruised pain in the intestines (after nine hours and a half), [2].
► Pulselike jerks in the abdomen and small of the back, [1]. ► Some shocks in the
abdomen against the abdominal muscles, from within outward, as from a child in pregnancy, [1]. ► Hypogastrium and Iliac
Regions.
► *Aching pains in the hypogastric
region, like menstrual colic
, [43]. [600.] ►
*Forcing down feeling in the hypogastric region, like menstrual or labor-pains
, [43]. ► Contractive pain
in the lower abdomen after the appearance of the menses, which disappears on walking in the
open air, [1]. ►
*Contractive pain in the lower abdomen like after-pains, with urging to stool
, [1]. ► Cramp in the lower
abdomen (sixth day), [1]. ►
Griping deep in the lower abdomen, after every meal, with good appetite, [1]. ► Drawings in the lower
abdomen pressing up towards the upper abdomen, in the morning, while sitting, [1]. ► Pressure in the lower
abdomen, followed by fermentation, [1]. ► Constant pressure in the lower abdomen as from something
heavy, when not eating, [1]. ►
Stitches in the lower abdomen, as with a knife, [1]. ► Tearings in the lower abdomen, above the pubis, extending to
the abdominal ring, [1]. [610.]
► Drawing colic in the lower abdomen, after dinner, while
sitting, [2]. ►
Pain in the right groin as if swollen, and feeling as if suppurating, [1]. ► A dragging-outward
sensation of the right groin, [37]. ► Sticking in the right groin, while walking, [37]. ► Stitches in the groin on
rising from a chair, [1]. ►
Distending pain in a place where there is a hernia (second day), [1]. ► Dragging outward in the
place of a hernia, [1]. ►
Dragging towards the location of a previous inguinal hernia, without the protrusion of a
hernia, [1].
   

RECTUM AND ANUS.

► Rectum.
► Heat in lower portion of the rectum (not in
anus), [1]. ►
Burning in the rectum and anus, [1]. [620.] ► Burning in the rectum
during a stool
, [1]. ►
Stitches in the rectum, [37]. ►
Itching in the rectum follows itching in the chest and abdomen, [1]. ► Anus. ► Heat in the anus, [1]. ► Drawings towards the anus and abdomen, [1]. ► Frequent attacks of
dragging towards the anus and sacrum (first days), [1].
► Frequent stitches in the anus when not at stool
(fifth day), [1]. ►
Itching in the anus, [1]. ►
Violent itching in the anus, nates, perineum, and near the scrotum, so that he was obliged
to rise, [1]. ► Urging.
► Great urging to stool daily, with diarrhœa three
times, [1]. [630.]
► Frequent urging to stool, without result, [1]. ► Frequent urging to
stool daily, thereby some, although very little, is passed every time, [1]. ► Frequent urging, but scanty
passage of soft fæces, followed by still more distended abdomen, [1]. ► Constant ineffectual urging
to stool, [1]. ►
Constant desire for stool; he, however, is able to accomplish it but twice daily; it is then
thin, [1]. ►
Straining at stool, [1].
   

STOOL.

► Diarrhœa. ► Diarrhœa, [17], [23]. ► *Frequent
diarrhœa; stools like water, with many eructations, and copious
passage of urine
(after twenty-four hours), [1].
► [Exhausting diarrhœa], [32].
[See note to S. 562. -Hughes.] ► Very frequent
diarrhœa-like stools, like water, together with undigested portions, with griping in the
stomach, which extended through the abdomen (second day), [1].
[640.] ► Involuntary
stool during sleep (second day), [1]. ► Four liquid stools with hard lumps (sixth day), [1]. ► Stool softer than
usual (third day after 30 drops), [37]. ► Pasty stool, twice daily, with burning in the rectum, [1]. ► *Liquid stool mixed
with hard portions
, passed with many loud emissions of flatus, together with
colic (seventh day), [1]. ►
Undigested stool (ninth day), [1]. ► Undigested portions pass with the stool, [1]. ► Passage of very offensive
mucus with the stool, [1]. ►
Passage of blood with the morning stool, [1]. ► Constipation. ►
Constipation, [57]. [650.]
► [Constipation], [8].
[In the original, “irregular stools, attended with griping.” -Hughes.] ► Stool every second day, the first portion is only passed with
pressure, [1]. ►
Solid stool, with pressure; only every second day, [1].
► Scanty stool, [1].
   

URINARY ORGANS.

► Bladder.
► Sharp pressure upon the bladder, [1]. ► Cramplike pressure in the
neck of the bladder, soon after urinating, extending from within outward, with sharp
stitches, lasting several hours, worse while walking than while sitting, [6]. ► On two occasions, once
after taking one of the largest doses of the American, and transient pain in the region of
the neck of the bladder, similar, as I suppose, and once after one of the largest doses of
the British extract, I felt an acute, lancinating, to strangury. Having never experienced a
sensation of the kind, either before or since, I believe it to have been caused by the
medicine, [39]. ►
Urethra.
► Discharge of mucus from the male
urethra, even after urinating (fourth, fifth, and sixth days), [1]. ► Discharge of pus from the
urethra, preceded by itching in it, [1]. ► Great pain in the urethra on passing urine, which is always
mixed with a tenacious turbid mucus, [24]. [660.] ► Burning in the
urethra, [32]. ►
*Burning while urinating
, [1]. ► *Burning in the urethra, during micturition (eleventh day), [1]. ► *Burning in the
urethra, in the morning, immediately after urinating
, lasting half an hour, [1]. ► Cutting drawing
through the urethra during micturition, [1]. ► Cutting during micturition, [1].
► Cutting in the orifice of the urethra, during
micturition (first days), [1]. ►
Sticking in the orifice of the urethra, [37]. ► Much sticking in the urethra, at times increasing with every
beat of the heart, [37]. ►
Stitches in the urethra, [37]. [670.] ► Many stitches in the
urethra, [37]. ►
Severe stitch in the urethra, extending to the orifice, [1].
► Jerking stitch in the posterior portion of the urethra,
[1]. ► Constant
tickling and burning in the urethra, [58]. ► Micturition. ►
Frequent urging to urinate, every half hour, with scanty urine every time, [1]. ► Frequent urging to urinate, with slight strangury
and burning in the course of the urethra, [43]. ► Calls to urinate more
frequent, [38]. ►
Very frequent urging to urinate, [37]. ► Constant urging to urinate, with
heat in making water
, which continues all day, more or less, [43]. ► Constant urging to
urinate; during the first four hours she was obliged to urinate as many as thirty times, the
amount of urine varying from a few drops to a teaspoonful at a time; with this urging there
was a most violent burning pain at the neck of the bladder and along the urethra; the urging
was so violent that is seemed like labor-pains, [58]. [680.] ► *Frequent micturition, at
night
(after ten hours), [1]. ► Frequent micturition, without being able to retain the urine,
[1]. ► Nocturnal
enuresis, [1]. ►
Was obliged to rise at 2 A.M. to urinate, several nights, [1].
► Copious urination, [57].
► Profuse urine, [11],
[19]. ► Profuse
urine, with great pain, [24]. ►
Urine scanty, dark-colored, frothy, depositing a red sediment, [37]. ► Strangury, [17], [24]. ► Biting strangury after urinating (after half an hour), [2]. [690.] ► Several drops of urine are discharge after urinating; they
cannot be retained nor forcibly expelled, [37]. ► Suppression of urine ischuria, [10].
► [Hæmaturia], [21].
[In a gouty subject. -Hughes.] ► Frequent hæmaturia,
with dyspnœa, [24]. ►
A few drops of bright-red blood were passed with the first portion of the urine; the rest of
the urine was clear, [58]. ►
Urine.
► Red urine, [10]. ► Urine turbid, with red
sediment, [37]. ►
Urine turbid, frothy, with red sediment, [37].

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