Condensed Materia Medica.
By Constantine Hering.
Presented by .
CICUTA VIROSA.
[Cicut.]
Water Hemlock. Umbelliferć.[1] * [2]
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* [46] * [47] * [48]► Dull and stupid, mental torpor.
► Feels as if he was in a strange place, causes fear.
► Aberration of mind, singing, performing the most grotesque dancing
steps, shouting.
► Likes childish toys, jumps from bed in a happy, childish state.
► Weeping, moaning and howling.
► Answers short.
► Quiet disposition, contented, happy.
► Anxious thoughts of the future ; feels sad.
► Old men fear long spell of sickness before dying.
► Anxiety, excessively affected by sad stories.
► Mistrust and shunning of man ; despises others.
► Vertigo : on rising from bed, as if everything
moved from side to side, or approached and then receded ; reeling ;
falling on stooping.
► Bad effects from concussion of the brain, when spasms set in.
► Pressure deep in the brain ; heaviness in front or
back of head.
► Rending, cutting pain of one side ; thinking of headache
causes it to disappear.
► Headache in the morning on waking ; as if the brain were
loose and was shaken on walking ; when thinking as to its exact
nature, it ceased.
► Sinking of the head forward looking at anything, or
sitting, in apparent sleep ; when aroused head was bent forward and
stiff.
► Jerking and twitching of the head.
► Starting, trembling of the head, worse moving the head ; with
this, single jerks, like electric shocks, worse in the cold ; better
at rest and from warmth.
► Eyes sensitive to light.
► Letters go up and down or disappear ; or colors of rainbow
around them ; objects appear double and black.
► Staring at an object, the head inclined forward.
► Pupils : dilated in concussion of the brain ; contracted
in spasmodic affections.
► Blue margin around the eyes ; eyes sunken.
► Oversensitiveness of hearing.
► Hardness of hearing, in old people.
► Ears very hot, at other times very cold.
► Burning, suppurating eruption on and around the ears.
► Nose very sensitive to touch, slight touch causes it to
bleed.
► Yellow discharge from the nose ; yellow scurfs in the nose.
► Frequent sneezing, without coryza.
► Face : deathly pale and cold, red ; bluish,
puffed up.
► Distortions of the face, either horrible or ridiculous.
► Convulsion of the facial muscles.
► Dark-red pimples on face and hands, come with burning pain,
coalesce.
► Burning, suppurating, confluent eruptions of the face.
► Herpes on the face.
► Lockjaw, teeth press firmly against one another.
► Yellow scurfs on the left corner of the mouth, discharging yellow
corrosive fluid, many extend over the lip, chin and cheek.
► Cancer or upper lip.
► Grinding of the teeth.
► Swelling of the tongue ; white, painful, burning
ulcers on edges of the tongue ; painful to touch.
► Speech difficult ; when talking he feels a jerk in the head
from before backwards, as if he had to swallow the word, as in hiccough.
► Foam in and about the mouth.
► Inability to swallow.
► The throat felt as if grown together, internally ; externally
painful, as if bruised, on moving or touching it ; eructations from
noon till evening.
► After swallowing a sharp piece of bone, the śsophagus closes, and
there is danger of suffocation.
► Great longing for charcoal.
► Thirst, inability to swallow.
► Immediately after commencing to eat, feels satisfied.
► Immediately after eating, bellyache and sleepiness.
► Violent hiccough and crying.
► Vomiting : of bile ; of blood ; on stooping, during
pregnancy ; alternating with tonic spasms, in the pectoral muscles,
and distortion of the eyes.
► Sudden shock deep in the pit of stomach causes
opisthotonos.
► Burning pressure at the stomach and abdomen.
► Swelling and throbbing in the pit of the stomach.
► Heat in the stomach.
► Colic, with convulsion, also vomiting.
► Distention and painfulness of the abdomen.
► Chronic painful hernia.
► Frequent liquid stools.
► Cholera, when purging ceases, and congestion to brain and chest,
turning the eyes, difficult breathing, and other symptoms set in.
► Itching in the rectum, with burning pain after rubbing.
► Either great quantities of urine, with great urging, or
no urine at all.
► Involuntary emission of urine, with old men.
► Paralysis of the bladder, with great anxiety about it.
► Testicles drawn up toward the external abdominal ring.
► Sore, drawing pain in the urethra as far as the glans, obliging
one to urinate.
► Stitches in the fossa navicularis, with nightly emission.
► Menses delayed.
► Spasmodic state, if menses do not appear.
► Tearing and drawing in the os coccygis, during menses.
► Eclampsia during childbed.
► Oppression, can scarcely breathe ; this may arise
from tonic spasm of the pectoral muscles.
► Cough, with expectoration.
► Great heat in the chest.
► Cold sensation in the chest.
► Trembling palpitation of the heart.
► Feels as if the heart stopped beating ; and sometimes faint
feeling therewith.
► Sensation of soreness at the lower end of the sternum.
► Pain in the nape, spasmodic drawing of the head
backward, with tremor of the hand.
► Tension in the muscles of the neck.
► Tonic spasm of the cervical muscles.
► Tearing, jerking in the os coccygis.
► Complete powerlessness of the limbs, after spasmodic
jerks.
► Numbness of the fingers.
► Veins of the hands enlarged.
► Frequent involuntary jerking and twitching in the arms and
fingers.
► Painful feeling of stiffness in the muscles of the
lower limbs.
► Trembling of the left leg.
► His legs refused to carry him, and he staggered.
► When walking she does not step properly on the soles of the feet,
they tilt inwards.
► Gressus vaccinus.
► Moving head : 4. Moving throat :
13. Rising from bed : 2. Walking :
3, 33. Stooping : 2,
16. Sitting : 4. Rest : 4.
Turning head : 31.
► Convulsion, with loss of consciousness, frightful
distortions of the limbs and whole body.
► Convulsions, with opisthotonos.
► Epileptic attacks, with swelling of the stomach, as from violent
spasms of the diaphragm ; hiccough ; piercing cries ;
redness of the face ; trismus ; loss of consciousness and
distortions of limbs ; involuntary urination.
► Suddenly becomes stiff and immovable.
► Tonic spasm renewed from the slightest touch ; from opening
the door, and from loud talking.
► Somnambulism, fixed gaze, partial loss of consciousness.
► Sudden rigidity, with jerks, afterwards great relaxation and
weakness, during worm affections.
► General prostration.
► Soporous condition. θ
Cholera.
► Frequent waking, with sweat all over ; feels invigorated.
► Dreams : vivid, about the events of previous day.
► Morning : 3. Noon till evening :
13. Night : 22, 40.
Toward morning : 40.
► Great desire for warmth of stove.
► Warmth : 4, 40. Cold :
4.
► Chill and chilliness, with desire for warmth and the
warm stove.
► Chill starts in the chest and runs down legs and into arms, with
staring look.
► Heat slight, and only internal.
► Typhoid fever, with vertigo, noises in the ears, deafness ;
eyes dull, glassy ; face pale ; violent thirst ; meteorism ;
sopor and silent delirium.
► Sweat at night, and in morning hours, most on abdomen.
► Right : 46. Left : 9,
32, 33. One side : 3.
Before backwards : 11. Above downwards : 40.
► Sensation in many parts, as from a bruise.
► Red vesicle on right scapula very painful to touch.
► Elevated eruption as large as peas on both hands, even on the
balls of the fingers, with burning pain when touched ; later it
became confluent.
► Cicut. is sometimes
indicated after Laches.
► Antidotes to Cicut. : Arnic., Opium.
► Tobacco against massive doses.
► Cicut. antidotes Opium.
► Compare with Cereus serpen.
(pustules in beard).
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