Condensed Materia Medica.
By Constantine Hering.
Presented by .
CONIUM MACULATUM.
[Conium]
Poison Hemlock. Hahnemann. Umbelliferæ.[1] * [2]
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* [48]► Extreme want of memory.
► Dullness, difficulty in understanding what he is reading.
► Disinclination for business.
► Aversion to man, and yet averse to being alone.
► Complete indifference.
► Hypochondriacal depression and indifference when walking in the
open air.
► Easily disturbed by trifles, moved to tears.
► Morose mood ; everything about him impresses him
unpleasantly.
► Very ill-humored from 5 to 6 P.M.
► Vertigo : like turning in a circle, on rising from
a seat ; worse when lying down, as though the bed were turning in a
circle ; when turning in bed or when looking around ; from
motion downwards ; when walking ; venous abdominal hyperæmia.
► Headache as if the head were too full and would burst ;
morning when awakening.
► Stitching pain from within outward, in the forehead, morning, or
at noon.
► Tearing in the head, must lie down.
► Tearing headache, with nausea.
► Sensation in right halt of brain as of a large foreign body.
► Pain in the occiput, with every pulse, as if pierced with a knife.
► Weakness of sight ; also from partial paralysis of
optic nerve.
► Shortsighted.
► Objects look red ; rainbow-colored ; striped, confused
spots.
► Sluggish adaptation of the eye to varied range of vision.
► Weakness and dazzling of the eyes, together with giddiness and
debility, especially of arms and legs ; on walking, staggering as if
drunken.
► Aversion to light, without inflammation of the eyes.
► Cataract from contusion.
► Pupils dilated.
► Ulcers on the cornea (right to left) ; great photophobia, but
little injection.
► Burning of the eyes.
► Could scarcely raise the eyelids, they seemed pressed down by a
heavy weight ; disposed to fall asleep.
► Burning on inner surface of the lids.
► Smarting pain in the inner canthus, with lachrymation.
► Ringing ; humming and roaring in the ears.
► Painful sensitiveness of hearing ; noise startles.
► Ears feel as if stopped up, when blowing the nose.
► Accumulation of ear wax, looking like decayed paper, mixed with
pus or mucus ; or blood-red hard wax, and oversensitive to noise.
► Stitches in the ears.
► Otorrhœa in the scrofulous ; inflammation of mastoid cells.
► Tumors and boils behind the ears.
► Parotid glands swollen and hard.
► Acute sense of smell.
► Purulent discharge from the nose ; also, hardened crusts.
► Epistaxis.
► Frequent sneezing.
► Earthy ; yellow ; pale ; purple,
bloated.
► Stinging, tearing faceache, at night.
► Moist and spreading herpes, on the face.
► Cancer of the lips, from pressure of
the pipe.
► Lips and teeth covered with black crusts.
► Lips burning ; dry ; shooting in the lips.
► Blisters, or eruption on the lips.
► Submaxillary glands swollen and hard.
► Drawing in a hollow tooth, when eating cold things, not
from cold drink.
► Taste : bitter.
► Speech difficult, from lingual paralysis.
► Tongue swollen, painful, stiff.
► Pressure in the œsophagus, as if a round body (globus
hystericus) were ascending from the stomach.
► Craving coffee, salt, or sour things.
► Loss of appetite.
► Thirst.
► Sour rising from the stomach, after eating.
► Cold eating : 10. After eating : 17.
Cold drink : 10. After drinking : 10.
► After taking small quantity of milk, sudden distention of the
abdomen.
► Eructations ; offensive ; frequent, empty ;
with heart-burn.
► Vomiting : violent ; of block masses, like coffee
grounds, in clear, sour water ; of chocolate-colored masses, sour and
acrid.
► Sense of fulness and repletion in the stomach.
► Violent pains in the stomach, always two or three hours after
eating, but also at night ; somewhat better in the knee-elbow
position.
► Swelling in the region of the pylorus.
► Pressing, burning, squeezing pain, extending from the pit of the
stomach into the back and shoulders.
► Pressure and raw sore feeling at the pit of the stomach.
► Stitches in the hepatic region.
► Painful tearing in the hepatic region.
► Hard swelling of the liver.
► Swelling of the abdomen.
► Stitches extending from abdomen to right side of chest.
► Pinching pains in abdomen, as if diarrhœa would set in.
► Colic from incarcerated flatus.
► Cutting in the abdomen before the emission of flatus.
► Very sensitive across the abdomen.
► Aching pain in the hypogastric region.
► Forcing-down feeling in hypogastric region.
► Frequent ineffectual urging to stool ; or small
quantity passed each time.
► Stools : undigested, painless ; involuntary during sleep ;
painful, diarrhœic, hard with tenesmus.
► Burning in the rectum during stool.
► After each stool trembling weakness.
► Frequent stitches in the anus.
► Pale ; white, turbid ; with grey or white
sediment.
► During micturition, flow intermits.
► Sharp, lancinating pain in neck of bladder.
► Frequent micturition at night.
► Immediately after urinating, burning in the urethra, morning.
► Sexual desire without erection.
► Emission without dreams : 48.
► Discharge of prostatic fluid on every change of emotion, without
voluptuous thoughts ; with itching of prepuce.
► Bad effects from suppressed sexual desire or from excessive
indulgence.
► Induration and enlargement of the ovary, with
lancinating pains.
► Stinging in the neck of the uterus.
► Induration and prolapsus at the same time.
► Fibroids with pricking pains : 48.
► Burning, sore, aching sensation in the region of the uterus.
► At every menstrual effort breasts become sore and painful.
► Pressure from above downwards, and drawing in legs during menses.
► Dysmenorrhœa, with shooting pain in left chest.
► Menses : suppressed ; too late and scanty ;
preceded by melancholy, followed by acrid leucorrhœa.
► Leucorrhœa ; thick milky, with contractive, labor like
colic, coming from both sides ; of white, acrid mucus, causing
burning.
► Before the discharge of leucorrhœa, griping in abdomen.
► Induration of the vulva from injuries.
► Severe stitches in the vulva.
► Violent itching of the vulva.
► Large pimple on the mons veneris, painful to touch.
► Terrible nausea and vomiting during pregnancy.
► Rigidity of the os uteri during labor.
► Cough during pregnancy, worse at night.
► Tumors in mammæ, with piercing pains,
worse at night, gland abnormally tender.
► Hardness of the right mammæ, with painfulness to
touch, and nightly stitches in it.
► Stitches as with needles in the left mamma.
► Shriveling of the mammæ, with increased sexual desire.
► Dry spot in the larynx, with almost constant irritation
to cough.
► Hoarseness.
► Asthmatic paroxysms come on in wet weather ; face
bluish-red.
► Powerful, spasmodic paroxysms, excited by itching and
tickling in the chest and throat, or by a dry spot in the larynx, worse at
night and when lying down.
► Expectoration during the day ; difficult ; bloody
copious and purulent, sometimes hardened ; expectoration, of putrid
taste and smell.
► Cough : loose, with inability to expectorate, must swallow
what is raised ; spasmodic, dry, worse evenings and night, very
fatiguing.
► Sharp thrusts directly through the chest, from sternum
to spine, while sitting.
► Violent stitches in right chest about nipple, on every
inspiration, while walking, worse from hard pressure with hand.
► Violent palpitation after drinking.
► Pulse unequal in strength and sometimes
irregular in rhythm ; insufficiency of the mitral valve.► The clothes lie like a weight on the chest and
shoulders.
► Stitches in small of back, with drawing through lumber
vertebræ, while standing.
► Shoulders feel bruised and sore.
► Cracking in the wrist-joint.
► Yellow nails.
► Itching on the dorsum of the finger.
► Sensation of weakness, even to trembling, in the right
thigh, while walking.
► Pain in the knee like from fatigue.
► Cracking of the knee-joint.
► From slight exposure of the feet he catches cold.
► Red spots on the calves, turning yellow or green, as from
contusion, preventing movement.
► Trembling.
► Difficulty in using the limbs ; unable to walk.
► All the joints pain as if beaten ; unpainful lameness.
► Motion downwards : 2. Walking :
2, 5, 28, 33,
34, 36. Walking in open air : 1.
Rising : 2. Standing : 31.
Turning in bed : 2. Preventing motion : 33.
Inclined to sit : 36. Knee-elbow position : 17.
Lying down : 2, 3, 27,
36. Sitting : 28.
► Trembling of all the limbs.
► Hysteria, advanced cases, thin, wasted, feeble and cold, tendency
top syncope.
► Sudden loss of strength while walking ; inclined to sit down.
► Muscular paralysis without spasm.
► Exhausted, faint, and as if paralyzed after a short walk.
► Sick and faint early in the morning in bed ; fainting fits.
► Stupid in the morning.
► Falls asleep late ; after midnight.
► Unrefreshing sleep.
► Roused from sleep with pain.
► Dreams : frightful.
► Morning : 3, 21,
36, 37, 40. Noon :
3. Afternoon : 40. Evening : 1,
27. Night : 8, 17,
21, 24, 27, 37,
40, 47. Day : 27,
47.
► Desire for warmth of sun : 40.
Open air : 1. Wet weather : 26.
► Chill and coldness in the morning and afternoon (3 to 5
o’clock).
► Chill, with continuous desire for warmth, particularly that of the
sun.
► Internal chill in the morning ; with shivering in afternoon.
► Great heat, internal and external with great nervousness.
► Heat, with profuse sweat at same time.
► Sweat day and night, as soon as one sleeps, or even when closing
the eyes ; also night and morning, offensive odor and smarting.
► Right : 3, 18, 19,
24, 28, 33. Left :
23, 24. Both sides : 23.
Right to left : 5. In out : 3.
Above downwards : 23. Below upwards : 13,
19. Front back wards : 17, 28.
► Swelling of the glands, with tingling and stitches ;
after contusions and bruises.
► Chlorosis, chilliness, excessive faintness, palpitation of heart,
pale face, suppressed menses and profuse leucorrhœa.
► Touch : 23, 24.
Pressure : 9, 28, 30.
Contusions : 44, 46.
► Erratic itching on all parts or the body.
► Tetters : humid, burning, corroding, crusty.
► Blackish ulcers, with bloody, fetid ichorous discharges,
especially after contusions ; spread rapidly.
► Petechia, in old persons.
► Urticaria from violent bodily exercise.
► Old maids.
► Old men.
► Suited to women with tight, rigid fibre, and easily excited, as
well as to those of opposite temperament.
► Light haired persons.
► Children : marasmus, with frequent sour evacuations, worse
during the night, better by day.
► Antidotes to Conium :
Coffea, Nitr ac., Nitr. Spir. dulc.
► Conium antidotes : Nitr. ac.
► Compare : Clemat. (mammæ),
Digit. (bladder), Gelsem.
(paralysis), Secale (uterine
fibroids), Verbasc. (emissions without
lewd dreams), Conium has helped in the
dry cough of pulmonary phthisis, when Hyosc.
and Drosera have failed.
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