Cicuta virosa
as H.C. Allen recorded it in Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica, 1899
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Keynotes
Cicuta virosa
Water Hemlock. Umbelliferce.
Women subject to epileptic and choreic convulsions; spasms of teething children, or from worms.
Convulsions : violent, with frightful distortions of limbs and whole body; with loss of consciousness; opisthotonos; renewed from slightest touch, noise or jar.
Puerperal convulsions : frequent suspension of breathing for a few moments, as if dead; upper part of the body most affected; continue after delivery.
Epilepsy: with swelling of the stomach, as from violent spasms of the diaphragm; screaming; red or bluish face; lockjaw, loss of consciousness and distortion of the limbs; frequent during the night; recurring, first at short, then at long intervals.
When reading, the letters seem to turn, go up or down or disappear (Coc.).
During dentition, grinding of the teeth or gums; compression of the jaws as in lockjaw.
Abnormal appetite for chalk and indigestible things; for coal or charcoal; child eats them with apparent relish (Alum., Psor.).
Suffer violent shocks through head, stomach, arms, legs, which cause jerkings of the parts; head hot.
Injurious chronic effects from concussions of the brain and spine, especially spasms ; trismus and tetanus from getting splinters into flesh (Hyper.).
Pustules which run together, forming thick, yellow scabs, on head and face. Sycosis menti.
Eczema: no itching; exudation forms into a hard lemon-colored crust.
Brain disease from suppressed eruptions.
Strych.
Aggravation. — From tobacco smoke (Ign.); touch.
What the other books say about Cicuta virosa
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Cicuta virosa in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Cicuta virosa in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
- Cicuta virosa in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.
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Cite this page. H.C. Allen. Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica. 3rd edition (1910). Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel. Cicuta virosa — Keynotes, pp. 94–95. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/allen/cicuta-virosa. Published 1910: public domain in the US (before 1931) and in India (author died 1909). Replaces B. Jain's 2005 "rearranged and classified" edition (© the publisher), per the owner's decision of 13 Sep 2026. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.