Conium maculatum

as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931

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Keynotes

Irregular action ending in progressive DEBILITY, as in old age: clothes distress, faints at stool, difficult articulation, uncertain gait, etc. Trembling; looks old. Chronicity. Early senility. Cachexy. Paralysis. Suddenly sick or weak; with numbness. STONY HARDNESS. As of a lump in brain, in epigastrium. New growths. Hard blood-vessels. Ascending symptoms. Tearings. Stabbings. .................... Slow. Apathetic. Shy people, yet fear being alone. Weak memory. Can't think after using eyes. VERTIGO, whirling; on lying, turning over, least motion of eyes or head, etc.; senile. Eyes feel crossed; lids heavy, droop, < outer side. Photophobia. Vision, colored. Pulpy earwax. Sour saliva. Cold flatus. Constipation on alternate days. Urine stops and starts; > standing. Testes enlarged. Cutting, as semen passes; in ovaries, uterus, etc. Prostatic dribble; < stool, emotions, etc. Emissions, from mere contact. Menses irregular. Acrid leucorrhœa. Tormenting cough from dry spot in larynx; from tickling in throat- pit; as if from abdomen. Palpitation; < exertion, drinking, at stool, etc. GLANDS HARDEN AND GET SORE. Mammæ; nodes in; congested before menses; sticking in; shrunken; too much milk, < before menses or at every step. Hot spots on head. Spinal injuries. Heels; as if bone would push through; shooting in. Skin greenish, like an old bruise; spots on; foul or eczematous eruption. Hebetude. Coldness in nape, calf, etc. Hot flushes or sweat on dropping to sleep. Sweat under eyes, on chin, in popliteæ; cold on nape or palms.

Worse

SEEING MOVING OBJECTS. ALCOHOL. Raising arms. After exertion. Injury. Night. Sexual excesses. Cold; taking. Continence. Old age. Lying; head low.

Better

Letting part hang down.

Region

NERVES. MUSCLES. GLANDS: MAMMÆ. Ovaries. Sexual organs. Respiration.

Relationships

Complementary: Pho. Related: Arn. Bar-c. Calc-fl. Caus. Gel. Iod.

What the other books say about Conium maculatum

The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.

Conium maculatum in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
Conium maculatum in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
Conium maculatum in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
Conium maculatum in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.

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Cite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Conium maculatum — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/conium-maculatum. Author died 1935: public domain in India. The catalogue records 1931; a 1931 edition is public domain in the US from 1 Jan 2027 at the latest — the edition this transcription follows is not stated in the file. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.