Conium maculatum
coni-macPoison Hemlock An old remedy, rendered classical by Plato's graphic description of its employment in the death of Socrates. The ascending paralysis it produces, ending in death by failure of respiration, shows the ultimate tendency of many symptoms produced in the provings, for which Conium is an excellent remedy, such as difficult gait, trembling, sudden loss of strength while walking, painful stiffness of legs. etc. Such a condition is often found in old age, a time of weakness, languor, loca
Conium maculatum — Materia Medica
Conium maculatum — keynotes · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
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.
Conium maculatum — mind · James Tyler Kent
Hysteria. Hypochondriacal state of mind, with the nervousness, trembling and weakness of the muscles. He gets tired in the earlier stages, but finally this goes on until the limbs are paralytic. A great many of the complaints are painless. The ulcers and the paralytic conditions are painless. Great physical and mental debility; great prostration of the muscular system; exhaustion, tremulous weakness. Paralysis of the legs and hip. Mental symptoms, nervous symptoms, trembling, in widows and widowers who have suddenly been deprived of their sexual relations. When in a state of considerable vigor, if suddenly deprived, the woman or the man takes on a state of trembling weakness, inability to stand any mental effort, and inability to put the attention upon things said by others. Not so marked or not so common in the woman as in the man. When this state comes on in a woman who is of unusual sexual vigor there may be severe congestion of the uterus and ovaries, Apis is more likely to fit her symptoms than Conium. But with hysteria and excitability Conium is often the remedy. Many of its symptoms come about from such a cause. Conium has such a deep action that it gradually brings about a state of imbecility. The mind gives out. The mind at first becomes tired like the muscles of the body. Unable to sustain any mental effort. The memory is weak. The mind will not concentrate, it will not force itself to attention; it cannot meditate, and then comes imbecility. Inability to stand any mental effort or to rivet the attention upon anything are some of the most important symptoms in this medicine. Insanity of a periodical type. Imbecility, though, is far more frequent than insanity.
Conium maculatum — general · James Tyler Kent
This medicine is a deep, long acting antipsoric, establishing a state of disorder in the economy that is so far reaching and so long lasting that it disturbs almost all the tissues of the body. Glands: The complaints are brought on from taking cold, and the glands become affected all over the body. From every little cold the glands become hard and. sore. Infiltration in deep- seated diseases in the region of ulcers and in the region of inflamed parts; in the glands along the course of the lymphatics, so we get a chain like knots. The glands under the arm inflame and ulcerate. The glands in the neck, in the groin and abdomen become enlarged. Ulcerated parts indurate. An abscess of the breast becomes surrounded by lumps and nodules. Nodules in the breast even where milk has not yet formed; lumps and nodules, indurations and enlarged glands form under the skin all over the body. Conium has been used extensively for malignant affections of glands, because it takes hold of glands from the beginning and infiltrates, and they gradually grows a stony hardness, like scirrhus. Now, another grand feature running through this remedy is the action upon the nerves. Trembling, jerking of the muscles and twitching from the weakness of the nerves. Inability to stand any physical effort without great exhaustion. Gradually growing paralytic weakness, somewhat as was described in Cocculus. Exhaustion of body and mind, that is a general slowing down of all the activities of the body. The liver becomes indurated, sluggish, enlarged. The bladder is weak, can expel only a part of the urine. Or sometimes there is a paralytic condition and no expulsive power. This shows that the remedy increases toward a paralytic weakness.
Conium maculatum — black letter · Margaret Lucy Tyler
Inability to sustain any mental effort. Hypochondriasis and hysteria from suppression of or too free indulgence in sexual instinct, with low-spiritedness, anxiety and sadness. Want of MEMORY. Excessive difficulty to recollect things : to comprehend that which one reads. Headache as if head were too full and would burst. Sick headache with inability to urinate. Great giddiness, worse lying, when everything seems to go round. Vertigo as if turning in a circle. Intoxication when taking the least liquor. Accumulation of ear-wax; blood red, or like decayed paper, with pus or mucus. Weakness of sight ; amaurosis. Objects look red, rainbow-coloured, striped : confused spots. Weakness and dazzling of eyes, with giddiness and debility of whole body, especially muscles of arms and legs, so that when I attempted to walk I was apt to stagger like a person who had drunk too much strong liquor. A version to light without inflammation of eyes. Burning in eyes. Ulcers on cornea, right to left. Could scarcely raise lids, they seemed pressed down with a heavy weight. Intermittent flow of urine with cutting after micturition. Some sexual symptoms. Bad effects from suppressed desire, or excessive indulgence. Shrivelling of mamma, without sexual desire. Dry spot in larynx, where there is crawling and almost constant irritation to a dry cough. Cough, almost only when first lying down, during day or evening : obliged to sit up and cough it out, then had rest. Powerful spasmodic paroxysms of cough, excited by itching and tickling in chest and throat, or by a dry spot in larynx, worse at night or lying down.
Conium maculatum — introduction · Margaret Lucy Tyler
(Hemlock) Hahnemann published two provings of Coniunt : one, more brief, in Materia Medica Pur a ; one, later, in Chronic Diseases. We will quote from the introductory Temarks of the latter. • After describing its homoeopathic preparation, he says : “ The great medicinal powers of this plant may be inferred from what has been written by Stoerk and his followers on the brilliant results obtained by means of Conium in the years 1770, 1771, etc. However, although some good results were obtained, at least in the beginning, in the treatment of some horrible diseases, yet, on the other hand, the repeated use of excessive doses of this drug has done irreparable injury and has destroyed a number of human lives. “ The apparently contradictory statements of honest observers based upon their respective experience, some of which had a tendency to gladden, others to sadden the heart, have been recently reconciled by Homoeopathy.
Conium maculatum — modalities · H.C. Allen
Aggravation: At night; lying down; turning or rising up, in bed; celibacy.
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