CICUTA VIROSA

CICUTA VIROSA. [Cicut.] Water Hemlock. Umbelliferae.

► 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 oesophagus 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.

► Touch : 7, 11, 13, 36, 46.

► 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.

► Old people : 1, 6, 21.

► 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).