Conium Maculatum

► 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 hyperaemia.

► 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. ► Otorrhoea 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 oesophagus, as if a round body (globus hystericus) were ascending from the stomach.

► Craving coffee, salt, or sour things. ► Loss of appetite. ► Thirst.

► 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 diarrhoea 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, diarrhoeic, 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. ► Dysmenorrhoea, with shooting pain in left chest. ► Menses : suppressed ; too late and scanty ; preceded by melancholy, followed by acrid leucorrhoea. ► Leucorrhoea ; thick milky, with contractive, labor like colic, coming from both sides ; of white, acrid mucus, causing burning. ► Before the discharge of leucorrhoea, 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 mammae, with piercing pains, worse at night, gland abnormally tender. ► Hardness of the right mammae, with painfulness to touch, and nightly stitches in it. ► Stitches as with needles in the left mamma. ► Shriveling of the mammae, 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 vertebrae, 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.

► 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.

► 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.

► 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 leucorrhoea.

► 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. (mammae), 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.