Cicuta Maculata
By John Henry Clarke тАФ A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica
Water Hemlock. Spotted Cow-bane. Beaver-poison. N. O. Umbellifer├ж. Tincture of root gathered in summer.
Clinical
Epilepsy / Tetanus
Characteristics
The effects of the C. maculata are very like those of the Virosa, the most prominent symptom being: Falls unconscious, tetanic or clonic convulsions. Body covered with sweat. For comparisons see Cic. v.
1. Mind
Fell on their way, and were picked up unconscious.
2. Head
Dizziness. Head hot.
3. Eyes
Astonishing mobility of eyeballs and eyelids with widely dilated pupils.
6. Face
Face bloated like that of a drowned person, deathly pale. Face livid, even purple. Jaws rigid.
8. Mouth
Bloody foam from nose and mouth.
9. Throat
Spasm of muscles of deglutition on presenting anything to mouth.
11. Stomach
Nausea and vomiting; frothy, glairy fluid.
12, 13. Abdomen and Stool. . Pain in bowels; ineffectual desire for Stool.
20, 21. Back and Limbs. . Falls backward in convulsions. Every muscle in the body in powerful clonic spasm. Body and extremities cold.
26. Sleep
During intervals of vomiting lay in deep sleep.
27. Fever
Head hot. Profuse sweat over whole body.