Conium maculatum
Henry N. Guernsey tarafından — Key-Notes to the Materia Medica
Historical reference for practitioners and students. The statements below reflect the named author’s homeopathic teaching and do not establish treatment effectiveness. This text is not medical advice and must not replace appropriate diagnosis or care.
This remedy is characterized by a great dizziness brought on when lying down, and moving the head ever so slightly, or even the eyes--all the contents of the room appearing to whirl around; patient wishes to keep the head perfectly still. In urinating, the water flows at first in a full stream, then stops, flows again, stops, etc. Acts better on females. Old contusions or sprains.
Eyes.--Affects the cornea; blindness; paralysis of the optic nerve, amaurosis; dimsightedness.
Glands.--Pain in, as from contusion; wasting away of; itching of; induration of; sensibility of; hard swelling of; tingling in; wounds with injured glands.
Skin.--Yellow skin as in jaundice. Ulcers cancerous; scabby, destitute of feeling; with tight, tense feeling; speckled. Scurfy exanthema. Polypus. Greenish mortification. Tetters in general; scurfy. Want of action of the skin.
Sexual.--Male: Impotence; weakness of the sexual powers. Female: Menses suppressed; too late; too scanty. Affections of the mammæ, where they are very hard, especially if they have been bruised a long time ago, or recently.
Sensations.--Heartburn; e.g., in pregnant women, where an excessive heartburn comes on when going to bed at night. Attacks of sick feeling. Sensation as if a hoop, band, or something tight was around the parts; deficiency of irritability of the body, i.e., the body has very little sensation. Darting from within outward, in the bones; tension in inner parts, also in outer parts; pricking in the bones.
Urine.--Discharge of the urine interrupted; burning, during and after; sharp stitches; with crampy pressure; mucous sediment.
Generalities.--Obstruction of the ears. Face bluish; reddish-yellow. Eructations. Nasal secretion purulent; expectoration purulent; hysterics, hysteric spasms; jaundice; painless paralysis; inclination to sit down; yellow nails. Stupor-like sleep in the morning; sleep in the morning not refreshing; stupor-like sleep generally.
Worse.--During and after eating; in the night (as cough coming on at night, or a pain, and lasting all night, disappearing during the day); from injuries of the glands; lifting the arm; lifting the parts affected; from light of lamp; light of day; sunlight; looking around (vertigo); on beginning to move; from milk; on rising from the bed, or from a seat; from rubbing; in snow air; while standing; from stepping heavily on the ground or floor; on beginning to walk; from surgical injuries in general; from suppressed menstruation; while lying down; from masturbation; while resting.
Better.--From moving; in the dark; while fasting before breakfast; from letting the limb hang down; from continued moving; from pressure without; on sitting down; walking with the body bent forward; when walking.
Remedies following:--Bellad., Lycop., Phosphor., Pulsat., Nux vom., Rhus tox., Stramon., Sulphur.
Antidotes:--Spirits of Nitre, Dulcam.