Cicuta Virosa cic.

BRAIN. NERVES. Skin.

INJURIES; TO BRAIN (Nat-s.). Jar. Noise. Touch. Cold. Dentition. Suppressed eruptions.

Violent convulsive phenomena, then prolonged unconsciousness. Jerks; of head. Twitchings; of arms and fingers. Sudden shocks through body (Ign.) or head, then rigidity or shrieks; a terrific spasm moves downward (reverse - Cup.); the eyes jerk and stare; OPISTHOTONOS and frightful facial contortions, with bloody foam from mouth; then utter prostration. Epilepsy. Spasm of diaphragm; of gullet. Rigid muscles.

Childish. Suspicious. Violent. Rash. Delirium. Congestion to head, with vomiting and purging (Ver-v.). Headaches, > passing flatus. Head twists to one side. Vertigo. Meningitis. Squint. Bleeding ears. Red, sweat face. Grinds teeth. Trismus. Craves chalk, coal, etc. Loud hiccough; alternating with thoracic spasm (Stry.). Oppressed breathing. Tremulous palpitation. Heart seems to stop (Dig.). Turns feet inward; or big toes up during spasm. Pustules coalesce into thick, yellow (loose), massive crusts; < head and face. Impetigo.

Related: Cup. Stry.

Women subject to epileptic and choreic convulsions; spasms of teething children, or from worms. Convulsions: violent, with frightful distortions of limbs and whole body; with loss of consciousness; opisthotonos; renewed from slightest touch, noise or jar. Puerperal convulsions: frequent suspension of breathing for a few moments, as if dead; upper part of the body most affected; continue after delivery. Epilepsy: with swelling of the stomach as from violent spasms of the diaphragm; screaming; red or bluish face; lockjaw, loss of consciousness and distortion of limbs; frequent during the night; recurring, first at short, then at long intervals. When reading, the letters seem to turn, go up or down or disappear (Coc.). During dentition, grinding of teeth or gums; compression of the jaws as in lockjaw. Abnormal appetite for chalk and indigestible things; for coal or charcoal; child eats them with apparent relish (Alum., Psor.). Suffer violent shocks through head, stomach, arms, legs, which cause jerkings of the parts; head hot. Injurious chronic effects from concussions of the brain and spine, especially spasms; trismus and tetanus from getting splinters into flesh (Hyper.). Pustules which run together, forming thick, yellow scabs, on head and face. Sycosis menti. Eczema: no itching; exudation forms into a hard lemon-colored crust. Brain disease from suppressed eruptions.

Compare: Hydr. ac., Hyper., Nux, Strych.

From tabacco smoke (Ign.); touch.

Think of this remedy for convulsions which are excessively violent--whether epileptic, cataleptic, clonic, or tonic; eclampsia.

Excessive moaning and howling; he does rash and absurd things; is very violent in all his actions; strange desires, as desire to eat coal, etc.

Congestion of the brain with vomiting and purging. Repeated movements of the head, as twitching, jerking, throwing the head back, etc. Momentary loss of sight. Contraction of the pupils of the eye. Burning suppurating itch on the head. Discharge of blood from either ear.

Affections of the right side of the back. Epilepsy and catalepsy, where the attacks are very violent. Pain as if from contusion. Violent jerking of the muscles; motion is convulsive. Spasms in general; clonic; tonic; spasms during parturition; children that have convulsions from worms. Long-lasting purulent eruptions, confluent, forming thick yellow crusts, with burning pain. Worm fever, with colic and convulsions. Walking with the feet turned inward, and swing the feet with each step describing the arc of a circle. Strictures after inflammation, sometimes after gonorrhœa.

From concussion; from turning the head.

Bellad., Hepar, Rhus tox., Opium, Sepia, Pulsat.

Arnica, Opium.

Convulsion with loss of consciousness; opisthotonos; frightful distortions of the face, limbs and whole body.

Water Hemlock

The action on the nervous system, producing spasmodic affections, viz, hiccough, trismus, tetanus, and convulsions, give the pathological picture calling especially for this remedy, whenever this is further characterized, by the more individual symptoms of the drug. Among these, are the bending of the head, neck, and spine backwards, and the general action of the patient is violent, with frightful distortions. Violent, strange desires. Sensation of internal chill. Moaning and howling. Does absurd things. Marked action on the skin.

Delirium, with singing, dancing and funny gestures. Everything appears strange and terrible. Confounds present with the past; feels like a child. Stupid feeling. Melancholy, with indifference. Mistrustful. Epilepsy; moaning and whining. Vivid dreams.

Head turned or twisted to one side. Cerebro-spinal meningitis. Cervical muscles contracted. Vertigo, with gastralgia, and muscular spasms. Sudden, violent shocks through head. Stares persistently at objects. Convulsions from concussion of brain. Thick, yellow scabs on head. Head symptoms relieved by emission of flatus.

When reading, letters disappear. Pupils dilated, insensible strabismus. Objects recede, approach, and seem double. Eyes stare. Pupils get behind upper lids as head inclines. Effects of exposure to snow. Spasmodic affections of eyes and its appendages. Strabismus; periodic, spasmodic after a fall or a blow.

Difficult hearing. Sudden detonations especially on swallowing. Hæmorrhage from ears.

Pustules which run together forming thick, yellow scabs on face and head, corners of mouth and chin, with burning pain. Red face. Trismus; disposition to grind teeth.

Dry. Feels as if grown together. Spasms of œsophagus; cannot swallow. Effects on œsophagus from swallowing sharp piece of bone.

Thirst; burning pressure; hiccough. Throbbing in pit of stomach, which has become raised to size of fist. Desire for unnatural things, like coal (Alum; Calc). Indigestion, with insensibility, frothing at mouth.

Flatulence with anxiety and crossness. Rumbling in. Distended and painful. Colic with convulsions.

Diarrhœa in morning, with irresistible desire to urinate. Itching in rectum.

Chest feels tight; can hardly breathe. Tonic spasm in pectoral muscles. Heat in chest.

Spasms and cramps in muscles of nape of neck, and spasmodic drawing backward of head. Curved limbs cannot be straightened nor straight ones bent. Back bent backward like an arch. Jerking, tearing in coccyx, especially during menses.

Eczema; no itching, exudation forms into a hard, lemon-colored crust. Suppressed eruption causes brain disease. Elevated eruptions, as large as peas. Chronic impetigo.

Worse, from touch, draughts, concussion, tobacco smoke.

Antidotes: Opium; Arn.

Compare: Cicuta Maculata-Water Hemlock--(Effects very similar; the most prominent symptoms being; Falls unconscious, tetanic or clonic convulsions. Body covered with sweat. Consider in epilepsy and tetanus. Tincture and lower potencies). Hydrocy acid; Con; Oenanth; Strychnia; Bellad.

Sixth to two hundredth attenuation.

Is another remedy which is characterized by its excessively violent convulsions. With this remedy the patient is thrown into all sorts of odd shapes and violent contortions, but one of the most invariable is the bending of the head, neck and spine backwards, opisthotonos. It is on this account that it was tried for cerebro-spinal meningitis. Dr. Baker, of Moravia, N. Y., cured, during an epidemic of this terrible disease, sixty cases of all degrees of malignancy without the loss of a single case. This is a wonderful record, and he thinks it is as near a specific for this disease as can be.

Cicuta is also one of our best remedies for convulsions during dentition or worms if Cina does not help. It is also a good remedy for the effects of concussion of the brain or spine, if spasms are in the train of chronic effects therefrom and Arnica does not relieve. In the affections for which Cicuta is useful the actions of the patient are as violent as are the spasms -moans and howls, makes gesticulations and odd motions, great agitation, etc.

All sorts of convulsions -tonic, clonic epileptic, cataleptic, worm, puerperal, etc.- if of a very violent character, should call to mind Cicuta.

It is also wonderful for skin affections, "pustules which run together, forming thick, yellow scabs on face, head and other parts of the body". I once had a case of eczema capitis in a young woman -it was of long standing- which covered the whole scalp, solid, like a cap. I gave her Cicuta 200th and cured her completely in a very short time. She had used many local applications without benefit.

Moaning and howling. Insanity, she does all sorts of absurd and foolish things, with heat of the body and longing for wine. He confounds the present with the past. He thinks himself a young child. Excited and apprehensive about the future. Anxiety, sadly affected by sad tales. Want of confidence in and dread of man, retires into solitude.

Giddiness, with falling forwards. Vertigo, reeling, as if all the objects turned around him. Affections of the brain, from concussion of the brain. Semi-lateral headache, as from congestion to the head ; relieved when sitting erect. Compression from both sides of the head. Feeling of looseness of the brain, as if it were shaken in walking ; early in the morning ; disappearing when thinking of the pain intensely. The head is bent backward. The headache is relieved by sitting erect, or by emission of flatulence. Burning, suppurating eruptions on the hairy scalp.

Contraction of the pupils. Staring at one and the same object, which she is not able to distinguish correctly. The objects appear double and black. Staring at an object, the head inclines forward ; is frequently bent back again, with twitching, trembling and tension in the neck while moving it. When reading, the letters turn, and are surrounded with a colored areola, the same as the light. Twitching of the orbicularis muscle.

Sore pain behind the ear, as after a blow. Hæmorrhage from the ears. Detonation in the right ear when swallowing. Hardness of hearing. Burning, suppurating eruption on and around the ears.

Yellow discharge from the nose. Scurfs in the nostrils. Frequent sneezing, without coryza.

Deadly paleness of the face, with coldness of the face and hands. Red face. Burning suppurating, confluent eruptions on the face. Thick, honey-colored scurf on the chin, upper lip, and lower portion of the cheeks, (milk crust), burning, soreness and oozing, accompanied with swelling of the submaxillary glands, and insatiable appetite. Painful, burning, ulcerated lips. Grinding of the teeth. Lock-jaw, the teeth pressing firmly against one another. Foam in and at the mouth. Swelling of the tongue ; white, painful, burning ulcers on the edges of the tongue. 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. Inability to swallow ; the throat appears to be closed, and feels bruised when touched externally, (with eructations).

Great desire for coal. Continual hunger and appetite, even shortly after a meal. Violent thirst (during the spasms). Nausea in the morning and when eating. Hiccough. Vomiting of blood. Vomiting, alternating with tonic spasms in the pectoral muscles and distortion of the eyes ; (the vomiting does not relieve the lock-jaw). Burning pressure at the stomach and abdomen. Swelling and throbbing in the pit of the stomach. Colic, with convulsions (in children from worms). Distention and painfulness of the abdomen.

Frequent liquid stools. Itching in the rectum, with burning pain after friction.

Frequent micturition ; the urine is propelled with great force. Involuntary emission of urine.

Men. Sore, drawing pain under the penis as far as the glans, obliging one to urinate. Women. Menses delayed. Spasms during parturition.

Want of breath, caused by tonic spasms of the pectoral muscles. Tightness in the chest ; she is scarcely able to breathe all day. Burning in the chest. Sensation of soreness (as if bruised) at the lower end of the sternum (when walking).

Tension in the muscles of the neck ; if he turns the head, he cannot easily turn it back again. Tonic spasms in the neck. Tonic spasms of the cervical muscles.

Upper. Deadness of the fingers. The veins on the hands are enlarged. Jerking in the left arm all day. Frequent involuntary jerking and twitching in the arms and fingers. Lower. Painful feeling of stiffness and rigidity in the muscles of the lower limbs. Violent trembling of the left leg. The feet turn inwards when walking. Spasms in the muscles, especially of the neck and chest. Twitchings of the extremities. Tonic spasms. Epileptic convulsions and epilepsy. Sensation on many parts of the body, as from a bruise.

Vivid dreams, which cannot be recollected. Frequent waking with profuse general perspiration, which relieves very much.

Pulse weak, slow, trembling. Chill and chilliness, with desire to go to the warm stove. The chilliness begins in the chest and extends down the legs and into the arms, with staring. Heat only internally. Perspiration at night (in the morning hours), principally on the abdomen.

Burning, itching. Suppurating eruptions, with yellow scurf and burning pain. Swelling of the neck, arising from wounding the œsophagus with a splinter (bone) or similar sharp body.

Worm complaints in children, with convulsions. Aggravations from concussions (brain).

Cow-bane. Water Hemlock. N. O. Umbelliferæ. Tincture of fresh root gathered at time of flowering.

Bladder, paralysis of. Cancer. Catalepsy . Cerebro-spinal meningitis. Coccygodynia . Concussions. Convulsions. Eczema. Epilepsy . Epithelioma. Eyes, inflammation of. Face, eruption on. Hiccough . Hysteria. Impetigo. Meningitis. Myelitis. Numbness . Œsophagus, stricture of. Paralysis. Psoriasis . Puerperal convulsions. Screaming . Strabismus. Stuttering. Tetanus. Trismus. Waking, weeping on . Worm complaints.

Cicuta v . is one of the most active of the poisonous Umbelliferæ. Its chief influence is excited on the medulla oblongata, the gastro-intestinal tract, and the skin. Twitching and spasmodic jerks are a keynote of Cicuta . "Bending the head backward" is very characteristic. The remedy has cured many cases of cerebro-spinal meningitis, the opisthotonos being the leading indication. Violence is a leading feature: violent spasms; moans and howls; great agitation; makes gesticulations; odd motions; strange desires, as to eat coal. "Head turned or twisted to one side" is no less indicative of the drug in convulsions of children or adults. (See cases referred to below.) It corresponds to falls and the effects of concussions. Utter prostration follows the convulsive attacks; sudden rigidity, then jerks and violent distortions; then prostration. "jerking of the left arm all day" is a very characteristic symptom. Tremor when touched. Trembling palpitation. Convergent strabismus; from fall or blow. Soporous sleep, weeps on being roused, distorts facial muscles and stares vacantly. Pupils dilated. Shocks from head down body. Face bluish. Froths at mouth. Jaws locked. Bites tongue. Hiccough. Hungry immediately after a meal. Tearing, jerking in coccyx. Cicuta has a marked action on the skin: eruption of pustules which run together with yellowish honey-coloured scabs, especially about mouth, and matting the whiskers. Nash cured eczema capitis in a young woman with Cic. v . — whole scalp was covered as with a solid cap. Epithelioma, growths covered with honey-coloured scabs. Suited to old people and children. Teste places Cicuta in the Sulphur group. He regards it as antipsoric, and considers that as its eruptions are mostly found in the head and face, so its symptoms, when repercussion of skin eruptions occur, are chiefly felt in the brain. Bovista and Æthusa are like Cic. v . in this. Teste mentions the case of a lady of fifty-eight who ceased to menstruate at thirty in consequence of a fright, and who was "of robust constitution, irritable, nervous, and excessively fanciful and odd." She had a chronic swelling of the left ovary. Cic. v . had a remarkably quieting effect for several weeks, and during that time the swelling diminished considerably. The patient had to leave Paris, so the treatment could not be followed up. The two following cases illustrate the action of Cicuta in a striking way. The first, a case of acute meningitis, is quoted from N. A. J. H . by Amer. Hom . of January 1, 1898: Dr. H. von Musits treated J. N. R., æt. 43; male; married; a user of alcohol and tobacco; bookkeeper. After the intense summer heat, these symptoms developed: Convulsion; distortion of limbs; head turned backward. Trismus. Froth from mouth. Biting of the tongue. Oppression of breathing. Entire loss of consciousness and of power of swallowing. Convulsions, followed by complete exhaustion. Stupor. Swelling of face. Inability to move the tongue. The whole body seems to be of enormous size. The patient had three attacks of convulsions during twenty-four hours, followed by the swelling of the tongue and body. Extreme trembling of the hands. Articulation difficult. Next day profuse watery diarrhœa stools < by any noise, sudden entrance of any person into the room or loud talking. > By rest and in a dark room. Several times previously he had had symptoms of nervous exhaustion. His brother, a physician, died the previous spring from paresis in consequence of excessive use of alcohol and drugging. After two doses of Cicuta vir . 200 there were no more convulsions and the patient was perfectly cured in two weeks. There was no relapse. The next case, one of cholera, is quoted from the Indian Hom. Rev . by Amer. Hom ., December 15, 1896. Banerjee records the case: "A lad, aged five years, had an attack of cholera three days before my visit. Had been treated by a homœopath from beginning of attack. The patient was suffering from convulsions, when I first saw him on the fourth day. The convulsive fits were very severe since the third day of the attack of cholera. The symptoms were: eyes half turned, head drawn toward the left side, and the hands and feet of the same side were contracted. He was given Bell., Hyos., Cina , and Bryonia without effect. Cicuta virosa was then given. The first dose mitigated the severity of the fits, the second dose put the child to sleep, and thus he was saved from imminent death." The chief Conditions are: < From concussions, especially of brain and spine; from turning the head; from slightest touch (renews the spasms); from cold. > From warmth. Immediately after eating: bellyache and sleepiness. Immediately after commencing to eat: feels satisfied. Soon after a meal-great hunger.

Antidoted by: Arn., Op. for massive doses, Tobacco. Antidote to: Opium. Compatible after: Lach; after Ars. and Con. (cancer of lip); Cupr. (aphasia ill chorea). Compare: Con., Æthus, Œnanth. croc.; Hyperic. (spinal concussion); Hyo. (twitchings); Helleb; Hydrocy. ac. (body thrown back, cramps in neck); Nux and Strychnia (tetanus; but with Nux there is not the utter prostration and great oppression of breathing of Cic ., nor the loss of consciousness; Nux is less epileptiform and has more excitability).

Strange desires, as desire to eat coal, &c. — Anxiety, and great tendency to be deeply affected by mournful stories. — Groans, complaints, and howling. — Discontent and ill-humour. — Suspicion and mistrust, with misanthropy. — Disposition to be frightened. — Mania, with dancing, laughing, and ridiculous gestures; with heat of the body and longing for wine. — Forgets his own name. — Dementia. — Giddiness and absence of mind. — He confounds the present with the past. — He thinks himself a young child. — Want of confidence in and dread of man, retires into solitude.

Vertigo, and staggering, to the extent of falling. — Giddiness, with falling forward. — Whirling vertigo on rising in the bed, with obscuration of sight. — Feeling as of intoxication. — Headache above the orbits. — Congestion of the brain with vomiting and purging. — Attacks of semi-lateral cephalalgia, with nausea. — Semi-lateral headache, as from congestion to the head; relieved when sitting erect. — Heaviness of the head with dizziness. — Compression from both sides of the head. — Stupefying pressure on the forehead. — Diminution of pain in the head on rising, and on passing flatus. — Affections of the brain, from concussion of the brain. — Headache, as from commotion of the brain. — Feeling of looseness of the brain, as if it were shaken in walking; early in the morning; disappearing when thinking of the pain intensely. — Severe headache in occiput, like a dull pressure; as with coryza. — Suppurating eruptions on the scalp, with burning pain. — Startings and spasmodic shocks in the head, with drawing backward of the head. — Staring at an object, the head inclines forward; is frequently bent back again, with twitching, trembling, and tension in the neck while moving it. — Jerking and twitching of head.

Burning pain in the eyes. — Pupils either much contracted or dilated. — Suspension of the sight, with vertigo, on walking. — Look fixed, sometimes from a sort of absence of mind. — Wavering of all objects before the sight. — Iris-like circles round candle. — Mobility of the characters on reading; the letters turn, and are surrounded with a coloured areola, the same as round the light. — Diplopia, or obscuration of the eyes, sometimes alternately with hardness of hearing. — The objects appear double and black. — Luminous and coloured circle around all objects. — Photophobia. — Nocturnal agglutination of the eyelids. — Twitching of the orbicularis muscle.

Sensation of excoriation, and pain, as of contusion, behind the ears. — Purulent eruption before, behind, and on the ears. — Discharge of blood from the ears. — Hearing indistinct, sometimes alternating with obscuration of the eyes. — Detonation in r. ear when swallowing.

Pains as of excoriation and of a bruise, in the (r.) ala nasi. — Scabs in the nostrils. — Yellowish discharge from the nose. — Obstruction of the nose, with abundant secretion of mucus. — Frequent sneezing, without coryza.

Pallor and coldness of the face, with coldness of the hands. — Cheeks pale, with eyes sunk, and surrounded by a livid circle. — Redness and swelling of the face and of the neck. — Eruption on the face, confluent, purulent, and of a deep red colour, with lenticular pimples on the forehead. — Burning scabs, with yellowish serum, on the upper lip, cheeks, and chin. — Thick, honey-coloured scurf on the chin, upper lip, and lower portion of the cheeks (milk crust), burning soreness and oozing, accompanied with swelling of the sub-maxillary glands, and insatiable appetite. — Painful ulcer on the lips. — Painful swelling of the sub-maxillary glands. — Trismus. — Disposition to grind the teeth.

Foam before and in the mouth. — Whitish pustules, painful on being touched, and ulcers on the edge of the tongue. — Swelling of the tongue; white, painful, burning ulcers on the edges of the tongue. — Speech embarrassed, with convulsive movements of the head (from before backwards) and of the arms at every word that is uttered.

Throat dry. — Inability to swallow; the throat is, as it were, closed, and feels bruised when touched externally (with eructations). — Stricture of œsophagus. — Strangling on attempting to swallow. — Constriction after being hurt by swallowing a splinter of bone.

Want of appetite, caused by a sensation of dryness in the mouth. — Satiety, and aching in the stomach, after the first mouthful. — Great inclination to eat coal. — Continual hunger and appetite, even shortly after a meal. — Burning thirst, esp. during the cramps. — After a meal, colic, cuttings, pressure on the epigastrium, and drowsiness.

Violent and noisy hiccough; with crying. — Bitter and yellowish regurgitation on stooping, and followed by a burning sensation in the throat. — Nausea in the morning and during a meal, sometimes with headache. — Vomiting of blood. — Vomiting, alternately with tonic spasms in the muscles of the chest, and convulsive movements of the eyes; (the vomiting does not relieve the lock-jaw). — Burning pressure on the stomach and abdomen. — Pulsative pains in the epigastrium, which is much inflated. — Oppression and anxiety in the epigastric region. — Swelling and throbbing in the pit of the stomach.

Colic, with convulsions (in children from worms). — Cuttings, immediately after a meal, with drowsiness. — Pinchings and borborygmi in the abdomen. — Accumulation of flatus, with anguish and ill-humour. — Distension and painfulness of the abdomen. — Pain, as from ulceration in the groins.

Constipation. — Liquid and too frequent evacuations. — Itching in the rectum, with burning pain after friction.

Retention of urine. — Frequent micturition; the urine is propelled with great force. — Involuntary urination as from paralysis of the bladder.

Testes drawn up. — Sore drawing pain in urethra as far as glans, obliging one to urinate. — Stitches in fossa navicularis with nightly emissions. — Pollutions without lascivious dreams. — Strictures (spasmodic) sometimes after gonorrhœa.

Menses delayed; spasmodic symptoms. — Tearing and drawing in coccyx during menses. — (Painful tumours of mammæ.)

Hoarseness. — Difficult respiration, and want of breath. — Cough with copious expectoration.

Tightness in the chest; she is scarcely able to breathe all day. — Pressure on the chest, as from a weight, with difficulty of respiration. — Sensation in chest and throat as though something the size of a fist were lodged there. — Tonic spasms in the muscles of the chest, alternately with vomiting. — Heat in the chest. — Pain, as from a bruise, and from excoriation, in the lower extremity of the sternum. — Burning pain in the nipples. — Burning in the chest.

Trembling palpitation of heart. — Feels as if heart stopped beating; and sometimes faint feeling therewith.

Tension, as from a wound, in the muscles of the neck, on bending the head back. — Swelling of the neck. — Tonic spasms of the cervical muscles. — Neuralgia of neck with tendency to draw head backwards and dull occipital headache. — Tearing jerking in coccyx. — Coccygodynia coming on for first time during catamenia, after parturition. — Spasmodic bending backwards of the back, like an arch. — Tension above the shoulder-blades. — Pain of ulceration in the shoulder-blades.

Great weakness in arms and legs after slight exertion. — Trembling in limbs. — Spasmodic contortions and fearful jerking of limbs.

Pain, as from a bruise, or of excoriation, in the joints of the shoulder, and in the forearms. — Sensation of heaviness and want of strength in the arms. — Jerking in the l. arm all day. — Startings and convulsive movements (involuntary) in the arms and in the fingers. — Deadness of the fingers. — The veins on the hands are enlarged.

Involuntary starting of the lower limbs, jerks and twitches. — Painful stiffness of the legs. — Trembling of the legs. — Yielding of the feet, when walking; they turn inwards.

Pains, as from excoriation, or from a bruise, on various parts. — Trembling of the limbs. — Shocks, as from electric sparks, in the head, the arms, and the legs. — General convulsions, and fits of epilepsy, sometimes with cries, paleness or yellow colour of the face, pressing together of the jaws, numbness and distortion of the limbs, suspension of respiration, and foam at the mouth. — After the fit, the body remains insensible, and, as it were, dead. — State of insensibility and immobility, with loss of consciousness and of strength. — Attacks of catalepsy, with relaxation of all the muscles, and absence of respiration. — Tetanus. — Drawing pains in the limbs. — Affections of the r. side of the back. — Spasms during parturition; children have convulsions from worms. — Strictures after inflammation, sometimes after gonorrhœa.

Burning itching over the whole body. — Purulent eruptions, with yellowish and burning scabs. — Lenticular pimples, of a deep red colour. — Long-lasting purulent eruptions, confluent, forming thick yellow crusts, with burning pain.

Sleeplessness and nocturnal sweat. — Half-sleep, with restless movements and confused dreams. — Frequent waking, with profuse sweat, which, however, alleviates. — Vivid dreams of the events of the day. — Vivid dreams which cannot be recollected.

Pulse weak, slow, trembling. — Shivering, and perpetual desire to be near the fire. — The chilliness begins in the chest and extends down the legs and into the arms. — Coldness in the thighs, and in the arms, with fixedness of look. — Heat only internally. — Perspiration at night (in the morning hours), principally on the abdomen. — Worm fever with colic and convulsions.

Loss of consciousness and sensation.
She knows no one, but when touched and spoken to, she answers. θ Periodical ecstasy.
Became insensible and convulsed generally.
Suddenly consciousness returns, and she remembers nothing of what has occurred. θ Periodical ecstasy.
Very absent-minded.
He confounds the present with the past.
He thinks himself a young child.
He imagined he was not living in his usual condition and circumstances ; everything appears to him strange and almost terrible.
She thinks she sees coming towards her a huge drunken man, who lies down alongside of her, she begs him to retire, falls into convulsions, and turns over on her abdomen.
Feels as if he was in a strange place, which causes fear.
Fantastic illusions, attacks of madness.
Delirium ; crazy delirium.
Delirium, cries, sings ; loss of consciousness with open eyes, knows no one, but when touched or spoken to answers questions ; consciousness returns suddenly, and she does not remember what has passed ; attacks twice a day. θ
Periodical ecstasy.
Mental torpor and stupefaction.
Loss of ideas ; loss of sensation.
Thinks of the future with anxiety, and is constantly sad.
Strange desires, as desire to eat coal.
Fondness for solitude ; great disregard and dislike for the society of others.
Gives short answers.
Funny gesticulations, with redness of face and heat of body.
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.
Sobbing and weeping, pain in neck, head drawn back spasmodically, with trembling of hands.
Great agitation, child grasp at one's clothing in a frightened manner. θ Convulsions.
Very violent in all his actions.
Quiet disposition, contented, happy.
Melancholia ; indifference and sadness. θ Concussion of brain.
Anxious thoughts of the future ; feels sad.
Anxiety, excessively affected by sad stories.
Greatest anxiety. θ Wounded œsophagus.
Anxiety and fretfulness.
Old men fear a long spell of sickness before dying.
Is afraid of society, and wants to be alone.
Excited, with apprehension concerning the future ; everything that could befall him seemed to be dangerous.
Mistrust and shunning of men ; despises others.
Disposition to be frightened.

When standing still there is a desire to hold on to something, because objects seem to approach and then to recede.
Vertigo : on rising from bed, as if everything was moving from side to side, or approached and then receded ; reeling ; falling on stooping ; after injuries to the head.
Vertigo ; things turn in a circle, darkness before eyes on attempting to rise. θ Paralysis of bladder.
Giddiness with falling forward.
Loss of sight and vertigo in walking. θ Ophthalmia.
Vertigo : buzzing in ears ; deafness ; eyes glassy, dim, soporous state ; loss of consciousness ; muttering delirium. θ Typhoid.

Headache above orbits.
Stupefying frontal headache, increasing when at rest.
Semilateral headache, as from congestion to head or external pressure ; > when sitting erect.
Rending, cutting pain of one side, thinking of headache causes it to disappear.
Headache > by sitting erect, or by emission of flatus.
Severe headache in occiput, like a dull pressure, and as with coryza.
Pressure deep in brain ; heaviness in front or back of head.
Headache in morning on waking, as if brain was loose and was shaken on walking ; when thinking as to its exact nature, it ceased.
Headache, drawing from corners of eyes towards temples.
Stupid feeling of the head with chills ; the neck felt stiff and the muscles too short.
Concussion of brain and chronic effects therefrom, particularly spasms.
Cerebral diseases following suppressed eruptions.
Head heavy ; boring of occiput into cushion ; jerking of limbs ; eyes closed ; on lifting lids the eyes stare upward. θ Meningitis basilaris.
Cerebro spinal meningitis ; hydrops meningis acutus.

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This remedy is of interest because of its convulsive tendency. It puts the whole nervous system in such a state of increased irritability that pressure on a part causes convulsions. The convulsions extend from center to circumference; the head, face and eyes are first affected.

An aura in the stomach gives warning of the convulsion. Some complaints spread from the chest, especially from the heart; the rigors and chills begin in the chest; and there is a sensation of coldness about the heart; and from there it extends to other parts.

Convulsions often begin about the head and throat and extend downward. The whole body is in such a state of tension that, after excitement, a fire rages throughout the economy and causes convulsions. Any irritation in the throat or oesophagus will cause violent convulsions in this region.

On swallowing a fish bone, instead of only a pricking sensation as would occur in phlegmatic individuals, the irritation is so great that a spasm commences and spreads to other parts. It was the old remedy for tetanus and spasms caused by splinters in the skin or under the nails, competing with Bell. At the present day we find the most frequently indicated remedies for injuries to nerves are Led. and Hyper.

A peculiar feature about some of the symptoms is that they resemble catalepsy. The cataleptic condition may be present or a condition very similar to it. He recollects nothing that took place or that he said during a certain period. He knows nobody, and lies without recognizing anyone, but when asked questions he answers correctly, and subsequently he has no recollection of what took place.

It is a cerebo-spinal irritant; the head is drawn back opisthotonos all the limbs are convulsed and rigid. It has cured traumatic tetanus lockjaw, epilepsy, epileptiform convulsions.

With severe pains in the bowels come convulsive movements and convulsions. if the stomach is disordered or chilled, or if he has fear or other mental conditions, convulsions come on. He is extremely sensitive to touch, and touch arid drafts bring on convulsions.

The convulsions spread from above downwards, and thus it is the opposite of Cuprum. The convulsions of Cupr. spread from the extremities to the centre; i . e., the little convulsions, merely cramps, are first felt in the fingers and then in the hands and later in the chest and whole body.

In Cicuta the little convulsions of the head, eyes and throat spread down the back to the extremities with violent contortions. The convulsions of Secale sometimes begin in the face.

At times he knows no one, but when touched and spoken to he answers correctly. Suddenly consciousness returns and he remembers nothing of what has occurred. He confuses the present with the past. He imagines himself a young child. Everything is confused and strange. He does not know where he is.

The faces of old friends look strange; he looks at them and wonders if they are the same persons he used to know. His house and familiar places look strange. Voices sound strange. The senses of sight and smell and all the other special senses are disturbed and confused. He is confused as to himself, his age and circumstances. A woman on coming out of the cataleptic attacks often takes on childish behavior.

A man thinks that he is a child and acts like one; silly laughter, playing with toys, and other acts of childish behavior. He feels as if he were in a strange place, and this causes fear. Thinks of the future with anxiety. Mental torpor; loss of ideas and sensation extending over a certain period. Memory a blank for hours or days with or without convulsions.

Convulsions generally take the place of the ecstatic or cataleptic condition. Natr. m. is somewhat similar to the mental condition of this remedy, as the Natr. m. patient goes about doing all her household work and other functions and next day knows nothing about it. Nux mos. is another remedy that has such a complete blank when going about doing things, a complete abstraction of mind.

This patient has strange desires; desires to eat coal and many other strange articles, because he is unable to distinguish between things edible and things unfit to be eaten; eats coal and raw potatoes.

Wants to be alone; dislike to society. Singing, shouting, dancing; likes toys, jumps about like a child. Lies in bed lamenting and wailing. Great agitation; child grasps at one's clothing in a frightened manner.

This is likely to occur before the convulsion, great horror in the, countenance, yet he has no recollection of the horror when be comes out of the convulsion. That state of anxiety and fear comes after the attack has begun, though the convulsions have not yet come on.

Between the convulsions the patient is mild, gentle, placid and yielding, which distinguishes it from Strych. and Nux v. convulsions. The Nux convulsions are all over the body and are worse from touch and draft, blueness and purple color of the body, but between the convulsions the patient is very irritable.

Of course, when they go out of one convulsion into another you cannot see this, but when out of the convulsion the Nux patient is very irritable. The Cicuta patient, out of the convulsion, is full of sadness, anxiety, and darkness, borrows trouble from the future, is affected by sad stories, is pessimistic.

He is afraid of society, afraid of company, and wants to be alone. He is suspicious and shuns people; despises others; over-estimation of himself. In this it approximates Plat. but there is no further resemblance between the two remedies.

Full of fear; fright will bring on convulsions, like Op., Ign., and Acon.

Full of vertigo. The whole sensorium is violently excited. Things turn around in a circle. Vertigo on walking, glassy eyes, etc. Complaints brought on from injuries to the skull, from blows on the head. Many times there is no trouble in the region of the injury; there may be compression and yet all the pains be in distant parts; drawing of the muscles and cramps.

Concussion of the brain and chronic injuries therefrom, especially spasms. Semi-lateral headaches forcing the patient to sit still erect.

Headache as if the brain were loose on walking. When thinking of the exact nature of the pain it ceased. It has cured cerebro-spinal meningitis when there were convulsions and the convulsions were aggravated from touch, with fever and even spotted mottled skin. Mind and head symptoms after injuries. On going into a cerebro-spinal meningitis the patient sits in a chair talking as if nothing were wrong, when, quick as a flash, he passes into another state in which be knows no one; he falls over limp, he is put to bed, and though he answers questions he remains in a semi conscious state, knowing no one.

This may change into a spasm. The head is bent back in spasms; jerking back of the head; spasms begin in the head and go downward. Violent shocks in the head, arms and legs. Head hot and extremities cold, like Bell. in its convulsions. Sweat on the scalp when sleeping. Child rolls head from side to side. Hot head.

Convulsive action about the eyes; pupils dilated and insensible patient lies fixed in one place, with starting, fixed, glassy, upturned eyes, like Cupr.

Strabismus may be the only spasm the child is subject to from cerebral irritation. Every time the child is frightened it has strabismus; when touched or when it has cold, or after a fall biting the head, or coming periodically, it has strabismus.

The nose is sensitive to touch. Touch and jarring bring on complaints, and hence it was so useful in, and was the first remedy for, the result of injuries and irritability and over-sensibility.

It has troubles from shaving; it is useful in such eruptions as come in the whiskers; barber's itch; a solid crop of eruptions all over the face wherever the whiskers grow. Eruptions on the cheek like eczema. Swelling of the submaxillary glands. Erysipelatous eruptions.

It is closely related to Conium about the lips and lids, in that a small amount of pressure causes induration. It has cured epithelioma of the lips.

The throat troubles are mostly spasmodic. After swallowing a fish bone or stick which lodges in the throat a spasm comes on. After Cicuta the spasms will cease and it can be taken out. It is useful in cases of injury, accompanied with violent choking, so that be cannot allow an examination to be made.

Cold sensation in the chest. Spasms of the chest.

Feels as if the heart stopped beating. Spasmodic symptoms of the back.

Opisthotonos. All conditions of the limbs are of a spasmodic character.

Adapted to persons of a highly nervous organization. Women subject to epileptic and choreic con-vulsions; spasms of teething children, or from worms.

Convulsions: violent, with frightful distortions of the limbs and whole body; renewed from touch, noise or jar.

Epilepsy: with swelling of the stomach as from violent spasms of the diaphragm; screaming; red face; trismus; hic-cup; loss of consciousness and distortion of the limbs; fre-quent, during the night; recurring at first at short, then at long intervals.

Puerperal convulsions: frequent suspensions of breathing for a few moments; upper part of body most affected; con-tinue after delivery.

During dentition, grinding of the teeth or gums; com-pression of the jaws as in lockjaw.

Abnormal appetite for chalk and indigestible things; for coal or charcoal; child eats them with apparent relish (Alum., Psor.).

Suffer violent shocks through head, stomach, arms, legs, which cause jerkings of the parts; head hot.

Injurious chronic effects from concussions of the brain and spine, especially spasms; trismus and tetanus from getting splinters into flesh (Hyp.).

From tobacco smoke (Ign.); touch; jar.

In open air.

Quotidian intermittent; periodicity not marked.

Afternoon (2 to 3:30 P. M.) paroxysm.

And chilliness, with desire for warmth and to go to the warm stove (Lach.). The chilliness begins in the chest and extends down the legs and into the arms, after which follows a disposition to stare at one point. Icycoldness of the whole body; ears cold; cold sensation streams through lower legs, especially the right. The whole abdomen was cold. They all long for a warm stove (Bov., Ign., Lach.).

Without thirst; general of whole body; of single parts and special organs; in the chest and abdomen; in both legs. Sensation of hot water in the chest, arms, legs and ears; hot internally and externally. Burning and redness of the face. Constant desire for open air.

On the abdomen; at night, and in the morning hours. Feels invigorated after.

Swelling of the tongue. Thirst, with inability to swallow (Cimex).

The conditions calling for Cicuta are liable to occur during or following epidemic spinal meningitis. The chief symptom is the chill and coldness beginning in chest and extending downward.

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 œsophagus 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).

A tincture is prepared of the fresh root of Cicuta Virosa, L.

The Cicutæ are most prominently convulsants, producing the most terrific convulsions, with loss of consciousness.

Œnanthe, Conium, Absinth., Hydrocy. ac., Cupr.

Veins very prominent. ▶ Lying as if dead, with clenched jaws. ▶ Falling to the ground; unconscious; and rolling about; on stooping it seems as if he would fall forward. ▶ Catalepsy, limbs hung down relaxed as if dead, without breathing. ▶ Tetanus. ▶ Convulsions, with wonderful distortions of limbs, head turned backward, back bent as in opisthotonos; frightful distortions, with unconsciousness; spasms of all the muscles; spasms, with dark redness of face, blue lips and bloody froth from mouth. ▶ Epilepsy; with swelling of stomach, as from spasm of diaphragm. ▶ Hiccough, screaming, redness of face, trismus, unconsciousness and distortion of limbs; with wonderful convulsions of limbs, head and upper part of body, and clenched jaws; with wonderful distortions of limbs, upper part of body and head, blue face, interrupted breath and froth from mouth, afterwards unconsciousness; frequent E. at night. ▶ Restlessness, tossing about, the pallor of face changed to cyanosis, twitching of face, of muscles of eyes and neck, a peculiar scream, finally tetanus of whole body, head bored into pillow, the spine forming a concave arc backward, froth before mouth, teeth clenched, limbs drawn up towards abdomen, unconsciousness, insensibility, micturition in a full stream, breath stopped at the height of the convulsions, no action of heart during the spasm. ▶ Fell to the ground, urinated with great force, violent convulsions, mouth could not be opened, gnashed the teeth, distorted his eyes, blood spurted from the ears and much swelling was felt in præcordial region. ▶ Tonic spasms so that the fingers could not be straightened, neither could the limbs be bent or straightened. ▶ Twitchings; on back, forehead and left toes. ▶ Cramplike stiffness of whole body, with coldness. ▶ Rigidity in a child, and sleeplessness. ▶ (Symptoms of spasms, compare Œnanthe, Cupr., Absinth., etc.).

Swollen sensation in whole body when in bed and frequent starting as if he would fall out of bed. ▶ Weakness; after standing a short time, agg. in knees and in muscles of back; on rising. ▶ Faintness.

Convulsions from various causes, injuries, after opium, chorea; like epileptiform, tetanic, puerperal, from worms, from indigestion, with insensibility, staring eyes, with jerking of eyeball, muscles of the face and whole body, face red, hot, sweaty; or with the convulsions violent opisthotonos, tetanic rigidity of the whole body, eyes fixed at one point, and frothing at the mouth, with spasmodic breathing; spasms brought on by the slightest jar, etc.

▶ Delirium; singing, dancing grotesquely, shouting (Hyosc.); after an unusual sleep heat of body, she sprang out of bed, laughed, did foolish things, drank much wine, jumped about, clapped her hands and grew red in the face. ▶ Constantly screaming the name of his sister. ▶ It seemed as if he were a child and objects were as attractive to him as toys to the child. ▶ Belief that he was not living under ordinary relations, everything seemed strange and almost fearful, it seemed as if he had awakened from a fever and saw all kinds of visions, without physical sick feeling. ▶ Weeping, moaning and howling. ▶ Laughing and biting.

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Convulsions, with distortions of the limbs; body bent as in opisthotonos; frightful distortions, with unconsciousness; with dark redness of face, blue lips and bloody froth from mouth; spasmodic hiccough, with screaming and redness of the face, unconsciousness and distorted limbs.
General weariness.
Pain in various places as from a blow.

Clinical:
Convulsions from various causes, injuries, after opium, chorea-like, epileptiform, tetanic, puerperal, from worms, from indigestion, with insensibility, staring eyes, with jerking of eyeball, muscles of the face and whole body, face red, hot, sweaty; or with the convulsions violent opisthotonos, tetanic rigidity of the whole body, eyes fixed at one point, and frothing at the mouth, with spasmodic breathing; spasms brought on by the slightest jar, etc.

Delirium; singing, dancing grotesquely, shouting, weeping, moaning and howling.
Solicitude for the future.
Sadness, with weeping and howling.
Misanthropy: mistrusts people.
Hallucinations, with heat of the body and desire for wine.
It seemed as though he was a child, seven years of age.
Confuses the present with the past.

Vertigo, with reeling and falling to the ground.
Stupefying pain in the forehead, < at rest.
One-sided stupefying headache as from a rush of blood, > sitting upright.

Clinical:
Vertigo, with gastralgia; vomiting, with muscular spasms and tendency to convulsions.
Sudden violent shocks through head and whole body, with jerking, premonitory of spasms.
Suppurating eruptions and pustules, larger than the head of a pin, which became confluent, with infiltration, etc.
Basilar meningitis.
Cerebro-spinal meningitis, with convulsions; many cases.
Effects of concussion of the brain, especially convulsions.

Pupils dilated and insensible; sometimes contracted, then dilated.
A staring look, as though at one object, which however, is not distinctly seen.
While attempting to stand objects seem to approach and recede.
While staring at one point the head gradually sinks forward, so that the eyes become directed upward.
Objects seem double and black.

Clinical:
Commencing strabismus, periodic, spasmodic, or after convulsions.

Deafness.

Clinical:
Hæmorrhage from the ears in cerebral troubles.
Deafness of old people, with sudden detonation in ears, especially on swallowing.
Suppurating burning eruption on and about the ears.

Nostrils seem stopped.
Yellow discharge from the nose.
(Nostrils ulcerated, with a yellow, purulent discharge.)

Clinical:
Eruptions about corners of the mouth, beginning like honey-colored crusts, with burning and itching; the crusts extended to the chin, became thick and "fat," sometimes with swollen glands.

Sore on margin of tongue, painful to touch.
Tongue swollen and white, with painful, burning ulcers on the margins.
Speech difficult; when talking there frequently comes a jerk of the head with which he seems to swallow the syllables.

Inability to swallow, as though the throat were internally grown together.
Throat dry.

Clinical:
Spasms of œsophagus from worms; the child cannot swallow, strangling on attempting to swallow.

Desire for coal.
Extreme thirst (with convulsions).
Hiccough.
Burning in the pit of the stomach.
Throbbing.
Contraction, so that there was a ball the size of the fist in the region of the stomach.
Nausea in the morning after eating.
Vomiting of blood.

Rumbling and roaring in the bowels.
Heat and burning in the abdomen.
Colic, with convulsions.

Diarrhœa, with irresistible urging to urinate.

Frequent desire to urinate; profuse urine.
Involuntary micturition.
Spurting of urine.

Loss of breath on account of spasms in the pectoral muscles.
A feeling of tightness in the chest, so that she could scarcely breathe.
Burning in the chest.
A bruised or sore pain at lower end of the sternum.

Cramplike tension in the muscles of the neck on turning the head; is difficult to turn the head back again.
Back bent backward, like an arch.
Pain on the inner surface of scapulæ.
Tearing jerking in the coccyx.

Spasmodic distortion.
Sudden cramps that throw the patient some distance.
Cramplike drawing in the arms and hands.
Spasmodic closure of the hand.
Jerking in the fingers.
Hands become weak, so that he cannot hold anything.
Jerking of the lower extremities.
Spasmodic stretching out and jerking of the legs.

Eruptions, especially about the face, mouth and hands, become purulent and form thick, yellow crusts, with burning pain when touched.
A red vesicle forms on the right scapula, which is painful to touch.

Frequent waking, with general perspiration always, from which, however, he is refreshed.
Vivid, unremembered dreams, or of the events of the previous day.

Chilliness; constant desire to be near a warm stove.
Sweat at night, particularly on the abdomen.

Cic. / (Sick.) / The Greek.

Cicuta,-Thou doth hold in stress,
Conditions os unconsciousness.
And several symptoms bring in view,
To spinal meningitis due.
And many vagaries of mind.
Conjoined with spasms, many kind.
Thy limbs, a strange distortion show,
Thy back bends backward like a bow.
Chorea thine, hysteria-shrieks,
Tetanus, somnambulistic freaks.
A reeling vertigo, and squint,
And hiccough of convulsive hint.
Thy pupils large, insensible,
That may of amaurosis tell.
Or of concussion of the brain,
Or rash, once out, repelled again.
By thought of them, thy pains abate,
A charcoal craving is thy fate.

The Greek,-Has screaming spasms.

The Greek, Plato, coaxes from Ignatia a cup of opium.

The Greek,-Who is subject to enlarged pupils,- Is in the cabin, with the yellow twins of Cina.

Screaming Spasms: Cic., Plat., Cal. c., Hyo., Ig., Cup., Op.

Enlarged Pupils: Cic., Cal. c., Bell., Gel., Hyo., Stram., Cina. (Dilated and insensible, Bell., Cic., Op.)

Indicated in convulsive and spasmodic affections (chorea, puerperal convulsions), with drawing back of the head and neck, even to opisthotonos (opisthognathous - retreating jaws). Particularly valuable in cerebro-spinal meningitis and in the sequels of concussion of the brain and spinal marrow.

Red face.

Pupils dilated, insensible, squinting.

When reading, letters seem to go up or down or to disappear.

Spasms of the oesophagus.

Sudden violent shocks in the head and in other parts.

Contraction of cervical muscles; cramps and spasms in the muscles of the back.

Eczema, with hard, lemon-colored crusts, whitish, moist scurf on the chin and upper lip.

Worse from touch; from concussion.

Childish insanity, she does all kinds of foolish things, with heat of body and thirst for wine. Confuses the past with the present. Uneasy concerning the future. Sadness, with whining and howling. Timidity, tendency to be startled. Suspicion and mistrust, what anthropophobia. He is violently affected by sad stories.

Causing him to fall down. Reeling, it seems as though surrounding objects moved and whirled about.

Unilateral, stupefying ache, as from congestion of blood, disappearing when sitting erect. Consequences of concussion of brain.

Jerky trembling of (and of legs) from every movement of, interrupted by single jerks like electric shocks. Retracted or frequently repeated backward bending of. Sunken forward, eyes seem fixed on an object. Burning, suppurating eruption on. Worse: Motion and cold. Better: Rest, warmth.

Contracted pupils. Staring fixedly at a single object, which, nevertheless, is not seen distinctly. When staring fixedly at a single point the head gradually sinks down so that finally the pupils are turned in an upward direction. Objects appear double and black.

Burning, suppurating eruption on, and around.

Ulcerated nostrils with discharge of yellow pus.

Burning, purulent, confluent eruption on. Milk - crust. Painful, burning ulcers on lips. Lockjaw. Gnashing teeth.

Foam in, and about. Inability to swallow, as though' throat were grown together internally. Swollen tongue, with white, painful, burning ulcers on its edge. Difficult speech, when talking his head jerks, whereby he seems to swallow a syllable.

Appetite: Quickly satiated. Great longing for charcoal. Violent thirst during spasms.

Qualmishness, etc. - Early in morning and when eating. Vomiting blood.

Burning pressure in. Anxiety in pit.

Heat and burning in. Bellyache with convulsions, (from worms in children).

Profuse, thin. Retained.

Profuse, in a large stream, with frequent urging. Involuntary, from paralysis of bladder. Suppressed urination.

Shortness of, from tonic spasm of chest muscles.

Burning in. Thrusting or sore pain on lower end of sternum.

Opisthotonos.

Neck: Cramp like tension in cervical muscles, when he turns his head he cannot get it back again. Tonic spasms.

Veins of hands are enlarged. When walking the feet tilt inwards.

Painful sensation of stiffness in legs. When walking the feet tilt inwards.

Twitchings, especially in upper and lower limbs. Epileptiform convulsions and epileptic attacks. Tonic spasms. Convulsions in children with warm complaints. General weariness and exhaustion. Pains as from a thrust or blow in many parts of the body.

Burning, itching. Moist, purulent eruptions, with yellow, honey - colored crusts and burning pains only.

Day sleepiness. Nightly sleeplessness, sometimes entirely imperceptible. Chill: And chilliness, with desire for heat of stove and warmth. Spreads from the chest to arms and down thighs, with staring. Heat: Slight and internal only, Sweat: At night, and in early morning, mostly on abdomen.

Allied Remedies: Arn., Bell., Dulc., Lyc., Merc., Op., Rhus-t., Stram., Verat-a.

Complementary: Carb-v., Ferr., Kali-c.

Twitching, especially in the extremities.

Convulsions in children from worms.

Shocks of the brain, as from electricity through the head, arms and legs.

Pains as from contusions or blows on many parts of the body.

Burning pains and burning, moist eruptions with yellow crusts.

Chilliness and desire for heat.

Contortions of the limbs, "bluish face, interrupted breathing, foaming at the mouth, followed by insensibility.