Conium Maculatum con.

NERVES. MUSCLES. GLANDS: MAMMÆ. Ovaries. Sexual organs. Respiration.

SEEING MOVING OBJECTS. ALCOHOL. Raising arms. After exertion. Injury. Night. Sexual excesses. Cold; taking. Continence. Old age. Lying; head low.

Letting part hang down.

Irregular action ending in progressive DEBILITY, as in old age: clothes distress, faints at stool, difficult articulation, uncertain gait, etc. Trembling; looks old. Chronicity. Early senility. Cachexy. Paralysis. Suddenly sick or weak; with numbness. STONY HARDNESS. As of a lump in brain, in epigastrium. New growths. Hard blood-vessels. Ascending symptoms. Tearings. Stabbings.

Slow. Apathetic. Shy people, yet fear being alone. Weak memory. Can't think after using eyes. VERTIGO, whirling; on lying, turning over, least motion of eyes or head, etc.; senile. Eyes feel crossed; lids heavy, droop, < outer side. Photophobia. Vision, colored. Pulpy earwax. Sour saliva. Cold flatus. Constipation on alternate days. Urine stops and starts; > standing. Testes enlarged. Cutting, as semen passes; in ovaries, uterus, etc. Prostatic dribble; < stool, emotions, etc. Emissions, from mere contact. Menses irregular. Acrid leucorrhœa. Tormenting cough from dry spot in larynx; from tickling in throat-pit; as if from abdomen. Palpitation; < exertion, drinking, at stool, etc. GLANDS HARDEN AND GET SORE. Mammæ; nodes in; congested before menses; sticking in; shrunken; too much milk, < before menses or at every step. Hot spots on head. Spinal injuries. Heels; as if bone would push through; shooting in. Skin greenish, like an old bruise; spots on; foul or eczematous eruption. Hebetude. Coldness in nape, calf, etc. Hot flushes or sweat on dropping to sleep. Sweat under eyes, on chin, in popliteæ; cold on nape or palms.

Complementary: Pho. Related: Arn. Bar-c. Calc-fl. Caus. Gel. Iod.

The "Balm of Gilead" for diseases of old maids and women during and after climacteric. Especially for diseases of old men; old maids; old bachelors; with rigid muscular fibre; persons with light hair who are easily excited; strong persons of sedentary habits. Debility of old people; complaints caused by a blow or fall; cancerous and scrofulous persons with enlarged glands; rigid fibre. No inclination for business or study; indolent, indifferent, takes no interest in anything. Memory weak, unable to sustain any mental effort. Morose; easily vexed; domineering, quarrelsome, scolds, will not bear contradiction (Aur.); excitement of any kind causes mental depression. Dreads being alone, yet avoids society (Kali c., Lyc.). Glandular induration of stony hardness; of mammae and testicles in persons of cancerous tendency; after bruises and injuries of glands (compare, Aster. rub.). Breasts sore, hard and painful before and during menstruation (Lac c., Kali c.). Vertigo: especially when lying down or turning in bed; moving the head slightly, or even the eyes; must keep the head perfectly still; on turning the head to the left (Col.); of old people; with ovarian and uterine complaints. Cough: in spasmodic paroxysms caused by dry spot in larynx (in throat, Act.); with itching in chest and throat (Iod.); worse at night, when lying down, and during pregnancy (Caust., Kali br.). Great difficulty in voiding urine; flow intermits, then flows again; prostratic or uterine affections. Menses: feeble, suppressed; too late, scanty, of short duration; with rash of small red pimples over body which ceases with the flow (Dul.); stopped by taking cold; by putting hands in cold water (Lac d.). Leucorrhoea: ten days after menses (Bor., Bov.); acrid; bloody; milky; profuse; thick; intermits. Bad effects: of suppressed sexual desire, or suppressed menses; non-gratification of sexual instinct, or from excessive indulgence. Aversion to light without inflammation of eyes; worse from using eyes in artificial light; often the students' remedy for night work; intense photophobia (Psor.). Sweat day and night, as soon as one sleeps, or even when closing the eyes (Cinch.).

Patients requiring Conium often improve from wine or stimulants, though persons susceptible to Conium cannot take alcoholic stimulants when in health. Compare: Arn., Rhus in contusions; Ars., Aster, in cancer; Cal., Psor. in glandular swellings. Is followed well: by, Psor. in tumors of mammae with threatening malignancy.

At night; lying down; turning or rising up, in bed; celibacy.

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.

Affects the cornea; blindness; paralysis of the optic nerve, amaurosis; dimsightedness.

Pain in, as from contusion; wasting away of; itching of; induration of; sensibility of; hard swelling of; tingling in; wounds with injured glands.

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.

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.

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.

Discharge of the urine interrupted; burning, during and after; sharp stitches; with crampy pressure; mucous sediment.

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.

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.

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.

Bellad., Lycop., Phosphor., Pulsat., Nux vom., Rhus tox., Stramon., Sulphur.

Spirits of Nitre, Dulcam.

Vertigo, particularly when lying down or when turning over in bed. Sensation as of a large foreign body in right half of brain. Weakness and dazzling of the eyes, together with giddiness and debility, especially of arms and legs; staggers as if drunk. Violent vomiting that looks like coffee grounds. Stitches extending from the abdomen to the right side of the chest. The flow of urine suddenly stops, and continues again after a short interruption. Sexual desire without erections. Swelling and induration of the testes. Soreness and swelling of the breasts preceding the menses. Shriveling of the mammas, with increased sexual desire. Induration of mammae, uterus or ovaries, with lancinating pain. Violent, dry, spasmodic cough, when first lying during day or at night, caused by itching and crawling in the larynx. Bad effects from suppressed sexual desire, or from excessive indulgence. Adapted to the debility of old persons, to diseases caused by a blow or fall, and to cancerous and scrofulous persons, with tight, rigid fibre.

Poison Hemlock (CONIUM)

An old remedy, rendered classical by Plato's graphic description of its employment in the death of Socrates. The ascending paralysis it produces, ending in death by failure of respiration, shows the ultimate tendency of many symptoms produced in the provings, for which Conium is an excellent remedy, such as difficult gait, trembling, sudden loss of strength while walking, painful stiffness of legs. etc. Such a condition is often found in old age, a time of weakness, languor, local congestions, and sluggishness. This is the special environment that Conium choose to manifest its action. It corresponds to the debility, hypochondriasis, urinary troubles, weakened memory, sexual debility found here. Trouble at the change of life, old and bachelors. Growth of tumors invite it also. General feeling as if bruised by blows. Great debility in the morning in bed. Weakness of body and mind, trembling, and palpitation. Cancerous diathesis. Arterio-sclerosis. Caries of sternum. Enlarged glands. Acts on the glandular system, engorging and indurating it, altering its structure like scrofulous and cancerous conditions. Tonic after grippe. Insomnia of multiple neuritis.

Excitement causes mental depression. Depressed, timid, averse to society, and afraid of being alone. No inclination for business or study; takes no interest in anything. Memory weak; unable to sustain 'any mental effort.

Vertigo, when lying down, and when turning over in bed, when turning head sidewise, or turning eyes; worse, shaking head, slight noise or conversation of others, especially towards the left. Headache, stupefying, with nausea and vomiting of mucus, with a feeling as of foreign body under the skull. Scorched feeling on top. Tightness as if both temples were compressed; worse after a meal. (Gels.; Atropine.) Bruised, semilateral pains. Dull occipital pain on rising in morning.

Photophobia and excessive lachrymation. Corneal pustules. Dim-sighted; worse, artificial light. On closing eyes, he sweats. Paralysis of ocular muscles. (Caust.) In superficial inflammations, as in phlyctenular conjunctivitis and keratitis. The slightest ulceration or abrasion will cause the intensest photophobia.

Defective hearing; discharge from ear blood colored.

Bleeds easily-becomes sore. Polypus.

Soreness about the root of tongue. Terrible nausea, acrid heartburn and acid eructations; worse on going to bed. Painful spasms of the stomach. Amelioration from eating and aggravation a few hours after meals; acidity and burning; painful spot the level of the sternum.

Severe aching in and around the liver. Chronic jaundice, and pains in right hypochondrium. Sensitive, bruised, swollen, knife-like pains. Painful tightness.

Frequent urging; hard, with tenesmus. Tremulous weakness after every stool. (Verat.; Ars.; Arg. n.) Heat and burning in rectum during stool.

Much difficulty in voiding. It flows and stops again. (Ledum.) Interrupted discharge. (Clematis.) Dribbling in old men. (Copaiva.)

Desire increased; power decreased. Sexual nervousness, with feeble erection. Effects of suppressed sexual appetite. Testicles hard and enlarged.

Dysmenorrhœa, with drawing-down thighs. Mammæ lax and shrunken, hard, painful to touch. Stitches in nipples. Wants to press breast hard with hand. Menses delayed and scanty; parts sensitive. Breasts enlarge and become painful before and during menses. (Calc. c.; Lac can.) Rash before menses. Itching around pudenda. Unready conception. Induration of os and cervix. Ovaritis; ovary enlarged, indurated; lancinating pain. Ill effects of repressed sexual desire or suppressed menses, or from excessive indulgence. Leucorrhœa after micturition.

Dry cough, almost continuous, hacking; worse, evening and at night; caused by dry spot in larynx with itching in chest and throat, when lying down, talking or laughing, and during pregnancy. Expectoration only after long coughing. Want of breath on taking the least exercise; oppressed breathing, constriction of chest; pains in chest.

Dorsal pain between shoulders. Ill effects of bruises and shocks to spine. Coccyodynia. Dull aching in lumbar and sacral region.

Heavy, weary, paralyzed; trembling; bands unsteady; fingers and toes numb. Muscular weakness, especially of lower extremities. Perspiration of hands. Putting feet on chair relieves pain.

Axillary glands pain, with numb feeling down arm. Induration after contusions. Yellow skin, with papular eruption; yellow finger-nails. Glands enlarged and indurated, also mesenteric. Flying stitches through the glands. Tumors, piercing pains; worse, at night. Chronic ulcers with fetid discharge. Sweat as soon as one sleeps, or even when closing eyes. Night and morning sweat, with offensive odor, and smarting in skin.

Worse, lying down, turning or rising in bed; celibacy; before and during menses, from taking cold, bodily or mental exertion. Better, while fasting, in the dark, from letting limbs hang down, motion and pressure.

Compare: Scirrhinum-Cancer nosode- (cancerous diathesis; enlarged glands; cancer of breast; worms); Baryt.; Hydrast.; Iod.; Kali phos.; Hyos.; Curare.

Best in higher potencies given infrequently, especially for growths, paretic states, etc. Otherwise sixth to thirtieth.

Vertigo, especially < on turning the head, or looking around sidewise, or turning in bed.

Swelling and induration of glands, after contusions or bruises.

Cancerous and scrofulous persons with enlarged glands.

Urine flows, stops and flows again intermittently, prostatic or uterine affections.

Breasts sore, hard and painful during menstrual period.

This is another of the so-called spinal remedies. I will not, as I did under Cocculus quote what authorities say from a pathological standpoint. All seem to agree that it paralyzes from below upwards, and the poisoning of Socrates with it is adduced in illustration. It ought to be a remedy for locomotor ataxia The strongest characteristic I know, from a homœopathic standpoint, it its peculiar vertigo, which is much aggravated by turning the head sidewise. (Coloc., turning head to left). Turning over in bed is the same. Some say lying down in bed and turning over. I have found that it is not so much the lying down as it is the turning of the head sidewise, whether in an upright or horizontal posture.

I once treated a case of what seemed to be locomotor ataxia with this remedy.

The patient had been slowly losing the use of his legs; could not stand at the dark; and when he walked along the street would make his wife walk either ahead of him, or behind him, for the act of looking sidewise at her or in the least turning head or eyes that way would cause him to stagger or fall.

Conium cured him. It would always aggravate at first, but he would greatly improve after stopping the remedy. The aggravation was just as invariable after taking a dose of Fincke's c. m. potency as from anything lower, but the improvement lasted longer after it.

Taking an occasional dose from a week to four weeks apart completely cured him in about a year. It was a bad case, of years' standing, before I took him.

I have often verified this symptom in the vertigo of old people, where it is most frequently found; but it also often accompanies various affections in all ages, and especially is found in ovarian and uterine affections. I know of no remedy that has this symptom so strongly.

There is a form of ophthalmia in strumous subjects which calls for Conium in preference to any other remedy, and the peculiar, prominent and uncommon (as Hahnemann says, Organon, § 153) symptom is, photophobia, intense, out of all proportion to the objective signs of inflammation in the eye. The pains are worse at night and terribly aggravated by the least ray of light, relieved in dark room and by pressure.

There may or may not be ulcers on the cornea. Conium is also one of our best remedies for falling of the eyelids, as are three other remedies, viz: Gelsemium, Causticum and Sepia. "Swelling and induration of glands, with tingling and stitches after contusions or bruises." Many cases of lumps or swellings in the breasts (for which Conium seems to have a particular affinity) have disappeared under the action of this remedy. Even cancerous affections of breasts (Asterias rubens), uterus and stomach have been helped or cured, especially if the trouble seems to have originated in a blow or injury to the part. It is perhaps the first remedy to be thought of in all cases of tumors, scirrhous or otherwise, coming on after contusions, especially if they are of stony hardness and heavy feeling. Conium and Silicea both have hardness of mammæ, Conium right, Silicea left nodules (Carbo animalis, Conium, Silicea); acute lancinating pains. (Asterias). Again it is to be especially considered if at every menstrual period the breasts become large, sore and painful, aggravated by the least jar or walking.

In all the scirrhous affections of the breast, womb or other parts the pains of Conium are burning, stinging, or darting, and may make one think of Apis mellifica. The other symptoms must then decide between them.

Conium has marked action upon the sexual organs. In the male there is great weakness of the organs. He has intense desire and amorous thoughts, but is unable to perform. He has emissions at the very thought or presence of a woman. The erections are insufficient, last only a short time, or "go back" on him in the act of embrace, and he suffers with weakness and chagrin afterwards. This affects the mind and hypochondriasis of the bluest blue takes possession of him.

This condition of mind may obtain in both sexes; as a result of too free, and also especially too infrequent indulgence; or, excessive abstemiousness. Hence Conium becomes a good remedy for old bachelors and old maids. If the vertigo is also present in such cases Conium is sure to be of great benefit.

Intermittent flow of urine is very characteristic (Clematis). One might think that this was owing to a paralytic condition of the bladder. I don't know; but I do know that the symptom often occurs in the hypertrophy of the prostate gland incident to old age and Conium helps. "Sweats day or night; as soon as one sleeps or even when closing the eyes," is a characteristic found under no other remedy that I know of. (Reverse Sambucus).

Dr. Adolph Lippe once made a splendid cure of complete one-sided paralysis in a man 80 years of age with this remedy, and was guided to it by this symptom. I think it would be rather a difficult task to give a correct pathological explanation of such a symptom; but there is a reason, and whether we can give it or not we can cure it if we have a corresponding one appearing under a remedy; where a cure is at all possible.

It is interesting to follow out the connections of symptoms.

Take for instance the single prominent symptom of Conium, vertigo.

Vertigo on turning the head, Con., Calc. ost., Kali c.

Vertigo on moving the head, Bry., Calc. ost., Con.

Vertigo on looking up, Puls., Silic.

Vertigo on looking down, Phos., Spig., Sulph.

Vertigo from odor of flowers, Nux v., Phos.

Vertigo on watching, or loss of sleep, Cocc., Nux vom.

Vertigo on the least noise, Therid.

Vertigo while walking, Nat. m., Nux v., Phos., Puls.

Vertigo while studying, Nat. m.

Vertigo while or after eating, Grat., Nux v., Puls.

Vertigo as if whirling, Bry. Con., Cyclam., Puls.

Vertigo as if the bed turned, Con.

Vertigo with fainting, Nux vom.

Vertigo with staggering, Arg. nit., Gels., Nux v., Phos.

Vertigo with eyes closed, or in dark, Arg. n., Stram., Therid.

Vertigo with dimness of sight, Cyclam., Gels., Nux v.

Vertigo when rising from seat, Bry., Phos.

Vertigo when rising from stooping, Bellad.

Vertigo when rising from bed., Bry., Chel., Cocc.

Vertigo when stooping, Bell., Nux, Puls., Sulph.

Vertigo when ascending, Calc. ost.

Vertigo when descending, Borax, Ferrum.

Vertigo when lying, Con.

Vertigo must lie down, Bry., Cocc., Phos., Puls.

Vertigo occipital, Gels., Sil., Petrol.

Vertigo after sleep, Lach.

Vertigo after suppressed menses, Cyclam., Puls.

A good understanding of such connection often starts the prescriber in the "short cut" route to the remedy in a case.

Hypochondria and hysteria from suppression of, or from too free an indulgence in, the sexual instinct, with low spiritedness, anxiousness and sadness. Forgetfulness ; excessive difficulty of recollecting things. Dread of men when they approach him ; nevertheless he dreads being alone. Inclination to start, as with fright. Want of disposition to work.

Giddiness when looking around. Intoxication from the smallest quantity of stimulus ; even wine and water in small quantities intoxicates him. Apoplexy with paralysis (in old people). Stupefying headache, first in the forepart of the head, later in the back part, with coryza ; worse in the open air ; relieved on stooping and moving the head. Tearing in the temples and sides of the head, with the sensation as if the brain were gone to sleep ; worse from contact, motion, and after eating ; better in a recumbent position, or while stooping. Lancinating pain, especially in the vertex. Sensation of a great lump in the brain. One-sided headache, with nausea. Headache caused by too small but frequent stools, with tenesmus. Hydrocephalus ; the pains are aggravated when awaking, after eating, in the open air ; ameliorated on external pressure, on lying down, and on closing the eyes.

Sensation of coldness or burning of the eyes in the open air. Aversion to light, inflammation of the eyes. Cataract from contusion. Yellowish color of the eyes. Things look red. Shortsightedness.

Stitches in and around the em. Accumulation of ear-wax looking like decayed paper or blood-red ; hardness of hearing, ceasing when the wax is removed and returning with the wax. Great and painful sensitiveness of hearing. Roaring and humming in ears. Induration of the parotid gland.

Excessively acute smell. Purulent discharge from the nose. Frequent bleeding from the now (when sneezing). Sickly and pale complexion ; purple bloated face. Heat in the face. Stinging, tearing faceache (at night). Moist and spreading herpes in the face. Cancer of the lips (from the pressure of the pipe). Dry and scaly lips.

Drawing, Extending from the jaws to the ears and heed. Gnashing of the teeth. Toothache in a hollow tooth when eating anything cold. Gums swollen, blue-red, bleed readily. Stiff, swollen, painful tongue ; dry tongue. Involuntary deglutition, especially when walking in the wind. Violent ptyalism. Pressure in the œsophagus, as if a round body (globus hystericus) were ascending from the stomach. Spasmodic constriction of the throat.

Nausea as soon as food is taken. Nausea and vomiting during pregnancy. Great desire for coffee, for salt food and acids. After taking milk sensation of inflation of the abdomen. Suppressed eructations, with subsequent pain in the stomach. Sensation of soreness and rawness of the stomach and of the abdomen when walking on the stones. Spasmodic pains in the stomach. Hardness of the abdomen from swelling of the mesenteric glands. Lancinations in the abdomen, as if knives were plunged in ; stitches in the spleen. Emission of cold flatulence ; rumbling and grumbling in the abdomen.

Constipation, with ineffectual desire for stool ; constant urging, without stool. Hard stool, with tenesmus (headache ; discharge of prostatic fluid). During stool burning in the rectum. After stool tremulous weakness. Frequent stitches in the anus. Heat in the lower part of the rectum. Diarrhœa ; stools undigested, with colic ; very debilitating. Involuntary discharge of fæces during sleep.

Strangury. The flow of urine suddenly stops, and continues after a short interruption. Urine thick, white and turbid ; bloody. Diabetes, accompanied by great pain. While urinating, cutting pain in the urethra. After urinating, burning in the urethra (in the morning) ; pressure in the neck of the bladder, with stitches ; worse when walking, better when sitting. Pressure on the bladder. Frequent micturition, during the night ; the urine cannot be retained.

Men. Impotence ; insufficient erections. Excessive pollutions. Discharge of prostatic juice, while expelling the fæces, during every emotion. Swelling of the testes (after contusion). Women. Menstruation too early and too scanty. Painful abdominal spasms during the menses. Suppressed menstruation (with barrenness). Acrid burning leucorrhœa, preceded by pinching pains in the abdomen. Inflammation of the mammæ, with stitches ; scirrhus of the mamma after contusion.

Shortness of breathing when walking ; suffocative attacks ; oppressed breathing, in the morning, when waking. Stitches in the chest (sternum). Violent spasmodic nightly cough (hooping-cough), caused by itching in the chest and throat, or from a small dry spot in the larynx, without expectoration at night, and difficult, bloody, purulent, offensive expectoration during the day. Cough during pregnancy. Aggravation at night, when lying down ; from acids and salt food. Cough relieves the tightness of the chest. Arouse cough, with inability to expectorate ; he must swallow what he coughs up. Cough, with pain in the abdomen.

Pain, as from a sprain in the left side of the back and neck.

Upper. Humid letters on the forepart of the arms. The shoulder feels as if bruised and sore. Cracking in the wrist joint. Lower. Red spots on the calves, which turn yellow or green, as from contusion, preventing movement. Cracking of the knee joint. From a slight exposure of the feet he catches cold.

Sensation of debility in the morning, in bed. Sudden loss of strength while walking. Hysterical and hypochondriacal attacks.

Sleepiness in the daytime and early in the evening.

Pulse irregular ; generally slow and full, alternating with small and frequent heats. Coldness and chilliness in the morning and forenoon. Chilliness, with desire for heat, especially the sunshine. Heat internally and externally, with great nervousness. Heat, with profuse perspiration. Perspiration day and night, as soon as one closes the eyes and goes to sleep. Perspiration at night and in the morning, smelling offensively, and causing biting on the skin.

Swelling of the glands, with tingling and stitches after contusions and bruises. Humid tetters. Blackish ulcers, with bloody, fœtid, ichorous discharges, especially after contusions. Petechiæ (in old persons). Urticaria, from violent bodily exercise.

Especially suitable for old men. Most symptoms appear while at rest, especially at night and in periodical attacks ; some, when walking in the open air. Bad effects from suppressed sexual desire, or from excessive indulgence. The glands are much affected by contusions and bruises ; hard swelling. Aggravation, during eating, while standing, while lying down (cough), while at rest, when lifting the affected part, from masturbation. Amelioration in the dark ; from letting the affected limb hang down, from moving, when walking.

Conium Maculatum. Poison Hemlock. N. O. Umbelliferæ. Tincture of fresh plant in flower.

Asthma. Bladder, inflammation of. Breast, affections of ; painful. Bronchitis. Bruises. Cancer. Cataract . Chorea. Cough. Depression of spirits . Diphtheritic paralysis. Dysmenia (membranous). Erysipelas. Eyes, affections of . Galactorrhœa. Herpes. Hypochondriasis . Jaundice. Liver, enlarged. Melancholia. Menstruation, disordered. Numbness. Ovaries, affections of. Paralysis ; Landry's. Peritonitis. Phthisis. Pregnancy, painful breasts during. Prostatitis. Ptoses. Scrofula. Spermatorrhœa. Sterility . Stomach, affections of. Testicles, affections of . Tetters. Trismus. Tumours. Ulcers. Vertigo . Vision, disordered. Wens .

According to Hahnemann Con . is one of those drugs of which it is exceedingly difficult to distinguish the primary and secondary effects. He thinks, nevertheless, that the primary action is one of "rigidity, condensation, and constriction of the fibres, with swelling of the glands and diminution of the senses." In this Teste concurs, adding that the action is primarily inflammatory, and that this accounts for its suitability for "persons of a lively, quick, sanguine disposition, with a marked development of the glandular system;" and explains why it is characteristically adapted to painful glandular affections, "principally such as result from a strain or blow, but the precise cause of which may have escaped our recollection." Teste places Con . at the head of the analogues of Acon . It is to the glands and capillary system what Acon . is to the heart and arterial system. In many cases Con . may be regarded as the " Aconite of chronic diseases ." The other Aconite analogues, according to this author, are Cham., Seneg., Canth ., and Phos. ac. Con . corresponds to chronic or subacute inflammation with sanguineous engorgement of the parenchyma, induration, and even subsequent ulceration of the tissues. Thuja represents the slow and progressive hypertrophy of certain tissues, certain constituents of our organs. Stoerck used Conium in his heroic fashion and made with it some notable cures of scirrhous tumours, ulcerating and otherwise; but it was Hahnemann who first showed how the remedy could be used safely as well as effectively. Guernsey writes: "This remedy is characterised 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 appear 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, again stops," &c. Nash illustrates the modality: < by moving the head. He thinks "turning the head sideways" is the most characteristic form of it. Some give it as "Lying down in bed and turning over," but he regards the "lying down" as the least important part. He cured a patient who had all the symptoms of locomotor ataxy, and who could not, when walking, turn the head the least bit sideways without staggering or falling. A case of lumbago was cured with Con . in six days, after seven months' suffering, this symptom being present: Cannot turn over in bed without being dizzy. < Ascending; by exercise. — Feeling of ball pressing into back over left hip, pain shooting clown left leg, ending in a spot that felt as though pricked by a bunch of hot needles. Under "Sensations" Guernsey gives these: "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; the body has very little sensation. Darting from within outwards, in the bones; tension in inner parts, also in outer parts; pricking in the bones." Another symptom is "yellow nails." Proell ( H. R ., xxx. 541) mentions a use of Con . which illustrates the symptom: "Interrupted flow." He has had excellent results with Con . 10 in strangury and ischuria, when the urine cannot be discharged, from nervousness, or swelling of the prostate. ( Nat. sul . 5 trit. was effective where the bladder could not be entirely emptied.) Con . has a very marked action on the pelvic organs. Constipation is very pronounced; or there may be diarrhœa. Faintness after stool. Burning, or coldness, in the rectum. Sircar has recorded ( Calcutta J. of Med ., May, 1896) a striking case illustrating the latter. A patient had severe diarrhœa, for which the doctor was about to give Sulph ., when he asked if the stools were hot. "On the contrary, they are cold ," replied the patient. Sircar found "cold flatulence" under Con ., and gave it on analogy with brilliant effect. On the sexual sphere Con . has profound action, often meeting quite contradictory conditions — hypertrophy or atrophy of glands; excess of function or abrogation. "Unsatisfied sexual desire" is a very leading indication; and sufferings therefrom in either sex are effectually allayed by Con . I have used the remedy with very great good in numberless cases of weakness from masturbation in men and youths. "Emission on the slightest stimulus, such as merely being in the society of a woman," is very typical. Many "engaged" young men have been helped by the remedy. It corresponds more to scanty menses than the opposite. Goodno ( Hoyne's Theurapeutics — Amer. Hom ., xxi. 386) cured a girl of 25 of severe dysmenia (which had existed since the periods commenced) with scanty, almost arrested flow. She had also epistaxis, cough, and stitches through left lung at times. Two years previously, after unusual excitement, she had bearing-down pains, prolapse, and anteversion. The dysmenia pains were relieved by Sepia and other remedies, but prolapse increased, with bearing-down as though the womb would be forced from vulva, < standing and walking before and during menses; intermittent flow of urine, with cutting after micturition obstinate constipation of long standing; stool (once in seven days) large, hard, followed by tremulous weakness; she must lie down; dull pain below left mamma. Prompt relief and speedy cure were effected by Con . 1m. Scanty menses (especially in old maids) is an indication. Checked lochia. Pains in breast before menses, < by every step, is a strong indication for Con . Also all effects of hurts to the breast by falls or blows. After a blow on the breast a course of Con . should always be given. Nash mentions another characteristic of Con .: "Sweats day or night; as soon as one sleeps, or even on closing the eyes." This enabled Lippe to cure a man of 80 of hemiplegia. R. C. Markham cured with Con . 1m. an obstinate cough, dry, hard, frequent, with asthmatic wheezing or fine rattling in chest on deep breathing, < slightest exposure to cold air; getting into cold bed, or out of a warm one, or even putting arms out was sufficient to bring on severe coughing. The guiding symptom which appeared last and led to the remedy was this: "Pain in the apex of left lung, with soreness in a small spot, midway between neck and shoulder just back of clavicle. The pain, cutting and stitchlike, ran downward and inward toward the sternum . A. H. Birdsall reports a case of contusion of testicle. He found the patient writhing in agony, the pain complained of being "sharp, cutting, running up spermatic cord to lower part of back, and also through scrotum to root of penis". Con . 200 relieved in five minutes, and at the end of twenty minutes the pain was gone ( H. P ., ix. 190.) Conium corresponds to: light-haired persons; old persons; old, feeble men; old maids and bachelors; women of rigid fibre and easily excited, and also to those of the opposite temperament; persons of strong, sedentary habit more than to lively, slender persons and children; persons who are easily intoxicated with stimulants; women who have scanty menses; scrofulous constitutions; cancers and glandular enlargements. The effects of blows or falls; effects of grief; of over study. Patients who are < when idle. Conium is said to have been, and almost certainly was, the poison with which Socrates was executed; and whether or not this was the case ascending paralysis, which occurred in his poisoning, is an indication for Conium . Benumbed sensation; inability to sustain mental effort; weak memory; tired sensation in brain; imbecility. Hot spots on head. Erysipelas, pain piercing to brain. Red vision. Weakness; tremulousness and palpitation after every evacuation. Sensation of unreality, as if in a dream. Insanity, periodical or alternating. Vertigo < on turning in bed. Accumulation of earwax. Craving for salt, coffee, and sour things. There is the same flatulent tendency as with Ammoniac and Asafœtida , its relatives. Numbness and deadness of limbs. Stabbing pains are a great indication for Conium . Weak-spells; faintness; sudden loss of strength while walking. Paroxysms of hysteria and hypochondriasis from abstinence from sexual intercourse. In phthisis patients cannot expectorate, must swallow sputa. The eye symptoms are very pronounced: photophobia; ptosis, &c. These symptoms are < night and early morning. Most symptoms appear when at rest, especially in the night and in periodical attacks; some when walking in the open air. < During eating; while standing; while lying down (cough); when at rest, when lifting the affected part; when turning in bed (vertigo) moving the head ever so little; turning head sideways. > In the dark; from letting the affected limb hang down; from moving; when walking; by stooping. Aversion to open air. Desire for warmth, especially that of sun. Liability to take cold from least exposure of feet. Great liability to take cold. Night and morning sweat, with offensive odour and smarting in skin; or offensive odour without sweat. Touch < , cannot bear the pressure of tight clothing. Jar, shock, or fall < .

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Obtuseness of all the senses ; unconsciousness ; wandering about as if half asleep.
Extremely insensible.
Weak memory. θ Vertigo.
Memory enfeebled, likewise the power of correctly expressing one's self ; difficult comprehension.
Forgetfulness ; excessive difficulty of recollecting things, particularly dates.
Dulness, like stupefaction, difficulty in understanding what he reads.
Inability to sustain any mental effort.
Tired, weary sensation in brain, with physical as well as nervous prostration.
Sensation in forehead or front part of brain like an inability to fix the mind on any subject ; loses hold of the idea and gets confused.
Buried in thought ; apprehensive respecting the present or future.
Insanity of a periodical or alternating type.
Imbecility more frequent than insanity.
Inclined to cry, sobs aloud when alone.
Likes to wear his best clothes, makes useless purchases, cares very little for things, wastes or ruins them ; does not want to work, prefers to play.
Picks his nose, which bleeds easily ; or picks his fingers ; lies in bed most of the time ; does not like to answer questions.
Involuntary laughing and weeping.
Dislike to society and yet a dread to be alone. θ Hysteria.
He is averse to being near people, and to the talk of those passing him ; is inclined to seize hold of and abuse them.
Patient averse to talking, dressing himself, taking food or seeing her children ; spleen enlarged. θ Melancholia.
Disinclination for business.
Mood serious ; unsympathizing, from indolence.
Complete indifference ; takes no interest in anything, particularly walking in open air. θ Hypochondriasis.
Great depression of spirits preceding menstrual period.
Alternate fits of silent depression and quarrelsome liveliness. θ Mania.
Sad and gloomy for days, then excited.
Great unhappiness of mind, recurring every fourteen days.
Easily disturbed by trifles, moved to tears ; anxious.
Solicitude concerning the future ; great concern about any little thing that may happen.
Hypochondriasis and hysteria from suppression of, or too free indulgence in, sexual instinct, with low-spiritedness, anxiety and sadness.
Hypochondriasis with suppression of menses.
Great anxiety ; precordial anguish ; superstitious and full of fear, with frequent thoughts of death ; loss of memory.
Discouraged, despondent, and dissatisfied with herself and her surroundings.
Timid, cannot be persuaded to work ; want of proper will.
Irritable, gets out of temper easily, and then his sight gets blurred, and face becomes pale. θ Anemia of brain.
Very ill-humored in afternoon, from 5 to 6, as though a great grief weighed upon him, with paralyzed feeling in all the limbs, indifference and taking no interest in anything.
Morose mood ; everything about him impresses him unpleasantly.
She feels peevish, vexed and easily put out about trifles.
Very much excited, passionate, domineering, quarrelsome, scolds and will not bear contradiction.
Inclination to start, as with fright.
Cannot endure any kind of excitement, it brings on physical and mental depression, with weakness.
Ailments from grief.
Worse when idle.

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This medicine is a deep, long acting antipsoric, establishing a state of disorder in the economy that is so far reaching and so long lasting that it disturbs almost all the tissues of the body.

The complaints are brought on from taking cold, and the glands become affected all over the body. From every little cold the glands become hard and. sore. Infiltration in deep-seated diseases in the region of ulcers and in the region of inflamed parts; in the glands along the course of the lymphatics, so we get a chain like knots.

The glands under the arm inflame and ulcerate. The glands in the neck, in the groin and abdomen become enlarged. Ulcerated parts indurate. An abscess of the breast becomes surrounded by lumps and nodules. Nodules in the breast even where milk has not yet formed; lumps and nodules, indurations and enlarged glands form under the skin all over the body.

Conium has been used extensively for malignant affections of glands, because it takes hold of glands from the beginning and infiltrates, and they gradually grows a stony hardness, like scirrhus.

Now, another grand feature running through this remedy is the action upon the nerves.

Trembling, jerking of the muscles and twitching from the weakness of the nerves. Inability to stand any physical effort without great exhaustion.

Gradually growing paralytic weakness, somewhat as was described in Cocculus. Exhaustion of body and mind, that is a general slowing down of all the activities of the body. The liver becomes indurated, sluggish, enlarged. The bladder is weak, can expel only a part of the urine. Or sometimes there is a paralytic condition and no expulsive power. This shows that the remedy increases toward a paralytic weakness.

Hysteria. Hypochondriacal state of mind, with the nervousness, trembling and weakness of the muscles. He gets tired in the earlier stages, but finally this goes on until the limbs are paralytic.

A great many of the complaints are painless. The ulcers and the paralytic conditions are painless. Great physical and mental debility; great prostration of the muscular system; exhaustion, tremulous weakness.

Paralysis of the legs and hip. Mental symptoms, nervous symptoms, trembling, in widows and widowers who have suddenly been deprived of their sexual relations.

When in a state of considerable vigor, if suddenly deprived, the woman or the man takes on a state of trembling weakness, inability to stand any mental effort, and inability to put the attention upon things said by others.

Not so marked or not so common in the woman as in the man. When this state comes on in a woman who is of unusual sexual vigor there may be severe congestion of the uterus and ovaries, Apis is more likely to fit her symptoms than Conium. But with hysteria and excitability Conium is often the remedy. Many of its symptoms come about from such a cause.

Conium has such a deep action that it gradually brings about a state of imbecility. The mind gives out. The mind at first becomes tired like the muscles of the body. Unable to sustain any mental effort. The memory is weak.

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Especially suitable for diseases of old men, old maids; women with rigid muscles; persons with light hair who are easily excited; strong persons of sedentary habits.

Debility of old people; complaints caused by a blow or fall; cancerous and scrofulous persons with enlarged glands; com- plaints during and after climacteric.

No inclination for business or study; indolent, indifferent, takes no interest in anything.

Memory weak, unable to sustain any mental effort.

Morose; easily vexed; domineering, quarrelsome, scolds, will not bear contradiction (Aur.); excitement of any kind causes mental depression.

Dreads being alone, but avoids society (Bis., Kali c., Lyc.).

Vertigo : particularly when lying down or turning in bed. Moving the head or the eyes even slightly ; on turning the head to the left (Col.) ; of old people ; with ovarian or uterine ailments.

Menses : feeble, suppressed ; too late, scanty, of short duration ; with rash of small red pimples over body which ceases with the flow (Dul.) ; stopped by taking cold ; by putting hands in cold water (Lac d.).

Leucorrhœa : ten days after menses (Bor., Bov.) ; acrid ; bloody ; milky ; profuse ; thick ; intermits.

Bad effects : of suppressed sexual desire, or suppressed menses ; non-gratification of sexual instinct, or from excessive indulgence.

Glandular indurations of stony hardness ; of mammæ and testicles in persons of cancerous tendency ; after injuries of glands (Ast. r.).

Breasts sore, hard and painful during menstrual period (Lac c.) ; hysterical symptoms and vertigo increased.

Cough : in spasmodic paroxysms, caused by dry spot in larynx (dry spot in throat, Actea) ; itching in chest and throat (Iod.) ; worse at night ; when lying down ; during pregnancy (Caust., Kali br.).

Great difficulty in voiding urine ; flow intermits, then flows again ; prostatic or uterine affections.

At night; lying down; cold air; rising in bed.

In the dark; moving; when walking.

Quotidian; simple.

4 or 5 A. M.—3 to 5 P. M. Very ill humored from 5 to 6 P. M.

With trembling in all the limbs, and constant desire for warmth, especially for heat of sun (for heat of stove, Lach.— relieved by covering up, Nux, Rhus—warm air seems cold, Thuja). Chilliness in the back, with cold hands and blue nails. Internal chill in the morning; with shivering in the afternoon. Extremities and whole body were icy cold. Shivering over the whole body.

With thirst, and redness of the face. Great internal and external heat, with great nervousness. Heat, with profuse sweat at same time. Uneasy sleep, great trembling, and short, rapid, snoring respiration.

Day and night, as soon as he sleeps, even when closing the eyes (sweats when awake, dry heat when he sleeps, Samb.). Sweat over whole body, with redness of face. Sweat while sitting in a chair and dozing. Night sweat with offensive odor; smarting the skin (Canth.). Profuse sweat on limbs, perineum, genitals (Hep., Thuja). “Eruption during sweat” (what kind?).

Stiff and painful; taste bitter; saliva thready; lips and tongue dry and sticky (Nux m.). Craves coffee, salt, or sour things.

Pulse: slow and full or small and quick; pulsation in blood vessels of the whole body.

Complete; sometimes with vertigo on lying down.

Chill; with desire for heat of sun.

Heat; with profuse sweat at same time.

Sweat; as soon as he sleeps (Cinch.), even closing the eyes.

If the mental, urinary, or menstrual symptoms or the vertigo be present, the case is clear.

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 hyperæmia.

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.
Otorrhœa 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 œsophagus, as if a round body (globus hystericus) were ascending from the stomach.

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

Sour rising from the stomach, after eating.
Cold eating: 10. After eating: 17. Cold drink: 10. After drinking: 10.
After taking small quantity of milk, sudden distention of the abdomen.

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

Motion downwards: 2. Walking: 2, 5, 28, 33, 34, 36. Walking in open air: 1. Rising: 2. Standing: 31. Turning in bed: 2. Preventing motion: 33. Inclined to sit: 36. Knee-elbow position: 17. Lying down: 2, 3, 27, 36. Sitting: 28.

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.

Morning: 3, 21, 36, 37, 40. Noon: 3. Afternoon: 40. Evening: 1, 27. Night: 8, 17, 21, 24, 27, 37, 40, 47. Day: 27, 47.

Desire for warmth of sun: 40. Open air: 1. Wet weather: 26.

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.

Right: 3, 18, 19, 24, 28, 33. Left: 23, 24. Both sides: 23. Right to left: 5. In out: 3. Above downwards: 23. Below upwards: 13, 19. Front back wards: 17, 28.

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 leucorrhœa.

Touch: 23, 24. Pressure: 9, 28, 30. Contusions: 44, 46.

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. (mammæ), 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.

A tincture is made of the entire fresh plant of Conium maculatum, L.

It produces paralysis of voluntary motion, then of respiration. ▶ The brain is benumbed, vertigo, dilated pupils, and even convulsions follow.

Phos., Gels., Lyc., Hyosc., Curare, Arg. nit.

Concealed caries, especially in middle of long bones, with burning gnawing. ▶ Haste in all his actions. ▶ Clumsy movements. ▶ Walking about as if half asleep. ▶ Lay as one intoxicated, could not speak nor raise himself. ▶ Trembling (Gels.); agg. of arms, with throbbing motion of whole body. ▶ Starting at every sound; jerklike S., as in fright. ▶ Constant tossing about and violent screams. ▶ Subsultus tendinum (Hyosc.). ▶ Convulsions; with danger of suffocation; with uneasiness and wild fancies; of upper part of body, with paralysis of lower limbs; of facial muscles, so that there was a frightful expression, with frequent contractions of other muscles, agg. extensors of back and flexors of limbs, with motion of thumb and index as if unwinding a skein of thread. ▶ Epilepsy, distortion of eyes, flow of blood from ears, jaws could not be opened, ineffectual retching, singultus. ▶ Epilepti-form attack, with contraction of all muscles. ▶ Hysterical attack; with spasmodic motions.

Sticking in whole body; in swollen glands; now in cardiac region, now in hands, head and legs, with tearings; smarting S. about swollen glands; tearing now here, now there, as if to the bones. ▶ Tearings through various parts; wandering in arms, legs and teeth. ▶ Cutting around glands. ▶ Paroxysm, agg. after eating, beginning with yawning, sticking in sternum whence it extended to the back and became a sticking in region of kidneys. ▶ Cramplike pain in various parts, chest jaws, etc. ▶ Pain in affected parts became intolerable. ▶ Pain in a place injured several years previously. ▶ Bruised sensation. ▶ Contractive sensation in inner parts, with salivation. ▶ Fulness in chest, head and hypochondria, mornings on waking. ▶ Easily overstrained. ▶ Liability to take cold; even in the room when sitting after a walk, during which he had perspired. ▶ Uneasiness; of blood in the whole body. ▶ Pulsation in whole body. ▶ Feeling as if the whole body were inclined to the right.

Disinclination to work. ▶ Standing is very irksome. ▶ Every step was irksome on returning from a walk, with ill humor and impatience for the time when he could rest in solitude. ▶ Nervous prostration. ▶ Relaxation of muscles and limbs, then difficulty in walking and inability to control movements, necessity to lie down. ▶ Weakness; morning and evening; morning on waking, amel. rising; morning after waking, as after a fever; morning fasting, with aversion to food; morning in bed, and sickness, with ill from midday nap; after eating; on walking (Ars., Phos.), with tendency to fall forward on knees, heaviness over eyes and giddiness; after a walk, with paralyzed feeling and fretful, hypochondriac mood; from walking in open air and affected by the air; with desire to lie down; with chilliness, palpitation and headache; with chilliness, so that he must lie down, next day occiput felt as if pierced by a knife at every beat of the pulse, and palpitation, heart throbbing violently at times at times beating rapidly, at times wavering; of head and whole body, with loss of appetite; tremulous weakness after stool (Arg. n., Ars.), amel. open air. ▶ Faintness. ▶ Heaviness in afternoon, with unsteadiness. ▶ Dullness of all senses. ▶ Stiffness, movement of limbs, neck, etc., caused unpleasant sensation. ▶ Paralysis; of all muscles (Gels.), those of deglutition being the first, and those of respiration the last to fail. ▶ Aggravation at night, waking him; agg. during rest; when sitting; in the house. ▶ Amelioration at night.

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It produces paralysis of voluntary motion, then of respiration.
The brain is benumbed; vertigo, dilated pupils and even convulsions follow.

Trembling, especially of the arms.
Convulsions, with danger of suffocation.
Great weakness and loss of power, even to paralysis.
Sudden giving-way of muscles when walking.
Takes cold easily.
Easily overstrained.
Relaxation of all the muscles in the legs, and difficulty in walking; cannot control movements, must lie down.
On walking, a tendency to fall forward on the knees, with heaviness, giddiness.
Tremulous weakness, especially after stool, > open air.
Dullness of all the senses.
General aggravation at night and during rest.

General aversion to being with people, and yet afraid of being alone.
Frightened at night.
Inability to sustain mental effort.
Mental operations are slow and difficult; stupidity; difficulty in understanding what is read.
Loss of memory.

Clinical:
Melancholy; quiet, sad, picks his fingers, makes short answers; or this condition alternates with excessive gayety.
Hypochondriasis, especially resulting from excessive venery.
Averse to people, yet dislikes to be alone.
Melancholia, resulting from suppression of menses; aversion to members of her own family.
General mental weakness; inability to get the mind fixed on his business or to stand any prolonged mental effort.

Headache in the morning, as if head were too full and would burst.
A general feeling of heaviness.
Vertigo in the morning on rising, or on walking.
Paroxysms of tearing pains in the head, with nausea.
Sensation of a large foreign body in the right half of the brain.
One side of the head feels numb and cold.
Brain seems very sensitive to noise.

Clinical:
Vertigo is a common accompaniment of the Conium condition; especially aggravated on motion, such as turning over in bed or rising up; this vertigo is sometimes accompanied by partial paralysis of the muscles of the eye, or objects seem to be unsteady; especially indicated in vertigo of old people; vertigo resulting from excessive use of tobacco.
With the head symptoms the brain is frequently extremely sensitive, with feeling of a hard lump in the brain, or of numbness or coldness in the head or one side of the head.

Burning in the eyes in the open air, or a feeling of coldness.
Aching in the eyes when reading.
Lids seem pressed down and heavy, almost like a sleepiness.
Burning on the inner surface of the lids.
Vision weak, with dazzling, vertigo and general debility; legs will not support him.
Power of accommodation very much impaired or lost.
Vision double.

Clinical:
Valuable for partial or complete paralysis of the ocular muscles, especially of the internal rectus; the attempt to fix the eyes upon any object seems painful and may even cause vertigo, hence many symptoms, of letters running together, vanishing of vision, etc.
This drug is very valuable in numerous forms of scrofulous ophthalmia, in a general way indicated by extreme photophobia, greater than the apparent inflammation would warrant.
There is general aggravation at night on lying down, especially of ulcers of the cornea.
Adapted to old people; it has proved beneficial in cataract when the above symptoms were present.

Tearing, sticking pains in the ears and about them.
The ears feel stopped, with more or less roaring in the ears.
An unusual accumulation of blood-red wax in the ears.
At times the hearing becomes painfully acute.

Smell particularly sensitive.

Clinical:
The patient is inclined to pick at his nose, which bleeds easily and becomes sore (in melancholia).
It has been prescribed for polypus of the nose.
Purulent discharge from the nose.

Heat of the face.
Face puffy, pale blue.
Tearing pains through the face, especially at night.

Drawing pains in the hollow teeth, < cold food.
Speech difficult.
Articulation imperfect.
Bitter taste.
Tongue swollen, stiff or painful.

Irritation, provoking hacking cough.

Loss of appetite.
Empty eructations.
Sour eructations after eating.
Offensive eructations.
Efforts to vomit, with entire loss of appetite.
Nausea from all food.
Constrictive pain in the epigastric region, gradually extending to left side of abdomen, with nausea.
Pain in the pit of the stomach, extending to throat, as if a ball rose up.
A feeling of soreness in the stomach.
A feeling of distention of the stomach and upper abdomen after taking milk.

Clinical:
Gastralgia, especially with spasmodic cough (stomach cough).
Sometimes spasmodic constriction of stomach and œsophagus, as if a round body ascended from the stomach.
The symptoms of pain, of vomiting, etc., have led to the use of Conium in cancer of the stomach and liver.

Tremulous feeling in the abdomen.
Cutting pains.
Sticking pain in the region of the liver, or under the ribs both sides, < motion; < at night when lying down and on inspiration.
Tearing pains in the hepatic region.
Constriction of the hypochondria as from a band.

Clinical:
Hard swellings of the liver have been cured (note the sticking, tearing pains in the hepatic region).
Enlarged mesenteric glands and tumors in the abdomen have been treated successfully (note the great sensitiveness of the abdomen, the swelling and the character of the pain, knifelike).

Heat in the lower part of the rectum; also during stool.
Sticking pains in the anus when not at stool.
Diarrhœa watery, frequent, with many empty eructations and copious urine.
Involuntary stools during sleep.
Constipation, with ineffectual straining.

Clinical:
Chronic diarrhœa of old people, with tremulous weakness; discharges sometimes involuntary; specially indicated by the symptoms that the flow of urine is intermittent.
In obstinate constipation, especially if it sometimes alternates with diarrhœa, the stool followed by tremulous weakness.
Evacuations of undigested food, with colic.
Useful for the diarrhœa of pregnant women.

Micturition frequent at night; sometimes involuntary, or with dribbling after micturition.
A burning in the urethra during and after micturition in the morning.
Cutting in the urethra when urinating.
Urine turbid, whitish and thick.
Urine bloody.
Micturition frequent at night.
A feeling of pressure on the bladder.

Lack of sexual power, with exaggerated sexual desire.
Erections incomplete; of very short duration.
Excessive emissions.
Emissions on the slightest sexual provocation.
Emissions without sexual dreams.

Menstruation too early, but scanty; sometimes suppressed.
During menstruation, painful cramps in the abdomen.
Irritation in the vagina, deep.
Leucorrhœa follows menstruation, preceded by colic; accompanied by weakness and paralyzed sensation in small of back and weakness; consisting of white, acrid, burning mucus, or sometimes thick and milky; with contractive, labor-like pains from both sides.

Clinical:
Useful in the bad effects following excessive venery, sexual weakness or impotence; flow of prostatic fluid, with constipated stool or on the slightest motion.
Enlarged testicles, which are very hard, especially following injuries.
It also has been found useful for the sexual nervousness of strong, healthy men, who are unable to have an erection.
In both sexes useful for the effects of suppressed sexual appetite; for instance, collapse, hysteria, melancholy, etc.
Uterine polypi.
Uterine hæmorrhages, with pain in the uterine region, running down thighs, etc.
Dysmenorrhœa; menstruation too scanty and too early.
Numerous accompaniments of the menses; gastric or mental symptoms.
Pruritus of the vagina and pudenda following the menses; excessive hyperæsthesia of the genital organs, especially in suppression of menses.
Useful in various indurations and tumors in sexual organs, especially in the cervix; particularly with burning, stinging or knifelike pains.
Leucorrhœa following the menses, excoriating and burning; sometimes bland in children.
Mammary glands indurated, with sharp, knifelike pain.
Numerous symptoms of the mammary glands preceding the menses, viz: swelling, sharp pain; aggravation of the tumors at the menstrual period.

Tickling in the larynx as from a dry spot, which causes almost constant dry cough.
Scraping in the larynx, with irritation to cough, and dry cough in the evening.
Cough on first lying down, day and night; must sit up and cough, after which he has rest.
Cough < lying down; almost constant before going to bed.
Cough sometimes loosens something, but it cannot be expectorated until later.
Suffocative cough, with flushes of redness in the face.

Clinical:
Very valuable for tormenting night cough of old people; it is usually dry; they can expectorate a little only after coughing a long time; the cough is caused by a dry spot in the larynx, aggravated on lying down at night; is accompanied by suffocative attacks; the usual indication is that the patient is unable to expectorate the little mucus which seems to be loosened, it must be swallowed.
Asthma in old people.
Stomach cough; it seems as if the cough came from the abdomen; he must hold the body tight.
Occasionally whooping cough.
Irritation, reflex cough of pregnancy.
Whooping cough when the spasms occur at night.

Sharp thrusts in the sternum, extending to the spine.
Sticking pains in the mammary glands on every inspiration when walking; > hard pressure.
Indurations in the right mammary gland, painful to touch, with sticking pains at night.
Clothes lie like a weight on the chest and shoulders.
Dyspnœa in the morning on waking.
Shortness of breath when walking.

Palpitation after drinking; after stool; intermittent.

Pain as from a sprain on the left side.
Pain beneath the scapulæ.
Sticking pains in the small of the back when standing, with drawing pains through the lumbar vertebræ.

Clinical:
Cervical glands enlarged and very hard.
At times with stinging pains.

Trembling of all the extremities.
Heaviness and weariness.
Paralyzed feeling; difficulty in using the limbs, hands unsteady; the legs tremble when attempting to use them.
Numbness of the fingers and toes, looking as if dead.
Piercing and tearing pains in the extremities and joints.

Stinging and itching in the skin.
Eruption like a nettlerash, especially after violent motion.
Pale yellow spots, sometimes petechiæ.

CONIUM MACULATUM. HEMLOCK. [*].

[*] The juice freshly pressed from the whole herb, just as it has begun to bloom, is mixed with an equal quantity of alcohol. As is done in Homœopathy with all the plant-juices which are preserved from corruption in this manner, two drops of this mixture are dropped into a vial which is filled two-thirds full with 100 drops of alcohol ; it is well-stopped and shaken with ten strokes of the arm. One drop is then further diluted through twenty-nine other such vials (each containing 100 drops of alcohol), and each attenuation is thus potentized by ten succussive strokes to the decillionth (X) dynamization. But instead of this we might also triturate two grains of the fresh leaves of this plant with sugar of milk to the millionth powder attenuation, within three hours, and then, dissolving this preparation, potentize it further.

The considerable medicinal power of this plant may easily be concluded from what was published in the years 1700-1779, by Stoerkand his many imitators in numerous books, concerning the great results obtained from Conium maculatum. But frequently as its wonderful help was proved, at least in the beginning, by its use in the most horrible diseases, just as often, yea far oftener, its use in the favorite large doses, frequently repeated, has done harm, frequently irretrievable harm, and killed not a few men. - The riddle thus presented by so many startling experiences, sometimes so joyous, and then again so sad, with observers mostly honest, who nevertheless contradicted each other in such down-right fashion, could only be solved by Homœopathy in these latter days. For Homœopathy has first shown, that in order to use heroic medicines in a beneficent manner, and thus really to heal, we must not (as has hitherto been done) assault any unknown disease straightway with frequent doses as large as practicable of a violent unknown remedy, but "that after previously fully proving and investigating the peculiar virtues of a medicine on healthy men the remedy must then be used only in morbid states, the symptoms of which have great similarity with those of the medicine ; and this must be done by means of the minutest doses of the higher and highest attenuations, prepared by appropriate dynamization." - This contrasts, indeed, greatly with the doses of that time which were increased even to 140 grains of the thickened juice (extract), or to a wine-glass full of the freshly expressed juice of the hemlock, given, perhaps, six times a day. But then not true Homœopath will miss applying it properly-nor will hundreds of patients be tortured to death with it, as in former days. Those many, terrifying examples prevented me from recognizing sooner in this plant one of the most important antipsoric medicines ; it is only within the last few years that I have given it its rightful place. In order to act beneficially, this remedy must often be preceded by some other antipsoric medicines. It is given in the smallest doses. More or less smelling of the sweet spirits of nitre, and in some cases also a drink of coffee, will moderate the excessive effects of this drug. In healing the diseases for which this medicine is suitable, the following symptoms, more than others, were relieved or removed, even where the complaint appeared in separate paroxysms : Sadness ; hypochondria ; anxiety ; ill-humor and melancholy ; dejection ; irritability ; timidity ; inclination to peevishness ; indisposition to work, forgetfulness and weakness of the head ; vertigo, when looking around, as if the patient would fall to one side ; heaviness of the head ; fits of tearing headache, obliging one to lie down ; stitches in the upper part of the head ; long-continued lancinating headache ; falling out of the hair of the head ; itching below the eyes, and on rubbing, smarting, burning ; feeling of coldness in the eyes, on taking a walk ; stye on the eyelid ; short sightedness ; far-sightedness ; dark points and colored streaks before the eyes ; in the room the eyes are dazzled by the daylight ; stitches in the ear ; when taking a walk ; tearing, with stitches in and about the ears ; drawing stitches in the ear outward ; induration of the swollen parotid gland ; accumulation of ear wax ; roaring in the ears ; humming, hissing, sounding and ringing in the ears ; flow of pus from the nose itching in the face ; itching pimples in the face ; tetters, in the face ; eroding ulcers in the face ; heat of the face ; dryness and peeling off of the lips ; drawing pain in sound teeth from taking a walk ; shooting pain in the teeth ; involuntary deglutition ; scraping in the throat ; hawking ; fullness in the pit of the neck, with abortive eructation ; frequent empty eructation, the whole day ; loud eructation, tasting of the ingesta ; heart-burn rising up the throat ; voracious hunger ; bread will not go down, he has no relish for it ; after meals, burning up the fauces ; nausea with pregnant women ; acidity of the stomach, pressure, in the stomach ; stitches in the left hypochondrium ; fullness in the abdomen, in the morning, after awaking ; squeezing contraction of the hypogastrium ; writhing and digging in the umbilical region ; sensation of soreness in the abdomen, when walking on a stone pavement ; obstruction of the flatus ; rumbling and growling in the abdomen ; colic, with discharge of flatus ; constipation, with ineffectual call to stool ; hard stool only every other day ; diarrhœa ; stool coated with blood ; the passage of urine stops suddenly and is only renewed after an interval ; pressure on the bladder, as if the urine would be passed at once ; whitish, turbid, thick urine ; during micturition, cutting in the urethra ; impotence and lack of erections ; insufficient, transient erection ; feeble coitus ; lassitude after coitus ; uterine cramps ; uterine spasms, beginning above the pudenda, distending the whole abdomen, and coming into the chest with stitches of the left side ; pinching and griping in the uterus ; bearing down and stitches in the vagina ; stitches in the labiæ ; itching on the pudenda and inside ; menses too scanty, during the menses, bearing down and drawing in the thigh ; vaginal flow ; smarting, eroding leucorrhœa. Excessive sneezing stoppage of the nostrils ; morning stoppage of the nostrils ; chronic stoppage of the nose for years ; troublesome feeling of dryness of the nose ; cough, especially with scrofulous patients ; shortness of breath in walking ; asthma early on awaking ; morning-asthma ; stitches in the sternum ; jerks in the chest ; pressing and squeezing together over the hips ; tension in the nape ; pain as of soreness in the lowest cervical vertebræ ; the top of the shoulders feel as if pressed sore ; sweat of the palms ; drawing pain in the hips ; weariness in the knees ; cramp in the calves ; coldness of the feet and hands ; the feet are apt to catch cold ; restlessness in the lower limbs ; itching of the skin frequent red itching spots on the body ; brown spots, on the body ; nettle-rash from severe bodily exercise ; inveterate, humid tetter ; restlessness, especially in the lower limbs ; hysterical and hypochondriac paroxysms ; hypochondria from continence in unmarried men ; an attack, where a pricking sensation comes from the stomach and shoots under the left ribs, extending to the back ; stitches here and there, all over the body ; ailments and fatigue from taking a walk ; sudden lassitude while walking ; bruisedness of the limbs ; painfulness of the skin of the body ; lassitude in the whole body, especially in lower limbs, lassitude in the morning in bed ; feeling of illness in all the limbs, as from excessive fatigue ; drowsiness in the daytime ; drowsiness in the evening with closing of the eyelids ; late in falling asleep, in the evening in bed ; sleep full of phantasies ; many dreams at night ; unrefreshing sleep ; nocturnal pains. The abbreviations of the names of those who have furnished contributions to the symptoms subjoined are as follows : Fr., Dr. Franz ; Gr., Dr. Gross ; Lgh., Dr. Langhammer ; Rl., Dr. Rummel ; Wl., Dr. Wislicenus. [*].

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Con. / (Old.) / The Consul.

Conium, with age advancing,
Thou art tremulous and weak,
Finding as thy memory faileth
Mind employment vain to seek.
Giddy thou in bed on turning,
Dizzy oft with dazzled sight,
Drooping lids, and feeble vision
Coupled with a dread of light.
Trembling after defecation
Urine stopping in its flow.
Hath a wife, whose breasts are tender
Just before the monthly show.
Womb and ovary indurated,
Carcinoma of the breast,
Asthma that affects the aged,
Cough on lying down to rest.
Dark peechae of old people,
Liver spots upon the skin,
Ailments caused by gland contusion,
Whence orchitis may set in.
Sick and faint in early morning,
Ebbing low the vital springs,
Worse when resting,- better walking,
Craving salt and acid things.

The Consul,-Has interrupted flow of urine.

The Consul, Clement, is with the Spanish Magnate, Aco Dios.

This Consul,- Who is subject to Photophobia, -Is in the haunts of the gamblers, with Eugene Glo-gel, the Jew, up on the coast of Russia.

Interrupted Flow of Urine- It stops and starts: Con., Clem., Canth., Mag. p., Aco., Dios. (Very painful, Aco., Canth.)

Photophobia-Dread of Light: Con., Hep., Nux v., Thuj., Sul., Graph., Mer., Bell., Euphra., Glo., Gel., Aco., Ars., Pho., Caust., Rhus. (Without inflammation, Con., Ig.)

Indicated in affections of elderly people who have become weak and sluggish; in elderly persons of either sex, especially women at the change of life, who have been continent, but not without desire; in hard tumors and suspicion of cancerous tendency; in all glandular indurations, vertigo. Night-coughs of old people, frequently with gastric pain. According to T. F. Allen, useful in sexual nervousness of strong, healthy men who are unable to have erections.

Vertigo when turning over in bed; when lying down; on turning the head to the left; the contents of the room seem to be whirling around, must keep head perfectly still. From excessive use of tobacco.

Induration of glands (axillary glands, breasts, ovaries, testicles; also of uternine os and cervix) with pain as though bruised; knife-like pain sometimes no pain.

Breast enlarged before and during menstruation with pain.

Ovarian irritation, with sharp, lancinating pains.

Irritation of the eyes, with extraordinary degree of photophobia, out of all proportion to the severity of local symptoms; sensitiveness of eyes to artificial light; after hard night study.

Cough caused by dry spot in larynx, with itching of throat and chest, worse at night.

Extremities weak, trembling, numb; feel as though paralyzed.

Worse at night; when lying down; upon rising up in bed; before and during menses; from ungratified sexual desire.

Confusion of thought and insanity. Weakened power of intellect and memory, very forgetful. Hysteria and hypochondriasis from too violent or unsatisfied sexual indulgence with pensiveness, anxiety and peevishness. Aversion to work. Very ill humored. Anxiety of pregnant women. Anthropophobia, yet fears to be alone. Nightly fearfulness. Indifference.

Whirling when looking around. Intoxication, from the least quantity of spirituous, from the least quantity of spirituous liquors, after walking from siesta and when walking in open air.

Pressive headache. Stupefying ache. Attacks of tearing, gouty pains in temples of side of, with asleep feeling in brain and nausea. Chronic outward stitches, especially in vertex and forehead. Sensation of a large, thick lump in brain (Arn., Coccl., Chel.) Great sensitiveness of brain to noise. Unilateral bruised pain. Hydrocephalus. Falling of hair. Worse: Night, morning, fasting, early on awaking, touch, motion, turning eyes toward affected side, debauch, after a, after eating, talking, after walking from siesta, walking in open air. Better: Stooping, external pressure: lying closing eyes.

Sense of coldness or burning, when, in open air. Itching below. Pressure in, when reading. Gray cataract, after contusions. Daylight dazzles. Myopia. Surrounding objects appear red. Photophobia, without inflammation. Feel pushed out of head.

Tearing and sticking about and in. Roaring and buzzing in. Accumulation of discolored earwax. painfully sensitive hearing.

Purulent discharge from. Excessively acute smell. Persistent stuffed coryza, with obstruction of both nostrils. Sneezing.

Heat of. Pale, bluish, puffy. Itching. Moist, spreading eruption on. Nightly, sticking, tearing face pains.

Drawing ache, worse cold things.

Spasm of oesophagus. Involuntary swallowing, especially when walking in wind. Swelled tongue. Sense of a rising body in throat, with much swallowing.

Appetite: Complete want of, and of thirst.

Eructations: Continuous, empty. Tasting of ingesta.

Nausea, etc. - Inclination to vomit, with loss of appetite. After every meal. Nausea and vomiting during pregnancy.

Constrictive spasm in. Sense of inflation of, and of upper abdomen, after drinking milk. Painful soreness of.

Painful soreness when walking on pavement. Induration of, from swelling of mesenteric glands. Hysterical uterine spasms.

Flatulence: Rumbling and growling in abdomen. Discharge of cold flatus.

Hypochondria: Stitches in spleen.

Hard, every two days only. constipation with ineffectual urging, during pregnancy. Diarrhoea: undigested, with bellyache, exhausting.

White, turbid, thick. Bloody. Frequent, nightly urination. Pressure upon bladder. Cutting in urethra during urination.

Impotency and want of erection. Insufficient erections, lasting too short a time. Excessive pollutions. Swelled testes, after contusions. Itching upon and in pudenda.

Menses: Too early, but too scant. Painful spasmodic, abdominal colic during. Sup, pressed (especially in barren women). Acrid, burning leucorrhoea, preceded by pinching in abdomen.

Suffocative attacks. tightness of chest on walking early in morning. Short, when walking.

Dry, spasmodic, from irritation as of a dry spot in the throat, mostly at night. Suffocative, with flying heat of face. With bloody expectoration. After measles or scarlatina, or when a chronic tracheal affection threatens. During pregnancy. Whooping cough, especially in nightly paroxysms, excited by itching and tickling in throat and chest.

Stitches in sternum and chest. Scirrhus of mammae, after blows or contusions. Inflammation of female mammae with stitching pain.

Shoulder feels as though galled. Moist tetter on forearms. Sweat on palms. Panaritia. Numbness of hands and feet.

Reddish spots, as from bruises, on calves, afterward turning yellow or green, preventing movement. Feet easily become cold.

General relaxation with inclination to laugh. Sense of exhaustion, early in morning when in bed. Sudden relaxation when walking. Faintness. Convulsive twitching of limbs. Spasmodic pains in various parts. Complaints of old age. After - effects of blows and contusions. unusual liability to take cold. Most complaints appear during the rest, especially at night and in separate attacks, others come on when walking in open air. Trembling.

Glands swollen, with crawling and sticking. Induration of glands, followed blows or contusions.

Sticking itching in. Nettle rash from violent bodily exertion. Death spots of old people. Old, moist tatters. Blackish ulcers, with bloody, fetid, ichorous discharge, especially from contusions. Pains in ulcers.

Sleepiness in daytime and early in evening, with forcible closure of eyelids. Sleeplessness with all complaints.

Pulse: Extremely irregular, mostly slow and large, intermingled with small, quick beats. Sensible throbbing in blood vessels though' entire body. Entirely absent. Chill: And coldness, early in morning and in afternoon (from 3 to 5 o'clock). With constant desire for warmth, especially that of sun. Early in morning, internal only, in afternoon with overrunning shivering. Heat, Great, internal as well as external, with great nervous excitability. With coexistent copious sweat. Sweat: Day and night, as soon as he falls to sleep or even close eyes. Offensive at night and early in morning, causing smarting of skin.

Allied Remedies. Ag-c., Anac., Ant-t., Coff., Cupr., Cycl., Dig., Dulc., Gel., LACH., Lyc., Nit-ac., Nux-v., Puls., Tab., Arg-n., Sep.

Complementary: Phos., Sil.

Ailments and weakness of old men (ecchymosis).

Obscuration of the cornea.

Swelling and induration of the glands, with stinging and tingling, after bruises and contusions.

Hysterical and hypochondriacal attacks after excessive sexual indulgence or after entire abstinenece.

Great sensation of debility in the morning in bed.

Induration after contusions and bruises.

Paralysis and apoplexy of old persons.

Convulsive twitching of the limbs.

Aggravation in the night, while eating, from the light, from milk drinking and in snow air.

Amelioration, while fasting, in the dark, from letting the limbs hang down, from motion (walking), and from pressure.