Remedy

Conium maculatum

Poison hemlock

27 health issues Boericke 1927

Main symptoms

  • An old remedy, rendered classical by Plato's graphic description of its employment in the death of Socrates.
  • 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 chooses to manifest its action.
  • It corresponds to the debility, health anxiety, urinary troubles, weakened memory, sexual debility found here.
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  • Troubles at the change of life, old maids and bachelors.
  • 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.

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Mind & mood

  • 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.

What makes it better or worse

Worse

Lying downTurning or rising in bedCelibacyBefore and during mensesFrom taking coldBodily or mental exertion

Better

While fastingIn the darkFrom letting limbs hang downMotion and pressure

Symptoms by body part

Head

Dizziness, 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. Bruised, semilateral pains. Dull occipital pain on rising in morning.

Eyes

Sensitive to light and excessive watering eyes. Corneal pustules. Dim-sighted; worse, artificial light. On closing eyes, he sweats. In superficial inflammations, as in phlyctenular conjunctivitis and keratitis. The slightest ulceration or abrasion will cause the intensest sensitive to light.

Ears

Defective hearing; discharge from ear blood colored.

Nose

Bleeds easily - becomes sore. Polypus.

Stomach

Soreness about the root of tongue. Terrible nausea, acrid heartburn, and acid belching; 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.

Abdomen

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

Stool

Frequent urging; hard, with constant urge to pass stool. Tremulous weakness after every stool. Heat and burning in rectum during stool.

Urine

Much difficulty in voiding. It flows and stops again. Interrupted discharge. Dribbling in old men.

Male

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

Female

Painful periods, with drawing-down thighs. Mammae 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. 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. White vaginal discharge after micturition.

Respiratory

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. Phlegm coughed up only after long coughing. Want of breath on taking the least exercise; oppressed breathing, constriction of chest; pains in chest.

Back

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

Extremities

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

Skin

Axillary glands pain, with numb feeling down arm. Induration after contusions. Yellow skin, with papular rash; yellow finger-nails. Glands enlarged and indurated, also mesenteric. Flying stitches through the glands. 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.

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