Coniinum

Conicine. An alkaloid from Conium maculatum. ۥ H.N. Tincture.

Clinical

Eyes, heavy. Hearing, illusions of. Hemiplegia. Numbness. Tongue, paralysis of. Vertigo. Vision, disordered.

Characteristics

Coniin. is a poison rivalling prussic acid in the intensity of action. It has had rather an extensive proving. It causes numbness, muscular paralysis, vertigo, disorders of sight, hearing, and touch, lethargy and overpowering sleepiness. A feeling as if one had been up all night, or after a debauch. Cramp in calves on ascending steps or drawing off boots. Vertigo is > in open air.

Mind p. 580

Calm and tranquil ; slowness of mental process. — Inability to think or fix the attention. — Loss of consciousness.

Head p. 580

Vertigo and confusion with prostration > in open air.— Weighty fulness, and pressure in head. — Open air caused pain in supra-orbital and cutaneous malae nerves.

Eyes p. 580

Lids heavy. — Vision confused ; objects swim. — Dazzling of sight. — Complete blindness. — Objects seem large ; one thinks he sees his own nose a shapeless mass.

Ears p. 580

Hearing weakened ; ears feel as if stopped with cotton wool. — Illusions of hearing.

Face p. 580

Face sunken, pale. — Numbness of muscles about the jaws. -Head and face very warm.

Mouth p. 580

Tongue pale, paralysed, and numb. — Epithelium denuded in many places, papillae very prominent. — Violent burning in mouth.— Accumulation of saliva.

Throat p. 580

Scraping in throat

Stomach p. 580

Eructations ; nausea ; vomiting.

Abdomen p. 580

Rumbling with distension of abdomen. — Tendency to diarrhoea.

Respiratory Organs p. 580

Voice thick ; muddled words when speaking. — Respirations frequently yawning.

Neck and Back p. 580

Spasmodic distortion of neck with spasms of face which draw the mouth up to a point. — Pain in l. lumbar region.

Limbs p. 580

Heaviness of arms and legs, esp. l. arm.

Upper Limbs p. 580

Numbness with tingling of arms. — Tense cramp in muscles of ball of thumb with painful sensation on strongly adducting thumb. — Hands bluish, cold. — Moisture on finger-tips. — Fingers and hands wet

Lower Limbs p. 580

Gait unsteady ; weakness esp. marked on going out to walk. — Carries body forward. — Legs felt independent as if they did not care for him or anybody else. — Cramp in calves on ascending steps.