Cicuta Virosa
Dewey, Essentials of Homœopathic Materia Medica, 1894, p. 122
Questions
What is Cicuta virosa ?
It is the Water Hemlock, and the tincture is from the fresh root.
What is its chief sphere of action ?
In spasms, with rigidity, fixed, staring eyes, blue face and frothing at the mouth; there is great difficulty in breathing, opisthotonos and loss of consciousness, and these spasms are followed by profound exhaustion.
What are the skin symptoms of the drug?
Pustular eruption, with yellowish scabs about the mouth, matting the whiskers.
What do we use Oenanthe crocata, another hemlock, for ?
It has been used with success in epilepsy and paralytic conditions; also eczema.
What is our use of Phellandrium?
1. Headache, involving nerves going to the eye. 2. Pains along the milk ducts while nursing. 3. In Phthisis, with horribly offensive expectoration. Give the chief use of Petroselinum. A sudden desire to urinate, which if not attended to at once causes severe pain; children dance up and down and cry when this desire seizes them.
What do we use Apium graveolens for ?
Nervousness and fidgets, with constriction over the sternum, with drawing back on lying down.