Conium Maculatum

Questions

What is Conium ?

It is the poison Hemlock of Socrates; the tincture is from the fresh plant. "What is its general action?

Acts upon the motor and vaso-motor nerves, gradually impairing motility through gradual ascending paralysis.

It benumbs the brain, causes vertigo, dilated pupils, and even convulsions. What time of life is Conium most suitable for?

For complaints of old age, and especially for complaints of old maids, corresponding to the change of life in such.

What are the mental symptoms of Conium ?

Mental depression, hypochondriasis and hysteria, dread of society and of being along.

What are the sexual symptoms of Conium ?

Enfeebled state of the sexual organs from masturbation, and hypochondriasis therefrom ; emissions from the slightest provocation.

What are the female symptoms of Conium ?

Menses late and scanty; mammae lax and shrunken or become enlarged and painful. Fibroid tumors of the uterus, induration of cervix, ovaritis, with lancinating pains; itching around pudenda — ill effects of suppressed sexual instinct.

When is Conium indicated in vertigo ?

When due to cerebral anaemia; numb feeling in brain, as if stupefied; worse turning over in bed.

What are the indications for Conium in Tumors ?

Great hardness of the infiltrated glands, with flying stitches in them. Cancer, mammary tumors or beginning of scirrhus after contusions and bruises. Give the cough of Conium. Dry, spasmodic, hacking; worse at night upon lying down, and is fatiguing in old people; mucus cannot be expectorated, must be swallowed; the cough is caused by an irritation in the larj'nx as of a dry spot.

How does Hyoscyamus compare ?

It lacks the dry spot of irritation of Conium.