Cicuta virosa
Guernsey, Key Notes to the Materia Medica, 1887, p. 100
Think of this remedy for convulsions which are excessively violent—whether epileptic, cataleptic, clonic, or tonic; eclampsia.
Mental
Excessive moaning and howling; he does rash and absurd things; is very violent in all his actions; strange desires, as desire to eat coal, etc.
Head and Eyes
Congestion of the brain with vomiting and purging. Repeated movements of the head, as twitching, jerking, throwing the head back, etc. Momentary loss of sight. Contraction of the_pupils of the eye. Burning suppurating itch on the head. Discharge of blood from either ear.
Generalities
Affections of the right side of the back. Epilepsy and catalepsy, where the attacks are very violent. Pain as if from contusion. Violent jerkings of the muscles; motion is convulsive. Spasms in general; clonic; tonic; spasms during parturition; children that have convulsions from worms. Longlasting purulent eruptions, confluent, forming thick yellow crusts, with burning pain. Worm fever, with colic and convulsions.
Walking with the feet turned inward, and swing the feet with each step describing the are of a circle. Strictures after inflammation, sometimes after gonorrhœa.
Worse.—F rom concussion; from turning the head.
Remedies following p. 101
Bellad., Hepar, Rhus tox., Opium, Sepia, Pulsat.
Antidotes p. 101
Arnica, Opium.