Cicuta virosa

Characteristic symptoms

Strong development of the nervous system ; pains, as if bruised all over ; catalepsy ; convulsions, the limbs, head and upper part of the body are moved in a strange manner; tremulous movements; suppurating, confluent eruptions with yellow scurfs ; chilliness and coldness with desire to be near the warm stove ; apprehension about the future; mania, want of confidence and dread of men ; merry craziness ; loss of sense and vertigo with reeling ; stupefaction with heaviness; at times she sees things double and they look black ; dark-red pustules on the face ; crusta lactea ; grinding of the teeth ; lockjaw ; foam in and at the mouth ; dumbness ; inability to swallow ; burning ulcers on the edges of the tongue ; great desire for charcoal; hiccough; haematemesis ; colic, as if from worms, with convulsions ; involuntary emission of urine, as from paralysis of the sphincter vesical ; tightness in the chest, she is scarcely able to breathe the whole day. Opisthotonos.