Conium

Characteristic symptoms

Cramp and spasmodic pains in various parts; most pains come on in the night or when at rest ; debility in the open air ; seething of the blood ; violent pain, as from bruises, in all the limbs ; nervous attacks ; blue, yellow, green spots, as if ecchymosed ; swelling and induration of glands ; chronic herpes, humid or crusty and burning ; bleeding of the ulcers ; the edges of the ulcer become black, with effusion of a fetid ichor ; scirrhus ? ; cancerous ulcers ; hypochondria and hysteria, with crying ; anthropophobia, with aversion to solitude ; fearful and desponding ; want of memory ; dizziness and whirling sensation in the head ; intoxication ; apoplexy, with paralysis, particularly in old people ; pale or bluish, bloated face ; photophobia ; ulcers of the lips ; spasms of the oesophagus ; difficult deglutition ; loss of speech ; weak digestion, with gulping up of sour substances from the stomach ; frequent and empty eructations, especially early in the morning ; ischury ; strangury ; the flow of urine suddenly stops and continues after a short interruption ; sexual weakness ; uterine spasms ; aching in the abdomen during pregnancy, every night after going to bed, relieved by getting up and moving about ; suppressed menstruation, acrid mucous leucorrhœa ; spasmodic cough ; incessant cough ; spasmodic constriction of the chest ; dysmenorrhea, with sharp pains about the heart.