Plant
Cicuta Virosa
Water Hemlock
Repertory abbreviation: Cic.
The action on the nervous system, producing spas- modic affections, viz., hiccough, trismus. tetanus, and convulsions, give the pathological picture calling es- pecially for this remedy, whenever this is further char- acterized, by the more individual symptoms of the drug. Among these, are the bending of the head, neck, and spine backwards, and the general action of the patient is violent, with frightful distortions. Violent, strange desires. Sensation of internal chill. Moaning and howling. Does absurd things. Marked action on the
Mind
Delirium, with singing, dancing and funny gestures. Everything appears strange and terrible. Confounds present with the past; feels like a child. Stupid feeling. Melancholy, with indifference. Mis- trustful.
Head
Head turned or trwisted to one side. Cerebro- spinal meningitis. Cervical muscles contracted. Ver- tigo, with gastralgia, and muscular spasms. Sudden, violent shocks through head. Stares persistently at ob- jects. Convulsions from concussion of brain. Thick, yellow scabs on head. Head symptoins relieved by emission of flatus.
Eyes
When reading, letters disappear. Pupils dilated, insensible strabisinus. Objects recede, approach, and seem double. Eyes star. Pupils get behind up- per lids as head inclines. Effects of exposure to snow. Spasmodic affections of eyes and its appendages. Stra- bismus; periodic, spasmodic after a fall or a blow.
Ears
Difficult hearing. Sudden detonations espe- cially on swallowing. Hamorrhage from cars.
Face
Pustules which run together forming thick, yellow scabs on face and head, corners of mouth and chin, with burning pain. Red face. Trismus; disposi- tion to grind teeth.
Throat
Dry. Feels as if grow together. Spasms of cesophagus; cannot swallow. Effects on cesophagus from swallowing sharp piece of bone.
Stomach
Thirst ; burning pressure; hiccough. Throbbing in pit of stomach, which has become raised to size of fist. Desire for unnatural things, like coal. [Alum.; Calc.] Indigestion, with insensibility, frothing at mouth.
Abdomen
Distended and painful. Colic, with con- vulsions.
Rectum
Diarrhcea in morning, with irresistible de- sire to urinate. Itching in rectum.
Respiratory
Chest feels tight; can hardly breathe. Tonic spasm in pectoral muscles. Heat in chest. Back and Extremities.— Spasms and cramps in muscles of nape of neck, and spasmodic drawing back- ward of head. Curved limbs cannot be straightened nor straight ones bent. Back bent backward like an arc. Jerking, tearing in coccyx, especially during menses.
Skin
Eczema; no itching; exudation forms into a hard, lemon-colored crust. Suppressed eruption causes brain disease. Elevated eruptions, as large as peas. Chronic impetigo.
Modalities
Worse, from touch. draughts, concus- sion, tobacco smoke.
Relationships
Antidotes : Opium ; Arn. Compare: Cicuta Maculata -- Water Hemlock — (Ef- fects very similar ; thie most prominent symptoms being : Falls unconscious, tetanic or clonic convulsions. Body covered with sweat. Consider in epilepsy and tetanus. Tincture and lower potencies.) Hydrocy. acid; Con.; Enanth.; Strychnia; Bellad.
Dose
Sixth to two hundredth attenuation.