Headache.-Cicuta has cured some unilateral headaches in which the patient is forced to sit erect and perfectly still.
It has been used for deafness in old people with sudden detonation in the ears, especially on swallowing, for neuralgia of the coccyx menstruation, and for violent hiccough with screaming.
LEADING INDICATIONS.
(1) Excessive reflex nervous irritability whereby slight impressions start a convulsion.
(2) Convulsions, accompanied by loss of consciousness.
(3) Convulsions that are tetanic at the outset, but soon followed by clonic movements, are violent and with much distortion.
(4) Epileptic convulsions. Spasmodic jerks.
(5) Pustular eruptions, with yellowish honey-coloured scabs, becoming confluent, mainly on head and face.
(6) Spasmodic, nervous complaints of children and old people.
(7) Cerebro-spinal meningitis when there is opisthotonos.
(8) Effects of concussion and other injuries to the head.
AGGRAVATION :
From touch, pressure, noise, jars concussions, cold, wet.
AMELIORATION :
From rest, a dark room, quiet, warmth.
Edwin Awdas Neatby founded the Missionary School of Homeopathy and the London Homeopathic Hospital in 1903, and run by the British Homeopathic Association. He died in East Grinstead, Sussex, on the 1st December 1933. Edwin Awdas Neatby wrote The place of operation in the treatment of uterine fibroids, Modern developments in medicine, Pleural effusions in children, Manual of Homoeo Therapeutics,