Common names: (Cicuta of the old Romans, but not since the seventeenth century), Poison hemlock: (G)., Schierling; (F)., Grande cigue.
Introduction.
Conium maculatum, L.
Natural order: Umbelliferae.
Preparation: Tincture of the fresh herb in blossom.
Mind.
Emotional.
Liveliest excitement (after twelve hours). Drunkenness.
Delirium, etc. Violent delirium, interrupted by crying out from pain (always with the sounds ah!, oh!). Constant delirium.
Delirious and stupid; they threw themselves into the water, thinking they were geese; for three years they remained partly paralytic, suffering from much pain. They ran wildly delirious about the whole house, knocking so hard against the walls that they were full of bruises. Partly foolish and partly delirious, for some months. Full of fantasies, in the morning (after twenty four hours). Became much agitated, were attacked with hallucinations and delirium and went out of the house; the neighbors thought the whole family had gone mad and were obliged to employ force to compel them to return home; watched them and rallied them in their hallucinations, and more or less absurd proposals; the patients had been mirthful all the while.
Intermittent delirium. The husband, who had been somewhat addicted to liquor, saw all sorts of animals dancing upon the bed and ‘picked straws” a little. Visions of her mother and child, who had died; at the same time she saw distinctly persons in the room; she was quite aware that this was an illusion and tried to get it out of her mind, but she could not prevent herself seeing them together, as if they were coming in at the door. Fancied that some one was coming in at the door at night. Constant mirth.
Tendency to laugh, as if coming from the right hypochondrium and stomach, during an exhausted condition. Tendency to laugh, with loss of vital energy. Violent weeping, with tears, at night in sleep. When alone in the house she was seized by an inclination to weep; on giving way to it, it changed to a loud hiccough, followed by flickering before the eyes and indistinct vision so that she was obliged to steady herself in walking, followed by exhaustion of all the limbs and dull headache. She is easily disturbed by trifles and made to cry. Lively, well, and strong, in the morning (alternating curative action), (after twenty four hours). Lively free mood (curative action), (third and fourth days). Lively mood, with inclination to talk (curative action).
Sad mood (after one day). More sad than lively.
Hypochondriac depression and indifference, while walking in the open air.
Frequent thoughts of death. Anxiety. (* Not found.– HUGHES.
*) (Anxiety). Awakened at night by anxiety so that she lies long awake. Extreme anxiety constantly impelled upon them from place to place. (Hysterical anxiety). (* Patient had attacks of this with 357 till she died; there is no thought of ascribing them to Conium.– HUGHES. *).Anxious sensation with beating of the heart and profuse nosebleed. Inclined to be frightened. Fearful thought after waking at night. Very apprehensive thoughts, almost amounting to deathly anxiety, after midnight, while half awake.
Fearful lachrymation, faint hearted. Sunk in deep thought; he apprehensively considered the present and future and sought to be alone. Dread of men of their approach, yet with dread of being alone. Fear of thieves. Superstitious thoughts. Constant ill humor and fretfulness. Very ill humored, every afternoon, from 5 to 6, as though a great guilt weighed upon him, with paralyzed feeling in all the limbs, indifference, and taking no interest in anything. Fretful and peevish about trifles.
Extremely fretful and anxious thoughts about dying, in the morning, with confusion of the head (after twenty nine hours).
Fretful mood; he does not know how he shall busy himself; the time passed too slowly (after eight hours). Fretful things absorb his attention. She feels peevish, vexed and easily put out ( about trifles. Very easily aroused to anger. Morose mood; everything about him makes an unpleasant impression upon him. He is averse to bring near people and to the talk of those passing him; is inclined to seize hold of and abuse them. Great discontent. Indifference to agreeable sensation. Insensibility with indolence. Extremely insensible.
Intellectual.
Disinclination for business. Inability to sustain any mental effort. Dulness, like stupefaction; difficulty in understanding what he is reading. Dulness; difficulty in understanding what he is reading, with confusion of the head.
(Confused thoughts).
Frequently makes mistakes in speaking. Unable to express himself properly while talking or to think correctly. Memory weak. Want of memory. Loss of memory (in seventy four cases). Senselessness, after waking from the midnight sleep.
Head.
Confusion and Vertigo.
Confusion of the head (after one hour).
Confusion and heaviness of the head (after five days).
Confusion and heaviness of the head, on walking, after a sound sleep. Confusion in the left half of the head, as from coldness, or as if the brain did not fill the skull. Constant confusion of the forehead, in the region of the eyebrows and root of the nose (first day). Tendency to vertigo, (* The phrase, “tendency to vertigo,” has been used here in preference to the word vertigo, simply because this effect, thus described, was not sufficient at any time to destroy the ability to walk straight.
The instability of the gait was, or appeared to be, principally owing to the effect upon the muscles in the vicinity of the knees. *).with a sensation as if the eyes were swollen and unnaturally protruded (sixteenth and seventeenth days). Vertigo (after twenty minutes, eighteenth day). Vertigo, so that everything seems to turn in a circle. Vertigo, affecting the head. Vertigo, in the morning, on rising from bed. Vertigo, on becoming erect after stooping, as if the head would burst.
Vertigo on going downstairs; she was obliged to hold herself still and for a moment did not know where she was.
Vertigo, worse when lying down; as though the bed were turning in a circle. Vertigo, like turning in a circle, on rising from his seat. Dizziness and reeling in the head, for two days. Very decided dizziness (after half an hour). Very dizzy while walking.
Giddiness and sensation of weight along the orbit. Great giddiness.
Severe giddiness. Sudden giddiness and so much weakness of the legs as rendered the patient incapable of walking and he was obliged to lie down (after twenty minutes). The slightest spirituous drink intoxicates him; even watered wine rises to his head. (Reeling).
Reeling while standing.
General Head.
Apoplexy. (Serious apoplexy).(* In an old woman of eighty; ten days after leaving off Conium.– HUGHES. *) Great weakness of the head and of the whole body, with loss of appetite. Unable to hold head up (half an hour). Utter inability to keep the head erect.
Continuous stupefaction of the head with constant inclination to sleep. Heaviness of the head. Heaviness and pressure deep in the brain. The head is heavy. ( * During convalescence. –HUGHES. *) Awoke with a headache and felt weak and poorly, from broken rest, and a sharp attack of diarrhoea during the early morning.
Headache, with nausea, at night, in bed.
On going in, after walking in the open air, headache, with pressure in the right eye. Headache daily, on account of too scanty though frequent stools, associated with urging. Headache on stepping; she felt every step in her head. Some headache, with diminution of appetite, throughout the day (nineteenth day).
Headache, with nausea and vomiting of mucus (third day). In a few instances slight headache, muscae volitantes, diplopia, languor and inclination to sleep. Violent headache. Violent headache with vertigo, wherewith she sat in one place, sad and without speaking, for three or four days. Very violent headache.
Feeling of fullness in the head. While at the breakfast table, a disagreeable neck, this was accompanied by a very slight vertigo (fifteenth day). Headache, as if the brain were too full and would burst, in the morning, on waking. Tension in the head and a sensation of compression from both temples, after every meal; was obliged to rest the forehead on the table. Drawing in the head, with going to sleep of the brain; relieved after eating. Violent drawing in the head, on going into the open air; relieved on closing the eyes(soon). Dulness in the head, after drinking.
Dull pressure in the head on going into the open air; he was obliged to rub the forehead. Headache, a simple pain, on walking in the open air; it seems dull; even in the morning, lasting till breakfast. The cerebral oppression was extremely unpleasant and oppressive (nineteenth day). Sticking in the head, while coughing. Sticking pain in the head, as from needles, lasting an hour. Shooting into the head from coughing. Boring tearing and pressure in various parts of the bones of the head. Headache, in the morning, on waking, as in epidemic fever, as if the brain were torn, especially towards the occiput (after ten hours).
Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.