Homeopathy Remedy Conium


Conium homeopathy drug symptoms from Handbook of Materia Medica and Homeopathic Therapeutics by T.F. Allen, of the homeopathic remedy Conium…


      A tincture is made of the entire fresh plant of Conium maculatum; L.

General Action

      It produces paralysis of voluntary motion, then of respiration. The brain is benumbed, vertigo, dilated pupils, and even convulsions follow.

Allies. Phosphorus, Gelsemium, Lycopodium, Hyosc., Curare, Arg-nit.

Generalities

      Concealed caries, especially in middle of long bones, with burning gnawing. Haste in all his actions. Clumsy movements. Walking about as if half asleep. Lay as one intoxicated, could not speak nor raise himself. Trembling (Gelsemium); (<) of arms, with throbbing motion of whole body. Starting at every sound; jerklike S., as in fright. Constant tossing about and violent screams. Subsultus tendinum (Hyosc.). Convulsions; with danger of suffocation; with uneasiness and wild fancies; of upper part of body, with paralysis of lower limbs; of facial muscles, so that there was a frightful expression, with frequent contractions of other muscles, (<) extensors of back and flexors of limbs, with motion of thumb and index as if unwinding a skein of thread. Epilepsy, distortion of eyes, flow of blood from ears, jaws could not be opened, ineffectual retching, singultus. Epileptiform attack, with contraction of all muscles. Hysterical attack; with spasmodic motions.

Sticking in whole body; in swollen glands; now in cardiac region, now in hands, head and legs, with tearings; smarting S. about swollen glands; tearing now here, now there, as if to the bones. Tearings through various parts; wandering, in arms, legs and teeth. Cutting around glands. Paroxysm, (<) after eating, beginning with yawning, sticking in sternum and pressure in pit of stomach, even on touch, hence it extended to the back and became a sticking in region of kidneys. Cramplike pain in various parts, chest, jaws, etc. Pain in affected parts became intolerable. Pain in a place injured several years previously. Bruised sensation. Contractive sensation in inner parts, with salivation. Fulness in chest, head and hypochondria, mornings on waking. Easily overstrained. Liability to take cold; even in the room when sitting after a walk, during which he had perspired. Uneasiness; of blood in the whole body. Pulsation in whole body. Feeling as if the whole body were inclined to the right.

Disinclination to work. Standing is very irksome. Every step was irksome on returning from a walk, with ill humor and impatience for the time when he could rest in solitude. Nervous prostration. Relaxation of muscles and limbs, then difficulty in walking and inability to control movements, necessity to lie down. Weakness; morning and evening; morning on waking, (>) rising; morning after waking, as after a fever; morning fasting, with aversion to food; morning in bed, and sickness, with ill humor, sleepiness and pain in stomach; on waking from midday nap; after eating; on walking (Arsenicum, Phosphorus), with tendency to fall forward on knees, heaviness over eyes and giddiness; after a walk, with paralyzed feeling and fretful, hypochondriac mood; from walking in open air, and affected by the air; with desire to lie down; with chilliness, palpitation and headache; with chilliness, so that he must lie down, next day occiput felt as if pierced by a knife at every beat of the pulse, and palpitation, heart throbbing violently at times, at times beating rapidly, at times wavering; of head and whole body, with loss of appetite; tremulous weakness after stool (Arg-n., Arsenicum), (>) open air. Faintness. Heaviness; in afternoon, with unsteadiness. Dullness of all senses. Stiffness, movement of limbs, neck, etc., caused unpleasant sensation. Paralysis; of all muscles (Gelsemium), those of deglutition being the first, and those of respiration the last to fail. Aggravation at night, waking him; A. during rest; when sitting; in the house. Amelioration at night.

Clinical Indurated glands (occasionally hard), usually with sharp knife- like pains, but not always painful. Useful for weakness following exhaustive diseases. Paralytic affections (after diphtheria). General physical and mental debility, tremulous weakness, sudden attacks of faintness, especially with vertigo.

Mind

      Delirium; running wildly about the house, knocking against the walls; during which he at first took to walking about; with stupidity, they threw themselves into the water, thinking they were geese, and partly paralytic, with much pain; violent, interrupted by crying out from pain; mirthful, going out of the house; intermittent; in a man who had been somewhat addicted to the use of liquors, he saw all sorts of animals dancing upon the bed and “picked straws;” partly delirious and partly foolish. Fantasies in morning. Illusion at night that some one had come in at the door. Vision of her brother and child who had died, she saw persons in the room, she knew that it was an illusion and tried to get it out of her mind, but saw them coming in at the door.

Superstitious. Aversion to being near people and to the talk of those passing him, inclination to seize hold of and abuse them. Dread of the approach of men, yet dread of being alone. Everything makes an unpleasant sensation upon him. Fretfulness; in morning after eating, with confusion in forehead and anxiety; every day from 5 to 6 P.M., as if a great guilt weighed upon him, with paralyzed feeling in all limbs and indifference; time passes too slowly. Discontent. Easily aroused to anger. Anxiety; with palpitation and nosebleed; impelling them from place to place; waking at night, then long wakefulness. Fear; at night after waking; after midnight when half awake; of thieves. Sadness; without speaking. Hypochondriac and indifferent mood when walking in open air. Lachrymose mood; when alone in the house, on giving way to it it changed to hiccough, then flickering before eyes and indistinct vision, so that she must steady herself in walking, then exhaustion of limbs and headache; and faint-hearted; and smiling. Frequent thoughts of death. Hurried mood. Lively excitement. Constant mirth. Tendency to laugh, with loss of energy; tendency to laugh as if coming from r. hypochondrium and stomach, during exhaustion. Without sympathy. Apathy. Dis- inclination for business.

Inability to sustain mental effort (Phosphorus, Opium). Stupefaction, difficulty in understanding what he is reading. Mistakes in speaking. Sunk in deep thought, apprehension and desire to be alone. Loss of memory (Anacardium, Hyosc.); after waking from midnight sleep. Coma; at beginning of general paralysis, or collapse, or a condition between coma and collapse, with foam from mouth; with unconsciousness and difficult breathing. Unconsciousness; eyelids firmly closed, pupils dilated, respiration weak, pulse small, rapid, skin cold, spasmodic movements of upper limbs and facial muscles.

Clinical Melancholy, quiet, sad, picks his fingers, makes short answers, or this condition alternates with excessive gayety. Hypochondriasis, especially resulting from excessive venery. A verse to people, yet dislikes to be alone. Melancholia resulting from suppression of menses, aversion to members of her own family. General mental weakness, inability to get the mind fixed on his business or to stand, any prolonged mental effort.

Head

      Inability to keep it erect (Tabac.). Sticking; on coughing. Aching in morning on waking, as if brain were too full and would burst; A. in morning as if head were beaten or as if it would be pressed as under. Aching in morning on waking, as in epidemic fever, as if brain were torn, (<) towards occiput. Aching; at night in bed, with nausea; on waking, with weakness from broken rest, and diarrhoea during the early morning; from scanty but frequent stools, with urging; on walking in open air, even in morning, lasting till breakfast; on entering house after a walk, with pressure in r. eye; on going into open air, he must rub the fore- head; on stepping, she felt every step in the head; with diminished appetite; with nausea and vomiting of mucus; with muscae volitantes, diplopia, languor and sleepiness; extending to jaws and thence to l. side of chest, with sticking.

Drawing on going into open air, (>) closing eyes; D. (>) after eating, with going to sleep of brain. Tension after every meal, with compression from temples, necessity to rest forehead on table. Cerebral oppression. Fulness; at breakfast, from a ligature around neck, with vertigo. Stupefaction, with sleepiness. Dullness after drinking. Confusion; on waking from sound sleep, with heaviness. Heaviness; of brain, and pressure deep in it. Intoxication; from the slightest spirituous drink. Vertigo; in morning on rising (Lycopodium, Phosphorus); on walking; on descending stairs; (<) lying, as if the bed turned in a circle; with weight at orbits; tendency to, with sensation as if eyes were swollen and protruding; so that everything turns in a circle; as if turning in a circle, on rising from a seat; as if head would burst, on rising after stooping; sudden, with such weakness of legs that he must lie down. Apoplexy.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

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.