Cicuta Virosa

COMMON NAME:

      WATER HEMLOCK.

Symptoms

      Pains as from contusions or blows on many parts of the body.

Chilliness and desire for heat (Ignatia).

When reading, letters seem to turn, go up or down, or disappear (Cocc.) (A.).

Shocks of the brain, as from electricity through the head, arms and legs.

Eczema: no itching: exudation forms into a hard, lemon-coloured crust (A.).

Pustules run together, forming thick, yellow scabs on the head and face (A.).

Puerperal convulsions (eclampsia): frequent suspension of breathing for a few moments, as if dead; upper part of the body most affected; continue after delivery (A.).

CONVULSIONS: VIOLENT, WITH FRIGHTFUL DISTORTIONS OF LIMBS AND WHOLE BODY; WITH LOSS OF CONSCIOUSNESS OR OPISTHOTONOS; RENEWED FROM THE SLIGHTEST TOUCH, NOISE OR JAR (Sulphur) (A.).

CONTORTIONS OF THE LIMBS, BLUISH FACE, INTERRUPTED BREATHING, FOAMING AT THE MOUTH, FOLLOWED BY INSENSIBILITY (Cuprum, Hyoscyamus, Oena.).

CONVULSIONS IN CHILDREN FROM WORMS (Belladonna, Calcarea, Cuprum, Magnesia phos., Natrum phos., Opium, Silicea).

Twitching, especially in the extremities (Belladonna, Gelsemium, Hyoscyamus, Ignatia, Lachesis, Plb., Stramonium).

Burning pains and burning, moist eruptions with yellow crusts.

Catalepsy: limbs hang down and patient appear lifeless (C.).

Trismus and tetanus from getting splinters into the flesh (Hypericum) (A.).

Sudden rigidity with jerks, afterward relaxation and weakness (C.).

Injurious chronic effects from concussions of the brain and spine (Arnica, Hypericum, Nat-S.), especially spasms (A.).

Epilepsy: with swelling of the stomach as from violent spasms of the diaphragm; screaming; red or bluish face; lock-jaw; loss of consciousness and distortion of the limbs; frequent during the night; recurring, first at short, then at long intervals (A.).

Brain disease from suppressed eruptions (Causticum, Cuprum, Zincum met.) (A.).

Grinding of teeth (Arsenicum, Belladonna, Bryonia, Calcarea, Cina, Mercurius, Natrum phos., Sulphur) (C.).

ABNORMAL APPETITE FOR CHALK, COAL OR CHARCOAL AND OTHER INDIGESTIBLE THINGS (Alumina, Calcarea, Ferrum, Natrum muriaticum, Acid nitricum, Nux vomica) (A.).

VIOLENT HICCOUGH (Belladonna, Cuprum, Hyoscyamus, Natrum muriaticum, Nicc., Nux vomica, Secale, Stramonium) (C.).

LOUD HICCOUGH (K.).

HICCOUGH WITH CONVULSIONS (Belladonna, Cuprum, Hyoscyamus, Ran-B.) (K.).

Rumbling and roaring in the abdomen (Crot-T., Nat-S., Podophyllum, Veratrum) (C.).

Congestion to head with vomiting and purging (B.).

Insanity; does all sorts of absurd and foolish things; confounds the present with the past; thinks himself a young child.

Involuntary micturition (Belladonna, Calcarea, Hyoscyamus, Natrum muriaticum, Pulsatilla, Sepia) (C.).

Spurting of urine (Calcarea phos., Helonias, Pulsatilla, Spigelia) (C.).

Sadly affected by sad tales.

Objects appear double (Aurum, Belladonna, Causticum, Cyclamen, Digitalis, Gelsemium, Hyoscyamus, Lycopodium, Natrum muriaticum, Acid nitricum, Stramonium) (C.).

Violent vertigo, so that the patient falls down (Arsenicum, Belladonna, Carb-An., Cocc., Conium, Ferrum, Gelsemium, Kali-P., Lycopodium, Nux vomica, Rhus toxicodendron, Stramonium, Sulphur, Zincum met.) (Hm.).

Momentary loss of sight (China, Pulsatilla) (G.).

Unconsciousness (Apis., Belladonna, Cuprum, Hyoscyamus, Gelsemium, Hydr-Ac., Opium, Acid phosphoricum., Veratrum) (C.).

Weeping moaning and howling (Belladonna, Cina, Cuprum, Hyoscyamus, Stramonium) (C.).

Excitement and apprehension about the future (Bryonia, Calcarea, Chin-S., Gelsemium, Lachesis, Natrum muriaticum, Phosphorus, Pulsatilla, Staphysagria, Sulphur) (C.).

Most important in many cases of cerebro-spinal meningitis (Cocc., Hyoscyamus, Lachesis, Nux vomica, Opium, Stramonium) (Tr.).

Biting the tongue during convulsions (Art-V., Bufo., Causticum, Cuprum, Oena., Opium, Secale, Tarent., Valer.) (F.).

Spasm of the oesophagus; the patient can not swallow, and strangles when attempting it (Natrum muriaticum,) (Bl.).

Spasmodic symptoms are followed by profound exhaustion (Strych.) (F.).

Bent backward like an arch (Cuprum, Nux vomica, Secale) (R.).

Stares persistently at an object (Hyoscyamus) (Br.).

Colic with convulsions (Br.).

Burning eruptions on the hairy scalp, also on the face (milk-crust) (N.).

Repeated movements of the head, as twitching, jerking throwing the head backward, etc. (N.).

AGGRAVATION:

      From tobacco smoke; from touch; from draughts; from concussion; from worms; from turning the head; from suppressed eruptions; from noise; from jar; and from cold.

AMELIORATION:

      From heat.

RELATIONSHIP:

      Compare: Absinth., Aconite, Apis, Belladonna, Calcarea, Conium, Cuprum, Gelsemium, Hydr-Ac., Hyoscyamus, Hypericum, Ignatia, Kali-P., Lachesis, Lycopodium, Mosch., Nux vomica, Opium, Pulsatilla, Rhus toxicodendron, Secale, Silicea, Stramonium, Strych., Sulphur, Veratrum, and Verat-V.

ANTIDOTES: Arnica, Opium, for large doses; Tobacco.

Cicuta ANTIDOTES: Opium.

Adolph Lippe

Adolph Lippe (born near Goerlitz, Prussia, 11 May 1812; died in Philadelphia, 23 January 1888) was a homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. Adolph got a legal education at Berlin. After completing his legal studies, Lippe became interested in homeopathy, and emigrated to the United States in 1837 to further his study. In 1838, he enrolled in the North American Academy of Homeopathy at Allentown, Pennsylvania, from where he graduated in 1841. He settled in Philadelphia, where from 1863 until 1868 he was professor of materia medica in the Homeopathic College of Pennsylvania. Besides some essays and treatises from the French, German, and Italian which became standards, Lippe was the author of:
Comparative Materia Medica (Philadelphia, 1854)
Text-Book of Materia Medica (1866)