CICUTA VIROSA


An excellent compilation of symptoms of homeopathic medicine Cicuta Virosa from the book Pearls of Homeopathy by M.E. Douglass, published in 1903….


Adapted to persons of a highly nervous organization.

Women subject to epileptic and choreic convulsions; spasms of teething children.

Convulsions with frightful distortions of the limbs and the whole body.

Epilepsy: with swelling of the stomach as from violent spasm of the diaphragm; screaming; red face; trismus; hiccough; loss of consciousness and distortion of the limbs; frequent during the night recurring at first at short then at long intervals.

Puerperal convulsions; frequent suspensions of breathing for a few moments upper part of body most affected.

Violent jerking backward of the head.

Pupils dilated and insensible.

Sudden urging, scarcely able to retain the stool.

Violent urging to urinate.

Great longing for charcoal.

Frequent involuntary jerking of the arms of the arms and fingers.

Frequent waking, with sweat all over feels invigorated.

Convulsions, with wonderful distortion of the limbs, head turned backward, back bent as in opisthotonos.

Loud-sounding, dangerous hiccough.

Violent jerking backward of the head.

Melford Eugene Douglass
M.E.Douglass, MD, was a Lecturer of Dermatology in the Southern Homeopathic Medical College of Baltimore. He was the author of - Skin Diseases: Their Description, Etiology, Diagnosis and Treatment; Repertory of Tongue Symptoms; Characteristics of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica.