CONIUM


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


Especially suitable for diseases of old men, old maids; women with rigid muscles; persons with light hair who are easily excited.

Glandular indurations of stony hardness; of mammae and testicles in persons of cancerous tendency; after contusions and bruises.

Breasts sore hard, and painful during menstrual period; hysterical symptoms and vertigo increased.

Vertigo, particularly when lying down or turning in bed Cough in spasmodic paroxysms, caused by dry spot in larynx; itching in chest and throat; worse at night when lying down; during pregnancy.

Frequent urination; flow intermits.

Dreads being alone, but avoids society.

Bad effects of celibacy and excessive indulgence.

Inability to sustain any mental effort.

Weakness and dazzling of the eyes, together with a giddiness and debility of the whole body especially of the arms and legs, so that when he attempted to walk he was apt to stagger like a drunken person.

Stool: liquid fecal, mingled with hard lumps; watery; undigested; sour.

Sexual desire, without erections.

Emission even while frolicking with a woman.

Menses: too early and too feeble or too late and too scanty.

Brownish blood appears instead of the menses.

During menses; stitches up the left side of the chest stitching pains in the breasts worse at night; nipples sore and very tender; painful uterine spasms; downward pressure in the uterus; itching of the vulva and in the vagina.

A dry spot in the larynx, where there is a crawling, and almost constant irritation to a dry cough.

Cough, almost only when first lying down, during the day or evening; he was obliged to sit up and and cough it out after which he had rest.

Hardness of the right breast, with painfulness to touch and nightly stitches in it.

Stitches, as with needles in the left mammary gland.

Stitches in the small of the back, with drawing pain in the lumbar vertebrae, especially when standing.

Tremulous weakness after every stool. Great internal and external heat with great nervousness.

Heat with profuse sweat at same time.

Sweat day and night as soon as he sleeps even when closing the eyes.

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.