Cicuta Virosa

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Distended and painful. Colic, with convulsions.

William Boericke 1922

Moaning and howling. Does absurd things. Marked action on the

William Boericke 1922

Cicuta Maculata — Water Hemlock — (Effects very similar ; the most prominent symptoms being : Falls unconscious, tetanic or clonic convulsions. Body covered with

William Boericke 1922

Sixth to two hundredth attenuation. CIMEX — ACANTHIA (Bedbug) Of use in intermittent fever, with weariness and inclination to stretch. Hamstrings feel too short. [Ammur.] Flexors mostly affected. Stretching.

William Boericke 1922

Difficult hearing. Sudden detonations especially on swallowing. Heemorrkage from

William Boericke 1922

Spasms and cramps in muscles of nape of neck, and spasmodic drawing backward of

William Boericke 1922

When reading, letters disappear. Pupils dilated, insensible strabismus. Objects recede, approach, and seem double. Eyes stare. Pupils get behind upper lids as head inclines. Effects of exposure to snow. Spasmodic affections of eyes and its appendages. Strabismus ; periodic, spasmodic after a fall or a blow.

William Boericke 1922

Trismus; disposition to grind

William Boericke 1922

Pustules which run together forming thick, yellow scabs on face and head, corners of mouth and chin, with burning pain. Red

William Boericke 1922

Shooting pain from vagina up towards left ovary. 236

William Boericke 1922

Stupid feeling. Melancholy, with indifference. Mistrustful.

William Boericke 1922

The action on the nervous system, producing spasmodic affections, viz., hiccough, trismus, tetanus, and convulsions, give the pathological picture calling especially for this remedy, whenever this is further characterized, by the more individual symptoms of the drug. Among these, are the bending of the head, neck, and spine backwards, and the general action of the patient is violent, with frightful distortions. Violent, strange desires. Sensation of internal

William Boericke 1922

Head turned or tzvisted to one side. Cerebrospinal meningitis. Cervical muscles contracted. Vertigo, with gastralgia, and muscular spasms. Sudden, violent shocks through

William Boericke 1922

Stares persistently at objects. Convulsions from concussion of brain. Thick, yellow scabs on

William Boericke 1922

Head symptoms relieved by emission of flatus.

William Boericke 1922

Curved limbs cannot be straightened nor straight ones bent. Back bent backward like an arch. Jerking, tearing in coccyx, especially during menses.

William Boericke 1922

Violent headache, caused by drinking. Great rage; vehement at beginning of chilly stage. Would like to tear everything to pieces. Pain under right frontal bone.

William Boericke 1922

Delirium, with singing, dancing and funny gestures. Everything appears strange and terrible. Confounds present with the past; feels like a child. 234

William Boericke 1922

Worse, from touch, draughts, concussion, tobacco smoke.

William Boericke 1922

Diarrhoea in morning, with irresistible deiire to urinate. Itching in

William Boericke 1922

CICUTA VIROSA — CIMEX — ACANTHI A 235

William Boericke 1922

Antidotes: Opium; Arn.

William Boericke 1922

Chest feels tight; can hardly breathe. Tonic spasm in pectoral muscles. Heat in

William Boericke 1922

Eczema ; no itching ; exudation forms into a hard, Icmon-colored crust. Suppressed eruption causes brain disease. Elevated eruptions, as large as peas. Chronic impetigo.

William Boericke 1922

Thirst ; burning pressure ; /ticcough. Throbbing in pit of stomach, which has become raised to size of fist. Desire for unnatural things, like coal. [Alum.; Calc.] Indigestion, with insensibility, frothing at

William Boericke 1922

Consider in epilepsy and tetanus. Tincture and lower potencies.) Hydrocy. acid; Con.; CEnanth.; Strychnia; Bellad.

William Boericke 1922

Dry. Feels as if grown together. Spasms of oesophagus; cannot swallow\ Effects on oesophagus from .swallowing sharp piece of bone.