Conium

William Boericke 1922

Severe aching in and around the

William Boericke 1922

Dorsal pain between .shoulders. Ill effects of bruises and shocks to

William Boericke 1922

Scirrhinum — Cancer no- .sode — (cancerous diathesis; enlarged glands; cancer of breast; worms); Baryt.; Hydrast.; lod.; Gels.: Hyos.: Curare.

William Boericke 1922

Best in higher potencies given infrequently, especially for growths, paretic states, etc. Otherwise sixth to thirtieth.

William Boericke 1922

Perspiration of hands. Putting feci on chair relieves pain.

William Boericke 1922

Heavy, weary, paralyzed; treml)lmg; hands unsteady ; fingers and toes numb. Muscular weakness, especially of lower

William Boericke 1922

worse, shaking head, slight noise or conversation of others, especially towards the left. Headache, stupefying, with nausea and vomiting of mucus, with a feeling as of foreign body under the skull. Scorched feeling on top. Tightness as if both temples were compressed ; worse after a meal. [Gels.; Atrophine,] Bruised, semilateral pains.

William Boericke 1922

Photophobia and excessive larhrymation Corneal pustule*!. Dim-sighted ; worse, artificial light. On closing eyes, he sweats. Paralysis of ocular muscles. [Cawjf?.] In superficial inflammations, as in phlyctenular conjunctivitis and keratitis. The slightest

William Boericke 1922

Night and morning sweat, with offensive odor, and smarting in

William Boericke 1922

Dysmenorrhoea, with drawing-down thighs. Mammae lax and shrunken, hard, painful to touch. Stitches in nipples. Wants to press breast hard with hand. Menses delayed and scanty ; parts sensitive. Breasts enlarge and become painful before and during menses. [Calc, c.; Lac can.] Rash before menses. Itching around pudenda. Unready conception. Induration of os and cervix. Ovaritis; ovary enlarged, indurated; lancinating pain. Ill effects of repressed sex- 270

William Boericke 1922

ual desire or suppressed menses, or from excessive indulgence. Lencorrlio'a after micturition.

William Boericke 1922

ulceration or abrasion will cause the intensest photo^ phobia. EaiCs. — Defective hearing ; discharge from ear blood colored.

William Boericke 1922

trembling, sudden loss of strength while walking, painful stiffness of legs, etc. Such a condition is often found in old age, a time of weakness, languor, local congestions, and sluggishness. This is the specfal environment that Conium chooses to manifest its action. It corresponds to the debility, hypochondriasis, urinary troubles, weakened memory, sexual debility found here. Troubles at the change of life, old maids and bachelors. Growth of tumors invite it also. General feeling as if bruised by blows. Great debility in the morning in bed. Weakness of body and mind, trembling, and palpitation. Cancerous diathesis. Arterio-sclerosis. Caries of sternum. Enlarged glands. Acts on the glandular system, engorging and indurating it, altering its structure like scrofulous and cancerous conditions, '^nis gJliPPe* Insomnia of multiple neuritis.

William Boericke 1922

Vertigo, zvhen lying dozvn, and when turning over in bed, when turning head sidewise, or turning

William Boericke 1922

Chronic jaundice, and pains in right hypochondrium. Sensitive, bruised, swollen, knife-like pains. Painful tightness Stool. — Frequent urging; hard, with tenesmus. Tremulous weakness after every stool. [Verat.; Ars.; Arg. w.] Heat and burning in rectum during stool. Urine. — Much difficulty in voiding. It floivs and stops again. [Ledum.] Interrupted discharge. [C/cmotis.] Dribbling in old men. [Copaiva.]

William Boericke 1922

Desire increased ; power decreased. Sexual nervousness, with feeble erection. Effects of suppressed sexual appetite. Testicles hard and enlarged.

William Boericke 1922

Excitement causes mental depression. Depressed, timid, averse to society, and afraid of being alone. No inclination for business or study; takes no interest in anything. Memory weak; unable to sustain any mental effort.

William Boericke 1922

Worse, lying down, turning or rising in bed,- celibacy; before and during menses, from taking cold, bodily or mental exertion. Better, while fasting, in the dark, from letting limbs hang down, motion and pressure.

William Boericke 1922

Bleeds easily — becomes sore. Polypus.

William Boericke 1922

Dry cough, almost continuous, hacking; worse, evening and at night; caused by dry spot in larynx with itching in chest and throat, when lying down, talking or laughing, and during pregnancy. Expectoration only after long coughing. Want of breath on taking the least exercise'; oppressed breathing, constriction of

William Boericke 1922

Axillary glands pain, with numb feeling doum arm. Induration after contusions. Yellow skin, with papular eruption; vellow finger-nails Glands enlarged and indurated, also mesenteric, belying stitches through the glands. Tumors; piercing pains; worse, at night. Chronic ulcers with fetid discharge. Siveat as soon as one sleeps, or even when closing

William Boericke 1922

Coccyodynia.

William Boericke 1922

Soreness about the root of

William Boericke 1922

An old remedy, rendered classical by Plato's graphic description of its employment in the death of Socrates. The ascending paralysis it produces, ending in death by failure of respiration, shows the ultimate tendency of many symptoms produced in the provings, for which Conium is an excellent remedy, such as difficult gait. 268

William Boericke 1922

Terrible nausea, acrid hcjirtjiurn, and acid eructations ; worse on going to bed. Painful spasms of the sumach. Am elior ation from eating and aggj;avation a few hours after meals; acidity and burning; painful spot the level of the sternum.