Materia Medica de A a Z

CONIUM MACULATUM (con)

Region

NERVES. MUSCLES. GLANDS (MAMMÆ. Ovaries). Sexual organs. Respiration.

Worse

SEEING MOVING OBJECTS. ALCOHOL. Raising arms. After exertion. Injury. Night. Sexual excesses. Cold; taking. Continence. Old age. Lying; head low.

Better

Letting part hang down.

General

Irregular action ending in progressive DEBILITY, as in old age: clothes distress, faints at stool, difficult articulation, uncertain gait, etc. Trembling; looks old. Chronicity. Early senility. Cachexy. Paralysis. Suddenly sick or weak; with numbness. STONY HARDNESS. As of a lump in brain, in epigastrium. New growths. Hard blood-vessels. Ascending symptoms. Tearings. Stabbings..................... Slow. Apathetic. Shy people, yet fear being alone. Weak memory. Can't think after using eyes. VERTIGO, whirling; on lying, turning over, least motion of eyes or head, etc.; senile. Eyes feel crossed; lids heavy, droop, agg. outer side. Photophobia. Vision, colored. Pulpy earwax. Sour saliva. Cold flatus. Constipation on alternate days. Urine stops and starts; amel. standing. Testes enlarged. Cutting, as semen passes; in ovaries, uterus, etc. Prostatic dribble; agg. stool, emotions, etc. Emissions, from mere contact. Menses irregular. Acrid leucorrhoa. Tormenting cough from dry spot in larynx; from tickling in throat-pit; as if from abdomen. Palpitation; agg. exertion, drinking, at stool, etc. GLANDS HARDEN AND GET SORE. Mammæ; nodes in; congested before menses; sticking in; shrunken; too much milk, agg. before menses or at every step. Hot spots on head. Spinal injuries. Heels; as if bone would push through; shooting in. Skin greenish, like an old bruise; spots on; foul or eczematous eruption. Hebetude. Coldness in nape, calf, etc. Hot flushes or sweat on dropping to sleep. Sweat under eyes, on chin, in popliteæ; cold on nape or palms.

Complementary: Phos.

Related: Arn; Bar-c; Calc-f; Caust;Gels; Iod.