Hemlock Poison (Umbelliferae)
- The "Balm of Gilead" for diseases of old maids and women during and after climacteric.
- Especially for diseases of old men; old maids; old bachelors; with rigid muscular fibre; persons with light hair who are easily excited; strong persons of sedentary habits.
- Debility of old people; complaints caused by a blow or fall; cancerous and scrofulous persons with enlarged glands; rigid fibre.
- No inclination for business or study; indolent, indifferent, takes no interest in anything.
- Memory weak, unable to sustain any mental effort.
- Morose; easily vexed; domineering, quarrelsome, scolds, will not bear contradiction (Aur.); excitement of any kind causes mental depression.
- Dreads being alone, yet avoids society (Kali c., Lyc.).
- Glandular induration of stony hardness; of mammae and testicles in persons of cancerous tendency; after bruises and injuries of glands (compare, Aster. rub.).
- Breasts sore, hard and painful before and during menstruation (Lac c., Kali c.).
- Vertigo: especially when lying down or turning in bed; moving the head slightly, or even the eyes; must keep the head perfectly still; on turning the head to the left (Col.); of old people; with ovarian and uterine complaints.
- Cough: in spasmodic paroxysms caused by dry spot in larynx (in throat, Act.); with itching in chest and throat (Iod.); worse at night, when lying down, and during pregnancy (Caust., Kali br.).
- Great difficulty in voiding urine; flow intermits, then flows again; prostatic or uterine affections.
- Menses: feeble, suppressed; too late, scanty, of short duration; with rash of small red pimples over body which ceases with the flow (Dul.); stopped by taking cold; by putting hands in cold water (Lac d.).
- Leucorrhoea: ten days after menses (Bor., Bov.); acrid; bloody; milky; profuse; thick; intermits.
- Bad effects: of suppressed sexual desire, or suppressed menses; non-gratification of sexual instinct, or from excessive indulgence.
- Aversion to light without inflammation of eyes; worse from using eyes in artificial light; often the students' remedy for night work; intense photophobia (Psor.).
- Sweat day and night, as soon as one sleeps, or even when closing the eyes (Cinch.).
Relations
- Patients requiring Conium often improve from wine or stimulants, though persons susceptible to Conium cannot take alcoholic stimulants when in health.
- Compare: Arn., Rhus in contusions; Ars., Aster, in cancer; Cal., Psor. in glandular swellings.
- Is followed well: by, Psor. in tumors of mammae with threatening malignancy.
Aggravation
- At night; lying down; turning or rising up, in bed; celibacy.
