Cicuta virosa

Cicuta virosa
(water hemlock)
* 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 moreindividual 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 chill.
* Moaning and howling.
* Does absurd things.
* Marked action on the skin.
Mind
- Delirium, with singing, dancing and funny gestures.
- Everything appears strange and terrible.
- Confounds present with the past; feels like a child.
- Stupid feeling.
- Melancholy, with indifference.
- Mistrustful.
- Epilepsy; moaning and whining.
- Vivid dreams.
Head
- Head turned or twisted to one side. Cerebro-spinal meningitis. Cervical muscles contracted.
- Vertigo, with gastralgia, and muscular spasms.
- Sudden, violent shocks through head.
- Stares persistently at objects.
- Convulsions from concussion of brain.
- Thick, yellow scabs on head.
- Head symptoms relieved by emission of flatus.
Eyes
- 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.
Ears
- Difficult hearing.
- Sudden detonations especially on swallowing.
- Haemorrhage from ears.
Face
- Pustules which run together forming thick, yellow scabs on face and head, corners of mouth
and chin, with burning pain.
- Red face.
- Trismus; disposition to grind teeth.
Throat
- Dry.
- Feels as if grown together.
- Spasms of oesophagus; cannot swallow.
- Effects on oesophagus from swallowing sharp piece of bone.
Stomach
- Thirst; burning pressure; hiccough.
- 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 mouth.
Abdomen
- Flatulence with anxiety and crossness.
- Rumbling in.
- Distended and painful.
- Colic with convulsions.
Rectum
- Diarrhoea in morning, with irresistible desire to urinate.
- Itching in rectum.
Respiratory
- Chest feels tight; can hardly breathe.
- Tonic spasm in pectoral muscles.
- Heat in chest.
Back and extremities
- Spasms and cramps in muscles of nape of neck, and spasmodic drawing backward of head.
- Curved limbs cannot be straightened nor straightones bent.
- Back bent backward like an arch.
- Jerking, tearing in coccyx, especially during menses.
Skin
- Eczema; no itching, exudation forms into a hard,lemon-colored crust.
- Suppressed eruption causes brain disease.
- Elevated eruptions, as large as peas.
- Chronic impetigo.
Modalities
- Worse, from touch, draughts, concussion, tobaccosmoke.
Relationship
- Antidotes : Opium; Arn.
- Compare : Cicuta Maculata - Water Hemlock - (Effects very similar; the most prominent
symptoms being; Falls unconscious, tetanic or clonic convulsions. Body covered with sweat.
Consider in epilepsy and tetanus. Tincture and lower potencies.) Hydrocy. acid; Con.;
Oenanth.; Strychnia; Bellad.
Dose
- Sixth to two hundredth attenuation.