CICUTA VIROSA
Source indications
Allen's Keynotes
- women subject to epileptic and choreic convulsions; spasms of teething children, or from worms
- convulsions: violent, with frightful distortions of limbs and whole body; with loss of consciousness; opisthotonos; renewed from slightest touch, noise or jar
- puerperal convulsions: frequent suspension of breathing for a few moments, as if dead; upper part of the body most affected; continue after delivery
- epilepsy: with swelling of the stomach as from violent spasms of the diaphragm; screaming; red or bluish face; lockjaw, loss of consciousness and distortion of limbs; frequent during the night; recurring, first at short, then at long intervals
- when reading, the letters seem to turn, go up or down or disappear
- during dentition, grinding of teeth or gums; compression of the jaws as in lockjaw
- abnormal appetite for chalk and indigestible things; for coal or charcoal; child eats them with apparent relish
- suffer violent shocks through head, stomach, arms, legs, which cause jerkings of the parts; head hot
- injurious chronic effects from concussions of the brain and spine, especially spasms; trismus and tetanus from getting splinters into flesh
- pustules which run together, forming thick, yellow scabs, on head and face
- sycosis menti
- eczema: no itching; exudation forms into a hard lemon-colored crust
- brain disease from suppressed eruptions
- worse from tabacco smoke; touch
