CICUTA VIROSA
Source indications
Kent's Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica
- Convulsive tendency
- Increased irritability of the nervous system
- Convulsions from pressure on a part
- Convulsions extending from center to circumference
- Head, face, and eyes first affected in convulsions
- Aura in the stomach before convulsions
- Complaints spreading from the chest, especially from the heart
- Rigors and chills beginning in the chest
- Sensation of coldness about the heart
- Convulsions beginning about the head and throat and extending downward
- Tension throughout the body causing convulsions after excitement
- Violent convulsions from irritation in the throat or oesophagus
- Spasms caused by splinters in the skin or under the nails
- Symptoms resembling catalepsy
- Loss of recollection of events
- Does not recognize anyone but answers correctly when questioned
- No recollection of events afterward
- Cerebro-spinal irritant
- Head drawn back (opisthotonos)
- Limbs convulsed and rigid
- Traumatic tetanus lockjaw
- Epilepsy
- Epileptiform convulsions
- Convulsive movements with severe pains in the bowels
- Convulsions from disordered stomach or chill or fear or other mental conditions
- Extremely sensitive to touch
- Touch and drafts bring on convulsions
- Convulsions spread from above downwards
- Confusion of present with the past
- Imagines himself a young child
- Everything is confused and strange
- Does not know where he is
- Faces of old friends look strange
- House and familiar places look strange
- Voices sound strange
- Disturbed and confused senses of sight, smell, and other special senses
- Confusion as to himself, his age, and circumstances
- Childish behavior after cataleptic attacks
- Silly laughter, playing with toys, and other acts of childish behavior
- Feels as if he were in a strange place causing fear
- Thinks of the future with anxiety
- Mental torpor
- Loss of ideas and sensation extending over a certain period
- Memory a blank for hours or days with or without convulsions
- Strange desires (e.g., to eat coal and raw potatoes)
- Unable to distinguish between edible and inedible things
- Wants to be alone
- Dislike to society
- Singing, shouting, dancing
- Likes toys, jumps about like a child
- Lies in bed lamenting and wailing
- Great agitation
- Child grasps at one's clothing in a frightened manner
- Great horror in the countenance before convulsions
- No recollection of the horror after convulsions
- Anxiety and fear after the attack has begun, before convulsions
- Mild, gentle, placid, and yielding between convulsions
- Full of sadness, anxiety, and darkness out of convulsion
- Borrows trouble from the future
- Affected by sad stories
- Pessimistic
- Afraid of society, afraid of company
- Wants to be alone
- Suspicious and shuns people
- Despises others
- Over-estimation of himself
- Full of fear
- Fright will bring on convulsions
- Full of vertigo
- Things turn round in a circle
- Vertigo on walking
- Glassy eyes
- Complaints brought on from injuries to the skull, from blows on the head
- Pains in distant parts from injuries
- Drawing of the muscles and cramps
- Concussion of the brain and chronic injuries therefrom, especially spasms
- Semi-lateral headaches forcing the patient to sit still erect
- Headache as if the brain were loose on walking
- Head symptoms after injuries
- On going into a cerebro-spinal meningitis the patient sits in a chair talking as if nothing were wrong
- Falls over limp, he is put to bed
- knowing no one
- Semi-conscious state
- Head bent back in spasms
- Jerking back of the head
- Spasms begin in the head and go downward
- Violent shocks in the head, arms, and legs
- Head hot and extremities cold
- Sweat on the scalp when sleeping
- Child rolls head from side to side
- Hot head
- Convulsive action about the eyes
- Pupils dilated and insensible
- Patient lies fixed in one place, with staring, fixed, glassy, upturned eyes
- Strabismus
- Nose is sensitive to touch
- Troubles from shaving
- Eruptions in the whiskers
- Barber's itch
- Solid crop of eruptions all over the face wherever the whiskers grow
- Eruptions on the cheek like eczema
- Swelling of the submaxillary glands
- Erysipelatous eruptions
- Spasmodic throat troubles
- Spasm comes on after swallowing a fish bone or stick which lodges in the throat
- Injury, accompanied with violent choking, so that he cannot allow an examination to be made
- Cold sensation in the chest
- Spasms of the chest
- Feels as if the heart stopped beating
- Spasmodic symptoms of the back
- Opisthotonos
- All conditions of the limbs are of a spasmodic character