CONIUM MACULATUM
Source indications
Allen's Keynotes
- 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; excitement of any kind causes mental depression
- dreads being alone, yet avoids society
- glandular induration of stony hardness; of mammae and testicles in persons of cancerous tendency; after bruises and injuries of glands
- breasts sore, hard and painful before and during menstruation
- 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; of old people; with ovarian and uterine complaints
- cough: in spasmodic paroxysms caused by dry spot in larynx; with itching in chest and throat
- worse at night, when lying down, and during pregnancy
- great difficulty in voiding urine; flow intermits, then flows again; prostratic 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; stopped by taking cold; by putting hands in cold water
- leucorrhoea: ten days after menses; 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
- sweat day and night, as soon as one sleeps, or even when closing the eyes
- worse at night; lying down; turning or rising up, in bed; celibacy