Conium mac

Conium maculatum

• Vegetable Kingdom
  • Poison Hemlock
  • Samuel Hahnemann
  • Umbelliferae
  • Ailments from:
  • Grief,
  • I’ll effects of contusions,
  • blow ,
  • overwork,
  • shock to spine,
  • sexual excess,
  • sexual abstinence,
  • overstraining,etc.
  • Remedy for bachelors, old maids.
  • Vertigo on lying down or turning head sideways.
  • Breasts enlarged, painful before and during menses.
  • After effects of suppressed sexual desire.
  • Glands enlarged and indurated
  • Case Eg:-
  • K/c/o Prostate swelling,old age 65 years, wife’ expired 4 years back, urination dribbling, malignancy? Gave Conium, drastic improvement, reports came normal.
  • Disease malignant ho ya benign ,no matter agar indications ho toh u can prescribe Conium.
  • Ulceration in cancerous diathesis (bone, stomach,cornea,etc).
  • Enlargement or dwindling of mammae,nodes in breast; breasts congested before and during menses.
  • Shrivelling of mammae with increased sexual desire.
  • Glands harden and get sore ( atrophy or induration of testis,etc.).
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  • Generals
  • Thirsty
  • Chilly
  • Left Sided
  • Debility(old age, over indulgence)
  • Ascending paralysis (lower part of body gives away from upper) , gradually develops paralysis .
  • Falling of upper eyelids.
  • Numbness of affected parts with weakness and cold feet.
  • Weakness of legs: tottering gait. Weakness of respiratory muscles, inability to expectorate,must swallow what is coughed up.
  • Sexual abstinence, or suppressed sexual desire.
  • Tremulous weakness (tremulous look).
  • Unable to watch/see moving objects.
  • Painlessness (ulcers with hard infiltrated base).
  • Vertigo agg.turning the head sidewise ( both horizontal and upright position),amel. by closing eyes. Senile Vertigo
  • Ascending paralysis is seen in Guillaine  Barre Syndrome .
  • Gradual onset in every complaint (Bry, Gels.) Gradual development of paralysis.
  • Alternating states:
  • a) excitement with sadness
  • b) insanity with other mental symptoms
  • c) quarrelsome with silent depression or indisposition to talk.
  • Skin greenish as if old bruise.
  • hot  flushes or sweat on dropping off to sleep.
  • Induration of glands after contusions (mammae or even soft parts) .
  • Flow of urine intermits, suddenly stops after each emission.
  • Urticaria from violent exercise.
  • Easy intoxication when taking alcohol.
  • Chronic inflammation of ovaries and prostate gland.
  • Discharges (ulcers, leucorrhoea,lochia) bloody, corrosive ,ropy tenacious.
  • Useful for old people, premature old age, senile decay.
  • Painless paralysis; old people.
  • Key Notes:
  • Prematurely old with scrofulous tendency.
  • Emission of prostatic fluid, with emission while fondling women, during lascivious thoughts( seminal emission at the thought, touch or presence of women).
  • Intense sexual desire with erections.
  • Dysmenorrhoea with drawing pains down the thighs, with cardiac pain with rashes over body which vanish with the menses.
  • Leucorrhoea acrid, bloody, milky.
  • Hysteria from suppressed menses.
  • Epistaxis from suppressed menses.
  • Menses suppressed by putting hands in cold water.
  • False labour pains.
  • Heaviness or drooping of eyelids.
  • Cataract from contusion.Intense phot ophobia out of all proportion to or even without inflammation.
  • Earwax blood red.
  • Constant desire to swallow as lump in throat.
  • Food goes to wrong way when swallowing.
  • Coldness of stool and flatus.
  • Pain in kidney,if urge to urinate is not attended quickly.
  • Old men with enlarged prostate.
  • Dry spasmodic cough from dry spot in larynx, agg. night and by lying down ,must sit up for relief.
  • Breasts flabby or shrunken.
  • Nodules or stitching pain in mammae.Stony,hard induration of breast with piercing pains agg. at night . Burning, stinging or darting pains.
  • Aversion to company during pregnancy.
  • Scirrhous affections of the breast.
  • Yellowness of  nails.
  • Complaints amel.by hanging down the limbs (rheumatic pains).
  • Sweat copious, on lying down and closing the eyes.
  • Dreams: enemies, confused, anxious,accidents,fights,frightful.
  • Case :Fibroadenoma of left breast, thirsty ,chilly, numbness of affected part  ,heavy breasts before and during menses.Give Conium
  • Food and Drinks:
  • Craving: Salt, coffee,sour things.
  • Aversion:Bread
  • Disagrees: Milk (distension of abdomen).
  • Alcohol (easily intoxicated).
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  • Causations:
  • Mental:
  • Unsatisfied or suppressed sexual desire.
  • Sexual excess or
  •  abstinence.
  • Emotional excitement.
  • Disappointed love( Phos acid,Aur met,lgn.,Nat mur.)
  • Physical:
  • Injuries of glands, from falls,blows,etc.
  • Suppressed menses (or any discharge suppressed).
  • Modalities:
  • Mind agg.: Consolation
  • Physical agg.: Winter; at night; lying down.
  • Alcohol ( easily intoxicated).
  • Seeing objects in motion.
  • Cold food.
  • Turning in bed and moving the head quickly ( vertigo).
  • Periodicity: 14 days.
  • Amel.: After coition, continued motion( Rhus tox.).
  • Mentals:
  • Dullness or prostration of mind.Difficult thinking and comprehending.
  • Very forgetful,weak memory, especially for dates.
  • Aversion to,even indifference to business/work .
  •  Case : Ek pt., jise Kam pe Jane ka mann hi nahi karta tha.DM, chilly, recurrent tonsillitis : Conium was given,his diabetes was under control.
  • Depressed, cannot bear contradiction.
  • Wants to wear his best clothes (insanity).
  • Trifles seems important.
  • Fear of being alone,yet avoids society.
  • Makes useless purchases,wastes or ruins them.
  • Fear and timidity.
  • Hypochondriasis.
  • Sadness from suppressed sexual excitement,or even prolonged continence.
  • Aversion to light,shuns it.
  • Fastidious.
  • Key indication for totality:-
  • Left Sided, chilly,sour desire -Sepia, Conium.
  • Chilly, milk and bread disagrees -Staph, Conium.
  • Left sided corn, chilly, thirsty, numbness in left leg, premature old age.
  • *Left Sided renal stone,colic thirsty, chilly.