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Cicuta virosa

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  1. Additional facts
  2. Mental
  3. Head, face, and ears
  4. Nervous system
  5. Mouth and throat
  6. Gastrointestinal tract
  7. Appetite and food preferences
  8. Urogenital system
  9. Chest organs
  10. Cardiovascular system
  11. Analogs by action
  12. Included in the composition
  13. Manufacturers of the drug

Description Source

Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica - TF Allen

Additional facts

 Cicuta virosa, Linn. Cicuta aquatica is Phellandrium aquaticum). Natural order: umbelliferae.
 Preparation: Tincture of the fresh root, collected when the plant begins to flower (Hahnemann).

Mental

 Mind.
 Emotional.
 Aberration of mind, singing, performing the most grotesque dancing-steps, shouting. Delirium, (in two hours). Delirium; after an unusual sleep heat of the body; she sprang out of bed, danced, laughed, and did all sorts of foolish things, drank much wine, jumped about, clapped her hands, and grew very red in the face; the whole night. Intoxication. Feels as if intoxicated, while sitting, standing, and walking (after five minutes).
 Drunkenness. Drunkenness, reeling. Excited, with apprehension concerning the future; everything which could befall him seemed to be dangerous. He did not believe that he was living under ordinary relations; everything seemed strange and almost fearful to him; it seemed as though he had awakened from an acute fever and saw all kinds of visions, though without physical sick feeling. It seemed as though he was a child of 7 or 8 years, as if objects were very lovely and attractive to him, as toys to a child. Likes to be alone and is disinclined to speak, with diminished power of comprehension. Laughing and biting. Weeping, moaning and howling. Lively mood, inclined to work, with a feeling of lightness on walking or making any other muscular exertion. Quiet disposition; he was exceedingly contented with his condition and with himself, and was very happy. (* сurative action. HAHNEMANN. Sadness for several days. When others were lively he was sad. Gloominess for two days after the headache). Dejection (second day). Anxiety.
 Anxiety; he is excessively affected by sad stories. Anxiety, sweat on the face and trembling of the hands about noon; a feeling at the heart, in the middle of the chest, as if he would become faint). He thought of the future with anxiety, and was constantly sad. Great fearfulness; she feels stitches in the left side of the head, from fright, on every opening of the door, and every word, though not spoken aloud. He believed he would die. сontempt and scorn for mankind; he avoided them, abhorred their follies excessively, and his disposition seemed to tend towards misanthropy; he withdrew himself into solitude. Want of confidence in mankind, with misanthropy; he forsook society, remained alone and reflected upon their errors and about himself. Suspicious. He was indifferent to everything, and began to doubt whether he was really in the condition in which he found himself. Insensibility. Intellectual. Weakness of mind. Mental torpor. Dull and stupid (after ten minutes). Disinclined to work, morose, ill- humored. Loss of ideas; loss of sensation. сonfusion of ideas, and rapid change of thought from one to another subject. He confuses present events with the past. Stupor. Stupefaction. Loss of consciousness. Loss of consciousness, and delirium.
 Complete loss of consciousness. вecame insensible, and convulsed generally. Quite insensible.

Head, face, and ears

 Head.
 Eye.
 Objective.
 Eyes prominent. Eyes protruding from the head. Not found- HUGHES. Staring look. Not found-HUGHES. Staring look, almost without winking; it seems as though a gray fog were before the eyes. Staring look at one and the same point, whereby everything looks like black cloth (after six minutes). Staring (after quarter of an hour); she stares with unaltered look at one and the same place, and cannot help it, although she wishes to do so very much, wherewith she has not entire control of her senses, and must be very much excited to answer correctly; she makes a visible effort by turning the head to abandon objects with her eyes, but by so doing she loses her consciousness, and everything becomes black before her eyes. Subjective. Very much inclined to stare at objects. Slight pressure in the eyes on reading. вrow and Orbit. Twitching of the orbicularis beneath the lower lid. Pressive pains beneath the left brow, in the bones; it then extends towards the temple and left zygoma. Drawing stitches in the eyebrows (after twelve hours). Lids. Pressure upon the lids. Pressure in the right inner canthus, so that he was obliged to close the eyes and press them together, in order to relieve it. Sticking in the left lids. Stitches in the eyelids. Tearing in the eyelids. Pupil. Pupils dilated soon after taking. Pupils dilated and fixed. Pupils dilated and insensible. Pupils much dilated. Pupils very large. Pupils contracted. Pupils sometimes contracted, sometimes dilated. Pupils at first contracted (after one hour and a half to two hours and a half), afterwards much dilated (after eight to nine hours). Pupils at first excessively contracted, soon afterwards excessively dilated.
 Pupils small; pressure in the eyes, with sensitiveness to light (in very foggy weather), with at times bright gray spots before the eyes. Vision. Eyes sensitive to light. Eyes sensitive to daylight. Everything seems very distinct and brighter than usual; with small pupils. When she fixes her gaze upon an object she does not see it distinctly; everything runs together as after looking too long at one and the same object; when, as we say, the eyes give out. Obscuration of vision. вlack points obscure the vision while reading. The white snow is blinding, and on looking away from it to a dark wall, a gray curtain seems to cover the left portion of the vision All objects seem to move to and fro, from one side to another, although everything has its proper form (after ten minutes). She believes she is wavering to one side or the other or that objects about her are moving to and fro; it seems as though nothing stood still, but everything was moving from side to side, like a pendulum. All objects seem to move in a circle, especially while he is sitting, lasting several hours (after two hours). She thinks she is obliged to remain or sit very still, because she sees nothing steady or firm before her, and she also thinks that she herself wavers; everything blinds her (after fifteen minutes). When she attempts to stand, she wishes to hold on to something because objects seem now to come nearer and now to recede from her. At one time objects seem double, and of a black color; at another time she hears with difficulty. вright spots before the eyes, at times. вright points and stripes before the vision. A bright point seemed to float before the right eyes, mingled with dark streaks and specks.
 Ear.
 Flow of blood from the ears. Sore pain behind the left ear.
 Sore sensation behind the left ear, as after a bruise or blow. Pain behind the right ear, such as would remain from a bruise or blow. Hearing. She does not hear well unless one speaks loudly to her, and she pays attention. сracking in the right ear, on swallowing. Violent ringing in the left ear. Roaring in the ears. Roaring in both ears, worse in the room than in the open air.
 Nose.
 Very frequent sneezing, without coryza (after twenty-nine hours). Nose stopped. Stoppage of the nose. Stoppage of the nose, together with profuse secretion of mucus in it. Yellow discharge from the nose. Discharge of bright-red blood from the right nostril (three teaspoonfuls). Slight touching of the nose renewed the bleeding from the right nostril. Dryness in both nostrils, as if they were stopped, without any mechanical hindrance. The right wing of the nose pains, as if sore, as after a blow or bruise.
 Face.
 Objective. Anxious expression. Redness of the face. With S.
 450. HUGHES. Face red. With the spasms, the face became dark-red, lips blue with bloody froth from the mouth. Flushed countenance. сadaverous paleness (two children). Face pallid. Face pale and drawn. Face puffy. Face (and throat) swollen. Not found. HUGHES. Muscular movements of the face (in a boy of fourteen). сheeks. Pressure beneath the right malar bone. Lower Jaw. Gnashing of the teeth. Teeth clenched, lockjaw. Lockjaw. Firmly closed mouth, with froth from it.

Nervous system

 Confusion and Vertigo. сonfusion of the head, in the morning after rising. сonfusion of the forehead. More or less confusion of the forehead. Stupefaction and heaviness of the head (after seventy-four hours). Vertigo; (second day); (soon after).
 Vertigo, while walking, as if he would fall forward to the left (after seventy-two hours). Vertigo, reeling. Not found. HUGHES. Vertigo; he fell to the earth. Giddiness (after half an hour). Fell down from giddiness. Dizzy. Reeling. Reeling, so that she believes she would fall (after six hours). Reeling and tottering, while walking (after eighty-two hours). General Head. Jerking and twitching of the head. Head bent backward (a kind of opisthotonos). If she is allowed to sit quietly a long time her head gradually sinks down, while her eyes remain staring at same point, so that when the head has sunk low down the pupils lie almost under the upper lid; when she has ceased with a kind of internal jerk, whereby she suddenly returns to consciousness for a short time, she again falls into a similar insensible condition, where from she is aroused from time to time by an internal shivering, which seems to her like a chill. Dulness in the head, with a shaking chill; with stiffness of the neck, and sensation as if the muscles were too short.
 Anxiety in the head. Strange feeling in head. Heaviness in the head, while sitting. Heaviness of the head and chest. On stooping, it seems as though the head would fall forward (after eighty hours). Headache. Head feels too full and heavy.
 Compressive headache from both sides. Headache in the morning on waking, as if the brain were loose, and shaking on walking; when he thought how the pain should be described it had disappeared.
 (Violent headache for two days, followed by a sick feeling in the abdomen, a sticking which extends from the nose and the right eye to the occiput), (after fifteen days). Pressure deep in the brain in various places. Sticking headache. The headache is relieved by passage of flatus. The headache disappears while sitting upright. Forehead. Heaviness in the forehead. Heaviness and heat in the forehead. Heaviness and pain in the forehead. Heaviness in the forehead, with pressure deep in the brain. Pain with fullness in the forehead and right temple, afterwards in the left. Pressure in the forehead. Pressure in the left frontal bone. Pressive pain beneath the left frontal eminence. Pressure in the forehead and in the muscles of the left upper arm.
 Pressive pain beneath the bones in various places in the forehead. Pressive, stupefying headache, external in the forehead, more during rest (after one and thirty-six hours).
 Sticking pain in the frontal bone. Tearing pain beneath the bones in the upper part of the forehead, extending to the vertex. Pulsation in forehead, with heat and violent action of the heart. Hammering pain in the forehead from morning till evening (after two hours). Temples. Strong pulsation of the temporal arteries, perceptible to the finger. Painful pressure in the right temple, between the skin and bones. Tearing in the left temple. Vertex. Pressure on the vertex beneath the bones. Parietals. One sided headache, like a pressure, rather external. Repeated pressure beneath the bones of the left side of the head. Tearing beneath the bones of the head on the right side. Tearing in the bones of the head of the left side, with internal pulsation and confusion deep in the brain.
 Tearing pain through the left side of the brain, more towards the top of the skull, extending from before backwards. Occiput. Heaviness in the occiput. Heaviness deep in the occiput. Severe headache in the occiput, like a dull pressure and as with some coryza (after forty-eight hours). Tearing in the bones in the right side of the occiput. External. Profuse eruption on the scalp and face. сrawling as from ants, in the forehead (after two minutes).

Mouth and throat

 Teeth. Toothache in the nerves of the lower row of teeth. Tongue. A whitish sore (sore place) on the margin of the tongue, very painful to touch. General Mouth. Sensation of dryness in the mouth. Saliva. Much salivation. Frothing at the mouth. Froth in the mouth. Not found. HUGHES. Mouth full of froth. Post-mortem. HUGHES. Water, tinged with blood, flowed involuntarily from his mouth. Speech. Tried to speak, but could not move the tongue. While speaking a few words, he can articulate the first five or six words without hesitation, but while speaking the rest of the words he is seized by slight jerking of the head backward, even noticed by others, sometimes also the arms jerk, so that he seems compelled to draw backward and swallow a syllable, and to articulate almost as in hiccough. сompletely dumb.
 Throat.
 Dryness of the throat. Dryness and scraping in the throat. Great dryness of the throat (after half an hour). Fine stitches in the throat. Sensation in the throat and chest, as if something as large as the fist were lodged there, and were pressing the throat asunder, impeding respiration, worse while sitting than while walking. The throat seems grown together internally, and is painful externally, as if bruised, on moving or taking hold of it, becoming worse for several hours, with eructations from noon till evening. Swallowing. Unable to swallow. Entire loss of power of swallowing.

Gastrointestinal tract

 Abdomen.
 Objective. Abdomen distended. Abdomen distended by gas, with passage of much flatulence. Rumbling and roaring in the abdomen (after a quarter of an hour). Much accumulation of flatulence; constant anxiety and fretfulness. Much persistent moving of flatulence in the abdomen. Frequent emission of flatus. Profuse discharge of flatus. Subjective. Sick feeling in the abdomen in the morning, and as this disappeared in the afternoon, headache, sticking in the right side of the head, extending from the right eye and nose (in both of which it was most violent) to the occiput, lasting three days, followed by running from the nose and discharge of yellow mucus (after nine days). Dull, painful sensation in the abdomen. Pain in the abdomen. Pain in the abdomen and sleepiness, immediately after eating. Most fearful pains in the abdomen. Tearing pains deep in the abdomen, increased by pressure. Most violent colic. Hypogastrium. Distension and painfulness of the lower abdomen (second day). Griping in the lower abdomen, immediately after eating. Sudden, sharp stitches, extending from the navel to the neck of the bladder. A kind of sore pain in the right pelvic region, in the margin of the ilium, as after a violent blow, a pulsating, drawing sensation.
 Sensation in the right groin as if an ulcer would break through (while sitting).
 Rectum and Anus.
 Protrusion of the rectum, with thin stool. Sensation as of liquid stool in the rectum. Itching internally in the rectum, just above the anus; after rubbing, pain as if burnt; the pain always causes shuddering; after walking, while sitting still and during a stool. Swelling on the right side of the anus, as from hemorrhoidal tumors under the skin, whereby the orifice is contracted, with annoyance during stool. вurning in the anus, with soft stool. Sudden urging to stool, without warning; he was scarcely able to retain it, together with bruised pain in the back and general loss of strength; the stool was passed suddenly, and was followed by urging, with great desire to urinate.
 Stool.
 Diarrhoea. Stool almost hourly, consisting of black offensive mucus in small portions, with urging at 2 Stool softer than usual. Thin stool (at 2 and 5 A.M)., with violent urging to urinate, which could not be withstood. Thin slimy stool at 7 and 8 with profuse urine. сonstipation.

Appetite and food preferences

 Appetite. сonstant hunger and appetite, even if he had just eaten. Appetite for eating at noon, but the appetite disappeared with the first mouthful. Great longing for coal; he swallowed it. Not found. HUGHES. Loss of appetite on account of a dry sensation in the mouth; food has not a bad, but still not its complete, taste. Does not relish his breakfast; it filled up his abdomen, as if had eaten too much. Thirst. Thirst. Great thirst for cold water in the afternoon. Great thirst (with the cramps). Eructations and Hiccough. He raises, as by eructations, a very bitter yellow fluid, while stooping in the open air; it rises from the stomach to the mouth, and causes a burning in the throat, the whole forenoon. Hiccough. Frequent hiccough. Loud sounding hiccough. Nausea and Vomiting. Nausea; (after half an hour). Nausea in the morning, with sticking-tearing headache. Nausea while eating. Nausea with stitches in the forehead, the whole day. Vomiting. Vomiting, without relief of the lockjaw. сopious vomiting. Difficult vomiting followed by relief. Vomiting of blood. Stomach. Gastritis. Anxiety at the pit of the stomach. Sensation of water brash rising up from the stomach; is qualmish and hot all over, and accumulation of saliva rises from the stomach to the mouth (after nine and thirteen hours). вurning in the stomach. Sensation as of hot water in the stomach. Tightness in the pit of the stomach and anxiety for eight days. Pressure in the pit of the stomach immediately after eating, which compelled her to take a deep breath, with inclination to eructations. вurning pressure in the stomach. Sticking pain and burning in the pit of the stomach. Sudden tearing in the epigastric region. Scraping sensation in the stomach. вurning-scraping sensation, extending from the throat into the epigastric region. Throbbing in the pit of the stomach, which was raised up, of the size of the fist. Unusual throbbing in the pit of the stomach. Shock in the region of the pit of the stomach, as with the finger, immediately spreads, and then only he becomes collected and returns to his senses.

Urogenital system

 Urethra. Sticking in the navicular fossa of the penis. Dull sticking pain in the navicular fossa of the urethra. Stitches in the urethra. Dull stitches in the urethra.
 Tickling in the navicular fossa, with frequent erections. Violent urging to urinate. Frequently repeated desire to urinate, with difficulty in retaining the urine. Micturition. Frequent micturition. Very frequent micturition. Involuntary micturition. Not found. HUGHES. Violent spurting out of the urine. Urine scanty and dark. Urine more scanty than usual during the night. Difficult passage of urine at night. Not found. HUGHES. Retention of urine. With S. 266.
 Sexual Organs.
 Male. Erections, without desire. Frequent erections, without desire. A sore drawing pain beneath the penis, extending to the glans, which compels him to urinate (after twelve hours). Testicles drawn up against the abdomen. Testicles drawn up tightly into the abdominal ring. Emission, without voluptuous dreams. Three emissions in the night. Female. Menstruation delayed.

Chest organs

 Larynx. Pressure below the larynx, while sitting (after four hours). Voice. Hoarseness. Not found-HUGHES. *) сough and Expectoration. сough, with much expectoration, especially during the day. Respiration. Respiration stertorous. Slow, difficult respiration. Respiration deep, labored. Deep inspiration, while sitting. Deep inspiration at times, more while sitting than while walking. Respiration feeble and rattling. Respiration very weak and scarcely perceptible. Respiration uneven, stertorous, at times interrupted by hiccough. Oppression of breathing. Want of breath the whole day (immediately).
 Chest.
 Burning about the nipple (after three hours). Tightness of the chest, so that she could scarcely breathe, the whole day (immediately). Pressure upon the chest, with at times deep inspiration. Jumping in the chest, about the pit of stomach (after one hour). Front. Pressure, as after a blow, and sore sensation on the lower end of the sternum, while walking. Sides. Pressive pain in the right pectoralis major, while walking slowly, afterwards in the left pectoral and intercostal muscles, without affecting respiration, then in the left knee, in the external malleolus, in the right pectoral muscles, right forearm, and radial side of the right wrist and dorsal surface at the base of the right fingers. Some needle-like stitches beneath the last false ribs of the left side, on inspiration and expiration, which disappeared while standing and walking (after three hours).  Appetite poor.
 Neck. Swollen neck. Not found. HUGHES. Tension in the cervical muscles.
 Sore tension in the left cervical muscles, on bending the head backward. A kind of cramp of the cervical muscles; if he looks around, he cannot bring the head back again, the muscles do not yield, and when he attempts to force them it hurts very much.
 Drawing pains in the left side of the neck (after six hours). Tearing (immediately) in the muscles of the right side of the neck. вack. The back bent backward like an arch.
 Painful stiffness in the back, on stooping. Peculiar sensation, extending through the back along the posterior surface of the legs, similar to that experienced on lying down after a fatiguing walk; felt while sitting. Dorsal. Painful sensation on the inner surface of the scapulae. Painful tension across the right scapula. Stitches in the muscles on the right scapula. Sensation as if there were an ulcer on the right scapula. Transient stitches in the muscles of the back, in the region of the eleventh and twelfth dorsal vertebrae, aggravated on deep inspiration. Shock in the dorsal vertebrae.
 Pain in the lumbar muscles. Pain in the lumbar and dorsal muscles. Frequent pain in the lumbar muscles. Sacral. Tearing- jerking in the coccyx.

Cardiovascular system

 Praecordium. Sudden sensation, as if the heart stopped while walking. Pain in the praecordial region. Pain in the praecordium. Sticking and burning pains in the praecordial region. Pulse. Pulse 90. Pulse slow and full. Pulse small and slow. Pulse weak. Pulse soft, small and scarcely perceptible.

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