Conium maculatum
Remedy for ascending paralysis, glandular hardening, and the effects of suppressed sexual desire. Vertigo on turning the head sideways or lying down. Breasts hard, nodular, painful. Weakness and trembling.
Source
Prepared from the fresh flowering plant of Conium maculatum (Apiaceae).
Available Potencies
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Keynote Symptoms
Ascending paralysis — starts from lower extremities. Vertigo worse from turning the head or eyes sideways, lying down, turning in bed. Glandular hardening after contusions — stony hard. Weakness, trembling. Effects of suppressed sexual desire or excessive indulgence. Photophobia out of proportion to inflammation.
Mind & Emotional Symptoms
Difficulty sustaining mental effort, forgetful, dull. Indifferent, no inclination for business. Superstitious, distrustful. Depression, hypochondriasis. Aversion to society. Ailments from prolonged abstinence.
General Symptoms
Ascending paralysis. Worse from turning head, seeing moving objects, lying down, celibacy, before and during menses, cold, exertion. Better from letting limbs hang down, motion, pressure, fasting, in the dark.
Physical Symptoms
Head
Vertigo especially on turning head sideways or in bed, or on looking at moving objects. Headache as if too full, feels like a ball inside.
Eyes
Photophobia out of proportion to disease. Paralysis of ocular muscles. Weakness of vision.
Ears
Words and steps re-echo. Hardness of hearing.
Throat
Difficulty swallowing. Sensation of something stuck.
Female Genitalia
Breasts enlarge, become hard, painful, stony nodules. Menses too late, scanty, suppressed. Ovaritis. Premenstrual breast swelling and pain.
Male Genitalia
Effects of suppressed sexual desire. Enlarged prostate. Weakness after coitus.
Urinary
Interrupted flow, starts and stops. Difficulty in old men with enlarged prostate.
Extremities
Ascending paralysis and weakness. Trembling. Difficulty walking. Unsteady gait. Limbs heavy.
Skin
Glandular enlargements stony hard. Yellow discoloration. Tumours after injury.
Modalities
Better From
Letting limbs hang down, motion, pressure, fasting, in the dark
Worse From
Turning head sideways, lying down, turning in bed, celibacy, before/during menses, cold, night, exertion
Constitutional Type
Elderly persons with muscular weakness and glandular enlargement. Bachelors and widows with suppressed sexual function. Women at climacteric with hard glandular swellings.
Clinical Indications
Vertigo, breast lumps, prostate enlargement, paralysis, glandular tumours, effects of celibacy, photophobia, ascending weakness
Comparative Materia Medica
Gelsemium has paralytic weakness with trembling but more drooping eyelids and flu-like onset. Baryta carbonica has glandular swelling but more in children and elderly with mental slowness. Phytolacca has breast hardness but more pain radiating outward.
Safety Information
Coffea, Dulcamara, Nitricum acidum. Also black coffee as material antidote.
Poison hemlock contains coniine, causing ascending paralysis, respiratory failure, and death (as in the death of Socrates). Extremely toxic plant. Use only potentised forms.
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