Cicuta Virosa


Cicuta Virosa homeopathy medicine – drug proving symptoms from Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica by TF Allen, published in 1874. It has contributions from R Hughes, C Hering, C Dunham, and A Lippe….


    Common names: Water Hemlock, Cow bane; (G). Wasserschierling, Wutherich; (Fr). La cigue vireuse.

Introduction

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).

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. (* Curative 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. Contempt 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. Confusion 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. Became insensible, and convulsed generally. Quite insensible.

Head.

Confusion and Vertigo. Confusion of the head, in the morning after rising. Confusion 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. Crawling as from ants, in the forehead (after two minutes).

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. Brow 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. Black 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. Bright spots before the eyes, at times. Bright points and stripes before the vision. A bright point seemed to float before the right eyes, mingled with dark streaks and specks.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.