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 ( Aur. ); excitement of any kind causes mental depression.

Dreads being alone, yet avoids society ( Kali c. , Lyc. ).

Glandular induration of stony hardness; of mammae and testicles in persons of cancerous tendency; after bruises and injuries of glands (compare, Aster. rub. ).

Breasts sore, hard and painful before and during menstruation ( Lac c. , Kali c. ).

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 ( Col. ); of old people; with ovarian and uterine complaints.

Cough: in spasmodic paroxysms caused by dry spot in larynx (in throat, Act. ); with itching in chest and throat ( Iod. ); worse at night, when lying down, and during pregnancy ( Caust. , Kali br. ).

Great difficulty in voiding urine; flow intermits, then flows again; prostatic 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 ( Dul. ); stopped by taking cold; by putting hands in cold water ( Lac d. ).

Leucorrhoea: ten days after menses ( Bor. , Bov. ); 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 ( Psor. ).

Sweat day and night, as soon as one sleeps, or even when closing the eyes ( Cinch. ).

Relations. – Patients requiring Conium often improve from wine or stimulants, though persons susceptible to Conium cannot take alcoholic stimulants when in health.

Compare: Arn. , Rhus in contusions; Ars. , Aster , in cancer; Cal. , Psor. in glandular swellings.

Is followed well: by, Psor. in tumors of mammae with threatening malignancy.

Aggravation. – At night; lying down; turning or rising up, in bed; celibacy.