Poison Hemlock-Umbelliferae
General
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 an 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 head perfectly still; in 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 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; nongratification 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.