Cicuta Virosa | Homoeopathic Drug picture | Homoeopathic Drug Shots

Cicuta Virosa Common name is Water Hemlock.

Kingdom : Plant Kingdom

Family : Umbelleferae

Prover : Dr. Hahnemann

CONSTITUTION

• Women subject to epileptic and choreic convulsions; spasms of teething children, or from worms.

CLINICAL INDICATIONS

• Puerperal convulsions : frequent suspension of breathing for a few moments, as if dead; upper part of the body most affected; continue after delivery.
• Epilepsy : with swelling of the stomach as from violent spasms of the diaphragm; screaming; red or bluish face; lockjaw, loss of consciousness and distortion of the limbs; frequent during the night; recurring, first at short, then at long intervals.
• When reading, the letters seem to turn, go up or down or disappear (Coc.).
• During dentition, grinding of the teeth or gums; compression of the jaws as in lockjaw.
• Abnormal appetite for chalk and indigestible things; for coal or charcoal; child eats them with apparent relish (Alum., Psor.).
• Etc.

PATHOGENESIS

• The action on the nervous system, producing spasmodic affections, viz., hiccough, trismus, tetanus, and convulsions , give the pathological picture calling especially for this remedy, whenever this is further characterized, by the more individual symptoms of the drug.

MIND

• Delirium, with singing, dancing and funny gestures.
• Everything appears strange and terrible.
• Confounds present with the past; feels like a child.
• Stupid feeling.
• Melancholy, with indifference.
• Epilepsy; moaning and whining.
• Vivid dreams.

HEAD

• Head turned or twisted to one side. Cerebro-spinal meningitis. Cervical muscles contracted.
• Vertigo, with gastralgia, and muscular spasms.
• Sudden, violent shocks through head.
• Stares persistently at objects.
• Convulsions from concussion of brain.
• Thick, yellow scabs on head.
• Head symptoms relieved by emission of flatus.

EYES

• When reading, letters disappear.
• Pupils dilated, insensible strabismus.
• Objects recede, approach, and seem double.
• Eyes stare.
• Pupils get behind upper lids as head inclines.
• Effects of exposure to snow.
• Spasmodic affections of eyes and its appendages.
• Strabismus; periodic, spasmodic after a fall or a blow.

EARS

• Difficult hearing.
• Sudden detonations especially on swallowing.
• Haemorrhage from ears.

FACE

• Pustules which run together forming thick, yellow scabs on face and head, corners of mouth and chin, with burning pain.
• Red face.
• Trismus; disposition to grind teeth.

THROAT

• Dry.
• Feels as if grown together.
• Spasms of oesophagus; cannot swallow.
• Effects on oesophagus from swallowing sharp piece of bone.

STOMACH

• Thirst; burning pressure; hiccough.
• Throbbing in pit of stomach, which has become raised to size of fist.
• Desire for unnatural things, like coal. [Alum.; Calc.] Indigestion, with insensibility, frothing at mouth.

ABDOMEN

• Flatulence with anxiety and crossness.
• Rumbling in.
• Distended and painful.
• Colic with convulsions.

RECTUM

• Diarrhoea in morning, with irresistible desire to urinate.
• Itching in rectum.

RESPIRATORY

• Chest feels tight; can hardly breathe.
• Tonic spasm in pectoral muscles.
• Heat in chest.

BACK AND EXTREMITIES

• Spasms and cramps in muscles of nape of neck, and spasmodic drawing backward of head.
• Curved limbs cannot be straightened nor straight ones bent.
• Back bent backward like an arch.
• Jerking, tearing in coccyx, especially during menses.

SKIN

• Eczema; no itching, exudation forms into a hard, lemon-colored crust.
• Suppressed eruption causes brain disease.
• Elevated eruptions, as large as peas.
• Chronic impetigo.

MODALITIES

• Worse, from touch, draughts, concussion, tobacco smoke.

 RELATIONSHIP

• Antidotes : Opium; Arn.
• Compare : Cicuta Maculata – Water Hemlock – (Effects very similar; the most prominent symptoms being; Falls unconscious, tetanic or clonic convulsions. Body covered with sweat. Consider in epilepsy and tetanus. Tincture and lower potencies.) Hydrocy. acid; Con.; Oenanth.; Strychnia; Bellad; Hyper., Nux, Strych.

DOSE

• Sixth to two hundredth attenuation.