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Cicuta Maculata

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Cicuta Maculata · American Water Hemlock · "The American Convulsion Hemlock"
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🎯 It acts primarily on the nervous system to produce violent, tetanic, or clonic convulsions accompanied by unconsciousness.
📖 Clarke writes:
Cicuta maculata. Water Hemlock. Spotted Cow-bane. Beaver-poison. N. O. Umbelliferae. Tincture of root gathered in summer.
👤 Characteristics
Sphere of Action & Core States
Effects are very like those of Cicuta virosa
Falls unconscious
Tetanic or clonic convulsions
Key Characteristics & Guiding Symptoms
Body covered with sweat
For comparisons see Cicuta virosa
Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Sudden loss of consciousness with falling.
Clarke
Violent tetanic or clonic convulsions.
Clarke
Bloody foam issuing from the nose and mouth.
Clarke
Face bloated, pale, or livid like a drowned person.
Clarke
Profuse sweat covering the entire body.
Clarke
Astonishing mobility of eyeballs and eyelids.
Clarke
Widely dilated pupils.
Clarke
Rigidity of the jaws.
Clarke
Spasm of the throat muscles when attempting to swallow.
Clarke
Deep sleep during intervals between vomiting.
Clarke
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Sudden collapse and loss of consciousness.
Fell on their way, and were picked up unconscious.
🔑 Modalities
Worse from
Presenting anything to the mouth
spasm of muscles of deglutition
📚 Sources & References
Clarke's DictionaryAllen's EncyclopediaBoericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraKent's Materia MedicaPhatak's Concise MM

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