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Cicuta Virosa

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Water Hemlock · "The Terrible Convulsion Remedy"
cic.PolychrestPlantUncommonPsoric
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🎯 It acts primarily on the nervous system to produce violent spasmodic conditions, convulsions, and distortions of the body.
📖 Boericke writes:
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. Among these, are thebending of the head, neck, and spine backwards, and the general action of the patient is violent, with frightful distortions. Violent, strange desires. Sensation of internal chill. Moaning and howling. Does absurd things. Marked action on the skin.
👤 Constitution
•Typically indicated for individuals suffering from severe nervous system irritation, often following head injuries or brain concussions, characterized by violent, involuntary movements.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Among these, are the bending of the head, neck, and spine backwards, and the general action of the patient is violent, with frightful distortions.
introduction
Head turned or twisted to one side.
head
Cerebro-spinal meningitis.
head
Cervical muscles contracted.
head
Pupils dilated, insensible strabismus.
eyes
Haemorrhage from ears.
ears
Back bent backward like an arch.
back and extremities
Eczema; no itching, exudation forms into a hard, lemon-colored crust.
skin
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Used for mental states involving confusion, strange behavior, and epilepsy.
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.
Mistrustful.
Epilepsy; moaning and whining.
Vivid dreams.
🔑 Modalities
↓Worse from
↑Better from
💊 Dosage & Potency
Sixth to two hundredth
Centesimal
🕒As directed
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🚫 Antidotes
Arnica Montana →Opium →
⏭️ Similar
Strychninum Purum →Hydrocyanicum Acidum →Conium Maculatum →Oenanthe Crocata →Belladonna →Lithium Bromatum →
🔄 Compare With
Belladonna →
📚 Sources & References

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