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Conium Maculatum

30C / 200CConium
Poison Hemlock · "The Ascending Paralysis Remedy"
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🎯 It acts primarily on the glandular and nervous systems, causing induration of glands and progressive ascending paralysis.
📖 Boericke writes:
(CONIUM)
An old remedy, rendered classical by Plato's graphic description of its employment in the death of Socrates. Theascending paralysis it produces, ending in death by failure of respiration, shows the ultimate tendency of many symptoms produced in the provings, for which Conium is an excellent remedy, such as difficult gait, trembling, sudden loss of strength while walking, painful stiffness of legs. etc. Such a condition is often found in old age, a time of weakness, languor, local congestions, and sluggishness. This is the special environment that Conium choose to manifest its action. It corresponds to the debility, hypochondriasis, urinary troubles, weakened memory, sexual debility found here. Trouble at the change of life, old and bachelors. Growth of tumors invite it also. General feeling as if bruised by blows. Great debility in the morning in bed.Weakness of body and mind, trembling, and palpitation. Cancerous diathesis. Arterio-sclerosis. Caries of sternum. Enlarged glands. Acts on the glandular system, engorging and indurating it, altering its structure like scrofulous and cancerous conditions. Tonic after grippe. Insomnia of multiple neuritis.
👤 Constitution
•Typically elderly individuals, bachelors, or those experiencing the change of life, characterized by physical and mental weakness, sluggishness, and a tendency toward tumorous growths.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
The ascending paralysis it produces, ending in death by failure of respiration, shows the ultimate tendency of many symptoms produced in the provings, for which Conium is an excellent remedy, such as difficult gait, trembling, sudden loss of strength while walking, painful stiffness of legs; etc. Such a condition is often found in old age, a time of weakness, languor, local congestions, and sluggishness.
introduction
Weakness of body and mind, trembling, and palpitation.
introduction
Vertigo, when lying down, and when turning over in bed, when turning head sidewise, or turning eyes; worse, shaking head, slight noise or conversation of others, especially towards the left.
head
Photophobia and excessive lachrymation.
eyes
The slightest ulceration or abrasion will cause the intensest photophobia.
eyes
Tremulous weakness after every stool.
stool
It flows and stops again.
urine
(Ledum.) Interrupted discharge.
urine
Effects of suppressed sexual appetite.
male
Stitches in nipples.
female
Breasts enlarge and become painful before and during menses.
female
Dry cough, almost continuous, hacking; worse, evening and at night; caused by dry spot in larynx with itching in chest and throat, when lying down, talking or laughing, and during pregnancy.
respiratory
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Useful for mental exhaustion, depression, and memory loss, especially in the elderly.
Excitement causes mental depression.
Depressed, timid, averse to society, and afraid of being alone.
No inclination for business or study; takes no interest in anything.
Memory weak; unable to sustain 'any mental effort.
🔑 Modalities
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💊 Dosage & Potency
sixth to thirtieth
Centesimal
🕒infrequently
📝Best in higher potencies given infrequently, especially for growths, paretic states, etc.
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Hyoscyamus Niger →Baryta Carbonica →Hydrastis Canadensis →Iodium →Kali Phosphoricum →Curare →Scirrhinum →Kalium Phosphoricum →
📚 Sources & References

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