{"id":16119,"remedy_name":"Cicuta Virosa","remedy_type":"Herbal Remedy","alternative_names":[""],"miasm":"Psoric Miasm","temperament":"Chilly","aggravation_time":"Morning","keynote_indications":"Source: Derived from the fresh root of Cicuta virosa, a highly toxic perennial plant in the Apiaceae. family, native to Europe and North America, prepared for homeopathic use through maceration,. serial dilution, and succussion to enhance therapeutic action and eliminate toxicity. Traditional Context : Historically employed in homeopathy for  neurological, convulsive, and. psychological disorders, particularly those involving spasms, epilepsy, and mental disturbances. It. is noted for symptoms such as violent convulsions, opisthotonos (backward arching), and strange. mental states, often aggravated by touch, noise, or cold, and ameliorated by warmth, rest, or quiet. environments. Modern Context: Indicated for neurological disorders (e.g., epilepsy, tremors), musculoskeletal. complaints (e.g., spasms, tetanus-like rigidity), psychological conditions (e.g., delirium, anxiety),. respiratory issues (e.g., stridor, dyspnea), and systemic symptoms (e.g., fever, exhaustion). It suits. patients with acute or chronic symptoms characterized by convulsions, muscle rigidity, delirium,. or  hypersensitivity, typically exacerbated by sensory stimuli, cold, or trauma, and often seen in. individuals with a history of seizures, neurological injury, or severe emotional stress. The remedy is. particularly relevant for those with a sensitive, chilly constitution, often presenting with physical. symptoms like violent spasms or stridor alongside emotional traits like confusion or fearfulness,. commonly observed in children with febrile seizures, adults with epilepsy, or individuals with post-. traumatic neurological symptoms.","modalities":"Worse from: Touch, noise, cold (air, weather), jarring, motion, sensory stimuli, emotional. stress, contradiction, night, cold drinks, exertion, trauma, damp weather.","symptoms_by_system":{"Mind":"Dullness after injuries of head. Anxiety about future.  Excitement and ap prehension about future. \nExcessively affected by sad stories. Horrible things, sad stories affect her profoundly.  Sad when seeing \nothers happy. Worse from fright (Op., Ig.). Fright can cause epilepsy. \nSuspicious. Mistrustful, shuns men. Aver sion to presence of strangers.  Despises others. Aversion to \ncompany. Desires to be alone during menses. Contemptuous. Melancholy with indifference. Sadness after \nconcussion of brain. \nDoes notremember what has happened, does not recognize a nybody but answers well. Feels as if he was in \na strange place. Everything appears strange and terrible. Avoids the sight of people.  Confounds present \nwith the past, feels like a child. Memory blank, for hours or days. Thinking of complaints helps.  \nFalls to ground and rolls about with or without convulsions. Moaning, howling and weeping.  Epilepsy with \nmoaning and whining. Stupefaction between convulsions. Shrieking before convulsions.  Delirium with \ngestures. Mania with dancing, laughing and ridiculous gestu res. Sings, dances, shouts. Violent. Impulsive. \nRash behavior. Childish behavior. Hallucinations and convulsions after typhoid. Dullness after injuries of head. Anxiety about future.  Excitement and ap prehension about future. \nExcessively affected by sad stories. Horrible things, sad stories affect her profoundly.  Sad when seeing \nothers happy. Worse from fright (Op., Ig.). Fright can cause epilepsy. \nSuspicious. Mistrustful, shuns men. Aver sion to presence of strangers.  Despises others. Aversion to \ncompany. Desires to be alone during menses. Contemptuous. Melancholy with indifference. Sadness after \nconcussion of brain. \nDoes notremember what has happened, does not recognize a nybody but answers well. Feels as if he was in \na strange place. Everything appears strange and terrible. Avoids the sight of people.  Confounds present \nwith the past, feels like a child. Memory blank, for hours or days. Thinking of complaints helps.  \nFalls to ground and rolls about with or without convulsions. Moaning, howling and weeping.  Epilepsy with \nmoaning and whining. Stupefaction between convulsions. Shrieking before convulsions.  Delirium with \ngestures. Mania with dancing, laughing and ridiculous gestu res. Sings, dances, shouts. Violent. Impulsive. \nRash behavior. Childish behavior. Hallucinations and convulsions after typhoid.","Vertigo":"Vertigo with stomach pain and muscular spasms. Objects move from side to side or approach and \nrecede. Vertigo with desire to hold on to something when standing still. Vertigo with reeling, fall ing to the \nground. Vertigo on stooping. Vertigo after injuries to head. Vertigo on rising from bed. \nVision - Momentary loss of vision. Frequent vanishing of sight. Letters disappear or go up and down. Colors \nof rainbow around letters. Letters seem to turn when reading. Objects appear black. Objects vacillate. Diplopia. \nIris-like circles around candle. \nCan scarcely see in sunlight. \nCOMMENTS - Characteristic twitching and spasmodic jerks. \u201cBending the head back- wrd.\u201dUseful forresidue \nfrom a trauma that included convulsions, or if current treatment masks residue symptoms. \nConvulsions, epilepsy, severe neck and spinal trauma, head injuries. Keynote arching of the back. Epilepsy, \nspasms, trauma cases, or spinal diseases with severe back spasms. \nContortions of the body. The body takes on strange postures and  contortions of the limbs. Chorea (Caust.), \ninvoluntary contractions, jerking, and rigidity of the limbs. Mania, dancing, singing, grotesque postures (Hyos.). \nMoans and howls with great agitation, makes gesticulations, odd motions, head turned or twisted t o one side. \nCataleptic after contortions, no recall of the attack, tranquil feeling (Op.). Utter prostration after the convulsions. \nDrug overdoses with convulsions, paralysis, respiratory failure, twitching and jerking of the limbs.  \nCerebrospinal meningitis, the opisthotonos being the leading indication. Meningitis, where the neck goes back, \neyes are glassy and body is twitching and jerking with spasms and a high fever (Bell, without the flushed face). \nDelirium in meningitis, pupils are fixed and staring. \nTetanus (Hyper., Led.), with violent spasms and severe lockjaw. Usually later stages of clinical tetanus. Head \ninjuries that cause visual disturbances, twitchings of the eyes, double vision. Lazy eye, strabismus.  \nEclampsia, toxemia. Convulsions during preg nancy. Convulsions due to uremia, too much uric acid in the \nblood or kidney failure. Strange desires, such as to eat coal. \nMarked action on the skin, including the eruption of pustules which run together with yellowish honey -colored \nscabs, especially about  mouth and matting the whiskers. Epithelioma, growths covered with honey colored \nscabs. \nNash cured eczema capitis in a young woman with Cic. Her whole scalp was covered as with a solid cap.  \nGrimmer used it for cancers of the skin, epithelioma, convulsive v iolence as in cerebrospinal meningitis. Also \nin opisthoto nos, strabismus, violent spasmodic jerks, paralysis, especially of the bladder, stricture of the \nesophagus. \nTeste mentioned the case of a woman of 58 who ceased to menstruate at 30 in consequence of  a fright, and \nwho was of \u201crobust constitution, irritable, nervous and excessively fanciful and odd.\u201d She had a chronic swelling \nof the left ovary. Cic. had a remarkably quieting effect for several weeks, and during that time the swelling \ndiminished considerably. The patient had to leave Paris, so the treatment could not be followed up.  \nDr. H. Von Musits treated a case of acute meningitis in J. N. R., 43, male, married, a user of alcohol and \ntobacco, bookkeeper. \nAfter the intense summer heat, symptoms devel oped including convulsions, distortion of limbs, head turned \nbackward. Trismus. Froth from mouth. Biting of the tongue. Oppression of breathing. Entire loss of \nconsciousness and of power of swallowing. Convulsions, followed by complete exhaus tion. Stupor. Swelling \nof face. Inability to move the tongue. The whole body seems to be of enormous size.  \nThe patient had three convulsions during twenty -four hours, followed by the swelling of the tongue and body. \nExtreme trembling of the hands. Articulation difficult. \nNext day, profuse watery diarrhea stools, worse by any noise, sudden entrance of any person into the room \n \n \nor loud talking. Better by rest and in a dark room. Several times previously he had symptoms of nervous \nexhaustion. His brother, a physician, died the previous spring from paresis in consequence of excessive use \nof alcohol and drugging. \nAfter two doses of Cic. 200c there were no more convulsions and the patient was perfectly cured in two weeks. \nThere was no relapse. \nBanerjee recorded the case of \u201cA lad, aged five years, had an attack of cholera three days before my visit. Had \nbeen treated by a homeopath from beginning of attack. \nThe patient was suffering from convul sions, when I first saw him on the fourth day. The convulsive fits were \nvery severe since the third day of the attack of cholera. \n\u201cThe symptoms were: eyes half turned, head drawn toward the left side and the hands and feet of the same \nside were contracted. He was given Bell., Hyos., Cina and Bryonia without effect. Cicuta virosa was then given. \nThe first dose mitigated the severity of the fits, the second dose put the child to sleep and thus he was saved \nfrom imminent death.\u201d","Head":"Headache on waking in morning. Convulsions from concussion of brain. Sudden, violent shocks \nthrough head. Head turned or twisted to one side. Congestion of head with vomiting and purgi ng. Head \nretracted, spine rigid. \nNeck muscles are contracted.  Headache alternating with pain in abdomen. Head symptoms relieved by \nemission of flatus. Cerebrospinal meningitis. One-sided headache, stupefying, as from a rush of blood, better \nsitting erect. Cerebral diseases following suppressed eruptions. Sudden, violent shocks through head. \nJerks the head. Thick, yellow scabs on head. Sweat during sleep. Headache on waking in morning. Convulsions from concussion of brain. Sudden, violent shocks \nthrough head. Head turned or twisted to one side. Congestion of head with vomiting and purgi ng. Head \nretracted, spine rigid. \nNeck muscles are contracted.  Headache alternating with pain in abdomen. Head symptoms relieved by \nemission of flatus. Cerebrospinal meningitis. One-sided headache, stupefying, as from a rush of blood, better \nsitting erect. Cerebral diseases following suppressed eruptions. Sudden, violent shocks through head. \nJerks the head. Thick, yellow scabs on head. Sweat during sleep.","Eyes":"Pupils dilated in concussion of the brain, contracted in spasms. Strabismus, periodic, spasmodic after \na fall or blow. Eyelids twitch. Spasmodic di sorders of eyes. Eyes roll, jerk and stare. Stares persistently at \nobjects. Objects recede, ap proach and seem double, black. Letters go up and down or disappear, when \nreading. Effects of exposure to snow.","Ears":"Ears hot or cold. Earache caused by filling teeth with gold. Hemorrhage from ears. Sore behind ear \nas after a blow. Suppurating, burning eruption on and about ears. Oversensitiveness of hearing. Difficult \nhearing. Doesn't hear well unless one speaks loudly  to her, and she pays attention. Sudden detonation, \nespecially on swallowing. Roaring noises in ears.","Face":"Ashy paleness of face, during con vulsions. Flushed face, with headache and restless sleep. Red or \n \n \npale face and drawn, sweaty. Face is distorted horrible or ridiculously. Trismus, disposition to grind teeth. \nLockjaw. Twitching of facial muscles. Faceache caused by filling teeth with gold. Pustules which run together \nforming thick, yellow scabs on face and head. Dark red pimples on face. Epithelioma of lips. Painful ulcers on \nlips.","Mouth":"Foam in and around mouth. Swelling of the tongue, speech difficult. Bites the tongue. Grinding of the \nteeth with lockjaw. Water brash, saliva flows from mouth wi th heat all over. Thirst, burning pressure. White, \npainful, burning ulcers on edges of tongue, painful to touch. Tongue coated, dry. Speech difficul. Stuttering. \nCouldn't speak from having no control over movements of tongue and mouth. Speechlessness from wounded \nesophagus. Speechlessness in cerebrospinal meningitis. \nNose - Slight touch causes it to bleed. Fre quent sneezing without coryza. Nostrils seem stopped. Nostrils \nulcerated, with yellow, purulent discharge from nose. \nPerspiration - Sweats at night and in morning. Sweats on abdomen. Profuse sweats at night, without being \nable to sleep.","Throat":"Effects of swallowing sharp fish bones. Dry. Feels as if grown together. Spasms of esophagus, cannot \nswallow from injury of fish bone etc. Stricture of esophagus. Strangling on att empting to swallow. Danger of \nsuffocation from swallowing sharp pieces of bone. Chok ing on attempting to examine the throat. Constriction \nof esophagus from intestinal irritation. Constriction with spasmodic contraction of muscles of neck, almost like \ntetanus.","Chest":"Stridor or choking sensations, with difficulty breathing, resembling laryngospasm or. vocal cord dysfunction, worse with cold air, excitement, or touch. Dyspnea  or  wheezing,  with  a  sensation  of  constriction,  resembling  asthma  or. anaphylaxis, aggravated by cold, damp weather, or emotional stress. Cough, spasmodic or dry, with throat irritation, resembling post-viral cough, worse. with cold air or noise. Tendency  to  respiratory  distress  during  convulsive  episodes,  with  cyanosis  or. gasping, worse with sensory stimuli or cold. Systemic:. Fever, often with chills or sweating, resembling febrile seizures or post-ictal states,. worse with cold, exertion, or emotional stress. Profound exhaustion or collapse, with a sensation of weakness, resembling chronic. fatigue syndrome or post-viral exhaustion, worse after convulsions or cold exposure. Cicuta virosa (Water Hemlock) 609. Cold intolerance, with aggravation in cold, damp conditions and a strong desire for. warmth or quiet environments. Profuse, cold, or clammy sweating, particularly during fever, spasms, or anxiety. episodes, worse at night or in cold conditions.","Stomach & Abdomen":"Burning heat in stomach. Hiccoughs. Loud hiccough with crying, alternating with thoracic spasms. \nIndigestion, with insensibility, frothing at mouth. Vomiting of bile of blood on stooping, on rising in pregnancy. \nThrobbing in pit of the stomach with distention. Pains with vomiting, painful distension of abdomen and spasm \nof pectoral muscles. Vomiting during convulsions. Vomit yellow, like mucus. Vomiting during headache.  \nTeeth - Toothache caused by filling teeth with gold. Grinding of teeth with pressing of jaws together like lockjaw. \nTemperature - Chilliness, constant desire to be near a warm stove. Chill starts in chest and runs down legs \nand into arms with staring look. Cold internally and externally. Typhoid fever. Nervous fever, characterized by \ngreat stupidity. Worm fevers in children, with colic and convulsions. Distended and painful. Rumbling in abdomen. Flatulence with anxiety and crossness. Colic with \nconvulsions with vomiti ng. Heat and burning in ab domen. Sudden, sharp, pains from navel extending to \nneck of bladder. Tearing pain deep in abdomen. \nObserved: Flatulence with anxiety and crossness. Rumbling in abdomen. Dis tended and painful. Chronic \npainful hernia. Back - Spasms and cramps in muscles of neck. The head drawn backwards. Opisthotonos. \nBack bent backward like an arch. Muscles of neck contract and become hard as wood. Weakness in muscles \nof back after standing only a short time. Jerking, tearing in coccyx, especially  during menses. Right scapula \nas if bruised. Neuralgia at nape with dull occipital headache. \nCausations - Bad effects from falls, blows and concussions. Tetanus. Splinters in flesh. Inability to distinguish between edible and inedible. Stomachache, sleepiness, feel satisfied \nimmediately after eating. Great hunger soon after a meal. Craves coal, chalk and many other strang e \narticles. Longing for wine. Thirst, extreme, with convulsions.","Urinary & Genital":"Testes drawn up towards external abdominal rings. Sharp pains in fossa navicularis, with nightly \nemissions. Sore, drawing pains in urethra, as far as glans, obliging one to urinate. Pollutions without lascivious \ndreams. Spasmodic states when menses do not appear. Coccyx painful during menses. Puerperal \nconvulsions. Eclampsia during childbirth. Convulsions during pregnancy, delivery.","Extremities":"Muscle spasms or rigidity, with sudden, violent contractions, resembling tetanus or. dystonia, worse with cold, touch, or jarring. Opisthotonos or backward arching of the spine, with stiffness or pain, resembling. severe muscle spasms, aggravated by noise, cold, or trauma. Cramping  or  jerking  of  muscles,  particularly  in  the  neck  or  back,  resembling. myoclonus, worse with exertion or sensory overload. Tendency to muscular weakness post-spasm, with a sensation of collapse, worse after. convulsive episodes. Psychological:. Delirium  or  confusion,  with  strange  or  childish  behavior,  resembling  acute. confusional states or delirium tremens, worse with sensory stimuli, cold, or stress. Anxiety or fearfulness, with a sense of impending doom, resembling generalized. anxiety disorder or acute stress reaction, aggravated by noise, touch, or uncertainty. Irritability  or  mood  swings,  often  linked  to  physical  discomfort,  resembling. adjustment disorder, worse with contradiction or sensory overload. Mental dullness or detachment, with difficulty concentrating, resembling dissociative. states, worse with exhaustion or cold exposure. Respiratory:. Stridor or choking sensations, with difficulty breathing, resembling laryngospasm or. vocal cord dysfunction, worse with cold air, excitement, or touch. Dyspnea  or  wheezing,  with  a  sensation  of  constriction,  resembling  asthma  or. anaphylaxis, aggravated by cold, damp weather, or emotional stress. Cough, spasmodic or dry, with throat irritation, resembling post-viral cough, worse. with cold air or noise. Tendency  to  respiratory  distress  during  convulsive  episodes,  with  cyanosis  or. gasping, worse with sensory stimuli or cold. Systemic:. Fever, often with chills or sweating, resembling febrile seizures or post-ictal states,. worse with cold, exertion, or emotional stress. Profound exhaustion or collapse, with a sensation of weakness, resembling chronic. fatigue syndrome or post-viral exhaustion, worse after convulsions or cold exposure. Cicuta virosa (Water Hemlock) 609. Cold intolerance, with aggravation in cold, damp conditions and a strong desire for. warmth or quiet environments. Profuse, cold, or clammy sweating, particularly during fever, spasms, or anxiety. episodes, worse at night or in cold conditions.","Skin":"Fever, often with chills or sweating, resembling febrile seizures or post-ictal states,. worse with cold, exertion, or emotional stress. Profound exhaustion or collapse, with a sensation of weakness, resembling chronic. fatigue syndrome or post-viral exhaustion, worse after convulsions or cold exposure. Cicuta virosa (Water Hemlock) 609. Cold intolerance, with aggravation in cold, damp conditions and a strong desire for. warmth or quiet environments. Profuse, cold, or clammy sweating, particularly during fever, spasms, or anxiety. episodes, worse at night or in cold conditions.","Sleep":"Complete sleeplessness in hysteri cal spasms. Frequent waking, with sweat all over, from which he \nfeels refreshed. Bites the tongue in sleep. Starting during sleep. Deep sleep. Dreams vivid, but not \nremembered. Vivid dreams about events \nof previous day. Nightmares after movies and sad stories. Nightmares of people being mutilated, attacked, \n \n \ntortured."},"schema_version":"1.0","api_provider":"Allahshafi"}