{"id":16149,"remedy_name":"Conium","remedy_type":"Herbal Remedy","alternative_names":[""],"miasm":"Emotional Miasm","temperament":"Chilly","aggravation_time":"Night","keynote_indications":"An ancient remedy, rendered classical by Plato's graphic description of this poison given to \nthe Greek philosopher Socrates to cause his death. The ascending paralysis it produces, ending in respiration \nfailure, shows the ultimate tendency of many symptoms produced in the provings.  \nCon. has difficult gait, trembling, sudden loss of strength while walking, painful stiffness of legs , urinary \ntroubles, weakened memory, \nsexual debility, etc. Affects the nerves and muscles, causing incoordination and paraly sis, uncertain gait, \ndifficult speech. Patient becomes gradually weak. Irregular, action, and development of symptoms. \nProgressive debility. Great debility in the morning in bed. General feeling as if bruised by blows. Weakness \nof body and mind. Trembling  of all the limbs, with palpitations. Suddenly sick and weak with numbness. \nParoxysms of hysteria and hypochondriasis from sexual abstinence or sexual excess. Hysterical convulsions. \nFaints at stool. \nGlands, especially breasts and ovaries, are affected with engorgement and stony indurations.  Alters \nglandular structure to scrofulous and cancerous conditions. Sensa tion as of a lump in b rain, in epigastrium. \nTearing, stabbing pains. New growths. Cancerous diathesis. \nAscending symptoms, paralysis  after diphtheria. Arteriosclerosis. Decay of ster num. Insomnia of multiple \nneuritis. Easily intoxicated (Zinc.). Sensation as of a hoop or band or something tight around the part. Desire \nfor warmth, especially that of sun. Great liability to take cold. Night and morning sweat with offensive odor and \nsmarting in skin or offensive odor without sweat. \nOften found in old age, a time of debility, weak ness, languor, local congestions and sluggishness. Useful in \nold age or for those persons who become old early. Troubles at the change of life, old maids, bachelors. For \nyouths who suffer from ill effects of masturbation. Tumor growth invites it. Tonic aft er influenza.","modalities":"Better while fasting. Better from letting limbs hang down. Better walking bent. Better sitting down. \nBetter stooping. Better walking. Better motion. Better pressure. Better sun. Better dark. Worse from seeing \nmoving objects. W orse sexual abuse or excess. Worse from celibacy. Worse before and during menses. \nWorse old age. Worse alcohol. Worse pressure of tight clothing. Worse raising arms. Worse standing. Worse \nlying down with head low. Worse turning in bed. Worse jar. Worse after exertion. Worse bodily or mental \n \n \ninjury. Worse at night. Worse cold, taking cold. Worse snowy air. Worse spring. Worse dry, hot air.","symptoms_by_system":{"Mind":"Slow, impaired comprehension. Difficulty in understanding what is read. Difficulty concentrating. \nCannot think after using eyes. Poor memory, symptoms similar to Alzheimer's disease. Benumbed sensation. \nInability to sustain mental effort, tired sensation in brain, imbecility. Senility, weakness. \nTimid. Indifferent. Depression. Grief, especially from loss of personal property (Aur.). Grief after death of a \nloved one, after a prolonged illness. Consolation ag gravates (Nat -m.). Sad, dissa tisfied with herself and \nsurroundings. As if great guilt \nweighed upon him. \nExcitement causes mental depression. Feel as if they were to cry and swallow and choke as from a lump in \nthe throat. Tired of life. Discouraged. Broken down feeling. Trifles seem im portant. Cares very little for things. \nNo inclination for business or study. Makes useless purchases, wastes or ruins them. Sensation of unreality, \nas if in a dream. \nInsanity, periodical or alternating. Su perstitious. Worse when idle. Averse to society, y et fears being alone, \nespecially during menses. Ill effects of repressed sexual desire. \nWhile walking on the road wants to grab and abuse somebody. Likes to wear his best clothes. Thinks that \nanimals are jumping on his bed. Slow, impaired comprehension. Difficulty in understanding what is read. Difficulty concentrating. \nCannot think after using eyes. Poor memory, symptoms similar to Alzheimer's disease. Benumbed sensation. \nInability to sustain mental effort, tired sensation in brain, imbecility. Senility, weakness. \nTimid. Indifferent. Depression. Grief, especially from loss of personal property (Aur.). Grief after death of a \nloved one, after a prolonged illness. Consolation ag gravates (Nat -m.). Sad, dissa tisfied with herself and \nsurroundings. As if great guilt \nweighed upon him. \nExcitement causes mental depression. Feel as if they were to cry and swallow and choke as from a lump in \nthe throat. Tired of life. Discouraged. Broken down feeling. Trifles seem im portant. Cares very little for things. \nNo inclination for business or study. Makes useless purchases, wastes or ruins them. Sensation of unreality, \nas if in a dream. \nInsanity, periodical or alternating. Su perstitious. Worse when idle. Averse to society, y et fears being alone, \nespecially during menses. Ill effects of repressed sexual desire. \nWhile walking on the road wants to grab and abuse somebody. Likes to wear his best clothes. Thinks that \nanimals are jumping on his bed.","Vertigo":"Vertigo, when lying down and when turning over in bed, when turning \nheadsidewise or turning eyes, worse shaking head, slight noise or conversation of others, especially towards \nthe left. \nCOMMENTS - Hahnemann noted that it is exceedingly difficult to disti nguish between the primary and \nsecondary effects of Con. He thought that the primary action is one of \u201crigidity, condensation and constriction \nof the tissues with swelling of the glands and diminution of the senses.\u201d \nTeste concurred, adding that the action  is primarily inflammatory and that this accounts for its suitability for \n\u201cpersons of a lively, quick, sanguine disposition with a marked development of the glandular system.\u201d It is \ncharacteristically adapted to painful glandular affections, \u201cprincipally s uch as result from a strain or blow, but \nthe precise cause of which may have escaped our recollection.\u201d \nTeste placed Con. at the head of the analogs of Aeon. Con. is to the glands and capillary system what Aeon, \nis to the heart and arterial system. In many cases Con. may be regarded as the \u201cAconite of chronic diseases.\u201d \nThe other Aeon, analogs, according to him, are Cham., Seneg., Canth. and Ph-ac. \nScirrhus tumors, ulcerating and otherwise. Chronic or sub-acute inflammation with bloody engorgement of the \nparenchyma, induration, and even subsequent ulceration of the tissues.  \nInduration and inflammations of the breast and nipples. Useful for treating indurated, precancerous tissues. \nBreast cancer with a history of trauma to the breast. Hard lumps in breast, induration, can be painless. Breast \ncan shrivel, atrophy (lod.). Effects of hurts to the breast by falls or blows. \nPains in breast before menses, worse by every step. Scanty menses, especially in old maids. Checked lochia. \nIndurated cervix, cervical cancer. Prostate and testicular cancer. \nSexual conditions including hypertrophy or atrophy of glands, excess of function or abrogation. Unsatisfied \nsexual desire, ailments from suppressed sex drive. Hysteria and hypochondriasis from abstinence from sexual \nintercourse. \nPronounced constipation or diarrhea. Weakness, tremulousness and palpitation after every evacuation. \nFaintness after stool. Burning or coldness in the rectum. Flatulent tendency (Ammc., Asaf.). Pancreatic cancer \n(Calc-ar., Phos.). \nPhotophobia, ptosis. Red vision. Sweat on closing the eyes. Eye symptoms are worse night and early morning. \n \n \nAccumulation of earwax. Hot spots on the head. Erysipelas, pain piercing to brain.  \nNumbness and deadness of limbs. Stab bing pains. Weak -spells, faintness, sudd en loss of strength while \nwalking. Ascending paralysis. Multiple sclerosis. \nVertigo, particularly in the elderly, worse on turning in bed or sudden turns from side to side. Symptoms worse \nwhen idle. \nGrimmer noted its usefulness in breast cancer after bruis es orinjuries. Sterck used Con. and made some \nnotable cures of scirrhus tumors, ulcerating and otherwise. \nA. H. Birdsall reported a case of contusion of the testicle. He found the patient writh ing in agony, the pain \ncomplained of being \u201csharp, cutting, running up spermatic cord to lower part of back and also through scrotum \nto root of penis.\u201d Con. 200c relieved in five minutes and at the end of twenty minutes the pain was gone.  \nClarke used the remedy with success in many cases of weakness from masturba tion in men and youths. \n\u201cEmission on the slightest stimulus, such as merely being in the society of a woman.\u201d  \nGoodno cured a girl of 25 of severe dysmenorrhea with scanty, almost arrested flow, which had existed since \nthe periods commenced. She also had nosebleed, cough and stitches through the left lung at times. Two years \npreviously, after unusual excitement. she had bearing-down pains, prolapse and ante-version. \nThe dysmenorrhea pains were relieved by Sepia and other remedies, but the prolapse increased with bearing-\ndown as though the womb would be forced from the vulva, worse standing and walking, before and during \nmenses. Intermittent flow of urine. Cutting pain after urination. \nObstinate constipation of long standing. Stool (once in seven days) large, ha rd, fol lowed by tremulous \nweakness, she must lie down. Dull pain below left breast. Prompt relief and speedy cure were effected by Con. \n1,000c. \nProell mentioned excellent results with Con. 10c in strangury and ischuria, when the urine cannot be \ndischarged from nervousness or swelling of the prostate (Nat-s. 5c trituration was effective where the bladder \ncould not be entirely emptied.). \nSircar recorded a striking case of a patient who had severe diarrhea, for which he was about to give Sulph., \nwhen he asked if the stools were hot. \u201cOn the contrary, they are cold,\u201d replied the patient. Sircar found \u201ccold \nflatulence\u201d under Con. and gave it on analogy with brilliant effect. \nGuernsey wrote \u201cThis remedy is characterized by a great dizziness, brought on when ly ing down and moving \nthe head ever so slightly or even the eyes\u2014all the contents of the room appear to whirl around, patient wishes \nto keep the head perfectly still. In urinating the water flows at first in a full stream, then stops, flows again, \nagain stops.\u201d \nNash thought \u201cturning the head sideways\u201d is the most characteristic form of the modality \u201cworse by moving the \nhead.\u201d Some give it is as \u201clying down in bed and turning over,\u201d but he regards the \u201clying down\u201d as the least \nimportant part. Nash cured a pat ient who had all the symptoms of locomotor ataxia and who could not, when \nwalking, turn the head the least bit sideways without staggering or falling. \nA case of lumbago was cured with Con. in six days after seven months' suffering. Symptoms include an inability \nto turn over in bed without being dizzy, worse ascend ing, by exercise. Feeling of ball pressing into back over \nleft hip. Pain shooting down left leg, ending in a spot that felt as though pricked by a bunch of hot needles. \nYellow nails. \nNash mentioned the characteristic \u201cSweats day or night, as soon as one sleeps or even on closing the eyes.\u201d \nThis enabled Lippe to cure a man of 80 of hemiplegia. \nR. C. Markham cured with Con. 1,000c. an obstinate cough, dry, hard, frequent with  \nConium maculatum asthmatic wheezing or fine rattling in chest on deep breathing, worse slightest exposure \nto cold air, getting into cold bed or out of a warm one or even putting arms out was sufficient to bring on severe \ncoughing. \nThe guiding symptom which appeared last an d led to the remedy was a pain in the apex of the left lung with \nsoreness in a small spot midway between neck and shoulder just back of the clavicle. The pain, cutting and \nstitch-like, ran downward and inward toward the sternum.","Head":"Stupefying headache, with nausea and vomiting of mucus with a feeling as of foreign body under the \nskull. Temples compressed, worse after meals. Sensation as of a lump in right half of brain. Sick headaches \nwith inability to urinate. Pain in head from sinciput to occiput, better stooping and moving the head. Bruised,  \nsemi-lateral pains. Dull occipital pain on rising in morning. Sensation of fullness, bursting in brain during \nheadache. One side numb and cold. Hot spots on head. Stupefying headache, with nausea and vomiting of mucus with a feeling as of foreign body under the \nskull. Temples compressed, worse after meals. Sensation as of a lump in right half of brain. Sick headaches \nwith inability to urinate. Pain in head from sinciput to occiput, better stooping and moving the head. Bruised,  \nsemi-lateral pains. Dull occipital pain on rising in morning. Sensation of fullness, bursting in brain during \nheadache. One side numb and cold. Hot spots on head.","Eyes":"Paralysis of ocular muscles (Caust.). Feel crossed. Lids, heavy, droop worse outside. Ptosis of eyelids. \nConjunctivitis and keratitis. Photophobia and excessive lachrymation without inflammation or from slightest \nabrasion or ulceration of the eye. Burning in eyes. Sweats on closing eyes. Corneal pustules. Cataract after \neye injury. Diplopia. Myopia. Dim-sighted, worse artificial light. Vision colored, red. As if fringe falling over eyes. \nBlack spots before eyes with vertigo. Vision becomes more blurred when vexed.","Ears":"Accumulation of ear wax like paper pulp or blood. Red, hard wax, causing hardness of hearing. Ears \nfeel stopped on blowing nose. Oversensitive to noise. Parotid gland swollen and hard.","Face":"Moist and spreading herpes on face. Cancer of the lip from pressure of pipe. Sub -maxillary glands are \nswollen and hard.","Mouth":"Toothache, worse cold food, but not cold drinks. Tongue cancer. Sour saliva. Soreness about the root \nof tongue. Distortion of tongue and mouth. Speech difficult from paralysis of tongue.  \nNose - Polyps. Bleeds easily, becomes sore. Picks nose constantly. Frequent sneezing. Obstinate obstruction \nof nose. Acute smell.","Throat":"As if a round body were ascending from stomach (globus). Food goes down the wrong way and stops. \nParesis of esophagus. Constant inclination to swal low as from a lump in the throat worse walking in open air. \nTonsils enlarged.","Chest":"Sharp pain from sternum to spine. Decay of the sternum. Tightness of chest better by cough ing. The \nclothes lie like a weight on chest and shoulders. \nConstitutions - Corresponds to elderly persons, old, feeble men, old maids and bachelors. Persons of strong, \nsedentary habit more than to lively. Persons who are easily intoxicated with stimulants (Zinc.). Slender persons \nand children. Scrofulous constitutions, cancers and glandular enlargements. Cancerous diathesis. Palpitations, worse exertion, drinking, at stools, etc. Pulse unequal, irregular.  \nKidneys - Difficulty in passing urine in the beginning even when standing, then it flows freely. Interrupted \nurination, urine stops and starts, better standing. Dribbling in old men (Cop.). Urine feels very hot. Interrupted \ndischarge (Clem.). Cutting and burning after urination. Shortness of breath on taking the least exercise, oppressed breathing, con striction of chest, pains in \nchest. Constant tormenting cough from dry spot in the larynx or tickling in chest and throat pit, worse when \nlying down, laughing, talking and during pregnancy, has to sit up. Cough seems to come from abdomen. Cough \non \ntaking deep breath. Loose coughs without expectoration, has to swallow what he coughs up.","Stomach & Abdomen":"Attacks of sick feeling.  Painful spasms of the stomach. Distention of stom ach after taking milk. \nBetter from eating, aggravation a few hours after meals. Acrid heartburn and acid belchings, worse on going \nto bed. Acidity and burning, painful spot the level of the sternum. Cancerous ulcers. Terrible nausea. Vomiting \nof coffee grounds, chocolate colored lumps or clear sour water. Nausea and vomiting during pregnancy. \nHeartburn in pregnant women where an excessive heartburn comes on, when going to bed at night. \nTemperature - Coldness of nape, of calf, etc. Hot flushes or sweat, on dropping to sleep or when closing the \neyes. Sweat, under the eyes, on chin, cold on nape and palms offensive causing smarting of sk in. Abdomen hard and diste nded. Distention, worse after taking milk. Cut ting pain before passitig \nflatus. Trembling of whole abdomen. Tremulous weakness, palpitation of heart after every stool. Hy pogastric \npain goes down legs. Sensitive, bruised, swollen, knife-like pains. Painful tightness. Craving for salt, coffee and sour things. Aversion to bread. Amelioration from eating and aggravation \na few hours after meals.","Urinary & Genital":"Ill effects of suppressed sexual desires. Desire increased, power decreased. Sexual desire without \nerection. Sexual nervousness with feeble erection. Erec tions imperfect and of too short duration. Impotence. \nSeminal discharge, provoked by mere presence of a woman or contact. Cutting in urethra while semen passes. \nSexual nervousness, dejection after sex. Prostatitis. Dribbling of prostatic fluid, worse stools, emotions, etc. \nProstate cancer. Testicles hard and enlarged. Itching in prepuce. Menses, irregular, too late, scanty. Dysmenorrhea with drawing down thighs. Rash before menses. \nSmall, red, burning pimples appear with scanty menses and disappear after menses. Itching around pudenda \nor deep in vagina. Leucorrhea, white, acrid, preceded by griping in abdo men after u rination. Cervicitis, \nInduration ofos and cervix. Ovaritis. Ovary enlarged, indurated. Cutting pain in ovaries and uterus. Prolapse \nof uterus from straining at a hard stool. Ill effects of repressed sexual desire or suppressed menses or from \nexcessive indulgence. Motion of child painful during pregnancy.","Extremities":"Shoulders feel bruised, clothes lie like a weight on them. Axillary glands enlarged. Axillary glands \npain with numb feeling down arm. Hands, weary, heavy, trembling, unsteady. Perspiration of hands. Nails \nyellow. Fingers and toes numb. Heels, as if bone would push through them. Shooting in heels. Putting feet \non chair relieves pain.  Cracking in knee joint. Muscularweakness, especially of lower limbs. Can walk \nstraight and steadily with eyes closed, but staggers, becomes giddy,  is nauseated when walking with open \neyes. \nLiver - Severe aching in and around the liver. Chronic jaundice and pain in ripht hypochondrium.","Neck & Back":"Spinal injuries. Ill effects of bruises and shocks to spine. Coccyodynia. Dull aching in lumbar and sacral \nregion. Pain between shoulders. Drawing pain in the lumbar vertebrae worse standing. Coccyx pain. Neck \ncold. Enlargement of neck. Pediculated tumor at the center of back. Small, flat wart like growths on buttocks.  \nBreasts - Breasts enlarge and become painful  before and during menses (Calc., Lac -c.), worse at every \nstep. Wants to press breast hard with hand. Breast cancer with hard t umor. Tumors after injury.  Breasts \n \n \nlax and shrunken with or without sexual desire. Hard tumors in breasts with stitches or piercing pain. Stitches \nin breasts and in nipples, on taking deep breath or walking. Too much milk before menses. \nCausations - The effects of blows, contusions or falls. Effects of bruises and shocks to spine. Over straining, \nover work, over study. Grief. Sexual excess, sexual abstinence.","Skin":"Greenish, like an old bruise. Ye llow skin with papular eruption, yellow fingernails. Red spots turning \nyellow or green. Glands enlarged and indurated, also mesenteric. Flying stitches through the glands. \nTumors, piercing pains, worse at night. Induration after contusions. Foul, eczematous eruptions. Chronic ulcers \nwith fetid discharge. Gangrenous ulcers. Urticaria from violent bodily exertion. Anesthesia or inactivity of the \nskin. Night and morning sweat with offensive odor and smarting in skin.","Sleep":"Sweat as soon as one sleeps,  even when closing eyes. Drowsiness by day. Sleeps after midnight. \nInclination to sleep in the evening, with falling down of the eyelids. Disturbed and unrefreshing sleep. Starting \nof the limbs during sleep. Anxious and frightful dreams, of disease, mutilation, death, danger, and quarrels. \nNightmares.","Generalities":"Sensation as if a hoop, band or something tight was around the parts. Deficiency of irritability of \nthe body, the body has very little sensation. Darting \nfrom within outwards, tension in inner parts, also in outer parts, pricking in the bones."},"schema_version":"1.0","api_provider":"Allahshafi"}