# Conium

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Herbal Remedy
- **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 
the Greek philosopher Socrates to cause his death. The ascending paralysis it produces, ending in respiration 
failure, shows the ultimate tendency of many symptoms produced in the provings.  
Con. has difficult gait, trembling, sudden loss of strength while walking, painful stiffness of legs , urinary 
troubles, weakened memory, 
sexual debility, etc. Affects the nerves and muscles, causing incoordination and paraly sis, uncertain gait, 
difficult speech. Patient becomes gradually weak. Irregular, action, and development of symptoms. 
Progressive debility. Great debility in the morning in bed. General feeling as if bruised by blows. Weakness 
of body and mind. Trembling  of all the limbs, with palpitations. Suddenly sick and weak with numbness. 
Paroxysms of hysteria and hypochondriasis from sexual abstinence or sexual excess. Hysterical convulsions. 
Faints at stool. 
Glands, especially breasts and ovaries, are affected with engorgement and stony indurations.  Alters 
glandular structure to scrofulous and cancerous conditions. Sensa tion as of a lump in b rain, in epigastrium. 
Tearing, stabbing pains. New growths. Cancerous diathesis. 
Ascending symptoms, paralysis  after diphtheria. Arteriosclerosis. Decay of ster num. Insomnia of multiple 
neuritis. Easily intoxicated (Zinc.). Sensation as of a hoop or band or something tight around the part. Desire 
for warmth, especially that of sun. Great liability to take cold. Night and morning sweat with offensive odor and 
smarting in skin or offensive odor without sweat. 
Often found in old age, a time of debility, weak ness, languor, local congestions and sluggishness. Useful in 
old age or for those persons who become old early. Troubles at the change of life, old maids, bachelors. For 
youths who suffer from ill effects of masturbation. Tumor growth invites it. Tonic aft er influenza.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Better while fasting. Better from letting limbs hang down. Better walking bent. Better sitting down. 
Better stooping. Better walking. Better motion. Better pressure. Better sun. Better dark. Worse from seeing 
moving objects. W orse sexual abuse or excess. Worse from celibacy. Worse before and during menses. 
Worse old age. Worse alcohol. Worse pressure of tight clothing. Worse raising arms. Worse standing. Worse 
lying down with head low. Worse turning in bed. Worse jar. Worse after exertion. Worse bodily or mental 
 
 
injury. 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.
- Cannot think after using eyes.
- Poor memory, symptoms similar to Alzheimer's disease.
- Benumbed sensation.
- Inability to sustain mental effort, tired sensation in brain, imbecility.
- Senility, weakness.
- Timid.
- Indifferent.
- Depression.
- Grief, especially from loss of personal property (Aur.).
- Grief after death of a 
loved one, after a prolonged illness.
- Consolation ag gravates (Nat -m.).
- Sad, dissa tisfied with herself and 
surroundings.
- As if great guilt 
weighed upon him.
- Excitement causes mental depression.
- Feel as if they were to cry and swallow and choke as from a lump in 
the throat.
- Tired of life.
- Discouraged.
- Broken down feeling.
- Trifles seem im portant.
- Cares very little for things.
- No inclination for business or study.
- Makes useless purchases, wastes or ruins them.
- Sensation of unreality, 
as if in a dream.
- Insanity, periodical or alternating.
- Su perstitious.
- Worse when idle.
- Averse to society, y et fears being alone, 
especially during menses.
- Ill effects of repressed sexual desire.
- While walking on the road wants to grab and abuse somebody.
- Likes to wear his best clothes.
- Thinks that 
animals are jumping on his bed.
- Slow, impaired comprehension.
- Difficulty in understanding what is read.
- Difficulty concentrating.
- Cannot think after using eyes.
- Poor memory, symptoms similar to Alzheimer's disease.
- Benumbed sensation.
- Inability to sustain mental effort, tired sensation in brain, imbecility.
- Senility, weakness.
- Timid.
- Indifferent.
- Depression.
- Grief, especially from loss of personal property (Aur.).
- Grief after death of a 
loved one, after a prolonged illness.
- Consolation ag gravates (Nat -m.).
- Sad, dissa tisfied with herself and 
surroundings.
- As if great guilt 
weighed upon him.
- Excitement causes mental depression.
- Feel as if they were to cry and swallow and choke as from a lump in 
the throat.
- Tired of life.
- Discouraged.
- Broken down feeling.
- Trifles seem im portant.
- Cares very little for things.
- No inclination for business or study.
- Makes useless purchases, wastes or ruins them.
- Sensation of unreality, 
as if in a dream.
- Insanity, periodical or alternating.
- Su perstitious.
- Worse when idle.
- Averse to society, y et fears being alone, 
especially during menses.
- Ill effects of repressed sexual desire.
- While walking on the road wants to grab and abuse somebody.
- Likes to wear his best clothes.
- Thinks that 
animals are jumping on his bed.

### Vertigo
- Vertigo, when lying down and when turning over in bed, when turning 
headsidewise or turning eyes, worse shaking head, slight noise or conversation of others, especially towards 
the left.
- COMMENTS - Hahnemann noted that it is exceedingly difficult to disti nguish between the primary and 
secondary effects of Con.
- He thought that the primary action is one of “rigidity, condensation and constriction 
of the tissues with swelling of the glands and diminution of the senses.” 
Teste concurred, adding that the action  is primarily inflammatory and that this accounts for its suitability for 
“persons of a lively, quick, sanguine disposition with a marked development of the glandular system.” It is 
characteristically adapted to painful glandular affections, “principally s uch as result from a strain or blow, but 
the precise cause of which may have escaped our recollection.” 
Teste placed Con.
- at the head of the analogs of Aeon.
- Con.
- is to the glands and capillary system what Aeon, 
is to the heart and arterial system.
- In many cases Con.
- may be regarded as the “Aconite of chronic diseases.” 
The other Aeon, analogs, according to him, are Cham., Seneg., Canth.
- and Ph-ac.
- Scirrhus tumors, ulcerating and otherwise.
- Chronic or sub-acute inflammation with bloody engorgement of the 
parenchyma, induration, and even subsequent ulceration of the tissues.
- Induration and inflammations of the breast and nipples.
- Useful for treating indurated, precancerous tissues.
- Breast cancer with a history of trauma to the breast.
- Hard lumps in breast, induration, can be painless.
- Breast 
can shrivel, atrophy (lod.).
- Effects of hurts to the breast by falls or blows.
- Pains in breast before menses, worse by every step.
- Scanty menses, especially in old maids.
- Checked lochia.
- Indurated cervix, cervical cancer.
- Prostate and testicular cancer.
- Sexual conditions including hypertrophy or atrophy of glands, excess of function or abrogation.
- Unsatisfied 
sexual desire, ailments from suppressed sex drive.
- Hysteria and hypochondriasis from abstinence from sexual 
intercourse.
- Pronounced constipation or diarrhea.
- Weakness, tremulousness and palpitation after every evacuation.
- Faintness after stool.
- Burning or coldness in the rectum.
- Flatulent tendency (Ammc., Asaf.).
- Pancreatic cancer 
(Calc-ar., Phos.).
- Photophobia, ptosis.
- Red vision.
- Sweat on closing the eyes.
- Eye symptoms are worse night and early morning.
- Accumulation of earwax.
- Hot spots on the head.
- Erysipelas, pain piercing to brain.
- Numbness and deadness of limbs.
- Stab bing pains.
- Weak -spells, faintness, sudd en loss of strength while 
walking.
- Ascending paralysis.
- Multiple sclerosis.
- Vertigo, particularly in the elderly, worse on turning in bed or sudden turns from side to side.
- Symptoms worse 
when idle.
- Grimmer noted its usefulness in breast cancer after bruis es orinjuries.
- Sterck used Con.
- and made some 
notable cures of scirrhus tumors, ulcerating and otherwise.
- A.
- H.
- Birdsall reported a case of contusion of the testicle.
- He found the patient writh ing in agony, the pain 
complained of being “sharp, cutting, running up spermatic cord to lower part of back and also through scrotum 
to root of penis.” Con.
- 200c relieved in five minutes and at the end of twenty minutes the pain was gone.
- Clarke used the remedy with success in many cases of weakness from masturba tion in men and youths.
- “Emission on the slightest stimulus, such as merely being in the society of a woman.”  
Goodno cured a girl of 25 of severe dysmenorrhea with scanty, almost arrested flow, which had existed since 
the periods commenced.
- She also had nosebleed, cough and stitches through the left lung at times.
- Two years 
previously, after unusual excitement.
- she had bearing-down pains, prolapse and ante-version.
- The dysmenorrhea pains were relieved by Sepia and other remedies, but the prolapse increased with bearing-
down as though the womb would be forced from the vulva, worse standing and walking, before and during 
menses.
- Intermittent flow of urine.
- Cutting pain after urination.
- Obstinate constipation of long standing.
- Stool (once in seven days) large, ha rd, fol lowed by tremulous 
weakness, she must lie down.
- Dull pain below left breast.
- Prompt relief and speedy cure were effected by Con.
- 1,000c.
- Proell mentioned excellent results with Con.
- 10c in strangury and ischuria, when the urine cannot be 
discharged from nervousness or swelling of the prostate (Nat-s.
- 5c trituration was effective where the bladder 
could not be entirely emptied.).
- Sircar recorded a striking case of a patient who had severe diarrhea, for which he was about to give Sulph., 
when he asked if the stools were hot.
- “On the contrary, they are cold,” replied the patient.
- Sircar found “cold 
flatulence” under Con.
- and gave it on analogy with brilliant effect.
- Guernsey wrote “This remedy is characterized by a great dizziness, brought on when ly ing down and moving 
the head ever so slightly or even the eyes—all the contents of the room appear to whirl around, patient wishes 
to keep the head perfectly still.
- In urinating the water flows at first in a full stream, then stops, flows again, 
again stops.” 
Nash thought “turning the head sideways” is the most characteristic form of the modality “worse by moving the 
head.” Some give it is as “lying down in bed and turning over,” but he regards the “lying down” as the least 
important part.
- Nash cured a pat ient who had all the symptoms of locomotor ataxia and who could not, when 
walking, turn the head the least bit sideways without staggering or falling.
- A case of lumbago was cured with Con.
- in six days after seven months' suffering.
- Symptoms include an inability 
to turn over in bed without being dizzy, worse ascend ing, by exercise.
- Feeling of ball pressing into back over 
left hip.
- Pain shooting down left leg, ending in a spot that felt as though pricked by a bunch of hot needles.
- Yellow nails.
- Nash mentioned the characteristic “Sweats day or night, as soon as one sleeps or even on closing the eyes.” 
This enabled Lippe to cure a man of 80 of hemiplegia.
- R.
- C.
- Markham cured with Con.
- 1,000c.
- an obstinate cough, dry, hard, frequent with  
Conium maculatum asthmatic wheezing or fine rattling in chest on deep breathing, worse slightest exposure 
to cold air, getting into cold bed or out of a warm one or even putting arms out was sufficient to bring on severe 
coughing.
- The guiding symptom which appeared last an d led to the remedy was a pain in the apex of the left lung with 
soreness in a small spot midway between neck and shoulder just back of the clavicle.
- The pain, cutting and 
stitch-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 
skull.
- Temples compressed, worse after meals.
- Sensation as of a lump in right half of brain.
- Sick headaches 
with inability to urinate.
- Pain in head from sinciput to occiput, better stooping and moving the head.
- Bruised,  
semi-lateral pains.
- Dull occipital pain on rising in morning.
- Sensation of fullness, bursting in brain during 
headache.
- 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 
skull.
- Temples compressed, worse after meals.
- Sensation as of a lump in right half of brain.
- Sick headaches 
with inability to urinate.
- Pain in head from sinciput to occiput, better stooping and moving the head.
- Bruised,  
semi-lateral pains.
- Dull occipital pain on rising in morning.
- Sensation of fullness, bursting in brain during 
headache.
- 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.
- Conjunctivitis and keratitis.
- Photophobia and excessive lachrymation without inflammation or from slightest 
abrasion or ulceration of the eye.
- Burning in eyes.
- Sweats on closing eyes.
- Corneal pustules.
- Cataract after 
eye injury.
- Diplopia.
- Myopia.
- Dim-sighted, worse artificial light.
- Vision colored, red.
- As if fringe falling over eyes.
- Black 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 
feel 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 
swollen and hard.

### Mouth
- Toothache, worse cold food, but not cold drinks.
- Tongue cancer.
- Sour saliva.
- Soreness about the root 
of tongue.
- Distortion of tongue and mouth.
- Speech difficult from paralysis of tongue.
- Nose - Polyps.
- Bleeds easily, becomes sore.
- Picks nose constantly.
- Frequent sneezing.
- Obstinate obstruction 
of nose.
- Acute smell.

### Throat
- As if a round body were ascending from stomach (globus).
- Food goes down the wrong way and stops.
- Paresis of esophagus.
- Constant inclination to swal low as from a lump in the throat worse walking in open air.
- Tonsils enlarged.

### Chest
- Sharp pain from sternum to spine.
- Decay of the sternum.
- Tightness of chest better by cough ing.
- The 
clothes lie like a weight on chest and shoulders.
- Constitutions - Corresponds to elderly persons, old, feeble men, old maids and bachelors.
- Persons of strong, 
sedentary habit more than to lively.
- Persons who are easily intoxicated with stimulants (Zinc.).
- Slender persons 
and children.
- Scrofulous constitutions, cancers and glandular enlargements.
- Cancerous diathesis.
- Palpitations, worse exertion, drinking, at stools, etc.
- Pulse unequal, irregular.
- Kidneys - Difficulty in passing urine in the beginning even when standing, then it flows freely.
- Interrupted 
urination, urine stops and starts, better standing.
- Dribbling in old men (Cop.).
- Urine feels very hot.
- Interrupted 
discharge (Clem.).
- Cutting and burning after urination.
- Shortness of breath on taking the least exercise, oppressed breathing, con striction of chest, pains in 
chest.
- Constant tormenting cough from dry spot in the larynx or tickling in chest and throat pit, worse when 
lying down, laughing, talking and during pregnancy, has to sit up.
- Cough seems to come from abdomen.
- Cough 
on 
taking 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.
- Better from eating, aggravation a few hours after meals.
- Acrid heartburn and acid belchings, worse on going 
to bed.
- Acidity and burning, painful spot the level of the sternum.
- Cancerous ulcers.
- Terrible nausea.
- Vomiting 
of coffee grounds, chocolate colored lumps or clear sour water.
- Nausea and vomiting during pregnancy.
- Heartburn in pregnant women where an excessive heartburn comes on, when going to bed at night.
- Temperature - Coldness of nape, of calf, etc.
- Hot flushes or sweat, on dropping to sleep or when closing the 
eyes.
- 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 
flatus.
- Trembling of whole abdomen.
- Tremulous weakness, palpitation of heart after every stool.
- Hy pogastric 
pain 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 
a few hours after meals.

### Urinary & Genital
- Ill effects of suppressed sexual desires.
- Desire increased, power decreased.
- Sexual desire without 
erection.
- Sexual nervousness with feeble erection.
- Erec tions imperfect and of too short duration.
- Impotence.
- Seminal discharge, provoked by mere presence of a woman or contact.
- Cutting in urethra while semen passes.
- Sexual nervousness, dejection after sex.
- Prostatitis.
- Dribbling of prostatic fluid, worse stools, emotions, etc.
- Prostate cancer.
- Testicles hard and enlarged.
- Itching in prepuce.
- Menses, irregular, too late, scanty.
- Dysmenorrhea with drawing down thighs.
- Rash before menses.
- Small, red, burning pimples appear with scanty menses and disappear after menses.
- Itching around pudenda 
or deep in vagina.
- Leucorrhea, white, acrid, preceded by griping in abdo men after u rination.
- Cervicitis, 
Induration ofos and cervix.
- Ovaritis.
- Ovary enlarged, indurated.
- Cutting pain in ovaries and uterus.
- Prolapse 
of uterus from straining at a hard stool.
- Ill effects of repressed sexual desire or suppressed menses or from 
excessive indulgence.
- Motion of child painful during pregnancy.

### Extremities
- Shoulders feel bruised, clothes lie like a weight on them.
- Axillary glands enlarged.
- Axillary glands 
pain with numb feeling down arm.
- Hands, weary, heavy, trembling, unsteady.
- Perspiration of hands.
- Nails 
yellow.
- Fingers and toes numb.
- Heels, as if bone would push through them.
- Shooting in heels.
- Putting feet 
on chair relieves pain.
- Cracking in knee joint.
- Muscularweakness, especially of lower limbs.
- Can walk 
straight and steadily with eyes closed, but staggers, becomes giddy,  is nauseated when walking with open 
eyes.
- Liver - 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 
region.
- Pain between shoulders.
- Drawing pain in the lumbar vertebrae worse standing.
- Coccyx pain.
- Neck 
cold.
- Enlargement of neck.
- Pediculated tumor at the center of back.
- Small, flat wart like growths on buttocks.
- Breasts - Breasts enlarge and become painful  before and during menses (Calc., Lac -c.), worse at every 
step.
- Wants to press breast hard with hand.
- Breast cancer with hard t umor.
- Tumors after injury.
- Breasts 
 
 
lax and shrunken with or without sexual desire.
- Hard tumors in breasts with stitches or piercing pain.
- Stitches 
in breasts and in nipples, on taking deep breath or walking.
- Too much milk before menses.
- Causations - The effects of blows, contusions or falls.
- Effects of bruises and shocks to spine.
- Over straining, 
over 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 
yellow or green.
- Glands enlarged and indurated, also mesenteric.
- Flying stitches through the glands.
- Tumors, piercing pains, worse at night.
- Induration after contusions.
- Foul, eczematous eruptions.
- Chronic ulcers 
with fetid discharge.
- Gangrenous ulcers.
- Urticaria from violent bodily exertion.
- Anesthesia or inactivity of the 
skin.
- 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.
- Inclination to sleep in the evening, with falling down of the eyelids.
- Disturbed and unrefreshing sleep.
- Starting 
of the limbs during sleep.
- Anxious and frightful dreams, of disease, mutilation, death, danger, and quarrels.
- Nightmares.

### Generalities
- Sensation as if a hoop, band or something tight was around the parts.
- Deficiency of irritability of 
the body, the body has very little sensation.
- Darting 
from within outwards, tension in inner parts, also in outer parts, pricking in the bones.