Homeopathic Materia Medica

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica, John Henry Clarke

Cicuta maculata. Water Hemlock. Spotted Cow-bane. Beaver-poison. N. O. Umbelliferae. Tincture of root gathered in summer.

Clinical.─Epilepsy. Tetanus.

Characteristics.─The effects of the C. maculata are very like those of the Virosa, the most prominent symptom being: Falls unconscious, tetanic or clonic convulsions. Body covered with sweat. For comparisons see Cic. v.

SYMPTOMS.

1. Mind.─Fell on their way, and were picked up unconscious.

2. Head.─Dizziness.─Head hot.

3. Eyes.─Astonishing mobility of eyeballs and eyelids with widely dilated pupils.

6. Face.─Face bloated like that of a drowned person, deathly pale.─Face livid, even purple.─Jaws rigid.

8. Mouth.─Bloody foam from nose and mouth.

9. Throat.─Spasm of muscles of deglutition on presenting anything to mouth.

11. Stomach.─Nausea and vomiting; frothy, glairy fluid.

12, 13. Abdomen and Stool.─Pain in bowels; ineffectual desire for Stool.

20, 21. Back and Limbs.─Falls backward in convulsions.─Every muscle in the body in powerful clonic spasm.─Body and extremities cold.

26. Sleep.─During intervals of vomiting lay in deep sleep.

27. Fever.─Head hot.─Profuse sweat over whole body.