Cicuta
Cicuta virosa · Plant · Apiaceae
Cicuta is suited to individuals with severe nervous system disturbances manifesting as violent convulsions, spasms, and loss of rational behavior. The patient may act in a rash, absurd, or violent manner, with characteristic head movements and back arching in opisthotonos.
Key symptoms
- Excessive moaning, howling, and violent actions; rash and absurd behavior
- Bad effects of concussion of the brain when spasms set in
- Violent vertigo causing the patient to fall forward
- Burning eruption on the hairy scalp and face (milk-crust)
- Violent screaming in brain affections
- Repeated twitching, jerking, and throwing of the head backward
- Thick whitish scurfs on chin and upper lip secreting dampness
- Hardness of hearing in old people; haemorrhage from ears
- Opisthotonos with spasmodic distortion of the limbs
- Convulsions with contortions and blue face with frequent interruptions of breathing
Mind
Excessive moaning and howling; does rash and absurd things, is very violent in all actions.
Head
Bad effects of concussion of the brain when spasms set in.
Head
Violent vertigo so that the patient fall down (forward).
Head
Burning eruption on the hairy scalp, also on the face (milk-crust).
Head
Violent screaming in brain affections.
Head
Repeated movements of the head as twitching, jerking, throwing the head backward, etc.; violent jerking of the muscles.
General Face
Thick whitish scurfs appear upon chin and upper lip; they secrete a dampness; sometimes affects the nose.
Hearing and Ears
Hardness of hearing in old people; haemorrhage from ears.
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