Coniinum
Coniine · Plant · Apiaceae
Coniinum suits individuals with progressive nervous paralysis, extreme lethargy, and disorders of the special senses, particularly vision and hearing. There is a characteristic feeling of having been up all night or after a debauch, with slow mental processes and cramp in the calves.
Key symptoms
- Numbness and muscular paralysis
- Vertigo with confusion and prostration
- Heavy eyelids; vision confused and objects swim
- Complete blindness; objects seem large and distorted
- Hearing weakened; ears feel as if stopped with cotton wool; illusions of hearing
- Lethargy and overpowering sleepiness; feeling as after a debauch
- Cramp in calves on ascending steps or drawing off boots
- Slowness of mental process; inability to think or fix attention
- Weight, fullness, and pressure in head
Better (amelioration)
- Vertigo better in open air
Conicine. An alkaloid from Conium maculatum. C8 H17 N. Tincture.
Clinical
Eyes, heavy. Hearing, illusions of. Hemiplegia. Numbness. Tongue, paralysis of. Vertigo. Vision, disordered.
Characteristics
Coniin. is a poison rivalling prussic acid in the intensity of action. It has had rather an extensive proving. It causes numbness, muscular paralysis, vertigo, disorders of sight, hearing, and touch, lethargy and overpowering sleepiness. A feeling as if one had been up all night, or after a debauch. Cramp in calves on ascending steps or drawing off boots. Vertigo is > in open air.
1. Mind
Calm and tranquil; slowness of mental process.─Inability to think or fix the attention.─Loss of consciousness.
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