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CONIUM · Guernsey - Key-notes to the Materia Medica · Henry Newell Guernsey · 2,908 chars
General
This remedy is characterized by a great dizziness brought on when lying down, and moving the head ever so slightly, or even the eyes--all the contents of the room appearing 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, stops, etc. Acts better on females. Old contusions or sprains.
Eyes
Affects the cornea; blindness; paralysis of the optic nerve, amaurosis; dimsightedness.
Glands
Pain in, as from contusion; wasting away of; itching of; induration of; sensibility of; hard swelling of; tingling in; wounds with injured glands.
Skin
Yellow skin as in jaundice.
Ulcers cancerous; scabby, destitute of feeling; with tight, tense feeling; speckled.
Scurfy exanthema.
Polypus.
Greenish mortification.
Tetters in general; scurfy.
Want of action of the skin.
Sexual.-- Male : Impotence; weakness of the sexual powers.
Female : Menses suppressed; too late; too scanty.
Affections of the mammae, where they are very hard, especially if they have been bruised a long time ago, or recently.
Sensations
Heartburn; e.g. , in pregnant women, where an excessive heartburn comes on when going to bed at night.
Attacks of sick feeling.
Sensation as if a hoop, band, or something tight was around the parts; deficiency of irritability of the body, i.e. , the body has very little sensation.
Darting from within outward, in the bones; tension in inner parts, also in outer parts; pricking in the bones.
Urine
Discharge of the urine interrupted; burning, during and after; sharp stitches; with crampy pressure; mucous sediment.
Generalities
Obstruction of the ears. Face bluish; reddish-yellow. Eructations. Nasal secretion purulent; expectoration purulent; hysterics, hysteric spasms; jaundice; painless paralysis; inclination to sit down; yellow nails. Stupor-like sleep in the morning; sleep in the morning not refreshing; stupor-like sleep generally.
Worse.-- During and after eating; in the night (as cough coming on at night, or a pain, and lasting all night, disappearing during the day); from injuries of the glands; lifting the arm; lifting the parts affected; from light of lamp; light of day; sunlight; looking around (vertigo); on beginning to move; from milk; on rising from the bed, or from a seat; from rubbing; in snow air; while standing; from stepping heavily on the ground or floor; on beginning to walk; from surgical injuries in general; from suppressed menstruation; while lying down; from masturbation; while resting.
Better.-- From moving; in the dark; while fasting before breakfast; from letting the limb hang down; from continued moving; from pressure without; on sitting down; walking with the body bent forward; when walking.
Remedies following:-- Bellad., Lycop., Phosphor., Pulsat., Nux vom., Rhus tox., Stramon., Sulphur .
Antidotes
Spirits of Nitre, Dulcam .