Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Remedy
Chapter:
666.74.12
666.74.12 Conium maculatum
Names: Conium maculatum, Coriandrum maculatum, Coriandrum cicuta, Cicuta maculatum, Cicuta officinalis, Cicuta major, Conium cicuta, Conium nodosum, Sium conium.
English: Poison Hemlock; St. Bennet's Herb; Balm of Gilead.
German: Erdschierling; Blutschierling; Blutpeterlein; Katzenpeterlein, Stinkender Schierling; Mäuseschierling; Wuterich; Wurgling; Tollkraut, Tollkerbel; Vogeltod; Zigendill; Bangenkraut.
Dutch: Gevlekte scheerling.
Introduction
Conium is associated with Socrates and his poisoning. There we see all aspects of Conium. Socrates was killed, Phase 7, because he was an outcast of society, Phase 7, and tried to ameliorate the world, Lanthanides, with his philosophy and thinking, Lanthanides; after drinking the Conium he kept very stable, Phase 4 and intelligently, Lanthanides looking at his own ascending paralysis.
Mind
Independent, free, aversion being dependent on marriage, money, lust.
Ailments from loss of relations, love and sex, celibacy, priest, nun, old maids, bachelors.
Ailments from divorce, loss of relations, parents, children, love, warmth, cold and distant parents and upbringing.
Arrogance, dictatorial, magical powers, controlling, influencing the world.
Mental exaggeration, intelligent, analytical, philosophical, knowledge without love or moral.
Philosopher, researcher, theorising, wise old man.
Icy cold, distant, cool, rational; hard, materialistic.
Rigid, sclerotic, indurated, conservative, intolerant; dogmatic.
Superstitious, religious, spiritual, magic parts.
Themes: politic, religion, abortion, homosexual.
Sexual desire high, seducing, flirting, promiscuous, hysterical, with strangers, prostitutes, priests, without love and respect, as lust, using others, dirty.
Sexuality suppressed, debility, sex is a disgrace, threat, bad.
Desire company, < alone; egotism in relations; closing eyes << talking.
Feeling rejected, for being homosexual, lesbian, being bad.
Confronting.
Suspicious.
Sad, loathing life, hypochondriac, suicide, < excitement.
Loving nature, animal, geese.
Desire simplicity, space, rest <- > working, ambitious, unhealthy living.
Profession: therapist; helper, teacher.
Fear: poisoned.
Delusion: even the best intentions lead to disaster.
Dreams: disease; mutilation; death; danger threatening; quarrels; voluptuous, amorous; full of shame; anger and vexation; dead people; pursued by enemies; persecuted; stabbed; killed, senility; killing enemies; accidents; casualties; friends long deceased; disgusting; fantastic; fights; frightful; riots; visionary; death of father; death of parents; death of relatives.
Colour preference: black.
General
Sensation: ! numb, heavy, ! cold, indurated.
Type: rigid muscles; light hair; old, red hair.
Weather: chilly, < cold.
Time: < 5 pm, < morning; gradual slow, < going to bed.
Sweat: < closing the eyes, sleep, night, morning; hands; offensive, smell of mice.
Desire: healthy food, coffee, salt, sour.
Aversion: milk, bread, meat.
Food: > fasting, << sugar.
Physical: < injury, blows, < exertion, < in bed, > dark, motion, pressure, hanging limbs.
Sleep: sleepless.
Body
Energy: weak, influenza; sclerosis.
General: cancer, cysts tumours cancer, axillary, mesenteric, breast uterus testes.
Nervous: paralysis, mental or physical, 3 slow, ascending; multiple sclerosis; convulsions, epilepsy, neuralgia.
Vertigo: ! < noise, < conversation, < moving eyes or head, < looking sideways, < turning in bed, < lying down, rising from bed.
Head: headache, scorched, dull, bruised, stupefying, tight, vertex, compressed, occiput, temples, semilateral, < rising morning, < eating, < pressing stool, + nausea, vomit mucus; foreign body under the skull.
Eyes: red, swollen, watering, lachrymation; paralysis of ocular muscles; vision diminished, < artificial light, black and white, stripes, spots; cataract, herpes; conjunctivitis keratitis, phlyctenular, ulcers abrasion pus; photophobia; closing, involuntary, < talking; ! tumour optic nerve.
Ears: discharge bloody, hearing defective.
Nose: sore; polyps; nosebleed.
Mouth: tongue, sore root; tingling numb tongue.
Lungs: hyperventilation > alcohol, tranquillizer, talking; respiration arrested; cough dry, almost continuous, hacking; < evening night, < itch chest throat, ! << dry spot larynx, ! < lying, < talking laughing, < pregnancy; expectoration only after long coughing; want of breath on taking the least exercise; oppressed breathing, constriction of chest; pains in chest.
Heart: enlargement; palpitation, audible; pulse slow; arteriosclerosis; hypertension !.
Chest: breasts sore, hard, painful, < before and during menses; cancer.
Stomach: spasms. > eating, < 2 hours after eating; nausea, acrid; heartburn; belching burning, acid, < going to bed.
Abdomen: sensitive, bruised, swollen, as a knife, tightness; liver, aching, right hypochondrium; chronic jaundice; pancreas cancer.
Rectum: itching, heat, burning, < stool; urge frequent; cancer; stool hard; ineffectual straining; haemorrhoids, anal fissure.
Urinary: urine weak difficult, stops < straining, starts < letting go; bladder, paralysis; prostate enlarged, cancer; urination difficult, dribbling, in old men.
Male: testicles hard, enlarged; sexual nervous, feeble erection; <<< sex depraved; ejaculation easy, premature, interrupted.
Female: < before and during menses; menses, delayed, scanty, suppressed, painful, drawing-down thighs; breasts lax shrunken, 3 hard large painful, atrophy, swelling < before menses, right lateral upper extending upper arm, cancer; < touch, < before during menses - > press breast; nipples stitches; induration of os and cervix; ovary, enlarged, indurated, lancinating pain, inflamed; leucorrhoea after micturition; itching around pudenda; unready conception.
Back: pain between shoulders; injuries, bruises, shocks to spine, head, neck; coccyodynia; dull aching in lumbar sacral; caries of sternum.
Limbs: gait, difficult insecure, incoordination; local congestions sluggish; perspiring; legs, painful stiff, weak < walking, > feet on chair; tremulous, trembling << stool; hands unsteady, limbs heavy, weary, bruised; arm fingers toes numb; ! glands, large hard indurated, pain piercing, flying stitches; rheumatism, < standing, > motion.
Skin: yellow, smarting, papular, rash before menses; ulcers chronic, foetid discharge; yellow finger-nails; swelling, small, burning, itching; creeping ulcers; erysipelas, leprosy, scirrhus ulcers, cancer.
