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Materia Medica by Cyrus Maxwell Boger

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Cyrus Maxwell Boger
Materia Medica by Cyrus Maxwell Boger
The Materia Medica by Cyrus Maxwell Boger was written in 1915. You can read the full book here.
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Conium maculatum

[Con.]

Mind.-- Confusion of thought and insanity. Weakened power of intellect and memory, very forgetful. Hysteria and hypochondriasis from too violent or unsatisfied sexual indulgence with pensiveness, anxiety and peevishness. Aversion to work. Very ill humored. Anxiety of pregnant women. Anthropophobia, yet fears to be alone. Nightly fearfulness. Indifference.

Vertigo.-- Whirling when looking around. Intoxication, from the least quantity of spirituous, from the least quantity of spirituous liquors, after walking from siesta and when walking in open air.

Head.-- Pressive headache. Stupefying ache. Attacks of tearing, gouty pains in temples of side of, with asleep feeling in brain and nausea. Chronic outward stitches, especially in vertex and forehead. Sensation of a large, thick lump in brain (Arn., Coccl., Chel.) Great sensitiveness of brain to noise. Unilateral bruised pain. Hydrocephalus. Falling of hair. Worse: Night, morning, fasting, early on awaking, touch, motion, turning eyes toward affected side, debauch, after a, after eating, talking, after walking from siesta, walking in open air. Better: Stooping, external pressure: lying closing eyes.

Eyes.-- Sense of coldness or burning, when, in open air. Itching below. Pressure in, when reading. Gray cataract, after contusions. Daylight dazzles. Myopia. Surrounding objects appear red. Photophobia, without inflammation. Feel pushed out of head.

Ears.-- Tearing and sticking about and in. Roaring and buzzing in. Accumulation of discolored earwax. painfully sensitive hearing.

Nose.-- Purulent discharge from. Excessively acute smell. Persistent stuffed coryza, with obstruction of both nostrils. Sneezing.

Face.-- Heat of. Pale, bluish, puffy. Itching. Moist, spreading eruption on. Nightly, sticking, tearing face pains.

Teeth.-- Drawing ache, worse cold things.

Mouth.-- Spasm of oesophagus. Involuntary swallowing, especially when walking in wind. Swelled tongue. Sense of a rising body in throat, with much swallowing.

Appetite: Complete want of, and of thirst.

Eructations: Continuous, empty. Tasting of ingesta.

Nausea, etc. - Inclination to vomit, with loss of appetite. After every meal. Nausea and vomiting during pregnancy.

Stomach.-- Constrictive spasm in. Sense of inflation of, and of upper abdomen, after drinking milk. Painful soreness of.

Abdomen.-- Painful soreness when walking on pavement. Induration of, from swelling of mesenteric glands. Hysterical uterine spasms.

Flatulence: Rumbling and growling in abdomen. Discharge of cold flatus.

Hypochondria: Stitches in spleen.

Stool.-- Hard, every two days only. constipation with ineffectual urging, during pregnancy. Diarrhoea: undigested, with bellyache, exhausting.

Urine.-- White, turbid, thick. Bloody. Frequent, nightly urination. Pressure upon bladder. Cutting in urethra during urination.

Sexual Organs.-- Impotency and want of erection. Insufficient erections, lasting too short a time. Excessive pollutions. Swelled testes, after contusions. Itching upon and in pudenda.

Female.-- Menses: Too early, but too scant. Painful spasmodic, abdominal colic during. Sup, pressed (especially in barren women). Acrid, burning leucorrhoea, preceded by pinching in abdomen.

Respiration.-- Suffocative attacks. tightness of chest on walking early in morning. Short, when walking.

Cough.-- Dry, spasmodic, from irritation as of a dry spot in the throat, mostly at night. Suffocative, with flying heat of face. With bloody expectoration. After measles or scarlatina, or when a chronic tracheal affection threatens. During pregnancy. Whooping cough, especially in nightly paroxysms, excited by itching and tickling in throat and chest.

Chest.-- Stitches in sternum and chest. Scirrhus of mammae, after blows or contusions. Inflammation of female mammae with stitching pain.

Upper Extremities.-- Shoulder feels as though galled. Moist tetter on forearms. Sweat on palms. Panaritia. Numbness of hands and feet.

Lower Extremities.-- Reddish spots, as from bruises, on calves, afterward turning yellow or green, preventing movement. Feet easily become cold.

Generalities.-- General relaxation with inclination to laugh. Sense of exhaustion, early in morning when in bed. Sudden relaxation when walking. Faintness. Convulsive twitching of limbs. Spasmodic pains in various parts. Complaints of old age. After - effects of blows and contusions. unusual liability to take cold. Most complaints appear during the rest, especially at night and in separate attacks, others come on when walking in open air. Trembling.

Tissues.-- Glands swollen, with crawling and sticking. Induration of glands, followed blows or contusions.

Skin.-- Sticking itching in. Nettle rash from violent bodily exertion. Death spots of old people. Old, moist tatters. Blackish ulcers, with bloody, fetid, ichorous discharge, especially from contusions. Pains in ulcers.

Sleep.-- Sleepiness in daytime and early in evening, with forcible closure of eyelids. Sleeplessness with all complaints.

Fever.-- Pulse: Extremely irregular, mostly slow and large, intermingled with small, quick beats. Sensible throbbing in blood vessels though' entire body. Entirely absent. Chill: And coldness, early in morning and in afternoon (from 3 to 5 o'clock). With constant desire for warmth, especially that of sun. Early in morning, internal only, in afternoon with overrunning shivering. Heat, Great, internal as well as external, with great nervous excitability. With coexistent copious sweat. Sweat: Day and night, as soon as he falls to sleep or even close eyes. Offensive at night and early in morning, causing smarting of skin.

Relationship.-- Allied Remedies. Ag-c., Anac., Ant-t., Coff., Cupr., Cycl., Dig., Dulc., Gel., LACH., Lyc., Nit-ac., Nux-v., Puls., Tab., Arg-n., Sep.

Complementary: Phos., Sil.