Coni.Mac
Coni.Mac
The "Balm of Gilead" for diseases of old maids and women during and after climacteric.
Especially for diseases of old men; old maids; old bachelors; with rigid muscular fibre; persons
with light hair who are easily excited; strong persons of sedentary habits. Debility of old people;
complaints caused by a blow or fall; cancerous and scrofulous persons with enlarged glands;
rigid fibre. No inclination for business or study; indolent, indifferent, takes no interest in
anything. Memory weak, unable to sustain any mental effort. Morose; easily vexed;
domineering, quarrelsome, scolds, will not bear contradiction (Aur.); excitement of any kind
causes mental depression. Dreads being alone, yet avoids society (Kali c., Lyc.). Glandular
induration of stony hardness; of mammae and testicles in persons of cancerous tendency; after
bruises and injuries of glands (compare, Aster. rub.). Breasts sore, hard and painful before and
during menstruation (Lac c., Kali c.). Vertigo: especially when lying down or turning in bed;
moving the head slightly, or even the eyes; must keep the head perfectly still; on turning the
head to the left (Col.); of old people; with ovarian and uterine complaints. Cough: in spasmodic
paroxysms caused by dry spot in larynx (in throat, Act.); with itching in chest and throat (Iod.);
worse at night, when lying down, and during pregnancy (Caust., Kali br.). Great difficulty in
voiding urine; flow intermits, then flows again; prostratic or uterine affections. Menses: feeble,
suppressed; too late, scanty, of short duration; with rash of small red pimples over body which
ceases with the flow (Dul.); stopped by taking cold; by putting hands in cold water (Lac d.).
Leucorrhoea: ten days after menses (Bor., Bov.); acrid; bloody; milky; profuse; thick; intermits.
Bad effects: of suppressed sexual desire, or suppressed menses; non-gratification of sexual
instinct, or from excessive indulgence. Aversion to light without inflammation of eyes; worse
from using eyes in artificial light; often the students' remedy for night work; intense photophobia
(Psor.). Sweat day and night, as soon as one sleeps, or even when closing the eyes (Cinch.).
Relations. - Patients requiring Conium often improve from wine or stimulants, though persons
susceptible to Conium cannot take alcoholic stimulants when in health. Compare: Arn., Rhus in
contusions; Ars., Aster, in cancer; Cal., Psor. in glandular swellings. Is followed well: by, Psor.
in tumors of mammae with threatening malignancy.