Conium maculatum. Kader Kochi.

Synonyms

Poison hemlock, Devil’s bread, Poison parsley, Beaver poison, Sauma, Carrot fern, Bunk (Canada), Cicuta, Nanch (Malayalam), Snake weed.

Constituents

Biennial herbaceous flowering plant. Height 2 meters. Hair less plant grows in damp soil. Flowers are white. Fruits, flowers, leaves, stems and root contain piperidine alkaloids, coniceine, coniine, conhydrine, pseudo conhydrine, and volatile alkaloids (Coniine and nicotine are liquid alkaloids). Bitter. It has special mousy odour (Aethusa cynapium).

Therapeutics

This is medicine for spasm (Paralysis agitans, chorea, hysteria, delirium tremens, acute mania, trismus, laryngeal spasm, spasmodic wry neck, rigid uterine os during parturition, leg cramps etc. -Belladonna, Cocculus).

It is medicine for teething troubles, epilepsy, and parkinsonism rigidity.

It is medicine for hydrophobia, and tetanus. 

It has parasympatholytic action (Stramonium).

It is medicine for spasmodic and dry cough (Inhalation).

It is an antidote in Nux vomica poisoning (Physostigma, Tabacum).

It is medicine for visceral pain, and the pain in cancer.

It is analgesic locally in epithelioma and chronic sores.

It is remedy for conjunctivitis with dilated and fixed pupil (Belladonna, Veratrum album).   

It is remedy for torticollis.

It is remedy for excessive salivation (Tabacum).

It is remedy for congenital disorders (Veratrum album).

It is remedy for hypertension and tachycardia with dilated pupil.

It is remedy for respiratory failure (Opium, Ricinus communis, Sambucus, Aconitum).

It is remedy for irritable bowel syndrome.

It is remedy for renal failure, and frequent urination due to weakness of bladder sphincter (Ephedra).

It is remedy for swelling of scrotum and prostate (Lungs tumor- Tabacum, Arsenic album).

It is remedy for impotence, and gynaecomastia (Agnus castus). 

It is remedy for breast adenoma, and abnormal proliferation in uterus.

It is remedy hypothermia (slurring in descending limb of R wave or raised ST segment in ECG-Cinchona).

It is remedy for ascending type paralysis (Cocculus, Curare, Aconitum, Rhododendron).

It is remedy for muscular dystrophy lower limb type (Cinchona).

It is remedy for numbness and burning sensation in skin.

It is remedy for wound.

 It is remedy in weak vital force (Quassia).

It had been given to boys and girls in ancient time to inhibit the normal development of testis and breast respectively. 

Activated charcoal is the antidote in conium poisoning.

Medicinal antidote is Nux vomica.

Word “konium” (Greek) means vertigo producing herb.

Dose

1 to 2 drops.

Dilution.