This document provides an overview of the homeopathic remedy Conium maculatum through descriptions of its characteristic mental and physical symptoms. It describes Conium's sickly pale complexion, stiff swollen tongue, sluggish behavior and indifference, morose personality, disturbed sleep patterns, sweaty hands and feet, and gradual mental and physical paralysis. The summary focuses on Conium's key symptoms of indifference, isolation, and physical and mental slowing.

1. BEHAVIOURAL
MATERIA MEDICA:
CONIUM MAC
By
Dr. Subrata K. Banerjea
GOLD MEDALIST
B.H.M.S. (HONOURS IN NINE SUBJECTS OF CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY)
FELLOW : AKADEMIE HOMOOPATHISCHER DEUTSCHER ZENTRALVEREIN (GERMANY)
DIRECTOR : BENGAL ALLEN MEDICAL INSTITUTE
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2. CONIUM
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FACE
•Sickly, pale &
bluish complexion.
•Swelling of face.
•Face, convulsions,
spasms.
•Face,
discolouration.
•Face, risus
sardonica.
CONIUM

4. TONGUE
• Tongue stiff,
swollen, dry &
painful.
• Horribly offensive
tongue.
• Mouth, motion of
tongue difficult.
• Mouth, paralysis,
tongue.
CONIUM
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BEHAVIOUR
•The Conium
person makes
useless
purchases –
cares very little
for things,
wastes or ruins
them, does not
want to work,
prefers to play.
CONIUM

6. NAILS
•Yellowish
nails.
•Discolourati
on,
fingernails,
yellow.
CONIUM
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HANDSHAKE
• Slimy / greasy –
due to sweaty
palms.
• Coldness, hands.
• Coldness, hands,
10 am.
• Coldness of
hands with hot
face.
• Perspiration,
hands.
CONIUM

8. DRESS
• The Conium
person likes
to wear their
best clothes.
• Can be seen
as evening
black colour.
CONIUM
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LIPS
•Dryness &
exfoliation of
lips.
•Face,
discolouration,
black, lips.
•Face, distortion,
mouth.
•Mouth, foam
from.
CONIUM

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PERSONALITY
• No inclination for
business or study.
• Indolent & indifferent –
person takes no
interest in anything.
• Morose, domineering,
quarrelsome.
• Person cannot bear
contradiction.
• Dread of being alone,
but avoids people.
CONIUM
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SLEEP
• Drowsiness during the day.
• Somnelence.
• Inclination to sleep in the evenings with
drooping eyelids. Disturbed &
unrefreshing sleep. With lachrymation.
• Starting of limbs during sleep.
• Half-walking after midnight with great
anguish.
• Sweats copiously during sleep – the
person says if they merely close their
eyes, they sweat.
• Comatose sleep.
• Deep sleep in the morning.
• Sleep, interrupted sleep, restless.
• Sleepiness, contraction of eyelids.
• Sleepiness while reading.
• Sleeplessness from perspiration.
• Sleeplessness with sleepiness.
CONIUM

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FINGERS
• Sweat in palms of
hands.
• Torpor of fingers.
• Yellow spots on
fingers.
• Cramps, fingers.
• Motion of thumbs
convulsive.
• Stiffness, fingers.
• Stiffness, fourth
finger.
CONIUM

13. Grief
Finance Being
abused
Superstitious
Introvert Conservative
MENTAL AETIOLOGIES PSYCHIC MANIFESTATIONS
Inflexible
Rigid
concepts
Over-
work
Excite-
ment
Mental
Aetiologies
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Indifference
Introversion Isolation
Fortune Property
CONIUM

14. Indifference
Intro-
version
Imbeci-
lity
Isolation
Shutting
down
(gradual)
Aversion to company
and strangers
Grief
(Causation)
 Paralysis,
Physical &
Mental Slow
Onset
CONIUM
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15. Materia-
listic
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Closed Indiffer-
ence
Forgetful,
depre-
ssion
Seni-
lity
Brain
fag
Emotional
hardness
Superstitious
Emotional
induration
CONIUM

16. Health & diet
(strict regime)
Sex
aversion
to hetero-
sexuality
Clothes
(wears
dark
clothes /
black)
Rigid
Concepts
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CONIUM

17. Apathy
With-
drawn
Isolation
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CONIUM

18. • Forgetful
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CONIUM

19. • Loner
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CONIUM

20. THANK YOU!
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