Head Injuries: Digging Deeper, part 2

Cicuta verosa & Helleborus niger

The comparison of the final 2 homeopathic head injury remedies (of this series, anyway): Cicuta verosa and Helleborus niger.

Let’s keep digging…

Cicuta verosa is a highly poisonous plant. (For more thoughts on this, see Anger and Fear.) Dr. Samuel Hahnemann explains why the plant was never used in traditional medicine: “The juice of the fresh root [for it has little action when dried] is so powerful that ordinary practitioners did not dare to give it internally in their accustomed big doses, and consequently had to do without it and its curative power altogether ” (Vermeulen 2004). (If you are reading “Ruminating on Remedies: Digging Deeper” you are most likely already aware of the safety aspect of homeopathy due to its potentization process of dilution and succussion. If not, see X? C? Homeopathic potency briefly explained.)

Cicuta and Helleborus share a couple of unusual symptoms generally indicated in more severe head injuries involving the nervous system.