# Lolium Temulentum

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Morning

## Keynote Indications
The name Darnel means “stupefied," ’ and the plant's evil reputation is of very ancient date. 
The symptoms are the result of observations made on persons poisoned by eating a meal containing an 
admixture of Lolium tern. 
 
 
Allen mentioned an assertion that Lolium is much infested with ergot and that it is to this that the poisoning 
symptoms are due. the unaffected grain being inert. Allen noted in support of this that the poisonings have 
been most frequently observed in low, wet districts and during wet seasons. 
Tightness in the calves, violent pain in the calves as if bound with cords. This tig htness affects the rest of the 
legs in less degree. Writer's cramp. Paralytic conditions. Tremors and convulsions, Parkinson's disease. 
Nausea and vomiting of the bread contain ing it and mucus with it. Cold rigors internal chilliness, cold sweat. 
Delirium tremens. Prostration and restlessness. An Italian physician, Fantoni, tried it in headaches and 
meningitis. 
Bonino cured a carpenter, 29, who had trembling of the for hands eleven years, worse in the morning. The 
legs had also begun to tremble. His father and brother were similarly affected. Merc-v. and Agar, only relieved 
temporarily. Lol. cured.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Worse damp, wet season.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Anxiety and general uneasiness.
- Depressed.
- Comprehension slow and difficult, distracted, confusion 
and stupefaction.
- Difficult speech.
- Mania.
- Slight delirium.
- Anxiety and general uneasiness.
- Depressed.
- Comprehension slow and difficult, distracted, confusion 
and stupefaction.
- Difficult speech.
- Mania.
- Slight delirium.

### Vertigo
- Vertigo, must close eyes.
- COMMENTS - Anshutz stated, “The use of the drug by Dr.
- Bonino was truly homeopathic for the short proving 
of it.
- Allen Encyclopedia reports trembling of the limbs andhand so great that ‘he could not hold a glass of 
water.' 
“A carpenter aged twenty -nine years, had been suffering ever  since his eighteenth year of trembling in both 
hands, especially in the morning of late also his legs began to tremble.
- It is remarkable that both his father and 
his brother were subject to the same ailment, while no definite cause could be indicated.
- “He was first given Mercurius, then Agaricus, which brought a partial but only transitory improvement.
- Finally 
Bonino prescribed Lol., which in a short time effected a cure.” 
Dr.
- Mossa commented that the pathogenic effects of this remedy which has not yet been proved at all are only 
known to some degree from its effects when it has been mixed with grain and baked into bread.
- Lol.
- has caused chest troubles, vertigo (hence the name darnel -grass in German Taumellolch), trembling, 
paralysis with anguish and dis tress, vomiting, failing of the memory, blindness, headache, epileptic attacks, 
deep sleep and insanity.

### Head
- Head feels heavy.
- Head feels heavy.

### Ears
- Noises in ears.

### Mouth
- Tongue tremulous.
- Speech difficult, cannot pronounce the whole word.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Nausea, vomiting.
- Temperature - Cold rigors, especially in limbs.

### Extremities
- Cold limbs.
- Gait unsteady.
- Trembling of all limbs, cannot write, cannot hold a glass of water.
- Spasms 
of arms and legs.
- Violent pain in calves, as if bound by a cord.