[[File:Conium maculatum.jpg|thumb|350px|left|Conium maculatum]]Other names : Conium maculatum is known by several common names. As well as the English "Poison hemlock" and the Irish "Devil's Bread", there are also Beaver Poison, Herb Bennet (not to be confused with Herb Robert), Musquash Root, Poison Parsley, Spotted Corobane, and Spotted Hemlock, Gevlekte Scheerling. The seeds are sometimes called Kecksies or Kex.<br>
The homeopathic remedy conium is derived from the hemlock plant, a species belonging to the Conium genus comprising of extremely toxic perennial herbaceous flowering plants in the Apiaceae family. The hemlock plant has its origin in Europe, particularly Britain, Africa and different regions of Asia and is known to be related to other species, such as fennel and parsley. However, hemlockâs similarity with parsley and fennel does not go too far, since hemlock is an extremely poisonous plant, while the other two are not. Each and every part of the hemlock plant encloses an extremely toxic concoction of alkaloids that is sedative or narcotic. Consumption of even a small part of this plant results in paralysis of all the motor functions in our body and that includes the cardiac as well as the respiratory systems and causes death soon after.