ACONITUM NAPELLUS

Aconitum napellus

Generalities

• The rapidity of action of Acon, determines its symptomatology.

• Its symptoms are acute, violent, and painful.

• They appear suddenly, remain for a short while, as of a big storm, which soon blows over.

• Mind is affected by such emotional factors, as FRIGHT; SHOCK,Vexation.

• Nerves are excited and the patient remains under emotional and nervous tension.

• Neuralgic pains are very intense.

• FEAR is INTENSE, so much so that the patient becomes frantic, screams, groans, gnaws the fist, bites the nails, wants to die.

• Fear of fright remains.

• Fear accompanying most trifle ailments.

• Heart and arterial circulation is affected strongly producing congestion to the head, (often apoplectic) and chest.

• It is a remedy for acute inflammation and congestion.

• Haemorrhages are bright red.

• Pains are sticking, tearing.

• Sensations of burning, numbness, tingling prickling or crawling are marked.

• Parts feel big or deformed.

• External soreness, with internal heaviness.

• Sudden loss of strength- collapse.

• Special senses acute.

• Parts remain sore or numb, after the pains.

• Convulsions.

• Faintness.

• Children put their hands to the affected part.

• Complaints caused by exposure to cold, dry weather, especially respiratory affections.

• Gastro-intestinal disturbances, are caused by exposure to very hot weather.

• It is adapted to persons of robust habit.

• Complaints, after surgical shocks and injury, or checked perspiration.

• Remote effects of fright.

• Cries out and grasps the genitals, Crepitation.

Worse

• Violent emotions, FRIGHT; SHOCK Vexation.

• Chilled by COLD; dry weather, while sweating.

• Pressure, touch.

• Night, in bed p.m.

• Lying on side.

• Noise.

• Light.

• Dentition.

• During menses.

• Sleeping in the Sun.

• Music.

• Tobacco smoke.

• Inspiration.

Better

• Open air.

• Repose.

• Warm sweat.

Mind

• GREAT ANXIETY; AGONIZING FEAR and RESTLESSNESS, accompany every ailment however trivial.

• Fear of death of crowds, or crossing the streets, of future, of touching others passing by.

• Impatient; besides himself; frantic; from intensity of pain.

• With FEAR, screams, moans, gnaws the fists, bites the nails; wants to die.

• Afraid to go out of the house.

• Forebodings, predicts the time of death.

• TERROR STRICKEN.

• Music makes him sad.

• Clairvoyance.

• Feels as if what had just been done were a dream.

• Delirium.

• Fitful moods; laughing, singing, then sad and fearful.

• Anxious, excited, nervous, feverish.

• Imagines some parts of the body is deformed.

• Imagines they do all their thinking from stomach.

Head

• Heavy, hot, bursting.

• Burning; undulating sensation in the head.

• As of a hot band about head, or boiling heat in brain.

• Violent squeezing or bursting in forehead or eyes.

• Headache with increased secretion of urine.

• Vertigo agg. on rising or any other motion of the head or of the body.

• As if hair were pulled or stood on end.

• Crackling in head.

• Pulsation in forehead.

• Knocks the head.

Eyes

• Feel dry and hot as if sand in them.

• Lids; swollen, hard and red.

• Shooting pain in eyeballs.

• Can not bear the reflection of Sun from the snow.

• Conjunctivitis from cinders or other foreign bodies.

• Eyes glitter, stare, bleared.

• Aversion or desire for light.

Ears

• Very sensitive to noise.

• Music is unbearable.

• As of a drop of water in the ear.

Nose

• Numb with epistaxis.

• Smell acutely sensitive.

• Pain at the root of the nose.

• Nose dry, stopped up or runs hot scanty watery discharge.

Face

• ANXIOUS expression; becomes pale red alternately.

– Hot, red cheeks.

• Red face becomes deathly pale on rising or he becomes dizzy.

• One cheek red hot other pale and cold.

• Neuralgia with restlessness, tingling and numbness.

• Lips black. dry, peeling off.

• Heavy feeling of the whole face.

Mouth

• Toothache in sound teeth.

• Throbbing in teeth and head.

• Grinding of the teeth.

• Gums hot and inflamed.

• Tongue feels as if swollen.

• Everything tastes bitter except water, which has bad taste.

• Trembling and temporary stammering.

• Mouth and tongue numb; dry burning heat in mouth.

• Tingling on coughing and swallowing.

• Chewing motions of lower jaw.

Throat

• Red, dry, hot, constricted, chokes on swallowing.

• Tonsils swollen and dry.

Stomach

• Vomiting with fear, heat, profuse sweat and increased urination.

• INTENSE BURNING THRIST.

• Craving for beer, acids, bitter drinks.

• Thirst agg. after iced drinks.

• Hungry.

• Milk disagrees.

• Projectile vomiting.

• Violent bilious or bloody vomiting.

• Pressure in stomach with dyspnoea.

• Wine generally amel.

• Nausea and sweating before and after loose stool.

Abdomen

• Sensitive to touch.

• Colic, no position relieves.

• Hot distended.

• Jaundice; of newborn; from fright.

• Incarcerated hernia.

– Stools; of pure blood; slimy, grass green or white agg. hot days and cold nights.

• Dysentery.

• Watery diarrhoea in children in hot days, they cry, are restless and sleepless.

• Itching and sticking at anus; as of a warm fluid from the anus.

Urinary

• Urine scanty, red, hot, painful.

• Retention or suppression of urine; in new born; due to cold exposure, with handling of genitals.

• Agonizing dysuria.

• Cystitis.

• Urethral chill.

Male

• Orchitis, testicles feel swollen and hard.

Female

• Suppression of menses from fright or cold, in plethoric patients.

• After pains with fear and restlessness.

• Maniacal fury, on the appearance of menses.

• Active uterine haemorrhage.

• Ovaritis from sudden checked menstrual flow

• Vagina hot, dry and sensitive.

• Milk fever with delirium.

• Increase of milk in breast.

Respiratory

• Hoarse dry, croupy, painful cough or short barking, ringing, or whistling cough agg. from every inspiration, at night, drinking, grasps the throat.

• Cough amel. lying on back.

• Shortness of breath during sleep; sits erect.

• Laryngitis.

• Croup with fever.

• Violent congestion of blood in the chest.

• Pneumonia.

• Oppression of the chest when moving fast or ascending; in heart disease.

• Blood comes up on hawking.

• Lungs feel hot.

• Stitches in chest.

• Pleurisy.

• Tingling in chest after coughing.

Heart

• Feels swelled – carditis.

• Palpitation, with anxiety, fainting and tingling in fingers, pain down left arm.

• Heart pain into left shoulder, agg. sitting erect.

• Tachycardia.

• Pulse fast, bounding, shaking, forcible and tumultuous or wiry, very irritable.

• Arterial tension.

Neck and back

• Pain in the back, prevents taking deep inspiration.

• Bruised pain between shoulders, and sacrum.

Extremities

• Arms hang down powerless.

• Numbness of the left arm, tingling in fingers.

• Red finger tips.

• Hot hands and cold feet.

• Red shining swelling of the joints.

• Hypothenar eminences bright red.

• Legs powerless; feel tired during repose.

• Sensation as of drops of water tricking down the thighs.

• Jerking of left or arm.

• Palms hot.

Skin

• Dry, Hot or as if ice water on it.

• Miliary eruptions.

• Itching amel. by stimulants.

Sleep

• Nightmares.

• Anxious dreams.

• Sleeplessness with restlessness and tossing about; caused by fear, fright or anxiety.

• Insomnia of the aged.

Fever

• CHILL passes through him in waves.

• Chill or coldness alternating with heat.

• HIGH FEVER; dry burning heat; in eyelids, nose, mouth, throat, lungs and palms, must uncover.

• Sweat drenching, wants to uncover.

• Sweat on uncovered parts or affected parts.

Complementary

• Coff; Sulph.

Related

• Bell; Cham; Coff.

Source: Phatak materia medica