ACONITUM NAPELLUS uses [Acon uses]
Note: Wherever it is found, "<" denotes aggravation (worse by), ">" denotes amelioration (better by), "<->" denotes alternation (alternates with) and A/F is an abbreviation of, "Ailments from"
Terror,
anxiety, agonizing fear, restless, excited, nervous, impatient
Sudden, violently acute, painful effects. Congestions. Inflammation. Haemorrhages
Sticking, tearing pains with numbness. Burning thirst. High fever
COMMON NAME
Monkshood, Wolfsbane
FAMILY
Ranunculaceae
SOURCE
Tincture of fresh plant
PHYSIOLOGICAL ACTION
Heart - Inhibitory paralysis, decreases B.P.
Circulation - Vasomotor paralysis
Temperature - Depressed with diaphoresis
C.N.S. - Paralysis
Mucus membrane - Inflammation
Stomach - Emesis, congestion, neuralgia
Lungs - Enteric vagi paralysis, congestion, inflammation
Tendons and fibrous tissue - Rheumatoid inflammation
Serous membrane - Plastic inflammation
A/F
| - | Fear, fright, shock |
| - | Chill, dry cold weather |
| - | Heat especially of sun |
| - | Injury, surgical shock |
| - | Draught of cold air |
| - | Checked perspiration |
| - | Very hot weather (G.I.T.) |
MODALITIES
| < | Violent emotions [Fright, Shock, Vexation] |
| < | Chilled by cold, dry winds while sweating |
| < | Noise |
| < | Light |
| < | Night |
| < | Dentition |
| < | Lying on the left side on back on affected side [Hep, Nux-m] |
| < | After getting in bed |
| < | Rising from bed |
| < | In closed (warm room) |
| < | Tobacco smoke |
| < | Pressure, touch |
| < | During menses |
| < | Sleeping in the sun |
| < | Music |
| < | Inspiration |
| > | Repose |
| > | Warm sweat |
| > | Sitting still (rheumatism) |
| > | Wine |
| > | Open air [Alum, Mag-c, Puls] |
MIND
| - | Great FEAR, anxiety, worry accompany every ailment however trivial |
| - | With fear; screams, moans, gnaws fists, bites nails, wants to die |
| - | Inconsolable anxiety, piteous wailing, vexation about trifles |
| - | Fears death, believes that he will soon die, predicts the day. Fear of death during pregnancy or labour, predicts time |
| - | Fear of future, of crowds, crossing the streets, of touching others passing by, of narrow places, of earthquakes [Morrison] |
| - | Terror stricken |
| - | Great timidity especially after a fright, afraid in the dark, fear of ghosts, etc. Afraid to go out of the house |
| - | Restlessness; tossing about |
| - | Impatient; besides himself, frantic from intensity of pain |
| - | Pain insupportable, driving to despair |
| - | Undertakes many things, perseveres in nothing |
| - | Desires light, company |
| - | Music is unbearable, makes her sad [Ambr, Sabin] [During menses - Nat-c] |
| - | Thinks his thoughts come from stomach, that parts of his body are abnormally thick |
| - | Delirium is characterized by unhappiness, worry, fear, raving, early unconsciousness |
| - | Physical and mental restlessness |
| - | Acute sudden violent invasion with fear |
GUIDING INDICATIONS
| - | Symptoms - acute, violent, painful, appear suddenly, remain for a short while |
| - | Pains - sticking, tearing. Parts remain sore or numb after pains |
| - | Tingling coldness, numbness |
| - | Dryness, heat, especially of skin with unquenchable thirst for large quantity of cold water |
| - | Acute stage of inflammation; violent |
| - | Haemorrhages bright red [Bell] |
| - | Special senses acute |
| - | Most symptoms disappear while sitting quietly, but at night in bed they are insupportable |
| - | Vertigo - < on rising [Nux-v, Op], shaking the head |
| - | Head - Fullness, heavy, pulsating, hot, bursting, burning |
| - | Eyes - Profuse watering of eyes after exposure to dry cold winds, reflection from snow, after extraction of cinders, or other foreign bodies |
| - | Nose - Pain at root of nose |
| - | Mucous membranes dry, nose stopped up, dry or with scanty watery coryza |
| - | Face - On rising, red face becomes deadly pale, or he becomes dizzy |
| - | Neuralgia especially of left side of face with restlessness, tingling numbness |
| - | Anxious look |
| - | One cheek red, other cheek pale [Cham, Cina, Ip] |
| - | Sensation of face growing larger or swelling |
| - | Mouth - Tongue coated white [Ant-c], or thick yellow white, swollen, tip tingles |
| - | Bitter taste of everything except water |
| - | G.I.T. - Throat dry, red, constricted |
| - | Vomiting and fear, heat, profuse sweat, urination |
| - | Intense thirst < iced drinks |
| - | Craving - Beer, acids, bitter drinks, wine, brandy, cold drinks |
| - | Aversion - Tobacco, artichokes |
| - | Milk < Ices < Wine > |
| - | Abdomen sensitive to touch |
| - | Meteorism, vomiting, inability to urinate |
| - | Burning, cutting in intestines < pressure or lying on right side |
| - | Stools of pure blood, slimy grass green, or like chopped herbs, or white < hot days cold nights [Dulc, Merc-c] |
| - | Frequent stools, tenesmus, small broken, painful at last bloody or pure blood passes without faeces |
| - | Urinary system - Retention of urine after delivery in infant or mother |
| - | Micturition painful, difficult, drop by drop, urine fiery scalding hot, red or dark coloured |
| - | Female genitalia - Menses suppressed from fright, in cold plethoric subjects |
| - | Active uterine haemorrhage with much excitability, giddiness, cannot sit up, fear of death |
| - | Respiratory system - Croup awakening in first sleep, agony tossing about |
| - | Hoarse, dry, whoopy cough, short, hacking, on expiration grasps larynx < night, after midnight |
| - | Short, barking, ringing or whistling cough. < every inspiration, night, drinking >lying on back |
| - | Agony; sits up straight, can hardly breathe, pulse thread-like, vomiting, sweat with anxiety, swelling under short ribs after scarlet fever |
| - | Pneumonia, first stage in robust persons, chill of more or less severity, followed by intense fever, hot dry skin; laboured, incomplete respiration, dry hard cough |
| - | C.V.S. - Palpitation from anxiety, during fever, after fright, after motion, on waking |
| - | Pulse full, hard, tense, bounding, sometimes intermits |
| - | Uncomplicated cardiac disease, especially numbness of left arm, tingling in fingers, fainting |
| - | Myocardial infarction with pain in left shoulder < sitting erect |
| - | Extremities - Pain down left arm [Cact, Crot-h, Kalm, Tab] |
| - | Hot hands, cold feet |
| - | Bright red hypothenar eminences of both hands |
| - | Fever - Cold waves pass through him during chill |
| - | Thirst, restlessness always present |
| - | High fever; dry burning heat, must uncover |
| - | Chilliness towards evening, hot head, face and cheeks red, headache pressing outwards |
| - | Sweat on uncovered, affected parts, on drinking, wants covers |
| - | Skin - Red, hot, swollen, dry, burning, shining |
KEYNOTES
CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS
NUCLEUS OF REMEDY
| - | This
drug is indicated in plethoric persons, in the first stage of inflammation
before localisation and exudation has occurred, and is marked by redness, dryness,
heat and severe pains |
| - | Complaints come suddenly with great anxiety, often with an overwhelming fear of death |
CLINICAL
| - | Angina
pectoris, Anxiety disorders, Bell's palsy, Cerebral accidents, Colds,
Conjunctivitis, Cystitis, Facial neuralgia, Gastritis, Influenza, Injury,
Labour, Myocardial infarction, Orchitis, Otitis media, Panic disorders,
Pneumonia, Shock, Tonsillitis, Toothache, Urinary retention or haemorrhage |
| - | Aconite is the acute of Sulphur - both precedes, follows it well in acute inflammatory conditions |
REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS
Complements: Arn, Coff, Sulph
Follows Well: Ars, Bell, Bry, Calc, Hep, Ip, Lyc, Merc, Nux-v, Phos,
Puls, Rhus, Sep, Spong
Compare: Bell, Cann-i, Cham, Cocc, Con, Dulc
Antidoted By: Acet-ac, Cham, Cimic, Coff, Nux-v, Par, Petr, Sep, Sulph
It Antidotes: Arn, Aspin, Astac, Bell, Bry, Cact, Canth, Cham, Chel,
Cit-v, Coff, Croc, Dol, Glon, Graph, Kalm, Kreos, Lyc, Merc-p, Mez, Morph,
Nux-v, Petr, Sep, Sol, Spong, Stry, Sulph, Ther, Verat, Vib-p
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