Aconitum Napellus

William Boericke 1922

Kol, tense, lynipaiiitic. Sensitive to touch. C oJic, no position relieves. Abdominal symptoms better after warm soup. Burning in umbilical region

William Boericke 1922

Numb, stiff, painful. Crawling and tingling, as if bruised. Stiffness in nape of

William Boericke 1922

Pruritus relieved by stimulants.

William Boericke 1922

Bruised pain between scapuhe.

William Boericke 1922

Mucous membrane dry, nose stopped up; dry or with but scanty watery coryza. 10

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Complaints arise after fright or shock, after exposure to severe dry cold wind, or after surgical intervention. The onset is explosive rather than gradual.

William Boericke 1922

Insomnia of the aged.

William Boericke 1922

Cough, dry, short, hacking; worse at night and a-ffer midnight. Hot feeling in lungs. Blood comes up with hawking. Tingling in chest after cough.

William Boericke 1922

oppressed breathing on least motion. Hoarse, dry, croupy cough: loud, labored breathing. Child grasps at throat every time he coughs. Very sensitive to inspired air. Shortness of breath. T^arynx sensitive Stitches through

William Boericke 1922

Bcllad.; Cham.; Coffea; Fcrr. phos. Aconitine . — (Heavy feeling as of lead; pains in supraorbital nerve ; ice cold sensations creep up ; hydrophobia symptoms.) Aconitum Lycotonum . — Great yellow wolfsbane. — Swelling of glands; Hodgkin’s disease. Diarrhoea after eating pork. Itching. Skin of nose cracked. ACONITUM NAPELLUS — ACTE A SPICATA 13 Aconitum ferox. — Indian Aconite. — Rather more violent in its actions than A, napcllus. It is more diuretic and less antipyretic. It has proved valuable in cardiac dysp7icca, neuralgia, and acute gout. Dyspnoea. Must sit up. Rapid respiration. Anxiety, with suffocation from feeling of paralysis in respiratory muscles. [Curare; Phosph.\ Quebracho (cardiac dyspncea.) (Achyranthcs. — A Mexican drug — very similar to Aconite in fevers, but of larger range, being also adapted to typhoidal states and intermittents. Muscular rheumatism. A great diaphoretic. Use 6x.)

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Traditionally given in low to medium potencies repeated briefly in true acute states; frequent repetition ceases once reaction sets in.

William Boericke 1922

Sixth potency for sensory affections ; first to third for congestive conditions. Must be repeated frequently in acute diseases. Aeon, is a rapid worker. In Neuralgias tincture of the root often preferable, one drop doses (poisonous), or again, the 30th potency, according to susceptibility of patient.

William Boericke 1922

Numbness and tingl{7ig; shooting pains ; icy coldness and insensibility of hands and feet. Arms feel lame, bruised, heavy, numb. Pain down left arm [Cact., Crotal., Kalmia, Tabac.] Hot hands and cold feet, if Rheumatic inflammation of joints; worse at night; red shining swelling, very senstitivc. ) Hip-joint and thigh feel lame, especially after lying down. Knees unsteady ; disposition of foot to turn. [^scuL] Weak and lax ligaments of all joints. Painless cracking of all joints. Bright red hypothenar eminences on both hands. Sensation as if drops of water trickled down the thigh. 12

William Boericke 1922

Red, inflamed. Feel dry and hot, as if sand in them. Lids swollen, hard and red. Aversion to light. Profuse watering after exposure to dry, cold winds, reflection from snow, after extraction of cinders and other foreign bodies. E^rs. — Very sensitive to noises; music is unbearable. External ear hot, red, painful, swollen. Earache. [Chatn.] Sensation as of drop of water in left ear.

William Boericke 1922

Evening chilliness soon after going to bed. Sweat constant. Sweat on part lain on. Cold jmves pass through him. Thirst and restlessness always present. Chilly if uncovered or touched.

William Boericke 1922

Red, hot, flushed, swollen. One cheek red, the other pale {Cham., Jpec.). On rising the red face becomes deathly pale, or he becomes dicay. Tingling in cheeks and numbness. Neuralgia, especially of left side, with restlessnc.s's, tingling, and numbness. Pain in jaws.

William Boericke 1922

Vagina dry, hot, sensitive. Menses too profuse, with nosebleed, too protracted, late. Frenzy on appearance of menses. Suppressed from fright, cold, in plethoric subiects. Ovaries congested and painful. .Sharp shooting pains in womb. After-pains, zvith fear and restlessness.

William Boericke 1922

Dry heat; red

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High fever of sudden beginning with dry hot skin, intense thirst for cold water, and unquiet sleep starting with jerks.

William Boericke 1922

pain in testicles, swollen, hard. Frequent erections and emissions. Painful erections.

William Boericke 1922

brief and shows no periodicity. Its sphere is in the beginning of an acute disease and not to be continued after pathological change comes. In Hyperaemia, congestion not after exudation has set in.

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Hot head with throbbing carotids; congestive headache worse from light and noise; face alternately red and pale.

William Boericke 1922

Sensation on vertex as if hair were pulled or stood on end. Nocturnal furious delirium.

William Boericke 1922

Fullness ; heavy, pulsating, hot, bursting, burning, undulating sensation. Burning headache, as if brain were moved by boiling water [Indigo.]. Vertigo; tvorse on rising [Nux. Opium] and shaking

William Boericke 1922

Palpitation, zoiih anxiety, fainting, and tingling in fingers. Pulse full, hard; tense and bounding; sometimes intermits. Temporal and carotid arteries felt when sitting.

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The great acute remedy of sudden onset: states that erupt after exposure to dry cold or a fright, with intense fear and physical restlessness.

William Boericke 1922

Crawling and stinging in glans. Bruised

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Fear dominates the picture — fear of death, of the future, of crowded places — often with an accurate premonition of the hour of death. Great anxiety and mental restlessness accompany every complaint; the patient tosses about, changes position constantly, is difficult to console.

William Boericke 1922

Great fear, anxiety, and worry accompany every ailment, however trivial. Delirium is characterized by unhappiness, worry, fear, raving, rarely unconsciousness. Forebodings and fears. Fears death but believes that he will soon die; predicts the day. Fears the future, a crowd, crossing the street. Restlessness, tossing about. Tendency to start. Imagination acute, clairvoyance. Pains are intolerable ; they drive him crazy. Music is unbearable; makes her sad. {Ambra,\ Thinks his thoughts come from the

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Worse: evening and night, warm rooms, lying on affected side, music. Better: sweating, open air (except the fear).

William Boericke 1922

Better in open air ; worse in warm room, in evening and night; worse lying on affected side, from music, from tobacco-smoke, dry, cold winds. Vinegar in large doses is antidotal to poisonous effects. Compare Cham, and Coffea in intense pain and sleeplessness.

William Boericke 1922

Numl), dry, and tingling. Tongue swollen; tip tingles. Teeth sensitive to cold. Constantly moves lower jaw as if chewing. Gums hot n)id inflamed. Tongue coaled white, {.dufini. crud.]

William Boericke 1922

Smell acutely sensitive. Pain at root of

William Boericke 1922

Coryza; much sneezing; throbbing in nostrils. Haemorrhage of bright red

William Boericke 1922

Pain with nightly itching and stitching in anus. Kreciuent, small sto('l with tenesmus; green, like chopped heri's. White with red urine. Choleraic discharge ^^itb collapse, anxiety, and restlessness. Bleeding luemorrhoids, \Uamam.\ Watery diarrhoea in children. d !iey cry and complain much, are sleepless and restless. Urine. — Scanty, red, hot, painful. Tenesmus and burning at neck of bladder. Burning in urethra. Urine suppressed, bloody. Anxiety always on beginning to urinate. Retention, linth screaming and restlessness, and handling of genitals. Renal region sensitive. Profuse urination, with profuse perspiration and diarrhoea.

William Boericke 1922

Acids, wine and coffee, lemonade, and acid fruits modify its action. Not indicated in malarial and low fevers or hectic and pyacmic conditions, and in inflammations when they localize themselves. Sulphur often follows it. Agrostis acts like Aeon, in fever and inflammations, also Spiranthes. Coinpiementary : Coffea; Sulph.

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Follows well in acute congestion before serous exudation begins; complementary to Sulphur in chronic sequelae. Compare Aconite lyc. for less fever with similar restlessness.

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Dry, short, painful cough coming on after cold exposure, worse at night and after midnight; croupy breathing in children.

William Boericke 1922

Constant pressure in left

William Boericke 1922

Red, hot, swollen, dry, burning. Purpura miliaris. Rash like measles. Gooseflesh. Formication and numbness. Chilliness and formication down

William Boericke 1922

Nightmare. Nightly ravings. Anxious dreams. Sleeplessness, with restless and tossing about. Starts up in

William Boericke 1922

Long dreams, with anxiety in

William Boericke 1922

Vomiting, with fear, heat, thirst, profuse sweat and increased urination. Bitter ta.ste of everything except water. Intense thirst. Drinks, vomits, and declares he will die. Vomiting, bilious, mucus and bloody, greenish. Pressure in stomach with dyspnoea. TIjcmatemesis. Burning from stomjich to oesophagus.

William Boericke 1922

that parts of his body are abnormally thick. Feels as if what had just been done was a dream.

William Boericke 1922

A state of fear, anxiety; anguish of mind and body. Physical and mental ) e.^tlcssness, fright, is the most characteristic manifestation of Aconite. Acute, sudden, and violent invasion, zvith fever, call for it, Complaints and tension caused by exposure to dry, cold zveathcr, draught of cold air, checked perspiration, also complaints frotn z'cry hot zveathcr, especially gastro-intestinal disturbances, etc. Fir.st remedy in inflammations, inflammatory fevers. Serous membranes and muscular tissues affected markedly. Burning in internal parts; tingling, coldness and numbness. Influenza. Tension ot arteries; emotional and physical mental tension explain many symptoms. When prescribing Aconite remember Aconite causes only functional disturbance, no evidence that it can produce tissue change-^its action is

William Boericke 1922

Red, dry, constricted, numb, prickling, burning, stinging. Tonsils swollen and dry.