Synonym: Aconite, Monkshood
Source: a plant belonging to the natural order of Ranunculacae.
Habitat: The plant grows in the mountain districts all over Europe.
Proved by: Hahnemann
Description:
Aconitum is useful in the early stages of an inflammation or a fever. It is indicated when there is a sudden onset of violent symptoms, especially after exposure to a dry, cold wind. The patient to whom Aconitum is indicated is fearful, restless and thirsty for cold drinks.
- Its symptoms are acute violent and painful.
- They appears 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
- Physical and mental restlessness, fright, is the most characteristic manifestation of Aconite.
- Disorders from fright and of sudden onset with acute symptoms.
- Anxiety and restlessness in any disorder. Life is rendered miserable by fear. Intolerance of pain, great fear and severe anxiety; unreasonable fear that the patient will die.
- Numbness and tingling in all parts.
- Cannot bear the pain, or to be touched, or to be uncovered.
- Skin dry, burning hot, intense thirst for cold water, red face sometimes changing to pale.
- Feels faint, dizziness on rising.
- After a fright with vexation during menses to prevent suppression.
- Heat with thirst, hard full frequent pulse, anxious impatience, inappeasable, beside himself tossing about with agony.
- Predicts the day she is to die, especially in pregnancy or child-bed.
- Initial stages of the common cold.
- Fevers of sudden onset; hot, dry skin; often one cheek is red and the other is pale.
- Unquenchable thirst for large quantities of cold water.
- Painful, red, hot, scanty urination, with profound anxiety.
- Respiratory disorders: Wakes up child frightened from sleep with dry, hoarse cough; this is usually the only remedy needed.
- Eyes: Relieves pain and aids healing in injuries such as an injury of the conjunctiva or pain due to irritation by inflammation or pain due to a foreign body in the eye.
- Bursting, throbbing headache; sensation as if there is a tight band around the head.
Mind
- 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 stomach-that parts of his body are abnormally thick.
- Feels as if what had just been done was a dream.
Fiver
- Cold stage most marked.
- Cold sweat and icy coldness of face.
- Coldness and heat alternate.
- Evening chilliness soon after going to bed.
- Cold waves pass through him.
- Thirst and restlessness always present.
- Chilly if uncovered or touched.
- Dry heat, red face.
- Most valuable febrifuge with mental anguish, restlessness, etc.
- Sweat drenching, on parts lain on; relieving all symptoms.
Head
- Fullness; heavy, pulsating, hot, bursting, burning undulating sensation.
- Intercranial pressure (Hedera Helix).
- Burning headache, as if brain were moved by boiling water (Indigo).
- Vertigo; worse on rising (Nux. Opium) and shaking head.
- Sensation on vertex as if hair were pulled or stood on end.
- Nocturnal furious delirium.
- Headache with increased secretion of urine.
- Crackling in head.
- Pulsation in forehead.
- Knocks the head.
Eyes.
· Red, inflamed.
· 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.
· Profuse watering after exposure to dry, cold winds, reflection from snow, after extraction of cinders and other foreign bodies.
Ears.
· Very sensitive to noises; music is unbearable.
· External ear hot, red, painful, swollen.
· Earache (Cham). Sensation as of drop of water in left ear.
Nose
· Smell acutely sensitive.
· Numb with epistaxis.
· Pain at root of nose.
· Coryza much sneezing; throbbing in nostrils.
· Hæmorrhage of bright red blood.
· Mucous membrane dry, nose stopped up; dry or with but scanty watery coryza.
Face.
- ANXIOUS expression; becomes pale and red alternately.
- Hot red cheeks.
- Red face becomes deathly pale on rising or he becomes dizzy.
- One cheek red, the other pale (Cham, Ipec).
- Neuralgia with restlessness tingling and numbness.
- Lips black.
- Dry peeling off.
- Heavy feeling of the whole face.
- Red, hot, flushed, swollen.
- Tingling in cheeks and numbness.
- Neuralgia, especially of left side, with restlessness, tingling, and numbness. Pain in jaws.
Mouth
· Tongue swollen; tip tingles.
· Teeth sensitive to cold.
· Constantly moves lower jaw as if chewing.
· Gums hot and inflamed. Tongue coated white (Antim crud).
- Toothache in sound teeth.
- Throbbing in teeth and head.
- Grinding of the teeth.
- 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.
Throat
· Red, dry, constricted, numb, prickling, burning, stinging.
· Tonsils swollen and dry.
Stomach
· Vomiting, with fear, heat, profuse sweat and increased urination.
· Thirst for cold water. Bitter taste of everything except water. Intense thirst. Drinks, vomits, and declares he will die.
· Vomiting, bilious mucous and bloody, greenish.
· Pressure in stomach with dyspnœa. Hæmatemesis. Burning from stomach to œsophagus.
Abdomen
· Hot, tense, tympanitic.
· Sensitive to touch. Colic, no position relieves.
· Abdominal symptoms better after warm soup.
· Burning in umbilical region.
Rectum
· Pain with nightly itching and stitching in anus.
· Frequent, small stool with tenesmus; green, like chopped herbs.
· White with red urine. Choleraic discharge with collapse, anxiety, and restlessness.
· Bleeding hæmorrhoids (Hamam).
· Watery diarrhœa in children. They 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, with screaming and restlessness, and handling of genitals.
· Renal region sensitive.
· Profuse urination, with profuse perspiration and diarrhœa.
Male
· Crawling and stinging in glans.
· Bruised pain in testicles, swollen, hard.
· Frequent erections and emissions.
· Painful erections.
Female
· Vagina dry, hot, sensitive.
· Menses too profuse, with nosebleed, too protracted, late.
· Frenzy on appearance of menses.
· Suppressed from fright, cold, in plethoric subjects.
· Ovaries congested and painful. Sharp shooting pains in womb.
· After-pains, with fear and restlessness.
Respiratory
· Constant pressure in left chest; 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.
· Larynx sensitive.
· Stitches through chest.
· Cough, dry, short, hacking; worse at night and after midnight.
· Hot feeling in lungs. Blood comes up with hawking.
· Tingling in chest after cough.
Heart
· Tachycardia. Affections of the heart with pain in left shoulder.
· Stitching pain in chest.
· Palpitation, with anxiety, fainting, and tingling in fingers.
· Pulse full, hard; tense and bounding; sometimes intermits.
· Temporal and carotid arteries felt when sitting.
Back.
· Numb, stiff, painful.
· Crawling and tingling, as if bruised.
· Stiffness in nape of neck.
· Bruised pain between scapulæ.
Extremities.
· Numbness and tingling; 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.
· Rheumatic inflammation of joints; worse at night; red shining swelling, very sensitive.
· Hip-joint and thigh feel lame, especially after lying down.
· Knees unsteady; disposition of foot to turn (Aescul).
· 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.
Sleep
· Nightmare. Nightly ravings.
· Anxious dreams. Sleeplessness, with restless and tossing about (Use thirtieth potency).
· Starts up in sleep. Long dreams, with anxiety in chest. Insomnia of the aged.
Skin
· Red, hot, swollen, dry, burning.
· Purpura miliaris. Rash like measles.
· Gooseflesh. Formication and numbness.
· Chilliness and formication down back.
· Pruritus relieved by stimulants.
Fever
· Cold stage most marked.
· Cold sweat and icy coldness of face.
· Coldness and heat alternate.
· Evening chilliness soon after going to bed.
· Cold waves pass through him.
· Thirst and restlessness always present.
· Chilly if uncovered or touched.
· Dry heat, red face.
· Most valuable febrifuge with mental anguish, restlessness, etc.
· Sweat drenching, on parts lain on; relieving all symptoms.
Modalities
· 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.
Dose
· Sixth potency for sensory affections; first to third for congestive conditions. Must be repeated frequently in acute diseases. Acon is a rapid worker. In Neuralgias tincture of the root often preferable, one drop doses (poisonous), or again, the 30th according to susceptibility of patient.
Relations:
Complementary to Arnica montana in trauma; to Coffea cruda in fevers and to Sulphur in ail cases. Sulphur is the chronic remedy which very well complements Arnica montana.
Summary of Indications:
Fear of death - acute inflammations - pain - fever - pre-operative medication before surgery (to allay anxiety).
Antidotes:
Aceticum acidum, Belladonna atropa, Nux vomica, Sulphur (also complementary)
Note:
Trio of Restless Remedies: Aconitum napeilus, Arsenicum album, Rhus toxicodendron.
