Aconitum napellus

Aconitum napellus
(monkshood)
* A state of fear, anxiety; anguish of mind and body.
* Physical and mental restlessness, fright, is themost characteristic manifestation of Aconite.
Acute, sudden, and violent invasion, with fever, call for it.
* Does not want to be touched.
* Sudden and great sinking of strength.
* Complaints and tension caused by exposure to dry, cold weather, draught of cold air,
checked perspiration, also complaints from very hotweather, especially gastro-intestinal
disturbances, etc.
* First remedy in inflammations, inflammatory fevers.
* Serous membranes and muscular tissues affected markedly.
* Burning in internal parts; tingling, coldness and numbness.
* Influenza.
* Tension of arteries; emotional and physical mental tension explain many symptoms.
* When prescribing Aconite remember Aconite causesonly functional disturbance, no
evidence that it can produce tissue change - its action is 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.
* Influenza [Influenzin]
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 - thatparts of his body are abnormally thick.
- Feels as if what had just been done was a dream.
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.
Eyes
- 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.
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. Pain at root of nose.
- Coryza much sneezing; throbbing in nostrils.
- Haemorrhage of bright red blood.
- Mucous membrane dry, nose stopped up; dry or with but scanty watery coryza.
Face
- Red, hot, flushed, swollen.
- One cheek red, the other pale (Cham., Ipec.). Onrising the red face becomes deathly pale,
or he becomes dizzy. Tingling in cheeks and numbness.
- Neuralgia, especially of left side, with restlessness, tingling, and numbness.
- Pain in jaws.
Mouth
- Numb, dry, and tingling.
- Tongue swollen; tip tingles.
- Teeth sensitive to cold.
- Constantly moves lower jaw as if chewing.
- Gums hot and inflamed. Tongue coated white. [Antim. crud.].
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 dyspnoea.
- Haematemesis.
- Burning from stomach to oesophagus.
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, likechopped herbs.
- White with red urine.
- Choleraic discharge with collapse, anxiety, and restlessness.
- Bleeding haemorrhoids. [Hamam.]
- Watery diarrhoea 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 anddiarrhoea.
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 scapulae.
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 thethigh.
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 allsymptoms.
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 poisonouseffects.
Relationship
- Acids, wine and coffee, lemonade, and acid fruits modify its action.
- Not indicated in malarial and low fevers or hectic and pyaemic conditions, and in
inflammations when they localize themselves.
- Sulphur often follows it.
- Compare Cham and Coffea in intense pain and sleeplessness.
- Agrostis acts like Acon. in fever and inflammations, also Spiranthes.
- Complementary : Coffea; Sulph.
- Sulphur may be considered a chronic Aconite.
- Often completes a cure begun with Aconite.
- Compare ; Bellad.; Cham.; Coffea; Ferr., phos.
- Aconitine.
- -(Heavy feeling as of lead; pains in supraorbital nerve; ice-cold sensations creep up;
hydrophobia symptoms. Tinnitus aurium 3x.) Tinglingsensation.
- Aconitum Lycotonum.
- -Great yellow wolfsbane.
- -(Swelling of glands; Hodgkin's disease. Diarrhoea after eating pork. Itching of nose, eyes,
anus and vulva. Skin of nose cracked; taste of blood).
- Aconitum Cammarum.
- -(Headache with vertigo and tinnitus. Catalepticsymptoms. Formication of tongue, lips and
face).
- Aconitum ferox.
- -Indian Aconite.
- -Rather more violent in its actions than A. napellus.
- It is more diuretic and less antipyretic.
- It has proved valuable in cardiac dyspnoea, neuralgia, and acute gout.
- Dyspnoea. Must sit up. Rapid respiration.
- Anxiety, with suffocation from feeling of paralysis in respiratory muscles.
- Cheynes-Stokes breathing.
- Quebracho (cardiac dyspnoea). (Achyranthes.-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).
- Eranthis hymnalis-(Winter Aconite - acts on solar plexus and works upwards causing
dyspnoea. Pain in occiput and neck).
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.