(Monkshood)
A state of fear, anxiety; anguish of mind and
body. Physical and mental restlessness, fright, is the most
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, draft of cold air, checked
perspiration, also complaints from very hot weather, especially
gastrointestinal 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 causes only 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 Hyperemia, congestion not after
exudation has set in. Influenza. | ||
| 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. 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. | ||
| Head. Fullness;
heavy, pulsating, hot, bursting, burning, undulating
sensation. Intercranial pressure. (Hedera Helix.) Burning headache,
as if brain were moved by boiling water. Vertigo; worse on rising
[Nux-v.; Op.] 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. Hemorrhage 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.; Ip.] On rising the red
face becomes deathly pale, or he becomes dizzy. Tingling in cheeks and
numbness. Neuralgia, especially on 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. [Ant-c.] | ||
| 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 dyspnea.
Hematemesis. Burning from stomach to esophagus. | ||
| 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 hemorrhoids.
[Ham.] Watery diarrhea 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 diarrhea. | ||
| 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. Afterpains, 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 [Tab.]. 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. 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; lying on affected side, from music, from tobacco smoke, dry,
cold winds. | ||
| Relationship.
Vinegar in large doses is antidotal to poisonous effects. Acids, wine and
coffee, lemonade, and acid fruits modify its action. Not indicated in malarial and low fevers or hectic and pyemic conditions, and in inflammations when they localize themselves. Sulphur often follows it. Compare Chamomilla and Coffea in intense pain and sleeplessness. Complementary: Coff.; Sulph. Sulphur may be considered a chronic Aconite. Often completes a cure begun with Aconite. Compare: Bell.; Cham.; Coff.; Ferr-p. | ||
| Dose. Sixth
potency for sensory affections; first to third for congestive conditions.
Must be repeated frequently in acute diseases. Aconite is a rapid worker.
In Neuralgias tincture of the root often preferable, one drop doses
(poisonous), or again, the thirtieth potency according to susceptibility of
patient. |