Aconitum Napellus

General

ACONITUM. [Acon.] Monkshood. Hahnemann. Ranunculaceae.

Mind

► Absent-mindedness ; weakness of memory ; cannot remember dates. ► Clairvoyance, perception of distant things. ► Ecstasy ; fancies ; delirium, especially at night. ► Changing mood, now full of mirth now disposed to tears. ► Afraid of a crowd or of crossing busy streets. ► Fear of ghosts ; of loss of reason ; apprehensive of the future. ► Fear of approaching death ; predicts the day. ► Anxiety inconsolable, piteous wailing ; reproaches others for the mere trifles ; peevish, impatient ; pusillanimity. ► Anxiety, restless, agonized tossing about. ► Oversensitive ; cannot bear light or noise ; buzzing in the ears ; will not be touched or uncovered. ► Mood peevish, irritable, malicious ; or sad, desponding. ► After a fright, afraid in the dark. After fright with vexation or anger, heat, congestions, threatened abortion ; ailments from fright following later. ► Ailments from anger ; from chagrin ; child has spells of rage. ► Imagines some part of the body is deformed, thinks from the stomach.

Sensorium

► Vertigo from congestion, as in the sun, after dry, cold winds ; from anger, fright ; from suddenly suppressed catamenia, by emotions or cold. ► Vertigo from a fall or contusion ; face pale or red, but no stupor. ► Vertigo on raising the head, especially after lying down in a warm room ; nausea, vanishing of sight, loss of consciousness, nosebleed ; or reeling as if drunk. ► Fainting on rising from a recumbent position, with paleness of the face or congestion to the head.

Inner Head

► Sunstroke, especially from sleeping in the rays of the sun. ► Brain affection of children, with violent pain in head and oversensitiveness of eyes ; or lying stupefied, with vomiting, bowels constipated. ► Congestion anxiety, with heat and redness of the face, or pale face ; carotids pulsate strongly ; pulse full, strong, or small and quick ; worse toward evening. ► Ebullition, with anxiety. ► Fulness and heaviness in the forehead, as if the whole brain would start out through the eyes. ► Beating and shooting in the head. ► Crampy sensation over the root of the nose, feels as if he would lose his sense ; suppressed catarrh. ► Headache, as if the brain were moved or raised ; worse during motion, drinking, talking or sunlight. ► Burning, as if the brain were moved by boiling water. ► On going into a warm room, forehead feels as if compressed. ► Pressure in forehead, temples and top of head. ► Headache, with increased secretion of urine.

Outer Head

► Sensation in the vertex as if pulled by the hair. ► Sensation of cracking, as from bending tinsel, in temples, forehead and nose, worse toward evening, from motion, better from sitting. ► Formication of the scalp, relieved by heat. ► Cold sweat on the forehead.

Eyes

► Aversion to light, particularly sunlight ; light dazzles the eyes. ► Optical illusions in dark colors or black. ► Flickerings make him anxious, fears he might touch people passing by. ► Eyes protruding, staring, distorted. θ Apoplexy. θ Asthma. θ Tetanus. ► Pupils contracted, then dilated. ► Eyes red, inflamed, vessels deep red, burning, pressive shooting pains, especially on moving the balls ; no discharge ; conjunctivitis from exposure to cold, dry winds. ► Violent pains, intense congestion ; ophthalmia from suppressed gonorrhoea. ► Upper half of the eyeball sore when moved. ► Profuse lachrymation, with intense pain. ► Conjunctivitis from cinders or other foreign bodies. ► Lids hard, red, swollen, feel tense ; hot, dry, burning and sensitiveness to air ; cold water relieves the dry heat.

Ears

► Extreme sensitiveness to noises ; music unbearable, goes through every limb ; makes her sad. ► Roaring in the ears. ► Tearing in the left ear. ► External ear hot, swollen, red, painfully sensitive.

Nose

► Smell acutely sensitive. ► Nosebleed, bright red. ► Coryza : violent sneezing, fever, thirst, restlessness ; dry or fluent ; caused by cold air or wind. ► Coryza, with headache, roaring in the ears, fever, sleeplessness ; especially if coryza has been suppressed by exposure ; better in the open air, worse from talking.

Face

► Anxious expression. ► Face : red and pale alternately ; one red, one pale cheek ; livid, lips blackish ; bloated, unequally red ; sensation as if the face was growing larger. ► General heat and redness of face, following coldness and sunken look of the same. ► On rising, the face turns deadly pale. ► Neuralgia of the trigeminus, left side ; face red and hot ; restlessness, anguish ; rolling about screaming. ► Sensation as if the muscles were firmly but not spasmodically contracted, numbness, heavy feeling of the whole face.

Lower Face

► Lips dry, black, peeling off ; complaints on the upper lip. ► Burning, tingling, numbness of the lips. ► Swelling of the lower jaw, with aching in the face. ► Stitching thrusts in the lower jaw. ► Mouth drawn to one side. θ Convulsions.

Teeth

► Toothache from cold, from dry, cold winds, with throbbing on one side, redness of the cheek, congestion to head, great restlessness ; left side. ► Grinding the teeth. ► Teeth sensitive to cold air ; toothache in sound teeth.

Tongue, Etc

► Taste : bitter, except water ; putrid sweetish ; like rotten eggs ; flat, nauseous, compels hawking of tough mucus. ► Trembling and temporary stammering. ► Talking : 3, 7. ► Tongue feels as if swollen, burning, prickling, tingling. ► Numbness of mouth and tongue.

Mouth

► Dryness of the mouth, tongue and lips. ► Accumulation of water in the mouth. θ Ascarides. ► Orifices of the salivary ducts sore, as if corroded. ► Saliva generally diminished.

Throat

► Redness of soft palate and uvula. ► Feeling of dryness, as if something had stuck in the throat. ► Stinging in the throat ; fauces dark-red, burning. ► Burning and numbness in the throat ; throat almost insensible. ► Pricking, burning in throat and along the eustachian tube, compelling swallowing. ► Almost entire inability to swallow, with hoarseness. ► When swallowing : stinging pains in throat ; feels as if food remained in the region of the heart.

Desires And Aversions

► Hunger and thirst excessive but eats slowly. ► Burning, unquenchable thirst. ► Desires for : wine or brandy ; beer ; bitter drinks. ► Loss of appetite or loathing of food, qualmishness.

Eating And Drinking

► Better from cold drinks ; anxiety relieved. ► Drinking ice water causes cough ; gastric catarrh, especially from drinking while overheated. ► After eating, violent pain in the stomach, with warmth and tenderness ; hiccough ; nausea (after meat broths). ► After wine, blood-spitting, congestions. ► Smoking : aggravates palpitation ; stupefies.

Nausea And Vomiting

► Hiccough. ► Nausea, with seat-worms ; vomiting of lumbrici and of mucus. ► Nausea in oesophagus or stomach, rarely in the throat. ► Vomiting : of bile ; of green masses ; with bitter taste ; of blood, of bloody mucus or of what has been drunk, followed by thirst. ► Vomiting with anxiety, heat, thirst, profuse sweat and increased micturition.

Stomach

► Pressure in the pit of the stomach, as from a weight ; after repeated vomiting sensation of a cold stone there. ► Burning from stomach, up through the oesophagus to mouth. ► Sudden excruciating pain, with gagging, retching, vomiting of blood, gasping ; cold sweat on forehead ; congestion of mucous lining of stomach. θ Stage of desquamation in scarlatina. ► Region of stomach sensitive to touch.

Hypochondria

► Anxious feeling in the praecordia. ► Pressure or constriction in region of the liver, with oppression of breathing. ► Tension and heaviness in the hypochondria. ► Stitches in the region of the liver, taking the breath. ► Stitches and heat in the diaphragm.

Abdomen

► Colic forces him double, yet relieved in no position ; inflammatory, after a cold. ► Burning, cutting, darting in the bowels ; worse from least pressure or lying on right side. ► Abdomen hot to the touch, distended, sensitive ; paroxysm of anguish. ► Umbilical region hard, swollen. θ Seat-worms. ► Meteorism, vomiting, inability to urinate. ► Cutting extending in a circle, from spine to abdomen. ► Incarcerated hernia, with bilious vomiting ; hernia with excessive sensibility and inflammation or with cold, clammy sweat.

Stool, Etc

► Stool scanty, loose, frequent, with tenesmus ; small, brown, painful, at last bloody. θ Dysentery. ► White, with dark red urine. ► Like chopped herbs. θ Summer complaint. ► Bilious diarrhoea of infants, with colic. ► Diarrhoea from getting wet ; slimy, bloody stools, violent pains in the bowels ; tenesmus, also between discharges. ► Urging ; slimy stools ; intolerable nightly tingling, itching at the anus. θ Seat-worms. ► Dysentery or inflammatory diarrhoea during hot days and cold nights. ► Cutting, gripping followed by frequent urging to stool after anger or fright. ► Alternate slimy stools and constipation. θ Icterus. ► Constipation ; clay-colored stools. ► Bleeding piles, inflamed ; stinging and pressure in anus.

Urine

► Sensitiveness of the renal region ; shooting pains. ► Micturition painful, difficult, drop by drop ; frequent desire. ► Urine scanty, fiery, scalding hot, dark red, turbid. ► Brown, burning urine, with brick-colored sediment. ► Enuresis, with thirst. ► Diuresis, with headache or profuse sweat. ► Retention or suppression of urine, with pressure in the bladder or stitches in the region of the kidney ; retention from cold especially in children, with much crying and restlessness. ► Haematuria, with hemorrhoids of anus or bladder ; burning distress in the urethra.

Male Sexual Organs

► Sexual desire increased ; fits of lasciviousness. ► Increased desire in the evening, with the heat and sweat. ► Sexual desire decreased, with relaxed parts ; tingling in parts. ► Bruised pain in the testicles. ► Testes feel swollen and hard. ► Children reach with their hands to the genitals. θ Cystitis.

Female Sexual Organs

► Ovaritis, painful urging to urinate ; high fever ; also after the menstrual flow is suddenly checked. ► Prolapsus uteri, occurring suddenly, with inflammation, bitter vomit, cold sweat, or dry, hot skin. ► Metritis, sharp shooting pains, abdomen exceedingly tender. ► Menses : generally too late, diminished, but too protracted ; plethoric females who lead a sedentary life ; tendency of blood to head and chest ; profuse, with nosebleed ; suppressed by fright, with vexation. ► Leucorrhoea copious, tenacious, yellowish. ► Labor-like pressing in the womb ; has to bend double, but relieved in no position. θ Dysmenorrhoea. ► Uterine hemorrhage active, much excitability, giddy, cannot sit up, fear of death.

Pregnancy

► During pregnancy, restless, fear of death, predicts the time of her death. ► Impending abortion from fright, with vexation ; circulation excited, rapid breathing. ► Labor-pains violent, follow in rapid succession ; parts dry, tender, undilatable ; contractions insufficient. ► After-pains too painful, too long-lasting. ► Milk-fever with delirium ; mammae hot. ► Child-bed fever, lochia suppressed, mammae lax, empty, skin hot, dry ; pulse hard, frequent or contracted ; eyes wild, staring, glittering ; tongue dry, abdomen inflated, sensitive. ► Return of the lochia, when women commence going about after confinement. ► Newborn children : asphyxia, apoplectic symptoms, hot, purplish, breathless, pulseless ; icterus : ophthalmia ; retained urine.

Larynx

► Croaking voice. ► Larynx sensitive to touch. ► Laryngitis, with inflammatory fever ; also with suffocative spasms (spasms of the glottis). ► Laryngeal complaints after straining the voice. ► Dryness in the windpipe causing a frequent little cough. ► Croup : awaking in first sleep ; child in agony, impatient, tosses about ; dry, short cough, but not much wheezing nor sawing breathing ; cough and loud breathing during expiration ; every expiration ending with a hoarse, hacking cough ; after exposure to dry, cold winds.

Breathing

► Labored, anxious, or quick and superficial, short, when sleeping or raising one's self ; deep slow sighing. ► Breath hot ; hot feeling in lungs. ► Asthma from active hyperaemia of lungs and brain, face red, eyes staring ; after emotions ; can talk but little at a time ; loud, strong, noisy breathing, with open mouth. ► Asthma after suppression of an acute rash ; feeling of a band around the chest ; muscles of the chest are rigid ; occasionally vomiting urine scanty, dark ; after the paroxysm, the sputum, is yellow or blood-streaked. ► Agony, sits up straight, can hardly breathe ; pulse like a thread, vomiturition ; sweat, with anxiety ; swelling under short ribs. θ After scarlatina. ► Oppression of the chest when moving fast or ascending. θ Heart disease.

Cough

► Child grasps its throat every time it coughs. ► Cough : dry and painful ; short, dry hacking, excited by tickling in the larynx, spasmodic, rough, croaking, with danger of suffocation ; dry, hard, ringing. ► Expectoration absent ; or bloody ; thick, white mucus. ► Cough worse after taking cold ; drinking cold water ; from tobacco smoke ; lying on either side ; evening, night, more after midnight. ► Lying on the back partially relieves dry cough with nervous excitability.

Lungs

► Haemoptysis : blood comes with an easy hawking, hemming or slight cough ; expression of anxiety ; great fear of death ; palpitation ; quick pulse ; stitches in the chest, caused by mental excitement ; exposure to dry, cold air ; after wine. ► Stitches about the chest ; cannot lie on the right side ; only on the back, dry hacking cough. θ Pleurisy. ► Lancinating through the chest, with dry heat, difficult breathing, often violent chill. ► Pressure, weight and burning under sternum.

Heart And Pulse

► Oppression about the heart, burning flushes along the back. ► Anxiety about the praecordia, heart beats quicker and stronger ; fear of death. ► Palpitation, with a feeling as if boiling water was poured into the chest. ► Anxiety, difficulty of breathing, flying heat in face, sensation of something rushing into the head. ► Feeling of fulness ; pulse hard, strong contracted ; stitches at the heart ; lies on the back, with raised shoulders ; constriction of the chest. ► Fainting with tingling. ► During three beats, the apex strikes only one. ► Pulse : full, hard, strong in fevers, inflammation ; small intermittent irregular, in asthma ; quicker than the beat of the heart ; quick hard, small in peritonitis ; when slow, almost imperceptible, thread-like, with anxiety ; full, hard and frequent, succeeding chill, during which it was small and weak.

Neck And Back

► Tearing in nape of neck. ► Painful stiff neck, worse moving the neck ; pains down the neck to the right shoulder. ► Bruised pain between the shoulders. ► Drawing, tearing pain in the scapulae. ► Pain in the back prevents his taking a deep inspiration. ► Stiffness of the back. ► Crawling in the spine, as from beetles formication. ► Numbness of small of back, extending into lower limbs. ► Cutting pain in circles from spine to abdomen. ► Pain in the small of the back, especially at last lumbar vertebrae as if beaten. ► Spasms from inflammatory affections of the spine.

Upper Limbs

► Tearing pain in the in the shoulder-joint. ► Formication in arms hands and fingers. ► Arms hand down powerless, as if paralyzed by blows. ► Numbness of the left arm ; can scarcely move the hand ; tingling of the fingers. ► Shooting pains, tearing, erratic, in arms, forearms, wrists and fingers-joints. ► Paralysis of the wrists. ► Creeping in the fingers while writing. ► Red pimples on the back of the hands ; stinging-itching. ► Hands icy-cold ; cold, sweaty palms.

Lower Limbs

► Drawing-tearing, in left hip-joint on moving. ► Shooting, tearing pains in legs, knees, ankles, toes, etc. ► Limbs feel tired during repose. ► Legs almost powerless ; after sitting numbness. ► Cramps in the calves. ► Legs and feet feel numb ; tingling, commencing in the feet and spreading upwards. ► Sensation as if drops of cold water trickled down the front of the thighs. ► Numbness in the gouty limb. ► Hot pricking in the toes ; toes "go to sleep" while walking. ► Coldness of the feet and ankles ; soles and toes cold and sweaty.

Limbs In General

► Bruised, heavy feeling. ► Numbness icy-coldness and insensibility of hands and feet. ► Hot hands and cold feet. ► Rheumatic inflammation of the joints worse evening and night ; intense, bright red, shining swelling of the parts, sensitive to the least contract. ► Lameness and numb-feeling in effected parts ; pain intolerable.

Position, Etc

► Rest : 33. Lying down : 2, 40 ; on right side : 19, 28 ; on either side : 27 ; on back, 27, 28, 29. Sitting : 4, 33, 46. Sits up straight : 26. Cannot sit up : 23. Rising : 2, 8. Must bend double : 19, 23.

Motion

3, 4, 4, 5, 31, 33. Walking : 33. Moving fast : 26. Ascending : 26.

Nerves

► Great irritation of the nervous system. ► Convulsions of children, teething, heat, startings, twitches of single muscles ; child gnaws its fists, frets, cries ; costive or dark watery stools. ► Trembling palpitation ; muscles feel bruised. ► Numbness, tingling ; left side lame ; paralysis of the limbs. ► Jerks of left leg or arm ; grinding teeth ; comatose, restless, moaning. ► Lassitude, bruised feeling and restlessness of the body.

Sleep

► Sleepiness ; spasmodic yawning. ► Sleeplessness after midnight, with anxiety restlessness, continual tossing about ; eyes closed. ► Sleeplessness caused by fear, fright, or anxiety, with fear of the future. ► Dreams anxious, vivid.

Time

► Evening : 3, 4, 22, 27, 34, 40. Night : 1, 25, 27, 34, 40, 43. After midnight : 27, 37.

Temperature And Weather

► Sun : 3, 5, 46. Hot days and cool nights : 20. Warm room : 3. Open air : 7. Dry, cold wind : 2, 5, 7, 25, 28, 44. Cold water : 5. Getting wet : 20. Uncovering : 1, 40. ► After cold land wind (W. N. W.) in coughs, croup, etc.

Chill, Fever And Sweat

► Chill at the beginning violent, more in the evening after lying down, often with hot cheek and contracted pupils. ► Chilly, if uncovered or touched. ► With the chill : internal heat, anxiety, red cheeks ; body chilly, hot forehead and ears, internal heat. ► Shivering ascends from feet to chest. ► Dry heat, with thirst, sharp breathing, quick, hard full pulse. ► Covered or affected parts sweat profusely ; like to be uncovered. ► Profuse hot sweat during sleep (also in consumptives). ► Bad effects from suppressed sweat.

Sides

► Right : 31. ► To be given in cases going from right to left ; earache, faceache, toothache, arm numb. ► Left to right : paralysis (the opposite with the sick).

Sensations

► Burning, tingling and numbness. ► Coldness and retarded venous circulation. ► Oversensitive to pain ; pains, especially at night, seem insufferable.

Tissues

► Increased action of serous membranes, reddening their capillary vessels. ► Arterial system dominant ; has but little effect on changed blood corpuscles ; of no use in typhoid states. ► Congestions with the mind symptoms. ► Housemaid's knee, acute symptoms. ► Glands painful, hot swollen. ► Burning through all the mucous membranes.

Contact, Injuries, Etc

► Touch : 1, 5, 17, 25, 34, 40. Pressure : 19. Contusion : 2. Fall : 2.

Skin

► Red, shining, hot swelling ; violent pains. ► Dark, miliary rash. ► Rash like measles, pains in the joints ; dry, barking cough cannot bear light ; hot, dry skin. ► Scarlet rash, with high fever. ► Spots like flea-bites ; itching unchanged by scratching. ► Erysipelas, smooth skin ; violent fever. ► Erythema from the sun's rays ; papular erythema. ► Yellow skin. θ Jaundice. ► Dryness and burning of the skin.

Stages And States

► Children's diseases, with high fever. ► Dark hair and eyes. ► Persons leading a sedentary life. ► Old age ; sleeplessness. ► Especially persons with tonicity (rigidity) of fibre. ► Contra-indicated in fevers which bring out eruptions or are otherwise salutary, unless there is agonizing tossing with dry skin.

Relationship

► Antidotes to it : Acet. ac, Paris, Vinum. ► Acon. is an antidote to Bellad., Chamom., Coffea, Nux vom., Petrol., Sepia, Sulphur, Verat. ► After Acon. follow well : Arnic., Bellad., Bryon., Sepia and Sulphur ; in gastric states, after pulmonary febrile affections : Ipec. ; in colic : Arsen. ; in cough : Bryon., Spongia. ► Acon. may often be indicated after Arnic., Coffea, Sulphur and Verat. ► Mercur. follows well in dysentery. ► Complementary to Coffea, in fever, sleeplessness, intolerance of pain ; to Arnic. in bruises ; and to Sulphur, high. ► Ailments from Acon. : Act. rac., Chamom., Coffea, Nux vom., Petrol., Sepia, Sulphur. ► Abuse of Acon. calls for Sulphur.