Aconitum Napellus - Generalities symptoms - T.F. Allen

GENERALITIES

Sleep

Lascivious dreams,

Very drowsy and sleepy all day (third day),

Shortly after she felt quite drowsy; she feels herself sleeping, while still awake; extremely prostrated, and as if beaten all over. This experimenter was very sensitive to the action of this medicine, and recognized at once that Aconite had been given to her,

Restless night, tossing about in bed (first night),

Sleep and dreams

Several strange dreams; woke, and found himself laughing heartily,

Sleep restless,

Uninterrupted yawning; she cannot yawn enough,

Yawns often, without being sleepy,

Yawning and stretching,

Frequent yawning; (shivering and) frequent yawning on rising in the morning,

Yawning, with ringing in ears,

Yawning, with sleepiness,

Intense yawning, without sleepiness,

Great sleepiness spasmodic yawning (19d.),

Sleepiness and laziness; uncommon sleepiness, even while walking,

Irresistible sleepiness by day,

Sleepiness; sleep (after 2h.),

(Quiet sleep, for four or five hours, )

Sleepiness toward noon,

Great sleepiness in the afternoon; the eyes close involuntarily; he wakes, however, readily, at the least noise, but always falls asleep again,

Uncommon sleepiness after a meal,

Falling asleep while standing,

Inability to keep awake,

Tendency to stupor,

He cannot be wakened, his hands are cold and he is senseless,

Light sleep (1 to 5h.),

Sleep very light, superficial, so that in the morning he imagines he has not slept at all; without being weak,

Frequent waking, with excessive wakefulness,

Disinclination to go to bed; he could not sleep when he went to bed, owing to excessive wakefulness,

Sleeplessness on account of severe pressive pain in vertex,

Could not sleep for some time after the decline of the symptoms, owing to inability to keep the eyes closed,

Sleepless night,

He sleeps sitting, with head bent forward,

In the morning, he lies asleep on his back, the left hand laid under the back of the head,

He felt as if he were sleeping in the air, and had nothing under him,

On lying down at night, shuddering,

Frightful convulsive jerkings on falling asleep,

Frequent starting out of sleep,

He starts up in a fright, moves much and talks in his sleep,

She starts up in her sleep, and says some one is holding her,

Violent twitching of the extremities on falling asleep, so that he was waked up by it,

Very restless nights (several).

Restless nights,

Restless nights, must walk about,

Went to bed very restless and excited, and slept with difficulty; not refreshed on rising next morning,

Very wakeful and restless,

Nights always restless; and, in the morning, feels as if he had been drunk over night,

Restless tossing in bed,

Nights very restless; she leaves the bed frequently, without being in a condition to lie down again without help,

Nights restless; alternating cold and heat, partial sweat,

Nights, much thirst, restlessness, chill and heat,

He cannot lie on the right side nor on the back; he turns in bed from one side to another with pain,

Sleep at night often disturbed by cough,

He wakes often at night on account of dryness in the mouth and throat, wherefore he must drink often,

On falling asleep, great twitching of the limbs, so that he is waked up by it,

Slow breathing when asleep,

(Inspiration with a double jerk, like the bleating of a goat, while asleep, )

After lying down at night, and while sitting during the day, he is in a state of waking dreaminess, and imagines erroneously that he is far from home,

In a kind of half-sleep, tormented by the most extravagant dreams, till morning,

Nightly phantasies in a half-waking state,

Restless nights, with vivid dreams about the events of the day,

Passed a restless night, body very hot, tossed about much, and had excessively vivid dreams,

Restless and disturbed sleep; strange dreams,

Restless night, disturbed by fearful dreams,

Stupid sleep, from which she arouses herself with difficulty, after awaking several times, with confused dreams; mornings on waking, the head is confused,

Sleep full of dreams of a confused and vivid character,

Long, confused dreams,

Dreams in which he spoke much,

He has a very vivid dream towards morning, and obtains an accurate explanation of a circumstance that was a riddle to him while awake (after 20h.),

Very vivid dreams all night (several).

Vivid, remembered dreams of the day's occurrences (several).

He dreams half the night of a single subject, which also occupies his attention for many hours after he awoke, so that this subject alone is in his mind (like the fixed idea of a monomaniac), which is very troublesome and disagreeable to thin,

Dreams of subjects that, for eight years, had been foreign to his thoughts,

At night, anxious dreams, and several times waking with a start,

Anxious dreams at night,

Long dreams, with anxiety in the chest, taking away the breath and causing him to awake (nightmare),

Anxious, heavy dreams, with oppression of the chest,

Frightful dreams,

Generalities

Aphonia lasted more than two weeks,