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Aconitum Napellus

Aconitinum, Aconite, Aconitum, Monkshood, Aconit napel, Acon.
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HPUS indication of Aconitum Napellus: Fear
Common symptoms: Fear, Chills, Colds, Cough, Eye pain, Dizziness.
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Below are the main rubriks (i.e strongest indications or symptoms) of Aconite in traditional homeopathic usage, not approved by the FDA.

  GENERAL

General

A state of fear, anxiety; anguish of mind and body. Physical and mental restlessness, fright, is the most characteristic manifestation of Aconitum Napellus. 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 gastro-intestinal disturbances, etc. First remedy in inflammation, 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 Hyperaemia, congestion not after exudation has set in. Influenza (Influenzin).

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  MODALITIES ETC

Worse

WORSE in warm room, in evening and Night; worse lying on affected side, from music, from tobacco-smoke, dry, cold winds.

Better

BETTER in open air.

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  RELATIONSHIPS

Compare

Compare Chamomilla Cham. AND Coffea Tosta Coffea Intense pain and sleeplessness. Agrostis acts like Aconitum Napellus. in fever and inflammations, also Spiranthes.

Complementary

Complementary: Coffea Tosta Coffea;’ Sulphur Sulph. Sulphur may be considered a chronic Aconitum Napellus. Often completes a cure begun with Aconite.

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  MIND

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 Grisea 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.

Behaviour; shrieking; with the pain

Death

presentiment of death

thoughts of death

Delirium; night

Delusions, imaginations, hallucinations, illusions; death; about to die

Symptoms follow intense emotions

anger

fright

Excitement

during chill

nervous

Emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition

anguish

anger (see irritability and quarrelsome)

with anxiety

with fright

violent

ecstatic

irritability

sensitive, oversensitive; to noise

suspicious

unhappy; lamenting, regretting; moaning, groaning

unhappy; sadness, mental depression

during chill

during the heat

weeping, crying, tearful mood (lamenting); during the heat

Insecure, uncertain, scared

anxiety

anxiety; during chill

anxiety; with fear

anxiety; during fever

fear

in a crowd

of death

of death; during labour

of death; predicts the time

of death; during pregnancy

Preoccupied; prophesying; predicts the time of death

Restlessness, nervousness

Sleep-walking

Unconsciousness

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  VERTIGO, DIZZINESS

Vertigo

Vertigo; Worse on rising (Nux Vomica Nux-v)

With nausea

Swaying; toward right

On rising

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  HEAD

Fullness; HEAVY, pulsating, Hot, bursting, burning, undulating sensation

Opium) and shaking head

Nocturnal furious delirium.

Sensation of head bubbling; boiling sensation

Cerebral haemorrhage

Congestion (see pulsation); fullness

Hot

Headache

Inter cranial pressure ( Hedera Helix Hedera Helix.) Burning headache, as if brain were moved by boiling water (Indigo.)

Pain, headache

with running or blocked nose

from emotions; after a fright

in forehead

above eyes; cold dry wind

back of head (occiput); heat of sun

burning

pressing (see bursting, pulling); forehead

pressing outward

pressing (see bursting, pulling); top of head (vertex)

Scalp

Sensation on vertex as if hair were pulled or stood on end

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  EYES

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.

Discoloration

redness

redness; after injuries

Dryness

Sensation of enlargement

Inflammation

of catarrh from cold

foreign bodies

washing

in dry cold wind

wounds; conjunctiva (external lining of eye)

Pain

aching

burning, smarting, gnawing, biting

stitching, sudden, sharp; movement

Intolerance of light (photophobia)

daylight; sunlight

Sensitive to.

cold air

cold air; lids

Vision

Lost vision, blindness

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  EARS

Ear

Very Sensitive to noises; music is unbearable

External ear hot, red, painful, swollen

Earache ( Chamomilla Cham.) Sensation as of drop of water in left ear.

Heat

Noises in ear; ringing

Hearing

Too sensitive

to music

to noises

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  FACE

Face

Red, hot, flushed, swollen

One cheek red, the other pale (Chamomilla Cham., Ipecacuanha Ip.)

tingling in cheeks and numbness

Neuralgia, especially on left side, with restlessness, tingling, and numbness

Pain in jaws.

Bloated (see swelling, congestion)

Expression

anxious

frightened

Sensation of face being large

Pain

pulsating

rheumatic

in dry, cold wind

Skin

discoloration; red

discoloration; red; alternating with paleness

discoloration; red; erysipelas (inflamed from infection, deep red colour)

Swelling

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  NOSE

Nose

Smell acutely sensitive

pain at root of nose

Hemorrhage of bright red blood

Nose bleed

during headache

Smell; acute, over sensitive

Discharge

Coryza; much sneezing; throbbing in nostrils

Mucous membrane dry, nose stopped up; dry or with but scanty watery coryza.

Running or blocked nose (coryza); caused by cold, dry wind

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  MOUTH

Mouth

Numb, DRY, and tingling

Constantly moves lower jaw as if chewing

Gums and teeth

Teeth sensitive to cold

Gums hot and inflamed

Teeth

pain

pain; right; to left

pain; in sound teeth

pain; in raw wind

pain; in dry, cold wind

pain; tearing

worse after going to bed

Saliva

Dryness

Tongue

Tongue swollen; Tip tingles

tongue coated white ( Antimonium Crudum Ant-c.)

Dryness; tongue

Pain; burning, raw and smarting; tongue

Prickling; tongue

Swelling; tongue

Taste

Taste

bitter

bitter; everything except water

Palate

Discoloration; palate (roof of mouth); red

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  THROAT

Throat

Red, dry, constricted, numb, prickling, burning, stinging

Tonsils swollen and dry.

Blood oozing

Choking, constricting; larynx

Croup

after exposure to cold dry air

Discoloration

redness

redness; uvula (lobe at back of mouth)

Dryness; trachea (wind pipe)

Inflammation

larynx

Irritation

in air passages

larynx

cold air

Pain

larynx; on coughing; grasps the larynx

burning

larynx

rawness; larynx; cold air

rawness; larynx; when breathing in

sore; larynx

touch

sudden, sharp

Sensitive

larynx; to cold air

larynx; to touch

Tickling in the air passages

Voice; hoarseness

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  CHEST

Chest

Heart; Tachycardia

Affections of the heart with pain in Left shoulder

Stitching pain in chest

Palpation, with anxiety, fainting, and Tingling in fingers

Pulse full, hard; tense and bounding; sometimes intermits

Temporal and carotid arteries felt when sitting.

Anxiety

region of heart

Congestion

heart

Constriction, tension

as from a band around chest

Fullness

Heart

hypertrophy of heart

with numbness and tingling of left arm and fingers

palpitations

daytime

anxiety

after fright

Heat

Inflammation

heart; endocardium

heart; pericardium

lungs

lung lining

Lungs; haemorrhage (see expectoration)

Oppressed feeling

from ascending stairs or hill

on rapid movement

Pain

heart

cutting (sudden sharp pain); after chill

stitching, sudden, sharp

Sensation of water in chest

sensation as if boiling water were poured into chest

hot water

Respiration

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.

Pain

when breathing in

stitching, sudden, sharp; when breathing in

Accelerated

Hot breath

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  COUGH

Cough

Night

In dry air; cold, dry air

In open air

in the wind; in dry wind

in the wind; wind from east

in the wind; wind from north

Barking

loud

With or after chill or fever; during fever

Croupy

Dry cough

during fever

Hoarse

Sensations in throat and air passages (either from coughing, or causing coughing); from irritation in air passages

Short

Tickling

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  EXPECTORATION

Expectoration

Bloody, spitting of blood (see chest haemorrhage)

bright-red

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  SKIN

Skin

Red, hot, swollen, dry, burning

Purpura miliaris

Rash like measles

Gooseflesh

Formication and numbness

Chilliness and formication down back

Pruritus Relieved by stimulants.

Discoloration; yellow, jaundice, etc.

Dry; burning

Abnormal growths; ulcers; inflamed

Inflammation; skin erysipelas (inflamed from infection, deep red colour)

Out-breaks on skin

measles

rash (see granular)

bluish

fiery red

receding in eruptive fevers; scarlet fever

rose coloured patches

Pain; burning

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  BACK AND NECK

Neck

Stiffness in nape of neck

Pain; tearing; neck

Back

Numb, stiff, painful

Crawling and tingling, as if bruised

Bruised pain between scapulae.

Numbness; lumbar (lower half of back)

Pain; stitching, sudden, sharp, shooting; lumbar (lower half of back)

Skin

like insects crawling on skin

like insects crawling on skin; spine

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  ABDOMEN

Abdomen

Thirst for cold water

Bitter taste of everything except water

Intense thirst

Pressure in stomach with dyspnoea

Hematemesis

Burning from stomach to oesophagus.

Hot, tense, tympanitic

Sensitive to touch

colic, no position relieves

Abdominal symptoms better after warm soup

Burning in umbilical region.

Bloated

painful

Inflammation

liver

Pain

extending to other parts; to chest; during stool

liver

burning

navel; region of

cutting

sore, bruised, tenderness, etc.

Pulsation

Bladder

inflammation

pain; pressing, pressure

retention of urine (see urination delayed)

in children; every time child catches cold

in new-born infants

tension

urging to urinate (unhealthy desire); anxious

on beginning to urinate

urging to urinate (unhealthy desire); ineffectual; children

urging to urinate (unhealthy desire); painful

in children; children grasp the genitals and cry out

urination; painful or difficult urination

urination; involuntary, incontinence; with thirst and fear

Kidneys; suppression of urine

Stomach

desires, cravings; alcoholic drinks; beer

desires, cravings; cold drinks

inflammation; after cold things

pain; after drinking; cold drinks

pulsation

thirst

extreme

during heat

Vomiting

Vomiting, with fear, heat, profuse sweat and increased urination

Drinks, vomits, and declares he will die

Vomiting, bilious, mucous and bloody, greenish

Pain; with vomiting, blood and mucus in stool (intussusception); pain in region of liver

Stomach; vomiting

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  RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

Rectum

Pain with nightly itching and stitching in anus

Frequent, small stool with tenesmus; Green, like chopped herbs

White with red urine

Choleraic discharges with collapse, and restlessness

Bleeding hemorrhoids ( Ham) Watery diarrhoea in children

They cry and complain much, are sleepless and restless.

Haemorrhage from anus

Pain; urge to stool, or urinate, but producing nothing; during stool

Stool

Chopped food; spinach

Mucous, slimy; green

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  GENITALS ETC

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 diarrhoea.

Colour; dark

Copious; with perspiration

Male

Male; Crawling and stinging in glans

Bruised pain in testicles, swollen, hard

Male; inflammation; testes

Female

Female; Vagina dry, hot, sensitive

Womb

Sharp shooting pains in womb

Female

pain; sharp; womb

pain; stitching, sudden, sharp; womb

Genitals

Frequent erections and emissions

Painful erections.

Suppressed from fright, cold, in plethoric subjects

Ovaries congested and painful

After-pains, with fear and restlessness.

Female

inflammation; ovaries

inflammation; ovaries; menstrual flow suddenly checked

Menses

Menses too profuse, with nosebleed, too protracted, late

Frenzy on appearance of menses

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  EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Extremities, limbs

Numbness and tingling; shooting pains; icy coldness and insensibility of hands and feet

Arms feel lame, bruised, heavy, numb

Pain down left arm (Cactus Grandiflorus Cact)

Crotalus Cascavella Crotal., Kalmia Latifolia Kalmia, Tabacum 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

(Aesculus Aesc.) 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.

Coldness

lower limbs; foot; evening

lower limbs; toes

Heat; hand; palm

Inflammation; joints

Numbness (see tingling); upper limbs

upper limbs

left; in heart disease

forearm

left

leg; after sitting

Pain

rheumatic; acute

tearing

Paralysis

Skin

itching; like insects crawling on skin; upper limbs

itching; like insects crawling on skin; hand

itching; like insects crawling on skin; fingers

Tingling, prickling, asleep (see numbness)

hand

fingers

foot

extending upwards

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  FEVER AND CHILL

Fever and chill

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.

External

Internal; as if coldness in blood vessels

Touch

Evening

Night; dry burning heat

Alternating with chills; night

Burning heat

night

Catarrh with fever

With chill

Dry heat

night

Fever with skin out-break; measles

External heat

Intense heat

Internal heat

with external chill

Remittent

infantile

One-sided; one cheek red and hot, the other pale and cold

Stages of chill, heat and sweat; chill followed by heat

Desire to uncover

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  INJURIES AND ACCIDENTS

Injuries and accidents

Shock from injury

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  GENERALITIES

Fatigue

Lethargic, tired

Sleep and dreams

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.

Dreams; anxious

Restless

Sleep-walking

Perspiration

Covered parts

Hot

After stool

Generalities

Night

Extreme emotion

Blood vessels

congestion of blood

excited, rapid blood flow

Faintness, fainting

after a fright

from sitting up

after urinating

Formication (like insects crawling around); external parts

Full feeling; internally

Heaviness; internally

Inflammation

internally

nerves

thin, watery membranes

Lying down

inclination to lie down

lying on side

Aversion to movement

Pain

burning externally; internally

pressing; as from load

tearing; externally

Pulsation; internally

Pulse

abnormal

frequent, accelerated, elevated, exalted, fast, innumerable, rapid

and small

full

hard

imperceptible

almost

irregular

small

Rising

Swelling

of affected parts

inflammatory

Tension; muscles

Temperature (felt and effects of temperature); cold feeling; blood vessels

cold, dry weather

tendency to catch cold

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