ACONITUM NAPELLUS (acon)

ACONITUM NAPELLUS (acon.)

Mind
- FEAR AND PREDICTING DEATH. Convinced they will die, PREDICT THE TIME. Fear of death
during pregnancy, labor.
- FEARS: CROWD, NARROW PLACES, OPEN SPACES,
darkness, elevator, tunnel, heart-disease,
heart will stop, brainstroke, fainting, air plane, earthquake.
- Fearful RESTLESSNESS. - PANIC STATES: Sudden, violent. Like internal earthquake.
With palpitations, red face, vertigo, one sided numbness, faintness, perspiration, trembling, dyspnea.
agg. Midnight to 4 a.m.
agg. 15 to 30 minutes after falling asleep.
agg. On falling asleep (Lach).
agg. Becoming warm in bed.
agg. Twilight (until midnight).
Calm in between the panic states.
- Extroverted. Desire company.
- Anxiety about others. Sympathetic.
- Alternating moods.
- Complains, reproaches. Quarrelsome. Misanthrophy.
- Over-sensitive to noise, light, touch.
- Sad, indifferent; with aversion company.
Generalities
- Extreme excitability of nervous and vascular system.
- Desire open air.
- agg. COLD DRY weather, dry COLD WIND, east wind,
agg. becoming cold when overheated.
- agg. Motion; lying on affected side; touch (esp. during fever).
- agg. FRIGHT, SHOCK; experience of IMMINENT DEATH.
- agg. Twilight.
- amel. Discharges (vomiting, diarrhea).
- Plethoric. local congestions.
- Epilepsy or convulsions.
- Numbness, tingling agg. left side.
- Intolerable pains; stinging, burning. Protects painful part with hands.
Vertigo
- During panic.
- On rising, on attempting to sit up in bed.
Head
- Tormenting headaches, agg. occiput and forehead, with fear of death;after fright; exposure to cold.
- Congestion and fullness, agg. evening; as if enlarged.
- Sensation of boiling inside.
Eye
- Conjunctivitis from cold, dry wind, reflection of snow. Inflammations from injury (Symph.).
- Hot and dry. Red conjunctiva of lids. Profuse lachrymation. Lids hard and swollen.
- PHOTOPHOBIA FROM SUNLIGHT.
- Eyeballs feel enlarged.
- Loss of vision after fright, very cold or hot weather.
Ear
- External ear hot and red; painful sensitivity; noise intolerable.
Nose - Acute smell for unpleasant odors.
- Epistaxis; bright red.
Face
- Anxious expression.
- NEURALGIA, PARALYSIS after dry, cold wind, agg. left side.
- One cheek red, one pale (Cham).
- ONE-SIDED NUMBNESS.
- PALE ON RISING, with faintness.
Mouth
- Numbness and tingling of tongue and lips. Burning.
- Everything tastes bitter except water.
Teeth
- Grinding.
- Pain from dry, cold wind; during pregnancy.
Throat
- Acute inflammations with high fever, dark redness, burning and stinging.
- Swallowing difficult.
Stomach
- Gastritis from drinking cold water when overheated.
- THIRST for large quantities (cold water).
- Burning pain ext. to mouth.
- Pressure as from a stone, ext. to back.
Abdomen
- Acute hepatitis. Splenitis.
- Severe colic with green, watery stool, amel. after stool.
- Tympanitic swelling, burning hot, painful to touch, agg. umbilical region.
Urinary
- RETENTION of urine in NEWBORNS, from FRIGHT; from cold, esp. children, with crying and
restlessness.
- Frequent urination during crisis.
Male genitalia
- Acute orchitis.
Female genitalia
- Acute inflammation ovaries from suppressed menses.
- Suppressed menses, dysmenorrhea from fright, becoming cold.
- Abortion from fright.
Larynx/trachea
- CROUP, in early stage; after cold, dry wind.
Larynx sensitive to touch, inspired air; as if raw.
Respiration
- Hyperventilating with a croupy sound, agonizing, with fear of suffocation.
- Dyspnea from fright, cardiac excitement.
- PSYCHOGENIC DYSPNEA (Lob.). Cough
- Short, dry, hoarse, barking, forcible; from irritation in throat.
Chest
- PALPITATIONS, WITH ANXIETY AND FEAR OF DEATH, RESTLESSNESS; agg. lying.
As if boiling water in chest. As if heart will explode.
- ANGINA. Intense pain in all directions, esp. down left arm; with numbness and tingling.
- Pneumonia, pleurisy.
- Stitches in right side, agg. lying on right side, motion, coughing, breathing.
Extremities
- Acute rheumatism with sensation of enlargement of the part.
- Affections often associated with NUMBNESS, TINGLING.
- Paralysis, from exposure to cold, dry wind, from fright; hysterical.
- Paralysis on waking, unable to move, gives panic.
Sleep
- Restless.
- Nervous sleeplessness, with anxiety, restlessness.
- Nightmares, instead of panic-attack.
- Position: Left side.
Fever
- HIGH FEVER.
Skin
- Jaundice in new-borns.
- Dry.
- Erythema, agg. sun. Erysipelas. Red rash.
- Fine prickings as from needles. Tingling.
Compl.
Arn., Coff., Sulph.
Dd
Arg-n., Ars., Bell., Ferr-p., Op., Phos., Rhus-t., Stram.