Aconitum napellus
Keywords
- Intense
fear.
-
Restlessness.
- Anxiety.
Synopsis
(identifying features)
- 1. Intense
fear, nervous restlessness; frantic; screams, growls; tossing about in agony.
-
Inconsolable.
- 2. Great
fear and anxiety of mind, fear of DEATH, predicts the hour of death.
- 3. Fear or
fright remains after violent painful symptoms.
- 4. Rapid
action.
- 5. Sudden
manifestations with violent, painful symptoms.
- 6. A/f
exposure to cold with suddenness of attack, acute inflammation and congestion
(heart, circulation, head).
- 7. Pain
burning, tingling; numbness; insupportable, drive him to despair.
- 8. Fear of
crowds, of crossing the street.
- 9. Haemorrhage; bright red, copious (haemoptysis,
piles with heat and sharp stitches, epistaxis).
- 10.
Sudden, severe pain in stomach with gagging and vomiting of blood.
Mind
- Great
anxiety; agonising fear and restlessness accompany
every ailment however trivial.
- Fear; of
death, of crowds, of crossing streets.
- Impatient.
- Frantic.
- Terror-
stricken from intensity of pain.
-
Clairvoyance.
- Music is
unbearable; makes her sad.
-
Inconsolable anxiety and piteous howling.
- Extremely
sensitive to pain.
Objective
- Great fear
and anxiety; afraid to go out, to cross the street.
-
Intolerable fear; predicts the day he will die.
- Music
unbearable.
- Skin dry
and hot; face red or pale.
- Burning
thirst for large quantities of cold water.
- Restless,
tossing about in agony.
- Remote
effects of fright (OPIUM).
- High
fever; dry hot skin.
- Everything
tastes bitter except water (Stann).
- Hot red
cheeks.
- Stools of
pure blood.
- Drenching
sweats.
- Retention
of urine in new-born.
- Frantic
from intensity of pain.
Causation (a.f. )
- 1.
Exposure to cold, dry weather. (Respiration affected).
- 2. Heat,
especially of sun (Gastrointestinal).
- 3. Shock,
fright, vexation.
- 4.
Surgical shock, injury, checked perspiration.
Modalities
- Agg.
- Fright,
shock, violent emotions.
- Evening
and night.
- Cold, dry
weather (Caust., Hep-s., Nux-v.).
- Chilled
while sweating.
- Rising
from bed.
- Lying on
left or affected side.
- Noise,
during menses.
- Amel.
- Repose,
warmth, sweat.
Food &
drinks
- 1. Great
thirst.
- 2. Taste.
- Everything
tastes bitter except water, which has bad taste.
- 3.
Craving.
- For beer,
acids, bitter drinks, sour drinks, cold drinks.
- 4. Intense
burning thirst for large quantities of cold water.
- 5.
Disagrees.
- Milk.
Female
- Amenorrhoea
(mensturation in women ) in
plethoric girls - after fright.
-
Suppression of menses from fright or cold.
- Active
uterine haemorrhage.
- Vagina
hot, dry and sensitive.
- Milk fever
with delirium.
- Ovarities from checked menses.
- Fear of
death during pregnancy.
- Threatened
abortion from fright or anger.
Child
- 1. Child
cries out, grasps the genitals after fright.
- 2.
Grinding of teeth.
- 3. Watery diarrhoea in children on hot days, they cry, are restless
and sleepless.
- 4.
Retention or agonising strangury of urine; in new-
born; due to cold exposure, with handling of genitals.
- 5. Sudden
watery diarrhoea and convulsion of teething children.
Peculiar,
uncommon, grand characteristics
- 1. Vertigo
- Agg. on rising or on any motion of
head or body.
- 2. Eye
-
Conjunctivitis from foreign bodies, or cinders.
- 3. Face
- One cheek
red and hot, the other pale and cold.
- 4. Face
- Red and
becomes deathly pale on rising; or he becomes dizzy.
- 5. Mouth
- Chewing
motions of lower jaw.
- 6. Stool
- White faeces and red urine.
- 7. Bladder
- Urination
involuntary, with thirst and fear.
- 8.
Respiration
- Resp.
affections from cold, dry weather; gastrointestinal disturbances from very hot
weather.
- 9. Cough
- Agg. by every inspiration, or by
lying on back.
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Numbness of left arm, tingling in fingers.