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 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.

- Numbness of left arm, tingling in fingers.

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