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ACONITUM NAPELLUS
Aconite, Monkshood
Clinical Picture:Aconitum is useful in the early stages of an inflammation or a fever. It is indicated when there is a sudden onset of violent symptoms, especially after exposure to a dry, cold wind. The patient to whom Aconitum is indicated is fearful, restless and thirsty for cold drinks.
Disorders from fright and of sudden onset with acute symptoms.
Anxiety and restlessness in any disorder. Life is rendered miserable by fear. Intolerance of pain, great fear and severe anxiety; unreasonable fear that the patient will die.
Pain followed by numbness and tingling.
Feels faint, dizziness on rising.
Initial stages of the common cold.
Fevers of sudden onset; hot, dry skin; often one cheek is red and the other is pale.
Unquenchable thirst for large quantities of water.
Painful, red, hot, scanty urination, with profound anxiety.
Respiratory disorders: Wakes up child frightened from sleep with dry, hoarse cough; this is usually the only remedy needed.
Eyes: Relieves pain and aids healing in injuries such as an injury of the conjunctiva or pain due to irritation by inflammation or pain due to a foreign body in the eye.
Bursting, throbbing headache; sensation as if there is a tight band around the head.
Modalities:
Worse:
Evening and night.Better:
Music.
Lying on the affected side.
Tobacco smoke.
Warm room.
Dry, cold wind.
Open air.
Relations:
Complementary to Arnica montana in trauma; to Coffea cruda in fevers and to Sulphur in ail cases. Sulphur is the chronic remedy which very well complements Arnica montana.
Summary of Indications:
Fear of death - acute inflammations - pain - fever - pre-operative medication before surgery (to allay anxiety).
Antidotes:
Aceticum acidum
Belladonna atropa
Nux vomica
Sulphur (also complementary)
Note:
Trio of Restless Remedies: Aconitum napeilus, Arsenicum album, Rhus toxicodendron.