Aconitum Napellus acon.

MIND: Brain. NERVES: Medulla. Sympathetic. Vagus. Respiratory centre. HEART: Arterial. Circulation. Viscera: Larynx. Chest. Abdomen. Joints.

Violent emotions: FRIGHT. SHOCK. Vexation. Sleeping in sun. Chilled by: COLD, dry winds. While sweating. Pressure and touch. Noise. Light. Dentition. During menses. Night; in bed, P.M. lying on side.

Open air. Repose. Warm sweat.

Robust habit. Sudden, violently acute, painful effects, a big storm that soon blows over. Tension. Congestion; often apoplectic. Excited nervous and vascular systems. Inflammation. Congestion to head and chest: acute. Inflammation: internal; rheumatic. Bright red hæmorrhage (Bell.). Acute senses. Sticking, tearing pains. Parts feel numb, big, burn, tingle, prickle or crawl; remain sore or numb after the pains. Neuralgia. Crepitation. Painfully sore externally, with internal heaviness. Collapse.

TERROR. ANXIETY. AGONIZING FEAR; of death, crowds, etc. RESTLESS , excited, nervous, feverish, impatient and anxious. Beside himself; frantic from intensity of the pain; WITH FEAR; screams, moans, gnaw the fist, bites the nails (Ars.), wants to die. Delirium. Convulsions. Forebodings; predicts time of death. Sensitive. Music saddens. Anxiety, congestion and pain. Head heavy. As of a hot band about head, or boiling heat in brain. Hair seems on end. Violent squeezing or bursting, in forehead or eyes; crackling in, throbs in l. forehead (r. Ant-t. Bell. Ign.); aches, with more urine; burning in. Shooting in eyeballs. Numb nose; with epistaxis (Bell. Med.). Nose runs hot water. Coryza. ANXIOUS LOOK (Spo.). Eyes glitter; stare; bleared; foreign bodies in. Hot, red cheeks. Face: ghastly look; alternately red and pale; one cheek red and hot, other pale and cold. Face pales on rising. Faintness. Toothache. Throbbing in teeth and in head. Everything tastes bitter. Water has a bad taste. Chokes on swallowing. BURNING THIRST; craves acids, beer; < after ices. Appetite: milk agrees. Projectile vomiting (Ver-v.). Violent bilious or bloody vomitus. Stools of pure blood; slimy, grass green, or white; < hot days and cold nights (Dul. Merc-c.). Dysentery. Itching, sticking at anus. Retained, scanty, red or bloody urine. Agonizing dysuria. Cystitis. Urethral chill. Orchitis. Suddenly suppressed menses. Respiration short; during sleep; anxious; hard; sits erect. Dry, hoarse, painful cough, or short, barking, ringing, or whistling cough, < from every inspiration. Grasps larynx; < night or drinking. Laryngitis. Croup with fever. Violent rushes of blood to chest. Pneumonia. Stitches in chest. Oppression of left chest. Pleurisy. Heart feels swelled. Carditis. Complaints of heart worse from sitting erect. Palpitation, anxious; with pain down l. arm. Red finger-tips. Powerless legs. Red, shining swelling. DRY, HOT SKIN, or as if ice water on it. Miliary eruptions. Sleepless and nervous. Pulse fast, bounding, shaking, forcible and tumultuous or wiry. Pulse very irritable. Arterial tension (Ver-v.). CHILL; in waves; alternates with heat. HIGH FEVER. Dry, burning heat; in eyelids; nose, mouth, throat, lungs; on palms; must uncover. Sweat: on uncovered parts; wants covers; drenching. Back and sacrum feel bruised. Remote effects of fright (OP.). Cries out and grasps genitals.

Complementary: Sul. Related: Bell. Cham. Cof.

It is generally indicated in acute or recent cases occurring in young persons, especially girls, of a full, plethoric habit who lead a sedentary life; persons easily affected by atmospheric changes; dark hair and eyes, rigid muscular fibre. Complaints caused by exposure to dry cold air, dry north or west winds, or exposure to draughts of cold air while in a perspiration; bad effects of checked perspiration. Great fear and anxiety of mind, with great nervous excitability; afraid to go out, to go into a crowd where there is any excitement or many people; to cross the street. The countenance is expressive of fear; the life is rendered miserable by fear; is sure his disease will prove fatal; predicts the day he will die; fear of death during pregnancy. Restless, anxious, does everything in great haste; must change position often; everything startles him. Pains; are intolerable, they drive him crazy; he becomes very restless; at night. Hahnemann says: "Whenever Aconite is chosen homeopathically, you must, above all, observe the moral symptoms, and be careful that it closely resembles them; the anguish of mind and body; the restlessness; the disquiet not to be allayed.". This mental anxiety, worry, fear accompanies the most trivial ailment. Music is unbearable, makes her sad (Sab., during menses, Nat. c.). On rising from a recumbent position the red face becomes deathly pale, or he becomes faint or giddy and falls, and fears to rise again; often accompanied by vanishing of sight and unconsciousness. Amenorrhoea in plethoric young girls; after fright, to prevent suppression of menses. For the congestive stage of inflammation before localization takes place. Fever; skin dry and hot; face red, or pale and red alternately; burning thirst for large quantities of cold water; intense nervous restlessness, tossing about in agony; becomes intolerable towards evening and on going to sleep. Convulsions; of teething children; heat, jerks and twitches of single muscles; child gnaws its fist, frets and screams; skink hot and dry; high fever. Cough, croup; dry, hoarse, suffocating, loud, rough, croaking; hard, ringing, whistling; on expiration (Caust. - on inhalation, Spong.); from dry, cold winds or drafts of air. Aconite should never be given simply to control the fever, never alternated with other drugs for that purpose. If it be a case requiring Aconite no other drug is needed; Aconite will cure the case. Unless indicated by the exciting cause, is nearly always injurious in first stages of typhoid fever.

Evening and night, pains are insupportable; in a warm room; when rising from bed; lying on affected side (Hep., Nux m.).

In the open air (Alum., Mag. c., Puls., Sab.).

Complementary: to Coffea in fever, sleeplessness, intolerance of pain; to Arnica in traumatism; to Sulphur in all cases. Rarely indicated in fevers which bring out eruptions. Aconite is the acute of Sulphur, and both precedes and follows it in acute inflammatory conditions.

Aconite has a specific and singularly marked action on the serous membranes and on the muscular tissues.

We think of Aconite, therefore, when sudden inflammation, very violent in character, arises, and especially if it is caused by exposure to dry cold air, either in a dry cold room or by a draught of air, whereby perspiration or the insensible exhalations of the body are suddenly suppressed, and a violent chill is the consequence. In chronic cases, when the cause of the disease can be distinctly traced to such a source, even if years have intervened. Among chronic affections arising from this cause, are coughs, catarrhs, spitting of blood, pain in the chest, heart disease, etc., etc.

The genius of this highly useful remedy is through the mental sphere, and it is always important to consider the mental symptoms. Almost certainly this remedy should never be given in cases where the sickness or suffering is borne with calmness and patience. On the contrary, if Aconite is to be even thought of, we will find mental uneasiness, worry, or fear, accompanying a most trivial ailment, such as inflammation of the eyelids. And the more thoroughly this state of the mind exists, the more surely will Aconite be indicated. Great and uncontrollable anguish, anxiety, and great fear, are characteristic of the Aconite disease.

In nervous states with much fear, accompanied by weakness and want of appetite; great fear; afraid to go out of the house; fear of a crowd; fear that he will not recover, and predicts the expected day of his death,--is very characteristic. Complaints caused by fright and the fear remains.

It has much sensitive irritability, and sadness with fear. Fitful moods; now very cheerful and happy, singing, laughing, and talking in great glee; then sadness and fear, despondency and gloom.

In the delirium is unhappiness, worry, despair and raving, with expression of fear upon the countenance; but there is rarely unconsciousness.

Head excessively hot. Sensation as if everything would push out at the forehead. Vertigo on assuming an upright position, whether rising from the bed or a chair, and is afraid to rise again. (Opium has this symptom, and Nux vomica has it on rising from a chair: but neither of these have the mental symptoms.) Headache, burning, as though the brain were moved by boiling water. Terrible pain at the root of the nose, with much disturbance of the mind; he is afraid to go out of the house; is afraid something is going to happen. Sensation as if the hair were standing on end all over the head. Vertigo increased by shaking the head, with inclination to fall to the right side; staggering to the right.

Great aversion to light, or a strong desire for it. Sufferings from foreign bodies, as speck of dust or iron; the eye feels very sore, is painful and inflamed.

Red and hard swelling of the eyelids, the edges looking red and sore; are very sensitive and painful. This state of his eyes worries and troubles him exceedingly; cannot attend to his business because of it. Profuse lachrymation with intense pain.

Cannot bear the reflection of the sun from the snow; on going out after fresh fall of snow, the reflection from the sun shining thereon causes specks, sparks, and scintillations to dance before the eyes. Eyeballs feel painfully dry, and the pressure of the lids hurts them. Purulent ophthalmia if there is redness, inflammation, and great sensitiveness.

Hearing very sensitive; noise and music trouble and worry the patient.

Bleeding of the nose, especially in young, plethoric persons, where the flow is very abundant. Dry coryza, with headache, roaring in the ears. Fluent coryza, frequent sneezing, dropping of a clear hot water.

Very red, and feels as if it had grown much larger; red while lying down, but after rising up, pale; redness of one cheek, paleness of the other; red and pale cheeks alternately. Tingling sensation of the face; it is so red it tingles. Tingling sensations are exceedingly characteristic.

Toothache of a throbbing character, particularly from an exposure to dry cold air, causing much restlessness.

Dry; tongue and fauces dry, with a peculiar tingling on the tip of the tongue and edges of the lips. Tingling of the œsophagus and fauces, and on looking into the throat we find it very red. Tingling when coughing and swallowing. Uvula feels elongated and coming in contact with tongue.

Everything tastes bitter, except water: and there is a desire to take a great deal of this, because it tastes good; everything else seems bitter. Burning, unquenchable thirst.

Vomiting, with nausea and thirst. He drinks, vomits, knows be is going to die, and is in great anguish. (See Fever.)

Pressure in the pit of the stomach as if a large stone were there.

Burning sensation in the throat, in the stomach, extending from the pit of the stomach up to the tip of the tongue, with tingling of the tongue, lips, fingers, and along the spine, and tingling in various parts of the body. Much bitter vomiting; vomiting of bile, with great fear; there may be a cold sweat, which is more the result of fear than anything else. Vomiting seems to pour out as from a pump, in great profusion, deluging everything.

Inflammation of the peritoneum, accompanied by restlessness, sleeplessness, thirst, and sharp shooting pains, and the abdomen is tender to the touch. Inflammation of the bowels, with tearing and burning pains, restlessness, thirst, fever, dry hot skin, and diarrhœa. Incarcerated hernia, with bitter taste, bilious vomiting, restlessness, fear of death.

These conditions may arise suddenly, when Aconite will be strongly indicated. Great fear and dread will also characterize the case. Pure inflammatory dysentery, with the peculiar mental and physical symptoms, is rapidly relieved by Aconite.

Pure inflammatory dysentery; or diarrhœa with watery, brown, and bilious stools, accompanied in either case by dry hot skin, thirst, restlessness, and fear.

If a child is suffering from a watery diarrhœa, crying and complaining very much, biting his fists, and is sleepless, Aconite will usually cure in a short time.

In diseases of childhood, dentition, disturbances of the alimentary canal with cerebral complications, where there is great restlessness, not a position that is satisfactory; they cry, complain, toss about, knock their heads, put their hands to the part that hurts them most, often call for mamma, and exhibit signs of fear and great unhappiness.

Scanty, red, and hot urine, arising from taking cold, especially in children; suppression of, from cold. The child screams and appears to be in great pain, because it cannot urinate. Aconite will ease the pain, quiet the child, and the urine will flow some time after. Heat and profuse perspiration, often accompanied by increased micturition.

In males, bruised pain in the testicles, arising from exposure to dry cold air.

In females, after-pains are very severe, with great fear and restlessness. In milk fever, when the milk does not flow, and the breasts are hard and swollen, accompanied by the same mental conditions. Puerperal peritonitis, where there are darting, shooting pains, restlessness, fever, great fear and anguish.

Suppressed menses, resulting from fright, fear, or vexation, or chill in dry cold air, particularly in young and plethoric females.

Croupy-sounding cough, particularly after falling to sleep. The patient is disturbed in hie sleep by the cough, which almost awakens him; he turns over, and as soon as he is fairly settled down to sleep again, the cough recommences, and so continually repeats itself. Croupy cough, resulting from an exposure to dry cold air, with restlessness and an uncomfortable state of the mind. Short, dry, titillating cough, every inspiration seeming to increase the cough is very characteristic. Cough with no expectoration.

Expectoration of bloody mucus with the cough. There is almost always a tingling sensation in the chest after coughing. There may be stitches in the chest and side, which are often so severe as to interfere considerably with respiration; can only get "half-inch" respirations. We sometimes find this in the worst cases of pleurisy; also the restlessness, fever, thirst., and fear. Sometimes there is an oppression of the chest without pain, which keeps one from taking a deep breath; something seems to catch the breath and stop it.

In hæmorrhage the blood comes with great ease by hemming and hawking; it comes in great quantity, and of a pure, bright, red quality; the hæmorrhage is often brought on by a little exercise, or by being in the cold dry air, or in a cold dry room; hæmorrhage is attended by a great fear of death.

Aconite cures some cases of heart disease, chiefly when the cause can be traced to an exposure to dry cold air. Palpitation of the heart, with great anguish.

Constant pressure in the left chest; oppressed breathing on the least motion; frequent stitches at the heart, and tendency to congestion of the head.

Much tingling in the back and in the fingers, particularly while writing. Numbness of the left arm, so that the hand can hardly be moved.

Hard, full, and frequent pulse, sometimes intermitting; sometimes slow and thread-like, with heat, restlessness, thirst for great quantities of water, etc., etc. Even in intermittent fever, with mental excitement and fear of death. It is sometimes useful when there is a sensation of coldness in the blood vessels, and a peculiar shuddering sensation running from the feet to the chest in paroxysms. Sensation of great heat, with a cold clammy sweat; cannot bear to be covered. Great thirst, and though cannot retain fluids in the stomach, yet will always drink; then up it comes as from a pump, all up and out in a very short time, even before a basin or anything can be procured. In the heat of Aconite there is much agony and tossing: feels very hot and wants great amount of cold drink.

Erysipelatous inflammations; miliary eruptions: red fiend rash, which is very thick and causes great restlessness; this rash reappears every night.

This remedy is frequently indicated where there is a great and sudden sinking of the strength, but with no alarm. Jerking and twitching of parts, also unconsciousness, contra-indicate Acon.

Burning of the internal parts, with the concomitant symptoms.

Tingling of the fingers, œsophagus,. cheeks, back, tongue and lips. Painful sensitiveness of any part of the body; does not wish to be touched on account of this sensitiveness; of course he will be irritable, and fearful of any one approaching him.

Great sleeplessness, restlessness, and constant tossing.

Sometimes a patient is suddenly attacked with great oppression of breathing, accompanied by great agony, so that he must sit straight up in bed; his pulse thread-like, and he is very sad; these attacks usually occur in the night.

Active hæmorrhage from any part of the body, uterine or any other, accompanied with fear of death, and nervous excitability.

In the evening; in the night; cannot lie on the left side in affections of the chest; worse when rising and when in a warm room. From music; from fear; during inspiration; when giddy; lying on side.

In the open air and sometimes when sitting still.

Arnica, Bellad., Bryon., Canthar., Mercur., Pulsat., Rhus tox., Sepia, Sulphur.

Numbness and tingling in all parts. Skin dry, burning hot, intense thirst for cold water, red face sometimes changing to pale. Croupy cough, awakening in first sleep, particularly with children after dry, cold west wind. Conjunctivitis resulting from exposure to dry, cold winds, from surgical operations or from a foreign body in the eye. Cannot bear the pain, or to be touched, or to be uncovered. First stages of inflammatory fevers, before localization, eruption, or exudation has occurred, characterized by great anxiety, and restlessness, often in chilly stages, before febrile symptoms have developed. Hemoptysis, the blood comes up with an easy hawking, hemming or some coughing, either after mental excitement, after drinking wine, or exposure to dry cold air. Numbness of the left arm, can scarcely move the head. Predicts the day she is to die, especially in pregnancy or child-bed. From rising up the red face turns deadly pale. Heat with thirst, hard full frequent pulse, anxious impatience, inappeasable, beside himself tossing about with agony. After a fright with vexation during menses to prevent suppression. After a violent chill, dry heat and lancinating pain in chest. Stools like chopped spinach, in summer complaint. Complaints, especially respiratory, from sudden suppression of perspiration by exposure to cold, especially cold winds.

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A state of fear, anxiety; anguish of mind and body. Physical and mental restlessness, fright, is the most characteristic manifestation of Aconite. 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, draught of cold air, checked perspiration, also complaints from very hot weather, especially gastro-intestinal disturbances, etc. First remedy in inflammations, 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 Hyperæmia, congestion not after exudation has set in. Influenza (Influenzin)

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). 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.

Fullness; heavy, pulsating, hot, bursting, burning undulating sensation. Intercranial pressure (Hedera Helix). Burning headache, as if brain were moved by boiling water (Indigo). Vertigo; worse on rising (Nux. Opium) and shaking head. Sensation on vertex as if hair were pulled or stood on end. Nocturnal furious delirium.

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.

Very sensitive to noises; music is unbearable. External ear hot, red, painful, swollen. Earache (Cham). Sensation as of drop of water in left ear.

Smell acutely sensitive. Pain at root of nose. Coryza much sneezing; throbbing in nostrils. Hæmorrhage of bright red blood. Mucous membrane dry, nose stopped up; dry or with but scanty watery coryza.

Red, hot, flushed, swollen. One cheek red, the other pale (Cham, Ipec). On rising the red face becomes deathly pale, or he becomes dizzy. Tingling in cheeks and numbness. Neuralgia, especially of left side, with restlessness, tingling, and numbness. Pain in jaws.

Numb, dry, and tingling. Tongue swollen; tip tingles. Teeth sensitive to cold. Constantly moves lower jaw as if chewing. Gums hot and inflamed. Tongue coated white (Antim crud).

Red, dry, constricted, numb, prickling, burning, stinging. Tonsils swollen and dry.

Vomiting, with fear, heat, profuse sweat and increased urination. Thirst for cold water. Bitter taste of everything except water. Intense thirst. Drinks, vomits, and declares he will die. Vomiting, bilious mucous and bloody, greenish. Pressure in stomach with dyspnœa. Hæmatemesis. Burning from stomach to œsophagus.

Hot, tense, tympanitic. Sensitive to touch. Colic, no position relieves. Abdominal symptoms better after warm soup. Burning in umbilical region.

Pain with nightly itching and stitching in anus. Frequent, small stool with tenesmus; green, like chopped herbs. White with red urine. Choleraic discharge with collapse, anxiety, and restlessness. Bleeding hæmorrhoids (Hamam). Watery diarrhœa in children. They cry and complain much, are sleepless and restless.

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 diarrhœa.

Crawling and stinging in glans. Bruised pain in testicles, swollen, hard. Frequent erections and emissions. Painful erections.

Vagina dry, hot, sensitive. Menses too profuse, with nosebleed, too protracted, late. Frenzy on appearance of menses. Suppressed from fright, cold, in plethoric subjects. Ovaries congested and painful. Sharp shooting pains in womb. After-pains, with fear and restlessness.

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.

Tachycardia. Affections of the heart with pain in left shoulder. Stitching pain in chest. Palpitation, with anxiety, fainting, and tingling in fingers. Pulse full, hard; tense and bounding; sometimes intermits. Temporal and carotid arteries felt when sitting.

Numb, stiff, painful. Crawling and tingling, as if bruised. Stiffness in nape of neck. Bruised pain between scapulæ.

Numbness and tingling; shooting pains; icy coldness and insensibility of hands and feet. Arms feel lame, bruised, heavy, numb. Pain down left arm (Cact, Crotal, Kalmia, Tabac). 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 (Aescul). 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.

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.

Red, hot, swollen, dry, burning. Purpura miliaris. Rash like measles. Gooseflesh. Formication and numbness. Chilliness and formication down back. Pruritus relieved by stimulants.

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.

Better in open air; worse in warm room, in evening and night; worse lying on affected side, from music, from tobacco-smoke, dry, cold winds.

Vinegar in large doses is antidotal to poisonous effects.

Acids, wine and coffee, lemonade, and acid fruits modify its action.

Not indicated in malarial and low fevers or hectic and pyæmic conditions, and in inflammations when they localize themselves. Sulphur often follows it. Compare Cham and Coffea in intense pain and sleeplessness.

Agrostis acts like Acon in fever and inflammations, also Spiranthes.

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

Compare; Bellad; Cham; Coffea; Ferr, phos.

(Heavy feeling as of lead; pains in supraorbital nerve; ice-cold sensations creep up; hydrophobia symptoms. Tinnitus aurium 3x). Tingling sensation.

Great yellow wolfsbane.--(Swelling of glands; Hodgkin's disease. Diarrhœa after eating pork. Itching of nose, eyes, anus and vulva. Skin of nose cracked; taste of blood).

(Headache with vertigo and tinnitus. Cataleptic symptoms. Formication of tongue, lips and face).

Indian Aconite.--Rather more violent in its actions than A. napellus. It is more diuretic and less antipyretic. It has proved valuable in cardiac dyspnœa, neuralgia, and acute gout. Dyspnœa. Must sit up. Rapid respiration. Anxiety, with suffocation from feeling of paralysis in respiratory muscles. Cheynes-Stokes breathing. Quebracho (cardiac dyspnœa) (Achyranthes.--A Mexican drug--very similar to Aconite in fevers, but of larger range, being also adapted to typhoidal states and intermittents. Muscular rheumatism. A great diaphoretic. Use 6x). Eranthis hymnalis--(Winter Aconite--acts on solar plexus and works upwards causing dyspnœa. Pain in occiput and neck).

Sixth potency for sensory affections; first to third for congestive conditions. Must be repeated frequently in acute diseases. Acon is a rapid worker. In Neuralgias tincture of the root often preferable, one drop doses (poisonous), or again, the 30th according to susceptibility of patient.

Fear: of death; of crowds; of going out. Anything, always fearful.

Complaints from exposure to cold, dry cold.

Congestions and inflammations, acute, first stage with great anxiety, heat and restlessness; tosses about in agony; throws off covering. Inflammatory fever.

Pains insuppressable < at night, especially in the evening; neuralgic.

Face very red and flushed, but turns pale on rising up.

Favorite points of attack: Larynx (crop), bronchi (bronchitis), lungs and pleura (pneumonia and pleurisy), joints (rheumatism), heart and circulation (erethism).

> uncovering; kicks the clothes off.

We will now take up what I call the trio of restless remedies; viz: Aconite, Arsenicum and Rhus toxicodendron.

All are equally restless, yet all are so very different that there is no difficulty in choosing between them. The Aconite restlessness is oftenest found in a high grade of synochal or inflammatory fevers. There is no better picture in a few words of the Aconite fever than is given by Hering -"Heat, with thirst; hard, full and frequent pulse, anxious impatience, inappeasable, beside himself, tossing about with agony."

The custom of alternating Aconite and Belladonna in inflammatory affections, which so widely prevails is a senseless one. Both remedies cannot be indicated at a time, and if a good effect follows their administration you may be sure that the indicated one cured in spite of the action of the other, which only hindered; or that the patient recovered without help from either. There are many cases of this kind where the doctor is congratulating himself on a cure which was only a recovery, for which he deserves no credit at all. Let us look for a moment at some of the diagnostic differences of these two remedies.

Both have great heat of the skin, but Aconite has characteristically dry, hot skin and no sweat; Belladonna has even greater surface heat, but sweats on covered parts.

Aconite tosses about in agony with great fear of death; Belladonna often has semi-stupor and jerks and twitches in sleep. Aconite has great distress in heart and chest; Belladonna everything seems to centre in the head. Aconite fears death without much delirium; Belladonna fears imaginary things, with delirium. Thus we might continue to give points of difference. No man who understands the homœopathic art of healing will ever alternate these two remedies.

Aconite is also a great pain remedy. If we were to name the three leading remedies in this respect it would be Aconite, Chamomilla and Coffea. The Aconite pains are always attended by the extreme restlessness, anxiety and fearfulness of this remedy. The patient tosses about in agony, "cannot bear the pain, nor bear to be touched, nor to be uncovered." Well, you say, all remedies have pain. Not all, and not many so intense pain. Opium and Stramonium have painlessness oftener than pain. The Aconite pains are intolerable and generally worse in the evening or at night. Then we have often alternating with or sometimes even in conjunction with the pains numbness, tingling, or formication.

In this it resembles Rhus tox., but with Aconite the pains predominate, while with Rhus tox. the numbness, with dull aching and soreness, leads. The pains of Aconite are tearing, cutting pains, which drive the patient to desperation. Right here we may as well speak of the leading characteristic of this remedy, for it is almost always present when Aconite is clearly indicated. Just one word expressed it: Fear -fear of death especially, but fear to cross the street, fear to go into society, fear something is going to happen, ever present, undefinable, unreasonable fear. No remedy has it in such a degree as this one. It is the fear as much as the pain that makes the patient so full of that agonized restlessness. The Arsenic restlessness goes with extreme prostration and reduced vitality. Rhus tox., on account of the aching pains, which make him want to move for the temporary relief he gets from the movement. Arsenic wants to move from place to place, but is not relieved. Neither Aconite nor Arsenic get such relief from movement, nor does Arsenic fear like Aconite, or at least in any such degree. Aconite, as a fever remedy, has been greatly abused. Even the old school, astonished at the results of homœopathic treatment, so superior to their so-called anti-phlogistic treatment, and finding Aconite so highly recommended and frequently used in inflammatory affections, concluded in accordance with their usual way of reasoning that Aconite could be squeezed into their pathological livery and made to do service in all kinds of fever simply because it was fever. But they soon found that however useful it might be in some cases of inflammatory fever, it was of no use in typhoids. Thus was generalization from a pathological standpoint again doomed to disappointment, as it always must be. Now many so-called homœopaths have fallen into similar error by concluding that because Aconite did quickly cure in some cases having a high grade of fever, that therefore it was always the remedy with which to treat cases having high fever. They even fell into the routine habit of prescribing this remedy for the first stage of all inflammatory affections, and follow it with other remedies more appropriate to the whole case further on. If Aconite were the only remedy having inflammatory fever, perhaps we could do no better than to zig-zag the case to a cure this way. Dunham writes: "Aconite is never to be given first to subdue the fever and then some other remedy 'to meet the case,' never to be alternated with other drugs for the purpose, as is often alleged, of 'controlling the fever.' If the fever be such as to require Aconite, no other drug is needed. If other drugs seem indicated one should be sought which meets the fever as well, for many drugs besides Aconite produce fever, each after its kind."

True words, and as one reads them who has proved their truthfulness and remembers they great author, he feels like exclaiming, "Being dead, yet speaketh." Aconite has two very important modalities, viz., fright and dry cold air. We have already noticed the value of the fear of Aconite as a symptom, connected with acute inflammatory ailments. It is no less a remedy for ailments brought on by fright, either immediate or remote. The patient has received a fright in the dark and is always afraid in the dark afterwards. From fright vertigo comes on, or fainting; trembling; threatened abortion, or suppressed menstruation, Jaundice may be induced by it, and become chronic. There are other remedies for fright, prominent among which are Opium, Ignatia, Veratrum album, etc. Now in regard to the dry cold air. No remedy has more prominently acute inflammations arising from dry, cold air. Nineteen out of twenty cases of croup arising from exposure to dry, cold air will be cured by Aconite. I live in a locality where croup abounds and have had abundant opportunity to verify this. Pleurisy, pneumonia and rheumatism also come under this head, and they are, as would be expected, almost invariably accompanied by the high fever, anguish, restlessness and fear so characteristic of this remedy. Any local congestion or inflammation coming from such exposure also comes under the same rule, always providing the other symptoms corresponds The other leading dry air remedies are Bryonia, Causticum, Hepar sulph., and Nux vomica. Here are some wet weather remedies: Dulcamara, Nux moschata, Natrum sulphuricum and Rhus toxicodendron. Such things are well to remember, for one positive indication is worth two or three vague ones.

Modalities: < in the evening (chest symptoms and pains); lying on left side; in warm room or warm covering.

Great, inconsolable anxiety. Complaining fear of approaching death ; predicts the day he is to die. Sensitive irritability. Sadness. Maliciousness. Fitful mood, changing from one thing to another ; now he is full of mirth, whistles and warbles a song ; and then he is disposed to weep. Delirium, especially at night -with ecstasy. Fear of ghosts.

Vertigo when rising, with nausea ; vanishing of sight ; bleeding of the nose. Congestion to the head, especially towards evening, with fullness and pulsation in the head, vanishing of sight, singing in the ears, red-hot face. Inflammation of the brain-sensation of fulness and heaviness in the forehead, with the sensation as if the whole brain would start out of the eyes, with nausea and giddiness, aggravated by talking and from motion. Burning head-ache, as if the brain was moved by boiling water. Crampy sensation in the forehead over the root of the nose : it feels as if he would lose his senses. Sensation of heat in the head, which perspires, with pale face.

Aversion to or great desire for, light. Ophthalmia, very painful, with blear-eyedness, or from foreign bodies having come into the eyes, (dust, sparks). Red, bard swelling of the eyelids.

Tearing (left ear). Roaring in the ears. Hearing very sensitive, noise is intolerable.

Bleeding of the nose, especially in plethoric persons.

Red and hot. Yellow. Red and pale, alternately. Redness of one cheek and paleness of the other. When raising himself up, the red face becomes pale. Perspiration on the side of the face on which he lies. Tingling in the cheeks. Lips dry and black, peeling of.

Toothache from cold, with throbbing in one side of the face, intense redness of the cheek, congestion of blood to the head, and great restlessness.

Dryness of the mouth and of the tongue. Pricking and burning on the tongue. Tongue coated white. Trembling and stammering speech.

Tingling in the œsophagus. Acute inflammation of the throat (palate, tonsils and fauces) with high fever, dark redness of the parts, burning and stinging in the fauces. Stinging in the throat when swallowing and coughing. Almost entire inability to swallow, with hoarseness.

Taste bitter. Every thing tastes bitter, except water. Aversion to food. Burning, unquenchable thirst.

Vomiting, with nausea and thirst, heat, profuse perspiration and increased micturition. Vomiting of bloody mucus, or of what has been drunk, followed by thirst. Pressure in the stomach and pit of the stomach, as from a weight or a hard stone.

Tension, heaviness and pressure in the hypochondria. Inflammation and sensation of soreness in the liver. Pressure in the region of the liver, with obstruction of breathing. Inflammation of the peritoneum, with restlessness, sleeplessness and thirst. Inflammation of the bowels, with burning, tearing pain. Inflammation of the hernial stricture, with vomiting of bile.

Frequent small stools with tenesmus. Watery diarrhœa. Stools, white with dark red urine.

Enuresis, with thirst. Scanty, red, hot urine, without sediment.

Men. Sexual desire either increased or decreased, with relaxed parts. Testicles pain, as if bruised. Women. Catamenia too profuse and too protracted. Suppressed menstruation from fright. After pains, too painful and too protracted. Milk fever (with delirium). Puerperal peritonitis.

Inflammation of Larynx and Bronchia. Angina membranacea, with dry cough and quick breathing. Short dry cough from titillation in the larynx. Cough with stitches in the chest or small of the back. Expectoration of bloody mucus. Hæmoptysis.

Shortness of breathing, especially when sleeping or raising one's self. Anxious, labored, sobbing breathing. Stitches through the chest and side, especially when breathing and coughing. Pleurisy and Pneumonia, especially with great heat, much thirst, dry cough and great nervous excitability, only somewhat relieved when lying on the back. Asthma of Millar. Oppression of the chest preventing deep breathing. Palpitation of the heart, with great anguish. Inflammation of the heart. Chronic diseases of the heart, with continuous pressure in the left side of the chest, oppressed breathing when moving fast and ascending steps, stitches in the region of the heart, congestions to the head ; attacks of fainting and tingling in the fingers.

Pain, as if bruised in the small of the back. Tingling in the back.

Tingling in the fingers, even while writing. Icy coldness of the hands. Hot hands with cold feet. Numbness in the left arm ; -he can scarcely move the hand.

The hip-joint feels as if bruised. Drawing tearing pains in the knee-joint. Unsteadiness of the knees. Coldness of the feet up to the ankles, or only of the toes, with perspiration of the toes and soles of the feet.

Fainting, especially when rising, with paleness of the cheeks, which were red when lying. Sudden great sinking of strength. Lameness (paralysis) (left side). Cataleptic attacks, with rigor of the body, loud lamentations and grinding of the teeth. Burning in internal parts. Congestions (head, chest, heart). Inflammations (serous membranes). Stinging pains in internal organs. Tearing in external parts (Rheumatism). Tingling (fingers, œsophagus, cheeks, back). Painful sensitiveness of the body to contact : he does not wish to be touched. Attacks of pain, with thirst and redness of the face.

Sleeplessness, with restlessness (eyes closed) and constant tossing about. Anxious dreams, with much talking and moving while sleeping. Nightmare.

Pulse. Hard, full, frequent ; sometimes intermitting ; when slow, almost imperceptible (thread like). Fever. Sensation of coldness in the blood-vessels. Chilliness. From being uncovered and from being touched. Chilliness, with thirst. Shuddering runs up from the feet to the chest. Chill, with internal heat, anxiety and red cheeks. Heat, with agonized tossing about. Dry burning heat, generally extending from the head and face, with much thirst for cold drinks. Heat, with inclination to uncover. Heat, with chilliness at the same time. Inflammatory fevers and inflammations, with much heat, dry burning skin, violent thirst, red face, or alternate red and pale face, nervous excitability, groaning and agonized tossing about, shortness of breath, and congestion to the head. Perspiration over the whole body, especially the covered parts, smelling sour.

Red, hot, swollen and shining skin, with violent pain. Rash of children. Burning in the skin. Yellow face.

While at rest, he is better ; but during the night, in bed, the pain is insupportable. Bad effects from dry cold air, suppressed perspiration, from fright, with fear and anger. Aggravation in the evening (chest symptoms) when lying on the (left) side ; when rising ; in the warm room. Amelioration. In the open air (nervous symptoms) ; when sitting still (rheumatism).

Common Aconite. Monkshood. Wolfsbane. (Moist pastures and waste places in mountainous districts, Central and Southern Europe, Russia, Scandinavia, and Central Asia.) N. O. Ranunculaceæ. Tincture of whole plant with root when beginning to flower.

Amaurosis . Anger . Apoplexy . Asthma . Blindness, sudden. Bronchitis. Catalepsy. Catheter fever. Chest, affections of . Chicken-pox. Cholera. Cholera infantum . Cold . Coldness . Consumption . Convulsions. Cough . Croup . Cystitis. Dengue fever . Dentition . Diarrhœa. Dropsy . Dysentery. Dysmenorrhœa. Ear, affections of . Enteritis. Erythema nodosum . Excitement . Eye, affections of . Face, flushing of. Fear, effects of . Fever . Fright, effects of . Glands swollen. Glossitis. Gonorrhœa. Hæmorrhages. Hæmorrhoids; strangulated . Headache . Heart, affections of . Hip-joint, diseased . Hodgkin's disease . Hyperpyrexia . Influenza . Jaundice. Joints, affections of . Labour . Lactation . Laryngitis . Liver, inflammation of. Lumbago . Lungs, affections of . Mania . Measles . Meningitis . Menstruation, disorders of . Miliaria . Miscarriage . Mumps . Myalgia . Myelitis . Nephritis. Neuralgia . Numbness . Œsophagus, inflammation of. Paralysis. Peritonitis. Phlegmasia alba dolens. Pleurisy. Pleurodynia, Pneumonia. Pregnancy. Puerperal fever. Purpura. Quinsy. Remittent fever. Roseola. Scarlatina. Shivering. Sleeplessness. Smell, disorders of. Stiff-neck. Testicles, affections of. Tetanus . Tetany. Thirst. Throat, affections of. Tongue, affections of . Toothache. Traumatic fever. Urethra, spasmodic stricture of . Urethral fever. Urine, suppression of . Uterus, prolapsus of. Vaccination, effects of. Vertigo. Whooping-cough. Yawning. Yellow fever .

The Wolfsbane "grows in the damp and covered parts of almost every mountainous country in north or middle of Europe, especially in the Jura, Switzerland, Germany, and Sweden." Teste mentions that it has the reputation of being much more poisonous to carnivorous animals than to the herbivora. This he partly endorses, and it has recently been apparently confirmed by a vain attempt to poison an elephant with Aconitine in this country. A carrot was scraped out and enough Aconitine to poison 2,000 men was put in. The elephant ate it readily, but nothing at all happened, and three hours later a large dose of prussic-acid had to be administered, which proved fatal in a short time.

Before Hahnemann's time Aconite had a reputation as a sudorific, and in cases of rheumatism, sciatica, and tumours, but it was not till Hahnemann proved it that its properties were really, understood. Aconite is more closely associated with the rise and progress of homœopathy than any other member of the materia medica. If Cinchona was the "Newton's apple" of the homœopathic discovery, Aconite was the remedy by means of which Hahnemann was able to meet most of the conditions which in his day were treated by blood-letting. It was Aconite more than any other remedy which paved the way for the disappearance of blood-letting from general medical practice. One of the deadliest and most rapidly acting of poisons, through Hahnemann's discoveries has been turned into the best friend of the nursery. Aconite in potencies above the 3rd is a perfectly safe medicine for any age. Sensitive patients complain of its depressing action when repeated, and I have known instances in which the characteristic prostration of mind and body has occurred after Aconite had been given in the potencies. But such cases are exceptions, and are not attended with danger when they do occur. The great majority of patients to whom Aconite is given in the potencies experience nothing of the kind.

The rapidity of action of Aconite determines its appropriateness for conditions in which the symptoms set in with great intensity, such as Asiatic cholera, certain fevers, and acute inflammations. To this list may be added attacks of sudden blindness. But it must not be supposed that the sphere of Aconite is limited to acute cases. When the symptoms correspond it will cure cases of great chronicity — for example, cases of indurated glands.

Dr. Hughes has acutely remarked that the condition to which Aconite is homœopathic is one of tension ; and this word gives the best idea of the action and sphere of Aconite . There is emotional and mental tension, as shown in fright or fear and its consequences, anxiety, and fear of death; tension of the systemic vessels, as in the effects of a chill, Asiatic cholera, and hæmorrhages; muscular tension, as in tetanus; tension of involuntary muscles, as in heart spasms, and tension of the semi-involuntary muscular apparatus of respiration, as in asthma; and finally tension of the special senses in heightened sensation and heightened sensitiveness to pain; in a feeling of numbness in parts, as if bound tightly, and also a sensation of being tightly bound in the limbs and in other parts. Hence it is that Aconite in its therapeutic action corresponds to the effects of a number of conditions which excite a state of tension. Plethora may be classed under this head. Plethoric persons of a lively character, bilious and nervous constitutions, high colour, brown or black hair, are specially suited to Acon . Active, sanguineous congestions of all kinds, especially those following chill. Guernsey puts it in another way: "The pure and fully developed blood globule, in its most perfect type, when diseased, has a great affinity for Acon . When the blood globules are disorganised it is seldom indicated. We think of Acon . in sudden inflammation, especially if caused by cold, dry air , suppressing exhalations of the body." Teste relates a remarkable case of an Englishman who had been obliged to take a long sleigh journey in North Russia in midwinter, who suffered thereafter for two years from violent paroxysms of palpitation and acute stitching pains in the heart region, threatening cerebral apoplexy. Aneurism had been diagnosed by leading physicians in England and on the Continent. Teste localised the affection to neurosis or spasm of the pectoralis major muscle, and proved his diagnosis by promptly curing it with Acon . The keen, cutting winds of the mountains amongst which the plant flourishes give the signature of this remedial action.

There are not many drugs which have causation so strongly marked among their characteristics. Chill, fright, injury, or surgical operation — the effects of these will be met in large majority of cases by Acon ., the timely administration of which will ward off serious results.

The reaction from the primary effect of chill gives another characteristic of Acon . — that of fever. With the Acon . fever there are: Restlessness and tossing about, and the tension state is evidenced still in the anxiety with which it is accompanied, sometimes amounting to fear of death. The mental exaltation sometimes goes so far as to the predicting of the day and hour of death. Clairvoyance. Extreme sensitiveness to light and sound and all sensations including pain. When the sickness is borne with calmness and patience Acon . is not likely to be required. It was the feverish restlessness of the Acon . provings that led Hahnemann to infer its homœopathicity to so many fever states; and it is the presence of this restlessness, anxiety, fear, and exalted sensibility which are its leading indications in cases of all kinds.

Some characteristics of Acon . are the following: Active hæmorrhages in stout, plethoric people. Passes almost pure blood by stool. In hæmoptysis the blood comes up with great ease by hemming and coughing, bright red in large quantities, from cold, dry winds, with great fear, anxiety, and palpitation. Every inspiration increases the cough. After the cough tingling sensation in chest. Unquenchable thirst: everything tastes bitter, except water ( Chi . everything, including water). In croup the child grasps the throat with every coughing fit. Coldness, numbness, and tingling characterise the paralyses and neuroses of Acon . Facial paralysis from exposure to cold, dry winds. The fear and apprehension of Acon . is shown in dread of crossing streets. There is intolerance of music. Some curious symptoms are: Imagines some part of body is deformed. Imagine they do all their thinking from the stomach. Predicts the hour of death (clairvoyance).

Acon . is one of the great pain remedies, vying with Cham . and Coffea in the intensity of the pain it causes. Pains are intolerable, driving to desperation. The pains of Acon . are tearing, cutting; are attended with restlessness; accompanied by numbness, tingling, or formication. Acon . cannot bear the pain, cannot bear to be touched, cannot bear to be covered. The toothache of Acon . is one-sided, with red cheek on same side.

Guernsey gives the following excellent directions: "If a child is suffering from a watery diarrhœa, is crying and complaining very much, biting his fists and is sleepless, Acon . will usually settle this trouble in a short time. The disturbed condition of the mind will cease and quiet sleep will follow. The mother will now remark: "Doctor, he is all right, except his bowels, and they are as bad as ever." Now, do not give another remedy, but wait and see if Acon . will not complete the cure by itself." Again: Scanty, red, and hot urine, arising from taking cold, especially in children. The child screams and appears to be in great pain because it cannot urinate. Acon . will ease the pain, quiet the child, and the urine will flow some time after. In adults, incontinence of urine will sometimes be relieved by Acon .

There is a great and sudden sinking of strength; fainting on attempting to get up; with anxiety, restlessness, numbness, tingling, formication.

Acon . has a very wide sphere of usefulness in affections of the eye. Inflammation, of many kinds, from cold, injury, dust, surgical operations, scrofulous inflammation with enlarged glands, all come within its range. Some remarkable cases of sudden blindness have been cured by it. Hirsch of Prague records two such cases, one in a man of thirty, who went to bed well, having walked home in rough and stormy weather after spending the evening in a hot room. Acon . 3 was given, and the following night he perspired freely, and in the morning his sight was thoroughly restored. Hirsch himself suddenly lost his sight whilst bathing in hot weather. He took Acon . 3 in water as he had given it to his patient. In two hours he began to perspire, and after a six-hours' sleep awoke well. Lippe has recorded the case of a lady whom he found much distressed, anxious, fearing paralysis. In her usual, health she had taken a full dinner, and when reading afterwards, the letters danced before her eyes, and the print became blurred; then face and nose became numb; pulse small, 120 a minute. One dose Acon . c.m. (Fincke) was given. The numbness disappeared in half an hour; Pulse 72; the sight was perfect when she closed either eye, but everything looked indistinct when she kept both open. This symptom disappeared next morning; a slight lightness of the head remaining that day.

The time of the aggravation of Acon . symptoms is chiefly night and about midnight. Heat , as well as cold , is injurious to the Acon . patient; sunstroke is among the conditions which call for it; and Acon . will cure many headaches caused by exposure to the sun, and also sun-erythema. Headaches are generally > in open air, < in warm room; toothache and cough < in open air. > From uncovering. Warm room < chill; in fever, the bed is intolerable; he wants to uncover. Sweat on affected or covered parts. There is < from wine or stimulants; < from drinking (any kind of liquid). Rest > the symptoms generally, but during the night the pains are intolerable, limbs feel tired and rigors are worse. Lying relieves headache and vertigo, and aggravates other complaints. Lying on back > cough and stitches in chest; lying on side < stitches in chest and cough: the cheek lain on sweats. Rising from a seat = vertigo. Vertigo, pallor, faintness on sitting up in bed. Bending double > colic and dysmenorrhœa pain. Motion < pains in muscles, joints, and stiffness.

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Now perfectly conscious, now raving.
Clairvoyance ; conscious that his beloved, miles away, was singing a certain piece.
Dulness and confusion of mind.
Unconscious, as if dying ; speechless. θ Apoplexy.
Insensible, stupid ; also during convulsions.
Stupid, eyes closed, facial muscles twitch, mouth compressed, no power of speech.
Memory lively, or weak ; what has just been done seems like a remote dream ; cannot remember dates.
Ideas haunt him, cannot get rid of them.
Cannot finish a half-written idea without great effort.
Attention distracted while reading, thought seems to cease.
Cannot reflect, ideas seem to come from stomach ; after two attacks of vertigo, thought is again normal.
Excited, or sits buried in thought.
Rapid change of thought ; great exertion is required to fix train of thought.
On attempting to think of one thing, another intrudes ; this is soon supplanted by another and so on.
Diminished intellectual power, cannot perform even light mental work.
Lively imagination.
Ecstasy ; inclined to be gay, to dance and sing.
Delirium, crying out, staring look. θ Inflammation of brain.
Delirium, with convulsive motions. θ Myelitis.
Delirium, with great heat, dilated pupils or convulsions ; childish, nonsensical talk.
Delirium, with talk about death. θ In childbed.
Delirium, especially at night, raves, springs out of bed ; in morning, excessive sweat.
Pains are so intolerable, they drive him crazy ; he becomes very restless.
Desire to be alone ; shuns people.
Disposition to weep ; cried violently, with facial jactitation.
Loquacity ; speech hurried.
Alternate laughter and crying ; at one time gay, at another gloomy.
Moaning, anxious lamentations ; reproaches from trifling causes.
Screams aloud at slightest touch, screams with pains ; cannot bear light ; will not be touched or uncovered ; buzzing in ears.
Impatience, throws himself about, constantly changes position.
Restlessness, agony, internal anxiety ; does everything in great haste ; must move about or change position often.
Cannot continue long at one thing.
Dislikes to talk ; answers laconically yes or no.
Music is unbearable, it makes her quite sad.
Sadness with solicitude ; concerned about future ; about her recovery or fears loss of reason.
Extreme timidity, especially after a fright ; afraid in dark.
Fears to go where there is any excitement or many people ; thinks she is jostling against every one she meets ; countenance expressive of timidity ; constant dread lest she stagger and fall. θ During
pregnancy.
Fear of ghosts.
(In sick :) Fear of death : during pregnancy or confinement ; with prolapsus uteri ; with great loquacity or anxiety in region of heart.
Thrice he became blind and affirmed that death was at hand.
Predicts day of death ; bids her friends good-bye. θ In childbed.
Inconsolable anxiety, piteous wailing ; peevish and impatient.
Anxiety : transiently > by drinking cold water ; followed by apathy ; with cold sweat (prolapsus uteri).
Has no affection for anybody. θ During pregnancy.
Morose, misanthropic, peevish ; malicious mood.
Children get angry and have spells of rage.
Vexed at trifles ; takes every joke in bad part.
Quarrelsome, with constantly varying delirium ; chatters like a child, is gay.
Obstinate, tosses about impatiently.
Sinks into lethargy, but rarely sleeps ; complains of crawls.
Ailments from fright : afraid in dark ; vertigo ; faintness ; trembling ; cardiac weakness ; threatened miscarriage ; impending cessation of menstrual flow ; burning in stomach.
Remote effects of fright, especially jaundice.
Ailments from vexation, with fear or vehemence : congestion ; palpitation ; fever ; anxiety, beside himself ; threatened miscarriage ; apoplectic congestion.

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Aconite is a short-acting remedy. Its symptoms do not last long. It is a violent poison in large doses, either destroying life or passing away in its effects quite soon, so that if the patient recovers, the recovery is not delayed. There are no chronic diseases following it.

Like a great storm, it comes and sweeps over and passes away. By a little meditation we will discover what kind of sickness all this is like, and what kind of a patient is most likely to have that short, sudden sickness.

If we think a moment from experience and homoeopathic observation, we will remember that vigorous, plethoric individuals, when they take cold, come down violently, whereas feeble people, sickly people, come down and recover slowly from acute diseases, and do not become so violently and so suddenly sick.

From this, and from examining the sudden effects of Aconite, it will be easy to see that persons who come down with Aconite sicknesses are plethoric individuals.

Strong, robust people, rugged children and infants become sick, not a very slight cold, or from slight exposure, but from more violent exposure. From being exposed with deficient clothing; from (sudden, violent changes; from prolonged exposure to the cold, north, dry wind.

A vigorous person caught out with thin clothing, or remaining out in the cold, dry air of mid-winter, with its sudden, violent changes, comes down even before night with violent symptoms. This is the class of patients, the plethoric and vigorous, who have a strong heart, active brain, vigorous circulation, and come down suddenly from violent exposure, that need Aconite.

Aconite has in its nature none of the results usually following inflammation. The storm is over so quickly that it seems mostly to conform to the earlier condition. In these vigorous patients sudden congestions are likely to be thrown off by good reaction.

The patient seems to be threatened with a sudden and violent death, but recovery is quick. So, as was observed by Dunham, it is a great storm and soon over. Dunham's discussion of this remedy in his Materia Medica is very poetical and well worth reading.

Attacks come on suddenly from exposure to a dry, cold wind. In plethoric children we have an illustration of that in, the sudden congestion of the brain with intense fever, or with convulsions.

We get illustrations of its suddenness and violence in any organ of the body, the brain, the lungs, the liver, the blood, the kidneys. It is suited to the complaints that come on suddenly from the very cold weather of winter, or from the intensely hot weather of summer.

It has the lung and brain complaints of winter, and the bowel inflammations and stomach disorders of summer. We know how these plethoric individuals become suddenly overheated and become violently sick.

Their sudden attacks are frightful to look upon. All these inflammatory conditions are attended with great excitement of the circulation, violent action of the heart, a tremendous turmoil of the brain, a violent shock. with intense fear.

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Aconite is most frequently indicated in recent cases occurring in young persons, especially girls of a full plethoric habit, who lead a sedentary life; persons easily affected by atmospheric changes; dark hair and eyes, rigid muscles.

Complaints from exposure to dry, cold air; dry north or west winds (land winds); drafts of air while in a perspiration; bad effects of checked perspiration.

On rising from a recumbent posture, the red face becomes deathly pale, or he becomes faint or giddy and falls over; he fears to rise again; often accompanied by vanishing of sight and unconsciousness.

GREAT FEAR AND ANXIETY OF MIND, with great nervous excitability; afraid to go out, to go into a crowd where there is any excitement or many people, to cross a street.

His countenance is expressive of fear; his life is rendered miserable by it; is sure his disease will prove fatal; predicts the day he will die; fear of death during pregnancy.

This mental anxiety, worry, fear accompanies the most trivial ailment.

Music is unbearable, makes her sad (Sab.—during menses, Nat. c.).

Restless, anxious, does everything in great haste; must change position often; everything startles him.

Hahnemann says: "Whenever Aconite is chosen homeo-pathically, you must, above all, observe the moral symptoms, and be careful that it closely resembles them; the anguish of mind and body; the restlessness; the disquiet not to be allayed."

In the evening and night the pains are insup-portable; in a warm room; when rising in bed; lying on affected side (Hep., Nux m.).

During the day; in the open air (Alum., Mag. c., Puls., Sab.); while at rest (except at night in bed); after perspiration; from wine.

Aconite is the acute of Sulphur, and both pre-cedes and follows it in acute inflammatory conditions.

Abuse of Aconite requires Sulphur.

Quotidian; quartan. No regularity; periodicity not marked. Apt to become synochal, or inflammatory symptoms with congestion of local organs, as head and chest, may form a complication.

Usually in the evening.

Dry, cold north or west winds; hot days and cool nights; getting wet (Dulc., Rhus); suppressed perspiration by uncovering or sitting in a draft; by fright; rheumatic exposure.

Ascends from feet to chest, with internal heat and sen-sation of hot water in the head; chilly when uncovered or even touched; chilliness on the slightest movement, even by lifting of bed clothes (Nux); cold sensation in blood vessels (Ars., Rhus).

Coldness, with redness and heat of one, coldness and pale-ness of the other cheek (Cham., Ipec.). Chill with one hot cheek; contracted pupils; anxiety; or body chilly, with red face, hot cheeks, hot forehead and ear lobules; face hot, hands and feet cold. Chill in extremities to head and face; heat, vice versa.

From extremities to chest and head; one cheek red and hot, the other cold and pale (Cham., Nux); < slightest move- ment or lifting of bed clothes (Nux).

With thirst. Towards evening, dry heat in the face, with anxiety; high fever; DRY, BURNING HEAT, which extends from head and face; burning heat, with chilly shiverings running up the back. Great fear; nervous excitability; RESTLESSNESS AND ANXIOUS TOSSING ABOUT; excessive anguish and oppression. Cough during heat, with palpitation and pleuritic stitches in the chest (cough during chill and heat, Bry.—cough before and during the chill, Rhus). Red face while lying, and pale face and fainting when rising up. Great thirst for large quantities of water; everything else tastes bitter (thirst for large quantities in every stage, Bry., Nat. m.—only during heat, Ipec.). Can not bear to be covered, yet fears to be uncovered (Camph., Sec.). Long lasting dry heat.

Skin dry and hot; face red, or pale and red alter- nately; burning thirst for large quantities of cold water; intense nervous restlessness, tossing about in agony; becomes intol- erable towards evening and on going to sleep; long lasting.

Must be covered as soon as sweat begins; covered or affected parts sweat most profusely (Ant. t.) or perspiration only on side on which he lies (Cinch., Nit. ac.); sweat on single parts only (Bry.). Profuse warm perspiration over whole body, by which nervous excitability, restlessness and anxiety are relieved (sweat brings relief of all suffering, Nat. m.). General warm steaming sweat. Most on parts covered. Profuse during sleep. Worse while sweating.

Must be covered soon as it begins.

‘‘Aconite will sometimes be found serviceable in relieving op- pression of the heart and respiration, when this is great during the paroxysm. It is the one exception to the rule which requires the remedy for this fever to be given in the intermission. Where this oppression is great, and the other symptoms do not contradict it, a few pellets of the appropriate potency may be dissolved in water and a teaspoonful given every fifteen, twenty or thirty minutes, according to the symptoms, till relief is obtained. This, if the remedy be in place, will not impede the action of the spe- cific remedy for the case.

This remedy will be the more appropriate if the oppression be ac- companied by the characteristic loud complaining, and the equally characteristic fear of death.’’—Dr. Geo. H. Clark.

Coated white; papillæ red and elevated. "Strawberry tongue."

During chill, intermittent, thread-like; during heat, quick, full, hard, bounding. Cold sensation in the blood vessels.

Never clear. Loss of appetite; sleep restless and disturbed by dreams; very anxious about recovery; weak and exhausted by slightest exertion, either mental or physical.

Is rarely indicated, per se, as the remedy to cure. Cause, often the characteristic indication; then it acts promptly and cures permanently.

Unless indicated by the exciting cause, is nearly always injurious in the early stages of typhoid.

"Aconite is never given first to subdue the fever, and then some other remedy to meet the case; never to be alternated with other drugs for the purpose of controlling the fever. If the fever be such as to require Aconite, no other drug is needed. If other drugs seem to be indicated, one should be sought which meets the fever as well; for many drugs beside Aconite produce fever, each after his kind ''—Dunham, I, p. 87.

CAUSE; nearly always guiding; exposure to dry, cold winds, drafts of air, effects of checked perspiration, getting wet when heated.

Absent-mindedness; weakness of memory; cannot remember dates.
Clairvoyance, perception of distant things.
Ecstasy; fancies; delirium, especially at night.
Changing mood, now full of mirth now disposed to tears.
Afraid of a crowd or of crossing busy streets.
Fear of ghosts; of loss of reason; apprehensive of the future.
Fear of approaching death; predicts the day.
Anxiety inconsolable, piteous wailing; reproaches others for the mere trifles; peevish, impatient; pusillanimity.
Anxiety, restless, agonized tossing about.
Oversensitive; cannot bear light or noise; buzzing in the ears; will not be touched or uncovered.
Mood peevish, irritable, malicious; or sad, desponding.
After a fright, afraid in the dark. After fright with vexation or anger, heat, congestions, threatened abortion; ailments from fright following later.
Ailments from anger; from chagrin; child has spells of rage.
Imagines some part of the body is deformed, thinks from the stomach.

Vertigo from congestion, as in the sun, after dry, cold winds; from anger, fright; from suddenly suppressed catamenia, by emotions or cold.
Vertigo from a fall or contusion; face pale or red, but no stupor.
Vertigo on raising the head, especially after lying down in a warm room; nausea, vanishing of sight, loss of consciousness, nosebleed; or reeling as if drunk.
Fainting on rising from a recumbent position, with paleness of the face or congestion to the head.

Sunstroke, especially from sleeping in the rays of the sun.
Brain affection of children, with violent pain in head and oversensitiveness of eyes; or lying stupefied, with vomiting, bowels constipated.
Congestion anxiety, with heat and redness of the face, or pale face; carotids pulsate strongly; pulse full, strong, or small and quick; worse toward evening.
Ebullition, with anxiety.
Fulness and heaviness in the forehead, as if the whole brain would start out through the eyes.
Beating and shooting in the head.
Crampy sensation over the root of the nose, feels as if he would lose his sense; suppressed catarrh.
Headache, as if the brain were moved or raised; worse during motion, drinking, talking or sunlight.
Burning, as if the brain were moved by boiling water.
On going into a warm room, forehead feels as if compressed.
Pressure in forehead, temples and top of head.
Headache, with increased secretion of urine.

Sensation in the vertex as if pulled by the hair.
Sensation of cracking, as from bending tinsel, in temples, forehead and nose, worse toward evening, from motion, better from sitting.
Formication of the scalp, relieved by heat.
Cold sweat on the forehead.

Aversion to light, particularly sunlight; light dazzles the eyes.
Optical illusions in dark colors or black.
Flickerings make him anxious, fears he might touch people passing by.
Eyes protruding, staring, distorted. θ Apoplexy. θ Asthma. θ Tetanus.
Pupils contracted, then dilated.
Eyes red, inflamed, vessels deep red, burning, pressive shooting pains, especially on moving the balls; no discharge; conjunctivitis from exposure to cold, dry winds.
Violent pains, intense congestion; ophthalmia from suppressed gonorrhœa.
Upper half of the eyeball sore when moved.
Profuse lachrymation, with intense pain.
Conjunctivitis from cinders or other foreign bodies.
Lids hard, red, swollen, feel tense; hot, dry, burning and sensitiveness to air; cold water relieves the dry heat.

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Aconitum napellus, or A. stœrkianum. Natural order: Ranunculaceæ. The monkshood, though cultivated in America, is a native of Europe. A tincture is made from the whole plant, gathered at the time of flowering.

Aconite in small doses accelerates the heart's action, and causes a rise of temperature; then follow alternate chill and fever, tumultuous action of the heart, sweat and great weakness. ▶ From larger doses, paralysis of the heart, feeble pulse, cold sweat, paralysis of sensory and motor nerves, vomiting and purging, convulsions and death. ▶ Mental distress is exceedingly characteristic; it is produced by all doses, in all cases of poisoning, in all provings, and even in experiments on animals; this peculiar anxiety distinguishes. ▶ Aconite from all other drugs. ▶ The tingling and numbness, which are experienced even from small doses, and the neuralgias, affecting particularly the upper portion of the body, are likewise characteristic. ▶ Aconite causes only functional disturbance; there is scarcely any evidence of power to produce tissue change; its action is brief, and shows no marked periodicity.

Other species of Aconite, Veratrum (and liliaceous plants such as Convallaria, Adonis, Colchicum), Digitalis, Camphor (Opium), Arsenicum, Iodine.

Belladonna, Nux vom., Digitalis, Camphor (each in part only.).

Lies on left side (Spong.); on back, with left hand flat under head during morning sleep. ▶ Cannot lie on right side or back (Nux v.).

Jaundice. ▶ Swelling of whole body. ▶ Cracking of joints.

▶ Convulsions; alternating with relaxation; tetanic (Sec. corn.); convulsions, with distortion of eyes, clenched jaws, body rigid and bent backward, limbs distorted (Jasmin). ▶ Convulsions, with eyes drawn upward, fists clenched across the throat, grating of the teeth, ropy saliva and involuntary discharges. ▶ Convulsions of face and upper extremities, relieved by vomiting. ▶ Convulsions at intervals of 20 minutes, ushered in with a shuddering noise; arms became rigid and raised above head, which was thrown back, and lower limbs extended rigidly, features distorted to one side or other, eyes closed, no general convulsions, face pale, consciousness unimpaired, could not speak owing to spasms of respiratory muscles, during intervals spoke well. ▶ Falls down insensible, icy cold, imperceptible pulse, hands and arms fixed in front of chest, face pale, lips blue, eyes sunken, twitching of eyeballs (Sec. c.). ▶ Limbs strongly flexed, with cold, clammy sweat, eyes turned upward, followed by general relaxation, aphonia and vomiting. ▶ Tetanus, with clenched fists, arms drawn backward and flexed, with opisthotonos. ▶ Convulsions of lower extremities, with clenched, cold, numb hands and slow pulse. ▶ Limbs drawn, inward, thumbs clenched into palms (Hyosc.). ▶ Legs in constant motion, with cold sweat on face; cracking of joints.

Prickling and electric shocks through whole body. ▶ Hysterical condition (Ign., Plat.). ▶ Twitching; of tendons (Bell., Hyos., Op., Stram.); of muscles of face; fingers and toes; attempting by jerks to change her position in bed. ▶ Threw himself about violently, and attempted to bite attendants.

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In poisonous doses paralyzes the heart and respiration; its profound collapse may be associated with profuse alvine evacuations, cold sweat, feeble pulse and labored breathing, but always with terrible anguish.
It causes peripheral anæsthesia and excites most intense neuralgia, particularly in the nerves of the face; pains are sharp, sticking; general hyperæsthesia, dryness of mucous membranes, bright hæmorrhages.
It produces and cures febrile conditions only with extreme anguish, restlessness and thirst, never with apathy; a high temperature is not by itself an indication for Aconite. Rarely useful in any form of malarial fever.
In the earliest stage of inflammatory conditions, even during the chill, it is invaluable, provided the characteristic deathly anxiety be pronounced.
It is found valuable for the remote as well as recent effects of fright and other shocks to the nervous system. The special senses are all extremely acute.
Inflammation of mucous membranes in earliest stage; they are dry, hot and exquisitely tender.
It is particularly valuable at the beginning of many inflammatory affections of the thoracic organs, anguish, difficult breathing, sharp pains, et cetera.
These general indications may be applied to a variety of troubles, for its sphere of action is quite general.

Convulsions.
Painful sensitiveness of the body.
Intolerance of pain.
Stinging or burning pains in various parts, as if close to the skin.
Numbness, heat and sensation of swelling in the skin.
Tearing-stinging pains in the joints.
Extreme, agonized restlessness.
Weakness.
Faintness on rising up, with deathly paleness of the face.
General amelioration on lying quiet in bed but extreme anguish at night.
Results of fright or vexation.
Consequence of taking cold.

Most extreme anxiety or apprehension.
Impatience.
Frightened condition.
Fear of ghosts, of dying, of impending evils, etc.
Vivid imagination.
Delirium, especially at night.

Fullness, like a surging of hot blood.
Internal heat with external sweat (even with pale face).
Pulsating, shooting, burning.
Feeling as if the brain swashed to and fro in boiling water.
Scalp sensitive to touch and to the air.
Hair seems to bristle and is sensitive.

Painful inflammation.
Sensitiveness to air.
Pain as if the eyes would be forced out.
Pupils contracted (with the inflammation).
Lids feel dry, the margins sore and dry.
Violent pains about the eyes and through the balls into the temples or cheeks.
Photophobia.

Pains through external parts, involving the sides of the head.
Extreme sensitiveness to noise.

Dryness of nostrils; thin discharge of a clear fluid.
Nose bleed.
Sensitiveness to odors.

Swollen sensation, hot.
Tingling, numbness.
Sharp shooting or tearing pains, with sensitiveness or numbness.
Face pale on rising up.
Sweat on the side of the face on which one lies.
Lips dry, peeling.

Teeth sensitive to the air.
Gums dry and hot.
Throbbing toothache from exposure.
General mouth dry.
Tongue feels swollen.
Tongue numb, with neuralgic pains.
Tongue white.
Taste bitter.

Dry, red, dry and hot.
Feels swollen.
Burning.
Raw.
Stinging pains on swallowing and coughing.
Tonsils dark red; sticking pains as from an angular body.

Thirst for cold water.
Vomiting after drinking.
Vomiting bloody mucus.
Burning, extending to throat.
Anxious pulsation in pit.
Sensitive to touch.

Sticking pains and tenderness in the liver.
Constriction in hepatic region and across both hypochondria.
Abdomen swollen, sensitive, hot.
Cutting pains.
Flatulent colic after taking cold.

Shooting pains.
Painful contractions.
Tenesmus.
Bleeding hæmorrhoids.
Constipation.
White stools.
Green diarrhœa like chopped herbs.

Micturition painful with great anxiety.
Tenesmus and burning at neck of the bladder.
Burning in urethra on urinating.
Urine dark and hot, scanty.
Urine suppressed.
Urine bloody.

Testicles swollen, sore, hot, with bruised pain.

Menses suppressed, with anguish.
Menorrhagia.
Vagina dry and hot.
Ovaries inflamed.

Larynx sensitive to inspired air.
Tickling provokes cough.
Hoarseness.
Dry, short cough, distressing.
Bloody expectoration.
Shooting pains in chest on coughing.
Respiration suffocative, short, very anxious.
Constant anxiety to breathe deeply.

Stitches on coughing or breathing.
Oppression with sense of fullness and suffocation.
Heat with burning in chest.

Anxiety about heart.
Tumultuous action of.
Compression in region of.
Rapid action, full, hard pulse; or extremely feeble, fluttering action, with threatening collapse; deathly anxiety.

Stiffness from the nape of the neck downward.
Bruised, lame feeling.
Numbness extends to legs.

General trembling.
Numbness.
Stitches in inflamed joints.

Dry, burning hot.
Rash of various sorts, nettle-like, measles or scarlet-like.
Formication.

Great sleeplessness with agonized tossing about.
Dreams anxious, frightening, wakes with a start.

Chilliness, even with heat of head and face and thirst, always with anguish.
Partial coldness (one cheek).
Heat predominates, particularly in head and face.
Hot sweat, with general relief, especially of the anxiety.
Sweat predominates on the covered parts.

Aco. / (1st J) / Actor

Aconite, as in fright,
First with chill thou art ill,
Then with burning, tossing, turning,
Tissues sore, thirst galore,
Twitching in beneath the skin,
Head bedazed when upraised,
Pain severe, anxious fear
Prophesying date of dying.

The Actor has restlessness, with burning heat.

The Actor, Apollis, is a wayward rambler.

This Actor, who is subject to fear and dread, is at Camp Xantho, on Lara Plat, with the weeping Saint, Secal Stramo, and the Arab Vala.

Restlessness with Burning Heat: Aco., Apis, Ars., Arn., Rhus, Mer., Bell. (Restless hands, Bell., restless feet, Apis)

Fear, Dread, Terror: Aco., Camp., Xanth, Lyc., Vera., Plat., Alu., Pho., Ig., Sec., Stram., Ars., Val. (When alone, Ars., Lyc., Pho.; in the dark, Camp., Stram., Vera., Val.; in a crowd, Aco., Plat.)

Indicated in sthenic (overaction; high fever & strong pulse) conditions, inflammations, early effects of cold from draught, getting chilled, suppression of perspiration; effects of fright, menstrual suppression, or of intense excitement.

Hot face with cold hands and feet.

Great tension, anxiety, fear.

Fear of a crowd, of the future, of the seriousness of his illness; feels sure he will die.

Aggressive restlessness; tumbles about in bed, cannot lie still; sudden startings.

Pulse frequent, hard, wiry.

Great sensitiveness to noises of any sort.

Intolerance of pain; pain of a stitching character in various parts of the body.

Tingling and numbness in (left) face and in parts affected (neuralgia).

Everything tastes bitter, except water.

Intense thirst, relieved by drinking copiously of cold water.

Coldness and pressure in abdomen as from a stone.

Stools green, like chopped spinach.

Bruised pain in the back, as though beaten, with stiffness and numbness extending into the legs; the character of the pain makes him fear that his kidneys are affected.

Urine scanty, hot, with urethral burning and vesical tenesmus (ineffectual/ painful training).

Coryza: every inhalation of cold air causes a painful sense of coldness in the brain; pressive pain at root of nose.

Cough, dry, croupy; with labored breathing. Worse from going from warm into cold room.

Taste of blood in the mouth when coughing.

Hot feelings in lungs. Hawking, followed by bloody expectoration.

Burning heat in the body.

Heat and dryness of inflamed parts.

Worse in the warm room; in the evening; at night; from lying on the affected side; from tobacco smoke.

Better in the open air.

Results of vexation combined with anxiety and fright. Great nervous excitement and feverish restlessness. Lively phantasies. Mental instability, Delirium, mostly at night. Anxious impatience. Inconsolable anxiety and piteous wailing. Unappeasable frenzy and agonized tossing about. Very easily frightened. Alternate weeping and laughing or singing. Fear of ghosts. Lamenting with fear of impending death, and doubt of salvation. Fixed premonition of death, she foretells the day or hour (in childbed).

With fainting on rising. Giddiness with vanishing of sight on raising up.

Congestion: With fullness and throbbing therein, more towards evening, with black vision, roaring in ears and a fiery red face, with external and internal heat. Burning heat as from hot seething water in, with external sweat and a pale face. Fullness, pressure and heaviness in forehead as if brain and eyes would be forced out, with a hot red face. Meningitis. Crackling like tinsel in forehead, temples and nose. Feeling: Of a ball rising in, of backward sticking in, as if brain fluctuated to and fro, of painful pulling at hair of vertex. Worse: Stooping, talking, motion, raising up, evening, night, becoming heated, warm wraps, dry cold winds. Better: rest, uncovering, warmth, sitting erect, open air.

Inflamed and protruding, with dark red blood vessels and unbearable pains. Sparkling. Inflammatory swelling of lids. Dilated pupils, Photophobia. Lachrymation.

Epistaxis. Extremely sensitive smell. Stuffed coryza.

Red, turning deathly pale on raising up. Hot, bloated. Pale. Sweat on side wherein he lies. Sweat on upper lip. Lips, Black, dry, peeling off.

Throbbing ache after taking cold.

Dry. Inflammation of, and of fauces, with dark redness and violent fever. Crawling in pharynx. Sticking sore throat when swallowing and coughing. Tongue coated white. Trembling, stammering speech.

Tensive pressing pain as from a weight in.

Hypochondria: Tensive pressing pain as from a weight in.

Appetite: Aversion to food, Violent unquenchable thirst.

Taste: Bitter: In mouth, of all food and drink except water.

Vomiting: Bloody mucus, fluids.

Inflamed, distended and painful to touch. Flatulent colic after taking cold.

Small, soft, with pressure. White, Green. Constipated.

Brown, dark. fiery and infrequent suppressed. Anxious urging to urinate.

Menses: Continue too long. Uterine hemorrhage.

Sighing. Rapid (or slow), with open mouth. Short: As from compression of chest, especially when raising up and during sleep. Offensive breath. Anxious suffocative attacks. Anxiety, which impedes breathing.

From tobacco smoke. Stitches in chest during. Clear ringing or whistling, excited by burning sticking in larynx and trachea, generally dry, rarely in morning and during day expectoration of thick white mucus or of mucus mixed with coagulated blood, blood colored, or of pure blood.

Inflammation of. Paralysis of epiglottis. Hoarseness.

Congestion of. Inflammation of. Painful stitches in, during exhalation, coughing and motion (also of the arms only). Sticking in sides of, with disposition to complain and weep, slightly when lying on back. Sense of terrible anxiety in. Pain, from taking cold or from fright. Anxious palpitation.

Stiffness in nape. Crawling in. Bruised feeling in, and in lumbar region. Lumbar pain when turning over.

Laming, drawing pain in arms and legs, without swelling. Hot hands with cold feet. Swelling of hands. Crawling in fingers.

Powerless in hip and knee joints. Stiffness in legs during motion (after taking cold).

Bruised feeling over entire body and heaviness of all limbs. Cannot lie on painful side. Constant desire to lie down. Painful sensitiveness of body to touch, he will not allow himself to be handled. Unbearable pains. Extra ordinary sudden sinking of strength. When sitting still most complaints disappear, but at night in bed, they are almost unendurable. Swollen feeling in many parts. Takes cold from Exposure to dry cold winds. Results of taking cold. Agg. hot days and cold nights.

Dry, burning heat of. Hot, burning swelling of injured parts. Jaundice Measles. Purpura.

Starting up in after midnight during sleeplessness, with constant tossing about from anxiety, and flightiness with closed eyes. Somnolency, with anxious delirium and rapid breathing. Drowsiness, with inability to.

Pulse: Mostly very full, hard and accelerated, seldom small and thready or imperceptible, Cold sensation in blood vessels. Chill: At beginning of attacks, most severe evenings after lying down, often with hot cheeks and contracted pupils. From uncovering or from touch. Internal chilliness with dry, hot skin and disposition to uncover. Often internal heat, with anxiety and red cheeks during chill. Shivering extending from feet to chest. Heat : Dry, burning, for the most part, proceeding from head and face, with great thirst for cold drinks. With uncommon excitement restlessness, anxiety and agonized tossing about. Continued external, with inclination to uncover. Burning with cold shiverings running over one at the same time. Sweat: With feverish restlessness and inclination to uncover. Of parts lain on. Long - continued, over whole body, of a somewhat acid odor, Most on covered parts.

Allied Remedies: Arn., Ars., BELL., BRY., CANTH., CHAM., Coff., Croc., Dulc., Gel., Graph., Lyc., MERC., Millef., Nux-v., Op., Phos., Phos-ac., Puls., RHUS-T., Ruta., SEP., Sul., Valer., Verat - a.

Sensation of soreness of the body, and of heaviness in inner parts.

Tearing in outer parts.

Tingling in the fingers, oesophagus and back.

Painfulness of the whole body to contact (he does not wish to be touched).

Pulsating pain in the head and teeth.

Inflammation of inner parts (mucous membranes).

Stitches in internal organs.

Tightness of the muscles (acute rheumatism).

The pain is insupportable, driving to despair.

Sudden and great sinking of strength.

Restlessness and inconsolable anxiety.

The patient is full of fears and tosses about as if in agony.

Dry, burning skin.

Heat, with inclination to uncover oneself.

Miliaria like eruption of measles.

Pulse full and hard, or imperceptible.

Bad effects from catching cold, from anger, or from fright, especially with females during menstruation.

When rising paleness of the face.

Aggravation in the night.

Amelioration in the open air.

Most symptoms disappear while sitting quietly, but at night and in bed it is unsupportable.

The most valuable febrifuge in the entire range of theraputic agents.

Produces and cures drenching sweats.