• A state of fear, anxiety; anguish of mind and body.

• Physical and mental restlessness, fright, is the most characteristic manifestation.

• Acute, sudden, and violent invasion, with fever.

• It does not want to be touched.

• Sudden and great sinking of strength occurs.

• Complaints and tension are caused by exposure to dry, cold weather, draught of cold air, checked perspiration; also complaints from very hot weather.

• Aconitum Napellus is the first remedy in inflammations, inflammatory fevers.

• Serous membranes and muscular tissues are markedly affected.

• Burning in internal parts; tingling, coldness, and numbness.

• Influenza occurs.

• Tension of arteries; emotional and physical mental tension explain many symptoms.

• Aconitum Napellus causes only functional disturbance, there is 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 is not to be continued after pathological change comes.

• Useful in Hyperemia, congestion not after exudation has set in.

• Aconitum Napellus is adapted to plethoric individuals, young people, and those of a sanguine temperament.

• Great thirst for cold water.

• Symptoms often appear after a shock, either mental or physical.

• There are neuralgic pains, often unbearable.

• Great prostration and collapse.

• Skin is hot, dry, and red.

• Great fear, anxiety, and worry accompany every ailment, however trivial.

• Delirium is characterized by unhappiness, worry, fear, raving, rarely unconsciousness.

• There are forebodings and fears.

• The patient fears death but believes that he will soon die; predicts the day.

• The patient fears the future, a crowd, crossing the street.

• Restlessness, tossing about occurs.

• A tendency to start.

• Imagination is acute, clairvoyance occurs.

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• Music is unbearable; makes her sad.

• The patient thinks his thoughts come from the stomach.

• The patient feels as if what had just been done was a dream.

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• The patient is irritable and easily angered.

• Mental shock with fright and anxiety occurs.

• Despair of recovery is present.

• The patient is in a weeping mood.

• Fullness; heavy, pulsating, hot, bursting, burning undulating sensation.

• Intercranial pressure occurs.

• Burning headache, as if brain were moved by boiling water.

• Vertigo; worse on rising and shaking head.

• Sensation on vertex as if hair were pulled or stood on end.

• Nocturnal furious delirium occurs.

• Eyes feel dry, hot, and burning.

• Photophobia occurs.

• Pupils are contracted or dilated.

• Inflammation of the eyes with intense pain occurs.

• Ringing in the ears.

• The patient is sensitive to noise.

• Otitis media, especially after exposure to cold occurs.

• Coryza with sneezing and watery discharge occurs.

• Nosebleed, bright red blood occurs.

• Feeling of fullness at the root of the nose occurs.

• Nasal congestion is present.

• Throat feels dry, hot, and constricted.

• Burning pain in the throat is present.

• Difficulty in swallowing occurs.

• Tonsillitis with bright red inflammation occurs.

• Sensation of a lump in the throat is present.

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• Short, difficult breathing occurs.

• Anxiety and restlessness during breathing difficulties occurs.

• Pneumonia with rapid onset and high fever occurs.

• Dry, hacking cough, worse at night.

• Oppression of the chest occurs.

• Rapid, strong pulse is present.

• Angina pectoris with intense pain and fear of death occurs.

• Stitching pains in the chest occur.

• Feeling of weight on the chest is present.

• Heart feels enlarged.

• Pulse full and bounding.

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• Nausea and vomiting.

• Thirst for large quantities of cold water.

• Abdomen distended and tender.

• Diarrhea, watery and offensive, with fever.

• Constipation with hard, dry stools.

• Abdominal pain, cutting and colicky.

• Burning in the stomach.

• Frequent urging to urinate occurs.

• Scanty, red urine is present.

• Burning pain during urination occurs.

• Urine is hot and scalding.

• In females, suppressed menses from fright or cold.

• In males, priapism occurs.

• Testicles feel bruised.

• Numbness and tingling in the limbs.

• Coldness of the extremities.

• Rheumatic pains, worse at night and from cold.

• Sciatica, with shooting pains down the leg.

• Swelling and inflammation of the joints.

• Paralytic weakness of the limbs.

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• Weakness and pain, as from a bruise in the nape of the neck.

• Painful stiffness in the nape of the neck, the loins, and the hip joints.

• Pain, as if from a bruise, in the back and loins.

• Pain, as of boring in the back and in the loins, tingling, and of pricking in the back.

• Pain, as from a bruise, and weakness in the arms, principally in the shoulders, with swelling.

• Heaviness in the arms, with numbness in the fingers.

• Numbness of the left arm; he can scarcely move the hand.

• Paralytic weakness of the arm and hand, esp. in writing.

• A sensation of drawing in the arms.

• Hands dead.

• Swelling of the hands.

• Heat in the hands with cold in the feet.

• Cool sweat on the palms of the hands.

• Icy coldness of the hands.

• Tingling in the fingers, particularly when writing.

• Inflammatory swelling of the elbow, with numbness, and a paralytic state of the fingers.

• Pain, as from a bruise in the hip joints, esp. after having slept, or having lain down for some time.

• A sensation of drawing with paralytic weakness in the legs.

• Shooting pain in the hip joint, even to the knee; pain which forces a cry at every step.

• Want of strength and of stability in the joints of the hip and of the knee.

• Drawing, tearing pains in the knee-joint.

• Inflammatory swelling of the knee, with shining redness, shooting pains, stiffness, and great sensibility to touch.

• Sensation of stiffness in the legs on moving them.

• Pain in the insteps, with despair and fear of death.

• Numbness in the legs.

• Heaviness of the feet.

• Cold in the feet, chiefly in the toes, and sweat on the soles of the feet.

• Tingling, commencing in feet and spreading upwards.

• Crawling sensation in the skin, with itching and desquamation, principally in the parts affected.

• Skin dry and burning.

• Swelling and burning heat of wounded parts.

• Yellow face; yellowish color of the skin.

• Red, hot, swollen and shining skin with violent pain.

• Shootings, with a sensation of excoriation here and there.

• Spots similar to flea-bites on the hands, on the body, &c.

• Small pimples, red and broad, attended by itching.

• Morbilli.

• Rash of children.

• Purpura miliaris.

• Great desire to sleep, even while walking, and principally after dinner.

• Drowsiness, with anxious thoughts and rapid respiration.

• Confused reveries, in which the eyes are closed, without sleeping.

• Sleeplessness from anxiety, with constant agitation and tossing.

• Sleeplessness, with restlessness (eyes closed) and constant tossing about.

• Startings in sleep.

• Anxious dreams, with nightmare; with much talking and moving while sleeping; with a sort of clairvoyance.

• Light sleep.

• Impossibility of lying on the side.

• During sleep, lying on the back, with the hand under the head; or in a sitting posture, with the head inclined forward.

• Dry heat of the skin is present.

• Tingling and prickling sensations on the skin.

• Restless sleep occurs.

• Sleeplessness from anxiety and fear occurs.

• Dreams are frightful and vivid.

• Nightmares occur.

• Evening and night; warm room; lying on affected side; music; touch; dry, cold winds; suppressed perspiration; fright; shock.

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• Open air; rest; warmth; perspiration.

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• Complementary remedies: Coffea, Sulphur.

• Antidotes: Camphor, Nux Vomica, Sulphur.

• Comparisons: Belladonna, Chamomilla, Gelsemium, Bryonia, Ferrum Phos.

• Useful in conditions such as: Croup, Pneumonia, Influenza, Neuralgia, Anxiety disorders, Cardiac palpitations, Rheumatism.

• Suitable for plethoric persons of a lively character, bilious and nervous constitutions, high color, brown or black hair.

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• Reaction from primary effect of chill: fever.

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• Passes almost pure blood by stool.

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• Imagines some part of body is deformed.

• Imagine they do all their thinking from the stomach.

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• Great anguish and restlessness.

• One-sided complaints.

• Burning pains.

• Sensitive irritability.

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• Sadness.

• Presentiments, as if in a state of clairvoyance.

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• Maliciousness.

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• Humor changeable; at one time sad, depressed, irritable, and despairing; at another time gay, excited, full of hope, and disposed to sing and dance.

• Vexed at trifles; takes every joke in bad part.

• Dislike to talk; answers laconically.

• Alternate paroxysms of laughter and tears.

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• Anxiety respecting one's malady, and despair of a cure.

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• Disposition to run away from one's bed.

• Mind, as it were, paralyzed, with incapability of reflection, and a sensation as if all the intellectual functions were performed in the region of the stomach.

• Paroxysms of folly and madness.

• Unsteadiness of ideas.

• Delirium: unhappiness, worry, despair and raving, with expression of fear upon the countenance; but there is rarely unconsciousness; chiefly at night; with ecstasy.

• Weakness of memory.

• Ailments from fear, fright, vexation.

• Head affected, as if the brain was nailed up, principally in the heat of a room.

• Vertigo: particularly on rising from bed, or else on getting up from one's seat, on stooping, on moving or shaking the head, and often with a sensation of intoxication or dizziness in the head, loss of consciousness, dimness of the eyes; nausea, and sensation of weakness at the pit of the stomach; with inclination to fall to right side; vanishing of sight; bleeding of the nose.

• Sensation, as though the brain were rolling loosely id the skull; increased by the least motion, and even by speaking and drinking.

• Pain in the head, with inclination to vomit, also vomiting.

• Head, as if bruised, with sensation of bruising in the limbs.

• Stupefying pain in the head with sensation of compression and drawing together as from cramp, principally in the forehead and at root of the nose.

• Weight and fullness in the forehead and in the temples, with expansive pressure, as if everything was going to issue forth through them, chiefly on stooping forward.

• Feeling as of a board before forehead.

• Shooting, blows and beatings in the head.

• Drawing cephalalgia, sometimes semi-lateral.

• Sensation as if a ball were mounting in the head, and spreading a coolness over it.

• Congestion of blood in the head, with heat and redness of face, or with a sensation of heat in the brain, sweat on a shriveled skin, and paleness in the face.

• Sensation of heat in the head, which perspires, with pale face.

• Inflammation of the brain.

• Sensation of fullness 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.

• Heat and ebullition in the head, as if there were boiling water in the brain.

• A roaring and cracking in the head.

• Sensation in the vertex, as if dragged by the hair.

• Sensation as if the hair were standing on end all over the head.

• Pain in the head, as if in consequence of cold or suppressed perspiration, with a buzzing in the ears, cold in the head and colic.

• Eyes red and inflamed, with deep redness of the vessels, and intolerable pains.

• Profuse lachrymation.

• Heat and burning in the eyes, with pressive and shooting pains, especially on moving the balls.

• Swelling of the eyes.

• Dilated pupils.

• Lids feel dry, hard, heavy; sensitive to air.

• Red, hard swelling of the lids.

• Eyes sparkling, convulsed, and prominent.

• Look fixed.

• Cannot bear the reflection of the sun from the snow; it causes specks, sparks, and scintillations to dance before the eyes.

• Excessive photophobia; or a strong desire for light.

• Black spots and mist before the eyes.

• Disturbed by flickering; fears he may touch others passing by.

• Vision as if through a veil; difficult to distinguish faces; with anxiety and vertigo.

• Sudden attacks of blindness.

• Sensation of drawing in the eyelids with drowsiness.

• Ophthalmia, very painful, with blear-eyedness, or from foreign bodies having come into the eyes (dust, sparks); from operations.

• Tingling and buzzing in the ears.

• Tickling and sharp pain in the ears.

• Sensation as if something was placed before the ears.

• Excessive sensibility of hearing; all noise is intolerable.

• Music goes through every limb; makes her sad.

• Tearing (left ear).

• Roaring in the ears.

• Stunning compression or cramp at the root of the nose.

• Bleeding at the nose; bright red; especially in plethoric persons.

• Excessive sensibility of smelling, especially for unpleasant odors.

• Violent sneezing, with pain in the abdomen, and in the left side.

• Coryza, with catarrh, pain in the head, buzzing in the ears and colic; caused by cold, dry winds; checked coryza with headache; > in open air, < from talking; fluent coryza, frequent sneezing; dripping of a clear, hot water; fluent mornings.

• Anxious expression; frightened.

• Face bloated, hot, and red, or bluish; or alternately red and pale; yellow.

• On rising, the face, previously red, assumes a deadly paleness; afterwards becomes red.

• Red and pale alternately.

• Redness of one cheek, with paleness of the other, or red spots on both cheeks.

• Sweat on the forehead, upper lip, and on the cheek which has pressed the pillow.

• Distortion of features.

• Crawling pain and sensation of swelling in the cheeks.

• Tense drawing in trigeminus nerve, then shooting, wandering, intermittent, then constant pain, sometimes pressure.

• Pain, as of ulceration, in the cheek-bones.

• Semi-lateral prosopalgia, with swelling of the lower jaw.

• Lips black and dry, peeling off.

• Tingling in the cheeks.

• Burning, tingling, and shooting pains, with successive drawing in the jaws.

• Dropping of jaws.

• Trismus.

• Lancinating shocks or throbbing pains in the teeth, often with congestion of blood towards the head, and heat in the face.

• Toothache from cold, with throbbing in one side of the face, intense redness of the cheek, and great restlessness.

• Grinding teeth.

• Sensation of dryness, or dryness in the mouth and on the tongue.

• Tongue white; coated, or thick yellow-white.

• Itching, prickings and burning sensation in the tongue; with accumulation of saliva in the mouth.

• Paralysis of the tongue.

• Numbness of tongue; also about lips.

• Speech tremulous and stammering.

• Pain, as of excoriation, in the orifices of the salivary ducts, as if they were ulcerated.

• Trismus, with salivation.

• Uvula feels elongated and coming in contact with tongue.

• Pain in the throat, with deep redness of the parts affected, and difficult deglutition.

• Tingling in the esophagus.

• Scraping, tingling sensation of strangling, burning and pricking in the throat, chiefly in swallowing.

• Acute inflammation of the throat (palate, tonsils and fauces) with high fever, dark redness of the parts, burning and stinging in the fauces.

• Burning and numbness in throat; throat almost insensible.

• Pricking, burning in throat and along Eustachian tubes, compelling swallowing.

• Sensation of contraction in the throat, as if caused by acrid substances.

• Stinging in the throat when swallowing and coughing.

• Almost entire inability to swallow, with hoarseness.

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• Sensation of numbness in the trachea.

• Attacks of paralysis in the epiglottis, with a tendency to choking.

• Pain in the larynx.

• Larynx sensitive to touch and to the inspired air, as if denuded.

• Laryngeal complaints after straining the voice.

• A croaking voice.

• A constant desire to cough, produced by an irritation or a tickling in the larynx.

• Inflammation of larynx and bronchia.

• Cough from having drunk or smoked.

• Short and dry cough, principally at night.

• A convulsive cough, hoarse or croaking, sometimes with danger of suffocation, and constriction of the larynx.

• Angina membranacea, with dry cough and quick breathing.

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• Expectoration of thick and whitish matter, or of bloody mucus, or spitting of blood while coughing.

• Shootings and pains in the chest on coughing.

• Cough, with stitches in the chest or small of the back.

• Cough: < after eating or drinking; when lying; evening; night, more after 12; during sleep; from tobacco smoke; from vexation, esp., fright; when over-heated; from dry, cold winds; from walking in open air; assuming upright position; from deep inspiration; from speaking.

• Short breathing, chiefly during sleep, and on getting up.

• Breathing painful, anxious, and attended with groans, rapid and superficial, or full, noisy, and with the mouth open.

• Breathing slow during sleep.

• Breath hot; fetid.

• Constriction and anxious oppression of the chest, with difficulty of breathing.

• Asthma of Millar.

• Attack of suffocation, with anxiety.

• Sensation of heaviness and of compression at the chest.

• Painful pricking in the chest, chiefly when breathing, coughing, and moving (even the arms).

• Stitches through the chest and side, especially when breathing and coughing.

• Prickings in the side, with a lachrymose and plaintive humor, soothed, in some degree, by lying on the back.

• Pleurisy and pneumonia, especially with great heat, much thirst, dry cough and great nervous excitability, only somewhat relieved when lying on the back.

• Itching in the chest.

• Pains as of a bruise in the sternum and in the sides.

• Sensation of anguish in the chest, which interrupts respiration.

• Palpitation of the heart, with great anxiety, heat of body, chiefly in the face, and great weariness in the limbs.

• Shootings in the region of the heart when moving or going upstairs.

• Sensation of compression and blows in the region of the heart.

• 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.

• Fainting with tingling.

• Pulse full, strong, hard; slow, feeble; threadlike with anxiety; quick, hard, small.

• Taste in the mouth bitter; or putrid; all kinds of food and liquids, except water, tasting bitter.

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• Excessive hunger and thirst, but eats slowly.

• Generally < from drinking.

• Gastric catarrh from drinking ice-water when over-heated.

• Generally > from cold drink, especially anxiety.

• Loss of appetite and a distaste for food.

• Beer lies heavy on the stomach.

• Desires: wine; brandy; beer; bitter drinks.

• Wine generally >.

• Hiccough.

• Eructations of wind, and abortive risings in the throat.

• Flow of water from the stomach, as in water-brash, with nausea.

• Inclination to vomit, as after having eaten something sweetish or fat.

• Bilious vomitings, greenish, or mucous and bloody.

• Vomiting of pure blood.

• Vomiting of bloody mucus, or of what has been drunk, followed by thirst.

• Gagging and retching.

• Vomiting of lumbrices.

• Vomiting, with nausea and thirst, heat, profuse perspiration and increased micturition.

• Pains in the stomach after eating or drinking.

• Sensation of swelling, tension, and pressure as of a weight in the precordial region and in the stomach, sometimes with difficult respiration.

• Pressure in the stomach and pit of the stomach, as from a hard stone.

• Pit of stomach sore to touch and meteorismic.

• Sensation of contraction in stomach, as is from acrid substances.

• Constriction, tension and pressure in the hypochondriac region, sometimes with fullness and a sensation of weight.

• Burning pain, shootings, stinging and pressure in the hepatic region, with difficult respiration.

• Painful sensibility to touch in the region of the liver.

• Inflammation and sensation of soreness in the liver.

• Pressure in the region of the liver, with obstruction of breathing.

• Jaundice: of newborn; from fright; from chill.

• Drawing pains in the abdomen while in a crouching posture (as when at stool).

• Constriction, pinchings and burning in the umbilical region, sometimes with retraction of the navel.

• Unbearable cutting pains in the morning while in bed.

• Tension and painful throbbing in the abdomen, principally in the epigastrium.

• Swelling of the abdomen as in ascites.

• Painful sensibility of the abdomen to the touch, and to the least movement.

• Flatulent colic, chiefly at night, and pressure, tension, and borborygmus, with rumbling in the abdomen.

• Suppression of stools.

• Frequent, soft, small stools, with tenesmus.

• Loose, watery stools.

• Stools like chopped spinach.

• White stools, with dark red urine.

• Choleraic discharges with collapse, deathly anxiety, and restlessness.

• Involuntary stools, from paralysis of the anus.

• Constipation; clay-colored stools.

• Nausea and sweating before and after loose stools.

• Pains in the rectum.

• Violent pain in rectum, with chill and fever, inflammation, tenesmus, bloody discharges (dysentery).

• Pressure and pricking in the anus.

• Bleeding piles, with heat and sharp stitches; blood bright.

• Diarrhea, with flux of urine and colic.

• Sensation as of a warm fluid escaping from anus.

• Suppression of urine, with pressure in the bladder and pains in the loins.

• A frequent desire to discharge urine, accompanied by anxiety and pain.

• Flow of urine, with sweat, diarrhea, and colic.

• Involuntary emission of urine, from relaxation of the neck of the bladder.

• Enuresis, with thirst.

• Urine scanty, burning, deep red, and with a sediment of a brick color (arising from taking cold, especially in children); suppression of, from cold.

• Bloody sediment in the urine.

• Scanty, red, hot urine, without sediment.

• Heat and tenesmus in the neck of the bladder.

• Venereal inclination alternately increased and diminished.

• Amorous paroxysms.

• Smarting in the parts.

• Contusion like pains in the testicles.

• Testicles feel swollen, hard, as if surcharged with semen.

• Orchitis.

• Gonorrhea, first stage.

• Itching in the prepuce.

• Shootings and pinchings in the glans when making water.

• Menses too abundant and too protracted.

• Suppressed menstruation from fright; from cold feet.

• After-pains too painful and too protracted.

• Milk fever (with delirium).

• Puerperal peritonitis.

• Maniacal fury on the appearance of the menses.

• Stitching pains move to right of fundus uteri; sharp shooting pains, abdomen exceedingly sensitive.

• Ovaritis from suddenly checked menstrual flow.

• Labor-like pressing in womb (dysmenorrhea).

• Uterine hemorrhage; active, much excitability; giddy, cannot sit up; fear of death.

• Vagina dry, hot, sensitive.

• Leucorrhea, copious, tenacious, yellow.

• Increase of milk in breasts.

• Related to other Aconites and Aconitinum, Actaea rac., Actaea spic., Paeon., Podoph., Ranunculus, Staph.

• Teste places in the Aconite group: Coccul., Cham., Dulc., Cannab. i., Con.

• Antidoted by: Acet. ac., Alcohol, Paris.

• It antidotes: Bell., Cham., Coff., Nux v., Pet., Sep., Spo., Sul.

• Often indicated after: Arn., Coff., Sul., Verat.

• Complementary to: Coff. (in fever, sleeplessness, intolerance of pain); Arn. (bruises, injury to eye); Sul.

• Relieves ailments from: Act. rac., Cham., Coff., Nux v., Pet., Sep., Sul.

• Abuse of Acon. calls for Sul.

• Compare with: Stram. and Op. (effects of fright); Sul. (in most of its symptoms; Sul. is the chronic of Acon.).

• Compare also: Pul., Lyc., Sec., and Camph. (> from uncovering); Hep. and Coff. (intolerance of pain); Chi. (white stool); Gels. (effects of bad news, fright, anger); Nux and Bry. (diarrhea from anger); Bry. (effects of cold, dry winds).