Aconitum Napellus (Monkshood)

Aconite is an excellent remedy for sudden illness, aches, colds, coughs, sore throat, flu, chills and fever. Keep on hand for quick recovery after becoming ill following exposure to weather changes, such as very cold or very hot weather, exposure to dry winds or inclement weather.
Aconite helps with symptoms from sudden shock, fear, fright.
Aconite is often used during the early stages of an illness, but can also be used for past trauma to rebalance.
Indications include feeling apprehensive and agitated, tossing about in bed.
Fear and restlessness seem to dominate the symptoms.

* 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 Hyperaemia, congestion not after exudation has set in.

* Influenza [Influenzin]

Aconite

Useful for:

Key Symptoms:

FEVER

Sudden violent onset, after exposure to cold, dry wind Restlessness

FRIGHT

Fearful
Bad effects of fright

EYE INJURY

As first-aid, to diminish inflammation and relieve pain
Scratch on cornea

DENTAL PROBLEMS

Fear of treatment

SURGERY

Fearful anticipation

COLDS

First stages of common cold
Sneezing & dripping
Clear, hot, watery nasal discharge
Burning, sensitive throat
Throbbing headache
Roaring in ears
Eyes feel dry, hot & sandy
Averse to light
Eyes red, inflamed, watery

COUGH/CROUP

First remedy for croup
Constant short, dry cough
Sudden Onset during night, after exposure to cold, dry winds
Wakens soon after midnight with anxiety & croupy, barking cough

EARACHE

External ear painful, swollen, red, hot
Sensitive to noise
Frantic with pain

COLIC

Gas up and down
Intense thirst for cold water

HEADACHE

Heavy, throbbing, bursting pain
Sensation of fullness in forehead
Sensation of band around head
Feels as if hair were pulled or stood on end
Dizziness, worse on rising & shaking head

URINARY PROBLEMS

Bladder Infections
Painful urination
Anxiety at start of urination
Urine scanty, hot, red
Sudden retention of urine from chill or fright

Mind

- 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.

Head

- 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.

Eyes

- 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.

Ears

- Very sensitive to noises; music is unbearable.

- External ear hot, red, painful, swollen.

- Earache. [Cham.].

- Sensation as of drop of water in left ear.

Nose

- Smell acutely sensitive. Pain at root of nose.

- Coryza much sneezing; throbbing in nostrils.

- Haemorrhage of bright red blood.

- Mucous membrane dry, nose stopped up; dry or with but scanty watery coryza.

Face

- 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.

Mouth

- 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.].

Throat

- Red, dry, constricted, numb, prickling, burning, stinging.

- Tonsils swollen and dry.

Stomach

- 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 dyspnoea.

- Haematemesis.

- Burning from stomach to oesophagus.

Abdomen

- Hot, tense, tympanitic.

- Sensitive to touch. Colic, no position relieves.

- Abdominal symptoms better after warm soup.

- Burning in umbilical region.

Rectum

- 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 haemorrhoids. [Hamam.]

- Watery diarrhoea in children.

- They cry and complain much, are sleepless and restless.

Urine

- 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 diarrhoea.

Male

- Crawling and stinging in glans.

- Bruised pain in testicles, swollen, hard.

- Frequent erections and emissions.

- Painful erections.

Female

- 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.

Respiratory

- 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.

Heart

- 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.

Back

- Numb, stiff, painful.

- Crawling and tingling, as if bruised.

- Stiffness in nape of neck.

- Bruised pain between scapulae.

Extremities

- 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.

Sleep

- 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.

Skin

- Red, hot, swollen, dry, burning.

- Purpura miliaris.

- Rash like measles.

- Gooseflesh.

- Formication and numbness.

- Chilliness and formication down back.

- Pruritus relieved by stimulants.

Fever

- 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.

Modalities

- 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.

Keynote Symptoms Summary:

Suddenly red face. Face pales when rising;
Sudden sneezing;
Croupy coughing;
Restlessness, person appears anxious & frightened.

Better from:
evening time & night, warm room
cold winds, lying on affected side, music

Worse from:
open air, lying down sweat, overheating

Source book:

HOMOEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA

By William BOERICKE