Aconite
- Source : vegetable kingdom/ whole plant
- Common name : monk's hood, wolf's bane
- Family : ranunculaceae
- Prover : Dr. Hahnemann
- Miasm : psora
- Temperament : sanguine
- Thermal : neither chilly nor hot, but seems to be hot
Guiding Symptoms + keynotes
- A/F - Draught of cold air (north/west-dry) while in perspiration, fright, sun.
- Every complain appears Suddenly and violently.
- Great fear and anxiety of mind.
- Fear of death, as she is sure that her disease will prove fatal, predicts the day she will die, fear of death during pregnancy [aco. thinks that if proper medicine is not taken, he will surely die] - reverse of ars. alb.
- Amenorrhea after fright.
- music is unbearable, makes her sad. (natrum group, thuja)
- first stage of inflammation before localisation takes place.
- Restlessness - physical + mental. (While in Rhus Tox. - physical, Arsenic - mental.)
- Intense thirst.
Mind+
- Great fear and anxiety of mind, face expresses the fear.
- Fear of death in pregnancy.
- Predicts date and hour of death.
- Aconite patient calls his friends and relatives and takes leave of them.
- Music is unbearable.
- Aconite is very anxious, worried and fearful.
Heart
- Stitching pain in heart, numbness in left arm with tingling sensation in fingers.
- hard and tense pulse, tachycardia, dyspnoea.
- Pain in pericardium due to fright or exposure to dry cold air.
- Great anxiety, fear of death with restlessness along with profuse perspiration.
Fever
- sudden fever with chill stage in begining, evening and night.
- skin - dry, hot during fever. (aconite must not be used simply to control fever, but if its indicated, it must not be alternated with any other remedy).
- Also add mind symptoms in fever
Modalities
- Aggravation : evening, night, warm room.
- Amelioration : open air.
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