ACONITUM NAPELLUS
Source indications
Allen's Keynotes
- 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
- afraid to cross the street
- countenance is expressive of fear
- life is rendered miserable by fear
- 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
- becomes very restless at night
- anguish of mind and body
- restlessness
- disquiet not to be allayed
- mental anxiety worry fear accompanies the most trivial ailment
- music is unbearable makes her sad
- on rising from a recumbent position the red face becomes deathly pale
- on rising from a recumbent position he becomes faint or giddy and falls and fears to rise again
- vanishing of sight and unconsciousness on rising
- amenorrhoea in plethoric young girls after fright
- 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
- fever 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
- skin hot and dry
- high fever
- cough croup dry hoarse suffocating loud rough croaking
- cough hard ringing whistling on expiration
- cough from dry cold winds or drafts of air
- evening and night pains are insupportable
- pains worse in a warm room
- pains worse when rising from bed
- pains worse lying on affected side
- better in the open air