Homoeopathic Gem : ACONITE

"Homoeopathic Gem" is a series of drugs from homoeopathic Materia medica which describe the drug in few key words. If you remember these words you will remember whole drugs. Here are some important symptoms of Homoeopathic medicine aconite napellus. It is very easy to understand personality of aconite person and symptomatology of aconite.

Words that Describes Aconite :

1. Short acting
Aconite always comes in act when there is acute disease. Chronic contraindicate the aconite. Symptoms of aconite do not last long. Like a great storm, it comes and sweeps over and passes away.

2. Sudden
Suddenness is another key feature of aconite. Attack comes sudden and passes away suddenly. When person exposed to dry cold wind, he become sick before night. That suddenness suggest Aconite.

3. Cold
Cold is the main causative factor of aconite. Not slight exposure but violent exposure of cold suggestive of aconite. Dry Cold exposure of wind usually causes inflammatory condition of brain and lungs.

 

4. Heat
Just like cold aconite is suited to the complaints that come on suddenly from the intensely hot weather of summer. Aconite has inflamnatory condition of bowel and stomach disorder of summer.

5. Inflammation
Aconite causes inflammatory condition of each and every parts of the body. Inflammation is sudden after taking cold or from exposure to dry, cold wind. Inflammatory part has no discharge or only very watery mucus. Sudden Inflammation that comes on with thick discharges would never be Aconite. Inflammation with suppuration or if there is discharge of pus will never show you the symptoms of Aconite.

6. Violence
Violence is another key feature of Aconite. Patient feels the violence of his sickness. Violence and anxiety is present with all complaints.

7. Fear
Fear can be concomitant as well as can be a causative factors for complaint of aconite. Fear present with all complaint. Aconite patient has so much fear of death that he predict the time of death. Sudden fear and fear of fright causes the complain. Fear can cause inflammation of brain, dizziness, vertigo and even congestion of the parts.

8. Restlessness
Aconite is one of the remedy of trio of restlessness along with arsenicum album and rhus tox. Great restlessness. Restlessness should be there with any other complain to prescribe Aconite.

9. Fever
Many practitioner give aconite in any fever, but it is bad practice. Aconite has typical fever. Great restlessness with fever. Eyes staring, with pupils contracted. The Aconite fever is generally one short, sharp attack of fever. The second attack would shut out the Aconite. The violent attack that subside in a night is suggestive of Aconite. Never give Aconite in blood poisoning such as Scarlet fever or typhoid fever. Never give aconite in zymosis.

Complete Symptoms of Aconite:

1. Causation: Dry cold wind of mid winter, extreme heat of summer, fear

2. Location: Any part of body. (Cold mainly affect brain & lung while heat affect bowel and stomach)

3. Sensation: Sudden and violent Inflammation / fever, intense pain.

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

5. Concomitant: Fear, anxiety & restlessness.

Keynotes of Aconite :

1. Physical and mental restlessness.

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

3. Complaints and tension caused by exposure to dry, cold weather, draught of cold air.

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

5. Forebodings and fears. Fears death but believes that he will soon die; predicts the day. 

6. Eyelids swollen, hard and red.

7. Very sensitive to noises; music is unbearable.

8. Smell acutely sensitive. 

9. Pain at root of nose.

10. On rising the red face becomes deathly pale, or he becomes dizzy.

11. Fascial Neuralgia, especially of left side, with restlessness, tingling, and numbness.

12. Gums hot and inflamed. Tongue coated white.

13. Vomiting, with fear, heat, profuse sweat and increased urination.

14. Intense thirst for cold water.

15. Retention, with screaming and restlessness, and handling of genitals.

16. Suppressed menses from fright, cold, in plethoric subjects.

17. Shortness of breath worse at night and after midnight.

18. Palpitation, with anxiety, fainting, and tingling in fingers. Pulse full, hard; tense and bounding; sometimes intermits. 

19. Hot hands and cold feet.