{"id":26009,"date":"2023-03-07T09:39:08","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T09:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/materiamedica.net\/?p=26009"},"modified":"2023-03-07T09:39:08","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T09:39:08","slug":"aconitum-napellus-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.epostpro.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/07\/aconitum-napellus-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Aconitum napellus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aconitum napellus<\/span><\/h1>\n

FEAR<\/strong>: of death; of crowds; of going out. Anything, always fearful.<\/p>\n

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Complaints from exposure to cold, dry cold.<\/p>\n

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Congestions and inflammations, acute, first stage with great anxiety, heat and restlessness; tosses about in agony; throws off covering. Inflammatory fever.<\/p>\n

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Pains insuppressable < at night, especially in the evening; neuralgic.<\/p>\n

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Face very red and flushed, but turns pale on rising up.<\/p>\n

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Favorite points of attack: Larynx (croup), bronchi (bronchitis), lungs and pleura (pneumonia and pleurisy), joints (rheumatism), heart and circulation (erethism).<\/p>\n

Modalities: < in the evening (chest symptoms and pains); lying on left side; in warm room or warm covering.<\/p>\n

> uncovering; kicks the clothes off. #<\/p>\n

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We will now take up what I call the trio of restless remedies, viz.:\u00a0ACONITE, ARSENICUM<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0RHUS TOXICODENDRON.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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All are equally restless, yet all are so very different that there is no difficulty in choosing between them. The\u00a0ACONITE\u00a0<\/strong>restlessness is oftenest found in a high grade of synochal or inflammatory fevers. There is no better picture in a few words of the\u00a0ACONITE\u00a0<\/strong>fever than is given by Hering\u2014”Heat, with thirst; hard, full and frequent pulse, anxious impatience, inappeasable, beside himself, tossing about with agony.”<\/p>\n

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The custom of alternating\u00a0ACONITE\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0BELLADONNA\u00a0<\/strong>in inflammatory affections, which so widely prevails is a senseless one. Both remedies cannot be indicated at a time, and if a good effect follows their administration you may be sure that the\u00a0INDICATED ONE\u00a0<\/strong>cured in spite of the action of the other, which only hindered; or that the patient recovered without help from either. There are many cases of this kind where the doctor is congratulating himself on a cure which was only a recovery, for which he deserves no credit at all. Let us look for a moment at some of the diagnostic differences of these two remedies.<\/p>\n

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Both have great heat of the skin, but\u00a0ACONITE\u00a0<\/strong>has characteristically\u00a0DRY, HOT SKIN<\/strong>\u00a0and no sweat;\u00a0BELLADONNA\u00a0<\/strong>has even greater surface heat, but sweats on\u00a0COVERED PARTS. ACONITE\u00a0<\/strong>tosses about in agony with great fear of death;\u00a0BELLADONNA\u00a0<\/strong>often has semi-stupor and jerks and twitches in sleep.\u00a0ACONITE\u00a0<\/strong>has great distress in heart and chest;\u00a0BELLADONNA\u00a0<\/strong>everything seems to centre in the head.\u00a0ACONITE\u00a0<\/strong>fears death without much delirium;\u00a0BELLADONNA\u00a0<\/strong>fears imaginary things, with delirium. Thus we might continue to give points of difference. No man who understands the homeopathic art of healing will ever alternate these two remedies.<\/p>\n

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ACONITE\u00a0<\/strong>is also a great\u00a0pain\u00a0<\/strong>remedy. If we were to name the three leading remedies in this respect it would be\u00a0ACONITE, CHAMOMILLA<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0COFFEA<\/strong>, The\u00a0ACONITE\u00a0<\/strong>pains are always attended by the extreme restlessness, anxiety and fearfulness of this remedy. The patient tosses about in agony, “cannot\u00a0BEAR<\/strong>\u00a0THE PAIN,\u00a0<\/strong>nor bear to be touched, nor to be uncovered.” Well, you say, all remedies have pain. Not all, and not many so intense pain.\u00a0OPIUM\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0STRAMONIUM\u00a0<\/strong>have painlessness oftener than pain. The\u00a0ACONITE\u00a0<\/strong>pains are intolerable and generally worse in the evening or at night. Then we have often alternating with or sometimes even in conjunction with the pains\u00a0NUMBNESS, TINGLING,\u00a0<\/strong>or\u00a0FORMICATION.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In this it resembles\u00a0RHUS TOX<\/strong>., but with\u00a0ACONITE\u00a0<\/strong>the pains predominate, while with\u00a0RHUS TOX<\/strong>. the numbness, with dull aching and soreness, leads. The pains of\u00a0ACONITE\u00a0<\/strong>are tearing, cutting pains, which drive the patient to desperation. Right here we may as well speak of the leading characteristic of this remedy, for it is almost always present when\u00a0ACONITE\u00a0<\/strong>is clearly indicated. Just one word expresses it:\u00a0Fear<\/strong>\u2014FEAR OF DEATH<\/strong>\u00a0especially, but fear to cross the street, fear to go into society, fear something is going to happen, ever present, undefinable, unreasonable fear. No remedy has it in such a degree as this one. It is the fear as much as the pain that makes the patient so full of that agonized restlessness. The\u00a0ARSENIC\u00a0<\/strong>restlessness goes with extreme prostration and reduced vitality.\u00a0RHUS TOX<\/strong>., on account of the aching pains, which make him want to move for the temporary relief he gets from the movement.\u00a0ARSENIC\u00a0<\/strong>wants to move from place to place, but is\u00a0NOT<\/strong>\u00a0relieved. Neither\u00a0ACONITE\u00a0<\/strong>nor\u00a0ARSENIC\u00a0<\/strong>get such relief from movement, nor does\u00a0ARSENIC fear\u00a0<\/strong>like\u00a0ACONITE<\/strong>, or at least in any such degree.\u00a0ACONITE<\/strong>, as a fever remedy, has been greatly abused. Even the old school, astonished at the results of homeopathic treatment, so superior to their so-called anti-phlogistic treatment, and finding\u00a0ACONITE\u00a0<\/strong>so highly recommended and frequently used in inflammatory affections, concluded in accordance with their usual way of reasoning that\u00a0ACONITE\u00a0<\/strong>could be squeezed into their pathological livery and made to do service in all kinds of fever simply because it was fever. But they soon found that however useful it might be in some cases of inflammatory fever, it was of no use in typhoids. Thus was generalization from a pathological standpoint again doomed to disappointment, as it always must be. Now many so-called homeopaths have fallen into similar error by concluding that because\u00a0ACONITE\u00a0<\/strong>did quickly cure in some cases having a high grade of fever, that therefore it was always the remedy with which to treat cases having high fever. They even fell into the routine habit of prescribing this remedy for the first stage of all inflammatory affections, and follow it with other remedies more appropriate to the whole case further on. If\u00a0ACONITE\u00a0<\/strong>were the only remedy having inflammatory fever, perhaps we could do no better than to zig-zag the case to a cure this way. Dunham writes: “ACONITE\u00a0<\/strong>is never to be given first to subdue the fever and then some other remedy ‘to meet the case,’ never to be alternated with other drugs for the purpose, as is often alleged, of ‘controlling the fever.’ If the fever be such as to require\u00a0ACONITE<\/strong>, no other drug is needed. If other drugs seem indicated, one should be sought which meets the fever as well, for many drugs besides\u00a0ACONITE\u00a0<\/strong>produce fever, each after its kind.”<\/p>\n

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True words, and as one reads them who has proved their truthfulness and remembers their great author, he feels like exclaiming, “Being dead, yet speaketh.”\u00a0ACONITE\u00a0<\/strong>has two very important modalities, viz., fright and dry cold air. We have already noticed the value of the\u00a0FEAR\u00a0<\/strong>of\u00a0ACONITE\u00a0<\/strong>as a symptom, connected with acute inflammatory ailments. It is no less a remedy for ailments brought on by fright, either immediate or remote. The patient has received a fright in the dark and is always afraid in the dark afterwards. From fright vertigo comes on, or fainting; trembling; threatened abortion, or suppressed menstruation. Jaundice may be induced by it, and become chronic. There are other remedies for fright, prominent among which are\u00a0OPIUM, IGNATIA, VERATRUM ALBUM,<\/strong>\u00a0etc. Now in regard to the\u00a0DRY, COLD AIR<\/strong>. No remedy has more prominently acute inflammations arising from dry, cold air. Nineteen out of twenty cases of croup arising from exposure to dry, cold air will be cured by\u00a0ACONITE<\/strong>. I live in a locality where croup abounds and have had abundant opportunity to verify this.\u00a0PLEURISY, PNEUMONIA<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0RHEUMATISM\u00a0<\/strong>also come under this head, and they are, as would be expected, almost invariably accompanied by the high fever, anguish, restlessness and fear so characteristic of this remedy. Any local congestion or inflammation coming from such exposure also comes under the same rule, always providing the other symptoms correspond. The other leading dry air remedies are\u00a0BRYONIA, CAUSTICUM<\/strong>,\u00a0HEPAR SULPH<\/strong>. and\u00a0NUX VOMICA<\/strong>. Here are some wet weather remedies:\u00a0DULCAMARA, NUX MOSCHATA, NATRUM SULPHURICUM<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0RHUS<\/strong>\u00a0TOXICODENDRON<\/strong>. Such things are well to remember, for one positive indication is worth two or three vague ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aconitum napellus FEAR: of death; of crowds; of going out. Anything, always fearful.   Complaints from exposure to cold, dry cold.   Congestions and inflammations, acute, first stage with great anxiety, heat and restlessness; tosses about in agony; throws off covering. Inflammatory fever.   Pains insuppressable < at night, especially in the evening; neuralgic.   […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[149],"offerexpiration":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.epostpro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26009"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.epostpro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.epostpro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.epostpro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.epostpro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.epostpro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.epostpro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.epostpro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.epostpro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.epostpro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26009"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.epostpro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=26009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}