Aconitum Napellus


Aconitum Napellus symptoms of the homeopathy remedy from Keynotes and Red Line Symptoms by Adolph von Lippe. What are the symptoms of Aconitum Napellus? Keynote indications and uses of Aconitum Napellus…


COMMON NAME:

      MONK’S HOOD.

Symptoms

      Is generally indicated in 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 fibres (A.).

THE PAIN IS INSUPPORTABLE DRIVING TO DESPAIR (Coffea)

THE PATIENT IS FULL OF FEARS, AND TOSSES ABOUT, AS IF IN AGONY (aRS.).

RESTLESSNESS AND INCONSOLABLE ANXIETY. IS AFRAID TO GO OUT, TO GO INTO A CROWD, WHERE THERE IS ANY EXCITEMENT OR MANY PEOPLE; TO CROSS THE STREET (A.).

SUDDEN AND GREAT SINKING OF STRENGTH (Arsenicum, Camph., Hydro-Ac.)

Sensation of soreness of the body, and of heaviness in inner parts.

Tearing in outer parts (Rhus.).

Tingling in the fingers, oesophagus and back (Secale).

Painfulness of the whole body to contact (he does not wish to be touched) (Arnica).

Pulsating pain in the head and teeth (Belladonna).

Inflammation of inner parts (mucous membranes).

Stitches in internal organs. (Apis., Bryonia, Kali-c., Sulphur).

Tightness of the muscles (acute rheumatism.)

THE MOST VALUABLE FEBRIFUGE IN THE ENTIRE RANGE OF THERAPEUTIC AGENTS.

PULSE FULL AND HARD, OR IMPERCEPTIBLE.

DRY, BURNING SKIN.

HEAT, WITH INCLINATION TO UNCOVER ONESELF (Sulphur).

MILIARIA LIKE THE ERUPTION OF MEASLES (Bryonia, Pulsatilla).

WHEN RISING PALENESS OF THE FACE.

PRODUCES AND CURE DRENCHING SWEATS (China).

Bad effects from catching cold. from anger, or from fright, especially with females during menstruation.

Most symptoms disappear while sitting quietly, but at night and in bed they are insupportable.

Cough, croup; dry, hoarse, suffocating; loud, rough, croaking; hard, ringing, whistling; on expiration (Causticum; on inhalation-Spongy); from dry, cold winds, or drafts of air (A.).

RETENTION OF URINE IN NEW BORN INFANTS (Apis., Arsenicum, Camph., Causticum, Lycopodium, Pulsatilla) (K.).

DYSENTERY: WHEN THE DAYS ARE WARM AND THE NIGHTS ARE COOL; SCANTY LOOSE, FREQUENT STOOLS WITH TORMINA AND TENESMUS; SMALL, BROWN, PAINFUL, AT LAST BLOODY, OR PURE BLOOD PASSES WITHOUT FAECES (L.).

Desire for bitter drinks (Digitalis, Natrum muriaticum, Terebintha) (K.)

Pneumonia: first stage in robust persons; chill of more or less severity, followed by intense fever, hot, dry skin; laboured and incomplete respiration; and dry, hard cough (L.).

Everything tastes bitter except water (Stann.) (K.).

Convulsions: of teething children; heat, jerks and twitches of single muscles; child gnaws its fist, frets and screams; skin hot and dry; high fever (Belladonna, Stramonium) (A.).

PALPITATION: FROM ANXIETY; DURING FEVER (Arsenicum, Calcarea, Acid nitricum, Puls); AFTER FRIGHT; FROM MOTION; AND ON WAKING (Lachesis, Naja, Phosphorus). (K.).

Uncomplicated cardiac disease, especially with numbness of left arm; tingling in fingers; faintings (N).

Great aversion to light (Belladonna, Conium, Mercurius, Sulphur). Sufferings from foreign bodies, as speck of dust or iron in the eyes (G.).

Beside himself, frantic from intensity of pain (B.).

Music is intolerable, makes her sad (Sabina; during menses-Nat-c.) (A.).

AGGRAVATION:

      In the evening and night; in a warm room; when rising from bed; and lying on the left or affected side. (Belladonna, Hepar, Nux-M.).

AMELIORATION:

      In the open air (Alumina, Magnesia carb., Pulsatilla, Sabina).

RELATIONSHIP:

      Complementary to Coffea in fever, sleeplessness and intolerance of pain; to Arnica in traumatism; to Sulphur in all cases.

Aconite is the acute of Sulphur, and both precedes and follows it in acute inflammatory conditions.

Adolph Lippe
Adolph Lippe (born near Goerlitz, Prussia, 11 May 1812; died in Philadelphia, 23 January 1888) was a homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. Adolph got a legal education at Berlin. After completing his legal studies, Lippe became interested in homeopathy, and emigrated to the United States in 1837 to further his study. In 1838, he enrolled in the North American Academy of Homeopathy at Allentown, Pennsylvania, from where he graduated in 1841. He settled in Philadelphia, where from 1863 until 1868 he was professor of materia medica in the Homeopathic College of Pennsylvania. Besides some essays and treatises from the French, German, and Italian which became standards, Lippe was the author of:
Comparative Materia Medica (Philadelphia, 1854)
Text-Book of Materia Medica (1866)