Aconitum napellus

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 

1. A/F - Draught of cold air (north/west-dry) while in perspiration, fright, sun. 
2. Every complain appears Suddenly and violently. 
3. Great fear and anxiety of mind. 
4. 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.
5. Amenorrhea after fright.
6. music is unbearable, makes her sad. (natrum group, thuja) 
7. first stage of inflammation before localisation takes place. 
8. Restlessness - physical + mental. (While in Rhus Tox. - physical, Arsenic - mental.)
9. 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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