Vertigo when rising from a recumbent posture, with fainting and pale face.
Headache as if everything would press out of the forehead, with vertigo on rising.
Sensation as if the hairs of the head were standing on end; the scalp is sensitive to the touch.
Eyes.-Acute catarrh, or rheumatic ophthalmia, excessively painful as if some foreign body had lodged in it, accompanied by much fear.
She complains much of her head, anguish and acute conjunctivitis.
Mouth and Fauces.-Burning sensation, extending from the stomach all the way up to the mouth, and along the dorsum of the tongue, with tingling in the lips, tongue, fingers and spine.
Everything tastes bitter, except water.
Tongue coated white.
Unquenchable thirst.
Organs of digestion.-Bitter, bilious vomiting with anguish and cold perspiration.
Acute hepatitis, with high fever, and soreness in the liver.
Enteritis with burning tearing pains, and high fever.
Sharp shooting pains in the whole abdomen, which is very tender to the touch.
Abdomen swollen after scarlet fever.-HEMPEL.
Green watery diarrhoea, like chopped spinach.
Watery dark colored stools.
Bilious diarrhoea of infants, with colic, which no position or circumstance relieves.
Dysentery with high synochal fever; great fear and restlessness accompanied with cutting, lancinating, burning and tearing pains in the abdomen.
Urinary Organs-Scanty, red, hot urine. Retention of urine from cold, particularly in children, with much crying and restlessness.
Sexual Organs.-In males, acute orchitis, high fever with bruised painful feeling, from colds, or gonorrhoea. In females, suppression of the menses after a fright.
Restores the menses of plethoric women, after their suppression from any cause.
Menses too profuse in plethoric women.
Very severe after-pains, with fear and restlessness.
Suppression of the lochia, or too scanty discharge, soon after labor with distress in the abdomen, chest and head.
Acute puerperal peritonitis.
Breast hard and knotted, with hot, dry skin, much thirst and fear.
The mammae are congested, burning hot, hard and distended, with little or no milk.
When the patient, during pregnancy, is distressed between twelve and three a.m., having to get up to urinate, having no affection for any one.-J.C.M.
Os uteri dry, tender and undilatable; with distress, moaning and restlessness during every pain.
Cannot bear the pain, nor bear to be touched or uncovered.
Organs of Respiration.-Croup, brought on by sudden change of temperature from warm to intensely cold weather.
First stages of croup, with cough and loud breathing during expiration, but not during inspiration; every expiration ends with a hoarse hacking cough.
Croupy cough waking in first sleep, particularly with children, after dry cold west winds.
Child grasps at his throat after every coughing fit.
Short, dry, titillating cough, every inspiration seems to increase the cough.
Pleurisy and Pneumonia, especially with great heat, much thirst, dry cough and great nervous excitability.
Quick, anxious, labored, sobbing breathing.
Stitches through the chest and side, especially when breathing and coughing.
Haemoptysis, the blood comes up with great ease by hemming and hawking, of a bright red color, and in large quantities, from exercise or cold, dry west wind, with great fear and anxiety of mind, and palpitation of the heart.
Expectoration of bloody mucus with cough. There is almost always a tingling sensation in the chest after coughing. There may be stitches in the chest after coughing. There may be stitches in the chest and side, which are often so severe as to interfere considerably with respiration; can only get half-inch respiration.
The child has much oppression of the chest, anxiety, can scarcely cough, the suffering is intense.
Stitches in the chest, hindering respiration; cannot breath freely in consequence of a sensation as if the lungs would not expand.
Burning in the internal organs.
Palpitation of the heart with great anguish.
Fever.-synochal fever, with full bounding pulse; great heat, restlessness, thirst for large quantities of water, and great nervous excitability.
Great thirst, and though he cannot retain fluid in the stomach, yet will always drink; then up it comes as from a pump, all up and out in a very short time, even before a basin or anything can be produced.
Great heat and agony, and craves a large amount of cold drinks.
cannot bear to be covered.
Skin.-Red, hot and swollen skin, with much pain.
Scarlet rash; the eruption is fine and red, worse at night.
Acute erysipelas, with synochal fever, anxiety and great restlessness.
Extremities.-Much numb, tingling sensation in the back and in the fingers from irritation of the sentient nervous system.
Numbness in left arm, can hardly move the hand.
Painful sensitiveness of any part of the body; does not wish to be touched on account of this sensitiveness; of course he will be irritable, and fearful of any one approaching him.
This remedy is frequently indicated when there is a great and sudden sinking
the strength; but here we must look to the state of the mind. If we find cheerfulness and content with no alarm, Aconite is not the remedy. But if we find great alarm at this sudden sinking, study Aconite.
Bad effects from dry, cold air; suppressed perspiration from fright, with fear and anguish.
The symptoms are worse from rising and in a warm room, and are ameliorated in the open air.
At night the pains are insupportable, with fear, anxiety and great restlessness.
Adapted to people of a full plethoric habit, especially young girls of sanguine temperament and sedentary life; and to acute diseases brought on by dry, cold west winds.
(1836-1897)
Characteristic materia medica Published 1873
Physiological materia medica, containing all that is known of the physiological action of our remedies; together with their characteristic indications and pharmacology. Published 1881