Aconitum Napellus



Face

Anxious expression, frightened. Face bloated, hot, and red, or bluish, or alternately red and pale, yellow. On rising, the face, previously red, assumes a deadly paleness, afterwards becomes red. Red and pale alternately. Redness of one cheek, with paleness of the other, or red spots on both cheeks. Sweat on the forehead, upper lip, and on the cheek which has pressed the pillow. Distortion of features. Crawling pain and sensation of swelling in the cheeks. Tense drawing in trigeminus nerve, then shooting, wandering, intermittent, then constant pain, sometimes pressure. Pain, as of ulceration, in the cheek-bones. Semi- lateral prosopalgia, with swelling of the lower jaw. Lips black and dry, peeling off. Tingling in the cheeks. Burning, tingling, and shooting pains, with successive drawing in the jaws. Dropping of jaws. Trismus.

Teeth

Lancinating shocks or throbbing pains in the teeth, often with congestion of blood towards the head, and heat in the face. Toothache from cold, with throbbing in one side of the face, intense redness of the cheek, and great restlessness. Grinding teeth.

Mouth

Sensation of dryness, or dryness in the mouth and on the tongue. Tongue white. Coated, or thick yellow-white. Itching, prickings and burning sensation in the tongue, with accumulation of saliva in the mouth. Paralysis of the tongue. Numbness of tongue, also about lips. Speech tremulous and stammering. Pain, as of excoriation, in the orifices of the salivary ducts, as if they were ulcerated. Trismus, with salivation. Uvula feels elongated and coming in contact with tongue.

Throat

Pain in the throat, with deep redness of the parts affected, and difficult deglutition. Tingling in the oesophagus. Scraping, tingling sensation of strangling, burning and pricking in the throat, chiefly in swallowing. Acute inflammation of the throat (palate, tonsils and fauces) with high fever, dark redness of the parts, burning and stinging in the fauces. Burning and numbness in throat, throat almost insensible. Pricking, burning in throat and along Eustachian tubes, compelling swallowing. Sensation of contraction in the throat, as if caused by acrid substances. Stinging in the throat when swallowing and coughing. Almost entire inability to swallow, with hoarseness.

Appetite

Taste in the mouth bitter, or putrid. All kinds of food and liquids, except water, tasting bitter. Burning and unquenchable thirst, sometimes with a desire for beer. Excessive hunger and thirst, but eats slowly. Generally worse from drinking. Gastric catarrh from drinking ice-water when over-heated. Generally better from cold drink, especially anxiety. Loss of appetite and a distaste for food. Beer lies heavy on the stomach. Desires: wine, brandy, beer, bitter drinks. Wine generally better.

Stomach

Hiccough. Eructations of wind, and abortive risings in the throat. Flow of water from the stomach, as in water-brash, with nausea. Inclination to vomit, as after having eaten something sweetish or fat. Bilious vomitings, greenish, or mucous and bloody. Vomiting of pure blood. Vomiting of bloody mucus, or of what has been drunk, followed by thirst. Gagging and retching. Vomiting of lumbrices. Vomiting, with nausea and thirst, heat, profuse perspiration and increased micturition. Pains in the stomach after eating or drinking. Sensation of swelling, tension, and pressure as of a weight in the precordial region and in the stomach, sometimes with difficult respiration. Pressure in the stomach and pit of the stomach, as from a hard stone. Pit of stomach sore to touch and meteorismic. Sensation of contraction in stomach, as is from acrid substances.

Abdomen

Constriction, tension and pressure in the hypochondriac region, sometimes with Fulness and a sensation of weight. Burning pain, shooting, stinging and pressure in the hepatic region, with difficult respiration. Painful sensibility to touch in the region of the liver. Inflammation and sensation of soreness in the liver. Pressure in the region of the liver, with obstruction of breathing. Jaundice: of newborn, from fright, from chill. Drawing pains in the abdomen while in a crouching posture (as when at Stool and Anus.). Constriction, pinchings and burning in the umbilical region, sometimes with retraction of the navel. Unbearable cutting pains in the morning while in bed. Tension and painful throbbing in the abdomen, principally in the epigastrium. Swelling of the abdomen as in ascites. Painful sensibility of the abdomen to the touch, and to the least movement. Flatulent colic, chiefly at night, and pressure, tension, and borborygmus, with rumbling in the abdomen.

Stool and Anus

Suppression of Stool Frequent, soft, small Stool with tenesmus. Loose, watery Stool Stool like chopped spinach. White Stool, with dark red urine. Choleraic discharges with collapse, deathly anxiety, and restlessness. Involuntary Stool, from paralysis of the anus. Constipation, clay-coloured Stool and Anus.s. Nausea and sweating before and after loose Stool. Pains in the rectum. Violent pain in rectum, with chill and fever, inflammation, tenesmus, bloody discharges (dysentery). Pressure and pricking in the anus. Bleeding piles, with heat and sharp stitches, blood bright. Diarrhoea, with flux of urine and colic. Sensation as of a warm fluid escaping from anus.

Urinary organs

Suppression of urine, with pressure in the bladder and pains in the loins. A frequent desire to discharge urine, accompanied by anxiety and pain. Flow of urine, with sweat, diarrhoea, and colic. Involuntary emission of urine, from relaxation of the neck of the bladder. Enuresis, with thirst. Urine scanty, burning deep red, and with a sediment of a brick colour (arising from taking cold, especially in children), suppression of, from cold. Bloody sediment in the urine. Scanty, red, hot urine, without sediment. Heat and tenesmus in the neck of the bladder.

Male Sexual Organs.

Venereal inclination alternately increased and diminished. Amorous paroxysms. Smarting in the parts. Contusion-like pains in the testicles. Testicles feel swollen, hard, as if surcharged with semen. Orchitis. Gonorrhoea, first stage. Itching in the prepuce. Shootings and pinchings in the glans when making water.

Female Sexual organs.

Menses too abundant and too protracted. Suppressed menstruation from fright, from cold feet. After-pains too painful and too protracted. Milk fever (with delirium). Puerperal peritonitis. Maniacal fury on the appearance of the menses. Stitching pains move to right of fundus uteri, sharp shooting pains, abdomen exceedingly sensitive. Ovaritis from suddenly checked menstrual flow. Labour-like pressing in womb (dysmenorrheal). Uterine haemorrhage, active, much excitability, giddy, cannot sit up, fear of death. Vagina dry, hot sensitive. Leucorrhoea, copious, tenacious, yellow. Increase of milk in breasts.

Respiratory organs

Sensation of numbness in the trachea. Attacks of paralysis in the epiglottis, with a tendency to choking. Pain in the larynx. Larynx sensitive to touch and to the inspired air, as if denuded. Laryngeal complaints after straining the voice. A croaking voice. A constant desire to cough, produced by an irritation or a tickling in the larynx. Inflammation of larynx and bronchia. Cough from having drunk or smoked. Short and dry cough, principally at night. A convulsive cough, hoarse or croaking, sometimes with danger of suffocation, and constriction of the larynx. Angina membranacea, with dry cough and quick breathing. Croup. Expectoration of thick and whitish matter, or of bloody mucus, or spitting of blood while coughing. Shootings and pains in the chest on coughing. Cough, with stitches in the chest or small of the back. Cough: worse after eating or drinking, when lying, evening, night, more after 12, during sleep, from tobacco smoke, from vexation, especially fright, when over-heated, from dry, cold winds, from walking in open air, assuming upright position, from deep inspiration, from speaking.

Chest

Short breathing, chiefly during sleep, and on getting up. Breathing painful, anxious, and attended with groans, rapid and superficial, or full, noisy, and with the mouth open. Breathing slow during sleep. Breath hot. Breath fetid. Constriction and anxious oppression of the chest, with difficulty of breathing. Asthma of Millar. Attack of suffocation, with anxiety. Sensation of heaviness and of compression at the chest. Painful pricking in the chest, chiefly when breathing, coughing, and moving (even the arms). Stitches through the chest and side, especially when breathing and coughing. Prickings in the side, with a lachrymose and plaintive humor, soothed, in some degree, by lying on the back. Pleurisy and pneumonia, especially with great heat, much thirst, dry cough and great nervous excitability, only somewhat relieved when lying on the back. Itching in the chest. Pains as of a bruise in the sternum and in the sides. Sensation of anguish in the chest, which interrupts respiration.

Heart

Palpitation of the heart, with great anxiety, heat of body, chiefly in the face, and great weariness in the limbs.Shootings in the region of the heart when moving or going upstairs. Sensation of compression and blows in the region of the heart. Inflammation of the heart. Chronic diseases of the heart, with continuous pressure in the left side of the chest, oppressed breathing when moving fast and ascending steps, stitches in the region of the heart, congestions to the head, attacks of fainting and tingling in the fingers. Fainting with tingling. Pulse full, strong, hard, slow, feeble, threadlike with anxiety, quick, hard, small.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica