ACONITUM



(Touch), Pain in lowest rib, etc.

(Urinating), Sensation of splashing in bladder; stinging in fossa navicularis; fainting kind of feel; burning in urethra; pains in glans penis; shootings in glans penis.

(Walking), Vertigo; dizzy confusion of head, etc.; the throat symptoms; nausea; pressive pain in pit of stomach; shooting in spleen; pain bladder; single momentary shock in urethra; palpitation, etc.; pain in loins, etc.; pressure in elbows, knees, hips; painful pressure in hip-joint; drawing pain in head of left femur, etc.; stiffness and heaviness of limbs; great fatigue, etc.; pain in patella; acute, pressing pain in left patella, etc.; sleeping of toes of right foot.

(When not urinating), Burning in neck of bladder.

(Warmth of room), Vertigo and stupefaction; forepart of head feels as if nailed up; headache, etc.; dry cough; anxiety in pit of stomach; legs very cold.

(Writing), Paralytic feeling in right forearm.

Ameliorations.

(Morning), Feverishness.

(Open air), Much relieved; headache, feverishness, etc.

(Bending body backwards), Pressive pain in chest.

(Cold Water), Headache, etc.

(Compression), Pain in ankle.

(Drinking cold water), anxiety.

(Eating), Burning, itching, and darting in both ears; nauseous taste; the throat symptoms; nausea.

(Heat), Creeping in scale.

(Deep Inspiration), Lancinating stitches in region of heart, etc.; oppression of chest.

(Lying quiet in dark room), Headache.

(Lying on back), Violent cough.

(Lying down), Shooting in lower half of left side of chest.

(Motion), Stiff and bruised feeling in left side of neck, etc.; paralytic pressure in small of back; paralytic feeling in right forearm.

(Moving affected part), Pain in right hand.

(Quiet), Palpitation, etc.

(Rubbing), Itching in prepuce; lancinating stitches in region of heart, etc.

(Sitting), Frontal headache.

(Stooping), Sensitiveness of eyeball; pressure in small of back.

(Warm soup), Abdominal symptoms.

(After vomiting), Hope aroused.

(Walking), Vertigo; nausea and sinking in pit of stomach; feverishness, etc.

(Washing cold water), Pain in top of head.

(Wine), Heaviness and oppression of chest.

(Wine and coffee), removed symptoms for a short time only.

Notes and Additions.

Symptom 1, bracket; Symptom 3, note, not found in the original (Hughes); Symptom 4, note, mental effect of vomiting after an antidote had been given; Symptom 92, read “it seemed to him that he could not think, understand, or know anything in his head as formerly, but that all these mental processes took place in the precordial region, and about the pit of the stomach; after two hours he was twice attacked with vertigo, and then the ordinary thinking power returned in the head,”; S. 147, note, ailments from which the patient suffered before taking Aconite; S. 242, for “right” read “left;” S. 316, for “balls” read “right ball,” S. 3349, before “water” insert “hot;” S. 479, note, local effect; S. 487, see note to S. 479, see note to S.479; S. 616, note, “not found,” S..795, note, the bladder was previously unhealthy; S. 813, bracket; S. 865, bracket; S. 866, bracket, note, this discharge coincided with the dispersions of the iliac swelling; S. 1077, read instead of “as long a duration;” “no long duration;” S.

1174, bracket; S. 1177, see S.1420; S. 1223, note, “with stupor,” S. 1225, note, local action, see note to S.147; S. 1235, bracket “With frequent cough,” see note to S.147; S. 1238, for “same” read “lame,” S. 1347, and in left metacarpal bones;” after S.

13365. add (as if one had taken co 1D after a profuse sweat; headache, roaring in the ears, coryza, bellyache, especially mornings), note, the actual effect of a chill; not as a chill; S.

1403, note, see S.1223 and note; S.1415 for “gnawing” read “growing;” S. 1433, note, ending in death; S. 1447, bracket, note, as this eruption appeared the pain ceased; S. 1448, bracket, see note to 1447; S. 140, bracket, see note to 1447; S. 1474, bracket, note, symptom of convalescence; S. 1481, for “awake” read “wakened;” S. 1591, add “with restless sleep;” S. 1635, note, reaction from 1550.

Additions.

Note omissions, owing to imperfect index; very kindly pointed out by Dr. Berridge, of London.

(Fragmentary proving by Robinson(>)) On getting into a warm bath the feeling of formication and tingling came on again in the fingers.

Lame, sprained feeling in the right metacarpus.

Several strange dreams; woke, and found himself laughing heartily.

Momentary drawing pain in the right forefinger, and at the same time pain in the left ankle as before.

Itching, nettle-rash like eruption on the back of both hands, the spots being very well marked.

Flying, growing-like pains all forenoon in metacarpal and finger joints of both hands.

Considerable rumbling of flatulence in bowels.

On going into open air felt much relieved, but on getting within doors again all the symptoms of feverishness became greatly aggravated.

Violent coryza and lachrymation.

Harsh, dry cough.

Trifling cough, but without expectoration.

Several sharp, flying stitches in the third and fourth right toes shortly after getting to bed.

Paralyzed, inactive feeling in the intestines.

The pain over the right eye and behind the mastoid process quite persistent.

Food distresses me after eating.

Lascivious dreams.

Aphonia lasted more than two weeks.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.