In the abdomen it is indicated in the early stage of all inflammations, peritonitis, hepatitis, etc.,, with the usual Aconite symptoms of fever, sharp pains and restlessness. If these conditions arise from exposure to cold, so much the more reason for thinking of this remedy.
In the rectum, remember it for bleeding piles (85), with heat, sharp sticking pains and bright red blood. A fruitful cause of an acute attack of haemorrhoids is the sitting on could stones, and from such an origin Aconite would be of value in the beginning. We also find diarrhoea from chill of from fright (57), with pain and green (59)., watery stools.
In fever, the urine is dark, hot and scanty, but with no evidence of nephritis. While it is a undoubtedly of value in the stage of hyperaemia and especially in an acute exacerbation of some chronic inflammation, particularly if due to cold, the changes are that we would seldom be called to the case in time to make use of the remedy.
In an acute prostitutes from cold, however, when supervening upon a chronic condition, we would find more occasion, for its use, as the symptoms would be so distressing that the physician would be sent for at once.
It is of value in acute orchitis and in retention of urine in infants (200) or children, especially from cold.
In the female sexual organs Aconite has been found of great value in ovaritis from cold, in suppressed (134) or painful menstruation from sudden chill or fright and in metrorrhagia, the blood bright red and hot (136) and associated with the mental anxiety and restless of th remedy.
The cough of Aconite is hard and croup or dry and hacking, with expectoration of blood or blood-streaked mucus (69), and it is of great value in the first stage of membranous croup (52), with high fever, great anxiety and restlessness, and in spasmodic or false croup (53) it is of constant use.
In the hyperaemia sage of pneumonia (150), the stage of invasion, prior to exudation, it will be found invaluable when associated with the symptoms that have been mentioned so often the chill and chilliness alternating with fever, thirst, hot and dry skin, great restless and mental anxiety. After it has relieved the restlessness and anxiety and the patient has more or less of a moist skin, stop the remedy, for the time for Aconite has passed and some other drug must be selected, no matter how high the fever may remain.
In haemoptysis (27) of bright red blood, the chief symptom would be the great mental anxiety shown by the patient.
Aconite in small doses, physiological, accelerates the heart’s action and later causes tumultuous beating. From larger doses we have paralysis. On account of its effect on the heart, I fear to use Aconite in the tincture. It is a very valuable and frequently indicated remedy in acute inflammations requiring this remedy, the patient is often obliged to lie on the back with the head raised. The febrile pulse is full, hard and rapid.
Aconite is frequently overlooked in neuralgia of the extremities, especially the upper, with numbness of the limb as if the blood did not circulate freely, and particularly if the neuralgia is the result of cold or a sudden check of perspiration. Acute muscular rheumatism sometimes calls for it, but it is seldom indicated in inflammations of the joints. It has formication (82) as well as a tingling, asleep sensation in the limbs (71).
Do not forget Aconite for sleeplessness (169), with or without fever, with great restlessness and mental anxiety; also, for these who are nervous and make up their mind before retiring that they will be unable to get to sleep.
Many remedies follow well after Aconite or help to complete the cure that it has started; a few are: Arnica, Belladonna, Bryonia, Cantharis, Ferrum Phosphorus, Iodium, Spongia
I use Aconite 6th.
