ACONITUM NAPELLUS

Dizziness prevails throughout all this symptom picture. "Vertigo, turning and whirling". A
woman out shopping runs up suddenly against a dog and becomes violently dizzy, she cannot
even get to her carriage.

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It was one of the greatest remedies for the chronic diarrhea in the soldiers of American Civil
War. It cured a fair percentage of those sick from sleeping on damp ground, eating all sorts of
food until the stomach and bowels were prostrated, from long marches, from going into the
South from the cold North, from becoming overheated. --- SILICEA.

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Headache commencing in the back of the head in the morning or towards noon going to the
forehead, worse towards night, from noise; better from heat; supraorbital neuralgias; better from
pressure and heat and attended with profuse head-sweat. Cold, clammy, offensive sweat on the
forehead. When this patient exerts himself he sweats on the face, the lower part of the body is
dry or nearly so. It requires great exertion to produce general sweat. A striking feature is the
sweat about the upper parts of the body and the head. --- SILICEA.

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She imagines the company of the opposite sex a dangerous thing to cultivate, and that it
is dangerous to do certain things well established in society as good for the human race.
These imaginations belong to eating as well as thinking. They imagine that milk is not
good to drink, so they will not take it. They imagine that certain articles of diet are not
good for the human race. – PULSATILLA.

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Aversion to marriage is a strong symptom. A man takes it into his head that it is an evil
thing to have sexual intercourse with his wife and abstains from it. – PULSATILLA.
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Nose-bleed during the menstrual period; nose-bleed before the menstrual period; nose-
bleed with suppressed menses; bleeding dark, thick, clotted, almost black, venous blood.

-PULSATILLA.

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This medicine has a fixed idea that a devil is sitting on one shoulder talking into his ear,
while an angel sits on the other shoulder talking into the other ear, and he halts between
the two and says nothing. – ANACARDIUM (under Sabadilla).

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Everywhere there is soreness to touch and soreness from jarring. The bones are sore from
walking. Arnica relieves only a day or two; but in this remedy it is deep-seated and
prolonged, and we would not think of Arnica or Baptisia, which would only give relief
for a day or so. --- MANGANUM.

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It is a wonderful remedy for bedridden women who love to keep still, and it is said of
them that they love to lie in bed. -- MANGANUM.

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It is common for pains and aches to be relieved by putting the feet up on a chair; by
putting them up in bed. But the patient with the rheumatism, with the ulceration of the
legs and the other strange sufferings of the legs, will lie down and permit his legs to hang
over the bed up as far as the knee. – CONIUM MAC.

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When we come to the study of this remedy, we find it is a most persistent remedy; its complaints
develop slowly, i.e., slowly for acute conditions.
– BRYONIA.

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It is often indicated in injuries of joints where Arnica would be a failure. – BRYONIA.

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If in a chronic state a patient says, "Doctor, if I ever have a dispute with a man over
anything I come down with nervous excitement, sleeplessness, headaches; you do not
have to work long upon that case, because more than likely this medicine will be suitable.

– STAPHYSAGRIA.

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“Cancerous development in old cicatrices is a strong feature of this remedy” –

GRAPHITES.

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Everything eaten seems to ferment and turn to gas; rumbling and movements felt in the
abdomen; there is great burning and griping; cramping in the abdomen soon after eating;
the clothing distresses the abdomen. – GRAPHITES.

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Suspicion runs through acute sickness; it runs through the mania in insanity. Suspicion
that his wife is going to poison him; that his wife is untrue to him. Suspicious of
everybody. "Refuses to take medicine because it is poisoned." "Imagines, that he is
pursued, that the people have all turned against him, that his friends are no longer his
friends. – HYOSCYAMUS.

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Perhaps, there may be a queer kind of paper on the wall, and he lies and looks at it, and if
he can possibly turn the figures into rows he will keep busy at that day and night, and lie
wants a light there so he can put them into rows, and he goes to sleep and dreams about
it, and wakes up and goes at it again; it is the same idea. – HYOSCYAMUS.

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One patient had a string of bedbugs going up a wall, and he had, them tied with a string,
and was irritated because he could not make the last one keep up. – HYOSCYAMUS.

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Pains are increased by noise. Sensitiveness of hearing is so great that sounds are painful.
Pains in the face, toothache, headache; pains in the lower limbs; everywhere aggravated
by noise. – Coffea.
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The Coffea patient is sensitive to wine. A small amount of wine intensifies the

nervousness, produces sleeplessness, flushed face, feverishness, great excitement. Not
necessarily intoxication, but nervous excitement. – Coffea.
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Those nervous, excitable children that talk to the nurse and the mother very rapidly with
brilliant eyes, red face, cannot go to sleep. It will quiet the patient and actually favor the
growth of the tooth in a painless manner. – Coffea.
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Head feels small, and as if filled with fluid. – Coffea.

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A striking feature running through the remedy is its tendency to move from one joint to
another, from one side to another, from below upwards, or from above downwards.
Rheumatic conditions with swelling, or without swelling; first here, next there, changing
about from place to place. – Colchicum.
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Pains are often due to a very singular cause, namely, anger with indignation. Hence
persons who are haughty and easily offended or chagrined have complaints of this
medicine. Anger will be followed by violent neuralgia in the head, eyes, down the spine
and in the intestines. – Colocynth.
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The pains of this remedy appear, as a rule, in the larger nerves. – Colocynth.
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A woman who must watch her unfaithful husband night and day to keep him away from
other women gradually assumes a sensitive irritable state of mind and is upset by the least
provocation. This is the state of the prover of this medicine. – Colocynth.
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Colic brought on from drinking while overheated; from eating indigestible things, from
high living; colic from eating potatoes. – Colocynth.
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The pains in the lower part of the abdomen are relieved by drawing up the limbs and
pressing with the fists. In the violent ovarian neuralgias of this medicine, the woman will
flex the limb of the painful side hard against the abdomen and hold it there. – Colocynth.
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A great many of the complaints are painless. The ulcers and the paralytic conditions are
painless. Great physical and mental debility; great prostration of the muscular system;
exhaustion, tremulous weakness. – Conium mac.
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Insanity of a periodical type. Imbecility, though, is far more frequent than insanity. When
you come to examine the mental states, you will see symptoms that will make you think
the patient is delirious, but that is not quite it. It is a slow-forming weakness of mind; not
that rapid, active state, such as accompanies a fever; it is a delirium without a fever, so to
speak, which is not constant. Forms of insanity that are passive. He thinks slowly, and he
continues in this stage for weeks and months, if he recovers at all. – Conium mac.
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"He is averse to being near people and to talking of those passing him; is inclined to seize
hold of and abuse them." – Conium mac.
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“Sad and gloomy. Great unhappiness of mind, recurring every fourteen days," showing a
two weeks periodicity. The Conium patient will sit and mope in the corner in a state of
sadness and depression, giving no reason only that he is so sad. – Conium mac.
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Inability to follow moving objects with sufficient rapidity and a headache comes on.
"Objects look red, rainbow colored, striped; confused spots; double vision; weakness of
sight. Short sighted; cannot read long without letters running together." – Conium mac.
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Aversion to light without inflammation of the eyes." The pupil will not accommodate
itself to the changes between strong light and dim light, and he suffers from it. Severe
photophobia and lachrymation. Photophobia without congestion of any tissue without or
within the globe of the eye. –Conium mac.
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Paresis extending to paralysis of the oesophagus; difficulty in swallowing; food goes

down part way and stops. As food is about to pass the cardiac orifice it stops and enters
with a great effort. – Conium mac.
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Pressure in oesophagus as if a round body were ascending from stomach. That is a

nervous affection found in nervous women and bas been called globus hystericus. When
a woman feels as if she wanted to cry, and she swallows and chokes, she will have a
similar lump in the throat. – Conium mac.
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Soreness in the abdomen in the early stages of gestation, motions of the child are painful. 
– Conium mac.
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After injuries, especially in the lumbar region, pains and filling up of the veins of the
lower limbs. Rheumatic pains; paralysis of the lower limbs; ulceration. And the
sufferings and conditions are better by letting the limbs hang down. – Conium mac.
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It is suitable in those girls who have always had their own way, have never been crossed,
and when they grow older, and reach puberty, and have got to submit to some sort of
discipline or never become women, they have mad fits, have cramps. – Cuprum met.
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Aversion to motion, yet motion ameliorates her pain and uneasiness. Aversion to the
open air, yet open air ameliorates some symptoms especially the coryza and cough.
The marked dullness of the senses and special senses is a striking part of this picture.
– Cyclamen.
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Aversion to bread and butter, and fatty things; but desires inedible things. Disgust for
meat; craves sardines. Satiety after the first mouthful (Lyc.) and then he loathes food.
– Cyclamen.
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Menses too soon, or too late; irregular, or suppressed; copious, prolonged, or scanty.

When profuse, the mental symptoms are better. – Cyclamen.
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Where there is a constant teasing to pass urines. In many instances where the catheter has
been used for months or years because he is unable to pass urine in a natural way, and
where there is a residuary urine in old bachelors and old men, this is a good remedy. –
Digitalis.
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"Loss of appetite and violent thirst." Most doctors give Sulphur when the patient drinks
much and eats little. – Digitalis.
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Lancinating pains in various parts of the body, especially in the head, and must support
the head with the hands. Must support the chest when coughing. Must press upon the
abdomen. Pressive, congestive headaches. – Drosera.
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Difficulty in swallowing solid foods. Constriction of the throat and of the larynx and
constriction of the oesophagus preventing swallowing. – Drosera.
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Colic after sour food. – Drosera.

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It is a medicine wonderfully useful in diarrhoea, at the close of the summer, hot days and
cold nights, with changeable stool; diarrhoea of infants. This gets better and worse; this
gets better under ordinary remedies; it will often get better from Pulsatilla, because
Pulsatilla symptoms seem to predominate, and sometimes it is relieved by Arnica; but
every time the child takes cold, it comes back again, and soon the physician will realize
that he has not struck the remedy belonging to all the symptoms. – Dulcamara.
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It is too warm to take the child out in the middle of the day, and so he is taken out in his
carriage in the evening; he has been overheated in the house during the day, and then
catches this draft in the evening. – Dulcamara.
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Suppose we look at our ice-cream men and our ice handlers and cold storage men; in a
cold room they are handling ice; the summer weather is hot, they must go out and take
some of the heat, and then they go back into their cold rooms and handle the ice. I have
seen these things and have had occasion to follow them out. These men are subject at
times to bowel troubles, and other catarrhal affections, but generally to diarrheic
affections. – Dulcamara.
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