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Therapeutic Uses:
Main sphere of action is the nervous and vascular systems, be they acute
or chronic. Generally for the immediate conditions and early stages of
illnesses that come on rapidly, or sudden conditions of anxiety, fear,
or apprehension. Aconite should be taken immediately in acute disease,
after exposure to very cold winds while warming, or from a frightful experience.
Acute and Sudden Illness:
Early Stages when the patient is hot, thirsty, shivery, and can have high
fever, pounding pulse, with anxiety and impatience; symptoms come on after
exposure to sudden cold, dry, frosty, windy weather; head colds, red sore
throat, earache, bronchitis, influenza or any infectious diseases including
Chicken Pox, German Measles (Rubella), Measles, Scarlet fever, Smallpox
(Variola); aggravated in a stuffy room.
- Bell's Palsy- brought on by exposure to cold, dry winds, with
paralysis of one side of the face.
- Dengue Fever- initial onset with fever and pains in joints and
muscles.
- Gout- at the start of an acute attack with very painful joint,
red swollen, shiny.
- Guillain Barre Syndrome- sudden onset after a viral infection.
- Malaria- in a recent case to relieve symptoms of chills, fever,
sweating, and shivering fits.
- Meningitis- with fever, nausea and vomiting accompanied by restlessness,
fear, and much thirst.
- Vaccination- a sudden illness after a vaccination usually with
fever.
Anxiety/Fear/Phobias:
That come on suddenly from the shock and fright during an accident,
robbery, mugging, earthquake. The fear of suffocation and sudden death,
of heart attacks and stroke, fear that the heart will stop beating or explode.
- Anxiety- that comes on suddenly from the shock and fright during
an accident, robbery, mugging, earthquake; feeling "beside oneself"
with anxiety; anxiety can be with restlessness, palpitations, anxious respiration,
vomiting, head congestion, headache, moaning, discouraged, depression or
sadness, and many ailments from anxiety; from pressure on the chest; when
in company, in a crowd, during a chill, from pain, during urination, after
vexation, during pregnancy, and also in children and infants; anxiety is
relieved by a cold drink like water, and movement.
- Medical anxiety- great fear and anxiety on going to the dentist,
doctor, or medical tests, MRI, CAT scan, and surgery; during dental pain.
Fears of suffocation and sudden death, of heart attacks and stroke,
fear that the heart will stop beating or explode; fears of people, of crowds,
of ghosts, of fainting, of vertigo, of the dark (sleep with the lights
on), of traveling in a car and airplane, of imaginary things, during menses,
during labor and pregnancy.
- Fears- of people, of crowds, of ghosts, of fainting, of vertigo,
of the dark (sleep with the lights on), of traveling in a car and airplane,
of imaginary things, during menses, during labor and pregnancy.
- Chronic phobias- with fear and anxiety that have developed after
the trauma of violent events in which they experienced a fear of imminent
death. As a result of having been threatened with a gun during robbery,
or earthquakes, accidents, trapped in elevator or dark tunnel. The parent
of child in danger or sudden agonizing fear of death coming to a loved
one or self. Foreboding and fear of subconscious nature (surfacing 15 minutes
after falling asleep and jumps from bed in a panic); with restlessness,
trembling, exhaustion and palpitations with rapid, hard pulse.
- Agoraphobia- with fear and anxiety in public places, when driving
on highways, in open spaces and crowds, and of leaving the house.
- Claustrophobia- with anxiety and fear of suffocation, in elevators,
tunnels, the subway, underground, MRI test, in public assembly halls, theaters,
and likes to sit in back of the theater.
- Shell Shock- that develops from a shattering experience and/or
shock, which may have terrified them with or without their knowledge at
the time and become a chronic and deep layer. To remove the remaining shock.
- Free floating anxiety- with sudden symptoms that come out of
"nowhere". Anxiety from an injury, accidents or surgery, animal
bites, and illness. Anxiety can cause fever and diarrhea.
Asthma:
Comes on suddenly after exposure to cold dry weather, cold winds, from
catching cold, after a cold, or with anxiety after emotions, during sleep,
and after midnight. Asthma with bronchial symptoms and sensation of breathlessness.
After suppression of an acute rash. Asthma in children and adults.
Eye and Vision Problems:
Acute disorders from cold or sudden inflammation. Eyes are inflamed, with
red swollen lids; profuse tearing worse from light. Eyeball injury; a black
eye; irritation from something foreign in the eye. Itchy from acute irritation.
Acute conjunctivitis. Acute tearing or dryness. .
Emergencies and First Aid:
Until medical help arrives to prevent death caused by freezing,
hypothermia, asphyxia, asphyxia in a new born baby, carbon monoxide
poisoning.
- Faintness- hysterical; in a close room; from pain; on excitement.
with numbness and tingling; with red face; while sitting upright; while
urinating in standing position, after urinating; during menopause.
- Convulsions- after taking drugs.
Fever:
High fevers with intense, dry, burning heat that is internal, external
and ascending, and alternating with coldness and chills, succession of
chills followed by heat with sweat, waves of chills along the spine, with
thirst. Continual, relapsing and intermittent in recent cases; With desire
to uncover. Sweating profuse. One cheek is red and hot, the other pale
and cold. Catheter Fever with sharp elevation of body temperature
following the introduction of a catheter into the urethra for urinary disorders.
Also high fever with urinary infections. Fever symptoms are worse in the
evening, at night, and in bed, and better from sweating
Headache:
Violent, throbbing, and tormenting with vertigo and nausea. Throbbing pain
especially temples, burning pain, boiling sensation. Pain comes on suddenly;
like a tight band is around head, front of head can feel nailed up, or
pushed through forehead; worse in cold draft.
Herpes Virus:
Shingles- The skin tends to be dry, hot and burning with tingling
and sticking pain; painful inflammation along the nerves and inflamed vesicles
and ulcers; and a measles-like rash.
Mononucleosis- at the sudden onset fever with the infection.
Injury, Accident, Shock
and Trauma:
In any circumstance when there is an initial traumatic and violent
shock to the system, such as from a vehicle crash.
- Shock- after an injury, accidents or surgery; from animal bites.
- Hyperventilation- from shock, anxiety, injury, acute illness.
- Birth Trauma- newborns suffering urine retention; jaundice in
newborns.
Joint, Muscle and Nerve Problems:
Pain- shoots down limbs; in back is worse from exposure to cold; in hip
on moving, better walking in open air; hot stitching pain in toes; shooting
pain in finger joints; in legs as if tricking drops of water.
- Sciatica- with anguish and restlessness, congestive symptoms
and red face; symptoms are worse: morning, ascending, and better rubbing.
- Numbness- loss of sensation in lumbar and lower limbs; in legs
after sitting; in toes while walking; in gouty legs; with tingling in limbs
and heavy feeling in joints; formication in fingers while writing; with
tingling, one sided; of face, extremities.
- Bandaged sensation- and constriction; in thigh especially while
walking; in ankle.
Sleep Problems:
Insomnia- with restless tossing and startled waking from anxious
dreams and nightmares caused by fear, fright, and anxiety. Spasmatic symptoms
during sleep. Sleeplessness from anger and vexation; and in the elderly.
Waking from a cough.
Travel and Motion Problems:
- Anxiety- from fear of disaster, accident and death. Claustrophobia
on airplanes.
- Altitude sickness- with hyperventilation and panic.
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