Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Remedy
Chapter:
642.13.01
642.13.01 Aconitum lycoctonum
Source: Wadstories 1, Enna Stallinga.
Mind
Teacher for small children.
Nurse.
Panic, confusion.
General
Weather: chilly, one side, < uncovering; cold alternating heat, succeeded by sweat, < morning, shivering < stool.
Sweat: hands; face; < after cold, < after fever.
Desire: dainties, fruits, cabbage; tobacco; food, keen hunger, < heat; drinks, thirst, < night.
Sleep: long; drowsy.
Body
Vertigo with nausea.
Head: heavy, as from a great weight; headache, hammering, sharp, lancinating, compressing, in temples, across eyes, digging sensation in the brain; pain in the head; pressing on the brain; as if a nail were driven into the head, < moving it; pulsations in the head; shocks in the forehead; pain pressing, vertex, occiput; pulling pain in the scalp when contracting it; pain like rheumatism in scalp, < touch.
Eyes: heat; pain lancinating, sharp, inwards, outward; eyelids itching, pain boring, pressing, difficult raising; fixed look; canthus, dry, smarting; bluish circle around the eyes.
Ears: rough; beatings, < open air; purulent discharge; redness behind the ears.
Nose: itching; sensitive; pulling sensation, lancinations; compression at the root of the nose; skin cracked; discharge muco-purulent; coryza, dry, one nostril.
Face: pale, shining face; light-brown colour; pain, bones; tension muscles; numb jaw, like paralysis, > compressing it, > wine; pain of excoriation round mouth; hard pimples, tuberculous, face and lips.
Mouth: taste clayey, astringent, blood, < coughing; pain burning, pressing, tearing, upper teeth, < opening mouth; gums bluish, ulcerated gums.
Throat: tonsillitis; red tonsils; inflammation of cervical glands.
Lungs: difficult respiration; cough, < chill; watery expectoration.
Chest: swelling of the mammary glands; swelling of the axillary glands.
Stomach: weight; belching, risings acid, rancid, like rotten eggs, painful; hiccough; vomit, mucus, yellowish, < getting out of bed, < drinking, < after eating, with copious urination, with shivering, with vertigo.
Abdomen: pain bruised, tearing, compressing, lancinating, right hypochondrium, hepatic region, < respiring, < drinking, < milk; anxiety in the abdomen; beatings; abundant flatulence; colic, like that caused by haemorrhoids.
Rectum: constipation; anus itching, pain contracting, cramping, tearing, cracking, < stool; diarrhoea with violent cutting pain, < pork; whitish stools; ineffectual straining, < night.
Urinary: urging, ineffectual; urine copious, scanty, colourless, hot, turbid urine, white sediment.
Female: itching at vulva; menses foetid, acrid; leucorrhoea, viscid.
Back: shivering; neck seems to grow larger; swelling of the neck on one side only; pain pressing, nape of the neck; jerking in the region of the kidneys.
Limbs: numb, < sleep, < lying on it; swelling of the axillary glands; pain pressing, lancinating, shoulder-joints; tearing pain in the elbow-joint; stiffness in the joints of the elbow and wrist; hands feel full; hamstrings feel shortened, < stretching; jerking in legs; sharp pain at instep, < standing; drawing pain, with lassitude, < night, < getting up in the morning.
Skin: eruption, hot, red, painful spots on legs and toes; blotches, like scarlatina, forearm and hands; itching ankles, < evening; goose bumps, horripilation.