Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Qjure
Type:
Picture
Chapter:
3-642.13.01
Aconitum napellus
Introduction
Ailments from acute shock and fear they might die. They see the world as a dangerous place and when something dangerous happens their idea is confirmed and they get into a panic with hyperventilation and palpitations. He is sure he will die and even predicts the time of death.
Mind
Fright, terror, agonising fear, beside himself, frantic < pain, screams, moans, gnaw the fist, bites the nails, wants to die.
Ailments from fright, emotional and physical mental tension, weeping.
Delirium.
Sensitive; music saddens.
Ailments from: anger, vexation, fright, grief, violence, anticipation, bad news, business, contrariety, disappointment, excitement, fear, injuries, hurry, indignation, injuries, accidents, joy, disappointed love, mortification, scorn, sexual abuse, rape, shock.
Fear: accident, injury, death, apoplexy, crossing a street, public places, train, ghost, faint, falling, imaginary, heart disease, insanity, killing, misfortune, music, narrow places, outdoors, darkness, suffocation, tunnels, busy streets, raids of air, people, subways, vertigo, future, health.
Anxiety: < walking, < open air, < chill, < fever, > drinking cold, < company, >< motion, < pain, < deep inspiration, << rash, < pressure chest, < mental exertion, < menses, < meditation, < vexation, < urination, < stool, < heart problems, < toothache, < waking, < walking, < rest, < noise.
Restless, fright.
Delusion: control over sense is lost.
Delusion: brain too small for skull; being doomed.
Dreams: anxious, fright, nightmares; fear, fright, anxiety.
Dreams: vivid, confused, anger, angry, business, children, clairvoyant, falling, from high places, fantastic, fasting, prophetic, historical, far from home, impressive, lewd, lascivious, voluptuous, meditation, monomania, shameful, sleeping in air, strange, vexatious, visionary.
Colour preference: 2C, 20-22C.
General
Sensation: burning in internal parts; tingling, cold; numb.
Weather: << dry, cold weather, draught of cold air; chills, in waves, alternates with heat.
Sweat: on uncovered parts; wants covers; drenching.
Time: sudden.
Desire: acids, beer; milk; thirsty, burning.
Food: < after ices.
Sleep: sleepless and nervous.
Body
Infection: influenza, acute.
Fever: high.
Vertigo: faintness; weakness.
Nervous: convulsions; trembling.
Head: headache, pain throbbing, heavy, aching, burning, congested, hot band, boiling heat in brain; violent squeezing bursting, forehead, eyes; crackling, throbbing, left forehead.
Eyes: dry, burning heat; shooting in eyeballs; glitter; stare; bleared; foreign bodies in.
Nose: dry, burning heat; numb nose; nosebleed; runs hot water; coryza.
Face: red, hot, red cheeks, ghastly, anxious look; alternately red pale, < rising; one cheek red and hot, other pale and cold.
Mouth: dry, burning heat; toothache, throbbing; taste bitter, water has a bad taste.
Throat: larynx grasps larynx; < night, < drinking; laryngitis; croup with fever; choking, < swallowing.
Lungs: dry, burning heat; respiration short, anxious, < sleep; cough dry, hoarse, painful, or short, barking, ringing, or whistling, < every inspiration; wheezing, >< inspiration; dyspnoea; pneumonia; pleurisy.
Heart: feels swollen; carditis; < sitting erect; palpitation, anxious; pain down left arm; pulse fast, bounding, shaking, forcible, tumultuous, wiry, very irritable; arterial tension
Chest: violent rushes of blood; stitches, oppression left chest.
Stomach: nausea; projectile vomiting, bilious, bloody.
Rectum: stools of pure blood; slimy, grass green, white, < hot days and cold nights; dysentery; itching, sticking at anus.
Urinary: urine retained, scanty, red, bloody; urination painful, agonising; cystitis; urethral chill; orchitis.
Female: menses suddenly suppressed; < menopause, parturition, uterus prolapse.
Back: back, sacrum feel bruised.
Limbs: red finger-tips; powerless legs; red, shining swelling; dry, burning heat, palms, > uncovering.
Skin: dry; hot; as if ice water on it; miliary eruptions; formication.