- Source: Derived from the Monkshood plant (Aconitum napellus ), a perennial herb in the Ranunculaceae family.
- Traditional Context: A cornerstone remedy in homeopathy for acute conditions with sudden onset, intense symptoms, and marked fear or anxiety .
- It is classically used for complaints triggered by cold, dry wind , such as high fevers, acute respiratory infections, or cardiovascular distress, often with restlessness and a sense of impending doom.
- Modern Context : Indicated for hyperacute inflammatory or autonomic responses with rapid onset, often following environmental or emotional stressors.
- It is relevant for early-stage infections,.
- Acute cardiovascular events, or panic attacks characterized by intense physiological and psychological symptoms.
- COMMENTS-Aconite is a tall, upright plant that has dark blue🌿 BlueMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. flowers, 4-5 feet tall.
- Aeon, grows in the damp and covered parts of almost every mountainous country in north or middle of Europe, especially in Switzerland, Germany and Sweden.
- It grows in high altitudes where there is a lot of wind, storms and activity.
- It is a very poisonous herb, vinegar in large doses is antidotal to the toxic effects.
- Aconite in potencies above the 4c is a perfectly safe medicine for any age.
- Before Hahnemann's time Aconite had a reputation as a sudorific and in cases of rheu matism, sciatica🩺 SciaticaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. and tumors, but it was not until Hahnemann proved it that its properties were really understood.
- Aconite was the remedy by means of which Hahnemann was able to meet most of the conditions, which in his day were treated by bloodletting.
- Dr. Hughes has remarked that the condi tion to which Aeon, is homeopathic is one of tension.
- Emotional and mental tension, as shown in fright or fear and its consequences, anxiety and fear of death, tension of the systemic vessels, as in the effects of a chill.
- Asiatic cholera🩺 CholeraClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. and hemorrhages.
- Muscular tension, as in tetanus🩺 TetanusClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
- Tension of involuntary muscles, as in heart spasms.
- Tension of the semi-involuntary muscular apparatus of respiration, as in asthma🩺 AsthmaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
- Hahnemann described it as a tempest, Kent, too.
- This is the idea of the remedy, it’s a storm that has a sudden onset and a sudden dissipation.
- Keynote sudden onset, a major trigger for this is shocking f right.
- Violent reactions to fright or weather conditions.
- Teste related a remarkable case of an Englishman who had been obliged to take a long sleigh journey in North Russia in midwinter.
- He suffered thereafter for two years from violent paroxysms of palpi tations and acute stitching pains in the heart region, threatening brain strokes.
- Aneurysm had been diagnosed by leading physicians in England and on the Continent.
- Teste localized the affection to neurosis or spasm of the pectoralis major muscle and prove d his diagnosis by promptly curing it with Aeon.
- Chill and fever.
- Fevers with restlessness and tossing about, often accompanied with anxiety that sometimes leads to fear of death.
- Aeon, can ward off serious results from chill, fright, injury or surgical op eration.
- It was the feverish restlessness of the Aeon, provings that led Hahnemann to infer its similarity to fever states.
- It is the presence of this restlessness, anxiety, fear and exalted sensibility that are its leading indications in cases of all kinds.
- High fevers, sudden surges of body temperature.
- Inflammatory fevers (Bell, is also inflammatory, Pyrog and Bapt are septic).
- Fevers with wakefulness, anxiety, red and flushed.
- “Clean” and functional fevers, no tissue changes, no mucus, no toxic symptoms.
- Can have thirst with the fever.
- The skin is dry and hot.
- The four keynotes are fear, fright, fast, and fevers.
- It's a remedy for a lot of fears (Ars.🌿 Ars.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.) and any acute problems.
- Fright followed by speechlessness or shaky trembling speech, shaking of the h ands and limbs, dilated pupils, and the patient may be frozen with fear and shaking.
- Panic with shaking and trembling.
- Frail, faint, and anxious.
- Sudden surges of adrena line through the body leading to shaking, trembling, fear, panic attacks with n umbness and tingling of fingers or down the arms, in the extremities.
- Attacks with feeling of anxiety, heart palpitations, fainting.
- Fear, not that they're going to die (Ars.), but that they're dying right now.
- Conditions after fright.
- Hypersensitivity af ter a near death situation.
- Fright leading to shock and panic.
- Fainting and heart attacks where the main feature is fear and apprehension.
- Dread of crossing streets.
- Fear of the dark, fear of ghosts.
- Good for agoraphobia, fear of going outside of the house.
- They have chronic fears of fatal disasters, fear that something will happen, that they can't go out of the house because they will get into an accident.
- The senses are heightened with sensitive ness to pain and a feeling of numbness in parts.
- Sensa tion as if bound tightly in the limbs and in other parts (Cact.🌿 Cact.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.).
- Plethora may be classed under increased blood tension.
- Active, bloody congestions of all kinds, especially those following a chill.
- Intolerance to music.
- Patients may imagine some part of bo dy is deformed, imagine they do all their thinking from the stomach and predict the hour of their death.
- They sometimes go so far as to predict the day and hour of death (clairvoyance).
- Extreme sensitiveness to light and sound and all sensations.
- Extreme s ensitivity to pain (Cham.🌿 Cham.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines., Coff.🌿 Coff.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.).
- Pains are intolerable, driving to desperation.
- Tearing, cutting, burning, sharp, stabbing pains, with restlessness, accompanied by numbness, tingling or formication.
- Cannot bear the pain, cannot bear to be touched, cannot bear to be covered.
- Burning pains (Phos.🌿 Phos.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.).
- Feel the blood rushing every where.
- The child or the person screams with pain causes fright, specifically from heart attack or any acute pain.
- Frozen from the pain and what that pain means.
- Bending double relieves the colicSevere fluctuating pain in the abdomenSevere, often fluctuating pain in the abdomen caused by gas, spasm, or obstruction in the intestines, common in infants. and dysmenorrhea🩺 DysmenorrheaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. pain (Coloc.).
- Motion ag gravates the pains in muscles, joints and stiffness.
- There is a great and sudden sinking of strength, fainting on attempting to get up, with anxiety, restlessness, numbness, tingling, formication.
- HemorrhageProfuse bleeding from a ruptured blood vesselAn escape of blood from a ruptured blood vessel, especially when profuse. and shock due to sudden hemorrhaging of bright blood, causing giddiness, faintness, panic (Aeon..
- Bell.🌿 Bell.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines., Phos.).
- Active hemorrhages in stout, full-blooded people.
- Passes almost pure blood in stool.
- In hemoptysisCoughing up blood from lungsThe spitting or coughing up of blood or blood-stained mucus originating from the respiratory tract. the blood comes up with great ease by hemming and coughing, bright red in large quantities from cold, dry winds.
- Bleeding with great fear, anxiety and palpitations.
- Toothaches are one-sided with red cheek on same side.
- Severe toothaches where the teeth are sensitive, painful and the person is in a panic.
- Inflammations of the eyes from cold, injury, foreign objects, dust, surgical operations, scrofulousProne to swollen glands or tuberculosisRelating to scrofula, a constitutional tendency to tuberculous swelling of the lymph nodes. inflammation with enlarged glands.
- Blindness.
- Hirsch of Prague recorded two such cases, one in a man of thirty who went to bed well, hav ing walked home in rough and stormy weather after spending the evening🌿 EveningMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. in a hot room.
- Aeon.
- 3c was given and the following night he perspired freely and in the morning his sight was restored.
- Hirsch himself suddenly lost his sight while bathing in hot weather.
- He took Aeon.
- 3c in water🌿 WaterMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. as he had given it to his patient.
- In two hours he began to perspire and after a six-hours' sleep awoke well.
- Every inspiration increases the cough.
- Tingling sensation in the chest after cough ing.
- Unquenchable thirst, everything tastes bitter🌿 BitterMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. except water (Chin.🌿 Chin.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.).
- In croupChildhood throat infection with barking coughInflammation of the larynx and trachea in children, associated with infection and causing a barking cough., the child grasps the throat with every coughing fit.
- Dry, hacking cough especially from being exposed to a dry, cold wind Worse exposed to hot weather or cold weather.
- Coldn ess, numbness and tingling characterize the paralyzes and neuroses.
- Facial paralysisLoss of voluntary muscle functionThe loss of the ability to move (and sometimes to feel anything) in part or most of the body. from exposure to cold, dry winds.
- Sunstroke.
- DiarrheaFrequent, loose, and watery stoolsA state of having three or more loose or liquid bowel movements per day. from heat and sun exposure.
- Headaches caused by exposure to the sun, also heat rashes.
- Headaches are generally better in open air, worse in warm room, toothache and cough worse in open air.
- Bet ter from uncovering, the bed is intolerable.
- Worse chill with fever.
- Sweat on affected or covered parts.
- After exposure to cold, croup, severe colds and respiratory problems, bron chitis, infants get pneumonia🩺 PneumoniaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., and it can go to facial paralysis.
- Worse cold, dry wind, sudden onset, numbness and tingling of the limbs all keynotes of Aconite.
- Chills with ailments.
- AsthmaChronic respiratory disease causing difficulty breathingA condition characterized by spasms in the bronchi of the lungs, causing difficulty in breathing, typically from an allergic reaction or hypersensitivity. from exposure to cold, dry weather that brings out panic, worse around midnight.
- Earaches from exposure to cold and wind.
- In general, for croup, heart attacks, acute bronchitisInflammation of the bronchial tubesInflammation of the mucous membrane in the bronchial tubes, typically causing bronchospasm and coughing. and colds, and tonsillitis🩺 TonsillitisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
- Sometimes strep throat.
- First aid for fright.
- Infantile pneumoniaLung infection with inflamed air sacsInflammatory condition of the lung affecting primarily the microscopic air sacs (alveoli), usually caused by infection. with sudden onset.
- Childhood diseases🌿 DiseasesMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. with fevers and restlessness, meningitis🩺 MeningitisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
- Retention of the urine, especially in newborn infants.
- Generally aggravated at night, particularly about midnight.
- Temperature-Cold stage most marked.
- Coldness and heat alternate.
- Evening chilliness soon after going to bed.
- Cold waves pass through him.
- Chills down back.
- Chill passes through him in waves.
- Chill or coldness alternating with heat.🌿 Heat.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.
- ChillyHypersensitive to cold temperaturesA constitutional state of feeling exceptionally cold, lacking vital heat, and needing warmth or heavy blankets. if uncovered or touched.
- Shivering ascends from feet to chest.
- Dry burning heat in eyelids, nose, mouth, throat, lungs and palms, must uncover.
- High fevers.
- Dry burning heat, red face.
- Fevers with mental anguish, restlessness.
- Thirst and restlessness.
- Colic, forces to bend double, yet no position relieves.
- Wind colic after taking cold.
- Hot, tense, tympanitic.
- Sensitive to touch.
- Abdominal symptoms better after warm soup.
- Burning in umbilical region.
- Hot distended.
- Incarcerated hernia with bilious vomiting.
- Burning and cutting pains in intestines as if paralyzed, inactive, worse about transverse colon.
- Loins as if b ruised.
- Burning pain in umbilical region.
- Umbilical region hard, swollen.
- Excessive hunger and thirst, but eats slowly.
- Lively sensation of hunger, renewed soon after eating.
- No appetite, loathing of food, qualmishness.
- Aversion to tobacco.
- Better warm soup.
- Better wine.
- Anxiety better cold drinks.
- Desires beer, wine.
- Desires brandy, bitter drinks.
- Worse after iced cold drinks.
- Milk🌿 MilkMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. disagrees.
- Intense thirst for cold water.
- Thirst burning, unquenchable, during all stages of fever .
- Thirst for beer during fever.
- Thirsty during labor.
- Everything tastes bitter, except water
