🌿 Traditional Herbal Medicine Profile
This page outlines the crude botanical applications, traditional herbal infusions, and active properties of Aconitum Ferox. Herbal preparations act biochemically on body tissues.
▲GENERAL
Aconitum ferox is the most poisonous species known, containing the greatest proportion of
Aconitine from the Himalayan Mountains.
Rather more violent in its actions than Aeon, napellus.
Acon-f was proved by Dworzack, who also proved Aconitine.
The Ferox devel-.
oped burning pains in greater
intensity than the alkaloid, more intense mental activity followed by greater depression.
It is more diuretic and
less anti-pyretic (fever).
In Aconitum ferox, there was marked suf fering.
Anxiety and fear of suffocation from paralysisLoss of voluntary muscle functionThe loss of the ability to move (and sometimes to feel anything) in part or most of the body. of respiratory
muscles, obliged to breathe half -sitting up with head rest ing on palms of hands.
Rapid respiration.
Cheyne -
Stokes breathing.
Cardia dyspneaDifficulty or shortness of breathLaborious or painful breathing, often associated with respiratory or cardiac conditions., neuralgiaSharp nerve pain along a nerve pathIntense, shooting, or burning pain that radiates along the course of one or more nerves. and acute goutArthritis with severe joint pain and swellingA disease in which defective metabolism of uric acid causes arthritis, especially in the smaller joints of the feet..
Dyspnea.
Pain in occiput and neck
▲HERBAL PROPERTIES & MODALITIES
Better cold drinks.
Better sitting up.
Better warm food.
Worse coffee
▲HERBAL INTERACTIONS & SAFETY
📊 Comparative Herbal Actions:
Compare: ( 1 ) Curare and Phos. have similar lung paralysis. (2) Achyranthes - Cheyne-Stokes
breathing. (3) Eranthis hym- nalis, Winter Aconite acts on solar plexus and works upwards causing dyspnea.
▲MIND
Very active mind, sequence of ideas rapid, talked c onstantly, remembered easily.
Incapable of any
mental work, even the simplest addition, comprehension and understanding became confused.
▲MOUTH
Tongue almost insensible, feels like a piece of raw leather in month.
Violent burning in mouth (in two minutes), renewed by eating, better by drinking cold water
▲THROAT
Violent burning in pharynx.
COMMENTS - The provingTesting a remedy on healthy volunteersThe systematic method of administering a substance to healthy subjects to observe and record the symptoms it produces. caused a for mication that spread over whole body, least noticea ble on parts that
had been cold.
Worse or excited by, change of temperature or mo tion.
It caused a painful unrest so that he
could not possibly lie quietly more than a few minutes.
Getting up set up all the train of symptoms, which were better immediately on lying down.
Benumbed sensation,
as if he had on gloves, on pinching cheeks no pain felt, seemed to walk on woolen carpets
▲CHEST
Dyspnea increased to such a degree that he was obliged to breathe half -sitting up with head resting
on palms of hands, constantly feared suffocation from respiratory paralysis
▲ABDOMEN
Pressure in stomach with pain.
Wa rmth in stomach.
Violentdrawingpain in region of stomach and
sacral region, soon spreading over the abdomen, worse by pressure on epigastrium.
On pressing in stomach,
an internal, dull pressing pain.
Temperature - Icy coldness of body, objec tive and subje ctive, no amount of wraps and external warmth
relieved.
Desire to get warm drove him to get out of bed and sit near stove.
Tottered to stove, warmth was
pleasant, but vertigoSensation of dizziness or spinningA feeling of movement or spinning of oneself or the surroundings when there is no actual movement., trembling, op pression and nausea ensued and compelled him to return to bed.
Fie rce
heat on forehead, cheek and hands with sensation as if numerous glowing hot wires were stuck into him, better
by perspiration.
Rumbling in bowels, constant gurgling.
Kidneys - Frequent and very copious evacuations of urine
▲EXTREMITIES, LIMBS
Gait tottering, remarkable weakness in lower limbs, especially right
▲SLEEP
Sleeplessness.
On waking, violent burning in mouth and throat, warmth in stomach, dull sensation in
head
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This clinical profile is compiled from: Andrew Chevallier, FNIMH — Herbal Remedies (Eyewitness Companions), and Dr. David Keifer, MD — Herbal Remedies Reference Guide. Synced with traditional botanical use and pharmacological outlines.
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