# Aconitum Lycoctonum

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Herbal Remedy
- **Miasm:** Tubercular Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Afternoon

## Keynote Indications
The symptoms of Aeon, lycoctonum, while resembling those of the other Aconites in some 
respects, sho w a marked absence of the cutaneous nerve disorders so prominent in their provings.  
Swelling of the cervical, axillary glands and breasts. Clarke has used it with good effect in cases of scrofulous 
glands and even where Hodgkin's disease has been suspected. 
Itching of eyes, nose, anus, and vulva. The skin of the nose is cracked. There is a cough leaving a taste of 
blood in the mouth. Diarrhea after eating pork.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Worse in afternoon (Lyc.), Better mental exertion. Better after wine. Better during digestion, 
especially of pork and onions.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Anxiety.
- Distraction.
- Dread of work.
- In stability of ideas.
- Laughter.
- Mania.
- Ferocity.
- Abdomen - Right 
hypochondrium has bruised pain, tearing pain, starting.
- When breathing both hypochondria feel bruised.
- Sensation of compression in diaphragm.
- Anxiety, with beatings in abdomen.
- Sharp pain after drinking milk.
- Anxiety.
- Distraction.
- Dread of work.
- In stability of ideas.
- Laughter.
- Mania.
- Ferocity.
- Abdomen - Right 
hypochondrium has bruised pain, tearing pain, starting.
- When breathing both hypochondria feel bruised.
- Sensation of compression in diaphragm.
- Anxiety, with beatings in abdomen.
- Sharp pain after drinking milk.

### Vertigo
- Vertigo with nausea.

### Head
- Sharp pain in head extending across eyes.
- Sensation as if a nail were driven into head when moving 
it.
- Hammering in temples.
- Pain like rheumatism in scalp worse by touch.
- Kidneys - Desire to urinate with copious emissions.
- Urging with ineffectual efforts.
- Hot, turbid urine, depositing 
a white sediment.
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- Sharp pain in head extending across eyes.
- Sensation as if a nail were driven into head when moving 
it.
- Hammering in temples.
- Pain like rheumatism in scalp worse by touch.
- Kidneys - Desire to urinate with copious emissions.
- Urging with ineffectual efforts.
- Hot, turbid urine, depositing 
a white sediment.
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### Eyes
- Sharp pain in eyes from without inward.
- Painfulness of lids.
- Itching in lids.
- Pressure on lids and difficulty 
of raising them.
- Smarting in canthi, dryness at inner canthus.

### Ears
- Purulent discharge from ears, redness behind them.

### Face
- Face pale, shining.
- Pain of excoriation around mouth.
- Pain in facial bones.
- Tension in facial muscles.
- Hard pimples of face and lips.
- Skin of face becomes light brown.
- Numbness of jaw 
like incipient paralysis, better by compression and by drinking wine.

### Mouth
- Clayey, astringent taste.
- Nose - Itching on nose, sensitiveness, lancinations.
- Compression at root of nose.
- Skin of nose cracked.
- Muco-
purulent discharge from nose.

### Chest
- Difficult respiration.
- Slight cough with watery expectoration.
- After a slight chill, leaving a taste of blood 
in the mouth.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Painful belchings.
- Belchings are rancid like rotten eggs, acid, with weight on stomach.
- Hiccough.
- Inclination to vomit after eating with shivering, vertigo.
- Vomiting of mucus on getting out of bed, yellowish after 
drinking with copious urination.
- Teeth - Burning pain in upper teeth.
- Pressing in teeth.
- Tearing in lower teeth when open ing mouth.
- Gums 
bluish, ulcerated.
- Temperature - Goose bumps.
- Chilliness of one side only as soon as he is uncovered.
- In morning external 
coldness with feel ing of heat.
- Coldness alternating with heat, succeeded by sweat.
- During fever, pale face, 
strong appetite, thirst, pain in bowels, restlessness.
- Sweat continues after fever.
- Strong relish for dainties, fruits, and cabbage.
- Increased relish for tobacco in a smoker.
- Aversion to 
food in general, especially fatty things and milk, they cause uneasine ss.
- Keen hunger very soon satis fied.
- Constant thirst even when drinking.
- Burning thirst.
- Thirst at night.

### Urinary & Genital
- Itching at vulva.
- Fetid menstrual blood.
- Excoriation of bend of thigh after menses.
- Leucorrhea, viscid.

### Extremities
- On stretching legs, hamstrings feel as if shortened.
- Jerking in legs.
- Itching at ankles in evening.
- Sharp 
pain at instep when standing.
- Eruption of hot, red, slightly painful spots on legs and toes.
- Swelling of axillary 
glands.
- Pressure, sharp pains in shoulder joints.
- Tearing pain in elbow joints.
- Stiffness in elbows and wrists.
- Sensation of fullness in hands.
- Sweat on hands.

### Neck & Back
- Swelling of the cervical glands.
- The neck seems to grow larger.
- Swelling of the neck on one side only.
- Pressing pain at the nape of the neck.
- Shivering in the back.
- Jerking in the region of the kidneys.
- Breasts - Swelling of the breast glands.

### Sleep
- Drowsiness, he sleeps too long.
- Aberration of hearing during sleep.
- During sleep, numbness of the 
parts he lies on.