# Aconitum Napellus

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Herbal Remedy
- **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm
- **Temperament:** Chilly
- **Aggravation Time:** Night

## Keynote Indications
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.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Worse from: Cold, dry wind; nighttime (especially midnight); noise; touch; emotional. shock.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Acute panic attacks with intense fear (e.g., fear of death, doom).
- Hypervigilance, agitation, or inability to relax.
- Aconitum napellus (Monkshood) 8.

### Vertigo
- Vertigo, worse on rising  (Nux-v.
- Op.), and shaking head.
- Vertigo on ris ing from bed.
- Vertigo on 
getting up from one's seat.
- Vertigo on stooping or moving.
- Sensation of intoxication or dizziness i n the head, 
loss of consciousness.
- Vertigo with inclination to fall to right side.
- Vertigo with nausea and vanishing of sight.
- Vertigo from fright, anger.
- Vertigo after a shock.
- Vertigo from heat of sun.
- Vision - Dim vision or vision entirely lost.
- Lost vision after fright or shock.
- Optical illusions in dark colors or 
black.
- Flicker- ings make him anxious, fears he might touch people passing by.
- Total blindness after catching 
cold.
- Sparks, with burning and twitching in eyes.
- Obscuration of vision, when shak ing head.
- Black spots and 
mist before the eyes.
- COMMENTS - Aconite is a tall, upright plant that has dark blue 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 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 and hemorrhages.
- Muscular tension, as in tetanus.
- Tension of involuntary muscles, as in heart 
spasms.
- Tension of the semi-involuntary muscular apparatus of respiration, as in asthma.
- 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.) 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.
- 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.
- 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.).
- 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., Coff.).
- 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.).
- Feel the 
blood rushing every where.
- The child or the person screams with pain.
- Pain causes fright, specifically from 
heart attack or any acute pain.
- Frozen from the pain and what that pain means.
- Bending double relieves the colic and dysmenorrhea 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.
- Hemorrhage and shock due to sudden hemorrhaging of bright blood, causing giddiness, faintness, panic 
(Aeon..
- Bell., Phos.).
- Active hemorrhages in stout, full - blooded people.
- Passes almost pure blood in stool.
- In 
hemoptysis 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, scrofulous 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 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 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 except water (Chin.).
- In croup, 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 paralysis from exposure to cold, dry winds.
- Sunstroke.
- Diarrhea 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, 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.
- Asthma 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 bronchitis and colds, and tonsillitis.
- Sometimes strep throat.
- First aid 
for fright.
- Infantile pneumonia with sudden onset.
- Childhood diseases with fevers and restlessness, meningitis.
- Retention of the urine, especially in newborn infants.
- Generally aggravated at night, particularly about midnight.

### Head
- Fullness, pulsating.
- Hot, heavy, bursting sensation.
- Burning, undulating sensation.
- Head excessively 
hot.
- Congestive headaches.
- Intercranial pressure (Hed .).
- Burning headache, as if brain were moved by 
boiling water (Indg.).
- Violent squeezing or bursting pain in forehead.
- Pulsation in forehead.
- Sensation on vertex 
as if hair were pulled or stood on end.
- Nocturnal furious delirium.
- Meningitis.
- Brain affecti ons of children.
- Formication of scalp better heat.
- Scalp sensitive to touch.
- Scalp sensitive to cold air, strong wind.
- Sunstroke 
from sleeping in rays of sun.
- Fullness, pulsating.
- Hot, heavy, bursting sensation.
- Burning, undulating sensation.
- Head excessively 
hot.
- Congestive headaches.
- Intercranial pressure (Hed .).
- Burning headache, as if brain were moved by 
boiling water (Indg.).
- Violent squeezing or bursting pain in forehead.
- Pulsation in forehead.
- Sensation on vertex 
as if hair were pulled or stood on end.
- Nocturnal furious delirium.
- Meningitis.
- Brain affecti ons of children.
- Formication of scalp better heat.
- Scalp sensitive to touch.
- Scalp sensitive to cold air, strong wind.
- Sunstroke 
from sleeping in rays of sun.

### Eyes
- Red, inflamed.
- Bloodshot.
- Pain and inflammation after surgery.
- Injuries to eyes.
- Conjunctivitis.
- Inflammation from foreign bodies, dust, cinders.
- Ingrowing eyelashes.
- Eyes glitter, stare, watery.
- Eyes feels 
dry and hot.
- Shooting pain in eyeballs.
- Sensation as if sand in eyes.
- Swelling of the eyes.
- Eyelids swollen, 
hard and red.
- Aversion to light.
- Can't bear reflection of sun from snow.
- Profuse watering fromreflection of 
snow.
- Profuse lachrymation after exposure to dry, cold winds.
- Asthenopia from strain ing eyes.
- Pupils 
contracted then dilated.

### Ears
- Otitis media.
- External ear hot, red, painful, swollen (Bell.).
- Earache with pain (Bell., Cham.).
- Tickling 
and sharp pain in the ears.
- Tingling and buzzing in the ears.
- Sensation as if drop of water in left ear.
- Ringing, 
humming or roaring noises.
- Sensitive to noises, music is unbearable.
- Left ear deaf, with buzzing in whole 
head.

### Face
- Anxious expression.
- Hippocratic.
- Face red, hot, flushed, swollen.
- Pale alternating with red.
- Burning, 
lips and tongue, as after eating pepper or smoking.
- Lips black, dry, peeling off.
- One cheek red hot other  pale 
and cold (Cham., Ip.).
- Neuralgia, especially on left side with restlessness.
- Tingling, cheeks and numbness.
- Tingling and numbness.
- Heavy feeling of the whole face.
- Sweat on side of face lain on.
- On rising, the red 
face becomes deathly pale.
- Jaw, pain.

### Mouth
- Breath cold, in cholera.
- Breath hot.
- Orifices of salivary ducts sore, as if cor roded.
- Accumulation of 
water in mouth.
- Sali va generally diminished.
- Saliva frothy, streaked red, sweetish.
- Trembling and temporary 
stammering.
- Nose - Frequent sneezing.
- Coryza, much sneezing, throbbing in nostrils.
- Coryza with headache, roaring in 
ears, fever, sleeplessness.
- Hot water runs from nos e.
- Pain at root of nose.
- Hemorrhage of bright red blood.
- Mucus membrane dry.
- Posterior nares as if dry.
- Nose stopped up, dry or with but scanty watery coryza.
- Numbness with nosebleed.
- Nosebleed, bright red blood.
- Smell acutely sensitive.
- Perspiration - Bad effects from suppressed sweat.
- Profuse sweat, wants to uncover.
- Sweat on uncovered 
parts or affected parts.
- Sweat on parts lain on.
- Cold or sour sweat.
- Cold sweat and icy coldness of face.
- Drenching sweats.
- Profuse sweat with copious flow of urine and diarrhea.

### Throat
- Acute inflammation of the  throat with high fever.
- Dark redness of throat.
- Chokes on swallowing, 
talking.
- Tingling in the esophagus.
- Burning and stinging pains.
- Stinging pain in throat when swal lowing.
- Scraping, tingling sensation of strangling, burning and pricking in the throat.
- Red, dry, constricted.
- Numbness 
and prickling.
- Sensation of contraction in the throat.
- Inability to swallow, with hoarseness.
- Hoarseness with 
pain when talking.
- Hoarseness after speaking or singing.
- Voice husky, can scarcely speak.
- Croup with fever.
- Croaking voice.
- Laryngitis with fever.
- Larynx very sensitive.
- Uvula as if elongated.
- Tonsillitis.
- Tonsils dark red.
- Tonsils swollen and dry.
- Tongue - Burning vesicles on tip of tongue.
- Tongue feels as if swollen.
- Tongue coated white (Ant-c.).
- Tongue 
coated thick yellow white.
- Tongue swollen.
- Tongue tip tingles.
- Middle of tongue as if dry and numb.
- Sensation 
as if cold air passing over tongue.
- Tongue dry, red on sides, centre thinly coated white.
- Tongue red and dry.

### Chest
- Early-stage acute respiratory infections (e.g., influenza, croup) with dry, barking.
- cough or laryngeal constriction.
- Dyspnea or chest tightness in acute inflammatory states.
- Palpitations, tachycardia, or acute hypertensive episodes, often stress-induced.
- Sensation of chest oppression or impending cardiovascular collapse.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Pressure in stomach with dyspnea.
- Burning from stomach to esophagus.
- Tension in stomach better 
eructations.
- Painful hiccough.
- Nausea and sweating before and after loose stool.
- Projectile vomi ting.
- Drinks, 
vomits and declares he will die.
- Vomiting of clear water, on sitting up.
- Vomiting with fear, heat, profuse 
sweat and increased urina tion.
- Hematemesis.
- Vomiting, bilious, mucus and bloody, greenish.
- Vomiting of 
lumbrici.
- Stools - Bilious diar rhea of infants with colic.
- Diarrhea from getting wet.
- Slimy stools alternating with 
constipation.
- Claycolored stools.
- Involuntary stools, on passing flatus.
- White stools with red urine.
- Stools of 
pure blood.
- Slimy, grass green or white stools, worse hot days and cold nights.
- Green stools like chopped 
herbs.
- Frequent, small stool with tenesmus.
- Dysentery.
- Watery diarrhea in children on hot days, restless and 
sleepless.
- Teeth - Toothache from cold or dry, cold winds.
- Teeth sensitive to cold.
- Toothache in sound teeth.
- Throbbing 
in teeth and head.
- Grinding of the teeth.
- Gums hot and inflamed.
- Constantly moves lower jaw as if chewing.
- Sensation as if teeth would fall out.
- Cold feeling in incisors.
- 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.
- Chilly 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.
- 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 disagrees.
- Intense thirst.
- 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.

### Urinary & Genital
- Crawling and stinging in glans penis.
- Orchitis, testicles feel swollen and hard.
- Bruised pain in testicles, 
swollen, hard.
- Stinging and crawling in glan s.
- Scrotum drawn up.
- Skin of left side of scrotum studded with 
minute vesicles, with a humid discharge.
- Frequent erections and emissions.
- Painful erections.
- Sexual desire 
decreased, with relaxed parts, tingling in parts.
- Fits of lasciviousness.
- Emissions e ven after sex.
- Dysmenorrhea has to bend double, but better in no position.
- Menses too profuse.
- Menses with 
nosebleed.
- Menses too protracted, late.
- Frenzy, fury on ap pearance of menses.
- Amenorrhea during puberty.
- Suppressed menses from fright, cold.
- Ovaritis from sudden checked men strual flow.
- Ovaries congested 
and painful.
- Impending miscarriage from fright or vexation.
- Active uterine hemorrhage.
- Sharp, shooting 
pains in uterus.
- Prolapsed uterus.
- Labor-pains violent.
- After-pains with fear and restlessness.
- Suppressed 
lochia.
- Leucorrhea copious, tenacious, yellowish.
- Vagina dry, hot, sensitive.

### Extremities
- Sudden, sharp, neuralgic pains, often in extremities, aggravated by cold.

### Neck & Back
- Chilliness and formication down back.
- Numb, stiff, painful.
- Numbness in lumbar region.
- Crawling and 
tingling, as if bruised.
- Stiffness in nape of neck.
- Pain in the back, preve nts taking deep inspiration.
- Bruised 
pain between shoulders and in sacrum.
- Burning, shooting pain in spine.
- Sharp pain between scapulae, on 
deep breathing.
- Slightest touch of spine causes spasms.
- Spinal meningitis after injury or checked sweat.
- Bladder - Cystitis.
- Burning pain in urethra.
- Hematuria.
- Urethral chill.
- Urine suppressed, bloody.
- Anxiety always 
on beginning to urinate.
- Urination painful, difficult, drop by drop.
- Retention with screaming and restlessness 
and handling of genitals.
- Retention or sup pression of urine in newborn due to cold exposure.
- Retention of 
urine after childbirth.
- Splashing sensation in region of bladder, during urination.
- Tenesmus and burning at 
neck of bladder.
- Breasts - Mastitis.
- Milk fever with delirium.
- Increase of milk in breast.
- Breasts hot.
- Milk scanty.

### Skin
- High fever (39–40°C) with dry, hot skin, chills, and rapid pulse (tachycardia).
- Generalized restlessness and sensitivity to external stimuli (e.g., noise, touch).

### Sleep
- Starting up in sleep.
- Sleeplessness with restless and tossing about.
- Sleeplessness caused by fear, 
fright or anxiety.
- Sleeplessness with fear of the future.
- Nightly ravings.
- Insomnia of the elderly.
- Children cry 
and complain, sleepless and restless (Ars., Cham.).
- Spasmodic yawning.
- Nightmares.
- Anxious dreams.
- Dreams caused by fear, fright or anxiety.
- Long dreams with  anxiety in chest.
- Vivid dreams of day's 
occurrences.