Aconitum ferox (Acon-f) = Bikh/= Bish/= Nabhee/= Ativisha

 

Vergleich: Cur. Phos. Siehe: Ranunculaceae

 

= Acon-ähnlich + Angst + Atemnot;

Negativ: Geist aktiv/Redeschwall/gutes Gedächtnis, intellektuelle Arbeit unmöglich, brenNEN, Furcht (ersticken), Durst, > liegen/sitzen/kaltes Getränk, Fieber niedriger als

bei Acon. geschwollene Drüsen/Neuralgie durch Kälte.

Rather more violent in action Acon. It is more diuretic and less anti-pyretic. Valuable in cardia dyspnoea/neuralgia/acute gout. Dyspnoea. Must sit up. Rapid respiration. Asthma bei Anstrengung.

Anxiety, with suffocation from feeling of paralysis in respiratory muscles. Cheyne-Stokes breathing;

[Farokh Master]

Powerful burning in the mouth and which also has the concomitant of respiratory problem dyspnoea.

Respiratory  rate  accelerated, > sitting, can not  lie down, there are clinical signs of left ventricular hypertrophy, they usually have a history of hypertension and have grade

3 to grade 4 type of dyspnoea and they love cold water.

[Dr. Mania Bhatia]

= Aconitum virorum is a species of monkshood, in the family Ranunculaceae/= Indian Aconite.

A deciduous perennial that grows up to 1.0 metre tall by 0.5 metres wide and which favours many types of soil. They are handsome plants with the tall and erect stem crowned byracemes of large eye-catching blue, purple, white, yellow or pink zygomorphic flowers with numerous stamens. They are distinguished by having one of the five petaloid sepals (the posterior one), called the galea, in the form of a cylindrical helmet; hence the English name monkshood. There are 2-10 petals, in the form of nectaries. The two upper petals are large. They are placed under the hood of the calyx and are supported on long stalks.

It is from “Aconitum ferox” that the well known Indian poison bikh, bish, or nabee is produced. It contains large quantities of the alkaloid pseudaconitine a deadly poison.

Considered the most poisonous plant in the world.

Burning pains. Cheyne-Stokes breathing. Chill. Dyspnoea. Gastralgia. Neuralgia. Numbness.

Characteristics:

Aconitum (Aconite) ferox was proved by Dworzack, who also proved Aconitine. Aconite ferox developed burning pains in greater intensity than the alkoloid; more intense mental activity followed by greater depression. The Aconite note of inability to endure suffering was marked. Anxiety and fear of suffocation from paralysis of respiratory muscels; obliged to breathe half-sitting up with head resting on palms of hands. Cold drinks >: sitting up/coffee; <: warm food;

[Harvey Farrington, M.D./Presented by Sylvain Cazalet]

Cheyne-Stokes respiration;

Repertorium:

Gemüt: Verlangt nach Aktivität/geistige Anstrengung

Angst/Furcht (zu Ersticken)

Gedächtnis gut, aktiv/Gedanken vergehen, schwinden/geistig verschwindet

Lacht

Ruhelos (schmerzhaft)

Traurig

Schwindel im Allgemeinen

Auge: Pupillen träge

Sehen: Flimmern, Flackern

Nase: Niesen

Gesicht: Ameisenlaufen

Mund: Schmerz < kaltes Wasser (brennend)

Innerer Hals: Schmerz (brennend)

Magen: Aufstoßen/Hitzewallungen erwachend

Schmerz < nach Essen (drückend)/< nach Frühstück (drückend)/ziehend

Übel > liegend/erbricht

Bauch: Angst im Abdomen/Gluckern; Gurgeln

Stuhl: Dunkel/wässrig

Urin: dunkel

Atmung: Atemnot, Dyspnoe, erschwertes Atmen (> sitzend)/Atmung beschleunigt/Atmung oberflächlich

Cheyne-Stokes-Atmung

Brust: Angst in der Brust

Herzversagen in l. Herzkammer/Herzklopfen/ Pneumothorax           

Herzbeschwerden + schwieriger Atmung/Herzbeschwerden in l. Herzkammer akut

Liegen unmöglich

Schlaf: Schlaflos/schläfrig

Glieder: Kribbeln in Fingerspitzen/schwach/zittern

Frost: im Allgemeinen/eisige Kälte des Körpers

Haut: Ameisenlaufen/trocken

Allgemeines: 23 h

Ameisenlaufen - äußerlich/ innerlich

Gefühllos, taub äußerlich/Hypertonie durch Dialyse

Schmerz [neuralgisch/äußerlich (brennend)/innerlich (brennend)]

Speise und Getränke: <: warme Speisen; >: Kaffee/kalte Getränke, kaltes Wasser;

< Entblößen

Schwäche (< gehend/< liegend)/Stehen - unmöglich

Zittern äußerlich.

 

[Drs. Aadil/Fatema Chimthanawala]

Mind: Cheerful and felt like laughing, Irritability < noise (2), Homesickness

Vertigo: on standing up that lasted for 1-2 minutes.

Head: Pain left temple to occiput, continued for 10 hours - 2 days, tearing left forehead that started 2 hours after drug ingestion for 20 minutes

Eyes: Burning & Irritation in l. eye, > pressing eyeball

Ears: Hot Sensation in left ear lasting for 2 days; burning sensation (10); itching in the left auditory meatus

Nose: Initially profuse sneezing but then decreased, followed by thin watery discharge from l. nostril < evening. Lasted for 2 days. Next day, posterior nasal discharge,

thick white sputum became thin again in the evening.

Mouth: Bitter taste in the mouth started 25 minutes after drug intake for 3-4 hours. This was repeated after the 2nd dose (2). Tooth ache left side < chewing.

Throat: discomfort lasting for 3 hours.

Stomach and Abdomen: Craving for Rice for which she was averse to. Discomfort after eating food

Stool: unsatisfactory; had to strain. Dark brown

Male Sexual Organs: No symptoms noticed

Female Sexual Organs: menses began with average flow that lasted for 3 days.

Cough: Dry started in 2 hours and lasted for 7 days

Chest: Pain in left side after passing stool.

Pain left chest, an area that could be covered with the tip of the finger

Extremities: Crackling sensation in the upper limbs.

Sleep: Great sleepiness during the day even in the morning, with late going to sleep at night.

Restless, disturbed sleep at night and sleepiness in the morning

Skin: Boil at the tip of the nose. Itching in between fingers of the left hand that started after 3 hours and lasted for 4 hours

Fever: Great Chilliness. Feverishness just after the first dose (9, 14) Running nose with sneezing

Conclusion – We agree with Dr. T.F. Allen who pens in the preface of his Handbook of Materia Medica – “Much might be said concerning the reliability of our symptomatology, the errors that have been perpetuated from year to year in old material and in new material obtained by faulty methods are well known. There is no

doubt that some of even Hahnemann’s symptoms were observed in the sick both as apparent results of drug action and as probable cures, it is also true that most provers

have allowed themselves to record as effects of drugs taken for experiment, symptoms which would have arisen spontaneously or which were suggestions of a mind

watching for such effects. There is no doubt that many if not most symptoms have been observed in only one or two persons as the effect of the drug and that many of

these would fail confirmation by repeated experiment. But after all these allowances have been made there remains a good and true pathogenesis sufficient for a working Materia Medica and capable of justifying itself by unfailing results when put to the test of homoeopathic therapeutics. Numerous provings each consisting of but a single observation even the result of but a single dose appeal to our knowledge of the effects of analogous drugs as genuine; they must be utilized, their symptoms guide us unerringly to the saving of life and they cannot be discarded.”

In the short reproving of Aconite ferox, few symptoms that have already been proved by previous provings have been found in our provings too. Many new symptoms

include sustained hypertensive state lasting for 3 days in provers who previously were not hypertensives and Partial Right Bundle Branch Block which reverted back to normalcy in a week’s time.

 

[John Henry Clarke] 1900

Tincture of root.

Clinical

Burning pains. Cheyne-Stokes breathing. Chill. dyspnoea. Gastralgia. Neuralgia. Numbness.

Characteristics

 *A. *ferox was proved by Dworzack, who also proved *Aconitine. The *Ferox developed burning pains in greater intensity than the alkaloid, more intense mental activity followed by greater depression. The *Aconite note of unendurability of suffering was marked. Anxiety and fear of suffocation from paralysis of respiratory muscles, obliged to breathe half-sitting up with head resting on palms of hands. Cold drinks better, sitting up better, warm food worse, coffee better.

Relations.

DD.: Curare and Phos. (respiratory paralysis, Cheyne-Stokes breathing).

Mind: Very active, sequence of ideas rapid, talked constantly, remembered easily the minutest circumstances of his former experiment, compared them with present one,

and readily drew conclusions (6 h.).

In intervals of relief from distressing symptoms laughed and joked about his very comical condition, but when the dyspnoea, anxiety, etc., returned, he could not seem to endure them, and abused heartily Aconite and toxicology in general (4 to 6 h.) Incapable of any mental work, even the simplest addition, comprehension and understanding confused (2nd day).

Mouth: Tongue almost insensible, feels like a piece of raw leather in month (6 h.).Tongue covered with a thick yellowish-white fur. Violent burning in mouth (after 2 minutes), renewed by eating (2nd day),

> drinking cold water.

Throat: Violent burning in pharynx.

Stomach: Pressure in stomach with pain. Warmth in stomach. Violent drawing pain in region of stomach and sacral region, soon spreading over whole abdomen, < pressure on epigastrium. Pressing on stomach =, internal, dull pressing pain.

Abdomen: Rumbling in bowels (5 m.), constant gurgling (4 h.).

Stool: Two half-watery, dark, not copious Stool (2nd day).

Urinary organs: Frequent and copious evacuations of urine.

Respiratory organs: dyspnoea 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.

Limbs: Gait tottering, remarkable weakness in lower extremities, especially right.

Generalities: Formication spread over whole body, least noticeable on parts that had been cold, < or excited by change of temperature or motion. Having changed from one nerve to another, reached its greatest severity from 19 to 19.30 h. 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 > immediately

on lying down. Benumbed sensation, as if he had on gloves, on pinching cheeks no pain felt, seemed to walk on woollen carpets (2nd, 3rd, and 4th day).

Sleep: Sleeplessness. On waking, violent burning in mouth and throat, warmth in stomach, dull sensation in head.

Fever: Icy coldness of body (4 h.), objective and subjective, 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 and warmth was pleasant, but vertigo, trembling, oppression, and nausea ensued and compelled him to return to bed. This experience was repeated. Fierce heat (calor mordax) on forehead, cheek, and hands, with sensation as if numerous glowing hot wires were stuck into him, better by perspiration (4 to 6 h.).

 

Allerlei: Himalaya/Shiva geweiht

 

[Aadil Chimthanawala

Reprovings help to confirm symptoms and also occasionally add new symptoms for a partially proved remedy.

A well known Indian poison known locally as Bikh, Bish, Nabhee or Ativisha. It contains large quantities of the alkaloid pseudaconitine, which is a deadly poison.

The Tincture of the root is used as the medicine. A deciduous perennial plant, it grows up to 1m tall and is favored by many soil types. They are handsome plants with the tall and erect stem crowned by racemes of large eye-catching blue, purple, white, yellow or pink zygomorphic flowers with numerous stamens. They are distinguished by having one of the five petaloid sepals (the posterior one), called the galea, in the form of a cylindrical helmet; hence the English name monkshood. There are 2-10 petals, in the form

of nectaries. The two upper petals are large. They are placed under the hood of the calyx and are supported on long stalks.

Poisoning: The symptoms of poisoning are usually seen within 45-60 minutes, starting with numbness of the oral cavity and throat and vomiting after an hour, if a sufficient dose has been ingested. Then the respiration slows and the blood pressure falls simultaneously up to 30- 40 beats per minute. Consciousness stays till the end and usually death is by asphyxiation, occurring before the arrest of the heart. It is considered the most poisonous plant in the world. The plant was first proved by Dr. Dworzack who also proved Aconitine. The following is the symptomatology of the proving.

 

Project – The Reproving of the drug Aconitum Ferox was conducted at The National Academy of India’s Shaad homoeopathic Hospital Complex & Research Centre, Nagpur. The project directors were Drs. Aadil and fatema Chimthanawala. It commenced at 11.10 h. on 22nd December and ended on 24th December 2010. 18 provers actively participated in the Reproving of the drug Aconitum ferox and eleven other qualified homoeopaths were the controls. The representation was wide as regards age (21- 29 years) and geography.

Dr. Pratibha Dangre conducted a detailed case taking, physical examination, laboratory investigations (Complete Blood Count, Haemoglobin, ESR, Blood Sugar, Renal profile, Liver profile and Lipid profile) including ECG of all the provers & the controls prior to the start of the project. Those who were suffering from chronic disorders or were already under homoeopathic treatment or had addictions (tobacco, cigarettes, Betel Nuts, Nus, perfumes, etc.) were not included.

After taking an oath of honest reporting by the provers and controls alike, 6 globules of Aconite ferox of Number 20 in 30C potency were administered per orally on 22/12/2010 at 11.10 h. by Prof. Dr. Sagira Chimthanawala in presence of the distinguished Director of the School Prof. Dr. Kasim Chimthanawala. The temperature at Nagpur was 8.1° C. Then, began the tedious task of systemic and meticulous noting of the evolution of drug effects and the comparison of day books of all the provers to determine the true characters of the drug disease.

Mind and Disposition: Cheerful and felt like laughing (1, 6), Irritability < noise (2), Homesickness (2)

Head: Vertigo on standing up that lasted for 1-2 minutes (19). Pain left temple to occiput, continued for 10 hours -2 days (1, 3, 8, 11, and 14), tearing left forehead that started 2 hours after drug ingestion for 20 minutes (12, 4 and 5)

Eyes: Burning & Irritation in Left Eye (1, 5, 12) > pressing eyeball (1)

Ears: Hot Sensation in left ear lasting for 2 days (3, 16, 17); burning sensation (10); itching in the left auditory meatus (13, 17, 18)

Nose: Initially profuse sneezing but then decreased (2) followed by thin watery discharge from the left Nostril < evening (11). It lasted for 2 days. Next day, posterior nasal discharge, thick white sputum became thin again in the evening. (2, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17).

Mouth: Bitter taste in the mouth started 25 minutes after drug intake for 3-4 hours (2). This was repeated after the 2nd dose (2). Tooth ache left side < chewing (3).

Throat: discomfort lasting for 3 hours (6).

Stomach and Abdomen: Craving for Rice for which she was averse to (2).

Stool: unsatisfactory (13); had to strain (3, 14, 17). Dark brown stool (13, 16) Discomfort after eating food (13)

Male Sexual Organs: No symptoms noticed

Female Sexual Organs: menses began with average flow that lasted for 3 days (15, 7).

Chest: Pain in left side after passing stool (3). Pain left chest, an area that could be covered with the tip of the finger (9) Dry cough started in 2 hours and lasted for 7 days

(3, 7, 9, 15,). Hypertension with systolic BP increasing by 10-14 mm Hg and Diastolic BP increasing by 10mm Hg over previous states. (1,5,6,7,8,9,13,14,17). ECG – Partial RBBB (3,6,9,12,14)

Extremities: Crackling sensation in the upper limbs (11).

Sleep: Great sleepiness during the day even(morning), with late going to sleep at night. Restless, disturbed sleep at night and sleepiness in the morning (3, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12, 18)

Skin: Boil at the tip of the nose (11). Itching in between fingers of the left hand that started after 3 hours and lasted for 4 hours (13)

Fever: Great Chilliness (2, 6, 7, 12, 13). Feverishness just after the first dose (9, 14) Running nose with sneezing (10)

Conclusion – We agree with Dr. T.F. Allen who pens in the preface of his Handbook of Materia Medica – “Much might be said concerning the reliability of our symptomatology, the errors that have been perpetuated from year to year in old material and in new material obtained by faulty methods are well known. There is no doubt that some of even Hahnemann’s symptoms were observed in the sick both as apparent results of drug action and as probable cures, it is also true that most provers have allowed themselves to record as effects of drugs taken for experiment, symptoms which would have arisen spontaneously or which were suggestions of a mind watching for such effects. There is no doubt that many if not most symptoms have been observed in only one or two persons as the effect of the drug and that many of these would fail confirmation by repeated experiment. But after all these allowances have been made there remains a good and true pathogenesis sufficient for a working Materia Medica and capable of justifying itself by unfailing results when put to the test of homoeopathic therapeutics. Numerous provings each consisting of but a single observation even the result of but a single dose appeal to our knowledge of the effects of analogous drugs as genuine; they must be utilized, their symptoms guide us unerringly to the saving of life and they cannot be discarded.”

In the short reproving of Aconite Ferox, few symptoms that have already been proved by previous provings have been found in our provings too. Many new symptoms include sustained hypertensive state lasting for 3 days in provers who previously were not hypertensives and Partial Right Bundle Branch Block which reverted back to normalcy in a week’s time. (All 3 sets of ECG’s, that is, before the commencement of proving, during the proving and after the normalization of the RBBB are available)

This has given a new confidence in all our provers who could themselves experience the pathogenetic powers of the administered potentized drug.

 

 

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