Aconitum napellus Anhang 2

[R. Sankaran]

Acute miasm = most acute of all our remedies.

The main feeling of Aconitum is of a sudden, intense threat from outside that comes suddenly and goes suddenly. For that moment the person, who is otherwise calm becomes

intensely restless, panicky and nervous. This feeling of a sudden threat is seen in the fear of walking across a busy street, fear of accidents, of suffocation, in presentiment of death and in

the delusion that he is about to die. Mentally this is expressed as a fear of death, anxiety and restlessness etc., while in the physical sphere, we find a racing pulse, palpitation and flushing

of face alternating with paleness, etc.

Aconitum is excitable. The patient can flare up suddenly, can get frightened very easily. Pain can drive him beside himself and again this excitement will be manifested suddenly and

violently, with great restlessness - an acute panic reaction.

Great nervous excitability is the most important component of Aconitum. We must look for an excitable person and not a calm one, if we are to prescribe Aconitum - one who

cannot take anything easy; everything excites him. Here it comes close to Nux-v. Cham. Staph. Coff. Graph.

Aconitum is also very very restless. Anxious restlessness. Pierre Schmidt feels it is the most important remedy for anxious restlessness. Nux-v. Staph. Coff. Ign. are not so restless.

Aconitum just can't sit still. He tosses about. This is similar to Ars. Rhus-t., it is only much more intense, vigorous, sudden and acute. It is a sudden burst of excitement, fear or

anxiety with great restlessness. He doesn't know where to go or what to do, his mind is ruled over by tremendous anxiety and fear. Then this whole state disappears as suddenly as it had

come without leaving a trace.

Aconitum avoids crowds, crossing the street, indeed any other situation that would cause excitement of mind. The proving reads: "Fear to go where there is any excitement".

Sudden, intense fear from trivial causes is characteristic. It is not the insecure feeling of Calc. or the terror of Stram. nor the anxiety about health of Ars., Nit-ac. or Kali-ars.

It is an intense, sudden, panic state - something severe - the end, death!

The rubric "Predicts the time of death" is a combination of "Clairvoyance" with "Intense fear of death". But as I said earlier, this is not the permanent state of Aconitum.

Soon the excited state passes off and the normal state re-emerges.

But even in his normal state, Aconitum is hurried. As the proving reads: "He does everything in a hurry, runs about the house". His speech is hasty, jerky and excited: "Great

impatience", "Wants things at once", "On attempting to think of one thing, another thought intrudes, this is soon supplanted by another one and so on". Excitability can also make him cheerful, laughing, singing, dancing. But here too, the slightest trifle can change his cheerfulness to anxiety: "Alternate attacks of opposite states of humour"; "Fitful moods". It is this cheerfulness of Acon. that differentiates it

from Arg-n. and Ars. These phases of excitable cheerfulness are not seen in the later remedies.

He can at times become very irritable, violent, intolerant of contradiction, shrieking, censorious but will cool down soon. It is this sudden excitability that brings on such a state.

There can also be episodes of intense sadness which pass off soon + anguish, restless, moaning and groaning of Aconitum.

There are also sleep symptoms: somnambulism and talking in sleep. Dreams are anxious and clairvoyant. Sleep is anxious, restless, with constant tossing and turning, and starting in sleep.

C to Sulphur.

Physical concomitants are:

- Face expression, anxious, frightened.

- Thirsty, burning.

- Heat, palms.

- Discolouration red cheeks.

- Perspiration, uncovered parts, on.

- Desires: beer, bitter drinks, acids.

- Sleeps on back with hands under the head or sleeps in a sitting posture with head inclined forward, can't lie on sides.

- Palpitation with great anxiety.

- Face, red-hot.

- Respiration oppressed.

- Limbs feel weak.

- Moaning, groaning, howling, loud whining or weeping;

- Easily startled by noise.

- Heat and discolouration, red, of face, in anxiety and excitement.

Rubrics:

- Beside oneself, being.

- Beside oneself, anxiety from.

- Death, dying, feels as if.

- Excitement, nervous.

- Loquacity.

- Mood, changeable.

- Speech, hasty.

Phatak:

Besides himself, frantic, madness from pain.

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