{"id":2976,"date":"2026-04-12T13:03:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T07:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rudracures.in\/pharmacy\/?p=2976"},"modified":"2026-04-14T23:03:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T17:33:21","slug":"aconitum-napellus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rudracures.in\/pharmacy\/aconitum-napellus\/","title":{"rendered":"Aconitum Napellus: Homeopathic Medicine for Sudden Fear of Death &#038; Restlessness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Monkshood<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">HOMEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A state of fear, anxiety; anguish of mind and body.&nbsp;<em>Physical and mental restlessness<\/em>, fright, is the most characteristic manifestation of&nbsp;<em>Aconite. Acute, sudden, and violent invasion, with fever<\/em>, call for it. Does not want to be touched. Sudden and great sinking of strength.&nbsp;<em>Complaints and tension<\/em>&nbsp;caused by exposure to&nbsp;<em>dry, cold weather<\/em>, draught of cold air, checked perspiration, also complaints from&nbsp;<em>very hot weather<\/em>, especially gastro-intestinal disturbances, etc. First remedy in inflammations, inflammatory fevers. Serous membranes and muscular tissues affected markedly. Burning in internal parts;&nbsp;<em>tingling, coldness and numbness<\/em>. Influenza.&nbsp;<em>Tension<\/em>&nbsp;of arteries; emotional and physical mental tension explain many symptoms. When prescribing Aconite remember Aconite causes only functional disturbance, no evidence that it can produce tissue change&#8211;its action is brief and&nbsp;<em>shows no periodicity<\/em>. Its sphere is in the beginning of an acute disease and not to be continued after pathological change comes. In Hyper\u0107mia, congestion not after exudation has set in.&nbsp;<em>Influenza (Influenzin)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Mind.&#8211;<\/strong><em>Great fear, anxiety<\/em>, and worry accompany every ailment, however trivial. Delirium is characterized by unhappiness worry, fear, raving, rarely unconsciousness.&nbsp;<em>Forebodings and fears. Fears death<\/em>&nbsp;but believes that he will soon die; predicts the day.&nbsp;<em>Fears the future<\/em>, a crowd, crossing the street.&nbsp;<em>Restlessness<\/em>, tossing about. Tendency to start. Imagination acute, clairvoyance. Pains are intolerable; they drive him crazy. Music is unbearable; makes her sad (<em>Ambra<\/em>). Thinks his thoughts come from the stomach&#8211;that parts of his body are abnormally thick. Feels as if what had just been done was a dream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Head.&#8211;<\/strong>Fullness;&nbsp;<em>heavy<\/em>, pulsating,&nbsp;<em>hot, bursting<\/em>, burning undulating sensation. Intercranial pressure (<em>Hedera Helix<\/em>). Burning headache, as if brain were moved by boiling water (<em>Indigo<\/em>). Vertigo;&nbsp;<em>worse on rising (Nux. Opium)<\/em>&nbsp;and shaking head. Sensation on vertex as if hair were pulled or stood on end. Nocturnal furious delirium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Eyes.&#8211;<\/strong>Red, inflamed. Feel&nbsp;<em>dry and hot<\/em>, as if sand in them.&nbsp;<em>Lids swollen, hard and red<\/em>. Aversion to light. Profuse watering after exposure to dry, cold winds,&nbsp;<em>reflection from snow, after extraction of cinders<\/em>&nbsp;and other foreign bodies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Ears.&#8211;<\/strong>Very&nbsp;<em>sensitive to noises<\/em>; music is unbearable. External ear hot, red, painful, swollen. Earache (<em>Cham<\/em>). Sensation as of drop of water in left ear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Nose.&#8211;<\/strong><em>Smell acutely sensitive. Pain at root of nose.<\/em>&nbsp;Coryza much sneezing; throbbing in nostrils. H\u0107morrhage of bright red blood.&nbsp;<em>Mucous membrane dry, nose stopped up; dry or with but scanty watery coryza<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Face.&#8211;<\/strong>Red, hot, flushed, swollen. One cheek red, the other pale (<em>Cham, Ipec<\/em>).&nbsp;<em>On rising the red face becomes deathly pale, or he becomes dizzy. Tingling<\/em>&nbsp;in cheeks and numbness.&nbsp;<em>Neuralgia, especially of left side, with restlessness, tingling, and numbness<\/em>. Pain in jaws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Mouth.&#8211;<\/strong>Numb,&nbsp;<em>dry<\/em>, and tingling. Tongue swollen;&nbsp;<em>tip tingles<\/em>. Teeth sensitive to cold. Constantly moves lower jaw as if chewing.&nbsp;<em>Gums hot and inflamed. Tongue coated white (Antim crud).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Throat.&#8211;<\/strong><em>Red, dry, constricted<\/em>, numb, prickling, burning, stinging. Tonsils swollen and dry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Stomach.&#8211;<\/strong><em>Vomiting, with fear, heat, profuse sweat and increased urination<\/em>. Thirst for cold water.&nbsp;<em>Bitter taste<\/em>&nbsp;of everything except water.&nbsp;<em>Intense thirst<\/em>. Drinks, vomits, and declares he will die. Vomiting, bilious mucous and bloody, greenish. Pressure in stomach with dyspn\u015ba. H\u0107matemesis. Burning from stomach to \u015bsophagus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Abdomen.&#8211;<\/strong>Hot, tense, tympanitic.&nbsp;<em>Sensitive to touch. Colic<\/em>, no position relieves. Abdominal symptoms better after warm soup. Burning in umbilical region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Rectum.&#8211;<\/strong>Pain with nightly itching and stitching in anus. Frequent, small stool with tenesmus;&nbsp;<em>green, like chopped herbs<\/em>. White with red urine. Choleraic discharge with collapse, anxiety, and restlessness. Bleeding h\u0107morrhoids (<em>Hamam<\/em>). Watery diarrh\u015ba in children. They cry and complain much, are sleepless and restless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Urine.&#8211;<\/strong><em>Scanty, red, hot, painful<\/em>. Tenesmus and burning at neck of bladder. Burning in urethra. Urine suppressed, bloody. Anxiety always on beginning to urinate.&nbsp;<em>Retention, with screaming and restlessness<\/em>, and handling of genitals. Renal region sensitive. Profuse urination, with profuse perspiration and diarrh\u015ba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Male.&#8211;<\/strong>Crawling and stinging in glans. Bruised pain in testicles, swollen, hard. Frequent erections and emissions. Painful erections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Female.&#8211;<\/strong>Vagina dry, hot, sensitive. Menses too profuse, with nosebleed, too protracted, late. Frenzy on appearance of menses.&nbsp;<em>Suppressed from fright, cold<\/em>, in plethoric subjects. Ovaries congested and painful. Sharp shooting pains in womb.&nbsp;<em>After-pains, with fear and restlessness<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Respiratory.&#8211;<\/strong>Constant pressure in left chest;&nbsp;<em>oppressed breathing<\/em>&nbsp;on least motion.&nbsp;<em>Hoarse, dry, croupy cough<\/em>; loud, labored breathing. Child grasps at throat every time he coughs. Very sensitive to inspired air.&nbsp;<em>Shortness of breath<\/em>. Larynx sensitive. Stitches through chest. Cough, dry, short, hacking;&nbsp;<em>worse at night and after midnight<\/em>. Hot feeling in lungs. Blood comes up with hawking. Tingling in chest after cough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Heart.&#8211;<\/strong><em>Tachycardia<\/em>. Affections of the heart with pain in&nbsp;<em>left shoulder<\/em>. Stitching pain in chest.&nbsp;<em>Palpitation, with anxiety<\/em>, fainting, and&nbsp;<em>tingling<\/em>&nbsp;in fingers.&nbsp;<em>Pulse full, hard; tense and bounding<\/em>; sometimes intermits. Temporal and carotid arteries felt when sitting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Back.&#8211;<\/strong>Numb, stiff, painful. Crawling and tingling, as if bruised. Stiffness in nape of neck. Bruised pain between scapul\u0107.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Extremities.&#8211;<\/strong><em>Numbness and tingling<\/em>; shooting pains; icy coldness and insensibility of hands and feet. Arms feel lame, bruised, heavy, numb. Pain down left arm (<em>Cact, Crotal, Kalmia, Tabac<\/em>).&nbsp;<em>Hot hands and cold feet<\/em>. Rheumatic inflammation of joints; worse at night; red shining swelling, very sensitive. Hip-joint and thigh feel lame, especially after lying down. Knees unsteady; disposition of foot to turn (<em>Aescul<\/em>). Weak and lax ligaments of all joints. Painless cracking of all joints.&nbsp;<em>Bright red hypothenar eminences on both hands<\/em>. Sensation as if drops of water trickled down the thigh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sleep.&#8211;<\/strong>Nightmare. Nightly ravings.&nbsp;<em>Anxious dreams<\/em>. Sleeplessness, with restless and tossing about (Use thirtieth potency). Starts up in sleep. Long dreams, with anxiety in chest. Insomnia of the aged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Skin.&#8211;<\/strong>Red, hot, swollen, dry, burning.&nbsp;<em>Purpura miliaris<\/em>. Rash like measles. Gooseflesh. Formication and numbness. Chilliness and formication down back. Pruritus&nbsp;<em>relieved<\/em>&nbsp;by stimulants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Fever.&#8211;<\/strong>Cold stage most marked. Cold sweat and icy coldness of face. Coldness and heat alternate. Evening chilliness soon after going to bed.&nbsp;<em>Cold waves pass through him. Thirst and restlessness<\/em>&nbsp;always present. Chilly if uncovered or touched. Dry heat, red face. Most valuable febrifuge with mental anguish, restlessness, etc. Sweat drenching, on parts lain on; relieving all symptoms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Modalities.&#8211;<\/strong><em>Better<\/em>&nbsp;in open air;&nbsp;<em>worse<\/em>&nbsp;in warm room, in evening and&nbsp;<em>night; worse<\/em>&nbsp;lying on affected side, from music, from tobacco-smoke, dry, cold winds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vinegar in large doses is antidotal to poisonous effects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Relationship.&#8211;<\/strong>Acids, wine and coffee, lemonade, and acid fruits modify its action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not indicated in malarial and low fevers or hectic and py\u0107mic conditions, and in inflammations when they localize themselves.&nbsp;<em>Sulphur<\/em>&nbsp;often follows it. Compare&nbsp;<em>Cham<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Coffea<\/em>&nbsp;in&nbsp;<em>intense pain<\/em>&nbsp;and sleeplessness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Agrostis<\/em>&nbsp;acts like Acon in fever and inflammations, also&nbsp;<em>Spiranthes<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Complementary:&nbsp;<em>Coffea; Sulph<\/em>. Sulphur may be considered a chronic Aconite. Often completes a cure begun with Aconite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Compare;&nbsp;<em>Bellad; Cham; Coffea; Ferr, phos<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Aconitine.&#8211;<\/em>(Heavy feeling as of lead; pains in supraorbital nerve; ice-cold sensations creep up; hydrophobia symptoms. Tinnitus aurium 3x). Tingling sensation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Aconitum Lycotonum.&#8211;<\/em>Great yellow wolfsbane.&#8211;(Swelling of glands; Hodgkin&#8217;s disease. Diarrh\u015ba after eating pork. Itching of nose, eyes, anus and vulva. Skin of nose cracked; taste of blood).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Aconitum Cammarum.&#8211;<\/em>(Headache with vertigo and tinnitus. Cataleptic symptoms. Formication of tongue, lips and face).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Aconitum ferox.&#8211;<\/em>Indian Aconite.&#8211;Rather more violent in its actions than A.&nbsp;<em>napellus<\/em>. It is more diuretic and less antipyretic. It has proved valuable in&nbsp;<em>cardiac dyspn\u015ba<\/em>, neuralgia, and acute gout.&nbsp;<em>Dyspn\u015ba. Must sit up. Rapid respiration<\/em>. Anxiety, with suffocation from feeling of paralysis in respiratory muscles. Cheynes-Stokes breathing.&nbsp;<em>Quebracho<\/em>&nbsp;(cardiac dyspn\u015ba) (<em>Achyranthes<\/em>.&#8211;A Mexican drug&#8211;very similar to Aconite in fevers, but of larger range, being also adapted to typhoidal states and intermittents. Muscular rheumatism. A great diaphoretic. Use 6x).&nbsp;<em>Eranthis hymnalis<\/em>&#8211;(Winter Aconite&#8211;acts on solar plexus and works upwards causing dyspn\u015ba. Pain in occiput and neck).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Dose.&#8211;<\/strong>Sixth potency for sensory affections; first to third for congestive conditions. Must be repeated frequently in acute diseases. Acon is a rapid worker. In Neuralgias tincture of the root often preferable, one drop doses (poisonous), or again, the 30th according to susceptibility of patient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monkshood HOMEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D. A state of fear, anxiety; anguish of mind and body.&nbsp;Physical and mental restlessness, fright, is the most characteristic manifestation of&nbsp;Aconite. Acute, sudden, and violent invasion, with fever, call for it. Does not want to be touched. Sudden and great sinking of strength.&nbsp;Complaints and tension&nbsp;caused by exposure to&nbsp;dry, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[241,171,179,192,236,240,215,239,237,206,243,98,244,220,245,235,238,228,242,218],"class_list":["post-2976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homeopathic-materia-medica-study-material","tag-acute-conditions","tag-anxiety","tag-better-rest","tag-better-warmth","tag-cold-exposure","tag-dry-cold-wind","tag-fear-of-death","tag-fever","tag-fright","tag-hypersensitivity","tag-inflammation","tag-palpitation","tag-panic-attacks","tag-restlessness","tag-shock","tag-sleeplessness","tag-sudden-onset","tag-trembling","tag-worse-cold-air","tag-worse-night","pmpro-has-access"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rudracures.in\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rudracures.in\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rudracures.in\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rudracures.in\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rudracures.in\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2976"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rudracures.in\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3434,"href":"https:\/\/rudracures.in\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976\/revisions\/3434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rudracures.in\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rudracures.in\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rudracures.in\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}