ACONITUM LYCOCTONUM.

Aconitum lycoctonum, Linn. (A. telyphonum, Reich.)

Nat. order , Ranunculaceæ.

Common names , (English) Wolfsbane; (German) Wolfseisenhut.

Preparation , ?

Authority.

Petroz (Journ. d. l. Soc. Gallicane, 1st ser., vol. 3, p. 16).

MIND

• Mania.
• Ferocity.
• Laughter.
• Distraction.
• Instability of ideas.
• Dread of work.
• Repugnance to business.

HEAD

• Vertigo with nausea.
• Lancinating pain in the head, which extends to across the eyes. [10.]
• Digging sensation in the brain.
• Compressive pain in the head.
• The head feels heavy, as if a great weight were pressing on the brain.
• Sensation as if a nail were driven into the head when moving it.
• Pulsations in the head.
• Shocks in the forehead.
• Pressure on the top of the head.
• Hammering pain in the temples.
• Pressure in the occiput.
• Pulling pain in the scalp when contracting it. [20.]
• Pain like that of rheumatism in the skin of the head, increased by touching it.

EYES

• Fixed look.
• Heat in the eyes.
• Lancinating pain in the eyes, going from without inwards.
• Boring pain in the eyes.
• Painfulness of the lids.
• Itching in the eyelids.
• Sensation of pressure on the lids.
• Difficulty in raising the lids.
• Feeling of dryness at the inner canthus. [30.]
• Smarting in the canthi.

EARS

• Feeling of roughness in the ears.
• Beatings in the ears when in the open air.
• Purulent discharge from the ear.
• Redness behind the ears.

NOSE

• Itching on the nose.
• Sensitiveness of the nose.
• Pulling sensation in the nose.
• Lancinations in the nose.
• Compression at the root of the nose. [40.]
• The skin of the nose is cracked.
• Muco-purulent discharge from the nose.
• Dry coryza from one nostril.

FACE

• Pale face.
• Shining face.
• Pain of excoriation around the mouth.
• Pain which seems to be in the facial bones.
• Tension in the facial muscles.
• Bluish circle around the eyes. [50.]
• Hard tuberculous pimples on the face.
• Pimples on the lips.
• Sweat on the face.
• The skin of the face becomes of a light-brown color.
• Numbness of the jaw, like incipient paralysis, relieved by compressing it and ameliorated by drinking wine.

MOUTH

• Burning pain in the upper teeth.
• Pressive pain in the teeth.
• Tearing pain in the lower teeth when opening the mouth.
• Bluish gums.
• Ulcerated gums. [60.]
• Clayey taste.
• Astringent taste.

STOMACH

• Strong relish for dainties, fruits, cabbage.
• The relish for tobacco in increased in a smoker.
• Dislike for food in general, especially for fatty things and milk; they cause uneasiness.
• Keen hunger, but it is very soon satisfied.
• Thirst.
• Constant thirst, even when drinking.
• Burning thirst.
• Thirst at night. [70.]
• Acid risings, with weight on the stomach.
• Risings with rancid taste.
• Risings like rotten eggs.
• Painful eructations.
• Hiccough.
• Inclination to vomit after eating.
• Inclination to vomit, with shivering.
• Inclination to vomit, with vertigo.
• Vomiting of mucus on getting out of bed.
• Yellowish vomiting after drinking. [80.]
• Vomiting, with copious urination.

ABDOMEN

• Bruised pain in the right hypochondrium.
• Tearing pain in the right hypochondrium.
• Starting in the hepatic region.
• When respiring, both hypochondria feel bruised.
• Sensation of compression, which is referred to the diaphragm.
• Anxiety in the abdomen.
• Beatings in the abdomen.
• Simple pain in the abdomen after drinking milk.
• Lancinating pain after drinking milk. [90.]
• Abundant flatulence.
• Colic, like that caused by hæmorrhoids.

STOOL AND ANUS

• Constipation.
• The anus feels as if strongly contracted.
• Diarrhœa with violent cutting after eating pork.
• Whitish stools.
• After stool, pain in the anus as if there was a crack there.
• Cramp at the anus.
• Tearing pain at the anus.
• Itching at the anus. [100.]
• Shivering after stool.
• Tenesmus during the night.

URINARY ORGANS

• Desire to urinate, with copious emission.
• Urging, with ineffectual efforts to urinate.
• Desire to urinate, with scanty discharge.
• Colorless urine.
• Increased heat of urine.
• Turbid urine, depositing a white sediment.

SEXUAL ORGANS

• Itching at the vulva.
• The menstrual blood is fetid. [110.]
• Excoriation of the bend of the thigh after the menses.
• Leucorrhœa.
• Viscid leucorrhœa.

RESPIRATORY APPARATUS

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

CHEST

• Swelling of the mammary glands.

NECK AND BACK

• Swelling of the cervical glands.
• The neck seems to grow larger.
• Swelling of the neck on one side only. [120.]
• Pressive pain at the nape of the neck.
• Shivering in the back.
• Jerking in the region of the kidneys.

UPPER EXTREMITIES

• Swelling of the axillary glands.
• Pressure in the shoulder-joints.
• Lancinating pain in the shoulder-joints.
• Tearing pain in the elbow-joint.
• Stiffness in the joints of the elbow and wrist.
• A few blotches, like scarlatina, appear on the forearm and hands.
• Sensation of fulness in the hands. [130.]
• Sweat on the hands.

LOWER EXTREMITIES

• On stretching his legs the muscles of the ham feel as if very much shortened.
• Jerking in the legs.
• Itching at the ankles in the evening.
• Lancinating pain at the instep when standing.
• Eruption of hot, red, slightly painful spots, on the legs and toes.

FEVER

• Horripilation.
• Chilliness of one side only as soon as he is uncovered.
• In the morning external coldness with feeling of heat.
• Coldness alternating with heat, succeeded by sweat. [140.]
• During the heat, pale face, strong appetite, thirst; pain in bowels, restlessness.
• The sweat continues after the fever.
• Drawing pain in the limbs, such as are felt in intermittent fever, with feeling of lassitude during the night, and on getting up in the morning.

SLEEP AND DREAMS

• Drowsiness.
• He sleeps too along.
• Aberration of hearing during sleep.
• During sleep numbness of the parts he lies on.

CONDITIONS

• The pains are generally felt in the afternoon.
• Aggravation from mental exertion.
• Aggravation during digestion, especially of pork, onions, and drinking wine.