Remedy

Characteristics Symptoms

Patient Worse by

Patient Better by

Physical and mental restlessness, fright, is the most characteristic manifestation of Aconite

Acute, sudden, and violent invasion, with fever

Does not want to be touched

Sudden and great sinking of strength

First remedy in inflammations, inflammatory fevers

Burning in internal parts; tingling, coldness and numbness

Tension of arteries; emotional and physical mental tension

Its action is brief and shows no periodicity; its sphere is in the beginning of an acute disease and not to be continued after pathological change comes

Cold stage most marked; cold sweat and icy coldness of face; coldness and heat alternate; evening chilliness soon after going to bed; cold waves pass through him; thirst and restlessness always present; chilly if uncovered or touched; dry heat, red face; sweat drenching, on parts lain on; relieving all symptoms

Fullness in head ; heavy, pulsating, hot, bursting, burning undulating sensation; intercranial pressure; burning headache, as if brain were moved by boiling water; sensation on vertex as if hair were pulled or stood on end

Throat red, dry, constricted, numb, prickling, burning, stinging; tonsils swollen and dry

Back numb, stiff, painful; crawling and tingling, as if bruised; stiffness in nape of neck; bruised pain between scapulæ.

Numbness and tingling in extremities; shooting pains; icy coldness and insensibility of hands and feet; arms feel lame, bruised, heavy, numb; pain down left arm; hot hands and cold feet; hip joint and thigh feel lame, especially after lying down; knees unsteady; disposition of foot to turn; weak and lax ligaments of all joints; painless cracking of all joints; bright red hypothenar eminences on both hands; sensation as if drops of water trickled down the thigh

Thirst for cold water

Bitter taste of everything except water

Intense thirst

Urine scanty, red, hot, painful

Frequent erections and emissions

Pulse full, hard; tense and bounding; sometimes intermits

Nightmare; nightly ravings

Anxious dreams

Sleeplessness, with restless and tossing about; starts up in sleep

Long dreams, with anxiety in chest

In evening and night

Lying on affected side

From music

From tobacco-smoke

Dry, cold winds

Great exhaustion after the slightest exertion

Irritable weakness

Burning pains

Fear fright and worry.

Septic infections and low vitality

High temperature; periodicity marked with adynamia; paroxysms incomplete, with marked exhaustion; cold sweats; complete exhaustion; delirium; worse after midnight; great restlessness; great heat about 3 am

Throat swollen, œdematous, constricted, burning, unable to swallow

Weakness in small of back; drawing in of shoulders; pain and burning in back

Extremities trembling, twitching, spasms, weakness, heaviness, uneasiness; cramps in calves; swelling of feet

Cannot bear the sight or smell of food

Great thirst; drinks much, but little at a time.

Craves milk, acids and coffee

Heartburn; gulping up of acid and bitter substances which seem to excoriate the throat

Long-lasting eructations

Stools small, offensive, dark, with much prostration.

Urine scanty, burning, involuntary; albuminous

Pulse more rapid in morning

Sleep disturbed, anxious, restless; must have head raised by pillows; suffocative fits during sleep; sleeps with hands over head

Dreams are full of care and fear

After midnight

From cold, cold drinks, or food

Seashore

Right side

From head elevated

Warm drinks

Hot, red skin, flushed face, glaring eyes, throbbing carotids, excited mental state, hyperæsthesia of all senses

Delirium, restless sleep, convulsive movements

Dryness of mouth and throat with aversion to water

Neuralgic pains that come and go suddenly

Heat, redness, throbbing and burning

Great children's remedy

No thirst, anxiety or fear

Violence of attack and suddenness of onset

A high feverish state with comparative absence of toxæmia; burning, pungent, steaming, heat; feet icy cold; superficial blood-vessels, distended; perspiration dry only on head; no thirst with fever

Much throbbing and heat in head; palpitation reverberating in head with labored breathing; pain; fullness, especially in forehead, also occiput, and temples; sudden outcries; pain worse light, noise, jar, lying down and in afternoon; better by pressure and semi-erect posture; boring of head into pillow; drawn backward and rolls from side to side; constant moaning; headache worse on right side and when lying down

Throat dry, as if glazed; angry-looking congestion; red, worse on right side; tonsils enlarged; throat feels constricted; difficult deglutition; worse, liquids; sensation of a lump; esophagus dry; feels contracted; spasms in throat; continual inclination to swallow; scraping sensation; muscles of deglutition very sensitive

Shooting pains along limbs; joints swollen, red, shining, with red streaks radiating. ; jerking limbs; spasms; involuntary limping; cold extremities

Stiff neck; swelling of glands of neck; pain in nape, as if it would break; pressure on dorsal region most painful

Loss of appetite

Averse to meat and milk

Abhorrence of liquids; dread of drinking

Desire diminished

Rapid but weakened pulse

Sleep restless, crying out, gritting of teeth; kept awake by pulsation of blood-vessels; screams out in sleep; starting when closing the eyes or during sleep; sleeps with hands under head

Jar

Noise

Draught

After noon

Lying down

Pains stitching, tearing; worse by motion, better rest

Mucous membranes are all dry

Has vertigo from raising the head

Pressive headache

Dry, parched lips, mouth

Excessive thirst

Bitter taste

Sensitive epigastrium, and feeling of a stone in the stomach

stools large, dry, hard; dry cough

Affects especially the constitution of a robust, firm fiber and dark complexion, with tendency to leanness and irritability

It prefers the right side, the evening, and open air, warm weather after cold days, to manifest its action most markedly

Physical weakness, all-pervading apathy

Complaints apt to develop slowly

Pulse full, hard, tense, and quick

Chill with external coldness, dry cough, stitches; internal heat

Sour sweat after slight exertion; easy, profuse perspiration

Throat dry, sticking on swallowing, scraped and constricted

Abnormal hunger, loss of taste

Thirst for large draughts

Urine red, brown, like beer; scanty, hot

Painful stiffness in nape of neck; stitches and stiffness in small of back

Knees stiff and painful; hot swelling of feet; joints red, swollen, hot, with stitches and tearing; worse on least movement; every spot is painful on pressure; constant motion of left arm and leg

Drowsy; starting when falling asleep

Delirium; busy with business matters and what he had read

Any motion

Morning

Eating

Hot weather

Exertion

Touch

Cannot sit up; gets faint and sick

Pressure

Rest

Cold things

Irritation

Raw, burning pains

Intolerable, constant urging to urinate

Cold hands and feet; cold sweat; soles burn; chill, as if water were poured over him

Burning in brain; sensation as if boiling water in brain

Burning in mouth, pharynx, and throat; vesicles in mouth; great difficulty in swallowing liquids; violent spasms reproduced by touching larynx; inflammation of throat; feels on fire

Pain in loins, with incessant desire to urinate

Tearing in limbs; ulcerative pain in soles; cannot step

Disgust for everything-drink, food, tobacco

Burning thirst, with aversion to all fluids

Thirst unquenchable

Intolerable urging and tenesmus

Urine scalds him, and is passed drop by drop

Urine jelly-like, shreddy; membranous scales looking like bran in water.

Strong sexual desire; painful erections

Urinating

Drinking cold water or coffee

Sensitive to draughts

Seldom indicated in the earlier stages of acute disease

Fever intermittent, paroxysms anticipate; return every week; all stages well marked; chill generally in forenoon, commencing in breast; thirst before chill, and little and often; debilitating night-sweats; free perspiration caused by every little exertion, especially on single parts

Sensation in head as  if skull would burst; sensation as if brain were balancing to and fro, and striking against skull, receiving great pain; intense throbbing of head and carotids; spasmodic headache in vertex, with subsequent pain, as if bruised in sides of head; relieved from pressure and warm room

Scalp sensitive; worse combing hair; aches worse in open air, from temple to temple; worse by contact, current of air, stepping

Sharp pains across kidneys, worse movement and at night; knife-like pains around back

Pains in limbs and joints, as if sprained; worse, slight touch; hard pressure relieves; sensation as of a string around limb; joints swollen; very sensitive, with dread or open air

Great debility, trembling, with numb sensation; averse to exercise; sensitive to touch

Weariness of joints; worse, mornings and when sitting

Slow digestion

Flat taste

Milk disagrees

Hungry longing for food, which lies undigested

Flatulence; belching of bitter fluid or regurgitation of food gives no relief; worse eating fruit

Bloatedness better by movement

Bitter taste; food tastes too salty

Stool undigested, frothy, yellow; painless; worse at night, after meals, during hot weather, from fruit, milk, beer; very weakening, with much flatulence; difficult even when soft

Excited lascivious fancy; frequent emissions, followed by great weakness

Pulse irregular with weak rapid beats followed by strong, hard beats

Wakens early; protracted sleeplessness

Anxious, frightful dreams with confused consciousness on waking, so that the dream cannot be rid of and fear of dream remains

Draught of air

Every other day

Loss of vital fluids

At night

After eating

Bending over

Hard pressure

Open air; warmth

Bone-pains, general and severe

Soreness

Marked periodicity

Perspiration relieves all symptoms except headache; chill between 7 and 9 am, preceded by thirst with great soreness and aching of bones; nausea, vomiting of bile at close of chill or hot stage; throbbing headache; knows chill is coming on because he cannot drink enough

Throbbing pain in head; pressure as if a cap of lead pressed over the whole skull; top and back of head with pain and soreness of eyeballs; periodical headache, every third and seventh day; occipital pain after lying down, with sense of weight

Aching pain in back; aching in bones of extremities with soreness of flesh; aching in arms and wrists; swelling of left great toe

Taste bitter

Great thirst

Avoids tight clothing

By getting on hands and knees

Dizziness, drowsiness, dullness, and trembling

Slow pulse, tired feeling, mental apathy

 Muscular weakness

Complete relaxation and prostration

Lack of muscular co-ordination

General depression from heat of sun

Sensitive to a falling barometer; cold and dampness brings on many complaints

Sluggish circulation

Wants to be held during fever, because he shakes so; pulse slow, full, soft, compressible; chilliness up and down back; heat and sweat stages, long and exhausting.

Chill, without thirst, along spine; wave-like, extending upward from sacrum to occiput

Heaviness of head; band-feeling around and occipital headache; dull, heavy ache, with heaviness of eyelids; bruised sensation; better, compression and lying with head high

Pain in temple, extending into ear and wing of nose, chin

Headache, with muscular soreness of neck and shoulders; headache preceded by blindness; better, profuse urination

Wants to have head raised on pillow

Difficult swallowing, especially of warm food; itching and tickling in soft palate and naso-pharynx; pain in sterno-cleido-mastoid, back of parotid; tonsils swollen; throat feels rough, burning

Feeling of a lump in throat that cannot be swallowed; pain from throat to ear

As a rule, the Gelsemium patient has no thirst

Urine profuse, clear, watery, with chilliness and tremulousness

Dull, heavy pain in back; complete relaxation of the whole muscular system

Languor; muscles feel bruised; every little exertion causes fatigue

Pain in neck, especially upper sterno-cleido muscles

Dull aching in lumbar and sacral region, passing upward

Pain in muscles of back, hips, and lower extremities, mostly deep-seated

Loss of power of muscular control; cramp in muscles of forearm; excessive trembling and weakness of all limbs; fatigue after slight exercise

Cannot get fully to sleep

Skin hot, dry, itching, measle-like eruption

Fog

Before a thunderstorm

Emotion, or excitement

Bad news

Tobacco-smoking

When thinking of his ailments

At 10 am

By profuse urination

Open air

Continued motion

Stimulants

Especially indicated in fat children and adults, who are feeble and catch cold in relaxing atmosphere; warm, moist weather

Slightest chill with much heat, nausea, vomiting, and dyspnœa

Bones of skull feel crushed or bruised; pain extends to teeth and root of tongue

Tongue usually clean

Mouth, moist; much saliva

Sleep with eyes half open; shocks in all limbs on going to sleep

Body stretched stiff, followed by spasmodic jerking of arms towards each other

Miliary rash

From veal

Moist warm wind

Lying down

Easily chilled, avoid open air, etc

Cold stage predominates in fever; paroxysms anticipate in morning; excessive rigor, with blueness of finger-nails; aching in limbs and back, and gastric symptoms

Chilly; must be covered in every stage of fever

Perspiration sour; only one side of body

Chilliness on being uncovered, yet he does not allow being covered

Dry heat of the body

Headache in occiput or over eyes, with vertigo; brain feels turning in a circle

Intoxicated feeling; worse, morning, mental exertion, tobacco, alcohol, coffee, open air

Pressing pain on vertex, as if a nail driven in

Frontal headache, with desire to press the head against something

Throat rough, scraped feeling; tickling after waking in morning; sensation of roughness, tightness, and tension; pharynx constricted; uvula swollen; stitches into ear

Sour, bitter eructations

Nausea and vomiting, with much retching

Ravenous hunger, especially about a day before an attack of dyspepsia

Desire for stimulants; loves fats and tolerates them well

Difficult belching of gas; wants to vomit, but cannot

Frequent ineffectual desire for stools, or passing but small quantities at each attempt

Frequent calls to urinate; little and often

Backache in lumbar region; burning in spine; worse, 3 to 4 am

Must sit-up in order to turn in bed

Bruised pain below scapulæ

Sitting is painful

Arms and hands go to sleep; legs numb; feel paralyzed; cramps in calves and soles

Cracking in knee-joints during motion

Drags his feet when walking

Sensation of sudden loss of power of arms and legs in the morning

Cannot sleep after 3 am until towards morning; awakes feeling wretchedly; drowsy after meals, and in early evening

Dreams full of bustle and hurry

Body burning hot, especially face; yet cannot move or uncover without feeling chilly

Mental exertion

After eating

Touch

Spices

Stimulants

Narcotics

Dry weather, cold

In evening

While at rest

In damp, wet weather

Strong pressure

Adynamic fever; restless, trembling; intermittent; chill, with dry cough and restlessness; during heat, urticaria; chilly, as if cold water were poured over him, followed by heat and inclination to stretch the limbs

Feels as if a board were strapped on the forehead; heavy head; brain feels loose and as if struck against skull on walking or rising

Headache in occiput; painful to touch

Pain in forehead and proceeds thence backward

Throat sore, with swollen glands; sticking pain on swallowing

Want of appetite for any kind of food, with unquenchable thirst

Bitter taste

Desire for milk

Drowsy after eating

Dark, turbid, high-colored, scanty urine, with white sediment

Pain between shoulders on swallowing

Pain and stiffness in small of back; better, motion, or lying on something hard; worse, while sitting

Stiffness of the nape of the neck

Pains tearing in tendons, ligaments, and fasciæ; limbs stiff paralyzed

The cold fresh air is not tolerated; it makes the skin painful.

Pain along ulnar nerve

Tearing down thighs

Tenderness about knee-joint

Loss of power in forearm and fingers; crawling sensation in the tips of fingers

Tingling in feet

Dreams of great exertion

Heavy sleep, as from stupor

Sleepless before midnight

Cold, wet rainy weather and after rain

At night

During rest

Drenching

When lying on back or right side

Motion

Walking

Change of position

Rubbing

Warm applications

From stretching out limbs

Profuse, watery, white stools in morning, 4 am, with colicky pains; expelled with force

Paralytic drawing in right arm, especially wrist, and extending to fingers