Aconitum napellus

Characteristic symptoms

Stitching pains, or pains confined to a small spot, fixed pains ; painful sensitiveness of the body, or especially of the affected part, to contact ; loud complaints and outcries with weeping, tears, and despairing anxiety, especially at night ; great nervous and vascular excitement, or great debility and fainting fits ; dry burning heat of the skin and swollen parts ; burning, red, inflamed eruptions ; dry heat all over, with Thirst, short breathing ; full, hard, hurried pulse, redness of the face or cheeks, disposition to uncover oneself, chills when uncovering oneself ever so little ; frequent shiverings, with dry burning heat of the skin ; anguish and forebodings, lamentations ; apprehension of death, and designation of the day when it will happen ; sensitiveness and tendency to start ; zoomagnetic state of the mind; nightly delirium; frequent paroxysms of vertigo ; attacks of fainting, chiefly on rising from a recumbent position, or with vanishing of sight; vertigo, with a sensation of intoxication or reeling in the head; rush of blood to the head, with heat in the head and red face; fullness and heaviness in the forehead; beating headache or stupefying tightness in the forehead ; sensation on the vertex as if the hairs were pulled ; inflamed and painful eyes ; hard red swelling of the lids ; photophobia ; dilated pupils ; sensitiveness to noise and odors ; bleeding of the nose; bloated and red face, or pale face on raising the head ; dry and parched lips ; perspiration on the side of the face he lies on ; dry mouth ; inflamed fauces, with stinging, burning and dark redness ; loathing of food or burning, unquenchable thirst : bitter taste of the mouth, and of food and drink 507 except water ; vomiting of mucus, blood or ascarides ; pressure as from a stone in the pit of the stomach, the hypochondria or the region of the liver ; distended abdomen, as in flatulent colic or dropsy; the abdomen is painful to contact; constipation or small soft stool with tenesmus ; white stools with red urine ; red, hot, fiery and scanty urine ; suppression of urine; profuse menses; short, hurried breathing; suffocative fits, as if from anguish or compression of the chest ; short and dry cough, with expectoration of blood or bloody mucus ; stitches in the chest, especially on the side, when breathing, coughing or moving ; palpitation of the heart, with great anguish of the chest.