HOMOEOPATHIC ALL MEDICINE

                     Aconitum Lycoctonum
Natural History.
      A. lycoctonum, Linn. A. telyphonum, Reich. Wolfsbane. N. O. Ranunculacee. Tincture of fresh plant when coming into bloom.
      (The only aconite which does not contain Aconitine.)

Clinical.

Aconitum Lycoctonum

      Breasts, inflammation of.
      Constipation.
      Diarrhoea.
      Glands, enlargement of.
      Hodgkin's disease.
      Liver, disorders of.
      Pork, effects of.
      Strangury.

Characteristics.
      The symptoms of A. lycoctonum., while resembling those of the other aconites in some respects, show a marked absence of the cutaneous-nerve affections so prominent in their provings.
      The most notable symptoms are swelling of the cervical, axillary, and mammary glands.
      I have used it with good effect in cases of scrofulous glands, and even where Hodgkin's disease has been suspected.
      Diarrhoea after eating pork.
      Itching is prominent in the proving: of eyes, nose, anus, vulva.
      The skin of the nose is cracked.
      There is a cough leaving a taste of blood in the mouth.
      The symptoms are worse in afternoon (like Lyc.), Worse from mental exertion, worse during digestion, especially of pork, onions, and after wine.

Relations.
      Compare: Cist, Lap-a., Con., Iod., Spong., Lyc., Carb-an., Puls. (effects of pork).

Mind.

      Mania.
      Ferocity.
      Laughter.
      Distraction.
      Instability of ideas.
      Dread of work.

Head.
      Vertigo with nausea.
      Lancinating pain in head extending across eyes.
      Sensation as if a nail were driven into head when moving it.
      Hammering in temples.
      Pain like rheumatism in scalp worse by touch.

Eyes.
      Lancinating pain in eyes from without inward.
      Painfulness of lids.
      Itching in lids.
      Pressure on lids and difficulty of raising them.
      Smarting in canthi, dryness at inner canthus.

Ears.
      Purulent discharge from ears, redness behind them.

Nose.
      Itching on nose, sensitiveness, lancinations.
      Compression at root of nose.
      Skin of nose cracked.
      Mucopurulent discharge from nose.

Face.
      Face pale, shining.
      Pain of excoriation round mouth.
      Pain in facial bones.
      Tension in facial muscles.
      Hard tuberculous pimples of face.
      Pimples on lips.
      Skin of face becomes light brown.
      Numbness of jaw, like incipient paralysis, better by compression and by drinking wine.

Teeth.
      Burning pain in upper teeth.
      Pressing in teeth.
      Tearing in lower teeth when opening mouth.
      Gums bluish, ulcerated.

Mouth.
      Taste, clayey, astringent.

Appetite.
      Strong relish for dainties, fruits, cabbage.
      Increased relish for tobacco in a smoker.
      Aversion to food in general, especially fatty things and milk, they cause uneasiness.
      Keen hunger very soon satisfied.
      Constant thirst even when drinking.
      Burning thirst.
      Thirst at night.

Stomach.

      Risings: rancid, like rotten eggs, acid with weight on stomach.
      Painful eructations.
      Hiccough.
      Inclination to vomit after eating, with shivering, with vertigo.
      Vomiting: of mucus on getting out of bed, yellowish after drinking, with copious urination.

Abdomen.
      Right hypochondrium: bruised pain, tearing pain, starting.
      When breathing both hypochondria feel bruised.
      Sensation of compression referred to diaphragm.
      Anxiety, beatings in abdomen.
      Lancinating pain after milk.

Stool.
      Constipation, anus feels as if strongly contracted.
      Diarrhoea, with violent cutting after eating pork.
      Whitish stools.
      After stool, pain in anus as if there was a crack there, shivering.
      Cramp at anus.
      Itching at anus.
      Tenesmus during night.

Urinary Organs.
      Desire to urinate with copious emissions.
      Urging with ineffectual efforts.
      Urine: hot, turbid, depositing a white sediment.

Female Sexual Organs.
      Itching at vulva.
      Menstrual blood fetid.
      Excoriation of bend of thigh after menses.
      Leucorrhea, viscid.

Respiratory Organs.
      Difficult respiration.
      Slight cough with watery expectoration.
      After a slight chill, 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.
      Pressing pain at the nape of the neck.
      Shivering in the back.
      Jerking in the region of the kidneys.

Upper Limbs.
      Swelling of axillary glands.
      Pressure, lancinating pains in shoulder joints.
      Tearing pain in elbow joints.
      Stiffness in elbows and wrists.
      Sensation of fullness in hands.
      Sweat on hands.

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

Sleep.
      Drowsiness, he sleeps too long.
      Aberration of hearing during sleep.
      During sleep, numbness of the parts he lies on.

Fever.
      Horripilation.
      Chilliness of one side only as soon as he is uncovered.
      In morning external coldness with feeling of heat.
      Coldness alternating with heat, succeeded by sweat.
      During heat, pale face, strong appetite, thirst, pain in bowels, restlessness.

      Sweat continues after fever.

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                         Aconitum Cammarum
Natural History.
      A. cammarum, Linn. (includes Acon. neomontanum, Willd., Acon. intermedium, D. C., and Acon. stoerckianum, Reich.).
      N. O. Ranunculacee. Tincture of root.

Clinical.
      Catalepsy.

Aconitum Cammarum

      Eruption.
      Headache.
      Neuralgia.
      Pollutions.
      Salivation.
      Tongue, paralysis of.
      Vomiting.

Characteristics.
      The main symptoms of Aconitine are reproduced in Acon-c. Formication begins on tongue and lips and spreads to face and thence over whole body, with this are distortion of features and dry skin.
      There is headache worse by bending body forward, and face ache accompanied by tinnitus aurium and vertigo.
      Walking causes weariness and, if continued, causes pains in elbows, knees, and hips.
      Violent eructations, inclination to vomit without vomiting, spasmodic contraction of stomach and abdominal muscles.
      Great sensitiveness to light.
      Erections and pollutions without voluptuous dreams.
      On lower extremities small papules and vesicles, filled with serous fluid, very painful.
      Memory weakened, sense of touch diminished.
      A. neomont. produced: Peculiar sharp taste followed by violent shooting pains from lips to stomach.
      The eructations and rumbling in bowels of the alkaloid were reproduced, but in addition the mucous membrane of the mouth was red, studded with small whitish yellow vesicles surrounded with bright red areola, salivation came on.
      Pupils, at first mobile, became persistently dilated, vision dim, unable to look at highly illuminated objects without winking, near and distant objects seem to swim.
      Extreme restlessness, it seems as if it were a tickling which impels him to constant movement, better in equable temperature, worse on entering warm air from cold and vice versa.
      Apathetic, indifferent to all the world.
      Sleep disturbed or impossible.
      Vomiting better all symptoms.

Mind.

Aconitum Cammarum

      Rage.
      Fear.
      Apathy and indifference.
      Thought and power of concentration disturbed.
      Memory weak.

Face.
      Blackish blue color of face, blue swollen lips.
      Most remarkable sensation contraction of face.

Mouth.
      Paralysis of tongue.
      Salivation.
      Fuzzy sensation where the crawling was.
      Taste and sensation diminished.

Abdomen.
      Burning in abdomen and sensation of ants crawling round in it.

Respiratory Organs.
      Voice hoarse and rough.
      Respiration slow, difficult, with sensation as if chest and throat constricted.

Heart.
      Pulse frequent, afterwards depressed, slow, irregular, intermittent.

Generalities.
      Subsultus tendinum.
      Twitching.
      Catalepsy.

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                     Aconitum Ferox
Natural History.
      A. ferox, Wall. A. virosum, Don. Bisch, or Bikh, Ativisha. (The most poisonous species known, containing greatest proportion of Aconitine, from the Himalaya Mountains.) N. O. Ranunculacee. Tincture of root.


Clinical.
      Burning pains.
      Cheyne-Stokes breathing. Chill.
      Dyspnea.
      Gastralgia.
      Neuralgia.
      Numbness.

Characteristics.
      A ferox was proved by Dworzack, who also proved Aconitine. The Ferox developed burning pains in greater intensity than the alkaloid, more intense mental activity followed by greater depression.
      The Aconite note of unendurability of suffering was marked.
      Anxiety and fear of suffocation from paralysis of respiratory muscles, obliged to breathe half-sitting up with head resting on palms of hands.
      Cold drinks better, sitting up better, warm food worse, coffee better.

Relations.
      Compare: Curare and Phos. (respiratory paralysis, Cheyne-Stokes breathing).

Mind.
      Mind very active, sequence of ideas rapid, talked constantly, remembered easily the minutest circumstances of his former experiment, compared them with present one, and readily drew conclusions (6 h.).
      In intervals of relief from distressing symptoms laughed and joked about his very comical condition, but when the dyspnea, anxiety, etc., returned, he could not seem to endure them, and abused heartily Aconite and toxicology in general (4 to 6 h.)
      Incapable of any mental work, even the simplest addition, comprehension and understanding confused (2nd day).

Mouth.
      Tongue almost insensible, feels like a piece of raw leather in month (6 h.).
      Tongue covered with a thick yellowish-white fur.
      Violent burning in mouth (in two minutes), renewed by eating (2nd day), better by drinking cold water.

Throat.
      Violent burning in pharynx.

Stomach.
      Pressure in stomach with pain.
      Warmth in stomach.
      Violent drawing pain in region of stomach and sacral region, soon spreading over whole abdomen, worse by pressure on epigastrium.
      On pressing in stomach, an internal, dull pressing pain.

Abdomen.
      Rumbling in bowels (5 m.), constant gurgling (4 h.).

Stool.
      Two half-watery, dark, not copious stools (2nd d.).

Urinary Organs.
      Frequent and copious evacuations of urine.

Respiratory Organs.
      Dyspnea increased to such a degree that he was obliged to breathe half-sitting up, with head resting on palms of hands, constantly feared suffocation from respiratory paralysis.

Limbs.
      Gait tottering, remarkable weakness in lower extremities, especially right


Generalities.
      Formication spread over whole body, least noticeable on parts that had been cold, worse, or excited by, change of temperature or motion.
      Having changed from one nerve to another, reached its greatest severity from 7 to 7.30 p-m.
      It caused a painful unrest so that he could not possibly lie quietly more than a few minutes.
      Getting up set up all the train of symptoms, which were better immediately on lying down.
      Benumbed sensation, as if he had on gloves, on pinching cheeks no pain felt, seemed to walk on woolen carpets (2nd, 3rd, and 4th d.).

Sleep.
      Sleeplessness.
      On waking, violent burning in mouth and throat, warmth in stomach, dull sensation in head.

Fever.
      Icy coldness of body (4 h.), objective and subjective, no amount of wraps and external warmth relieved.
      Desire to get warm drove him to get out of bed and sit near stove.
      Tottered to stove and warmth was pleasant, but vertigo, trembling, oppression, and nausea ensued and compelled him to return to bed.
      This experience was repeated.

      Fierce heat (calor mordax) on forehead, cheek, and hands, with sensation as if numerous glowing hot wires were stuck into him, better by perspiration (4 to 6 h.)


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                     Acidum Tartaricum
(Tartaric Acid)
Found in grapes, pineapple, sorrel and other fruits. It is an antiscorbutic antiseptic, stimulating the mucous and salivary secretions.

Acidum Tartaricum

Dullness and lassitude. Great weakness, with diarrhoea, with dry and brown tongue. Pain in heels. (PHYTOL.)

Stomach
Excessive thirst, continued vomiting burning in throat and stomach. Dyspepsia with copious secretion of mucus.

Abdomen
Pain around umbilicus and region of loins. Stool color of coffee-grounds (worse at night), with brown and dry tongue, and dark-green vomiting.

Dose

Third trituration. The pure acid 10-30 grains dissolved in water.

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                        Acidum Tannicum
Natural History.
      Tannic acid.
      C14H10O9, 2H2O. (There are two forms of tannic acid, Gallo-tannic acid, derived from nut-galls, and Querc-tannic acid, derived from healthy leaves and bark of the oak.
      The former is the most used.) Trituration. Solution in rectified spirit.

Acidum Tannicum

Clinical.
      Constipation.
      Ileus.

Characteristics.
      Tannin or Tannic acid, of which Gallic acid (C7H6O5) is a derivative, has produced effects on healthy persons, and on several taking it for diarrhoea.
      The chief effects were the production of a state of leathery dryness of mouth and intestinal canal, a condition like ileus, and a very aggravated state of constipation.

Relations.
      Compare: Querc., Gall. ac., Op., Plb.

Mouth.
      Tongue white, dry.
      Leathery dryness of mucous membrane of mouth and intestinal canal.

Acidum Tannicum

Stomach.
      Loss of appetite.
      Thirst.
      Vomiting.
      Obstinate vomiting of bilious substances.
      Painful sensation in epigastric region and abdomen.
      Violent pains in stomach.

Abdomen.
      The intestines could be felt like cylindrical enlargements through walls of abdomen.
      Ileus.
      Colic.
      Abdomen: distended, sensitive to pressure but not distended.

Stool.
      Painless and bloody discharge from bowels.
      Obstinate constipation, lasted eight days, only dissipated on the ninth day by two drops of Croton oil. Foul stools.

Urinary Organs.
      Urine scanty, dark-colored.

Heart.
      Palpitation.

Generalities.

      Weakness.

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