The main symptoms, of Aconitine are reproduced in A. camm. 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 < by bending body forward; and faceache
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; > in equable temperature, < on entering warm air from cold and vice
- versa.
- Apathetic, indifferent to all the world.
- Sleep disturbed or impossible.
- Vomiting > all
symptoms.