Aconitum Lycoctonum

The symptoms of A. /ycoct., whilst 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 < in afternoon (like Lycop.); < from mental exertion; < during

digestion, especially of pork, onions, and after wine.

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 < by touch.

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.

Itching on nose; sensitiveness; lancinations.—Compression at root of nose.—Skin of

nose cracked.—Muco-purulent discharge from nose.

• ▸Face pale; shining.
• ▸—Pain of excoriation round mouth.
• ▸—Pain in facial bones.
• ▸—Tension

• ▸in facial muscles.
• ▸—Hard tuberculous pimples on face.
• ▸—Pimples on lips.
• ▸—Skin of face becomes

light brown.—Numbness of jaw, like incipient paralysis, > by compression and by drinking wine.

Burning pain in upper teeth.—Pressing in teeth —Tearing in lower teeth when opening

mouth—Gums bluish; ulcerated.

Strong relish for dainties, fruits, cabbage.—Increased relish for tobacco in a

• ▸smoker.
• ▸—Aversion to food in general esp.
• ▸fatty things and milk; they cause uneasiness.
• ▸—Keen

• ▸hunger very soon satisfied.
• ▸—Constant thirst even when drinking.
• ▸—Burning thirst.
• ▸—Thirst at night.

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.

R. 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.

Constipation; anus feels as if strongly contracted. —Diarrhcea, 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.

Desire to urinate with copious emissions.—Urging with ineffectual

efforts —Urine: hot; turbid, depositing a white sediment.

Itching at vulva—Menstrual blood fetid —Excoriation of bend of

thigh after menses.—Leucorrheea: viscid.

Difficult respiration.—Slight cough with watery expectoration.—A fter

a slight chill, cough leaving a taste of, blood in the mouth.

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.

Swelling of axillary glands.—Pressure; lancinating pains in shoulder

• ▸joints.
• ▸—Tearing pain in elbow joints.
• ▸—Stiffness in elbows and wrists.
• ▸—Sensation of fulness in

hands.—Sweat on hands.

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.

Drowsiness; he sleeps too long.—Aberration of hearing during sleep. —During sleep,

numbness of the parts he lies on.

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.

• ▸Breasts, inflammation of.
• ▸Constipation.
• ▸Diarrhoea.
• ▸Glands, enlargement of.
• ▸Hodgkin's

• ▸disease.
• ▸Liver, disorders of.
• ▸Pork, effects of.
• ▸Strangury.

• ▸Compare: Cistus, Lap.
• ▸alb.
• ▸, Con.
• ▸, Iod.
• ▸, Spo.
• ▸, Lyc.
• ▸, Carb.
• ▸an.
• ▸; Puls.
• ▸(effects of pork).