ACONITUM LYCOCTONUM

General Action.
Tincture of the fresh flowering plant. Unlike other aconites contains no aconitine. Symptoms resemble other aconites but lack prominent cutaneous nervous affections. Marked swelling of breasts and cervical and axillary glands; pruritus of eyes, nose, anus and vulva; fissured nasal skin; cough leaving taste of blood; diarrhoea after pork; glandular growths, especially scrofulous and Hodgkin types; < in afternoon, on mental exertion and during digestion, notably after pork, onions and wine; > by eructations and vomiting.

Mind.
Mania with ferocity; laughing; distraction; ideas unstable; fear of work; memory weak.

Head.
Vertigo with nausea; lancinating head pains extending to eyes; sensation as if nail driven into head on movement; hammering in temples; rheumatic scalp pain < by touch.

Eyes.
Lancinative pains from outer to inner canthus; painful, itchy eyelids; pressure on lids with difficulty opening; stinging at canthi; dryness of inner canthus.

Ears.
Purulent discharge; redness behind ears.

Nose.
Itching and lancinating pain; pressure at nasal root; fissured skin; muco-purulent discharge.

Face.
Pale, shining; excoriative pain around mouth; pain in facial bones; tension of facial muscles; hard tubercles on face and lips; face becomes light brown; numbness of jaw resembling incipient paralysis > by compression and wine.

Teeth.
Burning pain in upper teeth; pressure sensation; tearing pain in lower teeth on opening; bluish, ulcerated gums.

Mouth.
Clay-like astringent taste.

Appetite.
Intense craving for sweets, fruits and cabbage; increased tobacco desire; aversion to food, especially fats and milk causing discomfort; hungry quickly satisfied; constant burning thirst, nocturnal thirst.

Stomach.
Heartburn with rancid or rotten-egg taste; acidity with stomach heaviness; painful eructations; hiccup; inclination to vomit after eating with chill and vertigo; vomiting of mucus on rising; yellow after drinking; with copious urine.

Abdomen.
Right hypochondrial aching and tearing pains; on respiration both hypochondria painful; diaphragmatic compression sensation; abdominal palpitations; lancinating pains after milk.

Stool and Anus.
Constipation with anus feeling tightly contracted; diarrhoea with cutting pains after pork; whitish stools; post-defecatory anal pain as from fissures with chill; anal cramps; nocturnal tenesmus; pruritus.

Urinary Organs.
Desire to urinate with copious emission; urgent ineffectual efforts; urine hot, turbid with white sediment.

Female Sexual Organs.
Vulvar pruritus; fetid menstruation; popliteal excoriation post-menses; viscous leucorrhoea.

Respiratory Organs.
Dyspnoea; slight cough with watery expectoration; cough after slight chill leaving taste of blood.

Breast.
Swelling of mammary glands.

Neck and Back.
Swollen cervical glands; apparent neck enlargement, unilateral; pressing pain at nape; back chill; kidney-region jerks.

Upper Limbs.
Swollen axillary glands; pressure and lancinating shoulder-joint pains; tearing in elbow; stiffness of elbows and wrists; fullness and sweating of hands.

Lower Limbs.
On stretching legs gluteal muscles felt shortened; leg jerks; nocturnal ankle pruritus; lancinating dorsum pedis pain on standing; hot red slightly painful macular eruption on legs and toes.

Sleep.
Somnolence with abundant sleep; auditory hallucinations; numbness of pressure-points during sleep.

Fever.
Shivering; unilateral chill if uncovered; morning external cold with internal warmth; alternating chills and heat with sweat; during heat pale face, strong appetite, thirst, intestinal pain, restlessness; sweat persists post-fever.

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