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Aconite
In her book,
The Complete Homeopathy Handbook, Miranda Castro
writes
this of Aconite:
Insight:
Hahnemann
published his provings of Aconite in 1805, and it soon
became a widely used remedy, especially for fevers and
inflammations, which until then had been largely ‘cured’
by bloodletting. And so it became known as the
‘homeopathic lancet’....
This remedy will work only at the very beginning of an
illness - within the first twenty-four to forty-eight
hours. The symptoms are often a result of fright, shock
or being chilled. Someone who has been very
angry can also bring on an Aconite state. Exposure to a
draught, or a cold, dry wind, can cause a wide range of
symptoms.
On Fever:
Symptoms Heat:
alternating with chills at night; burning; dry at night.
Pulse: fast; strong. With ANXIETY.
Better for
uncovering. Worse at night; in the evening.
Causes getting chilled.
The person
feels hot inside and chilly externally. the cheeks may
alternate between hot and red and pale and ghostly (the
colour may drain
from the face on getting up); or one cheek will be hot
and red and the other pale and cold, especially in
teething children. Those parts of the body that are
covered with clothing become sweaty; the person may kick
off the covers. There is a burning, unquenchable thirst;
everything tastes bitter except water, and even that
tastes bad. |
Belladonna
In his book,
Lotus Materia Medica, Robin Murphy, ND writes
this of
Belladonna.
Insight:
It
[Belladonna] grows in dry limestone soils and is the
acute correlative of Calc. Its influence is felt more in
intelligent and plethoric persons who are jovial and
entertaining when well, but violent when sick, therefore
a great children’s remedy.... Belladonna stands for
violence of attack and suddenness of onset... often
associated with hot,
red skin, flushed face, dilated pupils, throbbing,
excited mental state, hyperesthesia of all senses,
delirium, restless sleep, convulsive
movements, dryness of mouth and throat with aversion to
water, neuralgic pains that come and go suddenly.
Belladonna effects are sudden and violent. Burning heat,
bright redness and dryness are very marked.
Belladonna is a great children’s remedy... Complaints
come suddenly, hot, red face, semi-stupor, every little
while starting or jumping in sleep.
On Fever:
Temperature -
High fever. Delirium. Hot head with cold limbs. Feet icy
cold. Burning, pungent, steaming, heat. Blood-vessels,
distended.
Perspiration dry only on head. No thirst with fever.
Skin hot, but moist
and dry alternately. |
Bryonia
In her book,
The Complete Homeopathy Handbook, Miranda Castro
writes this of Bryonia.
Insight:
Bryonia has
been nicknamed ‘the bear’ because of Bryonia types’
irritability. They are especially irritable when
disturbed, and they may
lie like logs and pretend to be asleep to avoid having
to respond. They
resent any intrusion, and want to be left alone when
they are ill. Someone in a fever needing Bryonia
may say, ‘I want to go home’, even though he is already
at home. They are touchy, and do not want to be
questioned, examined or interfered with in any way.
Children do not want to be carried or moved about. They
are capricious and reject things - toys, food, etc. -
they have just asked for. Many complaints needing
Bryonia come on in the first warm weather as spring
turns to summer, or from getting chilled when
overheated... A Bryonia illness will develop slowly over
days... Many of the acute
complaints needing Bryonia, such as flu, fevers and
coughs, are
accompanied by headaches.
On Fever:
Symptoms Heat:
burning; dry; alternating with chills; one-sided;
without
sweating.
Better for complete rest.
Worse in the autumn; around 9p.m.
The patient will feel hot internally and externally, and
often the right side of the body will be hotter than the
left. If there are chills, they will generally be
present during the day. |
Gelsemium
In her book,
Homeopathic Drug Pictures, M.L. Tyler, MD,
compiles remedy pictures from many sources. She writes
of Gelsemium:
Insight:
Gelsemium is a
great paralyser. It produces a general state of paresis,
mental and bodily. The mind is sluggish, the whole
muscular structure is relaxed: the limbs so heavy he can
hardly move them.... The mental
prostration is typified in ‘funk’ as before an
examination; stage fright; effects of anger, grief, bad
news. Influenza. There is one form of ‘flu which
Gels. makes quick work -
where chills are playing up and down the spine; where
legs are too heavy, almost, to lift, and head and brain
too languid, and weighty, and dull; and here a dose of
Gels will straighten things up, often in a couple of
hours.
Again, patients come - sometimes after an epidemic,
complaining, “Never well since ‘flu some weeks ago;
tired, languid, heavy - can’t get well.” The
temperature is found to be about 99; and there are
chills.... Gels.
soon restores all things.
Miranda
Castro’s
The Complete Homeopathy Handbook
describes its fever On Fever Symptoms Heat: burning.
With shivering. Without sweating. Better for sweating;
for urinating. Worse during the afternoon. Waves of heat
alternate with chills running up and down the back, and
although the teeth may chatter the patient doesn’t feel
cold. The chills begin in hands and feet and move up the
body. The patient may be
breathing faster than normal. |
