Aconite Ferox Homoeopathic Medicine materia Medica

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Aconitum ferox also known as Aconitum virorum is a species of monkshood, in the family Ranunculaceae. It is also known as the Indian Aconite.

A deciduous perennial that grows up to 1.0 metre tall by 0.5 metres wide and which favours many types of soil. They are handsome plants with the tall and erect stem crowned byracemes of large eye-catching blue, purple, white, yellow or pink zygomorphic flowers with numerous stamens. They are distinguished by having one of the five petaloid sepals (the posterior one), called the galea, in the form of a cylindrical helmet; hence the English name monkshood. There are 2-10 petals, in the form of nectaries. The two upper petals are large. They are placed under the hood of the calyx and are supported on long stalks.

It is from “Aconitum ferox” that the well known Indian poison bikh, bish, or nabee is produced. It contains large quantities of the alkaloid pseudaconitine, which is a deadly poison.

Aconite ferox is considered the most poisonous plant in the world.

Symptoms of Aconite ferox

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

Characteristics:

Aconitum (Aconite) ferox was proved by Dworzack, who also proved Aconitine. Aconite ferox developed burning pains in greater intesnity than the alkoloid; more intense mental activity followed by greater depression. The Aconite note of inability to endure suffering was marked. Anxiety and fear of suffocation from paralysis of respiratory muscels; obliged to breathe half-sitting up with head resting on palms of hands. Cold drings >; sitting up >; warm food <; coffee >.

Relations –  Compare: Curare and Phosphorus in respiratory paralysis and Cheyne-Stokes breathing.

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Peonia officinalis Homoeopathic Medicine

 Peony

Pæonia belongs to the great order of Ranunculaceæ, which includes the Aconites, Actæas, and Hellebores. The proving brings out many symptoms of congestion─rush of blood to head, face, chest; burning heat and redness of eyes and face; burning, itching, and swelling of anus; heat in throat; in skin. The symptoms are well characterised, but it is principally the anal and skin symptoms which have been verified in practice. One of the symptoms of the proving is this: “A small ulcer on perineum near anus that constantly oozes very offensive moisture; painful for eight days.” This symptom has been expanded by clinical observation, principally Ozanam’s, into ulceration in general, ulcers from pressure, as bed-sores, and from ill-fitting boots. “Sensation of splinter sticking in skin of right great toe when touched,” and “violent pain as from pressure in left little toe,” are guiding symptoms of the provings which put that great prescriber on the right track here.

The ulcers are the seat of severe shooting pains. The symptoms of Ozanam’s cases are bracketed in the Schema. These observations show the relationship between Pæon. and the Hellebores. The situation of the ulcer of the proving, together with the anal symptoms─biting, itching, swelling, burning─clearly point to Pæon. as a remedy in anal affections such as abscess, fissure, fistula, and piles.

The leading indications are intolerable pain during and after stool and oozing of moisture. Experience has proved that varicose veins as well as anal varices are amenable to Pæon. The dreams experienced by the provers were of a terrifying nature; and it is interesting to note, as Geyer, one of the provers, does, that both Dioscorides and Plinius cured nightmare with Pæon., the former with the seeds, the latter with the root. Geyer was ignorant of this fact until after he had experienced the nightmare-causing power of the drug. As the tissues are sensitive to pressure and injury, the mind is also sensitive: “Griping pain in abdomen, preceded, and especially followed, by anxiety, trembling of legs and arms as though he were frightened; he became apprehensive if any one spoke to him, and unpleasant news affected him exceedingly.” There is fainting with diarrhœa; and the stools are followed by intense chilliness, occurring generally a few hours after he felt the worst. The symptoms were pressure from lower jaw to inner ear. Drinking water > vertigo with nausea. The right side is more affected than the left.

Reference: Clarke’s Materia Medica.