Understanding Aconitum nap.

Dr. Claudio C. Araujo M.D., F.F. Hom. (Lon.) et al.

 

 

“The infant, just born into the world, has undergone a shock. The functions of that little one are not yet established due of the great shock the little one has gone through”.

Those are Kent’s observations, regarding the Aconitum child. And this is our starting point, the very first sensation Aconitum had felt when his conscience brought to him his own first impressions of the world.  He is completely frightened, almost in estate of shock, to the point of not having his physiological functions already well established.

Newborn children: asphyxia, apoplectic symptoms, hot, purplish, breathless, pulseless; icterus; ophthalmia; retained urine; vomit blood, with bloody stools.

At your next visit the nurse says, "The child has not passed urine."

From that extreme state of fright (and its clinical consequences) we will now foresee all further developments: Aconitum will become himself a very sensitive person, and it’s an almost painful sensitiveness.

 

Screams aloud at slightest touch, screams with pains; cannot bear light; will not be touched or uncovered; buzzing in ears.

 Cannot bear pain, nor to be touched, nor uncovered.

Pains are so intolerable they drive him crazy; he becomes very restless. 

 Music is unbearable, it goes through every limb, and makes her quite sad (24h),

The slightest noise is unbearable

Over-sensitive to light and noise,.

 

 

Frightened, scared, and extremely sensitive, now we may understand why he is so much anxious and restless. Death is coming and will take him over.

 

Dolorous anxious complaints, with pusillanimous fears, despair, loud wailing, and weeping, and bitter reproaches, 

His anxiety and fright rose to a great pitch, 

Anxiety as though a great misfortune would happen to him,

 Increased anxiety; followed by tot 

Anxiety which does not allow him to remain in one place, he must constantly walk about,

Anxiety and peevishness, with fine darting in the side of the chest, then palpitation at the pit of the stomach, and pressive headache]. 

*Inconsolable anxiety and piteous howling, with complaints and reproaches about trifles (5h), [1]. 

 

He is made restless by internal anxiety, 

Restlessness, agony, internal anxiety; does everything in great haste; must move about or change position often. 

He did all things hurriedly, and ran about the house, 

 Restlessness, uninterrupted, unpleasant; he must now sit, now stand, now walk, he does not know what the matter is, 

Excessive restlessness, all movements and actions are performed with great haste and hurry.

 

(In sick:) Fear of death: during pregnancy or confinement; with prolapsus uteri; with great loquacity or anxiety in region of heart. 

Predicts day of death; bids her friends good-bye. θ In childbed. 

Fear of approaching death (2-12h), 

Excessive fear of death, [t]. 

Feeling as if his last hour had come, 

Thrice he became blind, and affirmed death to be at hand, 

Extreme fearfulness 

Dread of some accident happening, 

 

Now he is restless, anxious, people must move sideways or he will bang them away. They must move out because he is in a hurry to save his life. He has to run away; he can’t waste a single moment. Always in a hurry, his solely concern is about himself, his health, his living.

Others are just in his path and must be moved away.

 

Kent: There is moaning and irritability, anger, throwing things away, all attended with the violence and anxiety. These features that I described as uppermost are intermingled with all the other symptoms.

 

Excessive disagreeable restlessness; without occasion for hurrying, he is in the greatest haste, every obstacle that delays his rapid pace is excessively annoying; he knocks against some people who do not get out of his way fast enough, and runs in breathless haste up the steps; this hurried disposition lasted two hours,. 

 

On his indifference, it’s shows itself in the proving and Kent also comments about his behavior towards the others. He had become indifferent to his loved ones and generally distant from everyone else.

 

Has no affection for anybody. θ During pregnancy. 

Morose, misanthropic, peevish; malicious mood. 

Dislike to company, 

Anthropophobia (3h), 

Misanthropy, [1]. Desire to be alone, 

Disinclined for conversation, 

Desire to be alone; shuns people. 

Dislikes to talk, answers laconically yes or no.

 

At last, in his process of sickening, we can find an Aconitum patient sad and lonely. He doesn’t care if he is not addressed, he doesn’t want to be disturbed. He is easy offended, vexed, he probably gave up his fight for living and now he is sitting waiting for death to pick him over.

 

Kent: Fear is depicted upon his countenance, and the heart's action is so overwhelming the first thing he thinks of is that he must die; this must mean death, which he fears. It stands out upon his countenance. He says: "Doctor, there is no use; I am going to die."

Many times, he actually predicts the moment or the hour of his death. If a clock is in the room, he may say that when the hour hand reaches a certain point he will be a corpse.

 

Dejected, as if she had no life in her (2h)

Dejected, disinclination for everything, depression even whilst walking. 

He takes every joke in bad part (3h) 

Vexed at trifles; takes every joke in bad part. 

Ailments from vexation, with fear or vehemence: congestion; palpitation; fever;

 

Clairvoyance, another aspect of Aconitum, probably belongs to his sensitivity. But let’s assume that Aconitum has developed and extremely predictor feeling due to his eternal sensation of upcoming death and everything that comes altogether with it. As he must protect himself against every single threat coming from the future, he develops a way to predict all dangerous occurrences.

 

Clairvoyance: conscious that his beloved, miles away, was singing a certain piece. 

 Lucid (clairvoyant) vision, [1]. [Hahnemann's note explains that he was conscious that his beloved, fifty miles away, was singing a certain piece.] 

He has a very vivid dream towards morning and obtains an accurate explanation of a circumstance that was a riddle to him while awake (after 20h.) 

 

Is the Aconitum patient someone that at his birth has had a frightful conscience of life and death?

We know that he is generally frightened and sensitive, but what is showing up, along his life, is an extreme fear of death. He predicts his time of death in small details, he is certain of dying. Probably that is what Aconitum will lose: his life. And he is frightfully conscious of death since the very beginning. 

Does his suffering come due to his certitude of death? 

Is living what he didn’t want to lose? 

Is living forever what he wanted? 

Is life the most precious gift and he does not want to give it back?