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Trauma, Surgeries: the typical picture of aconitum can be
triggered from trauma and may present shock due to trauma. It can also present disorders and disorders due to surgical interventions.
Acute picture
The acute picture of the drug is well known, so much so that authors of the stature of J.T. Kent deduced that aconitum is an essentially acute drug, finding it by exception indicated in chronic states (a statement that limited for decades the use of this irreplaceable polycrest to treat chronic disease in patients). Clarke in turn mentioned “with aconitum the bleeding is over”. Dunham described acute congestive conditions requiring the indication of aconitum as “a storm that comes and goes.” Acute febrile conditions: they expressly manifest the characteristic mental symptomatic trilogy: anxiety, agitation and fear of death. The patient quickly reaches hyperthermia, with great congestion “burning and drying”, manifesting itself on the face with one or both ruddy cheeks. He also presents hyperesthesia, with chills that ascend from head to toe, absence of perspiration, miosis, subjective sensation of heat, with the need to uncover and thirst for cold drinks. When perspiration appears, the patient calms down, the feeling of heat ceases and warms up.
Inflammations that have to do with the accumulation of fluids: external inflammation, affections of the serous, dropsy, hydrocephalus, glaucoma.
Peripheral nerve conditions: facial neuralgia, sudden blindness.
Tropisms
Central and peripheral nervous system Cardio-circulatory system
We have described so far the highlights of the drug. Next, we will briefly analyse the behaviour that can usually occur in patients who require aconitum as a constitutional medication.
Symptoms of character, homeopathic personality: according to the miasmatic predominance of each individual, the following behavioural characteristics can be manifested to a greater or lesser extent:
Psoric predominance: pleasant, “soft”, harmless-looking individuals, scared, affectionate, shy, cowardly, compassionate, sweet, sentimental, nostalgic (illusion of being away from home). Patients in clinical cases 2 and 3 had these characteristics.
Sycotic predominance: distrust is manifested, with aversion to being touched, to people, to the company in general with a desire to be alone. The patient in the first clinical case described fit this description.
The most remarkable in the three clinical cases reported was the sweetness (inability to attack, even presenting great fear, manifested by the evident body language). The symptoms of irritability and anger, mentioned in the literature (cholera disorders, repressed cholera, trifle anger, anger with tremors, violent anger, intolerant to contradiction, etc.) were not observed in patients treated and improved with the drug, nor were those referring to variability (extreme variable mood, capricious, aversion to company alternating with desire for companionship, mental activity alternating with dullness, full of hope alternating with hopelessness, laughter and joy alternating with gloomy humour and weeping, etc.).
Conclusions and comments
Through a thorough analysis of the clinical cases described
deep knowledge of this valuable polycrest and assess its application in chronic diseases that occur daily in the practice of Veterinary Medicine. The challenge is set, it is everyone’s task to continue studying the Materia Medica conscientiously, generating more and more shared experiences that allow us to “learn and apprehend” as many remedies as possible to use them successfully in the treatment of the “monster with a thousand heads”, psora, chronic disease, which gives rise to “almost all other innumerable and frequent forms of disease.”
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