aconite for chronic ailments

[Felipe Cárdenas Támara]

Dear members of the list:

It seems that aconite is a short acting remedy. But is happens tha a patient of mine seems to need it as a constitutional remedy, buy I´m afraid of the aggravations due to the extreme weakness of the patient. She suffers from asthma from the age of four years old, sudden attacks, worse on cold weather. Since that age se has been using the most sophisticated allopathic remedies developved for asthma. I star it using LM potencies starting at Lm1 and gone up to LM2 (Aconite). She had a terrible aggravation, not due to the remedy but to an environmental condition. A remodelation was
carried out at her apartment and she suffered a terrible asthma attack. She had to be carried to the hospital and know she feels better after the general treatment on cortisone's.
She wants to keep her homeopathic treatment. She felt much better under the influence of Aconite during the almost two months she took aconite. What strategy to follow? Keep on aconite. and on LM. Give to her in a high potency or try out a more prominent remedy.

If someone is interested in the case here is more information:

Female, 28 year old,
Psychologist,
Works for addicts
She is and addict to asthma sprays and inhalators.
Every two years lor less she suffers a sever asthma attack

Mind- anguish and fear with tears
fear to be alone
fears on her sickness
active concentration
she is a very active person
very social
loves mental work
calm person
likes to talk
sad when sick and for her condition

A hard infancy and youth, she was abandon by her father and difficult social relations with her mother
head hair falling -profuse
white dandruff
head ache violent pains
pressure in fore head
pressure in sides
pressing temples
nose and smell-congestion asthmatic breathing
respiration noisy
congestion to nose
face discoloration during asthma attacks
face eruptions
throat constriction
stomach appetite diminished
aversion to fat and rich food
abdomen inflammation
difficult natural stools
pain before menses
irregular menses
long and variable intervals during menses
asphyxia
asthmatic respiration after midnight
spasmodic respiration

[isali]

I infer that the pt. has some cardiac manifestations, and that some of her
clinical symptoms are left sided. Aconite is left sided, and does offer
some cardiac response. Other remedies for your thinking may be aurum,
conv., glonoin. Some benefits have been found with the use of Blatta in low
potency, and Quebraco in high potency. Arnica offers benefit as well to the
tissue which suffers an inflamatory reponse.

[Felipe Cárdenas Támara]

Dear friend:

Thank you for your answer, but let me tell you that the patient I describe has´nt any heart troubles as you may find out in the information I send.

cordially

Felipe Cárdenas

isali wrote:
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[Jan Klüssendorf]

Dear Filipe,

I don't see much Aconitum in your case.
Your description misses a little 'character'/dept/contrast.
Difficult to 'get the picture'
I've tried to repertorise (see rubrics below) your case and the remedies on
which you might check for confirmation, according this rep, are:
Puls, Nat c, arist-cl, hyos, Bell
Hope it helps.

Jan
PS: I have in my repertorisation put a big (causational) emphasis on the
abandonment by her father (translated in 'forsaken feeling) and have
translated the 'likes to talk' by desire for company, because 'likes to
talk' is far from 'talks all the time' which would have directed me into an
other rem of course. The 'fear with tears' is translated by 'fear, weeping
amel.' I don't know that really fits.
MIND - ANGUISH - weeping, with
MIND - ANGUISH
MIND - FEAR - weeping amel.
MIND - FEAR - alone, of being
MIND - COMPANY - desire for
MIND - OCCUPATION - amel.
MIND - MENTAL EXERTION - desire for
MIND - FORSAKEN feeling
GENERALS - FOOD and DRINKS - fat - aversion
GENERALS - FOOD and DRINKS - rich food - aversion
RESPIRATION - ASTHMATIC - dust; from inspiration of
RESPIRATION - ASTHMATIC - smoking - agg.
RESPIRATION - ASTHMATIC - night - midnight - after (with all subrubrics)
GENERALS - WEATHER - cold weather - dry - agg.
GENERALS - WEATHER - wet weather - agg.
GENERALS - WEATHER - change of weather - agg.