Aconite

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Aconite

Aconite Napellus is also known as Monkshood, Wolf’s Bane, Granny’s Nightcap and Iron Hat. It is used in homeopathy for a range of acute ailments where symptoms are intensely acute, sudden, violent, painful and accompanied by fear. Aconite is an excellent remedy for the treatment of panic and terror attacks when triggered by a sudden, frightful experience. In this context, Aconite is often indicated in ailments arising from shock, such as hearing bad news, near death experiences, injury (eg. accident), and surgical procedures.

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Stramonium

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Stramonium

Stramonium is used in the treatment of fear, anxiety and panic disorders, such as PTSD and panic attacks. Interestingly, it is also used in the treatment of many childhood acute ailments that are accompanied by its characteristically intense fear and restlessness. The Stramonium picture produces sharp, intense and even violent symptoms that include night terrors, fear of the dark, fear of danger, delirium and hallucinations. There is also violent thirst and dryness of the mouth, lips and throat. The face becomes bright red and the eyes are dilated and wild looking, a picture often seen in children acutes or anyone experiencing a panic attack.

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Arsencium Album

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Arsencium Album

Arsenicum is often indicated in the treatment of anxiety when accompanied by marked fear, restlessness and irritability. The central theme of Arsenicum is a feeling of being too weak to survive a world that is both chaotic and threatening. In this context, Arsenicum types feel overwhelmed with vulnerability and have a tendency to lean heavily on others for support, which can lead to overbearing dependency. Other characteristic symptoms include fastidiousness, a preoccupation with death and dying, and lots of fears that include cancer, disease, robbers and poverty.

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Finding the Right Remedy

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Finding the Right Remedy

Homeopathic Materia Medica are filled with thousands of remedies and there are new remedies being discovered, documented and used in practice on a regular basis.  Each remedy is coded with hundreds and even thousands of different symptoms that uniquely identify it apart from one remedy picture to the next.  This unique information is what characterises a remedy in terms of using it in homeopathic practice.  And that is why it is so important to understand your experience of being unwell as an individual, so that a remedy which has the same sorts of coded characteristic symptoms can be matched to the way you experience being sick. 

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