ACONITUM CAMMARUM by Dr. James Joseph

ACONITUM CAMMARUM

Botanical name:

Aconitum cammarum Linn

Synonyms:

Aconitum decorum Reichh, Aconitum ealtatumBeruh

Occurance and distribution:

Europe, especially in Hungary.

Homoeopathic medicinal prover:

Schroff.

Parts used:

Roots.

Chemical constituents:

Aconitine, indaaconitine, mesaconintine, neoline, songramine, deoxyaconitine, hypoacontine, aconine, ephedrine. Roots containing

vit-c and starch.

Description:

It is herbup to 1 m in height. Root globular, tuberous. Leaf with short, bluntish lobe, deeply cut but not to the base having larger undivided area and with broader segments. Inflorescence usually branched, few flowered, terminal raceme or panicle or loose spike, somewhat short and nearly like laterals. Flowers purple, blue or reddish, variegated or white. Sepals deciduous, helmet hemispherical or wedge shaped, closed; petals with inflexed or hooked spur. Fruit a follicle; seeds 3 angled, angle not winged.

Cultivation and collection:

Aconitum cammarum prefers moisture retentive soil in shade; plants will also thrive in a sunny position if the soil is sufficiently damp throughout the growing season. Propagate by division when dormant; by seed sown under cover in spring. Remove dead flower heads to encourage a second crop of flowers. Plants are lifted in autumn and young, thick roots are removed before replanting.

Preparation:

a)    Mother tincture                                         drug  strength 1/10

Aconitum cammarum in coarse powder                           100 g

Purified water                                                                 350ml

Strong alcohol                                                                685 ml

To make one liters of mother tincture.

b)      Potencies:2x to contain one part mother tincture, 3 parts purified water, 6 parts strong alcohol. 3x and higher with dispensing alcohol.

Non Homoeopathic action:

·        Toxicology:Numbness and tingling in the mouth, abdominal pain, vomiting, purging, tremor, occasional delirium,dyspnoea ending in syncope.

Homoeopathic action:

·        Patient is indifferent, disturbed thought and power of concentration, weak memory.

·        Fear of death.

·        Face blackish-blue, lips blue and swollen; sensation of contraction of face.

·        Taste and sensation diminished. Excessive salivation.

·        Paralysis of tongue and sensation of crawling.

·        Headache aggravated by bending body forward.

·        Burning in abdomen and sensation of crawling round in it.

·        Violent eructations, inclination to vomit without vomiting.

·        Voice becomes hoarse and rough.

·        Respirations slow difficult. Pulse frequent slow irregular and intermittent.

Duration of action:

Five to six hours

Prescribed potency:

3x and higher.