I've been prescribed aconite (homeopathic remedy) for my panic attacks, anyone know anything about it?

Answer 1

A remedy par excellence for "Panic Attacks" if you have the symptoms it covers. Homeopathy treats the patient not the disease, the complete symptoms of what and how the patient feels from head to toes(Mind and Body) have to be taken into consideration before a Homeopath can prescribe an appropriate remedy for you.
FEAR is the main thing which indicates Aconite, to read more about it click the link :- http://homeoint.org/books/boericmm/a/acon.htm
Feel free to ask if you need any information regarding Homeopathy, I answer questions here just to help people not to sell anything or to make money. My advice is totally free and always will be :o)
Please read my answer to this question about panic attacks for more information :- http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=ArASyW_nU1F96f6G.XEam2juxQt.;_ylv=3?qid=20071113020517AARFCXU

Best of Health to you.
Take Care and God Bless you.



Edit :-
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God Bless you too.(And he should better hurry) :o)

Answer 2

Aconite Homeopathic Remedy

Answer 3

First off guys...please be consistent here! Regardless of how much I disagree with you, don't start off by contradicting each other.

Kalos > Homeopathic remedys are water and therefore this is a worthless placebo.

Kalos's Friend > Aconite is dangerous and can make you sick and is not recomended, therefore don't use this, as says my textbook.

Second, I know how to do it. I'm suprised soul doctor does not. Most likely he just has not stated it. However, detecting structural changes in water is very difficult, so I can understand why it might only be judged off the effects rather than actually being able to analyze it.

Third
"Homepathy has been repeatedly and thoroughly tested for effectiveness, and has failed every single time. "
A single study is sufficent to disprove that. Absolutes are something you should be wary of making, since generally they show nothing more than religious zeal.

Every analogy I can think of is politically correct, so I'll just go with this one, since you're basically making the same argument.

"All muslims are terrorists that want to kill us and need to be gotten rid of asap."

Anyhow, despite the fact MSL gave an answer that missed the entire point, it's somewhat useful for answering your question! Homeopathy believes that if you take something which creates the same symptoms for a condition, and then dilute it a whole bunch (plus other stuff), it will cancel out the problems causing the condition and heal you.
All the stuff aconite does according to MSL mirrors what would happen to you in a panic attack, so as a result, imagine the exact opposite of what she's explaining is occuring.

Or you can just read soul doctors post since he does this for a living.

EDIT;
*Kalos if you are going to go into semantics with me to prove your point.
". When I state that Homeopathy has failed every single test, I mean nothing more or less than *SO FAR*."
Then I guess I should note that you read the tenses of the statements incorrectly. Your response (although lame) would be correct if I had said a single study in the future will disprove your statement. What I said was in the present, which means if a single study exists to disprove it, then... your statement was wrong. It was designed to illustrate the logical fallacy in making 100% generalizations of studies on the matter disproving it (I have no doubts over half the recognized ones refute it, but you cannot say all. Thus it transitions from being a logical point to an emotional attack.). Instead you answered it was another logical fallacy. Not good to do imo.
You also missed what I said about the structural changes. I don't think I can explain this one to you, so I'll just drop it.

Answer 4

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I've been prescribed aconite (homeopathic remedy) for my panic attacks, anyone know anything about it?

Answer 5

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Answer 6

If you are a natural person you should try cognitive behavioral therapy. It was the only thing that has helped me with my horrible health anxiety. Read here https://tr.im/BjxJK

Your thinking determines your quality of life. Your thinking is what causes you these feelings:

Anxious, fearful, stressed or depressed
Constantly worried, or angry about something that is happening in your life
Struggling to overcome obsessive and negative thoughts.

If you change your thinking, you will change your life. This is the basic idea behind CBT for anxiety. The Cognitive part is where you learn nee methods and ways to change your same old habits and thinking patterns. If you keep thinking and expecting the worst – You will continue to suffer.

Answer 7

Listen to Kalos and MSL. I always get a good laugh at the responses from sOul QuaCk and Alex F.The first one does homeoquackery as a "living" but doesn't charge for it and has hours and hours to spew his nonsense on the Inter net. The second one has no formal training or education in science or medicine but can analyze the structure of water molecules give medical advice.If tap water helps your panic attacks then bottoms up for the placebo effect.

Answer 8

Aconite is a potentially poisonous preparation from a plant in the buttercup family. It used to be used in western medicine, but was abandoned because it has since been replaced by safer and more effective drugs.
Aconite works by paralyzing the sensory nerves that feel pain, touch, and temperature (spinothalamic tract), and thus functions as a local anesthetic.
The plant extract contains many alkaloids (plant compounds that contain nitrogen and have varying effects all over the body - other notable alkaloids include cocaine and atropine).
Taken internally, aconitum slows the heart rate (it can make you dangerously bradycardic, to the point of asystole), produces diaphoresis (sweating), and can cause a dangerous decline in blood pressure. It can also paralyze respiration due to action on the respiratory center of the brain.
Aconite causes depression of nerve terminal action, starting with sensory (small-diameter fibers) nerves, thus causing the relief of pain. However, at higher doses, the large-diameter motor neurons become affected, leading to paralysis.

Obviously, the very severe cardiac and central nervous system side effects associated with aconite are the reason that it is no longer recommended for use in Western medicine. As I stated before, there are safer alternatives that are currently available. Keep in mind that many people who pose as "herbalists" have no medical or pharmacological training whatsoever, and thus recommend these herbal drugs with absolutely no knowledge of potential toxicities and side-effects.
My textbook of clinical pharmacology (Katzung, 10th edition, 2007) recommends the avoidance of aconite because of these depressive effects. Please be advised that there is very little data available on the safety and efficacy of this drug. The "classically" recommended dose (from when aconite was actually used in Western medicine, before it was abandoned as a treatment), was 60mg. However, be advised that as little as 2 to 5 mg of aconite may cause death from paralysis of the respiratory center or heart. Significant toxicity also may develop following percutaneous absorption, so be careful that you do not allow significan skin or mucus membrane contact with the drug.
I would strongly advise against taking this medication, as the dosage in your preparation is likely not even monitored or tested. You should visit your physician (a real one) if you are interested in learning more about anxiolytic medication. I would not trust someone without medical training to prescribe a drug that has the potential to be extremely toxic, and I would certainly never take a medication that was not subject to monitoring and testing. Keep in mind that the role of medical doctors (that's M.D.s and D.O.s only) and medical scientists (that's people with M.S. and PhD degrees in a biological, chemical, or pharmacological discipline) is to be the watchdogs, so that the validity and claims about drugs, therapies, and techniques can be scientifically and statistically verified. They are the experts, and, believe it or not, most of them care about their patients, and don't want to see them risk getting sick or dying from a potentially toxic substance, and don't want patients to waste their resources on unproven and unsubstantiated claims.
Conclusion: Use at your own risk.

Answer 9

Perhaps your life is a bit stressful at the moment? This too will pass.You can't get rid of stress by quack watery 'medicines'. Victory is the cure for stress.