Nux Moschata
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General
Nux Moschata.
Myristica fragrans. M. officinalis. M. moschata. Nutmeg. N. O. Myristicaceae. Tincture of powdered seeds deprived of the Mace. [This is the official direction. But it would be well to make a tincture of the nut with the Mace, as some symptoms of Mace are included. Also a fresh nut and fresh plant tincture should be prepared and tested.]
Clinical
Abortion. Apoplexy. Asthma, hysteric. Brain, softening of; infantile affections of.
Catalepsy. Chilblains. Cholerine. Clairaudience.
Clairvoyance. Convulsions. Cough. Debility.
Deltoid rheumatism. Dysmenia. Dyspepsia. Eructations.
Eyes, sight weak. Fainting. Flatulence. Freckles.
Frost-bite. Gastralgia. Haemorrhage. Headache.
Head, convulsive movement of. Hiccough. Hoarseness. Hysteria.
Intermittent fever. Locomotor ataxy. Lumbago. Marasmus.
Menopause. Menorrhagia. Menses, suppressed. Metrorrhagia.
Mind, affections of. Pelvis, congestion of. Perspiration, bloody; hysterical. Pregnancy, complaints of.
Ptosis. Puerperal convulsions. Renal colic. Rheumatism.
Sleep, overpowering. Speech, defective. Stammering. Strangury.
Toothache. Turpentine, effects of. Typhoid, haemorrhage in. Uterus, prolapse of.
Worms.
Characteristics
Nux mosch. is one of the many examples of powerfully poisonous and medicinal substances used as common articles of food. The Nutmeg has a popular repute for putting off the menstrual period or else for bringing it on; as a remedy for diarrhoea, and also for boils. It is the use of ground Nutmeg for these purposes that has led to many cases of poisoning, and has supplied a large number of the symptoms of the Schema. Nux m. is one of the most profoundly active of psychical remedies in the Materia Medica, producing states of exaltation resembling hysteria, and the mesmeric state with exalted senses and consciousness of double personality.
A case reported by Stonham (M. H. R., xl. 494) brings this out. A dark-haired young man ate two nutmegs one morning.
In afternoon was exhilarated, able to do more than usual, to argue on any subject. At dinner mouth dry, great thirst, felt he could not drink enough to quench it. After dinner, head felt strange as if in a dream; but he joined a small musical party, as he had intended. He seemed to be two persons, and his real, conscious self seemed to be watching his other self playing.
He could not play well; and had to desist. He seemed lost, and when spoken to would come to himself with a start. Hearing for distant sounds much more acute than usual. A woman who ate several nutmegs with the idea of bringing on abortion had the hallucination that she had two heads.
A. P. Williamson records (N. Y.
Med. Times, October, 1882) one case of a woman who took grated nutmeg for diarrhoea. After second dose of half nutmeg head felt queer and dizzy, then head felt large, could not reply to questions, though eyes were open and seemed to understand. Pupils dilated, eyes staring, face pale, respiration laboured.
Semi-conscious and had to be shouted at, but relapsed into semi-consciousness. Pulse at first small or rapid, but during unconscious period, irregular, fuller, and weak. When consciousness first returned kept hands to her head "to prevent it falling off"; was obliged to move her head with her hands, "it being too large and heavy for her body." Her chest felt as if in a vice. For some days was unable to use words properly, frequently obliged to stop in middle of a sentence and change it entirely from not being able to use appropriate words.
Exaltation of the senses and sensibilities runs through the remedy. One hypersensitive patient to whom I gave a single dose of Nux m. 30, said it seemed to put a coat of cotton wool over her. The senses of sight and touch are exalted in the same way as hearing. The mental disturbance may take all the protean forms of hysteria and even mania.
Vanishing of thought. One man had complete loss of memory of his past life, and did not recover it for a week. The sensorium is disturbed as much as the mind, and a state of staggering, helpless drunkenness is induced. Connected with this are the sleep symptoms of Nux m., which give the leading keynote of the remedy—Drowsiness.
Nux m. is needed for drowsiness more frequently than Opium itself. When any complaint causes drowsiness or is accompanied by drowsiness, Nux m. must be considered; and if in addition there is chilliness and thirstlessness, Nux m. must be given. For Nux m. is a chilly medicine, < by cold and damp, > by warmth (with one or two exceptions). Chilliness may be considered the second keynote.
But quite as important is the third—Dryness. The dryness may be only sensation, or it may be actual as well. Dryness of the mouth and tongue (usually, but not always, without thirst); tongue so dry it adheres to the roof of the mouth. Neurotic patients who always awaken with a very dry mouth and tongue.
"The saliva seems thick, like cotton." (I cured with Nux m. 30 a very bad case of indigestion with acne in a youth who had this symptom). Eyes dry; too dry to close the lids. The skin is dry; and Nux m. is suited to people who readily perspire. Another keynote is tendency to fainting.
This is allied to the drowsiness, sudden loss of memory, and vanishing of ideas. Persons who easily faint away from sight of blood; from standing (as to have a dress tried on) and those who have faintness or fainting during or associated with evacuations; these are likely to want Nux m. One or more of the above conditions will be present in the majority of cases needing Nux m.; but there are few remedies which have more of the striking and peculiar symptoms, the value of which Hahnemann was the first to perceive, than this remedy, and when these are present (or the well-marked conditions of < and >) they will be sufficient indication independently of those mentioned.
Here are some Sensations: As if drunk. Limbs as if floating in the air. Forehead as if as large again. Forehead as if pushed out.
As if brain struck against side of head. Brain as if loose. Objects appear much too large. Pain as of a rough body in Eustachian tube.
Pricking as of electric sparks on cheek. As if wind incarcerated in stomach. As if a piece of bacon were in throat. As if food had formed itself into lumps in stomach.
As if a piece of wood stretched across small of back were pressing from within out. As if heart would be squeezed off. As if something grasped heart. As if heart were beating in a vacuum.
As if it were difficult to move tongue. As if blood were rushing to heart, and then all over body As if left shoulder contained lead. As if a string were tied round arms. As of a grasping hand in upper arm.
Pains as if bruised, sprained, wrenched; as if bones smashed. As if electrified. Pressure, throbbing, drawing, burning, are all common sensations. The sensitiveness of Nux m. comes out in the soreness of parts lain on.
The use of Nutmeg as a condiment has doubtless its origin in the fact that Nux m. is specifically related to weak digestion. It is indicated in conditions of excessive flatulence, and when the smallest excess in eating or drinking sets up indigestion. The domestic use in menstrual irregularities has also a specific foundation. "Irregularity" is the chief note of the remedy here.
Much bearing-down pain; blood dark. Uterine prolapse and displacements have been remedied by it, and threatened abortion warded off. In pregnancy, labour, the puerperal state (convulsions, head jerked forward), it has a large sphere. There is a cough occurring only when warm in bed, or < then.
In constipation with drowsiness, Nux m. is as often indicated as Opium. Faintness during or after stool is a great indication. Nux m. is also haemorrhoidal and haemorrhagic. Protruding piles.
Haemorrhage of typhus; fetid flatus. Incontinence of urine. The haemorrhages of Nux m. are dark. All kinds of spasms and convulsions are developed in the provings.
Catalepsy. Clairvoyant state: answers questions accurately quite out of her sphere, and on returning to consciousness knows nothing about it. Jactitation of muscles, chorea, jerks in inner parts in muscles; recovers with a start. Paralysis; with spasms and trembling; of tongue; eyelids; oesophagus.
Locomotor ataxy excited by cold and wet. Puffiness, swellings, dropsy of outer parts. Buzzing sensation with numbness of hands and feet. The symptoms are < by touch.
Pressure > some symptoms and < others. Lying on parts = soreness. Riding in carriage = headache; water-brash; backache. Rest > headache;
< bellyache; backache; rheumatism. Raising head from pillow = deathly sickness. Lying down < head. < On side lain on.
Stitches in spleen = bending double. Motion <. Shaking head <. Walking <;
(> palpitation). Many symptoms appear in the morning. Drowsy by day. Dry mouth < evening and night.
Diarrhoea < night. Heat >; hot summer < (summer complaint of children); hot weather = loose feeling in brain. Heat of bed < or = cough. Warmth of room = hands to feel as if frozen.
Warmth > other symptoms. Open air <. Walking against wind = hoarseness. < Damp, wet weather; cold weather; getting wet; before a shower; washing.
A bath = check of menstrual flow. < After eating and drinking; after cold drink. Drinking = dry cough; colic. Drinking beer = strangury.
Brandy = electrifying effect. Milk = diarrhoea. Alcohol <. Eating a little too much = headache.
Nux m. is suited to: Children. Women. Pregnant women. Persons with cool, dry skin, who do no t easily perspire.
Weakness of old age. Dyspepsia of old people. Constitutions with stiff, straight hair rather than crisp and curly. Delicate constitutions.
Hydrogenoid constitution. P. P. Wells (Med.
Adv., xxi. 84) says that "in brain affections of infantile life—in the stupor, insensibility, and unconquerable desire to sleep—whether in idiopathic affections of the brain or in those occuring during cholera infantum—Nux m. is one of the most precious remedies in the materia medica." J. C. White (H. P., xvii. 326) gives a striking instance of Nux m. headache > by hard pressure in a man convalescing from a severe gunshot-wound of the head.
He wanted the nurse to "bear her whole weight on it." With the headache was rapid, anxious breathing, as if he could not get air enough and the "wind would be shut off." Nux m. always relieved it. The 3x was first given, then a higher potency.
Relations
Antidoted by: Camph., Lauro., Gels., Nux, Op., Zn., Val. It antidotes: Ars., Lauro., Rhodo., Lead colic, Turpentine, Alcohol, bad yeasty beer. Compatible: Lyc., Nux, Puls., Rhus, Stram., Ant. t. Compare: Myristica sebifera (boils and suppuration).
Hysterical temperament, Ign. (Nux m. has excessive dryness of mouth). Rheumatism of left deltoid, Mg. c., Ferr. (right deltoid, Sang.).
Prolapsus uteri, Aesc. h., Sep., Plat., Lil., Murex, Nux, Pod., Pul., Sep. All ailments accompanied by sleepiness, Ant. t., Op. Loss of memory, Anac., Lac c., Lyc. Does not recognise well-known streets, Can. i., Lach., Camph. bro.
Dry mouth, Agar., Lach. Dry throat without thirst, Puls. Soreness of parts lain on, Bapt., Pyr. Distress in stomach while eating or immediately after, K. bi.
Epidemic in autumn, white, fetid stools, Colch. Leucorrhoea in place of menses, Cocculus. Physometra, Bro., Lyc., Lac c. Sudden hoarseness from walking against wind, Euphras., Hep.
Cough during pregnancy, Con. (of menstrual period, Lach.). Effects of getting wet; damp weather; lying in damp places, Nat. s., Rhod., Rhus; of cold, moist winds, Ars., Calc., Dulc. (cold, dry winds, Aco., Bry.).
Effect of riding in carriage, Coccul. < Lying on painful side (Puls. < on painless). Pressure and pushing towards genitals, Nat. m., Bell., Sep., Sul.
Head tends to fall to left (Lac d. to right). Faintness during or associated with evacuations, Apis, Pul., Spi., Ver. (faintness with scanty stools, Crot. t., Dulc., Ox. ac., Pet., Sars., Sul. Drowsiness with headache, Bruc., Gins., Gels.
(difficult to keep eyes open), Heracl., Sul. Sinking immediately after meals, Ars., Cin., Lyc. Bar sensation, Haematox. (across chest.
Nux m. has removed "Sensation of bar across abdomen, with ends projecting out at back like a bar." Arsen. has also acted curatively in a similar sensation). Bloody sweat, Nux, Lyc., Calc., Lach., Arn. Cannot sweat, Staph. Nipples retracted, Sars.
< Working in water, Calc. Drink = cough (Caust., drink > cough). Nausea on raising head from pillow, Bry. Throat dry without thirst (Merc. mouth moist with thirst).
Fainting, Mosch. Grasped heart, Cact., Lil. t.
Causation
Fright. Mental exertion. Suppressed eruption. Bath (suppressed menses). Over-eating. Milk. Bad beer. Alcohol.
Mind
Weeping mood with burning in eyes and lachrymation
Fickleness, with desire sometimes for one thing, at others for something else
Great inclination to laugh, to make a jest of everything, esp. when in open air, sometimes with a stupid look, as if imbecile
Incessant flow of facetious ideas
Everything about him seemed ludicrous
Humour grave and gay alternately
Mentally excited and exhilarated
Facility of arguing
After dining, head felt strange as if in a dream
Seemed to be two persons, his real conscious self seemed to be watching his other self playing (piano)
Could not play well, struck false notes, and was obliged to give it up
Seemed lost when spoken to, and would come to himself with a start
Transient loss of memory, but a perfect consciousness of all that I said or did
Surroundings seem changed; fanciful, dreamy images; does not recognise well-known streets
Weakness of memory; loss of memory
Entirely lost memory of his past life
Hallucination that she has two heads
Sense of impending dissolution; besought me piteously not to let her die
Slowness of apprehension, dizziness, difficult conception
Want of ideas, as from absence of mind; vanishing of thoughts in reading, disposition to go to sleep
Dulness of senses, thoughtlessness, with slowly returning consciousness
Dementia and mental alienation (idiocy)
Mania, with odd speeches and ridiculous gestures
Delirium with violent vertigo, improper talk, loud tone and voice and total sleeplessness
The least exertion or mental excitement = somnolence
Unable to use words properly; frequently obliged to stop in middle of a sentence and change it entirely from not being able to use appropriate words.
Head
Confusion and pressive heaviness in head, and esp. in forehead
Reeling (while walking in open air)
Head seemed whirling round; eyes starting from head
Staggering, with anguish, rigidity of body and giddiness (and insensibility)
Vertigo, as from drunkenness, with delirium and mumbling, giddiness or insensibility
Emptiness and faint feeling at 5.30 p.m
Head drops forward while sitting
Headache, as from indigestion, esp. after breakfast
Pressive headache, with heaviness and confusion of head
Affections of the temples, headaches with very dry mouth and no desire for water
Pain in head, esp. in temples, with internal heat, and a sensation of wavering in brain on moving head
Sounds as if chains were in her head
Pains mostly in occiput; if touched there says it touches her brain
Says, "Oh, don't you hear my brains crack?" jumps with an outcry of pain and says, "Oh, don't you hear them?" (the brains)
Sensation as if brain were striking against skull, with sleepiness after a meal;
< from cold, > from warmth and heat
Sensitiveness of head as from soreness, esp. sensitive to slightest touch in a draught of air (wind);
< in cold and from lying down, > from hard pressure and from external heat
Violent, constricting, burning, stinging pains over r. eye, with red face, compression of lips and jaws; when attacks are most intense, unconsciousness, immobility of l. leg; face swelled; speech lost; continually moving his hand to painful place; head convulsively drawn from one side to the other, distorts his face
Headache and drowsiness with great debility and pain in pericardium; salt taste and indigestion (A.
E.
Small)
Head feels full, expanded; as if it would burst
Headache from inward heat, with burning
Head seemed bulky and rolled around uncontrollably had to support (or move) it with both hands
Head tends to fall to l. moves convulsively from side to side; from before backward
Complaints < by shaking head; by raising head from pillow
Painful sensitiveness of temple to touch
Pressive and pulsative headache, esp. above l. eye
Painless pulsation in head with fear to go to sleep
Sensation as if all vessels pulsating, esp. on head, a throbbing, pressing pain confined to small spots, chiefly to l. supraorbital ridge
Severe tearing in (l.) occiput towards nape of neck
The headache is generally felt after a meal, and more particularly after breakfast or after overloading the stomach (in the slightest degree).
Eyes
Dryness of eyes, and sensation of dryness, which impedes movements of lids
In evening it is difficult to read by artificial light
Blindness then fainting
Profuse lachrymation and burning pains in eyes
Tension round eyes and in lids
Sensation of fulness in eyes, with contraction of pupils
Pulsating, pressing pain on a small spot over l. eye
Illusions of vision: objects appear too distant, too large, or too small
Sees two objects instead of one
Weakness of sight
Blue rings around eyes.
Ears
Otalgia, with shooting pains (stinging pain, r. ear)
Pain in Eustachian tube, as if caused by a rough body, on a change of weather, and esp. on approach of rain or wind
Hearing for distant sounds increased; heard people talking in a low voice in a passage outside his room, which would have been quite inaudible ordinarily
Struck false notes on playing piano
Over-sensitiveness of hearing
Buzzing in ears; as if stopped.—(Tinnitus preventing sleep
R.
T.
C.)
Nose
Sneezing; early in morning
Over-sensitiveness to smell; loss of smell
Catarrh < in cold, damp weather
Nose-bleed, blood usually dark, black
Obstruction of nose, sometimes semi-lateral (esp. l.).
Face
Paleness of face, and blue circle round eyes
Heat in face with slight redness of cheeks
Expression: agonised; hippocratic; singular; silly, and occasionally would give a diabolic grin
Lips: swollen and sticking together; burning
Drawing mouth awry
Pustules with hard red borders on chin
Compression of jaws
Cannot close jaws; as if paralysed
Sensation of swelling throughout the l. side of the face, with burning pricking, as from electric fluid
Freckles in face.
Teeth
Painfulness of teeth while eating (dry bread)
Shooting and tearing pains in teeth, extending as far as ears and temples, with lancinations in teeth, on sucking them, and < of pains from cold air and contact
Nightly tearing in teeth, with inability to close jaws, which are as if paralysed
Shooting pains in teeth, < by external heat
Toothache produced by damp evening air, with compressive pains (as if grasped by forceps) in teeth, and pains in nape of neck; teeth feel as, if loose; warm water > the pains
Toothache of pregnant women > by warmth
Toothache, after labour with the hands in water, or in consequence of a chill
Shocks in molar teeth after drinking cold water
Toothache from washing, from cold, from damp, cold air
Teeth blunted (dull), as if covered with lime
Bleeding of gums readily.
Mouth
Dryness, and sensation of dryness in mouth (of the tongue and lips, extending to the throat), without thirst
Very dry mouth, so dry that the tongue may adhere to roof of mouth, but no desire for water, rather an aversion to it (opp.
Merc., which has tongue very moist, perhaps dripping with saliva, yet there is great thirst.)
Sensation as if soft palate was rolling or curling up on itself from tip to base
Fetid breath
Saliva seems like cotton
Abundant accumulation of thick mucus and of saliva in mouth
Paralysis of the tongue, speech difficult; indistinct
Sensation of torpor in tongue, on being touched, as if made of leather
Dryness and sensation of dryness in tongue
Tongue coated white (with mucus)
Aphthae
Swelling of mucous follicles under tongue.
Throat
Great dryness and sensation of dryness in throat (without thirst), with scraping.—Difficulty of deglutition as from paralysis of throat.
Appetite
Taste in mouth, as after eating much salt
Clammy (pappy) taste, or taste of chalk in mouth
Hunger and immoderate appetite (thirst diminished), esp. towards noon
Thirst, excessive, cannot drink enough
Diminution of appetite and prompt satiety
Absence of thirst
Dejection and uneasiness after a meal
Weak digestion and stomach (esp. in the aged).—< After eating and drinking.
Stomach
Acrid risings (debility; scraping eructations) shortly after a meal
Nausea from motion of a carriage; from irritation of pessaries
Nausea and vomiting during pregnancy
Deathly nausea if her head were raised from pillow
Nausea and vomiting with inclination to sleep
Irritation of stomach from over-taxed mental powers
Sufferings, esp. pains in head, < after a meal (esp. breakfast)
Fulness of stomach, with impeded respiration
Sensation of heat, and of burning pain in stomach
Inflation of stomach
Crawling from pit of stomach to throat
Cramps in stomach, with very weak digestion
Pressure in stomach, as from incarceration of flatus.
Abdomen
Pressure in liver, as if caused by hard and pointed bodies
Swelling of liver; heaviness in the region of liver; swelling of spleen
Sensation of weight in hypochondria and upper abdomen
Rumbling in abdomen
Colic with tearing pains
Colic pain in abdomen immediately after eating and < after drinking, only during day, with dry mouth and thirstlessness
Inflation of abdomen, with nausea, and digging in umbilical region
Abdomen enormously distended; after meals
Sore pain and distension round abdomen, with aching and numbness round anus, and burning pain just above anus, < at night, with piles that discharge mucus only, a bearing-down of both anus and womb with vaginal cuttings; much numbness of lower back and palpitation of heart (cured, R.
T.
C.)
Cutting pains (in abdomen and screwing pain around the navel), as from worms, with drowsiness
Nocturnal sufferings from flatulence, which disturb or prevent sleep
Lump in hypogastrium (with uterine complaints).
Stool And Anus
Soft, sluggish faeces, difficult to evacuate
Rectum inactive
Diarrhoea from weakness, or in consequence of a chill
Bloody, putrid diarrhoea (in typhus fever)
Diarrhoea, like fried eggs, with complete absence of appetite (in children)
Diarrhoea of undigested substances (with fainting)
Violent diarrhoea with cramps all over abdomen and great faintness (agg., R.
T.
C.)
Summer complaint—summer diarrhoea
Diarrhoea, with want of appetite and drowsiness (in summer) in children
Mucous diarrhoea, as from worms.
Urinary Organs
Burning and incisive pains when urinating
Renal colic and discharge of calculi
Painful strangury
Urine with a violet-like smell
Renal colic.
Male Sexual Organs
Absence of sexual desire
Weakness of genital functions
Absence of erections, even while indulging in voluptuous thoughts
Desire with relaxed organs
Inclined to coitus but erections weak and of short duration
Flow of prostatic fluid.
Female Sexual Organs
Catamenia irregular (sometimes too early, then again too late)
Before catamenia: sacral pains and lassitude, with pressure in the stomach, water-brash, and hepatic pains
During catamenia: sensation of a general bearing down towards the hypogastrium, and drawing in limbs
During a haemorrhage from uterus or menstruation, pressure in abdomen, drawing down into the legs from navel
Spasmodic, false labour pains
Threatening miscarriage
Pain of uterus from pessary
Flatulent distension of uterus
Leucorrhoea in place of menses
Flatus from vagina
Metrorrhagia; menorrhagia; blood thick and dark
Menses preceded by pain in small of back as if a piece of wood, stretched across there, were pressing from within out
Suppressed catamenia
Breasts too small, and without milk
Nipples retracted.
Respiratory Organs
Voice tremulous
Altered voice; hoarseness
Hoarseness and catarrh
Sudden hoarseness, when walking against the wind
Cough, with pain in chest, as if raw
Cough with great soreness in the larynx or the chest
Dry cough, with suspended respiration after a chill in the water
Cough with or without expectoration when becoming warm in bed in evening, or when becoming warm from working
Cough <, or only, when becoming warm in bed
Haemoptysis
Cough during pregnancy
Cough with expectoration of blood
Dyspnoea
Shortness of breath, esp. after a meal
Obstructed respiration
Difficult inhalation; hysteric asthma.
Chest
Contraction of throat like strangulation
Oppression of chest, generally coming from epigastrium
Fulness and distressing sensation of a load on chest
Burning in chest; peculiar dead feeling and swelling
Stitches in chest; tightness, spitting of blood.
Heart And Pulse
Palpitation of heart, sometimes with attacks of fainting (followed by sleep)
Quivering of heart
Trembling, fluttering of heart, as from fright, fear, or sadness
Paroxysms of palpitation after midnight as if heart were stopping and then beating violently, with loud belching, > drinking hot water and keeping warm; must walk about
Oppression of heart extends to throat
Feeling of rush of blood to heart, and thence to head and all over body
Hysteria cordis
Heart felt as if beating in a vacuum
Feels as if her head would burst and her heart would be squeezed off
Sensation as if something grasped heart
Pulse small, slow, and weak
Pulse accelerated.
Neck And Back
Drawing in muscles of nape, caused by damp air
Neck so weak, head drops forward on chest
Contusive pain in loins or back (as if broken or bruised)
Pain in small of back when riding in a carriage
Bruised pain at side of lumbar vertebrae
Great pressure in back, from within out, during menses
Lassitude in loins and knees
Tabes dorsalis.
Limbs
Drawing in limbs, esp. during repose, as after a chill
Numbness in all limbs
Sensation as if limbs floating in the air
Pains in limbs and joints, and other symptoms in cold (damp) weather
The symptoms are < by cold air and > by external heat.
Upper Limbs
Bad smell under arms and between breasts of women
Rheumatism of l. shoulder
In arms, creeping from below
Steady drawing from fingers to shoulders
As if a string tied round arms
Cold hands as if frozen, with buzzing in hands on entering a room.
Lower Limbs
Great lassitude, esp. in loins and knees, as after a long journey, with inclination to sleep
Pain in r. knee, as if sprained, esp. when moving and going up stairs
Terrible pain in both legs as if bones smashed to pieces
Dull pain in periosteum of r. tibia
Feeling in calves as from a blow
Cramp: in calves before going to sleep; in feet with inward burning
Feet cold with appearance of menses
Soles always wet
Buzzing sensation in all toes as if frost-bitten, esp. metatarso-phalangeal joints, it spreads over soles to heels, with pain as if bruised from jumping.
Generalities
Digging and pressive pains, which pass from place to place, occupy only a small space, continue but a few moments, and soon return Rheumatic pains (from cold, damp air) The pains come in points all over body, and are < on l. side (obs., R. T.
C.) Loss of sensation in different parts Apprehensive of paralysis (cured) Creeping sensations down the limbs
Fainting fits Hysterical paroxysms Convulsions (of children) Convulsions: epileptic, with consciousness; children, with diarrhoea; catalepsy
Anaemia Marasmus of children Sensation of dryness in inner parts; buzzing, humming, or "funny feeling" in body; dryness of skin.—< In the open air; in cold air, in cold and wet weather; when the weather changes, whether from dry and pleasant to wet, or vice versâ, until it becomes settled; in wet weather; in windy weather; lying on painful side.—> In the room; air being warm; in dry weather Coldness and fainting with pains; esp. headache
Faints easily, from sight of blood, from standing (trying on dress) Excessively painful sensitiveness of whole body; even on lying on a soft couch, every part which is undermost soon becomes painful Great agitation of muscular system Lassitude and necessity to lie down after the slightest fatigue
Apoplexy Great lassitude, esp. in loins and knees, as after a long journey, with inclination to sleep.
Skin
Cold and dry skin, with but slight tendency to perspire
Cold skin over whole body; skin very sensitive to cold, moist air
Chilblains
Old patch of psoriasis on metacarpal aspect of thumb goes away (R.
T.
C.)
Bluish spots on the skin
Acne
Freckles.
Sleep
Affections accompanied by a desire to sleep and a tendency to faint away
Great sleepiness with all complaints, particularly with pains
Starting in sleep, but does not always awake
Starting in sleep like electric shocks with nightmare
Dreams: of falling from high places; of being pursued
Great drowsiness
Coma somnolentum and heaviness
Complaints causing sleepiness.
Fever
Pulse accelerated
Great sensibility to cold air, which soon occasions shivering, with paleness of face
Frequent shivering
State of chilliness, as when suddenly cooled after perspiring, with pain in nape of neck and in all the bones
Chilliness without thirst
Chilliness whenever uncovering oneself, and chilliness in open, esp. wet, air; at once > in warm room
Chilliness in evening with great drowsiness
Chilliness and drowsiness predominate
Heat without thirst; want of perspiration; no thirst
Heat in face and hands in morning, with hypochondriac mood and thirstlessness and dryness of mouth and throat
Intermittent fever with sleepiness and dryness of mouth and throat with thirstlessness
Double tertian fever, with inclination to sleep, tongue white, rattling in throat, sanguineous expectoration, and moderate thirst, during heat
Malignant fever, with putrid or colliquative diarrhoea
Perspiration scanty, but at times red like blood
Bloody sweat; hysterical.