NUX MOSCHATA

NUX MOSCHATA. [Nux mosch.] Nutmeg. Helbig. Myristicaceae.

► Stupor and insensibility ; unconquerable sleepiness, and sleep. ► Unconsciousness, after mental excitement, especially just before menses ; thoughts vanish, with fainting. ► Gradual vanishing of thoughts, when reading, inclined to fall asleep. ► Memory weak. ► Gives answers wholly irrelevant to the question put to him. ► Uses wrong words, during headache. ► Surroundings seem changed ; fanciful, dreamy images ; does not recognize the known street. ► Short time seems very long to her. ► Delirium, violent vertigo, strange gestures, loud, improper talk, sleeplessness. ► Delirium tremens, slowness of senses, imaginary fancies ; awakens and knows not where he is ; laughter, with stupid expression. ► Laughter, everything seems ludicrous, talks loudly to herself. ► Changeable mood, now laughing, again crying. ► Weeping mood, gloomy ; fears to go to sleep. ► Fickle, irresolute. ► Slow action ; of senses ; of will. ► From overtaxing mind ; sleepy, gastric ailments, hysteria.

► Vertigo : as if drunk, staggering ; reeling when walking in open air ; swimming in head ; weak limbs numb, feels as if floating in air.

► Apoplexy ; softening of the brain. ► Pulsation of the arteries, and daily headache ; throbbing, pressing pain confined to a small spots, worse in left supraorbital ridge. ► Painless pulsating in head ; fears to go to sleep. ► Head feels full and as if expanding. ► Headache going from left to right. ► Brain as if loose, with wabbling on motion, as if it struck the sides of head ; sleepiness ; worse after a meal from cold ; better from warmth, except from the warmth of bed. ► Severe tearing in occiput, toward nape of neck. ► Headaches are worse ; from washing ; getting wet ; wet, or damp, cold weather ; change of weather ; riding in a carriage ; from wine ; after eating, especially after breakfast ; from a little overheating ; from suppressed eruptions ; before menses ; during pregnancy.

► Temples sensitive to touch and from lying on them ; worse wet, cold weather ; better from warmth. ► Head drops forward, while sitting. ► Convulsive movement of head from before backward, so that talking and swallowing are almost impossible. ► Worse from shaking the head.

► Objects look : larger ; very distant ; or vanish, red. ► Motes before the eyes. ► Worse from light, from exerting vision ; better in dark. ► Blindness, then fainting. ► Momentary blindness, grasps head, it feels so strangely. ► Staring. ► Pupils dilated and immovable or contracted, with sensation of fulness in eyes. ► Eyes dry, she could hardly shut them green-blue rings around them. ► Pterygium. ► Lids heavy, stiff, feels sick, faint.

► Hearing oversensitive ; buzzing in ears. ► Ears as if stopped up. ► Tearing in ears stitches in left ear ; worse moving jaw.

► Oversensitiveness of smell. ► Nosebleed, blood usually dark, black. ► Sneezing ; nose internally dry, stopped up, must breathe with mouth open. ► Catarrh worse in cold, damp weather.

► Burning, constricting, stinging over right eye face red, swollen ; lips and jaw compressed ; speech difficult. ► Foolish childish expression. ► Looks thin ; suffering expression ; blue around eyes ; deadly pale ; worse in damp air. ► Eyes dull, heavy looking ; distressed look. ► Spot, freckles.

► Lips chapped.

► Pain in front teeth during pregnancy ; stinging, tearing ; worse during cold, damp weather, from washing ; from touch or sucking teeth, better from warmth. ► Gums bleed ; scurvy.

► Taste : earthy ; chalky ; bitter as after salted food. ► Tongue : paralyzed ; cold though old enough, cannot talk as if it were difficult to move the tongue ; dry, feels as if gone to sleep or leather-covered ; no thirst ; dry at night, or on awaking ; coated white, or yellowish, dotted with red papillae.

► Mouth and throat dry, not thirst. ► Saliva lessened ; like "cotton". ► Water from mouth before menses. ► Bad smell from the mouth ; tongue white. ► Aphthae of children.

► Difficult swallowing, from paralysis of muscles of deglutition. ► Sore throat, hoarseness ; scratching, dryness. ► Pain along eustachian tube, as from a foreign body lodged there ; before a shower.

► Appetite and hunger increased ; bulimia. ► Loss of appetite. ► Thirstlessness.

► After eating : 3, 19, 23, 26, 27. After drinking : 19, 20, 27. After drinking wine : 3, 21, 29. After drinking boiled milk : 20. After drinking beer : 21.

► Hiccough. ► Nausea and water-brash : with inclination to sleep ; while riding in a carriage ; during pregnancy. ► Vomiting : spasmodic ; during pregnancy ; from irritation of pessaries and acid stomach ; flatulence.

► Heat and burning in stomach. ► Fulness in stomach, impeding breathing. ► Weak digestion, especially in the aged. ► Irritation of stomach, from overtaxed mental powers. ► Can only digest highly seasoned food. ► Cramps in stomach.

► Spasmodic pain from right to left hypochondrium, then in a circle in lower part of abdomen ; followed by diarrhoea. ► "Liver grown", in children. ► Enlarged liver ; bloody stools ; weight about liver ; pressure as from a sharp body or stones ; swollen feeling. ► Diaphragm hurts with inhalation. ► Diaphragmitis, oppression of chest, like a pressing load, dry cough, loss of breath ; from getting wet. ► Enlarged spleen ; loose bowels. ► Stitches in spleen ; must bend double.

► Weight in upper part of abdomen ; lower part tense. ► Cutting, pinching in epigastrium and navel. ► Colic immediately after eating and worse after drinking ; during day, with dry mouth and thirstlessness ; better from hot wet cloths. ► Abdomen enormously distended. ► Sore navel, even ulcerated. ► Umbilical hernia. ► Cutting, pinching about navel, better from pressure ; flatulency, diarrhoea. ► Crampy, forcing down pains in bowels and anus.

► Stools : soft, but expelled with difficulty, rectum inactive ; like chopped eggs, undigested ; loss of appetite, sleepy ; bilious, slimy ; putrid, bloody ; thin, yellow, copious, offensive. ► Stools worse at night, exhausting, associated with sleepiness, fainting ; worse, from cold, damp weather ; summer heat ; from cold drinks ; during dentition ; during pregnancy, with sluggish flow of ideas ; from boiled milk. ► Worms ; cutting bellyache, sleepiness. ► Alternate hard and soft stools. ► Hemorrhoids protrude.

► Renal colic. ► Tenesmus of bladder. ► Pain from stone in bladder or gravel. ► Burning, cutting in urethra, when passing water. ► Dysuria, with urging top stool ; after dinner and supper, or exertion of body ; also with uterine complaints. ► Strangury, from beer or wine ; also in hysteria. ► Urine : has a violent odor ; is scanty and high colored.

► Inclined to coitus, but genitals are relaxed. ► Seminal emissions.

► Sterility. ► Spasmodic labor-like pains. ► Great irritability of pelvic viscera, worse during menses, when ovaries and uterus are swollen and sensitive to pressure. ► Flatulent distention of uterus. ► Uterus displaced ; mouth and throat dry ; sleepy, faint ; abdomen enormously distended after a meal ; pressure in back outward. ► Sensation of a lump in left lower abdomen ; anteversion. ► Relieves pain and vomiting caused by pessaries. ► Prolapsus uteri et vaginae ; sterility ; leucorrhoea. ► Menses : irregular in time and quantity ; flow generally dark, thick ; bearing down in abdomen, with drawing in limbs ; pains from small of back downward ; limbs feel weak, ache ; pain in small of back as if a piece of wood was lying crosswise and being pressed out ; pain in uterus at the outset ; tension in hypogastrium ; unconquerable drowsiness ; profuse, with fainting, drowsiness ; mouth dry ; hysteric laughing, worse in open air ; scanty or suppressed, from fright ; from debility ; a cold ; overexertion ; in hysteria ; cramp low down in abdomen, constriction in the bowels ; sharp stitches in left lower abdomen, worse when sitting. ► Leucorrhoea in place of menses ; awakens with dry tongue.

► During pregnancy ; worse from fright, anger, etc. ; nausea and vomiting ; difficult stool ; dyspnoea ; with upward pressure ; fainting ; drowsiness ; skin dry, cold ; abdomen sensitive. ► Threatened abortion ; hysterical females, disposed to fainting ; fears she will abort. ► Labor : pains false, weak ; or, spasmodic, irregular, drowsy, faint spells, the pains being too weak. ► Eclampsia : head jerked forward ; especially hysterical women, who easily faint and suffer from great languor in back and knees ; drowsy before and after spasms. ► After delivery : flatulencye with labor-like pains ; uterus remains uncontracted ; anteversion. ► Mammae too small.

► Voice uncertain, bleating. ► Hoarseness, worse walking against the wind. ► Feeling of dryness in larynx. ► Phthisis laryngeal.

► Breath short after eating ; sudden loss of breath. ► Dyspnoea, with feeling of weight in the chest. ► Chest as if too narrow, after cold washing. ► Constrictive feeling in muscles of chest.

► Dry, with sudden loss of breath ; barking ; hacking during pregnancy ; excited by scratching in throat, crawling in upper part of windpipe ; caused by : getting warm in bed ; standing in water, bathing ; getting overheated ; living in cold, dark places ; loose after eating, dry after drinking. ► Sputa are bloody, dark ; slimy, saltish ; must swallow the loosened phlegm.

► Weight, pressure on chest, worse on falling asleep at night, or waking from a siesta. ► Stitches in chest, tightness, spitting of blood. ► Full feeling in upper part of chest, preventing a deep breath.

► Violent action of heart. ► Palpitation : fainting, followed by a sleep ; hysteric, with weak, small pulse, and changing irregularity in heart's beat. ► Feels as if her head would burst and her heart be squeezed off. ► Trembling, fluttering of heart, as from fright. ► Pulse : small, weak ; nun's murmur in carotids ; frequent, trembling, accelerated after wine ; intermits, the intervals so long that they excite fear of death.

► Drawing in muscles of neck, from draft of damp air. ► Pains now in back, now in sacrum, knees very tired ; worse during rest ; lumbago. ► Pains along the spine. ► Backache, while riding in a carriage. ► Pain in small of back and weakness of legs, as from a blow. ► Small of back and knees feel weak. ► Tabes dorsalis.

► Felt as if all the blood had rushed top her hands, as though a string were about the arms. ► Hands feel cold, as if frozen, with tingling under nails, on entering warm room.

► Legs tired, as after a long journey, must move legs from place to place. ► Right knee pains as if wrenched or sprained on moving, and especially going up stairs. ► Heaviness and coldness in legs. ► Feeling in calves, as of a blow. ► Cramps in feet, internal burning. ► Boring in big toe, after lying down. θ Gout.

► Wandering, digging, pressing pains, confined to small spots ; lasting but a short time ; soon returning. ► Muscular rheumatism, from protracted exposure to cold and damp ; fugitive, drawing pains ; worse in repose, from cold, damp air and cold wet clothes ; better from warmth.

► Motion : 3, 33. Exertion : 21, 23, 36. Must move : 33, 36. Walking : 2, 25, 36. Ascending : 33. Bends double : 18. Shaking head : 4. Moving jaw : 6. Rest : 31. Lying : 4, 33. Sitting : 4, 23.

► Staggers in walking ; falls often. ► Fatigue, feels as if he must lie down, after least exertion ; sleepy ; chilly, pale face. ► Disposition to faint ; also, from the pains even when slight. ► Restless, must move about. ► Spasms of children, with diarrhoea. ► Unconscious, rigid, slow, heavy breathing then writhing in clonic spasms ; opisthotonos. ► Epilepsy, with consciousness. ► Catalepsy. ► Hysteria ; exhausted from least effort. ► Paralysis ; with cramps and trembling ; of tongue, eyelids, oesophagus.

► Complaints cause sleepless ; irresistibly, drowsy ; sleepy, muddled, as if intoxicated ; coma, lies silent, immovable. ► Restless sleep, from congestion to heart or head, with uterine complaints.

► Morning : 40. Evening : 40. Night : 11, 20, 28. Day : 19.

► Warmth : 3, 4, 10, 27, 34. Warm room : 32, 40. Warmth of bed : 3, 27. Summer heat : 20. Hot wet cloths : 19. Cold : 3, 27. Damp cold weather : 3, 4, 7, 8, 10, 20, 31, 34, 40, 46. Washing or getting wet : 3, 10, 18, 26, 27. Cold wet clothes : 34. Uncovering : 40. Open air : 2, 23, 24. Before a shower : 13.

► Chilliness : with pale face in open, especially damp cold air ; from uncovering ; better in warm room. ► Chilly in the evening, with great sleepiness ; chill and somnolency predominating. ► Sensation of coldness in the feet, with heat in the hands. ► Congestion, ebullitions. ► Heat in face and on hands forenoon, with hypochondriac mood, dry and throat, without thirst ; drowsiness, coma. ► Want of sweat ; skin cool, dry. ► Sweat : red or bloody ; with drowsiness ; with shunning to be uncovered. ► Intermittent fever, sleepy ; tongue white, rattling breathing, occasional bloody sputum, little thirst, even during heat.

► Daily : 3. Every winter : 46.

► Left : 3, 6, 18, 20, 23. Left to right : 3. Right : 8, 18, 20. Right to left : 18. Within outward : 23. Above downward : 23. Below upward : 24. Behind forward : 24.

► Bleeding from inner parts. ► Dryness of inner parts. ► Want to blood, anaemia. ► Marasmus of little children. ► Dropsy of outer parts.

► Soreness of all parts on which one lies ; tendency to bed-sores. ► Touch : 4, 10, 24. Pressure : 19. Riding in a carriage : 3, 16, 31.

► Sensitive, especially to cold, damp air. ► Skin cold, dry, not disposed to sweat. ► Chilblains, every winter. ► Ulcerations of the skin, painful ; with hysterical patients. ► Blue spots on skin. ► Irregular red scaling patches, on face and neck during congestions, at time of menses. ► Complaints from suppressed eruptions.

► Children and women mostly ; also for the aged.

► Conjunctive relations : Laurocer., Asaf., Camphor. ► Disjunctive relations : Lycop., Nux vom., Pulsat., Rhus tox., Silic., Sulphur. ► It is best antidoted by Semen capi Lauroc. (according to Helbig) : Gelsem. (according to Ross Roberts), and Nux vom. ► It antidotes : Arsen. ; Rhodod. ; Lauroc. ; mercurial inhalation ; lead colic. ► Similar to : Stramon., Opium (mind) ; Pulsat. (internal organs) ; Nux vom., Ant. tart. (sensations) ; Opium, Arsen., Spigel. (fever) ; Lycop. (skin) ; Silic ; (modalities) ; Nux vom., Rhus tox. (motions) ; Coccul., Ignat., Nux vom., Sepia (sides of body).