Nux Moschata nux-m.

SENSORIUM. Mind. NERVES. FEMALE ORGANS. Digestion. Children and old women.

Cold: Bath. Damp. Drafts. Wind. Fogs. Feet. Pregnancy. Change of seasons. EMOTIONS. Excitement. MENSTRUATION. Jar. Bruises. Slight causes. Mental exertion or shock.

Moist heat. Warm room. Dry weather.

Narcotic effects and dryness. Little pain. OVERPOWERING DROWSINESS, with or caused by almost every condition; by day; < exertion; during menses; when flatulent; with dryness, yet NO THIRST; with coldness. Fleeting pains. Heaviness; of eyes, tongue, etc. Dark, heamorrhages. Scrawny women, who faint easily; < at stool or menses; laugh or cry by turns; have small breasts, etc. As of hard lumps in stomach, liver, throat, etc. Hysteria. Automatism.

Dreamy, clairvoyant state. Dazed; objects seem changed or to grow larger. Slow ideation. Thoughts suddenly vanish. Uses wrong words. Brain exhaustion. Talks loud. Mockery. Laughing. Jesting. Vertigo. Sense of levitation. Headache; in temples; > hard pressure. Cerebral congestion. Pale face. Retracted lips. Teeth feel pulled. Dry mouth and throat, without thirst; < sleep. Tongue sticks to palate. Thick, cottony saliva. Chalky taste. Loathing, when eating or thinking of food. Weak digestion. Enormous bloating; all food turns to gas. Flatulent colic. As of a board across hypogastrium. Stool difficult, although soft; putrid, bright yellow and lienteric; < night. Inactive rectum. Strangury from alcohol. Thick, dark, irregular menses. Flatus from vagina. Leucorrhœa; replaces menses. Deficient, irregular labor pains. Cough, > heat of bed. Hoarse; when walking against wind. Palpitation, > walking. Acute pain now in spine, now in lumbar region. Dry palms. Dry, cold skin. Sleepy attacks. Sudden; with vertigo. Weak, irregular pulse. Alternate chill and heat. Chills with sopor. Red sweat, or sweat absent.

Complementary: Calc-c. Lyc. Related: Cann. Croc. Gel. Mos. Op. Rhus-t.

Adapted especially to women and children of a nervous hysterical temperament (Ign.); to people with a dry skin who rarely perspire; complaints of pregnancy. Weakness of old age; dyspepsia of old people. Oversensitive: to light; of hearing; of smell; to touch. All the ailments are accompanied by drowsiness and sleepiness (Ant. t., Op.) or an inclination to faint even from slight pain (Hep.); complaints cause sleepiness. Stupor and insensibility; unconquerable sleep. Absence of mind; cannot think; great indifference to everything. Weakness or loss of memory (Anac., Lac c., Lyc.). Vanishing of thoughts while reading, talking or writing; using wrong words; does not recognize well known streets (Can. I., Lach.). Changeable humor; one moment laughing, the next crying (Croc., Ign.); "sudden change from grave to gay, from lively to serene" (Plat.). Dryness of eyes; too dry to close the lids. Great dryness of the mouth (Apis, Lach.); tongue so dry it adheres to roof of mouth; saliva seemed like cotton; throat dry, stiffened, no thirst (Puls.). Sensation of great dryness without real thirst and without actual dryness of the tongue. Great soreness of all the parts upon which one lies (Bap., Pry.); tendency to bed sores. Eating a little too much causes headache; painfulness and distress in stomach while eating or immediately after (Kali bi.). Abdomen enormously distended, after every meal. Diarrhoea: in summer, from cold drinks; epidemic in autumn, white stools (Colch.); from boiled milk; during dentition; during pregnancy; with sleepiness and fainting; in autumn, epidemic, white, fetid (Colch.). At every menstrual nisus, mouth, throat and tongue become intolerably dry, especially when sleeping. Leucorrhoea in place of menses (Coc.); patient, awakened with dry tongue (Lach.); physometra (Lac c., Lyc.). Pain, nausea and vomiting; during pregnancy; from wearing pessaries. Sudden hoarseness, < from walking against the wind (Euph., Hep.). Cough caused by: getting warm in bed; being overheated; during pregnancy (Con.); bathing, standing in water; living in cold, damp places (Nat. s.); loose after eating, dry after drinking. Sleep: irresistibly drowsy; sleepy, muddled, as if intoxicated; coma, lies silent, immovable; eyes constantly closed (with stetorous breathing, Op.). Rheumatic affections; from getting feet wet; from exposure to drafts to air while heated (Acon., Bry.); < in cold, wet weather, or cold wet clothes (Rhus); of left shoulder (Fer.). Backache, while riding in a carriage. Fatigue, must lie down after least exertion.

Nux moschata antidoes mercurial inhalation, lead colic, oil of turpentine, spiritous liquors and especially the effects of bad beers.

Cold, wet, windy weather (Rhod.); weather changes; cold food, water and cold washing; carriage driving (Coc.); lying on painful side ([Bry.], on painless side, Puls.).

In dry, warm weather; warm room; wrapping up warmly.

Drowsiness; very sleepy; stupor-like sleep; complaints causing sleepiness.

Chilliness without thirst; heat without thirst: want of perspiration; no thirst.

Very dry mouth, so dry that the tongue may adhere to the roof of the mouth, but no desire for water, rather an aversion to it. (On the contrary, Mercur., where the tongue is very moist, perhaps dripping with saliva, there is great thirst.) Affections of the temples, e.g., headaches with very dry mouth and no desire for water; sensation of dryness in the inner parts; buzzing, humming, or "funny feeling" in the body; dryness of the skin. Rheumatism of left shoulder.

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 versa, until it becomes settled; in wet weather; in windy weather; lying on painful side.

In the room; air being warm; in dry weather.

Lycop., Nux vom., Pulsat., Rhus tox., Stramon., Tart. emet.

Camphor.

Changeable mood, one moment laughing, the next crying. Thoughtless, slow-thinking, irresolute. changing the mind. Painless pulsation in the head, with fear to go to, sleep. During menses great pressure in the back, from within outwards, abdominal, bearing down and drawing in the limbs. Sudden hoarseness from walking against the wind. Fainting with palpitation of the heart, followed by sleep. Pain in sacrum when riding in a carriage. Diarrhoea undigested, like, chopped eggs, with loss of appetite and great sleepiness, in summer with children. While eating, soon satisfied; headache from eating a little too much. Drowsy with all complaints, particularly with pains; lies in stupid slumber. Menorrhagia, blood thick and dark with such as. have had menses very irregular.

Nutmeg

Marked tendency to fainting fits, with heart failure. Cold extremities, extreme dryness of mucous membranes and skin. Strange feeling, with irresistible drowsiness. Indicanuria. General inclination to become unconscious during acute attacks. Lypothymia (Ignatia). Staggers on trying to walk.

Changeable; laughing and crying. Confused, impaired memory. Bewildered sense, as in a dream. Thinks she has two heads.

Vertigo when walking in open air; aches from eating a little too much. Feeling of expansion, with sleepiness. Pulsating in head. Cracking sensation in head. Sensitive to slightest touch in a draught of air. Bursting headache; better hard pressure.

Objects look larger, very distant, or vanish. Motes before eyes. Mydriasis.

Oversensitive to smell; nosebleed, dark blood; dry, stopped up.

Very dry. Tongue adheres to roof of mouth; but no desire for water. Saliva like cotton (Berb). Toothache in pregnancy. Tongue numb, paralyzed. Dryness of throat.

Excessively bloated. Flatulent dyspepsia. Hiccough, and craving for highly-seasoned food. Retrocession of gout to stomach.

Paralytic weakness of intestines. Enormously distended. Stool is soft, and yet is unable to expel it, even with long straining (Alum). Faintness during or after stool. Protruding piles.

Uterine hæmorrhage. Menses too long, dark, thick. Leucorrhœa muddy and bloody. Suppression, with persistent fainting attacks and sleepiness (Kali c). Variableness of menstruation irregularity of time and quantity.

Loss of voice from walking against the wind (Hep). Cough when getting warm in bed.

Trembling, fluttering. Sensation as if something grasped heart. Palpitation; pulse intermits.

Pain in right hip to knee; worse, motion, especially going upstairs. Rheumatism from getting feet wet, from exposure to draughts. Rheumatism relieved by dry, warm clothes. Fatigue on slight exertion.

Great drowsiness (Indol). Complaints cause sleepiness. Coma.

Chill begins in left hand (Carbo). Chilliness and heat without thirst; want of perspiration. Dry skin and of inner parts, also of eyes, nose, lips, mouth, tongue, throat, etc.

Worse, cold moist wind, cold food, cold washing, lying on painful side, motion, jar. Better, warmth, dry weather.

Oleum myristicae-Oil of Nutmeg--(as a remedy for boils, felons, poisonous ulcers, it has been used in the 2x potency); Ornithogalum (flatulence, swollen feeling across lower chest; whenever she turns in bed, feels as if a bag of water turned also; gastric ulcer and cancer). Myristica Sebifera (phlegmonous inflammations, hastens suppuration; powerful antiseptic. Ulcerative tendency in all tissues. Said to act more powerfully than Hepar and Silica).

Compare: Nux v; Puls; Rhus; Ign; Asaf.

Antidotes: Camph; Gels; Valer.

First to sixth potency.

Stupor insensibility, unconquerable sleep; sleepy with most all complaints.

Excessive dryness of the tongue, mouth, lips and throat; no thirst.

And < cold damp weather, getting wet, or washing; after eating (bloating); > in room, dry weather.

Changeable humor; one moment laughing, the next crying.

The nutmeg, though frequently used for its peculiar flavor in common cookery, is nevertheless a powerful poison, hence a valuable remedy. The mind and sensorium are profoundly affected by it, as shown by the following characteristic symptoms: "Stupor and insensibility and unconquerable sleep." Again "Vanishing of thought while talking, reading, or writing." Again. "Weakness or loss of memory." Again, "Fitful mood, changing from deepest sorrow to frolicsome behavior; now grave, now gay." Again, "Absence of mind, cannot think; has to collect his thoughts before he can answer simple questions." Many more symptoms appear among the provings that show the action of this drug upon the brain. The effect upon the brain, while producing a sleepiness and dulness almost equal to that of Opium, is of an entirely different character, the Opium being seemingly due to fullness of the blood-vessels and pressure, while that of Nux moschata seems to be a benumbing of the very nerve substance itself. It is interesting to notice the sleepiness of Opium, Nux mos. and Tartar emetic, and to study these drugs in comparison. Opium and Tartar emetic are often remedies for pneumonia, but the concomitant symptoms are very different. Opium and Nux vom. in typhoid fever, but the choice, notwithstanding, this symptom of stupor common to both, is not at all difficult. All three of these remedies in bowel complaints of children have this symptom in common, but it is not hard to choose between them. Another very characteristic symptom of this remedy is excessive dryness of the mouth. Mouth so dry that the tongue sticks to the roof, yet no thirst. The tongue, lips and throat are all dry. Of course, there are other remedies having this dryness without thirst, such as Apis, Pulsatilla and Lachesis, but in this respect Nux moschata is the strongest. Then again Nux moschata is greatly troubled with flatulence. The abdomen is enormously distended, especially after meals. Where are two remedies which have pain and distress in the stomach immediately after eating, even when the patient is still at the table. They are Nux mos. and Kali bichromicum. With Nux vomica and Anacardium the pain comes on an hour or two after eating. With Nux mos., everything they eat seems to turn to wind (Kali carb, Iodine), and fills the stomach and abdomen so full as to cause pressure upon all of the organs of the chest and abdomen. Again there is diarrhœa with this remedy. It is very efficacious in cholera infantum, when the above mentioned sensorial symptoms are present. I once had a very severe case of typhoid fever of the nervous stupida variety. On account of the stupidity, the yellow watery diarrhœa, and rumbling and bloating of the abdomen, I thought surely Phosphoric acid must help; but it did not. I finally discovered the excessive dryness of the mouth, which had escaped my attention before. This completed the picture of Nux moschata. Under the action of the 200th potency, the patient rapidly improved unto complete recovery. So we must "watch out" when the seemingly indicated remedy does not cure, for it may not be Sulphur, Opium, Laurocerasus or Psorinum that will have to be given, as we said when writing on Opium and Sulphur; but we have not, no matter what the "seemings," chosen the homœopathic remedy at all, and, as in this case, some symptom may appear that will change the prescription entirely.

Now we will notice in detail the mind and sensorium symptoms that we have given, by way of comparison. I will add to the comparison made between this remedy and Antimonium tart. and Opium, Apis mellifica, which has soporous sleep; but it is interrupted by piercing screams, especially in brain diseases, where the sopor is generally found. None of the other remedies have these screams (cri encephalique) so prominently. "Vanishing of thought while talking, reading or writing" may find their similar under Camphor, Cannabis Indica and Lachesis. "Loss of memory" under many remedies, but notably under Anacardium, Lycopodium, Bryonia alb., Sulphur and Natrum muriaticum. The "fitful, changing moods and disposition" is found under Aconite, Ignatia, Crocus and Platina. "Absence of mind," Anacardium, Kreosote, Lachesis, Natrum mur. and Mercurius. I notice that those remedies that are oftenest similar to Nux moschata in its mind and other symptoms are often found among the so-called hysteric remedies. And why not? For Nux moschata is one of our best in this hydra-headed complaint. Taking together all of the symptoms we have been over, and adding to them that other one, "easy fainting," where can you find a more complete general picture of the average hysteric? I will not use more space here for this remedy, but recommend to every careful student, and practitioner, who does not already understand it, a careful study of this certainly valuable drug. That it has not received the use in practice that it should is due, I have no doubt, to the fact that it is used so frequently in foods, that many think it cannot be much of a remedy.

Changeable disposition ; hysteria with suddenly changing disposition, great drowsiness and disposition to faint. Very irresolute, changes his intention continually. Absence of mind ; vanishing of thoughts in reading, disposition to go to sleep. Dulness of senses, thoughtlessness, with slowly returning consciousness. Great inclination to laugh at every thing, especially in the open air. Slowness of ideas ; loss of memory. Idiocy ; craziness. Delirium with violent vertigo, strange gestures, improper talk, with loud tone and voice and total sleeplessness.

Vertigo and giddiness as from intoxication, with delirium, or craziness, or insensibility. Reeling (while walking in the open air) with staggering, gradual rigidity and insensibility. Fainting, with palpitation of the heart, followed by sleep. Sensation of looseness of the brain, and when shaking or moving the head as if the brain were striking against the skull, with sleepiness after a meal ; worse from cold, better from warmth and heat. Sensitiveness of the head as soreness, especially sensitive to the slightest touch, in a draft of air (wind) ; worse in the cold and from lying down, better from hard pressure and from external heat. Pulsating, pressing pain on a small spot over the left eye. Painless pulsation in the head with fear to go to sleep. The headache generally appears after eating, especially after breakfast or after overloading the stomach.

Sensation of dryness and dryness of the eyes, can move the eyelids only with difficulty. Tension around the eyes and in the lids. Sensation of fulness in the eyes with contracted pupils. Illusions of visions ; objects appear too distant. Weakness of sight.

Otalgia with stinging pain (right ear). Pain in the Eustachian tube as from a rough body (on change of weather) previous to the setting in of wind and rain.

Sneezing ; early in the morning. Stoppage, especially of the left nostril.

Heat in the face with slight redness of the cheeks. Blue margins around the eyes (with pale face). Sensation of swelling of the left cheek, with pricking as from electric sparks. Freckles in the face.

Toothache of pregnant women. Stinging and tearing in the teeth, extending to the ears and temples, with stitches in the teeth when sucking them, and aggravation from contact and cold air. Sticking pain in the teeth, relieved by the application of warmth. The teeth feel dull, as if covered with lime. Toothache from damp, cold evening air ; the teeth feel as if they were grasped by the forceps, with pain in the neck. The gums bleed readily. Shocks in the molar teeth from drinking cold water. Toothache from washing, from cold, from damp cold air. Dryness and sensation of dryness in the mouth without thirst. Dryness and sensation of dryness of the tongue, extending to the mouth and throat. The tongue is coated white (with mucus). Paralysis of the tongue. Aphthæ. Great dryness in the throat without thirst. Difficulty of deglutition as from paralysis of the throat. The breath has a very offensive smell.

Taste in the mouth like chalk, pappy ; or as if he had eaten strongly salted food. Appetite increased ; thirst diminished. After eating, debility ; scraping eructations. Weakness of digestion (especially in old persons). Nausea and vomiting during pregnancy. Nausea while riding in a carriage. Fulness in the stomach, with oppressed breathing. Colic pain in the abdomen, immediately after eating and worse after drinking only during the day, with dry mouth and thirstlessness. Sensation of heat and burning in the stomach. Cutting in the abdomen and screwing pain around the navel as from worms, with sleepiness. Abdomen distended from flatulence, preventing sleep. Swelling of the liver ; heaviness in the region of the liver ; swelling of the spleen.

Slow, difficult soft stool. Diarrhœa from debility or from cold ; predisposition to diarrhœa. Diarrhœic stools, like scraped eggs, with loss of appetite in children. Summer complaint -summer diarrhœa. Diarrhœa with loss of appetite and great sleepiness in children. Diarrhœa of undigested food, with fainting. Putrid, bloody diarrhœa in typhus fever.

Painful strangury. Burning and cutting while urinating. The urine smells like violets. Renal colic.

Men. Debility of the sexual system ; desire with relaxed organs. Discharge of prostatic fluid. Women. Irregular menstruation, sometimes too early, then again too late. The menstrual blood is dark and thick. Before menstruation pain in the small of the back, debility pressure in the stomach, water-brash and pain in the liver. During a hæmorrhage from the uterus or menstruation, pressure in the abdomen, drawing down into the legs from the naval. Spasmodic, false labor-pains. Threatening miscarriage. Pain of the uterus from the pessary.

Altered voice ; hoarseness ; sudden from walking against the wind. Cough with great soreness in the larynx or the chest. Dry cough with oppressed breathing from taking cold by standing in the water. Cough with or without expectoration when becoming warm in bed in the evening or when becoming warm from working. Hæmoptysis. Cough during pregnancy. Shortness of breathing after eating. Oppression of the chest, originating in the pit of the stomach. Sensation of constriction of the chest. Fulness and sensation of a heavyweight pressing, on the chest. Palpitation of the heart with attacks of fainting (followed by steep).

Sensation of great weakness in the small of the back (and knees). Drawing in the muscles of the neck from the draft of moist air. Pain in the back or small of the back as if broken and bruised. Pain in the small of the back when riding, in a carriage. Tabes dorsalis.

Upper. Cold hands as if frozen, with buzzing in the hands on entering a room. Lower. Pain in the (right) knee as if sprained, especially when moving and going up-stairs. Weakness of the knees (and small of the back).

Great soreness of all the parts on which one lies. Rheumatic pains (from cold damp air). Wandering pains, only attacking a small spot and lasting but a short time, returning frequently. Hysterical paroxysms. Inclination to faint. Convulsions (of children). Great debility from the least exertion, compelling one to lie down with sleepiness. Apoplexy.

Great sleepiness with all complaints. Irresistible drowsiness ; deep sopor.

Pulse accelerated. Chill whenever uncovering oneself and chilliness in the open, especially wet, cold air, with very pale face ; at once relieved in the warm room. Sensation of coldness of the feet with heat of the hands. Chilliness in the evening with great drowsiness. Chilliness and drowsiness predominate. Heat in the hands in the morning, with hypochondriac mood and thirstlessness and dryness of the mouth and throat. Perspiration scanty, but at times red like blood. Intermittent fever. Double tertian intermittent fevers, with sleepiness, white tongue, rattling breathing, bloody expectoration and very little thirst only during the hot stage. Intermittent fever with sleepiness, and during the heat great dryness of the mouth and throat with thirstlessness.

Dry, cold skin and not disposed to perspire. The skin is very sensitive to cold moist air. Bluish spots on the skin.

All the ailments are accompanied by drowsiness and sleepiness ; and inclination to faint. Especially suitable for women and children. Aggravation from cold, wet air or in cold, wet weather ; while lying on the painful side ; from cold food ; from spirituous liquors ; when riding in a carriage ; from water and washing ; from changes of the weather ; in windy (stormy) weather. Amelioration in the room ; from warm air ; in dry weather ; from wrapping up warmly.

Myristica fragrans. M. officinalis. M. moschata. Nutmeg. N. O. Myristicaceæ. 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.]

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. Hæmorrhage. 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, hæmorrhage in. Uterus, prolapse of. Worms.

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 diarrhœa, 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 diarrhœa. 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 hæmorrhoidal and hæmorrhagic. Protruding piles. Hæmorrhage of typhus; fetid flatus. Incontinence of urine. The hæmorrhages 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; œsophagus. 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. Diarrhœa < 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 = diarrhœa. 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.

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Stupor and insensibility ; unconquerable sleep.
Unconsciousness : after mental excitement ; especially just before menses ; thoughts vanish with fainting ; seemingly to her of a half hour's duration, but really only momentary.
Vanishing of thoughts while talking, reading or writing.
Gradual vanishing of thoughts while reading, ends in falling asleep.
Weakness or loss of memory.
Never accomplishes what he undertakes, but remains standing in one place, absent-minded ; appears quite changed to his companions.
Listless and indifferent ; would go out in the night and not return till searched out and brought back ; he was disposed to talk, to laugh and sing songs. θ Mental disorders.
Awakening as from complete absence of mind, does not know where he is nor what to answer.
Difficult comprehension.
Sluggish flow of ideas.
Gives answers which have not the least reference to questions put to him.
Great incoherency on attempting to express her ideas.
Uses wrong words, during headache.
While writing he omitted letters, wrote in different alphabets against his will, and changed from one subject to another.
Surroundings seemed changed ; fanciful, dreamy images ; does not recognize the known street.
Clairvoyancy.
The outer world had no existence for her ; automatically she attended to her household duties, and on awaking from this condition she had not the slightest recollection of what she had done ; if forcibly aroused she fell into violent
convulsions ; if unmolested she would usually, after finishing her work, go to bed and fall into a quiet sleep, from which she awoke after forty-eight hours, invigorated and unconscious of what had happened.
Short time seems very long to her.
Delirium, violent vertigo, strange gestures, loud, improper talk, sleeplessness.
Senselessness, intoxicated condition, with absence of mind.
Delirium tremens, slowness of senses, imaginary fancies ; awakens and knows not where he is ; laughter with stupid expression.
Inclination to laugh at everything, more in open air.
Imbecility.
Fitful mood, changing from deepest sorrow to most frolicsome behavior ; now grave, now gay.
Fickle ; irresolute and wavering in his undertakings.
Aware of danger, but no apprehension.
Had no power to resist being led anywhere, in evening.
As if drunk and sleepy ; drunken feeling in head ; drunken appearance.
After overtaxed mental powers : gastric complaints ; nervous irritation of intestinal canal ; hysteria.
The least exertion or mental excitement brought on somnolency.
Fright : causing trembling of heart, fear and sadness.

Dulness of head, especially of forehead.
Muddledness and vanishing of thoughts ; when rousing himself forcibly, he has to collect his thoughts.
Seemed intoxicated the whole day.
Vertigo : as if drunk, staggering ; with headache and nausea ; with lightness and emptiness of head ; reeling when walking in open air ; swimming in head ; weak, limbs numb, feels as if floating in air.
Giddy, with pressing heaviness, most in forehead.
Apoplexy ; nervous affections of brain.

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This is not a very great remedy; it has not a very wide range of usefulness, but it is often overlooked when needed.

We get into the habit of relying entirely on the polychrests.

The old women used to give nutmeg to hysterics, and wonderful to tell its provings justify its use. It must have had some palliative relation to the hysteria. The root is much stronger than the nut, in the same proportions, and contains the real medicinal qualities.

The patient appears to be dazed; there is a complete loss of memory; she is automatic in her actions. This is a wonderful state of the mind. She goes about the house performing her duties, but if interrupted, forgets what she has been doing, forgets that she was all day in conversation with her son; she has no recollection of past events.

This is a singular state of the mind sometimes found in hysterical women.

Sometimes it is impossible to find out what state of the mind is present she is so forgetful. She lies with the eyes closed and yet knows everything that is going on, but remembers nothing. She speaks with intelligence about the things of the moment, but knows nothing of the past. She prophesies, predicts with a sort of clairvoyance.

The mental state is the keynote. Sometimes she is < in the morning, sometimes in the evening, or on waking. She performs all her duties and yet seems to be in a dream, she seems not to know her friends.

The Nux mos. patient is always ready to go to sleep; it is with great difficulty that she can keep awake. She falls asleep on all occasions, in season and out of season. The eyes look heavy; she cannot keep awake; falls into a profound slumber, sometimes into coma.

Useful in the coma of typhoid and intermittent fever. When aroused she remembers nothing; looks dazed; looks about and wants to know who the people are around and what they are doing. It is a state in which patients answer questions slowly after a long interval, and then look confused again.

They give an answer that has no relation to the question asked, or, answer correctly. We find such a state in typhoid, in hysteria, after shock, after fear, blighted affections, or the loss of a friend. It is more suitable after shock ending in this kind of trouble than in typhoid.

It is also useful in typhoid, but where there is great weakness, sliding down in bed, and nervous trembling, Phos. ac. is a better remedy. Nux mos. does not relate so completely to the general image of a typhoid as does Phos. ac.

The sleepiness and the dazed state are two things combined, and when combined are difficult to cover by a remedy. This state is somewhat like Opium.

Faintness and even fainting when standing long, such as occurs in a nervous woman standing to have a dress fitted.

There is a dry mouth, the tongue cleaves to the roof of the mouth in all complaints. There is great sleepiness and automatic conduct, especially in nervous women. It has cured petit mal.

The hemorrhages stand out in bold relief; hemorrhages from the nose, uterus and bowels. There is vomiting of blood.

The patient is sensitive to wind, to a draft, to damp air. She has a headache < walking against the wind; hoarseness from walking against the wind; she is so sensitive to cold weather that she comes home dazed and sleepy from walking against the wind; her mouth is dry but there is no thirst, she doesn't desire water (sometimes thirst is present).

The patient may hold water in the mouth without desire to swallow it. Nux mos. holds ice water and succulent fruits in the mouth to relieve the sensation of dryness. Often there is a sensation of dryness when the mouth is moist.

In the extremities there is numbness, tingling, prickling, paralytic weakness; there is threatened paralysis; momentary hysterical paralysis; coming for a short time and then going away.

Aphonia with a dry mouth, in hysterical patients; when walking out of doors. This aphonia passes away on going into the house.

The whole back is sensitive to pressure, the vertebrae are sensitive.

This remedy has prolonged and inveterate constipation; prolonged urging to stool followed by a soft stool. ( Alum., Psor., China.) The stool is difficult but soft. He wonders why he has to urge for a soft stool.

In woman there are many troubles; menorrhagia lasting ten or fifteen days; the blood is clotted; the menses are too often, last too long, are irregular. The abdomen is full of colic; cramping pains extending to be broad ligaments and down the limbs; most distressing dysmenorrhoea from exposure to cold, riding in the wind or living in damp houses.

With this there is a dry mouth and thirstlessness; she wakes at night with a dry mouth; it seems as if the tongue cleaved to the roof of the mouth.

This remedy is especially suitable for lean women, those who have lost flesh. The breasts are flat. I remember a case of a woman thirty five years old whose breasts which were once well rounded became perfectly flat. Nux mos. restored the breasts.

This is a little remedy, but when wanted nothing will take its place.

Adapted especially to women and children of a nervous, hysterical temperament; to people with a dry skin who rarely perspire; ailments of pregnancy.

All the ailments are accompanied by drowsiness, sleepiness, or an inclination to faint; complaints cause sleepiness (Ant. t., Op.).

Absence of mind, cannot think; great indifference to everything.

Changeable humor; one moment laughing, the next crying (Croc., Ign.).

"Sudden change from grave to gay, from lively to serene."

Great soreness of all the parts upon which one lies. Tendency to bedsores (Bap., Bry., Pyr.).

Weakness of old age; dyspepsia of old people.

Oversensitive: to light; of hearing; of smell; to touch.

Weakness or loss of memory (Anac., Lac c., Lyc.).

Vanishing of thoughts while reading, talking or writing; uses wrong words; does not recognize well-known streets (Can. I., Lach.).

Great dryness of the mouth; dryness of eyes, too dry to close the lids; tongue so dry it adheres to the mouth; saliva seemed like cotton; throat dry, stiffened, no thirst.

Sensation of great dryness; without real thirst and without dryness of the tongue.

Eating a little too much causes headache; pain, fulness and distress in stomach while eating or immediately after (Kali bi.).

Diarrhœa : in summer, from cold drinks; from boiled milk; during dentition; during pregnancy; with sleepiness and fainting; in autumn, epidemic, white, fetid (Colch.).

At every menstrual nisus, mouth, throat, and tongue become intolerably dry, especially when sleeping.

Leucorrhœa, in place of menses (Coc.); awakens with dry tongue (Lach.).

Pain, nausea and vomiting; caused by pessaries, during pregnancy, > by Nux moschata.

Sudden hoarseness from walking against the wind (Euph., Hep.).

Cough, caused by : getting warm in bed; overheated; during pregnancy (Con.); bathing; standing in water; living in cold, dark places (Aran., Ter.); loose after eating, dry after drinking.

Rheumatic affections; from getting feet wet; from exposure to drafts of air while heated (Acon., Bry.); < in cold, wet weather, or cold wet clothes (Rhus); of left shoulder (Fer.—right shoulder, Sang., Stron.).

Backache, while riding in a carriage.

Soreness of all parts on which one lies (Bapt.).

Fatigued, must lie down after least exertion.

Sleep : irresistibly drowsy; sleepy, muddled, as if intoxicated; coma, lies silent, immovable; eyes constantly closed (with stertorous breathing, Op.).

Cold, wet, windy weather, (Rhod.); weather changes; cold food, water and washing; riding in a carriage (Coc.); motion; lying on painful side.

Rest; dry, warm weather; warm room; wrapping up warmly.

Tertian; double tertian; quartan; double quartan.

7. A. M., 1, 5, 6, 9 P. M.

Without thirst. Skin cold and blue over the whole body, at 5:30 P. M. Became cold, chilly and pale on going into open, especially damp, cold air, disappeared at once in a warm room (worse in a warm room, Apis). Coldness commencing in left arm and lower limbs (in left hand and arm, Carbo v.), in frequent attacks, and clear intermissions, with desire to sleep between attacks. Chill from uncovering (Nux); hands and feet icy cold and as if numb from coldness (Rhus). As chill progressed became very drowsy, and at close of chill fell asleep (Apis, Nux); continued through heat, which was very light.

With slight thirst, with redness of face and hot hands. Great heat, with prostration, hypochondriac mood; mouth and throat dry; drowsiness and deep sleep (Apis, Op.—falls asleep at climax of heat and breaks out with sweat, Pod.).

Drowsiness during sweat (Pod.); cannot bear to be uncovered (Bar., Hep., Nux). Sweat light, or wanting altogether; sweat red or bloody (Lach.).

"Double tertian intermittent fevers, with sleepiness, white tongue, rattling breathing, bloody expectoration, and very little thirst only during the hot stage."—LIPPE.

Remittent fever with continuous drowsiness, sleepiness and frontal headache; wakes occasionally for a drink; face very red. Makes no complaint. Sleeps nearly all the time.—C. B. GILBERT.

"Fever, not paludal, purely nervous; its periodicity places it here. At seven o'clock every morning the chills set in and increase, but, in the midst of this progression of chills, the patient becomes drowsy, and, when the chills cease, is fast asleep. The hot stage is very slightly pronounced, the patient continues to sleep; on awakening great dryness of throat; fever, with colliquative diarrhœa."—A. CHARGÉ.

Coated white, dotted with red papillæ. "Cotton" saliva, sticky dry lips, and tongue adhering to roof of mouth, without any actual dryness or real thirst. Can only digest highly seasoned food.

Chill; the whole body cold and blue. Sleepy, falls asleep at close of chill.

Heat; with very red face; sleepy or deep sleep.

Sweat; light or wanting; red or bloody; cannot bear to be uncovered. Sleeps during sweats. Sticky, dry lips, tongue and mouth; no thirst.

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 papillæ.

Mouth and throat dry, not thirst.
Saliva lessened; like "cotton".
Water from mouth before menses.
Bad smell from the mouth; tongue white.
Aphthæ 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 diarrhœa.
"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, diarrhœa.
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 vaginæ; sterility; leucorrhœa.
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.
Leucorrhœa in place of menses; awakens with dry tongue.

During pregnancy; worse from fright, anger, etc.; nausea and vomiting; difficult stool; dyspnœa; 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.
Mammæ 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.
Dyspnœa, 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 diarrhœa.
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, œsophagus.

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, anæmia.
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).

A tincture is made of the dried Nutmeg, Myristica moschata, Thun.

A soporific or mild narcotic; characterized by marked tendency to attacks of syncope, with cardiac failure, cold extremities and extreme dryness of the skin and mucous membranes (Sec. c.). ▶ Twitchings of muscles and even general spasms have been observed. ▶ It retards and suppresses menstruation, rendering the flow thick and dark.

Hyosc., Cannab. ind., Mosc., Nux v., Sepia, Lyc., Op., Dig.

Blood seemed dried up, ears and lips were white. ▶ Trembles, cannot hold still, begs to be held, legs and body jerk violently, knees up and body forward. ▶ Erethism, agg. limbs, simulating chorea. ▶ Convulsions. ▶ Opisthotonos.

The effect of some brandy was as if I had been electrified from mouth downward in a straight line and dying off towards feet, then it diffused itself over whole body, feeling generally as if I had hold of galvanic wires working in antagonistic directions, out of time and keeping. ▶ Strange feeling over whole system, with almost irresistible sleepiness, jactitation of muscles (Hyosc., Nux v.), pain and vertigo in forehead and confusion of ideas. ▶ Intermittent wandering digging in small spots. ▶ Wandering pinching that increased and decreased in waves in spots in bones. ▶ Pains generally; in parts on which he lies, if he lies on a moderately hard substance; wandering, always in a small spot.

Soreness and bruised sensation. ▶ Condition as if he had cooled off after sweating violently, nape and all bones hurt, with pressure forward towards forehead. ▶ Throbbing in every part. ▶ Restless, jumping and starting. ▶ (Anxiety over whole body, with inclination to tremble.).

▶ Weakness; on waking, with drowsiness, felt unwieldy, like a mass of metal; and sleepiness; knees affected as if he had walked far, and sleepiness, even talking fretted him; and lazy feeling; so that he must lie down after accomplishing a trifle. ▶ Faint (Mosch., Sep., Dig.); all day, she was forced to gasp for breath; at 5.30 P.M., with lightness, giddiness and emptiness in head; and sickly sensation. ▶ Sinking sensation as soon as she lay down, as if going to die, but at ease in mind and free from pain, happy and unconcerned, sensation not complete, knew all that transpired about her, but could not express herself clearly (ideas muddled, tongue thick, and coldness beginning in lower limbs).

Immobility. ▶ General numbness; except in head, only when she moved, even to eyelids, something like an electric shock would run all over her, starting from small of back, amel. if any one touched her, although she felt that she could not move, if by great effort she did so she was surprised at the power she had. ▶ Symptoms, especially of head, occur after eating, agg. after breakfast of bread and milk. ▶ Amelioration from an hour's sleep towards evening; A. in open air; dose of Nux vom.

Hysteria during pregnancy, with attacks of faintness. ▶ Hysteria, with enormous bloating of the abdomen, dryness of the mouth, etc. ▶ General tendency to syncope from slight causes.

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Attacks of syncope, with threatening cardiac failure and cold extremities.
Extreme dryness of the skin and mucous membranes.
Twitchings and general spasms.

Great weakness; faintness.
Weakness, especially of the back and knees, with sleepiness.
Great sensitiveness to parts upon which one lies.
Symptoms < cold, wet weather; > external warmth.

Extremely changeable mood, laughing and crying in rapid succession.
Inability to think.
Absence of mind; cannot finish what he begins, but stands in a dazed condition.
While writing his thoughts vanish entirely.
Thought slow and difficult; waits a long time before answering.
Omits letters and syllables when writing, and is incoherent when expressing her thoughts.
Loss of memory.
Momentary attacks of unconsciousness, which seem to last a long time.
Complete loss of ideas, so that one thinks they had been asleep.

Head feels heavy and drops forward or rolls about on the shoulders involuntarily; must hold it with both hands.
Fullness; a distended feeling in the head, painless.
Violent pain in a small spot in the left side of the forehead.
The pain feels loose on moving it or on walking, < hot weather.

Excessive dryness, reading is difficult, eyes close as from sleepiness.
Pupils dilated and insensible.
Objects seem very large, especially in the evening.

Dryness and stoppage of the nostrils.
Over-sensitiveness of smell and then loss of smell.

Face generally pale, though the cheeks are sometimes hot and red.

Lips, mouth and throat perfectly dry, without thirst.
Sticking toothache, > external warmth; < cold wet weather, in the evening.
Teeth feel as though they were covered with chalk.

Unnatural appetite, with hasty eating.
Chalky taste, or as if he had eaten excessively of salt food.
Deathly nausea on raising the head from the pillow.
Nausea when riding in a carriage.

Tension; a feeling of heaviness in the upper abdomen.
Cutting and twisting about the navel, though with sleepiness.
Numerous flatulent symptoms, disturbing sleep.

Stool soft but difficult, indolent.
Diarrhœa like beaten eggs, undigested, with sleepiness.

Frequent micturition, sometimes involuntary.
Urine smells like violets.

Menstruation irregular, even suppressed, with persistent attacks of fainting.
Obstinate uterine hæmorrhage of thick, dark blood.

Voice hoarse, unsteady or lost entirely (aphonia).
Hoarseness, caused by walking against the wind.
Oppression of the chest, with a feeling as if the blood rushed towards the heart and then spread over the whole body.
Paroxysms of suffocation.
Constriction, or a feeling of a heavy weight on the chest.

A feeling of sudden rush of blood to the heart.
Palpitation, with attacks of faintness.

Pain in the back as if bruised or broken, < riding in a carriage.

Numbness.
Tingling in the toes as after being frozen, with pain in the soles, as if bruised.

Overpowering sleepiness (with all symptoms).

Chilliness, with pale face, especially on uncovering, and in cold wet air.
Febrile attacks, with sleepiness, without thirst, with dry mouth and throat.
Internal fever, with cold, dry skin.
General absence of perspiration.

Nux. m. / (NN.) / The Nun.

nux moschata,- Drowsy drone!
flatulent, dyspeptic one.
up to paralytic tricks,
fainting and hysteric fits.
thine to wake with mouth all dry,
and with dryness of the eye.
thine to give relief we see,
to the ails of pregnancy.

The Nun,-has dry mouth on waking.

The Nun, Lady Bell, glares at Eli.

This Nun,-Who is subject to drowsiness,- Is at Aunt bap's in India, getting a cook for Lauro Opi.

Dry Mouth on Waking in the Morning: Nux. m., Pul., Bell., Graph., Lyc., Rhus, Sul., Lach.

Drowsiness with all ailments:Nux m., Ant. c., Bap., Can. I., Gel., Tart. e., Coc., Laur., Opi. (Drowsy fever especially Ant. c., Bap., Gel.)

Thoughts vanish, as when going to sleep. Absence of ideas, the power to collect his thoughts returns slowly. Great forgetfulness. Imbecility. confusion of intellect. Difficult comprehension. Stupefaction. Great irresolution, vacillation and fickleness in his undertakings. Inclination to laugh. Continuous rush of disagreeable idea. Changeableness, wants this, then that. Hysteria, with rapidly changing moods, somnolency and inclination to faint. Sense of duality. Vertigo. As if intoxicated. Extraordinary dizziness and dull confusion in head. Fainting with palpitation then sleep.

The brain feels loose and wobbles as though' it struck against the skull when moving or shaking head. Oppressive confusion in forehead. Aching from a disordered stomach, most violent after breakfast. Temples sensitive to lying on them and touch. Left - sided headache. Apoplexy. Worse: Uncovering, after eating, from cold, wet weather. Better: Wrapping up head, external heat.

Feel dry. Objects at a greater distance. Staring. Worse: Light especially artificial. Better: Darkness.

Oversensitive hearing. As if stuffed.

Stuffed coryza, full or partial (one sided) obstruction. Hypersensitive smell. Dark nosebleed.

Hot and red cheeks. Pale, with blue circles about eyes. Numerous freckles.

Sticking ache, external warmth. Compressive ache from cold damp air, they feel as if grasped tongs. Sensitive or painful incisor or bicuspid teeth. Dull feeling, as though' coated with lime. Worse: Cold damp air, drawing in air, during pregnancy, when sucking with tongue.

Excessive dryness of end of throat and tongue without thirst. Tension in posterior pharynx, as from dryness. Difficult swallowing as from paralysis of throat.

Taste: Like chalk. Earthy. As though' he had eaten strongly salted food.

Fullness of, with oppressed breathing. Weakness, especially in the age. Better: Before eating.

Appetite: Thirstlessness. Excessive.

Nausea: Qualmishness when driving. Vomiting during pregnancy.

Relaxed, with sense of heaviness in upper. Cutting in, with twisting about navel as from worms with sleepiness. Distended by flatus, which disturb his sleep. Wind colic.

Tendency to diarrhoea from weakness or after taking cold. Like chopped eggs with loss of appetite and sleepiness, in children. Soft, but passed with difficulty. Inactive rectum.

Scanty, highly saturated. Odor of violets.

Desires coition, with relaxed sexual organs. Seminal emissions. Spasmodic, false labor pains.

Menses: Irregular, of dark, thick blood. Too early and too profuse. Uterine hemorrhage. Preceded by lumbar pains. Diseases during pregnancy, parturition or child - bed.

Oppression of chest, seems to start from epigastrium, with congestion of blood to heart. Sudden suffocative attacks. Short breath after eating.

Dry, with obstructed breathing, after taking cold from being in water. Dry, when heated or becoming warm in bed. In pregnancy. Expectoration slimy, bloody, mostly dark. Haemoptysis.

Hoarseness coming on when walking against wind.

Pressure, as of a load on. constriction. Palpitation.

Bruised pain in, and in lumbar region. Backache when driving. Tabes.

Joints feel sprained, stiff and weak. Children stagger, waver and often fall when walking. Pains caused by exposure to damp cold.

Suits females, drunkards. Inclination to faint. Great weakness, especially in small of back and knees, with sleepiness. Tremblings. Spasms and convulsions of children, with consciousness. convulsive motions. Great sensitiveness of body and bruised pain in parts on which he lies. Cyanosis congenitalis. Sensation of: Itching internally and prickling externally, humming and whizzing in body, tingling, crawling, numbness, painful shocks more internally. Inflamed mucous membranes, increased mucous sensations. Hard parts feel soft. Lameness of inner organs. Dropsy of external parts. Disposition to catch cold. Worse: Uncovering, getting warm in bed, from suppressed eruptions, damp cold, getting wet, drafts of cold air, washing, to which he also averse. Better: Warmth and warm air, dry weather.

Sensitive. cold, and dry, wanting in natural moisture. Extraordinarily sensitive to cold damp air. Very painful ulceration of.

Irresistible desire to. Stupefying somnolency, as from intoxication. Sleepiness accompanies almost every complaint, after eating. coma.

Pulse: Frequent. Tremulous. Somewhat accelerated, as from on ebullition. Faster from wine. Chill: Every time he uncovers, and chilliness in the open, especially the cold, wet air, with a very pale face, soon gets better in a warm room. cold feeling of feet, with heat of hands. Chilliness in evening, but with greater sleepiness chill and somnolency predominate. Heat: of face and hands in forenoon with hypochondriacal mood, thirstlessness and dry mouth and throat. Sweat: Little, dry mouth and throat. Sweat: Little, which is, however sometimes red, like blood.

Allied Remedies: - Asaf., Coccl., Con., Croc., Gel., Ign., Mag-c., Mos., Nux - v., Op., Pulse., Sep., Sul., Terch.

Complementary: Calc-c., Lyc.

Inclination to faintness and great debility, especially in the small of the back and in the knees, with sleepiness.

Hysterical attacks.

Of use in the spasms of children.

Great sensitivity of the body and pain of the part on which one lies.

Wandering and pressing pains which always only occupy a small spot, last only a short time, but soon returns.

Drawing in the limbs, especially after catching cold, worse while at rest.

Pains in the limbs caused by wet, cold weather.

Wet cold weather aggravates.

External heat alleviates.

Emaciation of scrofulous individuals.

Cold from sudden cooling off, after having perspired with pain in the neck and in all the bones.

Great restlessness in the muscular system.

Cold, dry skin.

Intermittent fever with sleepiness during the heat.

Thirstlessness, with dryness in the mouth and throat.

Especially suitable for women and children.