Myristica Sebifera

Myristica sebifera belongs to the same order as the nutmeg-tree, Nux

moschata. Our preparation of the latter is made from the powdered nut. Mure proved and

introduced Myr. seb., and in the proving occurs this symptom: "Pain in the finger-nails with

swelling of the phalanges." This, apparently, led to its use in whitlow, in which many successes

have been reported by Chancerel pére and others. Spanish homceopaths have used Myr. seb.

extensively. Olivé, of Gros, has reported cures with it of: Scrofulous osteitis; callous ulcers-

• ▸phlegmonous erysipelas.
• ▸Cartier (Rev.
• ▸Hom.
• ▸Fran.
• ▸, quoted Rev.
• ▸Hom.
• ▸Belge, December, 1898, p.

261) gives two experiences of his own with the remedy. (/) A young girl had been three months

with her leg in a splint for inflammation of the knee and doughy swelling of entire limb. Cartier

• ▸came to the conclusion that there was pus in the joint.
• ▸Myr.
• ▸seb.
• ▸3, five drops three times a day,

was given for three months. Five months later the swelling and inflammation were all gone;

walking gave no pain; but the joint was anchylosed. (2) An old man, 87, was seized with sudden

arthritis of the shoulder, with intense fever. Allopaths first diagnosed it as osteomyelitis, but later

a surgeon was called in, who pronounced it an arthritis purulent from the onset. After he had

passed through the hands of eminent old-school authorities in Paris, who said nothing could be

done, Cartier was sent for, and found the shoulder quite full of pus, and a particularly painful

spot on the scapula, at a point where the bone was said by one authority to be attacked. Myr. seb.

3, five drops three times a day, was given. In ten days there was no longer suppuration, the size

• ▸of the joint had become normal, and the tender spot was gone.
• ▸Myr.
• ▸seb.
• ▸has evidently great

power over the suppurative process as affecting joints. Hansen says Kippax regards it as the

principal remedy in elephantiasis Arabum.

Indifferent and careless.—Cannot concentrate his thoughts.—Vexed by a song which

keeps running in his head.

• ▸Vertigo, r.
• ▸to 1.
• ▸on waking in morning.
• ▸—Dizziness in morning.
• ▸—Head heavy.
• ▸—Pain

(with pressure outwards) in frontal eminence; at noon; intermitting; > in open air.

Tongue white and cracked.—Whole mouth with tonsils and upper pharynx painful

and sensitive to contact; every mouthful seems to wound the parts when chewed or

swallowed.—Palate insensible with loss of taste —Taste: bitter; of copper, which excites spitting

of blood.

Burning at bottom of throat.—Constriction at isthmus of pharynx; this pain increases

progressively.—Difficulty in swallowing saliva.

Sensation as if a foreign body, as large as a walnut, had lodged in 1. inguinal

region, all forenoon.

Less frequent micturition; urine scanty although he drinks much; reddish

yellow.

Hands stiff as if from squeezing something for long time.—Pain in 1.

• ▸hand.
• ▸—Pain in hands < when they touch each other.
• ▸—Formication on |.
• ▸thumb-joint.
• ▸—Pain in

finger-nails with swelling of phalanges.

Cannot get to sleep, evening, in bed.—Restless sleep with dreams about business;

about disputes; unconnected, about houses being built commencing with top stories —Violent

starting in sleep.