Nux Moschata

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 (V.
• ▸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 1s 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 hemorrhoidal and hemorrhagic.

• ▸Protruding piles.
• ▸Hemorrhage of typhus; fetid flatus.
• ▸Incontinence of urine.
• ▸The hemorrhages 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;

cesophagus. 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.

• ▸Fright.
• ▸Mental exertion.
• ▸Suppressed eruption.
• ▸Bath (suppressed menses).
• ▸Over-

• ▸eating.
• ▸Milk.
• ▸Bad beer.
• ▸Alcohol.

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

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.

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 I.
• ▸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——Anzemia.—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 versd, 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.

• ▸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.

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 1.

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 1.

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 |.
• ▸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 1.

• ▸supraorbital ridge.
• ▸—Severe tearing in (1.
• ▸) 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).

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

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 |.
• ▸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.

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.
• ▸)

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

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. |.).

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 1. side of the face, with burning pricking, as

from electric fluid—Freckles in face.

• ▸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.

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).
• ▸—Aphthz.
• ▸—Swelling of

mucous follicles under tongue.

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.

Great dryness and sensation of dryness in throat (without thirst), with

scraping.—Difficulty of deglutition as from paralysis of throat.

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

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.

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.

• ▸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.

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).

Soft, sluggish feeces, difficult to evacuate——Rectum inactive.—Diarrhcea

from weakness, or in consequence of a chill—Bloody, putrid diarrhoea (in typhus

fever).—Diarrheea, like fried eggs, with complete absence of appetite (in children).—Diarrhcea 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.

Burning and incisive pains when urinating.—Renal colic and discharge of

calculi.—Painful strangury.—Urine with a violet-like smell —Renal colic.

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

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 hemorrhage 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.—Leucorrhcea 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.

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.

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

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.
• ▸—Hzmoptysis.
• ▸—Cough during pregnancy.
• ▸—Cough with expectoration of

• ▸blood.
• ▸—Dyspncea.
• ▸—Shortness of breath, esp.
• ▸after a meal —Obstructed respiration.
• ▸—Difficult

inhalation; hysteric asthma.

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

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.

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.

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 vertebree.—Great pressure in

back, from within out, during menses.—Lassitude in loins and knees.—Tabes dorsalis.

Bad smell under arms and between breasts of women.—Rheumatism of 1.

• ▸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.

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.

• ▸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.

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.

Great drowsiness (Indol).

Complaints cause sleepiness. Coma.

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.

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.

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 diarrhcea.—Perspiration scanty, but at times red like blood.—Bloody sweat;

hysterical.

• ▸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.
• ▸Hemorrhage.
• ▸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, hemorrhage in.
• ▸Uterus, prolapse of.

Worms.

• ▸Antidoted by: Camph.
• ▸, Lauro.
• ▸, Gels.
• ▸, Nux, Op.
• ▸, Zn.
• ▸, Val.
• ▸Jt 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, Esc.
• ▸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.
• ▸1.
• ▸, 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.
• ▸Leucorrhcea 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, Heematox.
• ▸(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.

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.

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 arc 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 most 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 docs Phos, ac.

The sleepiness and the dazed state are two things combined, and

when combined are difficult to cover by a rcmcly. This state is somewhat like Opium,

Faintness and even fainting when standing long, suchlas 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 haemorrhages stand out in bold relief ; haemorrhages 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

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.