Sumbulus Moschatus

Intellect dull in morning; inability to study; clearer in evening and in warmth.—Happy

disposition with continued smiling; expression idiotic; fear of becoming insane

(chorea).—Hysterical mood even in men; alternate laughter and tears; easily excited; emotional;

irritable, fidgety, at first spirits are exalted, then depressed.

• ▸Emotional and fidgety.
• ▸Dull in morning, clear in evening.
• ▸Mistakes in writing and adding.
• ▸Comedones.
• ▸Tenacious, yellow, mucus in nose.

Vertigo: on stooping; using warm water; moving about or rising from a seat; feeling a

want of security —Hysteria, with tendency to faint from slightest cause.—Fits with falling

forward.—Ebullition of blood in head, lightness and exalted feeling.—Cold in the head, <

morning.—Porrigo in infants, |. side of scalp; spots round and dry, slightly raised and reddened at

edges with bran-like scales in centre.

Sensation of foreign body in eyes. —Tight feeling in eyes.—Quivering and swimming

before eyes.

Cold in head, < morning. —Coryza: watery; of yellow mucus.—Ale nasi sore at

• ▸edges.
• ▸—Stuffing in nose.
• ▸—Tenacious yellow mucus in nose; < 1.
• ▸nostril—Loss of smell.

Brown (or white) coating on tongue, morning.—Tongue feels rough as if scraped,

with heat in throat—Increased saliva.

Erosion, burning heat and rawness in throat, with tenacious mucus.—Catarrhs of

children with great nervous irritation and spasms.—Choking constriction at top of gullet, constant

swallowing.

• ▸Chocking constriction; constant swallowing.
• ▸Belching of gas from stomach.
• ▸Spasm of pharyngeal muscles.
• ▸Tenacious mucus in throat.

• ▸Appetite increased.
• ▸—Eructations; empty.
• ▸—Nausea and salivation.
• ▸—Pressure;

rumblings; slight shootings in stomach.

Tension, pain, and gnawing in r. hypochondrium.—Abdomen feels distended,

• ▸painful.
• ▸—Gnawing in r.
• ▸hypochondrium.
• ▸—Glands in groins painful.

Ascarides with bloated, drum-like abdomen and constipation; pricking at

nostrils.—Chronic diarrhoea, from inert condition of intestinal canal; discharges cause alarm;

diarrhoea in typhoid fever.—Rectum protrudes.—Hzemorrhoids excited.

Urine: clear; yellowish-red; clouded at bottom, and an oily pellicle on

surface.—Frequent desire.—Stitches up urethra.

Oily pellicle on surface of urine.

Ovarian neuralgia. Abdomen full, distended, and painful. Climacteric flushes.

Leucorrheea, white, esp. after sitting —Menses: premature; of short

duration, with deficient quantity; retarded.—Corkscrew pains in |. region of uterus and

• ▸appendages.
• ▸—Tensive pain like a string in r.
• ▸breast—Tensive pains in I.
• ▸breast,

• ▸evening.
• ▸—Lancinations and biting pains in |.
• ▸breast, < deep inspirations.
• ▸—Flushings at climaxis.

Absence of erections and all sexual desire.—Itching in genitals with

increased desire.—Erythema of scrotum.

Hoarseness.—Asthma: catarrhal; but more esp. spasmodic,

hysterical.—Hacking cough.

• ▸Nervous palpitation.
• ▸Neuralgia around left breast and left hypochondriac region.
• ▸Cardiac asthma.
• ▸Aching in left arm, heavy, numb an weary.
• ▸Loses breath on any exertion.
• ▸Pulse irregular.

Tightness in chest with diminished secretion.—Paroxysm of dull pressure under

sternum.—Tightness, tensive, stretched feeling across chest, between |. breast and sternum and in

1. breast, < on inspiration.

Pulse: very irregular, compressible; want of elasticity in vessels—Nervous affections

of heart; rheumatic carditis; heart's impulse strong, jerking, esp. after exertion or during

digestion; action of heart full and sharp, strokes at times irregular, rapid, then slow; bellows

murmur; flushings of heat in floods from back; sharp pains like a knife in chest; oppression in I.

chest, clogged sensation; < on stooping; |. arm numb, heavy, weary, with sharp, wiry shooting in

fingers; hysterical mood.—Nervous palpitation in hysterical subjects; or at climaxis.—Heart beats

softly, as if in water, with sinking of heart and sickliness and faintness all over.—Palpitation on

least excitement, < on paying attention to it.

Cannot keep warm; least draught is felt down spine.—Nape of neck, r. side,

swollen.

• ▸Weakness, beaten sensation, and numbness in arms.
• ▸—L.
• ▸arm numb.
• ▸—Hands

red, veins distended.—Fingers swollen.

Aching, rheumatic pain, weakness of lower limbs.—Pain in knee, with

stiffness, impeding walking.—Felt as her legs were not her own.—Trembling of feet.

24. Generalities—Chorea: constant jerking of head and limbs, with protrusion of tongue;

voracious appetite—Dropsy dependent on impaired nervous vitality.—Clogged sensation in body,

esp. in head and stomach.—Hysteria—Epilepsy; falls forward, foaming vat mouth—Tendency to

faint from slightest cause.

• ▸Acne punctata; black pores on face.
• ▸—Porrigo in infants, |.
• ▸side of scalp.
• ▸—Skin cold,

white, shrunken, and dry, as if washed in acrid water.—Miliary spots on back, r. shoulder-blade,

and hip.—Reddish spots on forehead, chin, and cheeks, containing either water or thick, white,

curdy matter.—Itching.

• ▸Drowsy in the cold.
• ▸—Drowsy during day.
• ▸—Wakefulness at night.
• ▸—Sleep interrupted

by startings of limbs.—Dreams; of falling; vivid; of coitus, followed by profuse sudden emission.

• ▸Coldness.
• ▸—Chilliness, esp.
• ▸down spine; sensitiveness to least draught.
• ▸—Too easily

chilled; want of elasticity in the vessels—Numbness and coldness of tips of fingers.—Dry,

transient heat all over body.—Typhoid fever with cerebral excitement; low and nervous fevers

succeeding typhus.

• ▸Acne.
• ▸Asthma.
• ▸Breasts, pains in.
• ▸Chorea.
• ▸Diarrhoea.
• ▸Epilepsy.
• ▸Fainting.
• ▸Heart,

• ▸palpitation of, nervous; affections of.
• ▸Pneumonia.
• ▸Hysteria.
• ▸Infra-mammary pains.
• ▸Neuralgia.

• ▸Porrigo capitis.
• ▸Spermatorrhoea.
• ▸Throat, catarrh of; spasm of.
• ▸Typhoid fever.
• ▸Worms.

Characteristics—Sumbul, as its name, "Musk-root," implies, has an odour resembling that of

• ▸musk.
• ▸The resemblance is so close that Sumbul is used to adulterate musk.
• ▸Sumb.
• ▸was proved by

Lembke, Cattell, and others, and the symptoms are as like to those of Moschus as the physical

resemblance would imply. Hysterical mood; easy fainting; nervous palpitation; are common to

both. Hale gives the following indications: (/) Nasal and pharyngeal catarrh, with nervousness,

sleeplessness, and tendency to spasms (especially in children); discharge of tenacious, yellow

mucus. (2) Ascarides, with bloated, drum-like. abdomen and constipation, picking nose (cured

• ▸with Sumb.
• ▸15).
• ▸(3) Oily pellicle in urine.
• ▸(4) Pain in left uterine region.
• ▸(5) Asthma: catarrhal,

spasmodic, or cardiac. (6) Climacteric flushings. (7) Neuralgia: facial or ovarian, in women of

quick and lively nervous constitutions. (5) Neuralgia of left hypochondrium, simulating angina

pectoris; with palpitation; in nervous women. (9) Insomnia of chronic alcoholism. Peculiar

Sensations of Sumb, are: Tongue as if scraped. Like a string pulling in right breast. Corkscrew

pains in (left) uterus and appendages. Clogged sensation in left chest. As if heart beating in

• ▸water.
• ▸The left side was more affected than the right.
• ▸The symptoms are < by motion.
• ▸< After

• ▸sitting.
• ▸< By inspiration.
• ▸< By cold.
• ▸> By warmth.
• ▸< Thinking of symptoms.
• ▸< In morning.
• ▸Music

= faintness.

• ▸Compare: General symptoms, Mosch.
• ▸, Asaf.
• ▸Porrigo, Melit.
• ▸, Medor.
• ▸, Mez.
• ▸Oily

• ▸pellicle on urine, Sul.
• ▸, Pul.
• ▸, Petr.
• ▸Tenacious, yellow mucus, Hydras.
• ▸Infra-mammary pain, Act.
• ▸r.
• ▸,

• ▸Pul.
• ▸, Lil.
• ▸t.
• ▸< Thinking of symptoms, Ox.
• ▸ac.
• ▸, Pip.
• ▸meth.

Compare: Asaf; Mosch.

• ▸Tincture, to third potency.
• ▸Dr.
• ▸W.
• ▸McGeorge advises the 2x every 3 hours for arterio-sclerosis.

• ▸L.
• ▸arm and foot easily chilled.
• ▸—Fulness of arms and feet.
• ▸—Tremulous tingling, dry,

in palms and feet.