Materia Medica de A a Z

NUX MOSCHATA (nux-m)

Region

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

Worse

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

Better

Moist heat. Warm room. Dry weather.

General

Narcotic effects and dryness. Little pain. OVERPOWERING DROWSINESS, with or caused by almost every condition; by day; agg. 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; agg. 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; amel. hard pressure. Cerebral congestion. Pale face. Retracted lips. Teeth feel pulled. Dry mouth and throat, without thirst; agg. 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; agg. night. Inactive rectum. Strangury from alcohol. Thick, dark, irregular menses. Flatus from vagina. Leucorrhoa; replaces menses. Deficient, irregular labor pains. Cough, amel. heat of bed. Hoarse; when walking against wind. Palpitation, amel. 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. Lyc.

Related: Cann. (Cann-i), Croc, Gels, Mos. (Mosch), Op, Rhus-t.