Materia Medica de A a Z

NUX VOMICA (nux-v)

Region

Cerebro-spinal axis. NERVES. DIGESTIVE ORGANS (STOMACH. LIVER. Bowels). RESPIRATORY ORGANS. Male brunettes.

Worse

EARLY MORNING. COLD (OPEN AIR (Dry). Drafts. Seats. Wind. UNCOVERING). HIGH LIVING (COFFEE. Condiments. Liquor. Drugs. Debauchery. Purgatives). Sedentary habits. Overeating. Mental (Exertion. Fatigue. Vexation). Disturbed sleep. SLIGHT CAUSES (Anger. Noise. Odors. Light. Touch. PRESSURE: of clothes, agg. waist).

Better

FREE DISCHARGES. Naps (Kali-bi). Wrapping head. Resting. Hot drinks. Milk. Moist air.

General

VIOLENT ACTION; often irregularly fitful or inefficient. Increased reflexes. Irritable and hypersensitive, mentally and physically. Firm fibred brunette. Twistings. Jerks. Spasms; with consciousness. Tense, contracted feeling. Lightning-like pains. Neuralgia; prodromal. Sensation as of a rough body internally. Bruised soreness; OF ABDOMEN, brain, etc. INTERNAL scrapy RAWNESS; throat, larynx, etc. Takes colds. Biliousness. Faintings after vomiting, after stool, after labor pains, etc..................... Sensitive and critical. Active, ANGRY AND IMPATIENT; can't stand pain; so mad, he cries. Zealous, nervous and excitable. Nagging. Spiteful. Irritable hypochondriasis. Sullen. Fears poverty. Violent, ugly (suicidal) impulses. Vertigo; on an empty stomach; with blank spells. Sensitive scalp. Swelled forehead.Lachrymation; on affected side. Migraine. Blood-shot eyes. Sore nostrils. Nose stopped, but runs water; on one side. Sneezing; violent; abortive; from intense crawling in (l) nostril. Coryza; fluent by day and in open air, dry at night. Epistaxis on coughing. Acute smell. Red, turgid or yelowish face, agg. about nose and mouth. Left angle of mouth droops. Jaws snap shut; stiff. Teeth chatter. Fetor oris. TASTE, biter-sour; bad in A.M. Itching palate; Eustachian tube. Rough, scratchy throat; putrid taste in, on coughing. Craves piquant foods or stimulants. HICCOUGH. Violent retching, agg. hawking. Eructations; sour. Heart-burn. Water-brash. Nausea; amel. if he can only vomit. VIOLENT VOMITING; bilious-sour. Food lies like a heavy knot in stomach. Gastric pains, into back; chest; amel. vomiting, etc. As of a band about waist; clothes oppress it. Indigestion. Liver sore; sticking; enlarged. Gall-stone colic. Bowels gripe here and there. SORE BOWELS, agg. COUGHING OR STEPPING. Hernia; infantile. Flatulent colic. UNEASY, fitful and FRUITLESS URGING FOR BOWELS TO ACT, amel. STOOL. Strains hard at stool. Inactive peristalsis. In rectum; retained flatus; as if more stool remained; spasm of. Obstipation. PILES; itching; amel. cool bathing. Sexual erethism. Onanism. Premature ejaculation. Menses profuse, early and prolonged or intermittent; of dark, lumpy blood. Dysmenorrhoal cramps; spread over whole body. Cough violent, throwing the patient down; paroxysmal; whooping. Painfully stiff neck; pains down (r) shoulder. Lumbar ache, as if breaking; must raise up to turn over. Acute lumbago. Crawling along spine. Shooting from toes to thighs, agg. after stool. Tense cramps in calves and soles. Feet feel clubby and raw. Goose-skin. Jaundice. Yawning. Sleepy in evening or sleepless from rush of ideas. Awakes too early; can't sleep again. Finally sleeps, but on waking feels miserable. Night-mare. Chill with thirst and heat without thirst. EASILY CHILLED; CAN'T UNCOVER, agg. motion; agg. drinking even during the heat. Sour sweat.

Complementary: Kali-c, Phos, Sulph.

Related: Ign, Lyc.