NUX MOSCHATA
By C.M. Boger — A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica
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.
Narcotic effects and dryness. Little pain. OVERPOWERING DROWSINESS, with or caused by almost every condition; by day; < 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; < 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; > hard pressure. Cerebral congestion. Pale face. Retracted lips. Teeth feel pulled. Dry mouth and throat, without thirst; < 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; < night. Inactive rectum. Strangury from alcohol. Thick, dark, irregular menses. Flatus from vagina. Leucorrhœa; replaces menses. Deficient, irregular labor pains. Cough, > heat of bed. Hoarse; when walking against wind. Palpitation, > 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-c. Lyc.
Related: Cann. Croc. Gel. Mos. Op. Rhus-t.