Nux Vomica
By Adolph von Lippe — Keynotes Of The Homoeopathic Materia Medica
Nausea and vomiting every morning with depression of spirits.
Nausea and vomiting after eating.
Constant nausea.
Pressure in the stomach an hour or two after eating.
Pressure as from a stone in the stomach.
Sleepy after dinner.
Flatulent distension after eating or drinking.
Cannot use the mind and pain in the stomach for two or three hours after a meal.
Pyrosis.
Sour or bitter eructations.
Rising of water and bitter fluid from the stomach.
Vertigo from excessive use of coffee or liquor.
Vertigo with momentary loss of consciousness.
Vertigo with tendency to fall sideways.
Mouth and fauces full of fetid ulcers.
Mouth dry and sore, with bloody saliva.
Sour taste in the mouth.
Offensive odour from the mouth.
Tongue coated thick white.
Gums scorbutic.
Throat raw, sore, rough, as if scraped.
Stitches in the ear when swallowing.
Jaundice.
Enlargement of the liver from alcoholic excesses.
Sticking pains and soreness in the liver.
Gall-stones colic.
Colic with pressure upwards towards the thorax.
Flatulent colic with desire to stool.
Sensation as if the intestines were squeezed between stones.
Constipation, due to irregularity of the peristaltic actions.
Constant innefectual urging to stool.
Frequent, small, slimy or bloody stool, with pain low down in the back and urging or tenesmus, relieved immediately after the stool.
Incomplete and unsatisfactory motions.
Sensation as if a part of stool remained behind.
Itching haemorrhoidss, which keep the patient awake.
Bleeding piles, with ineffectual urging to stool.
Alternate constipation and diarrhea.
Disentery.
Strangulated hernia.
Painful, ineffectual efforts to pass urine, with scanty discharge and burning.
Strangury.
Dribbling of urine in old people from enlarged prostate.
Painful urging for urine with urging to stool.
Renal colic.
Urine passes in drops, with burning and tearing in the urethra and neck of the bladder.
Cannot keep awake in the evening; falls asleep long before bed-time, and awakes a 3 or 4 AM.
Tendency to faint from odours, after eating, in the morning, and after every labour-pain.
Weakness and paralisis. Left-sided paralysis. Paralysis after apoplexy and with coldness of the paralyzed part.
Convulsions with consciousness.
Spasms with tetanic rigidity of nearly all muscles, with interruptions of a few minutes during which muscles are relaxed.
Convulsions brought on by the slightest touch, or draught of air.
Opisthotonus, with inability to move, but wants to be held.
Jaws snap shut, stiff.
Trismus or lock-jaw.
Tired, worn out feeling in the morning on waking.
Cannot tolerate noise, music, talking, strong odours, or bright light.
Violent (suicidal) impulses.
Angry and impatient, can't stand pain.
Ailments after continual mental labour.
Oversensitiveness.
Finds fault and scolds.
Gives surly answer.
Easily offended.
Ill-humored.
Disinclination to do or say anything.
Spiteful, malicious disposition.
Quarrelsome even to violence.
Disinclination to do or say anything.
Even the least ailment affects her greatly.
Cannot bear to be opposed.
Irritable and irrascible.
Great disinclination to mental work.
Catarrah, from sitting in cold places, or stone steps.
Catarrah, worse in a wawrm room, and better in the cold air.
Headache: Worse in the morning, from mental exertion, exercising in the open air, after eating, or from wine or coffee; better in the warm room and from sitting quietly, or lying down.
Sick headache, commences in the morning, increases through the day, growing milder in the evening; with dimness of vision and sour or bitter vomiting.
Sensation as if head were immensely larger than his body; as large as church.
Nose running through the day, at night stopped up.
Snuffles of infants.
Dry coryza; worse at night: nose completely filled up.
Dry, hard cough, with great soreness of the abdomen.
Dry, racking cough.
Photophobia, much worse in the morning.
Cough brings on bursting headache.
Spasmodic asthma; muscles of the chest become rigid; great anxiety and suffocation.
Dyspnea, while coughing, after eating, on lying down and from walking; and relieved by eructations.
Palpitation after eating, or on lying down after dinner.
Pressure towards the genital organs early in the morning, in bed, or during a walk, with a sensation of contraction of the abdomen.
Every pai during labour produces a desire to defaecate, or to urinate, particularly the former.
Much pain in the lumbar region.
Painless injection of the whites of the eye.
Bloot-shot eyes.
Much pain in the small of back, which is made worse by turning in bed.
Backache, must sit up to turn over in bed.
Easily excited; sexual desire.
Nocturnal emissions.
Troublesome erections.
Erections wanting (impotency).
Spermatorrhoea.
Gonorrhoea with thin and greenish-yellow discharge.
Soft sore or chancroid.
Smegma increased.
Bad effects of sexual excesses.
Menstruation very irregular.
Menses too early and too profuse, with weak, faint spells.
Catamenia before the time, and rather too copious, or keeping on too long, with complaints at the onset and remaining after it is over.
Fetid leucorrhoea, tinging the linen yellow, with pain in the uterus, as if bruised.
Morning sickness during pregnancy.
Threatened abortion.
Pain in the extremities during fever.
Repugnance to cold or to cold air.
Chill at 10 or 11 AM.
Chilly, on least movement, from being uncorered.
Must be covered in every stage of fever.
Great chilliness and coldness, with blue nails, decreased by warmth stove, nor by`covering; mostly in AM.
Anticipating type of fever.
Great heat, whole body burning hot, yet must be covered, as the least uncovering or motion makes him chilly.
The face becomes red and hot during fever.
Sweat after midnight and in the morning.
Sour perspiration, only on one side of the body.