NUX MOSCHATA

Marked tendency to fainting fits , with heart failure. Cold extremities, extreme dryness of mucous membranes and skin. Strange feeling, with irresistible drowsiness . Indicanuria. General inclination to become unconscious during acute attacks. Lypothymia ( Ignatia ). Staggers on trying to walk.

Mind

Changeable; laughing and crying. Confused, impaired memory. Bewildered sense, as in a dream. Thinks she has two heads.

Head

Vertigo when walking in open air; aches from eating a little too much. Feeling of expansion, with sleepiness . Pulsating in head. Cracking sensation in head. Sensitive to slightest touch in a draught of air. Bursting headache; better hard pressure .

Eyes

Objects look larger, very distant, or vanish. Motes before eyes. Mydriasis.

Nose

Oversensitive to smell; nosebleed, dark blood; dry, stopped up.

Mouth

Very dry. Tongue adheres to roof of mouth; but no desire for water. Saliva like cotton ( Berb ). Toothache in pregnancy. Tongue numb, paralyzed. Dryness of throat.

Stomach

Excessively bloated. Flatulent dyspepsia . Hiccough, and craving for highly-seasoned food. Retrocession of gout to stomach.

Abdomen

Paralytic weakness of intestines. Enormously distended . Stool is soft, and yet is unable to expel it , even with long straining ( Alum ). Faintness during or after stool . Protruding piles.

Female

Uterine hæmorrhage. Menses too long, dark, thick. Leucorrhœa muddy and bloody. Suppression, with persistent fainting attacks and sleepiness ( Kali c ). Variableness of menstruation irregularity of time and quantity .

Respiratory

Loss of voice from walking against the wind ( Hep ). Cough when getting warm in bed.

Heart

Trembling, fluttering. Sensation as if something grasped heart. Palpitation; pulse intermits.

Extremities

Pain in right hip to knee; worse, motion, especially going upstairs. Rheumatism from getting feet wet, from exposure to draughts. Rheumatism relieved by dry, warm clothes. Fatigue on slight exertion.

Sleep

Great drowsiness ( Indol ). Complaints cause sleepiness . Coma.

Fever

Chill begins in left hand (Carbo). Chilliness and heat without thirst; want of perspiration. Dry skin and of inner parts, also of eyes, nose, lips, mouth, tongue, throat, etc.

Modalities

Worse , cold moist wind, cold food, cold washing, lying on painful side, motion, jar. Better , warmth, dry weather.

Relationship

Oleum myristicae -Oil of Nutmeg--(as a remedy for boils, felons, poisonous ulcers, it has been used in the 2x potency); Ornithogalum ( flatulence , swollen feeling across lower chest; whenever she turns in bed, feels as if a bag of water turned also; gastric ulcer and cancer). Myristica Sebifera (phlegmonous inflammations, hastens suppuration; powerful antiseptic. Ulcerative tendency in all tissues. Said to act more powerfully than Hepar and Silica).

Compare: Nux v; Puls; Rhus; Ign; Asaf .

Antidotes: Camph; Gels; Valer .

Dose

First to sixth potency.