Moschus mosch.

NERVES: SENSORY. Genital. Respiration. Circulation.

Excitement. Cold. Suppressions; menses, etc.

Open air.

Poor reaction. Spasmodic, nervous effects; laughter, hiccough, shuddering, etc. Twitchings. Chokings. FAINTS. Hysteria. Buzzing, squeezing or plug-like sensations. Globus.

Hurried, tremulous and awkward. Anger; talks excitedly or scolds until she faints. Fears noise, dying, etc. Imaginary sufferings. Nervous shuddering. Headache, with coldness, faintness and polyuria. One cheek red, but cold (Fer.), other pale and hot. Blue lips. Violent eructations. Tympany. Sudden nervous suffocation or anxious palpitation; wants a deep breath; < becoming cold (Act-sp.); > belching. Cramp in lungs. Sleepy by day; sleepless at night; wakes every minute. So sensitive, cold air makes him shudder. Shivering on scalp. Cold skin. Burning heat, with restlessness.

Related: Carb-v. Castor. Ign. Nux-m. Val.

We may think strongly of this remedy in nervous or spasmodic complaints where the patient feels very cold; in epileptic fits, for instance, where there is rigor or chilliness, or shuddering, as though the patient were very cold. In complaints where the smell of musk affords great relief. Where there is a sense of fullness in the inner parts.

Of coldness of the skin; great sensation of coldness in outer single parts; external chilliness with internal heat. Pain where there is a sensation of oppression, or a very severe oppressive pain.

From cold in general; in cold air; on getting cold.

On getting warm; from warmth in general.

Musk

A remedy for hysteria and nervous paroxysms, fainting fits and convulsions, catalepsy, etc. The characteristic condition being aggravation by cold; there is great sensitiveness to air. Much nervous trembling and frequent fainting. Great flatulence. Diseases do not follow a normal course. Coldness. Tension in muscles, skin and mind.

Uncontrollable laughter. Scolding. Anxiety with palpitation; starting as if frightened. Sexual hypochondriasis.

Compressive pain over root of nose. Pressure on top of head. Vertigo on least motion; sensation as if falling from a great height. Scalp sensitive. Sounds in ears as from the report of a cannon.

Desire for black coffee, stimulants. Aversion to food. Everything tastes flat. With stomach symptoms, anxiety in chest. Distended. Faints when eating. Abdomen greatly distended. Spasmodic, nervous hiccough (Hydrocy ac; Sulph ac; Ignat; Cajap).

Violent desire; involuntary emissions. Impotence, associated with diabetes (Coca). Premature senility. Nausea and vomiting after coition.

Menses too early, too profuse, with disposition to faint (Nux m; Veratr). Sexual desire, with intolerable titillation in parts. Drawing and pushing in the direction of the genitals; sensation as if menses appear.

Profuse urination. Diabetes.

Tightness of chest, is obliged to take a deeper breath. Sudden constriction of larynx and trachea. Difficult respiration; chest oppressed; hysterical spasm of chest; asthma. Spasm of glottis. Impending paralysis of lungs. Asthma, with intense anxiety, fear, and smothering sensation. Cough ceases, mucus cannot be expectorated. Globus hystericus.

Hysterical palpitation. Trembling around heart. Weak pulse and fainting.

Better, in open air, rubbing. Worse, cold. The open air is felt very, very cold.

Compare: Nux mosch; Asaf; Valer; Sumbul; Ign; Castor.

Compatible: Ambra.

Antidotes: Camph; Coff.

First to third potency.

Great anxiety with palpitation of the heart. Hypochondriacal anxiety and ill humor.

Vertigo as soon as the head is moved. Stupefying, compressing headache, mostly in the forehead, with nausea in the evening, worse when moving the head and in the room, better in the open air. Tension in the back part of the head and neck with nausea, worse in the evening, when sitting in the room, and when becoming cold, better in the open air, and when getting warm. Headaches with nausea, compelling one to lie down. Congestion of blood to the head, heaviness of the head. Compressing headache, especially right over the root of the nose.

Pressing, itching and pimples on the eyes. The eyes are turned upwards, fixed and glistening. Attacks of sudden blindness.

Detonation in the (right) ears like the report of a cannon, accompanied with the discharge of a few drops of blood. Hardness of hearing.

Bleeding from the nose. Crawling in the point of the nose.

Earthy, pale complexion. Pale face, with perspiration. Redness of the right cheek without heat, with paleness of the left, which feels hot. Heat in the face without redness, and with dimness of sight. Tension in the facial muscles, as if too short. Peeling off of the lips. Movement of the lower jaw, as if he were chewing.

Great dryness in the mouth.

Sudden nausea, as from the pit of the stomach ; the umbilicus being drawn in. Sensation of fulness and oppression in the pit of the stomach, with qualmishness, worse from eating. Hysterical abdominal spasms. Sensation as if every thing in the abdomen were constricted, compelling one to move about, cannot do any work, or remain quiet anywhere. Incarcerated flatulence.

Stools soft, smell sweetish. Involuntary loose stools during sleep. Stitches in the anus, extending to the bladder.

Copious watery urine.

Men. Violent sexual excitement. Involuntary emissions, painful, without erections. Erections with desire to urinate. Impotence occasioned by a cold. Women. Violent sexual desire. Menses too early and too profuse. Pressing, and drawing in the genitals, as if the menses would appear.

Constriction of the trachea, as from the vapors of sulphur. Suffocative spasmodic constrictions of the chest, especially as soon as he becomes cold. Soreness of the thorax under the arms, when pressing on it. Hysterical spasms of the chest.

Lower. Sensation of coldness on the tibia. Restlessness in the lower extremities, he has to move them all the time.

Fainting and weakness, especially at night in bed, or in the open air, or with hysterical persons. Convulsions -tetanic spasms. Hysterical complaints. Hypochondriacal complaints, originating in the sexual system.

Sleepiness in day-time. Cannot lie at night in one position, because the parts on which one lies feel as if dislocated and sprained. Sleeplessness from over-excitability ; of hysterical persons.

Pulse full and accelerated, with ebullitions. Weak pulse, faintings from anæmia. Chill and chilliness, which extends itself over the whole body, from the scalp. Sensation as if cold air were blowing on him, especially on uncovered parts. External coldness, with internal heat. One cheek is pale and hot, the other is red and cold. Burning heat in the evening, in bed, frequently only on the right side, with restlessness and inclination to uncover oneself. The one hand is burning hot and pale, the other is cold and red. Clammy perspiration in the morning, smelling of musk.

Herpes with excessive burning.

Aggravation in the cold air. Amelioration on getting warm, or being in the warm air.

Moschus moschiferus. Musk Deer. N. O. Mammalia. Trituration of inspissated secretion contained in preputial follicles.

Angina pectoris. Catalepsy. Croup . Diabetes. Dyspnœa. Epilepsy. Fainting. Heart, failure of . Herpes, mercurial and venereal. Hiccough . Hypochondriasis. Hysteria. Hystero-epilepsy . Impotence. Laryngismus. Lungs, paralysis of. Pregnancy, complaints of. Rage, fits of. Stings . Typhoid. Vertigo. Whooping-cough.

The well-known power of Musk — the perfume — to produce fainting in some by the mere smelling of it, gives the chief keynote for its use in homœopathy: Faints easily; faints dead away from the least excitement; scolds and rages till she falls unconscious globus hystericus ending in unconsciousness; faints while eating during menses; faints from heart disease. All complaints which have easy fainting as a leading accompaniment may want Mosch. Coldness is another keynote. "In nervous or spasmodic complaints where the patient feels very cold: in epileptic fits where there is rigor or chilliness, or shuddering as though the patient was very cold" (H. N. G). The coldness may be general or it may affect single parts as one cheek or one foot. Pallor accompanies it. Sensation as if cool wind blowing on parts. Coldness in tibiæ. Allied to the chill is another feature in Mosch. — tension : tension in muscles, in skin, in mind. Tension in back or before menses; tension in limbs, they feel too short. Pressure outward, in heart. Spasms and twitches. Subsultus tendinum of fevers. Laryngeal spasm. Spasm of chest; of heart, general convulsions. Sexual desire is much excited in both sexes, even in the aged. Diabetes with impotence has been cured by Mosch ., which has excessive thirst and other symptoms of diabetes. Mosch . is suited to spoiled, sensitive natures and hysterical women and men. Among the peculiar sensations are: As if falling from a height. As of being turned about so rapidly he perceived the current of air produced by the motion. As if cold, wet poultices on head. Headache as if from a heavy weight. As if a cord were frequently drawn and tightened so as to cut head in two. As if a nail pressed on occiput, the point piercing the brain. Rushing in ears as from strong wind or from the wing of a bird. As if facial muscles too short. Movement of lower jaw as if chewing. As if everything in abdomen constricted. Part lain on feels dislocated or sprained. As if larynx closed on breath. As if cold air blowing on him. There is < from pressure. Motion < ; must lie down, and lie still. Vertigo < stooping; > on rising. Burning heat in bed. Getting warm > tension in head. Sitting in a room < tension in head; = headache and nausea; = pain in occiput. > In open air. Becoming cold < tension in back of head; = cramps; cramp-like and suffocating constriction of chest. Wants to uncover. < After coitus (vomiting). < After a meal; during a meal. < On side lain on.

Antidoted by: Camph. (unconsciousness and coldness), Coff. Antidote to: Therid. (headaches). Compare: In neuralgic pains and functional diseases from taking cold, Amm., Ign., Mag. m., Valer. One hand cold, the other hot, Chi., Dig., Pul., Ip. Nausea at sight of food, Colch., Lyc., Phos. ac., Saba, Spi. (at smell of food, Colch., Eup. perfol.). < After coitus, K. ca. Pain before menses > by flow, Lach. (Mosch. has drawing pulling at beginning of menses ceasing with flow; Zinc. has burning in left ovary ceasing with flow.) Hysteria, Plat. Scolding, Pallad. (but Mosch. keeps it up till falls unconscious), Therid. Faints easily, Ign. Non-reaction from irritable weakness, Ambr., Agar., Asaf., Camph., Cast., Chi., Cocc., Coff., Cypr., Scutel., Tarent., Val., Zn. [Castor. has pains > by pressure, Nux m. error of perception, drowsy, faints, tympany. Val. nerves irritated, can't keep still, > moving, taste tallowy, slimy. Asaf. reversed peristalsis; rancid eructations. Mag. m. faints at dinner, > eructations; headache > pressure and wrapping up; palpitation > moving; crumbling stools.]

Chill.

Excitement as from alcohol. — Great absence of mind, sometimes with confused speech. — Preoccupation, during which the patient talks to himself, and gesticulates, as if bereft of reason. — Bustling activity, with weakness, so that everything falls from hands. — Fretful mind. — Cries one moment, uncontrollable laughter the next. — Complaints and lamentations on account of excessive sufferings, with inability to indicate the part affected; when questioned, patient complains still more urgently, but without saying where he suffers. — Apprehension of death, and excessive timidity about dying. — Hypochondriacal anxiety, sometimes with palpitation of heart. — Exceedingly quarrelsome humour and great irascibility, with passion, proceeding even to fury. — Very violent anger, raves and scolds till mouth dry, lips blue, eyes staring, face deathly pale, and she falls unconscious. — Loss of memory.

Vertigo and wavering before eyes, on least movement of head or eyelids. — Vertigo < stooping, > rising. — Vertigo, even to loss of consciousness, or with fainting. — Vertigo, with sensation of falling. — Vertigo, with nausea and vomiting, want to lie down, and desire for coffee. — Dizziness, as from intoxication. — Headache, with nausea and vomiting, which compels lying down. — Heaviness in head. — Compressive and stunning headache, esp. just above root of nose; with nausea in evening, > moving head, and in room, > in open air. — Cramp-like and tensive drawing in head, and esp. in occiput, extending nearly to nape of neck; with nausea, < in evening, when sitting in room, and when becoming cold, > in open air, and when getting warm. — Congestion in head. — Congestion of blood to head, heaviness of head. — Aching and boring pain in occiput, as if a nail were driven into brain; < sitting in a room.

Eyes dull, with pressive pain in canthi. — Lachrymation. — Eyes fixed, sparkling, with a sort of dizziness and absence of mind. — Sudden obscuration of eyes. — Eyes turned upwards, fixed and glistening. — Pressing, itching and pimples on eyes. — Small red pimples on upper eyelids. — Itching in canthi.

Eruptions on ears, with burning pain after being scratched. — Crepitation and cracking in ears. — Roaring before ears. — Detonation in (r.) ear like report of a cannon, accompanied with discharge of a few drops of blood. — Singing tinnitus. — (Noise in ears for four years, like a shrieking steam-engine, stops and changes its character; dates from parturition and occurs at menstrual period. — R. T. C.). — Hardness of hearing. — Discharge of cerumen from ears.

Epistaxis. — Tingling in extremity of nose, as if from insects.

Heat in face, sometimes without redness, and with eyes dull. — Heat in one (l.) cheek, without redness, while the other (r.) is red without heat. — Pale face, with perspiration. — Movement of lower jaw, as if he were chewing. — Earthy pale complexion. — Tension in muscles of face, as if they were too short.

Desquamation of lips. — Great dryness in mouth.

Putrid taste of food. — Great desire for beer or brandy. — Thirst. — Aversion to food. — Faints while eating. — Spasmodic hiccough. — Violent eructations, sometimes with nausea. — Sudden attacks of nausea; at sight or thought of food. — Nausea, which mounts from epigastrium, with retraction of navel, and cramp-like pains. — Violent vomiting, esp. in morning, and often accompanied by pain in stomach and chest, and distension of epigastrium. — Aching in stomach. — Sensation of fulness and obstruction in region of stomach and epigastrium, sometimes with uneasiness, < after a moderate meal. — Smarting, burning sensation of excoriation, in region of stomach, after a meal.

Hysterical abdominal spasms. — Attacks of painful contraction in umbilical region, with suspended respiration. — Sensation of tension in abdomen, as if clothes were too tight, accompanied by an anxiety which neither permits attention to any kind of labour, nor continuance in one place, but compels constant running from side to side. — Incarceration of flatus.

Constipation, esp. after taking coffee. — Stools soft, smell sweetish. — Diarrhœa (involuntary), esp. at night, and sometimes during sleep. — Diarrhœa, with violent cuttings. — The loose evacuations are always mixed with fæcal matter. — Fæces of the colour of sepia. — Urgent and ineffectual want to evacuate. — Stitches in the anus, extending to the bladder.

Copious watery urine.

Great increase of sexual desire, sometimes with insupportable tickling in the parts, or tensive pains in penis. — A small retracted penis in an old man suddenly attains its former size; an impotent man became natural. — Impotence occasioned by a cold; preceding diabetes. — Painful involuntary pollutions without erection. — Erection, with burning pain in urethra. — Erections with desire to urinate. — Nausea and vomiting after coition.

Violent sexual desire. — Menses: too early and too profuse, with drawing pain; with intolerable titillation in genitals; great disposition to faint. — Desire greatly excited (in an old woman). — Drawing, and sensation of bearing down towards hypogastrium and the genital organs during menses. — Dysmenorrhœa with fainting. — Bearing down as if menses would appear. — During pregnancy she complains much, but of nothing in particular.

17, 18. Respiratory Organs and Chest. — A sudden sensation in upper part of larynx as if it closed upon the breath; as if caused by the vapour of sulphur. — Severe dry cough < morning, pain under l. breast on coughing. — Whooping-cough, last stage, with vertigo and constriction of chest and trachea. — Difficult respiration, and shortness of breath, with shootings in chest. — Cramp-like and suffocating constriction in chest, esp. after taking cold (or on going out into cold open air; or becoming cold). — Hysterical spasms of chest. — Cramps in chest, commencing sometimes with an inclination to cough, and afterwards aggravated so as to create despair. — Pressive pain in chest, to extent of obstructing respiration. — Gnawing in chest with sense of suffocation. — Paralysis of lungs, loud rattling of mucus; restlessness; syncope. — Shootings in chest and sides, sometimes with redness and bloatedness of face, dilated pupils, rough and dry tongue, and burning thirst. — The chest is acutely affected, and painful on all sides, with violent and dry cough. — Painful sensitiveness of chest under arms, esp. when pressed. — A pressive pain in l. breast as though the pain would force itself through the nipple. — Angina, tightness of chest, obliged to breathe forcibly.

Anxious palpitation of heart. — Palpitation; dyspnœa; prostration; nervousness-says, "I shall die, I know I shall die.". — Sensation of trembling around heart, with constriction in whole chest. — Prostration followed by threatened collapse.

Violent drawings in nape; unable to turn head. — Pain in muscles of neck as if torn from upper and lower attachments. — Drawing pain from second cervical vertebra to r. shoulder. — Drawing pains in spine which extend into hip-joint, and there become so violent that he cries out. — Violent drawing pain in back, as if tissues drawn tense (as before menses). — Partly jerking, partly drawing pains in spine. — Acute pressure l. side of sacrum above coccyx, as if caused by a dull instrument.

Drawing pains along the entire extent of the arm, and esp. in wrists, as from cramp. — Burning, with sensation of coldness, in last joints of fingers. — Swelling of hands, with shooting pains. — Convulsive movements of hands and fingers.

Restlessness in legs, with paralytic weakness, which compels constant movement. — Trembling in legs, as after great fatigue, when seated. — Compressive pain in hollows of knees as though tendons too short. — Paralytic weakness in legs, on sitting down, after walking. — Sensation of coldness on tibia. — Burning pressure on tips of r. toes. — Jerking pains in nails of two first toes as if they would suppurate, could not bear anything to touch them, could only walk barefooted upon the heel.

Pricking in limbs, sometimes with pain in the part, affected. — Cramp-like pains in limbs. — Trembling and jerking, over whole body. — Weakness, which is felt more during repose than in movement. — Weakness to the extent of fainting, with nocturnal coldness of skin generally. — Fainting fits: esp. at night (in bed), in evening, or in open air, followed by headache; of hysterical persons. — Hypochondriacal complaints, originating in sexual system. — Wrenching and bruising pain, in side on which patient has been lying. — The sufferings are < when the body is chilled. — Great susceptibility to open air. — Pinching, shootings, and itching, which compels scratching, in different parts of body. — Tetanus. — Convulsions with cramps in chest. — Hysterical symptoms, even in men. — [We may think strongly of this remedy in nervous or spasmodic complaints where the patient feels very cold; in epileptic fits, for instance, where there is rigor or chilliness, or shuddering, as though the patient were very cold. — In complaints where the smell of musk affords great relief. — Where there is a sense of fulness in the inner parts. — Sensations: of coldness of the skin; great sensation of coldness in outer single parts; external chilliness with internal heat. — Pain where there is a sensation of oppression, or a very severe oppressive pain. — H. N. G.]

Herpes with excessive burning.

Great drowsiness during day, with frequent and vehement yawning. — Coma. — At night, inability to lie long in same position; pain in part on which patient has lain, as of a dislocation, or a bruise. — Vivid dreams, in which the passions are strongly excited. — Dreams in which nothing succeeds. — Sleeplessness during whole night, from excitability of nervous system. — Sleeplessness of hysterical persons.

Pulse full and accelerated, with ebullitions. — Weak pulse, faintings from anæmia. — Circulation of blood accelerated. — Frequent sensation as of cool air blowing on person, esp. on the parts which are uncovered. — External coldness with internal heat. — One cheek is pale and hot, the other is red and cold. — The one hand is burning hot and pale, the other is cold and red. — Sensation of coldness, mostly in spine, with drawing pains. — The air seems cold; patient seeks fireside. — Frequent slight shuddering, commencing at head and spreading over whole body. — Attacks of burning heat in evening; in bed frequently only on r. side, with restlessness and inclination to uncover. — Sweat every morning. — Clammy perspiration in morning, smelling of musk.

Great anxiety with palpitation of heart ; feeling of anxious expectancy.
Hypochondriacal anxiety and ill humor.
Scolding ; keeps it up till her lips turn blue, eyes stare, and she falls down fainting.
Great dread of death, with paleness of face, fainting ; talks only of approaching death.
Hypochondriacal complaints having their origin in sexual system.
Complains without knowing what ails him, with anguish, palpitation, etc.
Tearful vexation and peevishness, with violent quarrelling, even to most extreme malice and rage.
Great bustling, during which everything falls out of his hand from weakness.
Thoughtlessness, with foolish gestures and complaints of pain.
Sudden loss of memory, with complete inability to collect his senses.
Great tendency to get frightened, trembling, palpitation, of heart, and dread of death.

Sensation as if she was falling from a height, with stupefaction.
Sensation as if he was turned about so rapidly that he perceives current of air produced by motion.
Vertigo : as soon as head is moved ; on moving eyelids, > in open air ; on stooping, going off on rising ; accompanied by a kind of loathing ; with nausea ; vomiting, desire for black coffee and to lie down ; with staring eyes and sort of spasm in
mouth, preventing speech, though he sees and hears everything ; with sudden fainting ; with violent rush of blood to head, > in open air ; with stupefaction ; congestion of blood to head ; fits of tetanus and fainting ; dimness of sight.

Compressing headache, especially right over root of nose.
Tension in back part of head and neck, with nausea, < in evening, when sitting in room and when becoming cold, > in open air and when getting warm.
Aching pain in head, with coldness as from cold poultices.
Congestion of blood to head, heaviness of head.
Headache with nausea, compelling one to lie down.
Stupefying, compressing headache, mostly in forehead, with nausea in evening, < when moving head and in room, > in open air.
Hysterical headache with fainting spasms and sense of constriction of chest, chilliness all over, inclination to involuntary stools and copious flow of colorless urine ; great restlessness of lower extremities, pressive headache as if from a heavy weight in
head ; sensation in right temple as if a cord was frequently drawn and tightened as if to cut head in two ; pain as if a nail was pressed in occiput, of which point pierces brain ; < in room, > in fresh air.

Attacks of sudden blindness ; dimness of vision.
Eyes turned upwards, fixed and glistening.
Pressing, itching, biting in eyes.

Rushing in ears as from a strong wind, or as from a wing of a bird.
Detonation in ears (r.) like report of a cannon, accompanied by discharge of a few drops of blood.
Hardness of hearing ; nervous deafness.

Nosebleed ; spasmodic jerking of muscles.
Crawling in point of nose.

Earthy, pale complexion.
Pale face, with perspiration.
Redness of right cheek without heat, with paleness of left, which feels hot.
Heat in face without redness, and dimness of sight.
Tension in facial muscles, as if too short.

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Moschus cures many hysterical girls who have come to adult age without ever learning what obedience means.

They are self-willed, obstinate and selfish. When they have been encouraged to resort to crafty cunning, to have every whim gratified from infancy to eighteen years of age they become fit subjects for Mosch., Asa f., Ignatia and Valer.

They not only have volumes of real and imaginary symptoms, but they become adepts at producing at will a kaleidoscopic complex of symptoms, increasing in quantity and intensity until all their own desires are attained, and the onlooker, be he or she nurse, physician or bewildered mother, is overwhelmed, dismayed and in retreat.

However much they pretend to be honest and truthful their reported sensations are untrustworthy. They have traded upon their sensations and imagination so long that a direct effort to give a truthful statement is unsuccessful. The most erratic and unexpected neuropathic phenomena are always in appearance.

The physician cannot measure these cases by his experience and say what is common and uncommon. He is compelled to fall back upon the one word that covers a multitude of these manifestations, viz., "Hysteria."

Moschus is often indicated in these constitutions and cures much that is morbid, when its own peculiar symptoms agree. When one of these girls becomes sick from taking cold the acute symptoms will be told with a host of her imaginary sensations.

The globus hystericus is generally present, hyperesthesia of the skin, quivering of the muscles, wakefulness, palpitation, excitement, fainting and trembling.

"Dreadful" pain all over the body, rush of blood to head, cramps in hands and feet, convulsions of whole body. It is not generally known that the morbid sensations and functions correspond with the mental state of the individual. When the functions and tissue symptoms are hysterical or erratic the mental state will be found to be correspondingly hysterical.

When the peculiar Moschus symptoms of the face is present, viz.: one cheek red and cold, the other pale and hot, there is certainly some hysterical perversion in the mind of that patient. Many times it is possible to suspect morbid mental states by knowing morbid sensations and functions. There is a kind of order in all morbid expressions seen in sick people.

Sensitive to cold, and complaints come on from becoming cold. In addition to numerous hysterical mental symptoms she has violent fits of anger with rage and scolding until she is blue in the face and falls in a faint.

Dread of death, and talks only of death when there is no serious complaint. Anguish and palpitation. Peevishness and quarrelsomeness. In a constant hurry, and lets things fall from her hands. Foolish gestures and complaint of pain. Apprehension, trembling and palpitation. Fear of lying down lest she die. Sensation of falling from a height, or as if rapidly turned around.

Vertigo on moving head or eyelids, ameliorated in open air; with nausea and vomiting and fainting.

The headaches are ameliorated from becoming warm, and in the fresh air. Tension in back of head and nape. Aching in head, with cold feeling. Pressive, stupefying headache, mostly in forehead, with nausea, aggravated on motion, ameliorated in fresh air.

Hysterical headaches, with copious colorless urine. Constriction as with cord. Pain as if a nail in occiput, aggravated in room, ameliorated in fresh air.

Eyes staring. Sudden blindness or dim vision, coming and going. Eyes turned up, fixed and glistening.

Rushing sounds in ears as from wind, or fluttering as the wing of a bird. Detonation in ears as from the report of a cannon, with a few drops of blood. Nervous deafness in paroxysms, or after a mad fit,

Face: Epistaxis and illusions of smell.

One check is red and cool, the other is pale and hot. Heat in the pale face and dim vision. Tension in face. Pale face with sweat. Earthy pale face. Moving of lower jaw as if chewing.

Mouth and throat dry and hot; bitter, putrid taste; great thirst, especially in hysterical conditions.

Craves beer or brandy.

Aversion to food. The sight of it makes her sick. Vomiting. Pressive, burning pain and distension of stomach. Fainting during meals. Waterbrash. Hysterical hiccoughing. Nausea when thinking of food. Drawing in at the umbilicus (Plb.).

Prolonged vomiting of food. Fullness in stomach after eating. Vomiting blood. Stomach easily disordered.

Tympanitic distension of abdomen with sharp pains. No flatus up or down, yet greatly distended. Cramping pains.

Involuntary stools during sleep. Copious watery stools during night. Stitching in anus to bladder.

Copious colorless watery urine. Urine passed during the night is offensive and full of mucus.

In the male, violent sexual excitement. Emissions without erections.

In the female, violent sexual desire. Menses too early and profuse, with drawing pains; tingling in genitalia and fainting. Bearing down sensation.

Erratic nervous phenomena during pregnancy.

Laryngismus stridulus in self-willed girls when they fail to have their own way.

Constriction of larynx as from vapor of sulphur. Spasms of larynx when becoming cold. Spasmodic croup in nervous children after punishment.

Dyspnoea and oppression of chest and heart. Spasmodic asthma in extremely nervous women and children.

Constriction of chest. Spasms of chest and diaphragm, turns blue in face and foams at mouth on becoming cold. Paralysis of chest, rattling, cannot expectorate; fainting.

Palpitation in hysterical girls, Palpitation, oppression of chest, fainting, excitement, with copious colorless urine. The heart seems to quiver when the pulse is normal.

Aching in limbs. Restlessness in legs, and tibia cold. One hand hot and pale, the other cold and red.

Heat in evening in bed, on right side only; wants to uncover. Perspiration smelling like musk in the morning.

Cold skin, trembling, fainting and palpitation.

A tincture is made of the dried preputial secretion of the musk ox, Moschus moschiferus, L.

A general stimulant to the nervous system, especially of the sexual organs.

Asaf., Nux mos., Ambra, Castor.

▶ Trembling of whole body; with general sticky sweat; with bruised sensation and rapid pulse. ▶ Convulsions. ▶ Equilibrium lost. ▶ Circulation accelerated. ▶ Hæmorrhage. ▶ Pricking in body and "fidgets," preventing sleep. ▶ Prickling in all muscles. ▶ Pain over whole body with shivering, but he was warm to touch; complained of intense P., and when asked where complained more violently than ever, but did not answer the question; bruised P. over whole body; jerking P. in all parts, agg. night, waking him. ▶ Nervous. ▶ Discomfort. ▶ Weakness; with pain over whole body, agg. joints. ▶ She became busy, but had scarcely begun to put things in order when they fell from her hands from weakness. ▶ Faintness.

Hysteria, with easy fainting, faints dead away from the least excitement, even from eating (Asaf., Nux mos.). ▶ Hysterical spasm ushered in by contraction of throat and suffocation. ▶ Globus hystericus. ▶ Frequently recurring syncope.

Raved, spoke low, as if afraid of disturbing some one, saying "pst, pst, pst," then sighed deeply and played with the buttons of his waistcoat as if he would open and close it. ▶ Rage, agg. striking a vessel hear him. ▶ Anger and raving till her mouth was dry, lips blue, eyes staring, face pale, when she fell to the ground. ▶ Excitement as from wine, with rapid, full, soft pulse. ▶ Anxiety; and starting in fright and trembling if any one opened the door; about death, and fell down in a faint. ▶ Said nothing but that she must die. ▶ Fretful; and weeping mood. ▶ Low spirits. ▶ Listlessness alternating with restlessness and quarrelsome mood. ▶ Sits in thought, talks indistinctly to himself, strikes with his hands and then suddenly cries "ah, ah;" sits in thought and makes various gestures, so that others fear that she will lose her reason.

Stupefaction; with vertigo; and all objects in the room seemed like large black figures, which would spring upon him; half stupefied, amel. open air. ▶ Dullness, and memory diminished. ▶ Distraction. ▶ Answers confused, as if thinking of something else. ▶ Mind lost. ▶ Senses lost so that he could not answer questions though he heard everything, and eyes staring, glistening, prominent; senses lost suddenly, he thought that his fingers and toes were cut off, against which he remonstrated with such rapid and confused speech that nothing could be gathered from it. ▶ Memory lost; suddenly, with pressure upon vertex. ▶ Coma.

Aching; deep in brain; on violent motion, as, for example, ascending steps; agg. evening; with coldness as from cold applications to head; with nausea and vomiting; with drawing in right ear; extending deep into brain; raging, amel. camphor; as if brain would fall out; as if tightly laced; tensive, with sensation as if something in brain were moving; as if half of skull were cut through, amel. open air; pressive and boring, at one time in whole head, at another behind ears, at another in forehead, at another in vertex, and then in occiput; stupefying, that made him close his eyes; as a sore, agg. touch; externally as if scalp were sore, agg. touch.

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Trembling of the body.
Prickling or tingling in the limbs, with a feeling of heaviness.
Weakness, felt more during rest than during motion.
Faintness, followed by headache.
Parts upon which he lies seem sprained or broken.
He seems particularly sensitive to the open air, which seems cold.
Respiratory troubles are worse when becoming cold.

Clinical:
Valuable for hysterical complaints, with palpitation, suffocative spasms in the chest, constriction of the throat, restlessness, great anxiety, particularly with belching and flatulent symptoms.
Numerous forms of hysterical spasms.

A feeling of rush of blood to the head.
Pressing headache, especially in the forehead, with nausea.
Vertigo on the slightest motion of the head.
A feeling of heaviness of the head.
Tension in the occiput, extending into the nape.

Fullness and constriction in the region of the stomach.
Pressure in the pit of the stomach extends through to back.
Frequent violent eructations of gas.

Fullness, with anxiety and restlessness.
Tension and pressure in the abdomen, coming from the stomach.
Symptoms of incarcerated flatulence.

Dragging towards the genitals as if menstruation would come on.

Clinical:
Suppressed menstruation, with hysterical spasms, choking in the throat, faintness, etc.

Sudden sensation in upper part of larynx as if it closed on the breath.
Difficult respiration, with sticking in the chest; can only take short breaths.

Clinical:
Spasm of the laryngeal muscles, with crowing inspiration, aggravated by eating or laughing.
Sense of impending suffocation, with spasmodic constriction of the larynx and chest.
Spasmodic asthma.
Sudden dyspnœa, with violent cough; chest filled with mucus, with rattling and suffocative constriction.
Angina pectoris, with extreme tightness of the chest; need to take a long breath.
Extreme suffocation, with palpitation and deathly anxiety.

A feeling of cramp in the lungs, making one almost desperate.
Suffocative tightness; needs to breathe deeper and more frequently than usual; cannot lie down; gasps for air.

Palpitation.
(Sensation of trembling around the heart, with constriction and suffocation.)

Shivering, which begins in the scalp and extends over the whole body.

Mos. / (Moss-Mosque.) / Mose.

Moscus,-Thou hysteric sprite!
Chewing in thy sleep at night,
Passing feces, too, perhaps,
Sometimes sinking in collapse.
Venturing to take a seat,
In extremes of cold and heat.
Nervous palpitation plays
Leading part in all thy ways:
With thy one hand and one cheek
Pale and cold-a nervous freak-
Worse thou art when out of doors,
Better in-doors, walking floors.

Mose,-Has chewing motion of the mouth in sleep.

Mose Calvin, the negro saint, is a booby.

This Mose,-Who is subject to having one cold hand or cheek,-Is at Ipe Dio's

Chewing in Sleep: Mos., Cal. c., Hell., Ig., Bell., Bry.

One Cold, Pale Hand or Cheek: Mos., Ip., Dio.

Indicated in functional diseases of the nervous system (faintings, palpitation of the heart, hysteria, etc.), associated with flatulency, tremblings, disposition to faint, and sense of great coldness.

Vertigo from even slight motion; sensation as though falling from a height.

External chilliness, internal heat.

Hiccough of nervous origin.

Copious flow of urine.

Appetite deranged; does not care to eat, but craves stimulants.

Great distension of abdomen from flatulency.

Nervous palpitation of the heart, with sense of trembling at the heart and weak pulse.

Oppression of the chest, with hysterical excitement. Asthma.

Paralysis of the lungs.

Sexual system unhinged; voluptuous tingling in the genitalia, with intense sexual desire.

Too early and too copious menstruation, preceded by pressure downward and feeling as though she were about to menstruate.

Worse from cold.

Better from rubbing; in the open air; from warmth.

Stupefying confusion of head. Hypochondriacal peevishness and anxiety. Anxiety and dread of death.

From slightest motion of head. With loss of speech, yet sees and hears everything.

Violent congestion to. Stupefying compressive ache, especially in forehead, with qualmishness. Heaviness of. Tension in occiput extending into nape. Worse: Evening, moving head, in room, becoming cold. Better: Walking in open air, becoming warm.

Crawling in tip of. Nosebleed. Stuffed coryza.

Fullness and oppression in region. Pressure in pit extending thro' to back.

Frequent, forcible eructation of air.

Anxious fullness and oppression in, with restlessness. Tension and pressure in, coming from stomach. Hysterical spasms in, and in uterus.

Flatulence: Shifting, becomes incarcerated.

Constipated for many days. Faint, sweetish smelling stools. Unconscious, diarrhoeic stool, at night.

Pungent, ammoniacal smelling.

Sexual desire violently excited.

Menses: Too early and too profuse.

Oppression of, from suffocative constriction of chest, as soon as he becomes cold.

Spasmodic, as if from constriction of chest and trachea, excited by sulphur vapor. Expectoration absent, or has absolutely ceased.

Speechlessness.

Cramp in. Spasmodic constriction of, without cough, especially when becoming cold. Painful under arms when pressed upon. Anxious palpitation.

One hand is hot, the other cold.

Cold feeling in shinbone. Restlessness in legs with sensation as though' becoming stiff, necessitating moving limbs.

Cramp - like pains in limbs. Prickling in limbs, with heaviness therein. Shaking and trembling throughout entire body. Weakness, which is more evident during rest than motion. Fainting followed by pains in head. Tetanic spasms. Tonic spasms of hypochondriacs. The part upon which he lies pains as though' it would be dislocated or broken. Symptoms, especially those of respiration, are on becoming cold. Extreme sensitiveness, the open air seems exquisitely cold to him. Pains causes an in pulse to move. Pains cause an impulse to move. Buzzing, squeezing, or plug like sensations. As if a cold wind blowing on part.

Herpes, with unbearable burning.

Comatose sleepiness especially in forenoon. Sleeplessness of hysterical persons. Somnolency.

Pulse: Very full and accelerated, with strong ebullition of blood. Great anemia with weak pulse and faintings. chill: With shuddering spreading from scalp over entire body. Sensation as of cold air blowing on uncovered parts. External coldness with internal heat. Shuddering alternating with heat. One cheek hot without redness, the other red without heat. Heat: Beating, in evening in bed, often only on right side, with restlessness and inclination to uncover. One hand burning hot (and pale), the other cold (and red). Sweat, Smelling like musk. Clammy, in morning.

Allied Remedies: BELL., Coccl., Coff., Nux-v., Op., Phos.

Trembling and quaking through the whole body.

Tingling with heaviness in the limbs.

Debility, which is more felt during rest than during motion.

Fainting followed by headache.

Spasm of the chest.

The parts on which he lies pain as if dislocated and broken.

The symptoms, especially those pertaining to the respiration, are aggravated by becoming cold.

The open air appears to him sensitively cold.

Hypochondriacal and hysterical complaints originating from the genital systems.

Hypochondriacal anxiety with palpitation of the heart.

Sexual desire excited.