Moschus mosch.

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

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Region

NERVES: SENSORY. Genital. Respiration. Circulation.

Worse

Excitement. Cold. Suppressions; menses, etc.

Better

Open air.

General

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

Particulars

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

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

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General

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.

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.

Worse

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

Better

On getting warm; from warmth in general.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

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Common name

Musk

General

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.

Mind

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

Head

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.

Stomach

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).

Male

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

Female

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.

Urine

Profuse urination. Diabetes.

Respiratory

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.

Heart

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

Modalities

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

Relationship

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

Compatible: Ambra.

Antidotes: Camph; Coff.

Dose

First to third potency.

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Mind and Disposition

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

Head

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.

Eyes

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

Ears

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

Nose

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

Face

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.

Mouth

Great dryness in the mouth.

Stomach and Abdomen

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.

Stool and Anus

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

Urinary Organs

Copious watery urine.

Sexual Organs

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.

Respiratory Organs

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.

Extremities

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

Generalities

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.

Sleep

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.

Fever

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.

Skin

Herpes with excessive burning.

Conditions

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

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General

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

Clinical

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.

Characteristics

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.

Relations

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.]

Causation

Chill.

Mind

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.

Head

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

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.

Ears

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.

Nose

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

Face

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.

Mouth

Desquamation of lips. ─ Great dryness in mouth.

Stomach

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.

Abdomen

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.

Stool and Anus

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.

Urinary Organs

Copious watery urine.

Male Sexual Organs

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.

Female Sexual Organs

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.

Heart

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.

Neck and Back

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.

Upper Limbs

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.

Lower Limbs

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.

Generalities

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.]

Skin

Herpes with excessive burning.

Sleep

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.

Fever

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.

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Mind

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.

Sensorium

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.

Inner head

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.

Sight and eyes

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

Hearing and ears

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.

Smell and nose

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

Upper face

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.

Lower face

Movement of lower jaw as if chewing.
Peeling off of lips.

Inner mouth

Mouth and throat dry and hot ; bitter, putrid taste ; great thirst.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Great desire for beer or brandy.
Aversion to food ; the sight of it makes her sick ; eructations ; vomiting ; pressive, burning pains and distension of stomach.

Eating and drinking

Sits down to her meals and faints dead away from the little extra amount of food taken into stomach.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Heartburn with palpitation.
Eructations with hot saliva in mouth.
Spasmodic nervous hiccough, especially if occurring in hysterical subjects.
Nausea when thinking of food.
Sudden nausea as from pit of stomach ; umbilicus being drawn in.
Vomiting of food, then subsequent vomiting and more and more vomiting.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Sensation of fulness and oppression in pit of stomach with qualmishness, < from eating.
Hematemesis ; becomes pulseless, collapsed.
Persistent troubles of digestive functions in susceptible hysterical subjects, with palpitation of heart, dyspnœa and prostration ; is afraid to lie down for fear of death.

Abdomen and loins

Excessive distension of abdomen, with pinching pains.
Great tympanitis in hysterical women, with fainting.
Incarcerated flatus.
Sensation as if everything in abdomen was constricted, compelling one to move about, cannot do any work, or remain quiet anywhere.
Hysterical, abdominal spasms.

Stools and rectum

Stools soft, smell sweetish.
Involuntary loose stools during sleep.
Copious, watery, nightly diarrhœa, with great tympanitis.
Stitches in anus, extending to bladder.

Urinary organs

Urine : clear as water and very copious ; scanty, thick like yeast.
Burning in urethra, with great nervous excitability.
Urine during day normal in appearance, but at night dark red, very offensive and depositing a mucous sediment on standing. θ Incontinence of urine.
(In sick :) Insatiable thirst, great emaciation, constipation, clammy mouth, frequent discharge of large quantities of urine containing sugar. θ Impotence.

Male sexual organs

Violent sexual excitement, with intolerable titillation in genitals.
Erection, with desire to urinate.
Involuntary emissions : painful ; without erections.
Impotence : occasioned by a cold, preceding diabetes mellitus.

Female sexual organs

Violent sexual desire.
Menses : too early and too profuse, with drawing pain ; with intolerable titillation in genitals ; great disposition to faint.
Drawing and dragging towards genitals ; feeling as if menses would appear.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

She complains much, but of nothing in particular. θ Pregnancy.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Sudden sensation in upper part of larynx as if it closed upon the breath.
Sudden sensation of constriction in larynx and trachea as from vapors of sulphur.
Spasmus glottidis.
Spasmodic constriction of larynx and chest, especially when feeling cold. θ Asthma.
Hysterical cases, with impending paralysis of pneumogastric. θ Asthma thymicum.
Laryngismus stridulus in nervous women and children.
Often useful in last stage of croup when all sorts of remedies have been useful in vain.

Respiration

Difficult respiration.
Spasm of diaphragm.
Asthma in hysteric individuals and in children.
Oppression of chest and suffocative fits as from vapors of sulphur, commencing with desire to cough and getting < until one despairs of getting over paroxysms. θ Asthma.
Spasms of larynx during whooping cough ; long crowing inspiration as in laryngismus stridulus, followed by several normal respirations, when crowing recurred, accompanied by anxiety and restlessness.
Spasms of glottis or bronchi ; spasmodic contraction of respiratory organs threatening suffocation during croup.
Sudden constriction of larynx as from fumes of sulphur, accompanied by spasmodic twitching and movements of arms and legs or by tetanic rigidity of body. θ Asthma.

Cough

Severe, dry cough, < in morning and pain under l. breast on coughing.
Last stage when expectoration has nearly ceased ; spasmodic cough, with vertigo and constriction of chest and trachea. θ Pertussis.

Inner chest and lungs

Tightness of chest ; is obliged to take a deeper breath.
Violent spasms of chest, in which it seems she must almost die ; turns blue in face and foams at mouth.
Hysterical spasms of chest ; nervous, suffocative constriction, especially on becoming cold.
A kind of cramp in lung, beginning with an inclination to cough, gradually increasing, making desperate.
Gnawing pain in chest, with a sense of suffocation.
Paralysis of lungs, when there is loud rattling of mucus and the patient is restless ; especially indicated after typhoid fever ; pulse grows less and less strong, and finally patient goes into a syncope.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Hysteric palpitations, or when nervous or muscular energy of heart is weakened by great mental exertion, anxiety or emotions.
Palpitation of heart ; dyspnœa ; prostration ; nervousness ; says "I shall die, I know I shall die." θ Dyspnœa.
Nervous palpitation of heart, with copious, watery urine.
Sensation of trembling around heart, with constriction in whole chest, almost suffocation ; felt continually obliged to take a breath ; pulse 88, respiration oppressed ; arcus senilis, not very marked. θ Heart
affection.
Pulse : full and accelerated, with ebullitions.
Great want of blood, with weak pulse and fainting.
Prostration followed by threatened collapse. θ Angina.

Outer chest

Soreness of thorax under arms, when pressing on it.

Lower limbs

Restlessness in lower extremities, must move them all the time.
Sensation of coldness on tibia.

Limbs in general

Aching pains in upper and lower limbs.

Rest. position. motion

Lies stretched out in bed, motionless, arms tightly held to sides, during spasms.
Cannot lie in one position, parts on which one lies feel sprained.
Desire to lie down.
Must lie down : headache and nausea.
Afraid to lie down for fear of death from dyspnœa.
Stooping : vertigo >.
Rising : vertigo goes off.
Bends backwards : during spasms.
Motion : of head, vertigo ; of eyelids, vertigo of head, headache and nausea <.
Must move about : constriction of abdomen ; limbs restless.
Inability to move arms and legs : from pain.

Nerves

Inflammatory diseases complicated with great nervous hyperesthesia and subdelirium ; coma vigil ; subsultus and fibrillary palpitations.
Very nervous, tremulous, restless.
Hysteria : globus hystericus ; nervous excitement of heart ; simulating tetanic spasms ; spasms with fainting ; crying one moment and the next bursts out in uncontrollable laughter ; coldness and faintness ;
insensibility ; scolding until she falls unconscious.
Complains of pain all over body without locating it in any particular place ; depression and ill feeling even unto fainting ; sudden rush of blood to head, with staring eyes, closed set jaws, followed by rapid confused talking, deathly paleness of
face, profuse sweat about head. θ Hysteria.
Before attack constriction of throat, great restlessness, oppression of chest, impatience, and intolerance of bedcovers ; attacks occur every half or every hour and last about fifteen minutes, during which she remains entirely conscious ; suddenly becomes rigid, distortion of
eyes, twitching of face, contraction of fingers ; respiration becomes suspended, the throat swells, mouth is opened, head retracted and body tossed about in her violent efforts to get air ; attacks end with belching and twitching of various parts, followed by crawling sensation in
arms ; during the attacks bends herself backwards and cries out "now it is over, now my breath is gone." θ Spasms.
Face pale and anxious ; extraordinary prostration and vertigo ; indescribable pain in limbs and entire inability to move arms and legs ; skin dry ; all secretions and excretions suppressed ; lies stretched out in bed, motionless, with arms tightly held to
sides ; after several minutes, distortion of eyes, slight twitchings around nose and mouth, head repeatedly and rapidly drawn downward and backward, alæ nasi at one time contracted, then expanded ; after a deep inspiration respiration ceases for one half to two minutes, then
thorax is alternately violently contracted and expanded, during which several short and rapid respirations occur and pulse beat becomes irregular ; clonic cramps in abdominal muscles, recti abdominus being elevated and depressed like the motions of a snake ; all the muscular
movements are in a certain direction, either from above downward or in opposite direction ; finally similar convulsive movements in extremities, fingers and toes first affected, then parts near trunk ; paroxysm lasts five to six minutes, with consciousness and loss of
sensation ; epistaxis ; stitches in sides of chest ; severe retching ; involuntary nodding of head ; neither pinching, sticking nor shaking makes the least impression upon her ; pulse 65 ; pupils dilated, fixed ; menses absent ; whole attack lasts
forty-eight hours and is followed by an intermission of ten to fifteen minutes.
Convulsions : tetanic spasms ; in consequence of albuminuria in fifth week of an attack of scarlet fever ; from uremic poisoning.
Paroxysms set in at night, or in open air, with pulmonary spasms, or succeeded by headache. θ Syncope.
Purely neuralgic pains or functional disorders, arising from taking cold.

Sleep

Sleepiness in daytime.
Sleeplessness : from over excitability ; of hysterical persons ; after chloral.
Cannot lie at night in one position, because the parts on which one lies feel as if dislocated and sprained.
Sleep uneasy, wakes every half hour and throws off covering, feels too hot, yet does not perspire.
Restless nights, full of dreams of strife and effort.

Time

Morning : severe dry cough < ; clammy sweat.
Day : urine normal ; sleepiness.
Evening : tension in head < ; headache ; with nausea, burning heat.
Night : urine dark red ; syncope sets in ; cannot lie in one position.

Temperature and weather

In bed : burning heat.
When getting warm : tension in head >.
When sitting in room : tension in head < ; headache and nausea ; pain as if a nail was pressed in occiput <.
Open air : vertigo > ; tension in head > ; headache, with nausea ; pain as if a nail was pressed in occiput > ; syncope sets in.
When becoming cold : tension in back part of head <.
Inclination to uncover.

Fever

Sensation as if cold air was blowing on him, especially on uncovered parts.
Chilliness over whole body.
Chill with shivering, spreading from scalp over body.
Feeling of coldness ; wants to be near fire.
External coldness, with internal heat.
One cheek pale and hot, the other red and cold ; one hand burning hot and pale, the other cold and red.
Burning heat in face, with eruption of pimples.
Burning heat in evening, in bed, frequently on right side, with restlessness and inclination to uncover.
Clammy perspiration in morning, smelling of musk.
Impending paralysis of lungs, pulse becoming slower and slower, cough ceases and mucus cannot be expectorated ; in swallowing fluids roll audibly down throat, and stool and urine pass involuntarily. θ Typhoid
fever.
Weak action of heart ; intermitting spasms, during which there may occur loss of consciousness. θ Typhoid.

Attacks, periodicity

Paroxysms last five to six minutes.
Alternately : thorax violently contracted and expanded.
Every half hour : wakes and throws off covering.
Attacks of spasms : every half or every hour, last about fifteen minutes.
Nightly : copious, watery diarrhœa.
Whole spasm lasts forty-eight hours ; followed by intermission of ten to fifteen minutes.
In fifth week of an attack of scarlet fever : convulsions.

Locality and direction

Right : sensation in temple as if a cord were drawn and tightened ; detonation in ear like report of cannon ; redness of cheek without heat ; burning heat frequently only on side.
Left : paleness of cheek which feels hot ; pain under breast ; pimples on upper arm.
From above downward, or opposite direction : all muscular movements.

Sensations

As if she was falling from a height ; as if he was turned about so rapidly that he perceives the current of air produced by the motion ; coldness as if from cold poultices on head ; headache as if from a heavy weight ; as if a cord was frequently drawn and
tightened as if to cut head in two ; as if a nail was pressed in occiput, of which point pierces brain ; rushing in ears as from a strong wind or as from wing of a bird ; facial muscles as if too short ; movement of lower jaw as if chewing ; nausea as if from pit of
stomach ; as if everything in abdomen was constricted ; as if menses would appear ; as if larynx suddenly closed upon breath ; constriction in throat as from vapors of sulphur ; parts on which one lies feel as if dislocated and sprained ; as if cold air was
blowing on him.
Pain : under left breast ; all over body.
Indescribable pain : in limbs.
Stitches : in anus to bladder ; in sides of chest.
Pinching pains : in abdomen.
Gnawing pain : in chest.
Cramp : in lung ; in abdominal muscles.
Aching pain : in head ; in upper and lower limbs.
Drawing pains : during menses.
Compressing pain : in head over root of nose.
Pressive, burning pains : in stomach.
Burning : in urethra.
Soreness : of thorax under arms.
Heat : in face ; in throat.
Dryness : of throat.
Constriction : of chest ; of larynx and trachea ; of throat.
Drawing and dragging : towards genitals.
Tightness : of chest.
Tension : in back part of head and neck ; in facial muscles.
Heaviness : of head.
Fulness : in pit of stomach.
Oppression : in pit of stomach ; of chest.
Restlessness : in lower extremities.
Trembling : around heart.
Crawling : in point of nose ; in arms.
Intolerable titillation : in genitals.
Pressing, itching, biting : in eyes.
Coldness : in head ; on tibia.

Tissues

Purely nervous diseases ; hysteria.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Pressure : on thorax, soreness under arms.
Neither pinching, sticking nor shaking makes the least impression upon her in spasm.
Scratching : causes bleeding of pimples.

Skin

Coldness of skin, with much nervous trembling and frequent fainting.
Eruption of pimples, with burning heat in face.
Pimples on dorsum of foot, between toes, on shoulders and l. upper arm, bleeding after scratching.
Herpes with excessive burning.
Mercurial and venereal herpes.

Stage of life, constitution

Suitable to spoiled sensitive natures and hysteric women.
Child, æt. 3 ; subject to attacks lasting from five to ten days ; urinary disorders.
Boy, æt. 5 ; pale but strong, during termination of an attack of whooping cough ; spasms of larynx.
Girl, æt. 13 ; delicate, slender, menses not yet appeared, had diarrhœa for which Cham. and Rheum were given ; spasms.
Girl, æt. 16 ; suffering from amenorrhœa and beginning chlorosis ; threatened paralysis of lungs during typhoid fever.
Girl, æt. 17 ; weak, menstruated but once, a year ago ; during her twelfth year had spasms resulting from fright, relieved by Ignat. ; spasms returned three days ago after vexation and were accompanied by retching and vomiting of bile, for which Cham. Was
prescribed ; spasms.
Man, æt. 40 ; lawyer, has been dyspeptic ; incontinence of urine.
Man, æt. 43 ; married ; diabetes with impotency.
Woman, æt. 72 ; heart affection.
Old lady ; palpitation of heart.

Relations

Antidoted by : Camphor, Coffea .
It antidotes : headache of Therid .
Compare : Ambra, Asaf., Camphor., Castor., Nux mosch . (neuralgic pains and functional disorders from taking cold), Ammon., Ignat., Magn. mur., Valer .

Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

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Mind

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.

Head

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

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

Ears

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.

Stomach

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.

Abdomen

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.

Respiration

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.

Limbs

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.