Nux Moschata nux-m.

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

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Region

SENSORIUM. Mind. NERVES. FEMALE ORGANS. Digestion. Children and old women.

Worse

Cold: Bath. Damp. Drafts. Wind. Fogs. Feet. Pregnancy. Change of seasons. EMOTIONS. Excitement. MENSTRUATION. Jar. Bruises. Slight causes. Mental exertion or shock.

Better

Moist heat. Warm room. Dry weather.

General

Narcotic effects and dryness. Little pain. OVERPOWERING DROWSINESS, with or caused by almost every condition; by day; < exertion; during menses; when flatulent; with dryness, yet NO THIRST; with coldness. Fleeting pains. Heaviness; of eyes, tongue, etc. Dark, heamorrhages. Scrawny women, who faint easily; < at stool or menses; laugh or cry by turns; have small breasts, etc. As of hard lumps in stomach, liver, throat, etc. Hysteria. Automatism.

Particulars

Dreamy, clairvoyant state. Dazed; objects seem changed or to grow larger. Slow ideation. Thoughts suddenly vanish. Uses wrong words. Brain exhaustion. Talks loud. Mockery. Laughing. Jesting. Vertigo. Sense of levitation. Headache; in temples; > hard pressure. Cerebral congestion. Pale face. Retracted lips. Teeth feel pulled. Dry mouth and throat, without thirst; < sleep. Tongue sticks to palate. Thick, cottony saliva. Chalky taste. Loathing, when eating or thinking of food. Weak digestion. Enormous bloating; all food turns to gas. Flatulent colic. As of a board across hypogastrium. Stool difficult, although soft; putrid, bright yellow and lienteric; < night. Inactive rectum. Strangury from alcohol. Thick, dark, irregular menses. Flatus from vagina. Leucorrhœa; replaces menses. Deficient, irregular labor pains. Cough, > heat of bed. Hoarse; when walking against wind. Palpitation, > walking. Acute pain now in spine, now in lumbar region. Dry palms. Dry, cold skin. Sleepy attacks. Sudden; with vertigo. Weak, irregular pulse. Alternate chill and heat. Chills with sopor. Red sweat, or sweat absent.

Related

Complementary: Calc-c. Lyc. Related: Cann. Croc. Gel. Mos. Op. Rhus-t.

Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica

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Keynote

Adapted especially to women and children of a nervous hysterical temperament (Ign.); to people with a dry skin who rarely perspire; complaints of pregnancy. Weakness of old age; dyspepsia of old people. Oversensitive: to light; of hearing; of smell; to touch. All the ailments are accompanied by drowsiness and sleepiness (Ant. t., Op.) or an inclination to faint even from slight pain (Hep.); complaints cause sleepiness. Stupor and insensibility; unconquerable sleep. Absence of mind; cannot think; great indifference to everything. Weakness or loss of memory (Anac., Lac c., Lyc.). Vanishing of thoughts while reading, talking or writing; using wrong words; does not recognize well known streets (Can. I., Lach.). Changeable humor; one moment laughing, the next crying (Croc., Ign.); "sudden change from grave to gay, from lively to serene" (Plat.). Dryness of eyes; too dry to close the lids. Great dryness of the mouth (Apis, Lach.); tongue so dry it adheres to roof of mouth; saliva seemed like cotton; throat dry, stiffened, no thirst (Puls.). Sensation of great dryness without real thirst and without actual dryness of the tongue. Great soreness of all the parts upon which one lies (Bap., Pry.); tendency to bed sores. Eating a little too much causes headache; painfulness and distress in stomach while eating or immediately after (Kali bi.). Abdomen enormously distended, after every meal. Diarrhoea: in summer, from cold drinks; epidemic in autumn, white stools (Colch.); from boiled milk; during dentition; during pregnancy; with sleepiness and fainting; in autumn, epidemic, white, fetid (Colch.). At every menstrual nisus, mouth, throat and tongue become intolerably dry, especially when sleeping. Leucorrhoea in place of menses (Coc.); patient, awakened with dry tongue (Lach.); physometra (Lac c., Lyc.). Pain, nausea and vomiting; during pregnancy; from wearing pessaries. Sudden hoarseness, < from walking against the wind (Euph., Hep.). Cough caused by: getting warm in bed; being overheated; during pregnancy (Con.); bathing, standing in water; living in cold, damp places (Nat. s.); loose after eating, dry after drinking. Sleep: irresistibly drowsy; sleepy, muddled, as if intoxicated; coma, lies silent, immovable; eyes constantly closed (with stetorous breathing, Op.). Rheumatic affections; from getting feet wet; from exposure to drafts to air while heated (Acon., Bry.); < in cold, wet weather, or cold wet clothes (Rhus); of left shoulder (Fer.). Backache, while riding in a carriage. Fatigue, must lie down after least exertion.

Relations

Nux moschata antidoes mercurial inhalation, lead colic, oil of turpentine, spiritous liquors and especially the effects of bad beers.

Aggravation

Cold, wet, windy weather (Rhod.); weather changes; cold food, water and cold washing; carriage driving (Coc.); lying on painful side ([Bry.], on painless side, Puls.).

Amelioration

In dry, warm weather; warm room; wrapping up warmly.

Key-Notes to the Materia Medica

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Sleep

Drowsiness; very sleepy; stupor-like sleep; complaints causing sleepiness.

Fever

Chilliness without thirst; heat without thirst: want of perspiration; no thirst.

Generalities

Very dry mouth, so dry that the tongue may adhere to the roof of the mouth, but no desire for water, rather an aversion to it. (On the contrary, Mercur., where the tongue is very moist, perhaps dripping with saliva, there is great thirst.) Affections of the temples, e.g., headaches with very dry mouth and no desire for water; sensation of dryness in the inner parts; buzzing, humming, or "funny feeling" in the body; dryness of the skin. Rheumatism of left shoulder.

Worse

In the open air; in cold air; in cold and wet weather; when the weather changes, whether from dry and pleasant to wet, or vice versa, until it becomes settled; in wet weather; in windy weather; lying on painful side.

Better

In the room; air being warm; in dry weather.

Remedies following

Lycop., Nux vom., Pulsat., Rhus tox., Stramon., Tart. emet.

Antidote

Camphor.

Seven Hundred Red Line Symptoms from Materia Medica

J. W. Hutchison · Seven Hundred Red Line Symptoms from Materia Medica · rewritten from Hering's and other materia medicas

Red line symptom

Changeable mood, one moment laughing, the next crying. Thoughtless, slow-thinking, irresolute. changing the mind. Painless pulsation in the head, with fear to go to, sleep. During menses great pressure in the back, from within outwards, abdominal, bearing down and drawing in the limbs. Sudden hoarseness from walking against the wind. Fainting with palpitation of the heart, followed by sleep. Pain in sacrum when riding in a carriage. Diarrhoea undigested, like, chopped eggs, with loss of appetite and great sleepiness, in summer with children. While eating, soon satisfied; headache from eating a little too much. Drowsy with all complaints, particularly with pains; lies in stupid slumber. Menorrhagia, blood thick and dark with such as. have had menses very irregular.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Nutmeg

General

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.

Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics

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Leaders

Stupor insensibility, unconquerable sleep; sleepy with most all complaints.

Excessive dryness of the tongue, mouth, lips and throat; no thirst.

And < cold damp weather, getting wet, or washing; after eating (bloating); > in room, dry weather.

Changeable humor; one moment laughing, the next crying.

The nutmeg, though frequently used for its peculiar flavor in common cookery, is nevertheless a powerful poison, hence a valuable remedy. The mind and sensorium are profoundly affected by it, as shown by the following characteristic symptoms: "Stupor and insensibility and unconquerable sleep." Again "Vanishing of thought while talking, reading, or writing." Again. "Weakness or loss of memory." Again, "Fitful mood, changing from deepest sorrow to frolicsome behavior; now grave, now gay." Again, "Absence of mind, cannot think; has to collect his thoughts before he can answer simple questions." Many more symptoms appear among the provings that show the action of this drug upon the brain. The effect upon the brain, while producing a sleepiness and dulness almost equal to that of Opium, is of an entirely different character, the Opium being seemingly due to fullness of the blood-vessels and pressure, while that of Nux moschata seems to be a benumbing of the very nerve substance itself. It is interesting to notice the sleepiness of Opium, Nux mos. and Tartar emetic, and to study these drugs in comparison. Opium and Tartar emetic are often remedies for pneumonia, but the concomitant symptoms are very different. Opium and Nux vom. in typhoid fever, but the choice, notwithstanding, this symptom of stupor common to both, is not at all difficult. All three of these remedies in bowel complaints of children have this symptom in common, but it is not hard to choose between them. Another very characteristic symptom of this remedy is excessive dryness of the mouth. Mouth so dry that the tongue sticks to the roof, yet no thirst. The tongue, lips and throat are all dry. Of course, there are other remedies having this dryness without thirst, such as Apis, Pulsatilla and Lachesis, but in this respect Nux moschata is the strongest. Then again Nux moschata is greatly troubled with flatulence. The abdomen is enormously distended, especially after meals. Where are two remedies which have pain and distress in the stomach immediately after eating, even when the patient is still at the table. They are Nux mos. and Kali bichromicum. With Nux vomica and Anacardium the pain comes on an hour or two after eating. With Nux mos., everything they eat seems to turn to wind (Kali carb, Iodine), and fills the stomach and abdomen so full as to cause pressure upon all of the organs of the chest and abdomen. Again there is diarrhœa with this remedy. It is very efficacious in cholera infantum, when the above mentioned sensorial symptoms are present. I once had a very severe case of typhoid fever of the nervous stupida variety. On account of the stupidity, the yellow watery diarrhœa, and rumbling and bloating of the abdomen, I thought surely Phosphoric acid must help; but it did not. I finally discovered the excessive dryness of the mouth, which had escaped my attention before. This completed the picture of Nux moschata. Under the action of the 200th potency, the patient rapidly improved unto complete recovery. So we must "watch out" when the seemingly indicated remedy does not cure, for it may not be Sulphur, Opium, Laurocerasus or Psorinum that will have to be given, as we said when writing on Opium and Sulphur; but we have not, no matter what the "seemings," chosen the homœopathic remedy at all, and, as in this case, some symptom may appear that will change the prescription entirely.

Now we will notice in detail the mind and sensorium symptoms that we have given, by way of comparison. I will add to the comparison made between this remedy and Antimonium tart. and Opium, Apis mellifica, which has soporous sleep; but it is interrupted by piercing screams, especially in brain diseases, where the sopor is generally found. None of the other remedies have these screams (cri encephalique) so prominently. "Vanishing of thought while talking, reading or writing" may find their similar under Camphor, Cannabis Indica and Lachesis. "Loss of memory" under many remedies, but notably under Anacardium, Lycopodium, Bryonia alb., Sulphur and Natrum muriaticum. The "fitful, changing moods and disposition" is found under Aconite, Ignatia, Crocus and Platina. "Absence of mind," Anacardium, Kreosote, Lachesis, Natrum mur. and Mercurius. I notice that those remedies that are oftenest similar to Nux moschata in its mind and other symptoms are often found among the so-called hysteric remedies. And why not? For Nux moschata is one of our best in this hydra-headed complaint. Taking together all of the symptoms we have been over, and adding to them that other one, "easy fainting," where can you find a more complete general picture of the average hysteric? I will not use more space here for this remedy, but recommend to every careful student, and practitioner, who does not already understand it, a careful study of this certainly valuable drug. That it has not received the use in practice that it should is due, I have no doubt, to the fact that it is used so frequently in foods, that many think it cannot be much of a remedy.

Text Book of Materia Medica

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Mind and Disposition

Changeable disposition ; hysteria with suddenly changing disposition, great drowsiness and disposition to faint. Very irresolute, changes his intention continually. Absence of mind ; vanishing of thoughts in reading, disposition to go to sleep. Dulness of senses, thoughtlessness, with slowly returning consciousness. Great inclination to laugh at every thing, especially in the open air. Slowness of ideas ; loss of memory. Idiocy ; craziness. Delirium with violent vertigo, strange gestures, improper talk, with loud tone and voice and total sleeplessness.

Head

Vertigo and giddiness as from intoxication, with delirium, or craziness, or insensibility. Reeling (while walking in the open air) with staggering, gradual rigidity and insensibility. Fainting, with palpitation of the heart, followed by sleep. Sensation of looseness of the brain, and when shaking or moving the head as if the brain were striking against the skull, with sleepiness after a meal ; worse from cold, better from warmth and heat. Sensitiveness of the head as soreness, especially sensitive to the slightest touch, in a draft of air (wind) ; worse in the cold and from lying down, better from hard pressure and from external heat. Pulsating, pressing pain on a small spot over the left eye. Painless pulsation in the head with fear to go to sleep. The headache generally appears after eating, especially after breakfast or after overloading the stomach.

Eyes

Sensation of dryness and dryness of the eyes, can move the eyelids only with difficulty. Tension around the eyes and in the lids. Sensation of fulness in the eyes with contracted pupils. Illusions of visions ; objects appear too distant. Weakness of sight.

Ears

Otalgia with stinging pain (right ear). Pain in the Eustachian tube as from a rough body (on change of weather) previous to the setting in of wind and rain.

Nose

Sneezing ; early in the morning. Stoppage, especially of the left nostril.

Face

Heat in the face with slight redness of the cheeks. Blue margins around the eyes (with pale face). Sensation of swelling of the left cheek, with pricking as from electric sparks. Freckles in the face.

Mouth and Throat

Toothache of pregnant women. Stinging and tearing in the teeth, extending to the ears and temples, with stitches in the teeth when sucking them, and aggravation from contact and cold air. Sticking pain in the teeth, relieved by the application of warmth. The teeth feel dull, as if covered with lime. Toothache from damp, cold evening air ; the teeth feel as if they were grasped by the forceps, with pain in the neck. The gums bleed readily. Shocks in the molar teeth from drinking cold water. Toothache from washing, from cold, from damp cold air. Dryness and sensation of dryness in the mouth without thirst. Dryness and sensation of dryness of the tongue, extending to the mouth and throat. The tongue is coated white (with mucus). Paralysis of the tongue. Aphthæ. Great dryness in the throat without thirst. Difficulty of deglutition as from paralysis of the throat. The breath has a very offensive smell.

Stomach and Abdomen

Taste in the mouth like chalk, pappy ; or as if he had eaten strongly salted food. Appetite increased ; thirst diminished. After eating, debility ; scraping eructations. Weakness of digestion (especially in old persons). Nausea and vomiting during pregnancy. Nausea while riding in a carriage. Fulness in the stomach, with oppressed breathing. Colic pain in the abdomen, immediately after eating and worse after drinking only during the day, with dry mouth and thirstlessness. Sensation of heat and burning in the stomach. Cutting in the abdomen and screwing pain around the navel as from worms, with sleepiness. Abdomen distended from flatulence, preventing sleep. Swelling of the liver ; heaviness in the region of the liver ; swelling of the spleen.

Stool and Anus

Slow, difficult soft stool. Diarrhœa from debility or from cold ; predisposition to diarrhœa. Diarrhœic stools, like scraped eggs, with loss of appetite in children. Summer complaint -summer diarrhœa. Diarrhœa with loss of appetite and great sleepiness in children. Diarrhœa of undigested food, with fainting. Putrid, bloody diarrhœa in typhus fever.

Urinary Organs

Painful strangury. Burning and cutting while urinating. The urine smells like violets. Renal colic.

Sexual Organs

Men. Debility of the sexual system ; desire with relaxed organs. Discharge of prostatic fluid. Women. Irregular menstruation, sometimes too early, then again too late. The menstrual blood is dark and thick. Before menstruation pain in the small of the back, debility pressure in the stomach, water-brash and pain in the liver. During a hæmorrhage from the uterus or menstruation, pressure in the abdomen, drawing down into the legs from the naval. Spasmodic, false labor-pains. Threatening miscarriage. Pain of the uterus from the pessary.

Respiratory Organs

Altered voice ; hoarseness ; sudden from walking against the wind. Cough with great soreness in the larynx or the chest. Dry cough with oppressed breathing from taking cold by standing in the water. Cough with or without expectoration when becoming warm in bed in the evening or when becoming warm from working. Hæmoptysis. Cough during pregnancy. Shortness of breathing after eating. Oppression of the chest, originating in the pit of the stomach. Sensation of constriction of the chest. Fulness and sensation of a heavyweight pressing, on the chest. Palpitation of the heart with attacks of fainting (followed by steep).

Back and Neck

Sensation of great weakness in the small of the back (and knees). Drawing in the muscles of the neck from the draft of moist air. Pain in the back or small of the back as if broken and bruised. Pain in the small of the back when riding, in a carriage. Tabes dorsalis.

Extremities

Upper. Cold hands as if frozen, with buzzing in the hands on entering a room. Lower. Pain in the (right) knee as if sprained, especially when moving and going up-stairs. Weakness of the knees (and small of the back).

Generalities

Great soreness of all the parts on which one lies. Rheumatic pains (from cold damp air). Wandering pains, only attacking a small spot and lasting but a short time, returning frequently. Hysterical paroxysms. Inclination to faint. Convulsions (of children). Great debility from the least exertion, compelling one to lie down with sleepiness. Apoplexy.

Sleep

Great sleepiness with all complaints. Irresistible drowsiness ; deep sopor.

Fever

Pulse accelerated. Chill whenever uncovering oneself and chilliness in the open, especially wet, cold air, with very pale face ; at once relieved in the warm room. Sensation of coldness of the feet with heat of the hands. Chilliness in the evening with great drowsiness. Chilliness and drowsiness predominate. Heat in the hands in the morning, with hypochondriac mood and thirstlessness and dryness of the mouth and throat. Perspiration scanty, but at times red like blood. Intermittent fever. Double tertian intermittent fevers, with sleepiness, white tongue, rattling breathing, bloody expectoration and very little thirst only during the hot stage. Intermittent fever with sleepiness, and during the heat great dryness of the mouth and throat with thirstlessness.

Skin

Dry, cold skin and not disposed to perspire. The skin is very sensitive to cold moist air. Bluish spots on the skin.

Conditions

All the ailments are accompanied by drowsiness and sleepiness ; and inclination to faint. Especially suitable for women and children. Aggravation from cold, wet air or in cold, wet weather ; while lying on the painful side ; from cold food ; from spirituous liquors ; when riding in a carriage ; from water and washing ; from changes of the weather ; in windy (stormy) weather. Amelioration in the room ; from warm air ; in dry weather ; from wrapping up warmly.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1st edition (1900-02, three volumes); homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML digitization

General

Myristica fragrans. M. officinalis. M. moschata. Nutmeg. N. O. Myristicaceæ. Tincture of powdered seeds deprived of the Mace. [This is the official direction. But it would be well to make a tincture of the nut with the Mace, as some symptoms of Mace are included. Also a fresh nut and fresh plant tincture should be prepared and tested.]

Clinical

Abortion. Apoplexy. Asthma, hysteric. Brain, softening of; infantile affections of. Catalepsy. Chilblains. Cholerine. Clairaudience. Clairvoyance. Convulsions. Cough. Debility . Deltoid rheumatism. Dysmenia. Dyspepsia. Eructations. Eyes, sight weak . Fainting. Flatulence . Freckles. Frost-bite. Gastralgia. Hæmorrhage. Headache. Head, convulsive movement of. Hiccough. Hoarseness. Hysteria. Intermittent fever. Locomotor ataxy. Lumbago. Marasmus. Menopause. Menorrhagia. Menses, suppressed. Metrorrhagia. Mind, affections of. Pelvis, congestion of. Perspiration, bloody; hysterical . Pregnancy, complaints of. Ptosis. Puerperal convulsions. Renal colic. Rheumatism. Sleep, overpowering . Speech, defective. Stammering. Strangury. Toothache. Turpentine, effects of. Typhoid, hæmorrhage in. Uterus, prolapse of. Worms.

Characteristics

Nux mosch . is one of the many examples of powerfully poisonous and medicinal substances used as common articles of food. The Nutmeg has a popular repute for putting off the menstrual period or else for bringing it on; as a remedy for diarrhœa, and also for boils. It is the use of ground Nutmeg for these purposes that has led to many cases of poisoning, and has supplied a large number of the symptoms of the Schema. Nux m . is one of the most profoundly active of psychical remedies in the Materia Medica, producing states of exaltation resembling hysteria, and the mesmeric state with exalted senses and consciousness of double personality. A case reported by Stonham ( M. H. R ., xl. 494) brings this out. A dark-haired young man ate two nutmegs one morning. In afternoon was exhilarated, able to do more than usual, to argue on any subject. At dinner mouth dry, great thirst, felt he could not drink enough to quench it. After dinner, head felt strange as if in a dream; but he joined a small musical party, as he had intended. He seemed to be two persons, and his real, conscious self seemed to be watching his other self playing . He could not play well; and had to desist. He seemed lost, and when spoken to would come to himself with a start. Hearing for distant sounds much more acute than usual. A woman who ate several nutmegs with the idea of bringing on abortion had the hallucination that she had two heads . A. P. Williamson records ( N. Y. Med. Times , October, 1882) one case of a woman who took grated nutmeg for diarrhœa. After second dose of half nutmeg head felt queer and dizzy, then head felt large, could not reply to questions, though eyes were open and seemed to understand. Pupils dilated, eyes staring, face pale, respiration laboured. Semi-conscious and had to be shouted at, but relapsed into semi-consciousness. Pulse at first small or rapid, but during unconscious period, irregular, fuller, and weak. When consciousness first returned kept hands to her head "to prevent it falling off"; was obliged to move her head with her hands, "it being too large and heavy for her body." Her chest felt as if in a vice. For some days was unable to use words properly, frequently obliged to stop in middle of a sentence and change it entirely from not being able to use appropriate words. Exaltation of the senses and sensibilities runs through the remedy. One hypersensitive patient to whom I gave a single dose of Nux m . 30, said it seemed to put a coat of cotton wool over her. The senses of sight and touch are exalted in the same way as hearing. The mental disturbance may take all the protean forms of hysteria and even mania. Vanishing of thought. One man had complete loss of memory of his past life, and did not recover it for a week. The sensorium is disturbed as much as the mind, and a state of staggering, helpless drunkenness is induced. Connected with this are the sleep symptoms of Nux m ., which give the leading keynote of the remedy ─ Drowsiness. Nux m . is needed for drowsiness more frequently than Opium itself. When any complaint causes drowsiness or is accompanied by drowsiness, Nux m . must be considered; and if in addition there is chilliness and thirstlessness, Nux m . must be given. For Nux m . is a chilly medicine, < by cold and damp, > by warmth (with one or two exceptions). Chilliness may be considered the second keynote. But quite as important is the third ─ Dryness . The dryness may be only sensation, or it may be actual as well. Dryness of the mouth and tongue (usually, but not always, without thirst ); tongue so dry it adheres to the roof of the mouth. Neurotic patients who always awaken with a very dry mouth and tongue. "The saliva seems thick, like cotton ." (I cured with Nux m . 30 a very bad case of indigestion with acne in a youth who had this symptom). Eyes dry; too dry to close the lids. The skin is dry; and Nux m . is suited to people who readily perspire. Another keynote is tendency to fainting . This is allied to the drowsiness, sudden loss of memory, and vanishing of ideas. Persons who easily faint away from sight of blood; from standing (as to have a dress tried on) and those who have faintness or fainting during or associated with evacuations; these are likely to want Nux m . One or more of the above conditions will be present in the majority of cases needing Nux m .; but there are few remedies which have more of the striking and peculiar symptoms, the value of which Hahnemann was the first to perceive, than this remedy, and when these are present (or the well-marked conditions of < and > ) they will be sufficient indication independently of those mentioned. Here are some Sensations: As if drunk. Limbs as if floating in the air. Forehead as if as large again. Forehead as if pushed out. As if brain struck against side of head. Brain as if loose. Objects appear much too large. Pain as of a rough body in Eustachian tube. Pricking as of electric sparks on cheek. As if wind incarcerated in stomach. As if a piece of bacon were in throat. As if food had formed itself into lumps in stomach. As if a piece of wood stretched across small of back were pressing from within out. As if heart would be squeezed off. As if something grasped heart. As if heart were beating in a vacuum. As if it were difficult to move tongue. As if blood were rushing to heart, and then all over body As if left shoulder contained lead. As if a string were tied round arms. As of a grasping hand in upper arm. Pains as if bruised, sprained, wrenched; as if bones smashed. As if electrified. Pressure, throbbing, drawing, burning, are all common sensations. The sensitiveness of Nux m . comes out in the soreness of parts lain on. The use of Nutmeg as a condiment has doubtless its origin in the fact that Nux m . is specifically related to weak digestion. It is indicated in conditions of excessive flatulence, and when the smallest excess in eating or drinking sets up indigestion. The domestic use in menstrual irregularities has also a specific foundation. "Irregularity" is the chief note of the remedy here. Much bearing-down pain; blood dark. Uterine prolapse and displacements have been remedied by it, and threatened abortion warded off. In pregnancy, labour, the puerperal state (convulsions, head jerked forward), it has a large sphere. There is a cough occurring only when warm in bed, or < then. In constipation with drowsiness, Nux m . is as often indicated as Opium . Faintness during or after stool is a great indication. Nux m . is also hæmorrhoidal and hæmorrhagic. Protruding piles. Hæmorrhage of typhus; fetid flatus. Incontinence of urine. The hæmorrhages of Nux m . are dark. All kinds of spasms and convulsions are developed in the provings. Catalepsy. Clairvoyant state: answers questions accurately quite out of her sphere, and on returning to consciousness knows nothing about it. Jactitation of muscles, chorea, jerks in inner parts in muscles; recovers with a start. Paralysis; with spasms and trembling; of tongue; eyelids; œsophagus. Locomotor ataxy excited by cold and wet. Puffiness, swellings, dropsy of outer parts. Buzzing sensation with numbness of hands and feet. The symptoms are < by touch. Pressure > some symptoms and < others. Lying on parts = soreness. Riding in carriage = headache; water-brash; backache. Rest > headache; < bellyache; backache; rheumatism. Raising head from pillow = deathly sickness. Lying down < head. < On side lain on. Stitches in spleen = bending double. Motion < . Shaking head < . Walking < ; ( > palpitation). Many symptoms appear in the morning. Drowsy by day. Dry mouth < evening and night. Diarrhœa < night. Heat > ; hot summer < (summer complaint of children); hot weather = loose feeling in brain. Heat of bed < or = cough. Warmth of room = hands to feel as if frozen. Warmth > other symptoms. Open air < . Walking against wind = hoarseness. < Damp, wet weather; cold weather; getting wet; before a shower; washing. A bath = check of menstrual flow. < After eating and drinking; after cold drink. Drinking = dry cough; colic. Drinking beer = strangury. Brandy = electrifying effect. Milk = diarrhœa. Alcohol < . Eating a little too much = headache. Nux m . is suited to: Children. Women. Pregnant women. Persons with cool, dry skin, who do no t easily perspire. Weakness of old age. Dyspepsia of old people. Constitutions with stiff, straight hair rather than crisp and curly. Delicate constitutions. Hydrogenoid constitution. P. P. Wells ( Med. Adv ., xxi. 84) says that "in brain affections of infantile life ─ in the stupor, insensibility, and unconquerable desire to sleep ─ whether in idiopathic affections of the brain or in those occuring during cholera infantum ─ Nux m . is one of the most precious remedies in the materia medica." J. C. White ( H. P ., xvii. 326) gives a striking instance of Nux m . headache > by hard pressure in a man convalescing from a severe gunshot-wound of the head. He wanted the nurse to "bear her whole weight on it." With the headache was rapid, anxious breathing, as if he could not get air enough and the "wind would be shut off." Nux m . always relieved it. The 3x was first given, then a higher potency.

Relations

Antidoted by: Camph., Lauro., Gels., Nux, Op., Zn., Val. It antidotes: Ars., Lauro., Rhodo., Lead colic, Turpentine, Alcohol, bad yeasty beer. Compatible: Lyc., Nux, Puls., Rhus, Stram., Ant. t. Compare: Myristica sebifera (boils and suppuration). Hysterical temperament, Ign. (Nux m. has excessive dryness of mouth). Rheumatism of left deltoid, Mg. c., Ferr. (right deltoid, Sang.). Prolapsus uteri, Æsc. h., Sep., Plat., Lil., Murex, Nux, Pod., Pul., Sep. All ailments accompanied by sleepiness, Ant. t., Op. Loss of memory, Anac., Lac c., Lyc. Does not recognise well-known streets, Can. i., Lach., Camph. bro. Dry mouth, Agar., Lach. Dry throat without thirst, Puls. Soreness of parts lain on, Bapt., Pyr. Distress in stomach while eating or immediately after, K. bi. Epidemic in autumn, white, fetid stools, Colch. Leucorrhœa in place of menses, Cocculus. Physometra, Bro., Lyc., Lac c. Sudden hoarseness from walking against wind, Euphras., Hep. Cough during pregnancy, Con. (of menstrual period, Lach.). Effects of getting wet; damp weather; lying in damp places, Nat. s., Rhod., Rhus; of cold, moist winds, Ars., Calc., Dulc. (cold, dry winds, Aco., Bry.). Effect of riding in carriage, Coccul. < Lying on painful side (Puls. < on painless). Pressure and pushing towards genitals, Nat. m., Bell., Sep., Sul. Head tends to fall to left (Lac d. to right). Faintness during or associated with evacuations, Apis, Pul., Spi., Ver. (faintness with scanty stools, Crot. t., Dulc., Ox. ac., Pet., Sars., Sul. Drowsiness with headache, Bruc., Gins., Gels. (difficult to keep eyes open), Heracl., Sul. Sinking immediately after meals, Ars., Cin., Lyc. Bar sensation, Hæmatox. (across chest. Nux m. has removed "Sensation of bar across abdomen, with ends projecting out at back like a bar." Arsen. has also acted curatively in a similar sensation). Bloody sweat, Nux, Lyc., Calc., Lach., Arn. Cannot sweat, Staph. Nipples retracted, Sars. < Working in water, Calc. Drink = cough (Caust., drink > cough). Nausea on raising head from pillow, Bry. Throat dry without thirst (Merc. mouth moist with thirst). Fainting, Mosch. Grasped heart, Cact., Lil. t.

Causation

Fright. Mental exertion. Suppressed eruption. Bath (suppressed menses). Over-eating. Milk. Bad beer. Alcohol.

Mind

Weeping mood with burning in eyes and lachrymation. ─ Fickleness, with desire sometimes for one thing, at others for something else. ─ Great inclination to laugh, to make a jest of everything, esp. when in open air, sometimes with a stupid look, as if imbecile. ─ Incessant flow of facetious ideas. ─ Everything about him seemed ludicrous. ─ Humour grave and gay alternately. ─ Mentally excited and exhilarated. ─ Facility of arguing. ─ After dining, head felt strange as if in a dream. ─ Seemed to be two persons, his real conscious self seemed to be watching his other self playing (piano). ─ Could not play well, struck false notes, and was obliged to give it up. ─ Seemed lost when spoken to, and would come to himself with a start. ─ Transient loss of memory, but a perfect consciousness of all that I said or did. ─ Surroundings seem changed; fanciful, dreamy images; does not recognise well-known streets. ─ Weakness of memory; loss of memory. ─ Entirely lost memory of his past life. ─ Hallucination that she has two heads. ─ Sense of impending dissolution; besought me piteously not to let her die. ─ Slowness of apprehension, dizziness, difficult conception. ─ Want of ideas, as from absence of mind; vanishing of thoughts in reading, disposition to go to sleep. ─ Dulness of senses, thoughtlessness, with slowly returning consciousness. ─ Dementia and mental alienation (idiocy). ─ Mania, with odd speeches and ridiculous gestures. ─ Delirium with violent vertigo, improper talk, loud tone and voice and total sleeplessness. ─ The least exertion or mental excitement = somnolence. ─ Unable to use words properly; frequently obliged to stop in middle of a sentence and change it entirely from not being able to use appropriate words.

Head

Confusion and pressive heaviness in head, and esp. in forehead. ─ Reeling (while walking in open air). ─ Head seemed whirling round; eyes starting from head. ─ Staggering, with anguish, rigidity of body and giddiness (and insensibility). ─ Vertigo, as from drunkenness, with delirium and mumbling, giddiness or insensibility. ─ Emptiness and faint feeling at 5.30 p.m. ─ Head drops forward while sitting. ─ Headache, as from indigestion, esp. after breakfast. ─ Pressive headache, with heaviness and confusion of head. ─ Affections of the temples, headaches with very dry mouth and no desire for water. ─ Pain in head, esp. in temples, with internal heat, and a sensation of wavering in brain on moving head. ─ Sounds as if chains were in her head. ─ Pains mostly in occiput; if touched there says it touches her brain. ─ Says, "Oh, don't you hear my brains crack?" jumps with an outcry of pain and says, "Oh, don't you hear them?" (the brains). ─ Sensation as if brain were striking against skull, with sleepiness after a meal; < from cold, > from warmth and heat. ─ Sensitiveness of head as from soreness, esp. sensitive to slightest touch in a draught of air (wind); < in cold and from lying down, > from hard pressure and from external heat. ─ Violent, constricting, burning, stinging pains over r. eye, with red face, compression of lips and jaws; when attacks are most intense, unconsciousness, immobility of l. leg; face swelled; speech lost; continually moving his hand to painful place; head convulsively drawn from one side to the other, distorts his face. ─ Headache and drowsiness with great debility and pain in pericardium; salt taste and indigestion (A. E. Small). ─ Head feels full, expanded; as if it would burst. ─ Headache from inward heat, with burning. ─ Head seemed bulky and rolled around uncontrollably had to support (or move) it with both hands. ─ Head tends to fall to l. moves convulsively from side to side; from before backward. ─ Complaints < by shaking head; by raising head from pillow. ─ Painful sensitiveness of temple to touch. ─ Pressive and pulsative headache, esp. above l. eye. ─ Painless pulsation in head with fear to go to sleep. ─ Sensation as if all vessels pulsating, esp. on head, a throbbing, pressing pain confined to small spots, chiefly to l. supraorbital ridge. ─ Severe tearing in (l.) occiput towards nape of neck. ─ The headache is generally felt after a meal, and more particularly after breakfast or after overloading the stomach (in the slightest degree).

Eyes

Dryness of eyes, and sensation of dryness, which impedes movements of lids. ─ In evening it is difficult to read by artificial light. ─ Blindness then fainting. ─ Profuse lachrymation and burning pains in eyes. ─ Tension round eyes and in lids. ─ Sensation of fulness in eyes, with contraction of pupils. ─ Pulsating, pressing pain on a small spot over l. eye. ─ Illusions of vision: objects appear too distant, too large, or too small. ─ Sees two objects instead of one. ─ Weakness of sight. ─ Blue rings around eyes.

Ears

Otalgia, with shooting pains (stinging pain, r. ear). ─ Pain in Eustachian tube, as if caused by a rough body, on a change of weather, and esp. on approach of rain or wind. ─ Hearing for distant sounds increased; heard people talking in a low voice in a passage outside his room, which would have been quite inaudible ordinarily. ─ Struck false notes on playing piano. ─ Over-sensitiveness of hearing. ─ Buzzing in ears; as if stopped. ─ (Tinnitus preventing sleep. ─ R. T. C.)

Nose

Sneezing; early in morning. ─ Over-sensitiveness to smell; loss of smell. ─ Catarrh < in cold, damp weather. ─ Nose-bleed, blood usually dark, black. ─ Obstruction of nose, sometimes semi-lateral (esp. l.).

Face

Paleness of face, and blue circle round eyes. ─ Heat in face with slight redness of cheeks. ─ Expression: agonised; hippocratic; singular; silly, and occasionally would give a diabolic grin. ─ Lips: swollen and sticking together; burning. ─ Drawing mouth awry. ─ Pustules with hard red borders on chin. ─ Compression of jaws. ─ Cannot close jaws; as if paralysed. ─ Sensation of swelling throughout the l. side of the face, with burning pricking, as from electric fluid. ─ Freckles in face.

Teeth

Painfulness of teeth while eating (dry bread). ─ Shooting and tearing pains in teeth, extending as far as ears and temples, with lancinations in teeth, on sucking them, and < of pains from cold air and contact. ─ Nightly tearing in teeth, with inability to close jaws, which are as if paralysed. ─ Shooting pains in teeth, < by external heat. ─ Toothache produced by damp evening air, with compressive pains (as if grasped by forceps) in teeth, and pains in nape of neck; teeth feel as, if loose; warm water > the pains. ─ Toothache of pregnant women > by warmth. ─ Toothache, after labour with the hands in water, or in consequence of a chill. ─ Shocks in molar teeth after drinking cold water. ─ Toothache from washing, from cold, from damp, cold air. ─ Teeth blunted (dull), as if covered with lime. ─ Bleeding of gums readily.

Mouth

Dryness, and sensation of dryness in mouth (of the tongue and lips, extending to the throat), without thirst. ─ Very dry mouth, so dry that the tongue may adhere to roof of mouth, but no desire for water, rather an aversion to it (opp. Merc ., which has tongue very moist, perhaps dripping with saliva, yet there is great thirst.). ─ Sensation as if soft palate was rolling or curling up on itself from tip to base. ─ Fetid breath. ─ Saliva seems like cotton. ─ Abundant accumulation of thick mucus and of saliva in mouth. ─ Paralysis of the tongue, speech difficult; indistinct. ─ Sensation of torpor in tongue, on being touched, as if made of leather. ─ Dryness and sensation of dryness in tongue. ─ Tongue coated white (with mucus). ─ Aphthæ. ─ Swelling of mucous follicles under tongue.

Throat

Great dryness and sensation of dryness in throat (without thirst), with scraping. ─ Difficulty of deglutition as from paralysis of throat.

Appetite

Taste in mouth, as after eating much salt. ─ Clammy (pappy) taste, or taste of chalk in mouth. ─ Hunger and immoderate appetite (thirst diminished), esp. towards noon. ─ Thirst, excessive, cannot drink enough. ─ Diminution of appetite and prompt satiety. ─ Absence of thirst. ─ Dejection and uneasiness after a meal. ─ Weak digestion and stomach (esp. in the aged). ─ < After eating and drinking.

Stomach

Acrid risings (debility; scraping eructations) shortly after a meal. ─ Nausea from motion of a carriage; from irritation of pessaries. ─ Nausea and vomiting during pregnancy. ─ Deathly nausea if her head were raised from pillow. ─ Nausea and vomiting with inclination to sleep. ─ Irritation of stomach from over-taxed mental powers. ─ Sufferings, esp. pains in head, < after a meal (esp. breakfast). ─ Fulness of stomach, with impeded respiration. ─ Sensation of heat, and of burning pain in stomach. ─ Inflation of stomach. ─ Crawling from pit of stomach to throat. ─ Cramps in stomach, with very weak digestion. ─ Pressure in stomach, as from incarceration of flatus.

Abdomen

Pressure in liver, as if caused by hard and pointed bodies. ─ Swelling of liver; heaviness in the region of liver; swelling of spleen. ─ Sensation of weight in hypochondria and upper abdomen. ─ Rumbling in abdomen. ─ Colic with tearing pains. ─ Colic pain in abdomen immediately after eating and < after drinking, only during day, with dry mouth and thirstlessness. ─ Inflation of abdomen, with nausea, and digging in umbilical region. ─ Abdomen enormously distended; after meals. ─ Sore pain and distension round abdomen, with aching and numbness round anus, and burning pain just above anus, < at night, with piles that discharge mucus only, a bearing-down of both anus and womb with vaginal cuttings; much numbness of lower back and palpitation of heart (cured, R. T. C.). ─ Cutting pains (in abdomen and screwing pain around the navel), as from worms, with drowsiness. ─ Nocturnal sufferings from flatulence, which disturb or prevent sleep. ─ Lump in hypogastrium (with uterine complaints).

Stool and Anus

Soft, sluggish fæces, difficult to evacuate. ─ Rectum inactive. ─ Diarrhœa from weakness, or in consequence of a chill. ─ Bloody, putrid diarrhœa (in typhus fever). ─ Diarrhœa, like fried eggs, with complete absence of appetite (in children). ─ Diarrhœa of undigested substances (with fainting). ─ Violent diarrhœa with cramps all over abdomen and great faintness (agg., R. T. C.). ─ Summer complaint ─ summer diarrhœa. ─ Diarrhœa, with want of appetite and drowsiness (in summer) in children. ─ Mucous diarrhœa, as from worms.

Urinary Organs

Burning and incisive pains when urinating. ─ Renal colic and discharge of calculi. ─ Painful strangury. ─ Urine with a violet-like smell. ─ Renal colic.

Male Sexual Organs

Absence of sexual desire. ─ Weakness of genital functions. ─ Absence of erections, even while indulging in voluptuous thoughts. ─ Desire with relaxed organs. ─ Inclined to coitus but erections weak and of short duration. ─ Flow of prostatic fluid.

Female Sexual Organs

Catamenia irregular (sometimes too early, then again too late). ─ Before catamenia: sacral pains and lassitude, with pressure in the stomach, water-brash, and hepatic pains. ─ During catamenia: sensation of a general bearing down towards the hypogastrium, and drawing in limbs. ─ During a hæmorrhage from uterus or menstruation, pressure in abdomen, drawing down into the legs from navel. ─ Spasmodic, false labour pains. ─ Threatening miscarriage. ─ Pain of uterus from pessary. ─ Flatulent distension of uterus. ─ Leucorrhœa in place of menses. ─ Flatus from vagina. ─ Metrorrhagia; menorrhagia; blood thick and dark. ─ Menses preceded by pain in small of back as if a piece of wood, stretched across there, were pressing from within out. ─ Suppressed catamenia. ─ Breasts too small, and without milk. ─ Nipples retracted.

Respiratory Organs

Voice tremulous. ─ Altered voice; hoarseness. ─ Hoarseness and catarrh. ─ Sudden hoarseness, when walking against the wind. ─ Cough, with pain in chest, as if raw. ─ Cough with great soreness in the larynx or the chest. ─ Dry cough, with suspended respiration after a chill in the water. ─ Cough with or without expectoration when becoming warm in bed in evening, or when becoming warm from working. ─ Cough < , or only, when becoming warm in bed. ─ Hæmoptysis. ─ Cough during pregnancy. ─ Cough with expectoration of blood. ─ Dyspnœa. ─ Shortness of breath, esp. after a meal. ─ Obstructed respiration. ─ Difficult inhalation; hysteric asthma.

Chest

Contraction of throat like strangulation. ─ Oppression of chest, generally coming from epigastrium. ─ Fulness and distressing sensation of a load on chest. ─ Burning in chest; peculiar dead feeling and swelling. ─ Stitches in chest; tightness, spitting of blood.

Heart and Pulse

Palpitation of heart, sometimes with attacks of fainting (followed by sleep). ─ Quivering of heart. ─ Trembling, fluttering of heart, as from fright, fear, or sadness. ─ Paroxysms of palpitation after midnight as if heart were stopping and then beating violently, with loud belching, > drinking hot water and keeping warm; must walk about. ─ Oppression of heart extends to throat. ─ Feeling of rush of blood to heart, and thence to head and all over body. ─ Hysteria cordis. ─ Heart felt as if beating in a vacuum. ─ Feels as if her head would burst and her heart would be squeezed off. ─ Sensation as if something grasped heart. ─ Pulse small, slow, and weak. ─ Pulse accelerated.

Neck and Back

Drawing in muscles of nape, caused by damp air. ─ Neck so weak, head drops forward on chest. ─ Contusive pain in loins or back (as if broken or bruised). ─ Pain in small of back when riding in a carriage. ─ Bruised pain at side of lumbar vertebræ. ─ Great pressure in back, from within out, during menses. ─ Lassitude in loins and knees. ─ Tabes dorsalis.

Limbs

Drawing in limbs, esp. during repose, as after a chill. ─ Numbness in all limbs. ─ Sensation as if limbs floating in the air. ─ Pains in limbs and joints, and other symptoms in cold (damp) weather. ─ The symptoms are < by cold air and > by external heat.

Upper Limbs

Bad smell under arms and between breasts of women. ─ Rheumatism of l. shoulder. ─ In arms, creeping from below. ─ Steady drawing from fingers to shoulders. ─ As if a string tied round arms. ─ Cold hands as if frozen, with buzzing in hands on entering a room.

Lower Limbs

Great lassitude, esp. in loins and knees, as after a long journey, with inclination to sleep. ─ Pain in r. knee, as if sprained, esp. when moving and going up stairs. ─ Terrible pain in both legs as if bones smashed to pieces. ─ Dull pain in periosteum of r. tibia. ─ Feeling in calves as from a blow. ─ Cramp: in calves before going to sleep; in feet with inward burning. ─ Feet cold with appearance of menses. ─ Soles always wet. ─ Buzzing sensation in all toes as if frost-bitten, esp. metatarso-phalangeal joints, it spreads over soles to heels, with pain as if bruised from jumping.

Generalities

Digging and pressive pains, which pass from place to place, occupy only a small space, continue but a few moments, and soon return. ─ Rheumatic pains (from cold, damp air). ─ The pains come in points all over body, and are < on l. side (obs., R. T. C.). ─ Loss of sensation in different parts. ─ Apprehensive of paralysis (cured). ─ Creeping sensations down the limbs. ─ Fainting fits. ─ Hysterical paroxysms. ─ Convulsions (of children). ─ Convulsions: epileptic, with consciousness; children, with diarrhœa; catalepsy. ─ Anæmia. ─ Marasmus of children. ─ Sensation of dryness in inner parts; buzzing, humming, or "funny feeling" in body; dryness of skin. ─ < In the open air; in cold air, in cold and wet weather; when the weather changes, whether from dry and pleasant to wet, or vice versâ , until it becomes settled; in wet weather; in windy weather; lying on painful side. ─ > In the room; air being warm; in dry weather. ─ Coldness and fainting with pains; esp. headache. ─ Faints easily, from sight of blood, from standing (trying on dress). ─ Excessively painful sensitiveness of whole body; even on lying on a soft couch, every part which is undermost soon becomes painful. ─ Great agitation of muscular system. ─ Lassitude and necessity to lie down after the slightest fatigue. ─ Apoplexy. ─ Great lassitude, esp. in loins and knees, as after a long journey, with inclination to sleep.

Skin

Cold and dry skin, with but slight tendency to perspire. ─ Cold skin over whole body; skin very sensitive to cold, moist air. ─ Chilblains. ─ Old patch of psoriasis on metacarpal aspect of thumb goes away (R. T. C.). ─ Bluish spots on the skin. ─ Acne. ─ Freckles.

Sleep

Affections accompanied by a desire to sleep and a tendency to faint away. ─ Great sleepiness with all complaints, particularly with pains. ─ Starting in sleep, but does not always awake. ─ Starting in sleep like electric shocks with nightmare. ─ Dreams: of falling from high places; of being pursued. ─ Great drowsiness. ─ Coma somnolentum and heaviness. ─ Complaints causing sleepiness.

Fever

Pulse accelerated. ─ Great sensibility to cold air, which soon occasions shivering, with paleness of face. ─ Frequent shivering. ─ State of chilliness, as when suddenly cooled after perspiring, with pain in nape of neck and in all the bones. ─ Chilliness without thirst. ─ Chilliness whenever uncovering oneself, and chilliness in open, esp. wet, air; at once > in warm room. ─ Chilliness in evening with great drowsiness. ─ Chilliness and drowsiness predominate. ─ Heat without thirst; want of perspiration; no thirst. ─ Heat in face and hands in morning, with hypochondriac mood and thirstlessness and dryness of mouth and throat. ─ Intermittent fever with sleepiness and dryness of mouth and throat with thirstlessness. ─ Double tertian fever, with inclination to sleep, tongue white, rattling in throat, sanguineous expectoration, and moderate thirst, during heat. ─ Malignant fever, with putrid or colliquative diarrhœa. ─ Perspiration scanty, but at times red like blood. ─ Bloody sweat; hysterical.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

Constantine Hering · The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica · 1879–91

Mind

Stupor and insensibility ; unconquerable sleep.
Unconsciousness : after mental excitement ; especially just before menses ; thoughts vanish with fainting ; seemingly to her of a half hour's duration, but really only momentary.
Vanishing of thoughts while talking, reading or writing.
Gradual vanishing of thoughts while reading, ends in falling asleep.
Weakness or loss of memory.
Never accomplishes what he undertakes, but remains standing in one place, absent-minded ; appears quite changed to his companions.
Listless and indifferent ; would go out in the night and not return till searched out and brought back ; he was disposed to talk, to laugh and sing songs. θ Mental disorders.
Awakening as from complete absence of mind, does not know where he is nor what to answer.
Difficult comprehension.
Sluggish flow of ideas.
Gives answers which have not the least reference to questions put to him.
Great incoherency on attempting to express her ideas.
Uses wrong words, during headache.
While writing he omitted letters, wrote in different alphabets against his will, and changed from one subject to another.
Surroundings seemed changed ; fanciful, dreamy images ; does not recognize the known street.
Clairvoyancy.
The outer world had no existence for her ; automatically she attended to her household duties, and on awaking from this condition she had not the slightest recollection of what she had done ; if forcibly aroused she fell into violent
convulsions ; if unmolested she would usually, after finishing her work, go to bed and fall into a quiet sleep, from which she awoke after forty-eight hours, invigorated and unconscious of what had happened.
Short time seems very long to her.
Delirium, violent vertigo, strange gestures, loud, improper talk, sleeplessness.
Senselessness, intoxicated condition, with absence of mind.
Delirium tremens, slowness of senses, imaginary fancies ; awakens and knows not where he is ; laughter with stupid expression.
Inclination to laugh at everything, more in open air.
Imbecility.
Fitful mood, changing from deepest sorrow to most frolicsome behavior ; now grave, now gay.
Fickle ; irresolute and wavering in his undertakings.
Aware of danger, but no apprehension.
Had no power to resist being led anywhere, in evening.
As if drunk and sleepy ; drunken feeling in head ; drunken appearance.
After overtaxed mental powers : gastric complaints ; nervous irritation of intestinal canal ; hysteria.
The least exertion or mental excitement brought on somnolency.
Fright : causing trembling of heart, fear and sadness.

Sensorium

Dulness of head, especially of forehead.
Muddledness and vanishing of thoughts ; when rousing himself forcibly, he has to collect his thoughts.
Seemed intoxicated the whole day.
Vertigo : as if drunk, staggering ; with headache and nausea ; with lightness and emptiness of head ; reeling when walking in open air ; swimming in head ; weak, limbs numb, feels as if floating in air.
Giddy, with pressing heaviness, most in forehead.
Apoplexy ; nervous affections of brain.

Inner head

Forehead : dull ; feels as large again, as if pushed out ; pressing heaviness ; expansion ; beating ; heat.
Pain especially in temples ; on shaking head, wabbling as if brain struck against sides of head ; temples sensitive to touch, his head felt hot.
In temples : aching ; tearing.
Headache after breakfast, with sleepiness ; region of temples very sensitive to pressure ; whole brain feels loose ; > from heat ; < from damp cold, loud talking unawares ; drowsiness, with bewildered sensation from waking up.
Boring and heat over and in left eye ; heat on top of head and pain in occiput ; pressure on head > pain ; tongue coated yellow.
Heat and pressure on top of head ; pain over right eye, with sleepiness.
Sensation as if all vessels were pulsating, particularly on head, a throbbing pressing pain confined to small spots, principally to left supraorbital ridge.
Very violent, constricting, burning, stinging pains over r. eye, with redness of face, compression of lips and jaws ; when attacks are most violent, unconsciousness, with immobility of left leg ; face swelled ; speech lost, also
consciousness ; continually moving his hand to painful place ; head convulsively drawn from one side to the other, distorts his face.
Pain, driving asunder, pressing and stinging in occiput ; < by stepping from room into open air, still more in morning and mostly on stooping ; > from sitting and walking ; with it a tardy stool, disturbed sleep with many
dreams ; sore spots remaining where eruption was. θ Sequel to varicella.
Severe tearing in occiput, towards nape of neck.
Painless throbbing in head ; she is afraid to go to sleep.
Pulsation of arteries and daily headache.
Head felt full and expanded, but without pain.
Pressure from within out ; as if head would burst.
Soreness in head ; throbbing ; stinging ; expansion.
Congestive headache, during catamenia.
Headache from inward heat, with burning.
Sensation of looseness of brain when moving head or walking, > during cold weather and when sitting still ; < during hot weather ; dryness of eyes so great that she could not shut them, with greenish blue rings around them ; menstruation irregular, one time too early
and copious, the next too late and scanty ; hands and feet icy cold constantly ; tongue coated yellowish and dotted with red pimples ; dryness in throat ; alternately hard and soft stools.
Headache : with drowsiness ; from overtaxing mind ; after breakfast ; from disordered stomach ; from eating a little too much ; with nausea and vomiting ; from drinking wine ; of drunkards ; before menses ; from riding in a
carriage ; from water (and washing), or after getting wet in cold weather ; from change in weather ; after suppressed eruptions ; drawing from place to place ; going from left to right ; pain appears to be congestive ; soreness ; pressure ;
sensation as if head would burst ; seat of pain is not deep in brain, but immediately under cranial bones ; > when at rest, < from motion, stooping and shaking head ; feels her memory growing weaker.
Apoplexy ; softening or paralysis of brain.

Outer head

Sensitiveness of head as from soreness, especially sensitive to slightest touch, in a draft of air (wind), < in cold and from lying down ; > from hard pressure and from external heat. θ Nervous headache.
Moves head convulsively from side to side, distorts his face during attack of headache.
Convulsive motion of head from before backward, in such a manner that talking and swallowing are almost impossible ; severe tearing pains in occiput towards nape of neck ; face puffed and feet œdematous.
Head seemed bulky and rolled around almost uncontrollably, being obliged to bring to its support one or both hands while sitting at a table.
Could not bear to have her head raised from pillow, on account of deathly sickness produced thereby.
Complaints aggravated by shaking head.
Temples sensitive to touch and from lying on them ; < in wet, cold weather ; > from warmth.
Head drops forward while sitting.
Worse from shaking head.

Sight and eyes

Worse from light, from exerting vision ; > in dark.
Objects : look larger ; too close together ; very distant ; oblique ; vanish ; red ; seem to float before vision.
Motes before eyes.
Momentary blindness ; grasps head, it feels so strangely.
Pupils dilated and immovable or contracted, with sensation of fulness in eyes.
Staring.
On being aroused she looked up, with eyes blinking as if bewildered. θ During pregnancy.
Sensation as though she had been crying ; in evening.
Sensation of fulness in eyes, with contracted pupils.
Dryness of eyes ; too dry to close lids.
Lids heavy, stiff ; feels sick, faint.
Tension around eyes and in lids.
Drooping eyelids.
Pterygium over cornea.
Episcleritis, involving both eyes ; nodule over each external rectus, very large and painful.
Blue rings around eyes.

Hearing and ears

Oversensitiveness of hearing.
Buzzing or ringing in ears ; as if stopped up.
Tearing or stitches in ears ; stitches in left ear, < moving jaw.
Pain in eustachian tube as from a foreign body ; before wind and rain.

Smell and nose

Oversensitiveness of smell ; loss of smell.
Sneezing ; nose dry, stopped up, must breathe with mouth open.
Catarrh, < in cold, damp weather.
Nosebleed, blood usually dark, black.

Upper face

Foolish, childish, stupid, sleepy, debauched expression.
Agonized expression when recovering from a fainting fit.
Looks thin ; suffering expression ; blue around eyes ; deathly pale, < in damp air.
Eyes dull, heavy looking ; distressed look.
Face : pale ; hot ; puffed ; spotted ; freckled.
Burning, constricting, stinging over right eye ; face red, swollen ; lips and jaw compressed ; speech difficult.
Sensation of swelling of left cheek, with pricking as from electric sparks.

Lower face

Compression of jaws.
Cannot close jaws ; as if paralyzed.
Lips : swollen and sticking together ; burning.
Drawing mouth awry ; creeping.
Pustules with broad red borders on chin.

Teeth and gums

Severe throbbing pain in hollow molar tooth, next to last, in upper jaw, pain extends to neighboring teeth and ear ; aphthæ on soft palate ; < from cold, > from warmth. θ Toothache.
Pain in front teeth during pregnancy ; stinging, tearing ; < during cold, damp weather, from washing ; from touch or sucking teeth ; > from warmth.
Nightly tearing in teeth ; she cannot close jaws ; they are as if paralyzed.
Painfulness of teeth while eating.
Toothache and pain in nape of neck, from damp, cold night air ; it presses as if teeth were held in a grip.
Teeth seem to be loose.
Gums bleed ; scurvy.

Taste, speech, tongue

No taste ; victuals taste like sawdust.
In morning taste on tongue, as after having been tipsy.
Taste : earthy ; foul ; chalky ; bitter ; slimy ; sour ; as after salted food.
Speech rather difficult ; could not articulate distinctly ; tongue rolled in mouth like one intoxicated ; tongue felt numb.
Tongue : paralyzed ; child, though old enough, cannot talk, as if it were difficult to move tongue ; dry, feels as if gone to sleep or leather-covered ; dry at night or on awaking ; coated white or yellowish, dotted with red
papillæ ; at night, dry, as if it would fall into powder ; sticks to roof of mouth ; great complaint of its dryness, in reality not very dry.

Inner mouth

Mouth and tongue pasty and dry.
Mouth so dry that tongue sticks to roof, yet no thirst ; in evening.
Greatly troubled with dryness in mouth and throat while sleeping, always awakes with a very dry tongue, but without thirst.
Great dryness in mouth and throat, with violent thirst.
Saliva lessened ; feels like cotton in the mouth.
Saliva running together ; waterbrash before menses.
Bad smell from mouth ; tongue white.
Aphthæ of children.
Dryness of lips, palate and velum palati.

Palate and throat

Difficult swallowing, from paralysis of muscles of deglutition.
Dryness in throat posteriorly ; it feels stiffened ; no thirst.
Scratching down throat : when swallowing ; causes cough.
Sensation as if a piece of bacon were in throat.
Pain along eustachian tube as from a foreign body lodged there ; before a shower.
Sore throat, hoarseness, scratching, dryness.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Craving hunger or loss of appetite after a few mouthfuls.
No thirst, with dry mouth.

Eating and drinking

While eating, soon satisfied.
Eating a little too much causes headache.
After eating : toothache ; eructations ; pain in stomach ; increased pressure and distended abdomen ; want of breath ; cough loose ; lassitude.
After breakfast : colic.
After dinner : cramp in stomach ; stomach and abdomen distended ; painful urination ; drowsy.
After supper : painful urination.
After drinking : pain in abdomen ; dry cough.
Cold drink causes colic.
After drinking beer, increased pressure in stomach ; strangury.
Brandy had a kind of electrifying effect from roof of mouth downward in a straight line to feet.
Complaints < after alcohol.
Milk causes diarrhœa ; yeasty beer strangury.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Hiccough.
Nausea and waterbrash : with inclination to sleep ; while riding in a carriage ; during pregnancy.
Vomiting : spasmodic ; during pregnancy ; from irritation of pessaries ; and acid stomach ; flatulence.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Pressure in pit of stomach, as from incarcerated wind.
From pit of stomach : dyspnœa ; crawling to throat.
Scrobiculum painful to touch.
Oppression from pit of stomach to chest. θ Shock of injury.
Turning in stomach, with some nausea.
Pressure in stomach : with running of water from mouth (in hysteria) ; before catamenia.
Fulness in stomach : impeding breathing ; during pregnancy.
Distended stomach and abdomen : with sensation of warmth ; after a meal ; from least contradiction.
Feeling as though food formed itself into lumps with hard surfaces and angles, which caused soreness in stomach.
Heat and burning in stomach.
Weak digestion especially in the aged.
Irritation of stomach, from overtaxed mental powers.
Atony of digestion ; gastric catarrh with flatulent swelling ; voraciousness or loss of appetite ; twisting pains below stomach, as from colic ; severe pain in precordia, with vomiting ; wants to eat after taking a meal, but feels uncomfortable and tired ;
scratching eructations as from rancid oil ; arthritic and hysteric gastralgia.
Flatulent dyspepsia ; everything turns to wind ; great bloating of stomach, oppressing heart and lungs, and causing pain behind sternum ; only highly seasoned food can be digested ; especially in nervous subjects, hysterical and pregnant women ; unpleasant mental
emotions will bring on flatulence.
Dyspeptic symptoms come on while patient is still at table.
Retrocession of gout to stomach.

Hypochondria

Diaphragmitis ; oppression of chest, like a pressive load, dry cough, loss of breath ; from getting wet.
Thinks his liver is affected and that he will have to go to bed ; very sleepy and drowsy in daytime ; limbs feel numb ; no appetite ; tongue very dry ; much wind collects in stomach ; is very weak ; vertigo when walking.
"Liver-grown" children.
Enlarged liver ; bloody stools ; weight about liver ; pressure as from a sharp body or stones ; swollen feeling.
Chronic enlargement of liver, and particularly spleen, after tedious intermittent.
Spasmodic pain from right to left hypochondrium, then in a circle in lower part of abdomen, followed by diarrhœa.
Enlarged spleen ; loose bowels.
Stitches in spleen ; must bend double.

Abdomen and loins

Abdomen enormously distended ; after a meal.
Weight in upper part of abdomen ; lower part tense.
Moving about in abdomen, as though colic would occur.
Colic-like attacks in children, with transient paleness of face, lassitude, sleepiness and faintness.
Cutting, pinching in epigastrium and navel.
Colic : immediately after eating and < after drinking ; during day, with dry mouth and thirstlessness ; great sensitiveness to pressure, much bloating of abdomen ; > from hot wet cloths ; from incarcerated flatus ; in childbed ; with pain in
chest.
Marked irritation of intestinal canal, after extreme mental exertion ; enormous distension of stomach and abdomen ; < after dinner and from slightest mental emotion.
Cutting, pinching about navel, > from pressure ; flatulency, diarrhœa.
Sore ulcerated navel.
Umbilical hernia.
Bearing down pain in abdomen ; drawing in limbs.
Crampy, forcing down pains in bowels and anus.
Sensation of lump in lower abdomen. θ Uterine disease.
Abdomen tender, in pregnancy.

Stools and rectum

Stool : soft, but difficult to pass ; rectum inactive ; slow ; thin, yellow, like beaten or stirred eggs ; undigested ; or like chopped eggs, with loss of appetite and great sleepiness, in Summer with children ;
slimy, with slimy taste in mouth and great drowsiness from drinking too much water ; profuse, watery, in cool, damp weather ; exhausting, thin, yellow, soaking into diaper (dentition) ; bloody in putrid typhus.
Constipation : from inactivity of bowels ; in women who are disposed to faint or who bolt their food ; with oppression ; with debility ; alternating with diarrhœa.
Urging to stool as if a diarrhœa would set in.
Diarrhœa : with loss of appetite and great sleepiness ; with indomitable disposition to sleep ; stools offensive, copious, < at night ; with disposition to faint ; chronic ; rheumatic ; in Summer
of the worst kind from cold drinks ; after boiled milk ; from debility or from getting cold ; with collapse, particularly in typhoid ; during approach of cholera ; epidemic in the Fall, discharges white, of exceedingly bad smell, want of
appetite, but frequent thirst.
Chronic diarrhœa during pregnancy, with fainting and unusual sluggish flow of ideas ; it takes her a long time to answer any simple question.
Epidemic cholera ; dysentery.
Hemorrhage from bowels during typhus ; patient reduced to verge of grave.
Worm affections in children, with sleepiness and cutting bellyache.
Passing of fetid flatus. θ Typhoid fever.
Protrusion of piles.
Before stool : cutting.
During stool : urging ; stitches in anus ; acrid feeling in rectum ; painful constriction in anus and rectum ; pressing in hypogastrium ; distended feeling ; sleepiness.
After stool : acrid feeling in anus ; sensation as if more stool would pass ; drowsiness ; painful constriction in anus and rectum.

Urinary organs

Renal colic and discharge of calculi.
Tenesmus of bladder.
Pain from stone in bladder.
Incontinence of urine.
Urging at night, with scanty emission.
Urine : scanty and high colored.
Burning, cutting in urethra when passing water.

Male sexual organs

Inclined to coitus, but genitals are relaxed.
Seminal emissions.

Female sexual organs

Spasmodic labor-like pains.
Flatulent distension of uterus.
Uterus displaced ; mouth and throat dry ; sleepy, faint ; abdomen enormously distended after a meal ; pressure in back outward.
Sensation of a lump in left lower abdomen ; anteversion.
Relieves pain and vomiting caused by pessaries.
Prolapsus uteri et vagina ; sterility ; leucorrhœa.
Loud talking and bewildered manner, drowsiness ; moist skin with coldness. θ Pelvic congestion.
Menorrhagia ; blood thick and dark, with such as have had catamenia very irregularly.
Metrorrhagia : bearing down in abdomen and drawing in legs ; drowsiness and fainting ; blood thick and dark ; threatening abortion.
Menses too early and profuse, with an intolerable dryness of mouth, tongue and throat ; excessive disposition to laugh, particularly in open air. θ Menorrhagia.
Violent pains low down in back, with debility, pressure in stomach, waterbrash, pain in liver, all preceding the flow, which is thick and black ; objects appear too distant and grow larger on looking at them ; dry mouth and tongue on
awakening ; slowness of ideas ; dulness of senses ; absentmindedness. θ Dysmenorrhœa.
Hysterical women who suffer at their menstrual periods ; subject to dental neuralgias ; sleepy most of time ; sleep at night does not rest them sufficiently. θ Dysmenorrhœa.
During menses : great pressure in back from within outward, abdominal bearing down and drawing into limbs ; lassitude, headache, pressing in stomach, with running of water from mouth ; pain in liver ; straining in hypogastrium and drawing pain in limbs ; great
irritation of pelvic viscera ; ovaries and uterus swollen and sensitive to pressure.
Menses preceded by pain in small of back, as if a piece of wood, stretched across there, were pressing from within outward. θ Dysmenorrhœa.
At the time when menses ought to appear, violent congestions to chest and neck ; felt as if head would burst and heart would be squeezed off ; violent stitches as if a knife were plunged into chest and head ; frequently unconsciousness
and epileptic convulsions ; was bled once a month, which made her so weak that she could scarcely attend to household duties ; after mental excitement, especially a short time before catamenia, vertigo, vanishing of thoughts and fainting, from which she recovered in a few moments,
without, however, being fully conscious ; the outer world had no existence for her ; automatically she attended to her household duties, and on awakening from this condition she had not the slightest recollection of what she had done ; if forcibly aroused she had violent
convulsions ; at times she was in a clairvoyant state and answered questions correctly entirely out of her sphere ; on returning to consciousness she was perfectly ignorant of what she had said ; pulse small and weak ; slight nun's murmur in carotid ; general
lassitude ; tired feeling in knees as from a long journey ; great sleepiness, with dizziness as if drunk ; does not know where she is ; dreaminess, with closing of eyes ; weak memory ; forgetfulness ; absence of mind ; gradual vanishing of thoughts
when reading ; does not carry out resolutions, but remains standing thoughtlessly on one spot ; appears to herself as if chained to her surroundings.
Menses : irregular in time and quantity ; too early and profuse ; too late, preceded by pain in back ; flow generally dark, thick ; bearing down in abdomen, with drawing in limbs ; pains from small of back downward ;
limbs feel weak, ache ; pain in small of back as if a piece of wood were lying crosswise and being pressed out ; pain in uterus at outset ; tension in hypogastrium ; unconquerable drowsiness ; profuse, with fainting, drowsiness ; mouth dry ; hysteric
laughter, < in open air ; scanty or suppressed, from fright, from debility, a cold, overexertion, in hysteria ; cramp low down in abdomen, constriction in bowels ; sharp stitches in left lower abdomen, < when sitting.
Last day of menstrual flow took a bath, which checked it and caused intense pain below navel, extending to hip and thighs and accompanied by pain in back just above hip ; pain intense like labor pains ; patient fainted when pain became most severe, recovering with a start and
an agonized expression of countenance.
Leucorrhœa : in place of menses ; in women who always awaken with a very dry tongue ; with indigestion.
Flatus from vagina.
Mamma too small.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

During pregnancy : < from fright, anger, etc. ; toothache ; nausea and vomiting ; difficult stool ; dyspnœa, with upward pressure ; fainting ; drowsiness ; skin dry, cold ; abdomen sensitive.
During third month of pregnancy, nausea and vomiting, was hysterical and nervous, turned deathly pale or faint on slightest excitement ; was so faint in these attacks that she could hardly speak.
Threatened abortion ; hysterical females disposed to fainting, feel chilly and catch cold easily ; fears she will abort ; continued and obstinate flooding.
During sixth week of pregnancy received a severe kick in lower part of abdomen from a child who was sleeping with her, next day after getting feet wet by being exposed to a rainstorm, severe paroxysmal colicky pains all over abdomen ; could not
keep her feet quiet one moment, in fact she was restless all over ; semisanguinous, foul-smelling discharge from vagina, with bearing-down pains, begged for something to make her sleep, feeling so drowsy and still unable to sleep. θ Abortion.
Labor-pains, false, weak ; spasmodic, irregular ; drowsy, faint spells, pains being too weak.
Eclampsia ; head jerked forward ; especially hysterical women, who easily faint and suffer from great languor in back and knees ; drowsy before and after spasms.
In puerperal convulsions, particularly when there is a convulsive motion of head, from behind forward.
After delivery : flatulence with labor-like pains ; uterus remains uncontracted ; anteversion.
Mamma too small ; retracted nipples.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Girl, æt. 2, with apparently perfectly developed vocal organs, was unable to talk or even lisp baby-talk ; there seemed to be a constriction somewhere about vocal organs.
Hysterical aphonia, with gastro-intestinal and cardiac derangements.
Hoarseness < from walking against wind.
Hysterical affections of air passages.
Catarrh and rawness of trachea from taking cold.

Respiration

Breath short after eating ; sudden loss of breath.
Loss of breath when standing in water.
Sudden loss of breath, with cough.
Suffocative sensation.
Sudden obstruction of breath ; panting and difficult breathing.
Difficult inhalation ; hysteric asthma.
Difficult breathing : from oppression of chest, from weight on chest ; from fulness in stomach ; during pregnancy.
Dyspnœa, with feeling of weight in chest.
Oppression of breathing proceeding from pit of stomach.
Constrictive feeling in muscles of chest.
Chest as if too narrow, after cold washing.
Desire to expand chest and to take a long breath.
On inhalation pain in chest, hurts diaphragm.
Wheezing on chest, snoring breathing ; rattling in chest.

Cough

Cough : dry, with sudden loss of breath ; barking ; hacking during pregnancy ; excited by scratching in throat, crawling in upper part of windpipe ; on getting warm in bed ; standing in water, bathing ; getting
overheated ; living in cold, damp places ; loose after eating, dry after drinking ; dry, nervous, hysterical ; during pregnancy.
Dry, irritating cough, beginning usually in afternoon and lasting until evening and all night, while during forenoon she was tolerably free ; by degrees there set in great restlessness, increased fever, sleeplessness, annoying dryness of mouth, shortness of breath and severe
pressing pain in front of chest, < from deep respiration ; remarkable sleepiness, with imperfect speech as if it were difficult to move tongue. θ Scarlatina.
Cough dry after drinking, rather loose after eating, only during day.
Sputa : bloody, dark ; slimy, saltish ; must swallow loosened phlegm.
Catarrh.
Hæmoptysis.
Cough with great soreness in larynx or chest.

Inner chest and lungs

Oppression of chest and rush of blood to heart.
Weight, pressure on chest, < on falling asleep at night or waking from a siesta.
Full feeling in upper part of chest, preventing a deep breath.
Pale, sunken face ; rapid, short, superficial breathing ; short cough with rattling of mucus, yet unable to expectorate ; very rapid, small soft pulse ; heat ; thirst ; dryness of mouth ; burning pain in chest above pit of stomach ; great
weakness ; frequent attacks of oppression of chest with rapid respiration and a sensation as if mucus obstructed lungs ; violent palpitation, faintlike weakness and inability to speak ; extensive coarse rales in region of right shoulder blade. θ Affection
of chest after abortion.
Stitches : in chest, tightness, spitting of blood.
Darting in forepart of chest, shooting upward in an oblique direction and arresting breathing.
Crawling and tickling in right upper chest, in morning ; causes cough.
Burning in chest ; peculiar dead feeling and swelling.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Trembling, fluttering of heart, as from fright, fear or sadness.
Palpitation : with fainting, followed by sleep ; hysteric, with weak, small pulse and irregularity in heartbeat ; paroxysms after midnight, as if heart were stopping and then beating violently, with loud belching, > drinking hot water and
keeping warm ; must walk about.
Oppression of heart extends to throat.
Feeling as if blood were rushing to heart, thence to head and then all over body.
Sensation as if something grasped heart.
Feels as if her head would burst and her heart be squeezed off.
Violent action of heart.
Hysteria cordis.
Pulse : small, weak ; nun's murmur in carotids ; frequent, trembling, accelerated after wine ; intermits, intervals so long that they excite fear of death.

Outer chest

On moving arm, a pain in region of pectoralis muscle as from a blow, < from touch and pressure.
Constrictive pains in muscles of chest.

Neck and back

Nape of neck constricted.
Drawing pain in muscles of neck from draft of damp air.
Eruption spreading from face to neck.
Great pressure in back, from within outward, during menses.
Pain between shoulders and along spine.
Pressure in back outward, with displaced uterus.
Pains now in back, now in sacrum, knees very tired ; < during rest ; lumbago.
Backache while riding in a carriage.
Pain in small of back : with weakness of knees and legs ; as if a piece of wood lying crosswise were being pressed out ; as from a blow.
Pain from small of back downward.
From lower part of spine aching pain upward, with stiffness, < in damp weather ; temples compressed as if in a vise.
Pain in back just above hips ; checked catamenia.
Pain in lumbar muscles as from a blow of the fist.
Pain in sacrum when riding in a carriage.
Tabes dorsalis.

Upper limbs

Rheumatism affecting left deltoid ; pain in l. shoulder as if it contained lead.
Pressing pain in both shoulders.
Tearing rheumatic pain in right shoulder.
Bad smell under arms and between breasts of women.
In arms creeping from below.
As if a string were tied around arms.
On flexor side of upper arm, shoulder and elbow joints, stinging pain, seems to be seated in bloodvessels.
Pain in left upper arm, near middle and elbow, as from hard pressure of a grasping hand.
Numbness and fulness of hands, evening ; trembling and weakness of hands.
Hands feel cold as if frozen, with tingling under nails, on entering warm room.
Felt as if all blood had rushed to her hands, as though a string was tied tightly around arms.
Violent pain in right middle finger, as if on bone.
Pain as if sprained in joints of little finger of left hand, when closing it, in morning.
Steady drawing from fingers to shoulders.

Lower limbs

Pain in hips from cold.
Acute lumbago ; pains now in back, now in sacrum, with great tiredness in knees, < in rest.
Loins and legs as if bruised and weak.
Painful drawing in thighs here and there.
Flexor muscles of right thigh painful when walking ; when touched they feel as though he had had a fall, or as from riding horseback.
When crossing thighs a feeling of dulness in right one, followed by a sensation as if left one were going to sleep, as if blood were going there, with prickling.
Violent pains in right leg, extending from hip to knee, along posterior part, awaking her from sleep at 12 P. M., and continuing for several hours ; attacks several nights in succession, then discontinued for a longer or shorter time ; finally these
free intervals became less, she was no longer free from pain and became very lame ; when sitting quietly pain would suddenly appear ; a sudden motion or jar would cause great suffering, and care was constantly required on beginning to move ; scarcely one night in a week would
be passed quietly ; after least exposure neuralgia of left side of face ; great irritability, easily moved to tears, or great hilarity alternated. θ Sciatica, probably hysterical, and
due to retrolateral version of uterus.
Legs tired as after a long journey, must move legs from place to place.
Heaviness and coldness in legs.
Immobility of left leg.
A hindrance in left leg ; she walked as if treading on hard pease.
Right knee pains as if wrenched or sprained, on moving, and especially on going up-stairs.
Sensation in anterior part of right knee, as if someone grasped it, a kind of lacing.
Staggers on walking, often falls ; weakness of small of back and knees.
Pain in legs from knees to ankles, as if bone had been smashed, could hardly walk.
Dull drawing pain in periosteum of right tibia.
Feeling in calves as from a blow.
Cramps of calves before going to sleep.
Feet cold with appearance of menses.
Cramps in feet, with inward burning.
Boring in right big toe, after lying down. θ Gout.
Digging, pressing pain in middle of soles ; in morning.
Soles always wet.
Buzzing sensation in all toes, as if they were frostbitten, especially at metatarso-phalangeal articulations ; it spreads over soles to heels, with pain as if bruised from jumping.

Limbs in general

Wandering digging, pressing pains, confined to small spots ; lasting but a short time ; soon returning.
Muscular rheumatism, from protracted exposure to cold and damp ; fugitive, drawing pains ; < in repose, from cold, damp air and cold, wet clothes ; > from warmth.
Rheumatism of left shoulder and right hip.

Rest. position. motion

Rest : headache > ; bellyache ; backache < ; rheumatism <.
Lying down : head < ; boring in right big toe.
When head is raised from pillow : deathly sickness.
Cannot close jaws : toothache.
Stooping : pain in occiput <.
Must support head with hands : when sitting at table.
When crossing thighs : feeling of dulness in right one.
When closing little finger : pain.
Sitting : > pain in occiput ; looseness of brain > ; pain in abdomen < ; sudden pains in right thigh.
Must bend double : stitches in spleen.
Least exertion : fatigue.
Motion : headache < ; of head, as if brain were loose ; of jaw < pain in ear ; of arm pain in region of pectoral muscles ; sudden, causes pain in right thigh.
Shaking head : wabbling of brain ; headache <.
Must move about : restlessness.
Walking : reeling ; pain in occiput ; as if brain were loose ; almost impossible, from weakness ; > palpitation ; pain in muscles of right thigh ; pain in right knee.
Going up-stairs : right knee pains.

Nerves

Restless, must move about.
Staggers in walking ; falls often.
Great languor.
Lassitude, even talking tired him.
Feels as if she had to gather up all her strength. θ Hysteria.
Fatigue, feels as if he must lie down, after least exertion ; sleepy ; chilly, pale face.
Drowsiness ; torpor ; lethargy.
Sickly, faint sensation.
Disposition to faint ; also from pains even when slight.
Stiff and fainty, with palpitation of heart.
Fainting, with palpitation of heart, followed by sleep.
As if he had been electrified, it goes in a straight line from roof of mouth downward, towards his feet, afterwards diffused over whole body.
At times in a state of clairvoyance, answers questions accurately on subjects entirely out of her sphere, on returning to consciousness is ignorant of what she has said.
Difficult nervous affections springing from catarrh.
Trembling : in hands ; from cold ; inner more than outer parts.
Anxiety in body, with disposition to trembling. θ Typhoid fever.
Nervous erethism. θ Mania a potu.
Spasms, hysterics in inner parts ; chronic hysteric fits ; convulsive motions.
Marked muscular erethism, especially of extremities ; simulating chorea.
Jactitation of muscles ; chorea ; jerks in inner parts in muscles ; recovers with a start.
Spasms of children ; better suited to those of feeble constitution and scrofulous diathesis, frequently troubled with diarrhœa from debility ; violent palpitation of heart.
Convulsive motion of head from behind forward. θ Puerperal convulsions.
Unconscious, rigid ; slow, heavy breathing ; writhing in clonic spasm ; opisthotonos.
Epilepsy, with consciousness.
Catalepsy.
Violent convulsions when forcibly aroused from her trance.
Continually and automatically he moved his hands to painful places (over right eye).
Paralysis : with spasms and trembling ; of tongue, of eyelids, œsophagus ; with mental listlessness.
Hysteria : exhausted from least effort ; after intermittent ; after typhus abdominalis ; with disturbance in sexual functions ; with strangury ; catamenia too late and scanty, with sensation in sacral region as if a stick
of wood was lying across, with headache, weariness, pressure in stomach, water running from mouth, and pain in liver ; blood from vagina thicker and darker ; leucorrhœa at right time of catamenia ; cardiac ; palpitation with fainting and insensibility ; with quickly
changing mood, great sleepiness and disposition to faint ; with globus hystericus.
Hysterical headache, with weakness, fainting, tetanic spasms.
Constant sleepiness ; skin cool and sensitive to exposure ; oppression of pit of stomach to chest, slow rattling breathing ; least exertion causes great weakness and sleepiness ; diarrhœa. θ Shock
from injuries.
Progressive locomotor ataxy, if disease was occasioned by exposure to cold and wet and in rheumatic subjects.

Sleep

Complaints cause sleepiness ; irresistibly drowsy ; sleepy, muddled, as if intoxicated ; coma, lies silent, immovable ; eyes constantly closed ; strange feeling on waking.
Great sleepiness, with great inclination to laughter.
Restless sleep, from congestion to heart or head, with uterine complaints.
Starts in sleep but does not always waken, with shocks as if electricity were passing through her body.

Time

Morning : pain in occiput < ; taste as after having been tipsy, crawling in chest ; pain in left little finger ; pressing pain in soles ; chill ; great dryness of throat.
Day : seemed intoxicated ; sleepy and drowsy ; pain in abdomen ; cough dry after drinking, loose after eating.
Afternoon : cough begins and lasts until evening.
Evening : had no power to resist being led anywhere ; eyes feel as though she had been crying ; dryness of tongue ; numbness and fulness of hands ; fainting >.
Night : tongue very dry ; diarrhœa < ; stools < ; urging ; sleep does not rest ; cough ; pressure on chest <.
P. M. : pain in right limb.
After midnight : as if heart were stopping.

Temperature and weather

Heat : headache > ; external head > ; Summer, stools <.
Hot weather : loose feeling of brain <.
Warmth : toothache > ; of bed, cough < ; palpitation > ; rheumatism ; chilliness >.
Entering warm room : hands feel as if frozen.
Hot water : drinking > palpitation.
From uncovering : chilliness.
Open air : reeling ; from room into, pain in occiput < ; disposition to laugh.
Draft of air : head sensitive ; pain in muscles of neck.
Change in weather : headache.
Walking against wind : hoarseness <.
Wind and rain : pain in ears.
Damp weather : pain along spine <.
Getting wet : diaphragmitis ; severe colicky pains.
Before a shower : pain along eustachian tube.
Water : headache from washing ; toothache < standing in, loss of breath, cough ; cold washing, chest as if too narrow.
A bath : checked menstrual flow.
Damp, cold : headache < ; catarrh < ; profuse, watery stools ; rheumatism <.
Cold weather : looseness of brain > ; when getting wet, headache ; head <.
Cold : toothache < ; drinks, diarrhœa ; cough.

Fever

Chilliness : with pale face in open, especially damp, cold air ; from uncovering ; > in warm room ; without thirst.
Coldness commencing in left arm and lower limbs.
Desire to sleep between chills, if left alone.
Skin cold and blue all over body.
Sensation of coldness in feet, with heat in hands.
Sweat : red or bloody ; with drowsiness ; with dislike to be uncovered.
Want of sweat ; skin cool and dry.
Chill in morning, two hours earlier every other day ; awakens bright, becomes thirsty, after a little time falls asleep, has a marked chill, blue nails, fingers and tips, followed by high fever, flushed face, somewhat restless, then profuse and
general sweat, after which she awakens in good spirits ; profound sleep during all the stages. θ Intermittent.
Apparently nervous chills ; they came on every morning about 7 o'clock ; as the chill progressed patient became very drowsy, and at close of chill fell asleep ; this sleep continued through fever which was very light ; great dryness of throat on awaking in morning. θ Intermittent.
Profound coma, lying silent, immovable, insensible ; difficult comprehension ; slowness of ideas, dwells long on her answer or does not answer at all ; very deaf ; putrid diarrhœa ; rolling, rumbling and gurgling in
bowels ; a dreamy state with drowsiness and falling of eyelids ; dryness of mouth, tongue and throat, with fulness of stomach and loss of appetite ; in evening dryness is so great that tongue sticks to roof of mouth, yet there is no thirst ; should often be used in place
of Phos. ac. θ Typhoid fever.

Attacks, periodicity

Every morning at 7 : nervous chills.
Daily : headache.
Nightly : tearing in teeth.
Every other day two hours earlier : chill.
Several days succession in morning : bellyache.
Several nights in succession : pain in right limb.
Summer : diarrhœa.
Fall : epidemic diarrhœa.

Locality and direction

Right : pain over eye ; extensive coarse rales in region of shoulder blade ; crawling and tickling in upper part of chest ; rheumatic pain in shoulder ; violent pain in middle finger ; flexor muscles of thigh painful ; dulness in thigh ;
violent pain in limb ; pain in knee ; as if some one grasped knee ; dull drawing pain in periosteum of tibia ; boring in big toe ; rheumatism of hip.
Left : boring and heat over eye ; supraorbital ridge, pain ; immobility of leg ; stitches in ear ; sensation of swelling of cheek ; sensation of lump in abdomen ; pain in shoulder ; rheumatism in deltoid ; pain in arm ; sprained pain in
joint of left hand, as if thigh was going to sleep ; neuralgia of face ; hindrance in leg ; rheumatism of shoulder ; coldness of arm.
From left to right : headache ; bellyache.
From right to left : spasmodic pain in hypochondrium.
From before backward : convulsive movement of head.
From behind forward : movement of head.
From within out : pressure in head ; pressure in back.

Sensations

As if drunk ; limbs as if floating in air ; forehead feels as large again ; forehead as if pushed out ; as if brain struck against side of head ; as if all vessels were pulsating ; as if head would burst ; brain as if loose ; eyes feel
as if she had been crying ; ears as if stopped up ; pain as of a rough body in eustachian tube ; pricking as of electric sparks on cheek ; jaws as if paralyzed ; as if teeth were held in a grip ; teeth as if loose ; as if tongue would stick to palate, as if
she had eaten herring ; as if a piece of bacon were in throat ; as of incarcerated wind in stomach ; as if food had formed itself into lumps in stomach ; as if bellyache would set in ; pain as if from diarrhœa ; as if it were full of knots ; as of lump in
abdomen ; as if diarrhœa would set in ; as if more stool would pass ; as if a piece of wood stretched across small of back were pressing from within outward ; as if heart would be squeezed off ; as if a knife were plunged into chest ; chest as if too
narrow ; as if it were difficult to move tongue ; as if mucus obstructed lungs ; as if heart were stopping ; as if blood were rushing to heart, thence to head and then all over body ; as if something grasped heart ; temples as if in a vise ; pain in lumbar
muscles as from a blow of a fist ; as if left shoulder contained lead ; as if a string were tied around arms ; as of a grasping hand in upper arm ; hands as if frozen ; as if all blood had rushed to her hands ; pain as if on bone of middle finger ; joints
of little finger as if sprained ; loins and legs as if bruised ; as if he had fallen on right thigh or as from riding on horseback ; as if left thigh were going to sleep, as if blood were going there, with pricking ; left leg caused her to walk as if on pease ; right
knee as if sprained or wrenched ; as if one grasped anterior part of right knee, a kind of lacing ; as if bone from knees to ankles had been smashed to pieces ; as of a blow on calves ; as if toes were frostbitten ; pain in soles as if bruised from jumping ; as
if she had to gather up all her strength ; fatigued as if he must lie down ; as if he had been electrified ; muddled, as if intoxicated ; glands feel as if swollen ; parts on which he lies as if sore.
Pain : in temples ; over right eye ; in eustachian tube ; in front teeth ; in stomach ; in abdomen ; behind sternum ; in bowels ; in chest ; low down in back ; in liver ; in uterus ; in chest ; in region of pectoral
muscle ; between shoulders and along spine ; in left shoulder ; in upper arm ; in hips ; in neck bones.
Violent pain : in right middle finger ; in right limb.
Intense pain : below navel, extending to hips and thighs.
Severe pain : in precordia.
Tearing : in temples ; in occiput ; towards nape of neck ; in ears ; in teeth.
Pinching pains : in epigastrium and umbilical region.
Cutting : in epigastrium and umbilical region ; in urethra.
Darting : in forepart of chest.
Shooting : upward in an oblique direction through chest.
Boring : over and in left eye ; in right big toe.
Beating : in forehead.
Throbbing : in head ; in hollow molar tooth.
Throbbing pressing pain : in small spots, principally to left supraorbital ridge.
Stitches : in ears ; in spleen ; in heart ; in anus ; in left lower abdomen ; in chest.
Stinging pain : over right eye ; in occiput ; in teeth ; in upper arm, shoulder and elbow joints.
Pricking : on left cheek.
Driving-asunder pain : in occiput.
Tearing rheumatic pain : in right shoulder.
Severe colicky pains : all over abdomen.
Twisting pain : below stomach.
Spasmodic pain : from right to left hypochondrium.
Forcing-down pain : in bowels and anus.
Digging pressing pain : in middle of soles ; in limbs.
Griping : under stomach.
Bearing-down pain : in abdomen.
Constricting pain : over right eye ; in anus and rectum ; in muscles of chest.
Burning pain : over right eye ; in bowels ; in chest.
Burning : of lips ; in stomach ; in urethra ; in feet.
Soreness : in head ; of throat ; of navel ; in larynx ; in chest.
Rheumatism : of left deltoid ; of left shoulder and right hip.
Neuralgia : of left side of face.
Cramp : in stomach ; in abdomen ; of calves ; in feet.
Pressing pain : in occiput ; in head ; in front of chest ; in shoulders.
Aching : in temples ; in belly ; of parts on which he lies.
Drawing : in head from place to place ; around in abdomen ; in limbs ; in legs ; in muscles of neck ; from fingers to shoulders ; in thighs here and there ; in periosteum of right tibia.
Heat : in forehead ; on top of head ; over and in left eye ; in stomach.
Sensitiveness : of head.
Acrid feeling : in anus ; in rectum.
Scratching : in throat.
Tickling : in right upper chest.
Creeping : in arms.
Crawling : from pit of stomach to throat ; in windpipe.
Dryness : of eyes ; in throat ; of mouth ; of tongue ; of lips ; of palate ; of velum palati ; of nose ; of inner parts.
Buzzing sensation : in all toes.
Trembling fluttering : of heart.
Lightness, emptiness : of head.
Numbness : of hands.
Dead feeling : in chest.
Dulness : of head ; of forehead.
Expansion : in forehead.
Pressing heaviness : in forehead.
Pressure : in forehead ; in stomach ; in pit of stomach ; in hypogastrium ; in back.
Pulsation : of arteries.
Fulness : in head ; in pupils ; of stomach ; in upper part of chest ; of hands.
Oppression : from pit of stomach to chest ; of chest ; of heart to throat.
Constriction : about vocal organs ; in muscles of chest ; of nape of neck.
Tension : around eyes and in lids ; in hypogastrium.
Weight : in upper part of abdomen ; on chest.
Heaviness : of lids ; in legs.
Weakness : of knees ; of back ; of legs ; of hands ; of small of back.
Tired feeling : in knees.
Great languor : in back and knees.
Coldness : in hands ; in legs ; in left arm.

Tissues

Dryness of eyes, nose, lips, mouth, tongue and throat, or at least feeling of dryness.
Mucous membranes inflamed ; increased mucous secretion ; roughness of inner parts ; ailments after losses of blood.
Want of blood, anemia.
Glands feel as if swollen or are relaxed ; scrofulosis ; old ulcers on legs.
Rachitis, scrofula and atrophy.
All the parts on which he lies ache as if sore.
Pain in neck, bones, and generally as if after taking cold in copious perspiration, with pressing in forehead.
Rheumatism or rheumatic pain consequent upon taking cold, particularly from exposure to drafts of air while heated ; pains are fugitive in character, now here now there ; < in cold or wet weather, or by application of cold or wet cloths ; > in warm, dry weather and
from warm applications.
Rheumatism after getting feet wet.
Marasmus of little children.
Puffiness ; swellings ; dropsy of outer parts.
Lameness of inner organs ; hard parts feel soft.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Touch : temples sensitive ; headache sensitive ; toothache < ; scrobiculum painful ; pain in pectoral muscles < ; muscles of right thigh feel as if he had fallen.
Pressure : temples very sensitive ; > pain ; hard, > head ; abdomen very sensitive ; pinching about navel > ; ovaries and uterus sensitive ; pain in pectoral muscles <.
Lying on parts : causes soreness.
Pain and vomiting caused by pessaries >.
Riding in carriage : headache ; nausea and waterbrash ; backache.
Severe kick in abdomen : severe colicky pains.
Shock of injury : oppression from pit of stomach to chest.

Skin

Sensitiveness of skin, especially to cold, damp air.
Skin cold, dry, not disposed to sweat.
Anasarca, dropsy of external parts.
Blue spots on skin.
Irregular red scaling patches on face and neck during congestions, at time of menses.
Complaints after suppressed eruptions.
Ulcerations of skin, painful ; with hysterical patients.

Stage of life, constitution

Suits children and women (particularly during pregnancy), and all people with a cool, dry skin, who do not easily perspire.
Corresponds to the weakness of old age ; dyspepsia of old people.
Constitutions with soft, straight hair, more than crisp and curly.
Girl, æt. 14 mos., bright, healthy appearance ; intermittent.
Girl, æt. 2 ; undeveloped speech.
Girl, æt. 10, delicate ; episcleritis.
Girl, æt. 17, during course of scarlet fever ; cough, sleepiness, difficult speech.
Girl, æt. 18, blonde, blue eyes, very mild temperament ; sensation of looseness in brain.
Miss C., æt. 19 ; sciatica.
Woman, æt. 22, single, suffering eight days ; toothache.
Marquis of E., æt. 24, nervous temperament, good constitution, suffering six years ; affection of head.
Woman, æt. 29, miner's wife with four children ; affection of mind.
Mrs. F., æt. 32, delicate constitution, catches cold easily, suffered with laryngeal symptoms for seven years, but finally cured by Sulph., latterly was attacked by laryngeal spasms, which were relieved by Canth., then remained well for a year ; toothache and affection of stomach.
A demoiselle, æt. 32, cured three years ago of ascites (from enlargement of liver), suffering since two months ; convulsive motions of head.
Women, æt. 34, very nervous temperament, good constitution, extraordinary mental powers, which she, however, overtaxed, suffering eighteen months ; nervous irritation of digestive canal.
Woman, æt. 34, nervous temperament, after extreme mental exertion ; irritation of intestinal canal.
Mrs. W., æt. 34, prematurely confined, four months ago, child stillborn ; red appearance of white objects.
Mrs. C., æt. 35, subject to hemorrhage from rectum, cured a year ago by Sulph. ; pregnant, four months ; pelvic congestion.
Mrs. O. K., æt. 35, last day of menstrual flow took a bath ; suppression of menses.
Mrs. D., æt. 35, pregnant six weeks, after receiving severe kick in abdomen from child while in bed, and exposure to rainstorm next day ; threatened abortion.
Mrs. S., Jewess, æt. 42, married to her second husband, had in her first marriage two children, and was vigorous and healthy ; shortly after second marriage, at age of 32, took cold which was followed by suppression of menses ; attacks of somnolence.
Farmer, æt. 60, bilious temperament, sick one month ; affection of liver.
Woman, æt. 70, still active ; gastralgia.
Country woman, formerly robust and blooming, recently aborted in fifth month, afterbirth had not passed and she was suffering from labor-like pains, Pulsat. caused afterbirth to be discharged next day, however, heat, thirst, cough and inclination to vomit set in, for which Bryon. was
ineffectual ; affection of chest.
Colored woman ; drowsiness.
Mrs. B., middle-aged, strong, dark complexion, suffering four weeks ; headache.

Relations

Antidoted by Camphor., Semen capi Lauroc., Gelsem., Nux vom., Opium, Zincum, Valerian .
It antidotes : Arsen., Lauroc., Rhodo ., mercurial inhalations, lead colic, oil of turpentine, spiritous liquors, bad beers.
Compatible : Lycop., Nux vom., Pulsat., Rhus tox., Stramon., Tart. em .
Compare : Ambra, Asaf., Ant. tart . (sensations), Arsen . (fevers), Bellad., Camphor., Coccul . (sides of body), Conium, Ignat . (sides of
body, chalky taste), Lauroc., Lycop . (skin), Moschus, Nux vom . (sides of body, motions and sensations), Opium (mind, fever), Phosphor., Pulsat .
(internal organs), Rhus tox . (motions), Sassaf., Sepia (sides of body), Silic . (modalities), Spigel . (fever), Stramon .
(mind), Sulphur .

Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

James Tyler Kent · Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Séror HTML text (Kent d. 1916; public domain)

Lecture

This is not a very great remedy; it has not a very wide range of usefulness, but it is often overlooked when needed.

We get into the habit of relying entirely on the polychrests.

The old women used to give nutmeg to hysterics, and wonderful to tell its provings justify its use. It must have had some palliative relation to the hysteria. The root is much stronger than the nut, in the same proportions, and contains the real medicinal qualities.

The patient appears to be dazed; there is a complete loss of memory; she is automatic in her actions. This is a wonderful state of the mind. She goes about the house performing her duties, but if interrupted, forgets what she has been doing, forgets that she was all day in conversation with her son; she has no recollection of past events.

Mind

This is a singular state of the mind sometimes found in hysterical women.

Sometimes it is impossible to find out what state of the mind is present she is so forgetful. She lies with the eyes closed and yet knows everything that is going on, but remembers nothing. She speaks with intelligence about the things of the moment, but knows nothing of the past. She prophesies, predicts with a sort of clairvoyance.

The mental state is the keynote. Sometimes she is < in the morning, sometimes in the evening, or on waking. She performs all her duties and yet seems to be in a dream, she seems not to know her friends.

Sleep

The Nux mos. patient is always ready to go to sleep; it is with great difficulty that she can keep awake. She falls asleep on all occasions, in season and out of season. The eyes look heavy; she cannot keep awake; falls into a profound slumber, sometimes into coma.

Useful in the coma of typhoid and intermittent fever. When aroused she remembers nothing; looks dazed; looks about and wants to know who the people are around and what they are doing. It is a state in which patients answer questions slowly after a long interval, and then look confused again.

They give an answer that has no relation to the question asked, or, answer correctly. We find such a state in typhoid, in hysteria, after shock, after fear, blighted affections, or the loss of a friend. It is more suitable after shock ending in this kind of trouble than in typhoid.

It is also useful in typhoid, but where there is great weakness, sliding down in bed, and nervous trembling, Phos. ac. is a better remedy. Nux mos. does not relate so completely to the general image of a typhoid as does Phos. ac.

The sleepiness and the dazed state are two things combined, and when combined are difficult to cover by a remedy. This state is somewhat like Opium.

Faintness and even fainting when standing long, such as occurs in a nervous woman standing to have a dress fitted.

There is a dry mouth, the tongue cleaves to the roof of the mouth in all complaints. There is great sleepiness and automatic conduct, especially in nervous women. It has cured petit mal.

The hemorrhages stand out in bold relief; hemorrhages from the nose, uterus and bowels. There is vomiting of blood.

The patient is sensitive to wind, to a draft, to damp air. She has a headache < walking against the wind; hoarseness from walking against the wind; she is so sensitive to cold weather that she comes home dazed and sleepy from walking against the wind; her mouth is dry but there is no thirst, she doesn't desire water (sometimes thirst is present).

The patient may hold water in the mouth without desire to swallow it. Nux mos. holds ice water and succulent fruits in the mouth to relieve the sensation of dryness. Often there is a sensation of dryness when the mouth is moist.

In the extremities there is numbness, tingling, prickling, paralytic weakness; there is threatened paralysis; momentary hysterical paralysis; coming for a short time and then going away.

Aphonia with a dry mouth, in hysterical patients; when walking out of doors. This aphonia passes away on going into the house.

The whole back is sensitive to pressure, the vertebrae are sensitive.

This remedy has prolonged and inveterate constipation; prolonged urging to stool followed by a soft stool. ( Alum., Psor., China.) The stool is difficult but soft. He wonders why he has to urge for a soft stool.

Women

In woman there are many troubles; menorrhagia lasting ten or fifteen days; the blood is clotted; the menses are too often, last too long, are irregular. The abdomen is full of colic; cramping pains extending to be broad ligaments and down the limbs; most distressing dysmenorrhoea from exposure to cold, riding in the wind or living in damp houses.

With this there is a dry mouth and thirstlessness; she wakes at night with a dry mouth; it seems as if the tongue cleaved to the roof of the mouth.

This remedy is especially suitable for lean women, those who have lost flesh. The breasts are flat. I remember a case of a woman thirty five years old whose breasts which were once well rounded became perfectly flat. Nux mos. restored the breasts.

This is a little remedy, but when wanted nothing will take its place.

The Therapeutics of Fevers

H. C. Allen · The Therapeutics of Fevers · 1902 Library of Congress printing (Allen d. 1909; public domain)

Characteristic

Adapted especially to women and children of a nervous, hysterical temperament; to people with a dry skin who rarely perspire; ailments of pregnancy.

All the ailments are accompanied by drowsiness, sleepiness, or an inclination to faint; complaints cause sleepiness (Ant. t., Op.).

Absence of mind, cannot think; great indifference to everything.

Changeable humor; one moment laughing, the next crying (Croc., Ign.).

"Sudden change from grave to gay, from lively to serene."

Great soreness of all the parts upon which one lies. Tendency to bedsores (Bap., Bry., Pyr.).

Weakness of old age; dyspepsia of old people.

Oversensitive: to light; of hearing; of smell; to touch.

Weakness or loss of memory (Anac., Lac c., Lyc.).

Vanishing of thoughts while reading, talking or writing; uses wrong words; does not recognize well-known streets (Can. I., Lach.).

Great dryness of the mouth; dryness of eyes, too dry to close the lids; tongue so dry it adheres to the mouth; saliva seemed like cotton; throat dry, stiffened, no thirst.

Sensation of great dryness; without real thirst and without dryness of the tongue.

Eating a little too much causes headache; pain, fulness and distress in stomach while eating or immediately after (Kali bi.).

Diarrhœa : in summer, from cold drinks; from boiled milk; during dentition; during pregnancy; with sleepiness and fainting; in autumn, epidemic, white, fetid (Colch.).

At every menstrual nisus, mouth, throat, and tongue become intolerably dry, especially when sleeping.

Leucorrhœa, in place of menses (Coc.); awakens with dry tongue (Lach.).

Pain, nausea and vomiting; caused by pessaries, during pregnancy, > by Nux moschata.

Sudden hoarseness from walking against the wind (Euph., Hep.).

Cough, caused by : getting warm in bed; overheated; during pregnancy (Con.); bathing; standing in water; living in cold, dark places (Aran., Ter.); loose after eating, dry after drinking.

Rheumatic affections; from getting feet wet; from exposure to drafts of air while heated (Acon., Bry.); < in cold, wet weather, or cold wet clothes (Rhus); of left shoulder (Fer.—right shoulder, Sang., Stron.).

Backache, while riding in a carriage.

Soreness of all parts on which one lies (Bapt.).

Fatigued, must lie down after least exertion.

Sleep : irresistibly drowsy; sleepy, muddled, as if intoxicated; coma, lies silent, immovable; eyes constantly closed (with stertorous breathing, Op.).

Aggravation

Cold, wet, windy weather, (Rhod.); weather changes; cold food, water and washing; riding in a carriage (Coc.); motion; lying on painful side.

Amelioration

Rest; dry, warm weather; warm room; wrapping up warmly.

Type

Tertian; double tertian; quartan; double quartan.

Time

7. A. M., 1, 5, 6, 9 P. M.

Chill

Without thirst. Skin cold and blue over the whole body, at 5:30 P. M. Became cold, chilly and pale on going into open, especially damp, cold air, disappeared at once in a warm room (worse in a warm room, Apis). Coldness commencing in left arm and lower limbs (in left hand and arm, Carbo v.), in frequent attacks, and clear intermissions, with desire to sleep between attacks. Chill from uncovering (Nux); hands and feet icy cold and as if numb from coldness (Rhus). As chill progressed became very drowsy, and at close of chill fell asleep (Apis, Nux); continued through heat, which was very light.

Heat

With slight thirst, with redness of face and hot hands. Great heat, with prostration, hypochondriac mood; mouth and throat dry; drowsiness and deep sleep (Apis, Op.—falls asleep at climax of heat and breaks out with sweat, Pod.).

Sweat

Drowsiness during sweat (Pod.); cannot bear to be uncovered (Bar., Hep., Nux). Sweat light, or wanting altogether; sweat red or bloody (Lach.).

"Double tertian intermittent fevers, with sleepiness, white tongue, rattling breathing, bloody expectoration, and very little thirst only during the hot stage."—LIPPE.

Remittent fever with continuous drowsiness, sleepiness and frontal headache; wakes occasionally for a drink; face very red. Makes no complaint. Sleeps nearly all the time.—C. B. GILBERT.

"Fever, not paludal, purely nervous; its periodicity places it here. At seven o'clock every morning the chills set in and increase, but, in the midst of this progression of chills, the patient becomes drowsy, and, when the chills cease, is fast asleep. The hot stage is very slightly pronounced, the patient continues to sleep; on awakening great dryness of throat; fever, with colliquative diarrhœa."—A. CHARGÉ.

Tongue

Coated white, dotted with red papillæ. "Cotton" saliva, sticky dry lips, and tongue adhering to roof of mouth, without any actual dryness or real thirst. Can only digest highly seasoned food.

Analysis

Chill; the whole body cold and blue. Sleepy, falls asleep at close of chill.

Heat; with very red face; sleepy or deep sleep.

Sweat; light or wanting; red or bloody; cannot bear to be uncovered. Sleeps during sweats. Sticky, dry lips, tongue and mouth; no thirst.