Plant

Nux Moschata

Nutmeg

Repertory abbreviation: Nux-m.

Marked tendency to fainting fits, with heart failure. Cold extremities, extreme dryness of mucous mem- branes and skin. S Strange feeling, with irresistible drorwsiness. General inclination to become unconscious during acute attacks. Lypothynia. [gnatia.] Staggers on trying to walk.

Mind

Changeable; laughing and crying. Con- fused, 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; beiter husd 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, aral- yzed. Dryness of throat.

Stomach

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

Abdomen

Paralytic weakness of intestines. Nor- mously distended. Stoul is soft, and yet is unable to expel it, even with long straining. [Alum.] Faintness during or after stool. Protruding piles.

Female

Uterine hamorrhage. Menses too long. 543 dark, thick. Leucorrhoea muddy and bloody. Sup- pression, 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. Rheuma- tism relieved by dry, warm clothes. Fatigue on slight exertion.

Sleep

Great drowsiness. (10pu1) Complaints cause sleepiness. Coma.

Fever

Chill begins in left hand. (Carbo.) Chilli- ness 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.

Relationships

Oleum myristice -- 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.

Source: Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 8th ed. by William Boericke (1922), p. 536. Public domain.

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