NUX VOMICA

Generalities

• Nux-v. is an every day remedy.

• It corresponds to many diseased conditions to which a modern man is prone to.

• It is useful to those persons who lead a sedentary life, doing much mental work; or to those who remain under stress and strain of prolonged office work, business cares and worries.

• Such persons in order to forget their worries are apt to indulge in wine, women, rich stimulan t food and sedative drugs; and ill effects from which they are apt to suffer.

• The typical Nux. patient is rather thin, spare, quick, active, nervous and irritable.

• It affects the nerves, causing hyper-sensitiveness, and over-impressionability, mentally and physically.

• Produces Digestive Disturbances; partial congestion and hypochondriacal states.

• Dyspeptic persons who always select their food for experimenting, that is digested little.

• He is subject to spasms, convulsions, and fainting.

• The patient seems to be always out of tune; The Action is Violent, often irregularly fitful or inefficient.

• Twisting, and jerks.

• Spasms, tetanic, with consciousness; agg. by slightest touch, but amel. by grasping tightly, or when elbow was stretched.

• Tense contracted felling.

• Lightning-like pains.

• Neuralgia; prodromal.

• Sensation as of a rough body internally.

• Sensation of heaviness and lightness alternately.

• Bruised soreness; Of Abdomen, brain etc.

• Internal scrapy sensation or Rawness; in throat, larynx.

– Takes cold.

– Faintings, after stools, vomiting; after labour pains etc.

• Biliousness.

• Haemorrhages.

• Debauches; much drugged patients.

• Trembling.

• Epilepsy during stool.

• Paralysis from apoplexy, in high livers; partial, with vertigo and nausea; with sticking pains.

• Reflexes increased.

• Firm fibered brunettes.

• Reversed peristalsis.

• Ill effects; of masturbation, sexual excess.

• Varicose veins, without tortuosity, black hard cords; from much standing, or from sedentary habits.

Worse

• Early Morning.

• Gold; Open Air (dry); drafts; seats; wind.

• Uncovering.

• High Living; coffee; condiments, liquor, drugs, purgatives, over eating.

• Sedentary habits.

• Debauchery.

• Mental; exertion; fatigue vexation.

• Disturbed sleep.

• Slight causes; anger; noise; odours; touch; Pressure; of clothes at waist.

• Yawning.

• Tobacco.

• Music.

• Disappointment of ambition.

• Wounded honour.

• Mental shock.

Better

• Free Discharges.

• Naps.

• Wrapping head.

– Resting.

• Hot drinks.

• Milk.

• Fats.

• Moist air.

• Lying on sides.

Mind

• Active.

• Angry and Impatient; can not stand pain; so mad, he cries.

• Zealous; fiery temperament.

• Nervous and excitable.

• Aversion to work.

• Fears poverty.

• Sullen.

• Spiteful.

• Nagging.

• Violent.

• Ugly; suicidal, homicidal impulses.

• Fear of knives, lest she should kill herself or others.

• Fault finding.

• Reproaches others.

• Frightfully apprehensive about getting married, (girls).

• Time passes too slowly.

• Talks about one’s condition.

• Even the least ailment affects her greatly.

• Hypochondriasis.

• Melancholia.

• Delirium tremens.

• Can not bear noise, light, odour, touch, music, etc.

• Can not bear conversation or reading.

• Angry when consoled.

• Head-strong, self-willed.

Head

• Vertigo; brain and other objects turn in circle; with momentary loss of consciousness; with black spell; on empty stomach.

• Bruised sensation of the brain.

• Dizzy and faint in a crowd or where many lights are burning.

• Headache in the sunshine.

• Sensitive scalp.

• Swelled forehead.

• Head seems larger than body.

• Takes cold amel. wrapping head warmly.

• Migraine.

• Frontal head ache with desire to lean it on something.

Eyes

• Bloodshot.

• Lachrymation from affected side.

• Atrophy of the optic nerve.

• Photophobia.

• Paresis of ocular muscles.

• Lower eyeballs yellow.

• Loss of vision due to alcohol and tobacco.

• Exudation of blood from eyes.

• Spring conjunctivitis.

Ears

• Itching in ear through Eustachian tubes.

• External meatus dry and sensitive.

• Pain; stitching when swallowing.

• Loud sounds are painful.

Nose

• Oversensitive to strong odours; even fainting.

• Nose stopped, but runs water; on one side.

• Snuffles; of the new born.

• Nose bleed during sleep; from suppressed flow of piles, from coughing.

• Sneezing violent, abortive; from intense crawling in nostrils (left).

– Coryza, fluent by day, and in open air, dry at night.

• Smell before nose, like old cheese, burning sulphur.

• Smell acute.

• Nose looks sharp and pointed.

Face

• Red, turgid or yellowish agg. about nose and mouth.

• Left angle of the mouth drops.

• Infra-orbital neuralgia; with swelling of cheek, intermittent; amel. when lying in bed.

– Jaws, snap shut; stiff.

• Acne from eating cheese.

• Pimples from excessive use of liquors.

• Child passes its hand constantly over face (brain disease).

Mouth

• Teeth chatter.

• Toothache amel. warm drinks.

• Foetor oris; sour.

• Small aphthous ulcers in the mouth.

• TASTE; BITTER; sour, bad in a.m. low down in throat.

• Itching palate; eustachian tube.

• Gums; swollen white, and bleeding.

• Needles at edges of tongue agg. after eating; washing face in cold water.

Throat

• Rough, raw; as if scraped.

• Putrid taste in; on coughing.

• Small ulcers in the throat; pain agg. during empty swallowing.

• Stitches into ears.

Stomach

• Craves piquant food; beer; fat food, chalk; stimulants.

• Hiccough: From over eating; from cold or hot drinks.

• Violent retching agg. hawking.

• Eructations, sour.

• Heart burn.

• Water brash.

• Nausea; amel. if he can only vomit.

• Violent Vomiting; bilious, sour, wants to vomit but can not.

• Food lies like a heavy knot in stomach.

– Gastralgia; pain go into back and chest; amel. vomiting and hot drinks, agg. from food.

• Indigestion.

• Hunger; yet aversion to food.

• Eructations; difficult; sour; bitter.

• Severe pain in stomach from injury, agg. least food.

Abdomen

• As of a hand about waist, clothes oppress it.

– Bruised soreness of abdominal wall.

• Liver sore, enlarged; sticking pain.

• Gall stone colic.

• Jaundice; from anger. agg.

• Bowels gripe here and there.

• Sore Bowels, agg. Coughing and Stepping.

• Hernia; infantile; from constipation or crying; umbilical. amel.

• Flatulent colic.

• Uneasy fitful and Fruitless Urging for Boswels to Act; amel. Stools.

• Obstipation.

• Inactive peristalsis.

• Strains hard at stools; feeling as if part remained unexpelled; passes small quantity at each attempt.

• Rectum; spasms of; flatus retained in; constant uneasiness in.

– Piles itching, blind, bleeding, amel. cool bathing.

• Dysentery; stools amel. pains for a time.

• Diarrhoea; with jaundice; after debauch during fevers.

• Colic in nursing infants from stimulating food taken by the mother.

• Colic from suppressed haemorrhoidal flow.

• First part of stool soft, last hard.

• Prolapse of rectum from diarrhoea.

• Dragging in anus when not at stool.

• Sense of goneness in the groins.

Urinary

• Renal colic (right), extending to genitals and legs; with dribbling urine; amel. lying on back.

• Painful ineffectual urging to urinate.

• Spasmodic strangury.

• Haematuria from suppressed haemorrhoidal flow or menses.

• Spasmodic urethral stricture.

• Paralysis of bladder; urine dribble; in old men, with enlarged prostate or gonorrhoea.

• Involuntary urination when laughing, coughing, sneezing.

Male

• Desire easily excited.

• Penis becomes relaxed during an embrace.

• Bad effects of onanism; sexual excess.

• Premature ejaculation.

• Can not be in female society without having emission.

• Increase of smegma.

Female

• Desire too strong; with burning in vulva.

– Menses; profuse, early and prolonged; intermittent; of dark lumpy bloody; irregular; with fainting spells.

• Dysmenorrhoea; cramps extend to the whole body; with constant urging to stool.

• Leucorrhoea; foetid; staining yellow.

• Inefficient labour pains; faints at every labour pain.

• Profuse bleeding after abortion.

• Prolapse of uterus; from straining or lifting.

• All the old symptoms are agg. after menses.

• Lochia scanty, offensive.

• Nipples; sore; white spot in centre.

• Tensive pain when nursing.

• Painless gathering of milk in breast from not nursing the child.

Respiratory

– Cough; violent; throwing the patient down; paroxysmal; whooping; with splitting headache; has to hold his head.

• Shallow respiration.

• Oppressed breathing.

• Asthma: from disordered stomach; with fulness of stomach.

• Hoarseness, with painful roughness in larynx and chest.

• Cough; with sensation as if something torn loose in the chest.

• Intercostal neuralgia agg. lying on painful side.

• Asthma; with feeling as if clothing were too tight, amel. belching.

• Desire to eat during cough.

Heart

• Palpitation on lying down.

• Heart feels tired.

• Angina pectoris; patient lies on knee with body leant backwards.

Neck and back

• Cervico-brachial neuralgia; painfully stiff neck; pains down shoulder (right) agg. touch.

• Wry neck from cold or nervous shock.

• Lumbar ache, as if breaking; must sit up in order to turn in bed.

• Crawling along spine.

• Acute lumbago.

• Sacral region as if lame; after parturition.

Extremities

• Arms go to sleep, numb, stiff feeling.

• Tense cramp in calves and soles, must stretch feet; or stand still while walking.

• Feet feel clubby and raw.

• Shooting from toes to thighs; agg. after stool.

• Drags his feet while walking, (chorea); legs tremble; unsteady gait.

• Knee joints as if dry; cracking during motion.

• Paralysis of lower limbs from over exertion or from being soaked.

• Automatic motions of hand (R) towards mouth (Apoplexy).

• Legs stiff.

Skin

• Goose skin.

• Skin red and blotchy.

• Urticaria with gastric derangement.

• Bluish spots.

Sleep

– Yawning.

• Sleepy in the evening or sleepless from rush of ideas.

– Awakes too early, can not go to sleep again; finally sleeps but on waking feels wretched.

• Better after a short sleep, unless aroused.

• Nightmares.

• Dreams; anxious; pursued by animals, dogs and cats; amorous.

• Weeping and talking during sleep.

Fever

• Chill with thirst, and heat without thirst.

• Easily Chilled, Can Not Uncover, agg. motion; drinking even during the heat.

• Body burning hot esp. face, but unable to move or uncover without feeling chilly.

• Excessive rigor with blue finger nails.

• Sweat sour; one sided; warm, on upper most side, en lying down.

Complementary

• Kali-c; Phos; Sulph.

Related

• Ign; Lyc.

Source : Phatak materia medica