Nux Juglans. Walnut. Juglandaceae. Tincture of leaves and of rind of green fruit.
Clinical
Acne. Anus, burning in. Axillary glands, suppuration of. Chancre. Ecthyma. Eyes, pain over. Favus. Flatulence. Headache. Herpes. Herpes preputialis. Levitation, sensation of. Menorrhagia. Purpura. Ringworm. Scurvy. Spleen, pain in. Syphilis.
Characteristics
“It was said that in the golden age, when men lived upon acorns, the gods lived upon Walnuts, and hence the name of Juglans, *Jovis glans, or Jupiter’s nuts” (*Treasury of Botany). From many points of view the walnut-tree is of very great importance, and well deserves its lofty name. Besides providing food, at any rate fit for the gods, and look at once light and strong, a sap that yields sugar, a fruit that yields a dye and an oil, and serves for pickles, the Royal Nut has a place in medicine which deserves to be better known. The *Treasury of Botany gives a hint to homoeopaths in this remark: ” Its plantation should not be too near dwellings, as some persons are affected by the powerful aroma of its foliage.” The remarkably brain-like appearance of the nut has given rise to the notion that is a “brain-food.” I cannot say that there is any other ground for it, but in Clotar Muller, who was the first to prove *Jug-r., it produced this curious symptom: ” Excited, as if intoxicated, in the evening in bed, and a feeling as if the head were floating in the air,” showing a decided brain action, such as we generally associate with the “wine” rather than the “walnuts” of dessert. Peevishness and mental indolence were other mental symptoms noted. The head symptoms are as marked as those of *Jug-c., but the lancinating pains were not noted in the occiput as with that remedy, but in the forehead. There are few remedies which cause flatulence and bloating of the abdomen more markedly than *Jug-r. It appears to affect the spleen more than the liver (opposite of *Jug-c.). There is diarrhoea, and many rectal and anal symptoms, but the diarrhoea is not so distinctly bilious as that of *Jug-c. Like *Carya alba and *Jug-c., *Jug. r. is haemorrhagic, the blood being black and clotted (uterine). Remarkable symptoms of inflammation and ulceration appeared in the male sexual organs. This to a large extent belongs to the general integumentary action of the remedy. It was Clotar Muller who made the observation that “In the digestive organs it causes derangement and irritation, which simultaneously call forth abnormal symptoms in other organs, especially in the head. After this action, which is *brief, appear various exanthematous symptoms, which appear late and run a chronic course.” The skin symptoms of the *Regia are more pronounced and varied that those of *Cinerea. This has led to its more frequent use in scrofula, as skin and gland affections go much together. Farrington says *Jug. r. is one of the best remedies in “tinea favosa, especially in the scalp behind the ear, itching is intense at night so that the patient has difficulty in sleeping.” Scabs appear on arms and in axilla. In the proving of *Jug. r. the symptoms went from the right axilla to left. In a patient of mine, a nurse who had poisoned her left arm some years before from septic and possibly syphilitic case, inflammation of the axillary glands ensued, first of left then of right, leaving an eczematous itching condition. The glands of the groin also became affected. *Elaps. 200 had relieved the bulk of the conditions, but there was still a little irritation occasionally in the axillae, and I thought I might expedite matters by giving *Jug. r. I2 three times a day. This is what happened: Five days after beginning the *Jug. r. an eruption of minute vesicles appeared on her back, itching much. It extended all up the center of the back from sacrum to mid- dorsal region, spreading out below, tapering above. She had scratched holes in two places. The rash was worse after washing. But all *soreness and irritation had gone from the arms and axillae. I antidoted with *Rhus. I2. Four years later she had no more trouble with the glands. Cl. Muller, who experienced the axillary skin symptoms in his own person, had never suffered from a skin affection before. One of the provers was cured of an itching eruption of the legs from which he had suffered in winter for four years, the itching commencing as soon as he began to undress. Many of the symptoms closely resembled syphilis, and the affection of the cheek in one of the provers was actually diagnosed as syphilitic by a medical man who saw him in C. Muller’s absence. The left side of head, face, and abdomen mostly affected. Axillary symptoms proceed from right to left. The symptoms generally are worse by motion, migraine worse by speaking, pain in abdomen worse by laughing. There is worse after fat food. worse evening at 9 p.m., and after 9. The itching is worse at night. Warmth of bed worse toothache. It removed a winter rash worse by undressing. Rash caused in my case was worse by washing.
Relations
*Antidoted by: Rhus. *Compare: Jug-c., Carya alb. (botan), Rhus (skin), Graphites (tinea favosa behind ears), Rumex (rash worse undressing), Mezer., Mercurius, Cean. (spleen), Lycopodium (Flatulence). *Follows well: Elaps. (axillary affections, black haemorrhages), Sulphur (head hot, cold extremities), Grindelia (pain over left eye).
SYMPTOMS.
Mind
Excited in evening in bed as if intoxicated, and feeling as if the head were floating in the air. Peevish and discontented in evening. Disinclined to talk or argue, as was customary with him, mental indolence. Inattention when reading and disinclination to work.
Head
Vertigo. Headache after dinner and in evening, with flushed face. Feeling in head and nose as in beginning of coryza. Confusion in head. Burning heat in head in the evening with icy- cold extremities. Heaviness in head. Lancinations in forehead. Pain in left side of fore head. Pain above left eye, with pain in eyes. Pain above eyes, worse motion, worse shaking head or moving eyes, with yawning and sleepiness. Pain above eyes, as if dizzy. Throbbing in temples, better going into open air, returning on entering warm room, with sharp pain in front part of head. Migraine in a spot in region of left parietal bone preventing speaking.
Eyes
Burning in eyes. Pressive pain above eye (left) worse by motion. Feeling of coryza.
Ears
Aching and fullness in right, then left ear, then discharge of pus from both ears, external ear inflamed and two painful sore on it. Burning in left ear, then redness and swelling, then pimple on inside, then discharge of pus from both ears, worse left, with burning and redness of left external ear, and feeling as if something dropped inside of ear at every step, and soreness preventing lying on left side of head.
Face
Swelling of left cheek and upper lip, with swelling of gum over left upper incisors, without previous toothache, then a hard, reddish painful swelling in left cheek, in the middle of which was a sharply-defined, depressed dark red, yielding circle, pus could be seen through the thin skin, the apparently sound tooth was drawn, and ichorous pus (from an abscess) was discharged through the opening, then the swelling disappeared.
Mouth
Tearing in hollow teeth, worse warmth of bed. Tongue coated white, in morning, with bitter, slimy taste. Tongue covered with white mucus. Salivation. Inclination to keep mouth dry after dinner, could not make up his mind to drink wine or water as usual. Taste bitter. Taste slimy in morning on waking.
Throat
Hawking of much mucus.
Appetite
Appetite increased. Unusually great appetite without increase of thirst. Appetite lost. Thirstlessness while eating, and aversion to wine. Aversion to tobacco-smoking in evening. Thirst increased.
Stomach
Eructations: violent, frequent, loud, tasting as after eating fat. Fullness and bloatedness of the stomach, which prevent one from eating while one has a good appetite, better from eructations, Hiccough more violent after eating. Nausea at 6 a.m., and after supper. Vomiting, woke suddenly vomited food eaten four hours before, then slept without further trouble. Burning in stomach. Pain in epigastric region, with distension of abdomen.
Abdomen
Fullness, bloatedness, tension, and heaviness in the abdomen, with frequent desire to go to stool, better by eructations and discharge of flatulence. Distension: after eating, after dinner, with emission of flatus, with sudden desire for stool, so that he must loosen his clothes, with pressure in stomach, so that he could eat but little in spite of good appetite, tympanitic hardness of the abdomen. Rumbling, with griping, with pressive pain in epigastric region. Emission of flatus, especially when lying down. Pain in abdomen better eructations. Wandering pains. Pressive and drawing pain, worse motion, better appearance of menses (fifteen days too soon), then for eight days (instead of three as usual), copious discharge of blackish blood, often in large clots, with exhaustion and loss of appetite. Drawing, with pressure in region of spleen. Sticking beneath left lowest ribs. Pressure in region of spleen, with eructations. Pain beneath the left false ribs, worse deep breathing, laughing or stooping. Pain in left side on rapid walking. Pain over left side with wandering gripings in intestines. Pain above umbilicus. Pain in hypogastrium, with nausea. Sticking in hypogastrium on moving or stooping. Cutting in right hypogastric region.
