NUX MOSCHATA


NUX MOSCHATA signs and symptoms from the Characteristic Materia Medica by William Burt of the homeopathic medicine NUX MOSCHATA…


SPHERE OF ACTION

Through the cerebro-spinal system, it has a specific action upon the generative organs of women. Its centre of action seems to be upon the motor tract of the spinal cord.

GRAND CHARACTERISTICS.

Excessive tendency to laughter.

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

Very sluggish flow of ideas.

All the ailments are accompanied by sleepiness and inclination to faint.

Sleepiness, in some cases, disposition to faint in others, are remarkably characteristic of Nux moschata.-F.

Spasm of the head and forehead.

While eating, soon satisfied; headache from eating a little too much.

Digestive Organs.- Awakens with a very dry mouth; the tongue is so dry it sticks to the mouth.

Pains in the teeth from inhaling cold air, or taking warm drinks.

Feeling as if the teeth were being grasped to be pulled out.-RAUE.

Enormous distension of the abdomen after every meal-G.

Nervous irritation of the intestinal tract; stomach and abdomen especially distended, and all her symptoms worse after every unpleasant emotion.

Diarrhoea with disposition to faint.-F.

Chronic diarrhoea, caused by pregnancy.

Diarrhoea, undigested, or like chopped eggs, with loss of appetite and great sleepiness; in summer with children.

Generative Organs of Women.-At every menstrual nisus, the throat, mouth, and tongue become intolerably dry, particularly when sleeping.

Menses too early and too profuse, with discharge of thick, black blood; tongue and mouth very dry, particularly after sleeping.

Leucorrhoea, in women who always awaken with very dry tongue.

Suppression of menses from exposure to the wet, with severe pains in the abdomen.-F.

Menorrhagia; blood thick, dark; with such as have had catamenia very irregularly.

During pregnancy has great fulness of the stomach, with difficulty in breathing.

Lung.-Sudden hoarseness from walking against the wind.- Cough when becoming warm in bed.

Dry nervous, hysterical cough.

Back.-Pain in the sacrum, when riding in a carriage.

Great pressure in the back, from within outwards, during the menses.

Especially, adapted to people with a dry skin, and who do not perspire easily.-RAUE.

It is especially to be thought of in all neurotic hysterical diseases, where the patient always awakens with a very dry mouth and tongue.

William Burt
William H. Burt, MD
(1836-1897)
Characteristic materia medica Published 1873
Physiological materia medica, containing all that is known of the physiological action of our remedies; together with their characteristic indications and pharmacology. Published 1881