NUX VOMICA


Homeopathic remedy Nux Vomica drug symptoms and indications from Condensed Materia Medica by Constantine Hering, published in 1877….


      Poison-nut. Hahnemann. Loganiaceae.

Mind

      Defective memory; manner shy and awkward.

Can’t red or calculate, for she looses the connection of ideas; thinks she will lose her reason.

Time passes too slowly.

Delirium tremens, with oversensitiveness, nervous excitability and malicious vehemence.

Desire to talk about one’s condition, with anxious reflections about it.

Inclined to find fault and scold; morose; stubborn; an insane desire when alone with her husband, whom she adores, to kill him.

Disinclination to work and great lassitude or weakness in the morning.

Cannot bear reading or conversation; irritable and wishes to be alone.

Anxiety, with irritability and inclination to commit suicide, but is afraid to die.

Despondent and buoyant alternately.

Hypochondriac mood of persons of sedentary habits, and of those who dissipate at night, with abdominal suffering and constipation; also when worse after eating, with sensitiveness.

Loss of energy.

Careful, zealous persons, inclined to get excited and angry, or of a spiteful, malicious disposition.

Irritable, morose, sullen; apt to become quarrelsome if disturbed.

Anger with habitual malicious, spiteful disposition.

Fiery, excited temperament.

Oversensitiveness to external impressions: noise; smells; light and music; or the most trifling ailments are unbearable and affect him much.

Oversensitiveness, every harmless word offends, every little noise frightens, anxious and beside themselves, cannot bear the least, even suitable medicine.

Ailments after continued mental labor.

Worse after mental exertion.

After anger: chilliness alternating with heat, vomiting of bile, and thirst; great laziness and aversion to occupy oneself.

Sensorium

      Stupefaction, confusion as from nightly reveling.

Vertigo: with loss of consciousness; falls forward; when stooping; as if the bed was turning in a circle; reeling in morning and after dinner; with pains in forehead, heat and redness of face.

Intoxication from drunkenness of previous day, with vanishing of sight and hearing; worse after dinner and in the sun.

Apoplexy, with stertorous breathing; dropping of the jaw, paralysis; attack preceded by vertigo, buzzing in ears, nausea and urging to vomit.

Inner Head

      Congestion to the head with burning in it, and with heat and redness of the bloated face.

Burning in the forehead on awaking and after eating.

Stunning headache in morning after eating and in sun-shine.

Bruised sensation of the brain, generally one (right) sided; better when lying on the painless side.

Pressive, boring pains in head, beginning in morning, less by evening; with dim sight, sour vomiting and palpitation; worse from mental exertion, light. noise, coffee, after eating.

Periodical headache in the forehead, sore as from ulceration, with constipation.

Semilateral headache from excessive use of coffee.

Pressing on vertex, as from a nail; as if the skull were pressed asunder.

Pressing as if something heavy were sinking down into head.

Tension in the forehead, as if it were pressed in, at night and in the morning, worse on exposing the head to the cold air.

Intense occipital headache; dizziness; pains in the eyes; stomach deranged.

Sensation as from bruise in the back part of the head.

The brain seems to shake when walking or running in open air; better when wrapping head up, in warm room, and when at rest.

Head symptoms are worse from mental exertion, exercising open air and after eating; better after rising in morning (except sick headache) in warm room; lying down or sitting quietly.

Outer Head

      Scalp sensitive to touch or to the wind; better from being warmly covered.

Liable to take cold on the head, mostly from dry wind, or from a draught.

Fetid sweat of one-half of the head and face which is cold, with anxiety, and dread of uncovering head; sweat relieves pain.

Eyes

      Sight blurred by overheating.

Vision impaired by dissipation.

Photophobia, worse in the morning.

Atrophy of the optic nerve.

Hyperaesthesia of the retina; pains to the top of the head; sleepless; awakens irritable in the morning.

Exudation of blood from the eyes. Ecchymoses.

Burning and smarting as from salt; canthi reddened.

Eyeballs (lower part) yellow.

Lids burn and itch, especially their margins; worse mornings.

Blepharospasmus.

Paresis of ocular muscles worse from stimulants or tobacco.

Ears

      Strong reverberation of sounds in the ear.

Tearing, stitching pains in the ears extending to forehead and temples: worse mornings, evening in bed, and on entering a warm room.

External meatus dry and sensitive.

On swallowing, pushing out pain in the ear.

Nose

      Oversensitive to strong odor-even fainting.

Smell before the nose like old cheese, or brimstone.

Snuffles, especially of the newborn.

Nosebleed during sleep, when preceded by headache and red cheeks or in the morning; from suppressed haemorrhoidal flow.

Coryza, dry at night fluent by day; worse in warm room, better in cold air; sneezing early in bed; scraping in nose and throat.

Acrid discharge from the obstructed nose. Internal nose inflamed.

Face

      Face: yellow; florid, with a yellow ground; pale; distressed; yellow around mouth, eyes or nose.

Tearing in the infraorbital branch of the trigeminus; clear water from the eye and nostril of affected side; face numb; after abuse of coffee, liquors or quinine.

Intermittent neuralgia, worse in the infraorbital branch of trifacial, always markedly exacerbated in the morning; better sometimes when lying in bed.

Swelling of one cheek, faceache and pain in cheekbone.

Pimples on the face from dissipation.

Twitching of the muscles in the evening on lying down.

Lower Face

      Painful peeling off of the lips, after excesses; crusts on the lips or ulcers that burn and stick.

Lower jaw hangs down.

Submaxillary glands swollen, with stinging on swallowing.

Teeth

      Toothache, with swollen face; worse from reading or thinking; tearing is worse from cold or cold things; better from warm drinks; worse from coffee or wine.

Stinging in decayed teeth; burning-stinging in a row of teeth.

Gum-boils, which seem about to burst.

Gums white, putrid, bleeding.

Tongue etc.

      Taste: bitter; sour; putrid in the morning, must rinse the mouth.

Tongue: heavily coated white or yellow; black and dark red, cracked on the edges; heavy with difficult speech.

First half of tongue clean, sometimes red and shining; posterior, covered with deep fur.

Mouth

      Roof of mouth, throat and gums inflamed and swollen.

Small aphthous ulcers in the mouth and throat with putrid smell; bloody saliva runs out at night; gums scorbutic; coagulated blood is spit out; voice altered, as if speaking with a full mouth.

Mouth dry, parched, without much thirst.

Throat

      Raw, sore, rough, as if scraped, causing hawking.

Pain as if the pharynx was constricted, or as if a plug was sticking in throat, during empty swallowing.

Swelling of the uvula, stinging pains, with sensation of a plug when swallowing saliva only.

Stitches into the ear, when swallowing; small fetid ulcers in the throat; even in cases of a “nervous” character.

Throat worse while eating and still more afterward.

Allays irritation caused by topical applications; especially if rawness and scraping are present.

Desires Aversions

      Ravenous hunger, after drinking beer. Canine hunger, with aversion to bread, water, coffee and tobacco.

Longing for brandy, beer, fat food or chalk.

Very hungry twenty-four hours or so before a spell of dyspepsia.

Eating and Drinking

      Milk sours on the stomach.

Bad effects of coffee; alcoholic drinks; debauchery.

After eating: sour taste; pressure in stomach an hour or two after a meal, with hypochondriacal mood; pyrosis; tightness about the waist, must loosen the clothing; confused, cannot use the mind.

Two or three hours after a meal, epigastrium bloated with pressure as from a stone in the stomach.

After eating :,,, Warm food or drinks :,, Cold food or drinks:,.

Nausea and Vomiting

      Eructations: sour or bitter; putrid in the morning.

Hiccough from overeating, or from cold drinks.

Heart-burn; water-brash: worse before breakfast; also with drunkards.

Nausea: early in the morning; with fainting; after eating; from tobacco.

Vomiting: food; drink; bile; black substances; slime; sour mucus; blood; after suppressed haemorrhoidal flow.

Vomiting of food that was taken a day or two before; contraction of the pylorus.

Stomach

      Region of stomach sensitive to pressure.

Indigestion after abuse of drugs; business anxiety; sedentary habits; long watching or debauchery, after too high living.

Burning in the stomach; at the pylorus.

Clawing, cramping pains in stomach, with pressure and tension between the scapulae; pains extend to the chest or down the back to the anus, with urging to stool. Gastralgia.

Gastralgia worse from food, better from hot drinks; worse in the morning before breakfast.

Pressure in epigastrium, as from a stone; worse mornings and after meals.

Hypochondria

      Stitches in region of liver, worse from contact or motion.

Throbbing as from hepatic abscess.

Liver swollen, indurated, sensitive, with pressure and stinging; cannot bear the clothing tight; caused by high living; abdominal plethora, debauchery.

C. Hering
Hering got the degree of M. D. from the University of Wuezburg with highest honours. The theme of his thesis was "De'Medicina Futura" (The medicine of future). Hering left Germany for West Indies and finally arrived at Philadelphia in Jan, 1833. He established a homeopathic school at Allentown, Pennsylvania, commonly known as "Allentown Academy". Soon he became very popular as a physician. He is known as the 'Father of Homeopathy' in America.