Common names: Poison-nut; Kuchila (Bengal); (G), Kraehenaugen; (Fr.), Noix vomique; (also known as false angustura bark).
Introduction
Strychnos Nux vomica, Linn.
Natural order: Loganiaceae.
Preparation: Tincture or trituration of the seed.
Mind
Emotional. (Anxious, delirious fantasies, in the evening in bed, in the ninth hour, as if some one would get into his bed, and there was no room in it; or as if some one had sold his bed, etc.). Slight delirium, a kind of coma vigil. Rushed into the room, exclaiming that her mother had been murdered (after one hour and a half). He is hasty; looked angrily at any one who asked him a question without answering, as though he was obliged to restrain himself to avoid being insulting; he was in such an irritable and unrestrained mood that it seemed as though he would like to strike any one in the face who spoke a word to him.
(Suicide; she throws herself down from a height). The usual pain seems intolerable; she would rather take her life. Very much inclined to violently reproach others for their faults. He quarrels, reproaches, scolds, insults from jealousy, mingled with unchaste expressions; soon afterwards howls and weeps aloud.
Quarrelsome, even to violence. Pains not endured without loud cries and complaints, mingled with reproaches and quarrelling. He knits his brows and folds his arms. He obstinately resists what is desired by others (after one hour). He is fearful and frightened, and starts easily; therewith the head seems intoxicated and is dizzy. An intoxication mounting to the head.
Intoxication (after half an hour). Intoxication. She cannot tolerate the slightest contradiction or the most gentle persuasions to do differently, which make her beside herself.
Over-sensitive to impressions upon the senses; he cannot tolerate strong odors or bright light. He cannot tolerate a noise or talking; music and singing affect him. She cannot endure the slightest ailment. Great aversion to fluids, which were swallowed with great difficulty and often not at all. Taciturn, as if averse to everything. She moans and groans piteously without any assignable cause. She weeps aloud and sobs (after three hours).
Extremely solicitous and inconsolable; breaks out into loud weeping, with complaints and reproaches that at times change to constant groaning, with very red, hot cheeks, without thirst. He weeps if the least thing is done contrary to his wishes. She wept occasionally. Extremely tender, gentle mood; music affects him to tears. (While sad she is unable to weep). Silent grief and sadness. Sadness. Despondent and fretful. Apprehension, oppression, and a feeling of intoxication, in the evening, while walking. Uneasiness, with very easily dilated pupils (after fifty-six hours). Intolerable anxiety for an hour. Extraordinary anxiety. Extreme anxiety, with violent palpitation, that impels him to suicide, after midnight (after five hours). Extreme anxiety. (* An immediate precursor of death.-HUGHES. *) Great anxiety; he had to rise from any place and wished rather to die.
Great anxiety. Anxiety; an anxious solicitude, as though something serious were dreaded, in the morning and afternoon (during the fifth hour). Anxiety, with desire to commit suicide.
Anxiety and apprehension, as if he had committed a crime.
Anxiety; he could not remain quietly in any place. Anxiety, caused by a suspicious and apprehensive condition of mind, especially during the afternoon hours. Anxiety, with orgasm of blood and ill-humor, in the morning on waking; all of these disappearing on rising. Anxiety, that causes perspiration, at least on the forehead. Anxiety, causing only internal heat, followed by perspiration on the forehead (after a few hours).
Anxious solicitude and irresolution. Anxiety; in sleep he threw off the covering. Anxiety, in the evening, after lying down, followed by sweat after midnight. Dreads death. She believes that she is near death. She was in great alarm, kept fast hold on her husband and refused to let him go. Easily startled. She is peevish and lachrymose. She is peevish, thoughtful, takes every thing ill-naturedly, and easily quarrels and scolds (after two, and three hours). Scornful, peevish, inclined to be angry (after one hour). She is very much inclined to quarrelsome vexation.
Everything miscarries with him; it seems to go contrary (after six hours). Ill-humored, and very sad after eating. Hypochondriac mood after dinner, and still more after supper. Hypochondriac, sullen mood. Very hypochondriac, and affected by the slightest thing, after eating. Ennui; the time seems intolerably long, during the first hours. She seeks rest and quiet. Laughing and weeping alternately in quick succession. Irresolution; constant fickleness in his plans. Dawdles and is irresolute. Intellectual.
He scarcely knows himself on account of excessive flow of ideas, in the morning after rising (after ten hours). She wishes to accomplish much, but thinks it will not succeed. The intellectual faculties apparently remained perfect to the last. Dread of that kind of literary work at which one must think and employ the ideas, whether to be elaborated by writing or delivered orally, in the morning; but he is not averse to reading or committing to memory (after sixteen hours). Inability for mental work; the blood mounts to the head till towards evening. The intellectual faculties appeared a little troubled. Unable to think correctly.
He thinks that everything miscarries with him. He is especially hindered in scientific experiments; he does not himself know why.
Indolent at every undertaking in business; she soon becomes weary. He has no patience for work. No desire for work. He is completely averse to work, though not to moving about (after two hours). He easily makes mistakes while talking and writing, omits syllables and even whole words (after six and twelve hours).
Frequently makes mistakes while talking, has great trouble to find the words, and uses unsuitable expressions; he makes mistakes in weights and measures. Taciturn; slow flow of ideas.
She remembers scarcely anything from the time of her fall to being brought home. He could with difficulty collect his ideas.
Clear consciousness of his existence; fine, strong, correct feeling of right and wrong. Loss of consciousness. Stupefaction.
Head
Confusion and Vertigo. Confusion of the head after dinner, that returns after twenty-four hours (after twenty-four, and seventy- two hours). Confusion of the head, as after a night’s carousal.
Intoxicated confusion in the head. Paroxysms of vertigo, as if the brain were turning in a circle, with momentary loss of consciousness. Vertigo, with obscuration of vision, while eating, as when one goes suddenly from the cold air into a warm room.
While lying on the back it was impossible to raise the head on account of vertigo and obscuration of vision (after twenty- four hours). Vertigo, with obscuration of vision. Vertigo, while walking after eating, disappearing on standing still (after one hour). Vertigo, as if one neither heard nor saw, with the sneezing, coughing, or on rising after stooping low down.
Vertigo, as if the bed were whirling around with her, two evenings in succession, after lying down. Vertigo, like a whirling, during eructations. Vertigo after dinner (lasting an hour and a half). Faint like vertigo (immediately). Vertigo, as if he would fall to one side (after sixty- eight hours). Whirling vertigo, while eating. Vertigo. Drawing sensation, with vertigo here and there, in the brain (after six hours). Extreme giddiness, obliging him to discontinue his work (after four to five days). While out on an errand was suddenly seized with giddiness. Giddiness, a kind of staggering feel (after several days). Transient giddiness, repeated several times (second day).
Giddiness, with pains shooting through the head, and going off in an instant (after several days). Dizzy reeling while walking, as if one would fall to the side or backward. Head in General.
Fullness in head; partial headache; could not study; buzzing in head, disappearing in course of evening (second day). Congestion of the brain, with vertigo, roaring in the ears, and blackness before the eyes. Reeling sensation in the brain. Intoxicated dizzy heaviness of the head, in the morning. Burning in the brain, beneath the frontal bone. Heaviness of the head, in the morning (after four days). Excessive heaviness of the head, on stooping. A stupid feeling in the head if he holds it erect; if he bends it down a sensation in the forehead as if something heavy fell into it. A stupid feeling in the head, in the open air and in the sunlight. Stupefaction in the brain. It seems as though there were an obscuration in the back part of the head.
Dulness of the head. Head wonderfully dull; on moving it blood rushes into it, with sluggishness of the rest of the body. Dull aching in medulla oblongata (second day). Headache in the middle of the brain, on waking in the morning; felt even before opening the eyes (after twelve hours). Intolerable (burrowing?) headache commencing in the morning while lying in bed, disappearing after rising (after a few hours). Headache commencing a few hours before dinner; worse after eating; followed by violent stitches in the left temple, with nausea and very sour vomiting; the symptoms disappear in the evening, after lying down. (Headache in the morning, a constant picking (dull sticking throbbing); worse on stooping, when it seems as though a piece of the forehead would fall out). Tensive headache, at night. Tearing-drawing headache. Tearing headache in the head, extending to the root of the nose and upper jaw, aggravated by walking. Tearing headache after eating, with a feeling of heat in the cheeks and a chilly sensation over the body, at least in the hands. Pressive headache (after five minutes). Pressive pain in the middle of the brain, on closing the eyes, like that which occurs after vomiting.
Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.