NUX MOSCHATA


NUX MOSCHATA symptoms of the homeopathy remedy from Homeopathic Drug Pictures by M.L. Tyler. What are the symptoms of NUX MOSCHATA? Keynote indications and personality traits of NUX MOSCHATA…


      Nutmeg.

Introduction

      OF nutmeg, Kent says: “A little remedy, but, when needed, nothing will take its place.”

It so happens that one has come across this remedy several times, in rather dramatic circumstances, and has witnessed its rapid and wonderful action. Therefore it is a drug one is greatly tempted to write about-probably little known-one of those remedies that will never “work out” unless one takes only its own peculiar symptoms-which are entirely distinctive.

A FIRST EXPERIENCE Many years ago, in a state of greatest anxiety in regard to a patient of 80, with cerebral thrombosis, paralyzed and comatose for nine weeks, where the coma had become so deep that it was almost impossible to get a mouthful of anything down, one went off late at night to ask advice of a certain homoeopathic doctor in the south of London.

Absolutely the right man to go to! for he had a curious tale to tell. He had himself had bouts of indifference and automatic conduct after rather frequent attacks of influenza (and influenza was severe in those days!) in such sort that he would carry his letters about for days unopened; took interest in nothing, and was pretty useless to his patients, who nevertheless trusted him greatly, and made allowance for his post-influenzal state, and waited for it to lift. It was Nux mosch. that had proved the magic remedy and restored him to usefulness. He was therefore able to point out its “virtues” and its applicability to the case in point.

And it worked-just a dose of the 200 (so far as one remembers) and all anxiety in regard to the patient was at an end. She promptly woke up, and thereafter made a marvellous recovery, living on for another five years, in full possession of her faculties. Other remedies (notably Zincum met. in very high potency) helped later; but it was Nux. mosch. that, humanly speaking, saved her life. After such an experience, one never forgets a remedy.

Here is another memory of nutmeg.

Some years ago a girl of 22 came, in a curious state, for help. Eight months previously, for boils, she had eaten a nutmeg; had ground it up and eaten it with bread and butter. This interesting experience had already cost them L100 in attempts at treatment, she said.

She described what had happened.

She became sleepy: eyes only half-open.

Felt she was losing consciousness: felt paralysed; numb.

Took castor oil, and salts.

Repeated attacks of unconsciousness.

They tried to make her sick, and she vomited the castor oil.

They thought she was “gone”.

Her heart was affected. Felt she was slipping down to one side.

Was in bed for one month, and never well since. Very nervous.

Now-if tired, feels frightened (? of what?). Easily gets tired. Has had fear of death.

Dreams -nightmares: aeroplane crashes: is chased.

Indigestion. Skin oily, all over head, face, back. Greasy.

She gave a number of symptoms, among them: Axillae pour with sweat. She had been vaccinated twice, first took slightly, second did not take.

One was tempted by Thuja, and by Nux mosch. high. But she got Thuja 1m, 10m, 50 m on three following mornings.

In three weeks’ time, “Distinctly better; no more nightmares; giddy attacks less frequent. It (the medicine) has put fresh life into me and I feel capable of doing anything now.” And in another month, “I am a different person, and you’d hardly recognize me. Playing tennis daily, and except for a qualm here and there, almost my old self.” But some indigestion still for which she got Nux mosch. 200 and 1m on two succeeding mornings, and was not heard of again for eleven months.

Kent says, It is better to do nothing than something wrong. In this case, a dose or two of Thuja would have cured the boils, and she might have saved her L100.

Nux. mosch. has been used to promote abortion. Its action is specific here, see symptoms. One remembers one or two such cases, long ago; in all of them there had been the extreme sleepiness and comatose condition. But the effects have seemed to wear off quickly, in such cases.

CLARKE (Dictionary) gives one or two interesting instances of the effects of nutmeg: interesting and important because what nutmeg can cause, that, and that only, it can cure.

A young man ate two nutmegs one morning. In afternoon was exhilarated, able to do more than usual, to argue on any subject. At dinner mouth dry, great thirst, felt could not drink enough to quench it. After dinner head felt strange, as if in a dream but he joined a small musical party, as he had intended. He seemed to be two persons, and his real conscious self seemed to be watching his other self playing. He could not play well: had to desist: seemed lost, and when spoken to would come to himself with a start. Hearing for distant sounds much more acute than usual. A woman who ate two nutmegs with the idea of bringing on abortion had a hallucination that she had two heads. Another woman, when consciousness returned kept hands to her head “to prevent it falling off”; was obliged to move her head with her hands, it being “too large and heavy for her body”. Clarke also emphasizes three great keynotes of Nux mosch.-Drowsiness: Chilliness: and Dryness. “The saliva seems thick, like cotton.” Another keynote, Tendency to fainting. Clairvoyant state: answers questions accurately quite out of her sphere, and on returning to consciousness knows nothing about it.

For dual personality compare, Baptisia, Petrol., Pyrog.

BLACK LETTER SYMPTOMS

      MENTALLY: Stupor and insensibility: unconquerable sleep.

Vanishing of thoughts while talking, reading, or writing.

Weakness and loss of memory.

Uses wrong words (during headache).

Surrounding seems changed; fanciful, dreamy images; does not recognize the known street. (Opium)

Inclination to laugh at everything, more in open air.

Sensation as if all vessels were pulsating, especially in HEAD; a throbbing, pressing pain, confined to small spots, principally to left supraorbital ridge.

Severe tearing in occiput, towards nape of neck.

Dryness of EYES: too dry to close lids.

TONGUE paralysed: difficult to move tongue: dry, feels as if gone to sleep or leather covered. At night dry, as if it would fall into powder; sticks to roof of mouth; great complaint of its dryness; in reality not very dry.

Mouths so dry that tongue sticks to roof, yet no thirst (evening).

Greatly troubled with dryness of mouth and throat while sleeping: always wakes with a very dry tongue, but without thirst.

STOMACH: No thirst, with dry mouth.

Eating a little too much causes headache.

Vomiting: spasmodic; during pregnancy; from irritation of pessaries; from acid stomach; flatulence.

Fullness in stomach impeding breathing: during pregnancy.

STOOL: soft but difficult rectum inactive; slow; undigested; with great sleepiness.

MENSES irregular in time and quantity: too early and profuse; too late, preceded by pain in back. Flow generally dark, thick pain in small of back, as if a piece of wood were lying crosswise and being pressed out, unconquerable drowsiness: mouth dry: hysteric laughter.

Threatened abortion; hysterical females disposed to fainting; feel chilly and catch cold easily; fears she will abort; continued and obstinate flooding.

Hoarseness from walking against wind.

Difficult inhalation: hysteric asthma.

Dyspnoea with feeling of weight in CHEST.

Stitches in chest: tightness; splitting of blood.

Pains now in BACK: now in sacrum: knees very tired: worse during rest. Lumbago.

Pain in sacrum when riding in a carriage.

HANDS cold as if frozen: tingling under nails, on entering a warm room.

NERVES. Drowsiness: torpor: lethargy.

Spasms: hysterical in inner parts: chronic hysteric fits: convulsive motions.

Hysteria: exhausted from least effort.

Complaints cause sleepiness: irresistibly drowsy; sleepy, muddled, as if intoxicated; coma, lies silent, immovable: eyes closed: strange feeling on walking.

Want of sweat: skin cool and dry.

QUEER SENSATIONS

      As if drunk: limbs floating in air; head feels as large again.

As if brain struck against side of head.

As if all vessels were pulsating.

As if head would burst.

Brain as if loose.

Jaws as if paralysed.

Teeth as if held in grip: teeth as if loose.

As if tongue would stick to palate.

As if she had eaten herring.

As if a piece of bacon were in throat.

Food forms lumps in stomach.

As if it were full of knots: a lump in abdomen.

As if a piece of wood stretched across small of back were pressing from within outwards.

As if heart would be squeezed off. (Cact., Lilium tigrinum) As if heart stopping. (Gelsemium, Digitalis)

Chest too narrow: a knife plunged into chest.

As if heart were stopping: blood rushing to heart, thence to head and all over body. Heart grasped. (Cact., Digitalis)

Grasping sensations, heart, upper arm, knee.

Sensations of a blow from a fist: lumbar muscles, calves.

Parts on which he lies feel sore. (Arnica)

As if bone from knee to ankle has been smashed from a blow.

Dryness of eyes, nose, lips, mouth, tongue, throat; or at least a feeling of dryness.

Limbs as if floating in air.

Among the symptoms of poisonings by nutmeg given in the Cyclopedia of Drug Pathogenesy one notices also again and again its effects on the pelvic organs-ovaries and womb much swollen and tender to touch: many of the symptoms went on or recurred for months. The head is described by one after the other, as heavy: “would put hands to head to prevent it from dropping off”: it felt greatly enlarged: “obliged to use her hands to move her head, it being too large and heavy for the body.” “Head felt much too large, and drawn back.” Everything too large: hands double their size in one case objects grew smaller. Respirations were greatly affected, “the power of breathing was leaving me.” In one case, attempts to separate the hands brought on convulsions. “Dared not sleep, lest she should die.” “Hand red: covered with red spots, and enlarged.” Floating sensations. “Heart seemed to beat in a vacuum: felt numb and cold: as if it dripped: as if it actions were suspended,” and so on.

Margaret Lucy Tyler
Margaret Lucy Tyler, 1875 – 1943, was an English homeopath who was a student of James Tyler Kent. She qualified in medicine in 1903 at the age of 44 and served on the staff of the London Homeopathic Hospital until her death forty years later. Margaret Tyler became one of the most influential homeopaths of all time. Margaret Tyler wrote - How Not to Practice Homeopathy, Homeopathic Drug Pictures, Repertorising with Sir John Weir, Pointers to some Hayfever remedies, Pointers to Common Remedies.