NUX VOMICA
By C.M. Boger â A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica
REGION
- Cerebro-spinal axis.
- NERVES.
- DIGESTIVE ORGANS: STOMACH. LIVER. Bowels.
- RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
- Male brunettes.
WORSE
- EARLY MORNING.
- COLD: OPEN AIR (Dry). Drafts. Seats. Wind. UNCOVERING.
- HIGH LIVING: COFFEE. Condiments. Liquor. Drugs. Debauchery. Purgatives.
- Sedentary habits.
- Overeating.
- Mental: Exertion. Fatigue. Vexation.
- Disturbed sleep.
- SLIGHT CAUSES: Anger. Noise. Odors. Light. Touch. PRESSURE: of clothes, < waist.
BETTER
- FREE DISCHARGES.
- Naps (Kali-bi.).
- Wrapping head.
- Resting.
- Hot drinks.
- Milk.
- Moist air.
VIOLENT ACTION; often irregularly fitful or inefficient. Increased reflexes. Irritable and hypersensitive, mentally and physically. Firm fibred brunette. Twistings. Jerks. Spasms; with consciousness. Tense, contracted feeling. Lightning-like pains. Neuralgia; prodromal. Sensation as of a rough body internally. Bruised soreness; OF ABDOMEN, brain, etc. INTERNAL scrapy RAWNESS; throat, larynx, etc. Takes colds. Biliousness. Faintings after vomiting, after stool, after labor pains, etc. .................... Sensitive and critical. Active, ANGRY AND IMPATIENT; can't stand pain; so mad, he cries. Zealous, nervous and excitable. Nagging. Spiteful. Irritable hypochondriasis. Sullen. Fears poverty. Violent, ugly (suicidal) impulses. Vertigo; on an empty stomach; with blank spells. Sensitive scalp. Swelled forehead.Lachrymation; on affected side. Migraine. Blood-shot eyes. Sore nostrils. Nose stopped, but runs water; on one side. Sneezing; violent; abortive; from intense crawling in (l) nostril. Coryza; fluent by day and in open air, dry at night. Epistaxis on coughing. Acute smell. Red, turgid or yelowish face, < about nose and mouth. Left angle of mouth droops. Jaws snap shut; stiff. Teeth chatter. Fetor oris. TASTE, biter -sour; bad in A.M. Itching palate; Eustachian tube. Rough, scratchy throat; putrid taste in, on coughing. Craves piquant foods or stimulants. HICCOUGH. Violent retching, < hawking. Eructations; sour. Heart-burn. Water - brash. Nausea; > . VIOLENT VOMITING; bilious-sour. Gastric pains, into back; chest; > vomiting, etc. As of a band about waist; . Indigestion. Liver sore; sticking; enlarged. Gall-stone colic. Bowels gripe here and there. SORE BOWELS, < COUGHING OR STEPPING. Hernia; infantile. Flatulent colic. UNEASY, FRUITLESS URGING FOR BOWELS TO ACT, > STOOL. Strains hard at stool. Inactive peristalsis. ; retained flatus; as if more stool remained; spasm of. Obstipation. PILES; itching; > cool bathing. Sexual erethism. Onanism. Premature ejaculation. or intermittent; of dark, lumpy blood. DysmenorrhÅal cramps; spread over whole body. , throwing the patient down; paroxysmal; whooping. Painfully stiff neck; pains down (r) shoulder. Lumbar ache, as if breaking; . Acute lumbago. Crawling along spine. Shooting from toes to thighs, < after stool. Tense cramps in calves and soles. Feet feel clubby and raw. Goose-skin. Jaundice. . Sleepy in evening or sleepless from rush of ideas. ; . Finally sleeps, but on waking feels miserable. Night-mare. Chill with thirst and heat without thirst. EASILY CHILLED; CAN'T UNCOVER, < ; < drinking even during the heat. Sour sweat.
Complementary: Kali-c. Pho. Sul.
Related: Ign. Lyc.