Moschus appears in 11 of the 13 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.
- Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“Moschus moschiferus, L. Class , Mammalia; Order , Ungulata; Family , Bovidæ; Tribe , Moschina. Common name , Musk deer. Preparations , Trituration of the inspissated secretion contained in the preputial follicles. Authorities. (Nos. 1 to 35 , from Hahnemann, with annotations by Dr. Hughes); 1 , Hahnemann, R. A. M. L…”
- Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Musk A remedy for hysteria and nervous paroxysms, fainting fits and convulsions, catalepsy, etc. The characteristic condition being aggravation by cold; there is great sensitiveness to air. Much nervous trembling and frequent fainting. Great flatulence. Diseases do not follow a normal course. Coldness . Tension in…”
- Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“AMMONIACAL ODOR CHILLY, cold FAINT, faints easily, etc. NERVES, nervous patients, etc. REACTION, poor (Comp. Inactive.)”
- Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“moschiferus. Musk Deer. N. O. Mammalia. Trituration of inspissated secretion contained in preputial follicles. Angina pectoris / Catalepsy / Croup / Diabetes / Dyspnœa / Epilepsy / Fainting / Heart, failure of / Herpes, mercurial and venereal / Hiccough / Hypochondriasis / Hysteria / Hystero-epilepsy / Impotence /…”
- Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Musk Deer. Moschina. The dried secretion from the musk sac of Moschus Moschiferous, a native of Central Asia. Provings by Hahnemann, Gross and Stapf (Mat. Med. Pura., vol. 1, p. 316). CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. Epistaxis , Hartmann, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 413 ; Incontinence of urine , Young, Hahn. Mo., vol. 6, p. 172 …”
- Kent — The mental and general picture — who the patient is, before what the remedy cures.
“Moschus cures many hysterical girls who have come to adult age without ever learning what obedience means. They are self-willed, obstinate and selfish. When they have been encouraged to resort to crafty cunning, to have every whim gratified from infancy to eighteen years of age they become fit subjects for Mosch., Asa…”
- Lippe (KN) — Only the symptoms Lippe considered reliable enough to prescribe on.
“Trembling and quaking through the whole body. Tingling with heaviness in the limbs. Debility, which is more felt during rest than during motion. Fainting followed by headache. Spasm of the chest. The parts on which he lies pain as if dislocated and broken. The symptoms, especially those pertaining to the respiration…”
- Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Great anxiety with palpitation of the heart. Hypochondriacal anxiety and ill humor. Vertigo as soon as the head is moved. Stupefying, compressing headache, mostly in the forehead, with nausea in the evening, worse when moving the head and in the room, better in the open air. Tension in the back part of the head and…”
- Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common name: musk. Through the cerebro-spinal system it especially affects the sexual organs and nerves of motion (Bt.). The open air appears to him sensitively cold. The symptoms, especially those pertaining to the respiration, are aggravated by becoming cold. Tightness of the chest; is obliged to take a deeper…”
- Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“Here are five so-called hysterical remedies. They have many nervous symptoms that are similar, and I will only give a few characteristic symptoms of each and leave their study to those who love to study. Moschus. “Hysterical spasms of the chest, nervous suffocative constrictions, especially on becoming cold.”…”
