- Allen HC — The keynotes that separate this remedy from its nearest neighbours.
“Poison Nut. (Loganiaccae.) Adapted to thin, irritable, careful, zealous persons with dark hair and bilious or sanguine temperament. Disposed to be quarrelsome, spiteful, malacious ; nervous and melancholic. Debauchers of a thin, irritable, nervous disposition ; prone to indigestion and haemorrhoids (persons with light…”
- Allen TF — A compiled symptom record drawing on proving reports and other named observations.
“Strychnos nux vomica, Linn. Natural order , Loganiaceæ. Common names , Poison-nut; Kuchila (Bengal); (G.), Kræhenaugen; (Fr.), Noix vomique; (also known as false angustura bark). Preparation , Tincture or trituration of the seed. Authorities. (Nos. 1 to 18 , from Hahnemann, R. A. M. L., 1, fourth ed.).”
- Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Poison-nut Is the greatest of polychrests, because the bulk of its symptoms correspond in similarity with those of the commonest and most frequent of diseases. It is frequently the first remedy, indicated after much dosing, establishing a sort of equilibrium of forces and counteracting chronic effects. Nux is…”
- Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“ACHING ADHESIVE, adherent, torn, loose, etc. (Comp. Sticky) ANGER, IRRITABILITY FRETFULNESS, BAD TEMPER, ETC. (COMP. EMOTIONS) ANGINA PECTORIS APPETITE, CHANGED ASCENDING, Agg. ASSOCIATED effects. BALL. BLACK, dark, etc. BLOOD SEPSIS, etc. BLUISH, purple, livid, etc. BREAKING, broken, brittle, etc. BURNING, stinging…”
- Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Strychnos nux vomica. Poison nut. N. O. Loganiaceæ. Tincture and Trituration of imported seeds. Acne rosacea / Alcoholism / Amaurosis / Amblyopia / Anger, effects of / Apoplexy / Asthma / Bilious attack / Biliousness / Bladder, affections of / Bone, nodes on / Bra in, affections of / Breath, sour / Carriage-sickness /…”
- Farrington — The differential diagnosis — remedy families narrowed through direct clinical comparison.
“NUX VOMICA. Nux vomica is a drug that was known as early as 1540, A.D., in which year, one Valerius Cordus wrote a remarkably accurate description of it. The fruit of the tree is about the size of an orange and contains a bitter gelatinous pulp. This pulp, it is said, is eaten by some of the birds of India, although…”
- Guernsey — The leading characteristics — a compact bridge from repertory result to remedy study.
“Mental.--Irritability of a sullen cast; no desire to hold communication with any one; gives surly answers; does not wish to be touched; disinclination to do or say anything; wants to be alone, is quiet and sullen; will scold severely, and abuse when talked to; malicious. Dizziness of the mind, i.e., an unsteady…”
- Hahnemann (MMP) — The proving record — numbered observations closest to Hahnemann's primary materia medica.
“(Seeds of Strychnos nux vomica) (Ten grains of nux vomica seed, finely triturated in a warm mortar, are macerated with 1000 drops of alcohol, without heat, for a week, to make a tincture. Of this, one drop is raised to the decillion-fold potency through 29 other diluting phials, each filled to three quarters with…”
- Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Poison Nut. Loganiaceæ. The seeds of Strychnos Nux Vomica ; a tree native to Hindostan and the East Indies. The alcoholic tincture is prepared from the finely pulverized seed. Introduced by Hahnemann and proved upon himself, his son Frederick, Stapf, Wahle and Flaeming. Later provings by Robinson, Berridge and Wilson…”
- Hughes & Dake — The source evidence — provings and poisonings retained with their experimental context.
“NUX VOMICA. Seeds of StrycAnos Nux vomicoj L. Poison-nut. Nat. Ord., Legaaiaeta, I. Provings. — I. Hahnemakk, Mat, Med, Ptfr<i, part i of original^ vol. ii of English translation. Contains 1200 symptoms from self^ and 300 from three fellow-provers and thirteen authors. II. Poisonings, — i. a» Pierre Duste, set. 45, of…”
- Kent — The mental and general picture — how Kent organizes the remedy’s historical symptom portrait.
“Antidote : Everywhere in this remedy we observe the striking oversensitiveness of the patient; it is brought out in all the symptoms. Irritable; oversensitive to noise, to light, to the least current of air, to his surroundings; extremely touchy in regard to his food; many kinds of food disturb, strong foods disturb…”
- Lippe (KN) — Only the symptoms Lippe considered reliable enough to prescribe on.
“Nausea and vomiting every morning with depression of spirits. Nausea and vomiting after eating. Constant nausea. Pressure in the stomach an hour or two after eating. Pressure as from a stone in the stomach. Sleepy after dinner. Flatulent distension after eating or drinking. Cannot use the mind and pain in the stomach…”
- Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Anger, with habitual malicious, spiteful disposition. Fiery, excited temperament. Inclined to find fault and scold; morose; stubborn. Over-sensitiveness to external impressions, noise, smells; light and music are unbearable and affect him much; anxiety and restlessness in the evening. Anxiety with irritability and…”
- Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common name: poison nut. Is the greatest of polychrests, because the bulk of its symptoms correspond in similarity with those of the commonest and most frequent diseases (Br.). One of the best remedies with which to commence treatment of cases that have been drugged by mixtures, bitters, vegetable pills, nostrums or…”
- Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“For very particular, careful, zealous persons, inclined to get excited or angry, spiteful, malicious disposition, mental workers or those having sedentary occupations. Over-sensitiveness, easily offended; very little noise frightens, cannot bear the least even suitable medicine; faints easily from odors, etc…”
- Nash (Respiratory) — The respiratory picture — the cough, the breathing, and the expectoration that separate one remedy from another.
“Nux vomica is another splendid remedy for the first stage of a “cold.” The nose is stopped, or stops at night and runs through the day. There is frontal headache. Throat sore and very sensitive to inhaled cold air. But the most characteristic indication is that the patient is chilly on the least motion or uncovering…”
- Nash (Typhoid) — The course of the illness — which remedy fits which phase, and why.
“Nux vomica. In the case of sedentary men who come down with severe headache and constipation, with frequent desire for stools, which do not satisfy, or ineffectual efforts at stool, and especially if with very high fever and bright red face there is constant desire to be covered, for he is chilly if he moves or is…”
- Roberts — Location, sensation, and modality — the three-fold basis Roberts used to separate remedies.
“The call for Nux vomica may be for almost any form of rheumatism, when associated with the great leading symptoms, and when the trouble affects the larger muscles and joints. Nux vomica antidotes the neuralgia of Mezereum. Tearing pains in eyes, lids very red and sensitive to touch, intolerance of light; profuse…”
- Tyler — The whole picture — temperament and leading symptoms drawn as one portrait.
“No household should be without its little homoeopathic medicine chest for common ailments, and no homoeopathic medicine chest should be without Nux. The nursery medicine chest when we were children contained Nux, and the nurses were not far wrong when they dubbed it “temper medicine”. Hahnemann, writing about Nux…”
