- Allen HC — The keynotes that separate this remedy from its nearest neighbours.
“Nutmeg. (Myristicaceae.) Adapted especially to women and children of a nervous hysterical temperament (Ign.); to people with a dry skin who rarely perspire ; complaints of pregnancy. Weakness of old age; dyspepsia of old people. Oversensitive: to light; of hearing; of smell; to touch. All the ailments are accompanied…”
- Allen TF — A compiled symptom record drawing on proving reports and other named observations.
“Myristica fragrans, Houttuyn (1774). M. moschata, Thunb.; M. officinalis, Linn.; M. aromatica, Lam. Natural order , Myristicaceæ. Common names , Nutmeg; Muskate. Preparation , Tincture and triturations of the seed deprived of its arillus (mace) and testa. Authorities. (Nos. 1 to 48 , from Helbig, Heraklides, part 1…”
- Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Nutmeg Marked tendency to fainting fits , with heart failure. Cold extremities, extreme dryness of mucous membranes and skin. Strange feeling, with irresistible drowsiness . Indicanuria. General inclination to become unconscious during acute attacks. Lypothymia ( Ignatia ). Staggers on trying to walk. Changeable…”
- Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“BALL. CHANGE OF TEMPERATURE, weather, seasons, oncoming storms, etc. Agg. COATED FEELING DAMPNESS, getting wet, wet weather, bathing, working in water, damp rooms, etc., Agg. DRYNESS DRYNESS, PARTIAL, LOCAL DUALITY, in pieces, separated, as if some one else, etc. EATING, affected by. FAINT, faints easily, etc…”
- Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“SENSORIUM. Mind. NERVES. FEMALE ORGANS. Digestion. Children and old women. Cold: Bath. Damp. Drafts. Wind. Fogs. Feet. Pregnancy. Change of seasons. EMOTIONS. Excitement. MENSTRUATION. Jar. Bruises. Slight causes. Mental exertion or shock. Moist heat. Warm room. Dry weather. Narcotic effects and dryness. Little pain…”
- Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Myristica fragrans. M. officinalis. M. moschata. Nutmeg. N. O. Myristicaceæ. Tincture of powdered seeds deprived of the Mace. [This is the official direction. But it would be well to make a tincture of the nut with the Mace, as some symptoms of Mace are included. Also a fresh nut and fresh plant tincture should be…”
- Guernsey — The leading characteristics — a compact bridge from repertory result to remedy study.
“Sleep.--Drowsiness; very sleepy; stupor-like sleep; complaints causing sleepiness. Fever.--Chilliness without thirst; heat without thirst: want of perspiration; no thirst. Generalities.--Very dry mouth, so dry that the tongue may adhere to the roof of the mouth, but no desire for water, rather an aversion to it. (On…”
- Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Nutmeg. Myristicaceæ. The nutmeg tree is a native of the East and West Indies. The alcoholic tincture is prepared from the powdered dried root. Introduced by Helbig. For history and list of provers and reports, covering a period of more than eight centuries, see Hering's Monograph. CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. Affection of…”
- Hughes & Dake — The source evidence — provings and poisonings retained with their experimental context.
“NUX MOSCHATA. Kernel q( Mjrhtica o^daaiis, L. Nutmeg, Nat. Ord., Mjrhticaceof, 1. Frovings.— i, Purkinjb. An entire nutmeg, taken piecemeal with 9Ugar, produced nu other effect than a certain dulncss of the organs of sense and some heaviness in locomotion. Three of them, however, taken after a moderate meal, caused…”
- Kent — The mental and general picture — how Kent organizes the remedy’s historical symptom portrait.
“This is not a very great remedy; it has not a very wide range of usefulness, but it is often overlooked when needed. We get into the habit of relying entirely on the polychrests. The old women used to give nutmeg to hysterics, and wonderful to tell its provings justify its use. It must have had some palliative…”
- Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Changeable disposition; hysteria with suddenly changing disposition, great drowsiness and disposition to faint. Very irresolute, changes his intention continually. Absence of mind; vanishing of thoughts in reading, disposition to go to sleep. Dulness of senses, thoughtlessness, with slowly returning consciousness…”
- Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common name: nutmeg. Especially suitable for women and children (Ign.). Great sensitivity of the body and pain of the parts on which one lies (Bell.). Wandering and pressing pains, which always only occupy a small spot (Ign., Kali-B.), last only a short time (Bell.), but soon returns (Mag-P.). Drawing in the limbs…”
- Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“Stupor, insensibility, unconquerable sleep; sleepy with most all complaints. Excessive dryness of the tongue, mouth, lips and throat; no thirst. And in room, dry weather. Changeable humor; one moment laughing, the next crying. The nutmeg, though frequently used for its peculiar flavor in common cookery, is…”
- Nash (Testimony) — The outcome — what the remedy did once the characteristic symptoms were matched.
“Mental Aberration. (93) Case.—Miss R., a Russian Jewess, was brought to my office by her intended husband and a Jewish rabbi, with the following interesting history: One afternoon some five or six months previous, while walking across Brooklyn bridge with her intended husband, she suddenly stopped and, clapping her…”
- Nash (Typhoid) — The course of the illness — which remedy fits which phase, and why.
“Nux moschata, which I have introduced alongside Opium, is not after all so near it as Hyoscyamus, but is nevertheless one of our remedies for febris stupida. It seems to me that it comes closer to Phosphoric acid in its symptomatology than any other remedy, though the stupor is greater. As I wrote in my Leaders in…”
- Roberts — Location, sensation, and modality — the three-fold basis Roberts used to separate remedies.
“In cases of rheumatism consequent upon taking cold, especially from exposure to drafts of air if overheated from exertion, Nux moschata may prove the simillimum. Pains are changeable in character, now here, now there, in warm dry weather and from warm applications. Constricted in nape of neck. DRAWING PAINS IN MUSCLES…”
- Tyler — The whole picture — temperament and leading symptoms drawn as one portrait.
“(Nutmeg) 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…”
