Nux moschata

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 the contrary, Mercur., where the tongue is very moist, perhaps dripping with saliva, and there is great thirst.) Affections of the temples, e.g., headaches with very dry mouth and no desire for water; sensation of dryness in the inner parts; buzzing, humming, or "funny feeling" in the body; dryness of the skin. Rheumatism of left shoulder.

Worse.--In the open air; in cold air; in cold and wet weather; when the weather changes, whether from dry and pleasant to wet, or vice versa, until it becomes settled; in wet weather; in windy weather; lying on painful side.

Better.--In the room; air being warm; in dry weather.

Remedies following:--Lycop., Nux vom., Pulsat., Rhus tox., Stramon., Tart. emet.

Antidote:--Camphor.