Nux moschata

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.

Mind

Changeable; laughing and crying. Confused, impaired memory. Bewildered sense, as in a dream. Thinks she has two heads.

Head

Vertigo when walking in open air; aches from eating a little too much. Feeling of expansion, with sleepiness. Pulsating in head. Cracking sensation in head. Sensitive to slightest touch in a draught of air. Bursting headache; better hard pressure.

Eyes

Objects look larger, very distant, or vanish. Motes before eyes. Mydriasis.

Nose

Oversensitive to smell; nosebleed, dark blood; dry, stopped up.

Mouth

Very dry. Tongue adheres to roof of mouth; but no desire for water. Saliva like cotton. [Berb.] Toothache in pregnancy. Tongue numb, paralyzed. Dryness of throat.

Stomach p. 474

Excessively bloated. Flatulent dyspepsia. Hiccough, and craving for highly-seasoned food. Retrocession of gout to stomach.

Abdomen p. 474

Paralytic weakness of intestines. Enormously distended. Stool is soft, and yet is unable to expel it, even with long straining. [Alum.] Faintness during or after stool. Protruding piles.

Female p. 474

Uterine hemorrhage. Menses too long, dark, thick. Leucorrhœa muddy and bloody. Suppression, with persistent fainting attacks and sleepiness. [Kalic.] Variableness of menstruation, irregularity of time and quantity.

Respiratory p. 474

Loss of voice from walking against the wind. [| Hep.] Cough when getting warm in bed.

Heart p. 474

Trembling, fluttering. Sensation as if something grasped heart. Palpitation; pulse intermits.

Extremities p. 474

Pain in right hip to knee; worse, motion, especially going upstairs. Rheumatism from getting feet wet, from exposure to draughts. Rheumatism relieved by dry, warm clothes. Fatigue on slight exertion.

Sleep p. 474

Great drowsiness. (Indol.) Complaints cause sleepiness. Coma.

Fever p. 474

Chill begins in left hand. (Carbo.) Chilliness and heat without thirst; want of perspiration. Dry skin and of inner parts, also of eyes, nose, lips, mouth, tongue, throat, etc.

Modalities p. 474

Worse, cold moist wind, cold food, cold washing, lying on painful side, motion, jar. Better, warmth, dry weather.

Relationship p. 474

Oleum myristicæ—Oil of Nutmeg—(as a remedy for boils, felons, poisonous ulcers, it has been used in the 2x potency); Ornithogalum (flatulence, swollen feeling across lower chest; whenever she turns in bed, feels as if a bag of water turned also; gastric ulcer and cancer). Myristica Sebifera (phlegmonous inflammations, hastens suppuration; powerful antiseptic. Ulcerative tendency in all tissues. Said to act more powerfully than Hepar and Silica).

Compare: Nuxv.; Puls.; Rhus; Ign.; Asaf.

Antidotes: Camph.; Gels.; Valer.