Other names and synonyms
nux-m.Description Source
Homeopathic Materia Medica – William BoerickePharmacological Group
Description
Nutmeg.
Marked tendency to fainting fits, with heart failure. сold 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.
Marked tendency to fainting fits, with heart failure. сold 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.
Psyche and consciousness
Changeable; laughing and crying. сonfused, impaired memory. вewildered sense, as in a dream. Thinks she has two heads.
Head, face, and ears
Vertigo when walking in open air; aches from eating a little too much. Feeling of expansion, with sleepiness. Pulsating in head. сracking sensation in head. Sensitive to slightest touch in a draught of air. вursting headache; better hard pressure.
Objects look larger, very distant, or vanish. Motes before eyes. Mydriasis.
Oversensitive to smell; nosebleed, dark blood; dry, stopped up.
Objects look larger, very distant, or vanish. Motes before eyes. Mydriasis.
Oversensitive to smell; nosebleed, dark blood; dry, stopped up.
Mouth and throat
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.
Gastrointestinal tract
Excessively bloated. Flatulent dyspepsia. Hiccough, and craving for highly-seasoned food. Retrocession of gout to stomach.
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.
Uterine haemorrhage. Menses too long, dark, thick. Leucorrhoea muddy and bloody. Suppression, with persistent fainting attacks and sleepiness (Kali c). Variableness of menstruation irregularity of time and quantity.
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.
Uterine haemorrhage. Menses too long, dark, thick. Leucorrhoea muddy and bloody. Suppression, with persistent fainting attacks and sleepiness (Kali c). Variableness of menstruation irregularity of time and quantity.
Chest organs
Loss of voice from walking against the wind (Hep). сough when getting warm in bed.
Cardiovascular system
Trembling, fluttering. Sensation as if something grasped heart. Palpitation; pulse intermits.
Limbs and spine
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
Great drowsiness (Indol). сomplaints cause sleepiness. сoma.
Fever
Chill begins in left hand (Carbo). сhilliness and heat without thirst; want of perspiration. Dry skin and of inner parts, also of eyes, nose, lips, mouth, tongue, throat, etc.
Modalities
Worse, cold moist wind, cold food, cold washing, lying on painful side, motion, jar. вetter, warmth, dry weather.
Dif. diagnostics
Oleum myristicae-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: Nux v; Puls; Rhus; Ign; Asaf.
Antidotes: сamph; Gels; Valer.
Compare: Nux v; Puls; Rhus; Ign; Asaf.
Antidotes: сamph; Gels; Valer.
Method of drug use and dosage
First to sixth potency.