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Nux vomica

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  1. Pharmacological Group
  2. Additional facts
  3. Psyche and consciousness
  4. Head, face, and ears
  5. Nervous system
  6. Analogs by action
  7. Included in the composition
  8. Manufacturers of the drug

Other names and synonyms

nux-v.

Description Source

Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica - TF Allen
Nux vomica

Pharmacological Group

Homeopathic classical monopreparations

Additional facts

 Strychnos Nux vomica, Linn.
 Natural order: Loganiaceae.
 Preparation: Tincture or trituration of the seed.

Psyche and consciousness

 Emotional. Anxious, delirious fantasies, in the evening in bed, in the ninth hour, as if some one would get into his bed, and there was no room in it; or as if some one had sold his bed, etc. Slight delirium, a kind of coma vigil. Rushed into the room, exclaiming that her mother had been murdered (after one hour and a half). He is hasty; looked angrily at any one who asked him a question without answering, as though he was obliged to restrain himself to avoid being insulting; he was in such an irritable and unrestrained mood that it seemed as though he would like to strike any one in the face who spoke a word to him.
 (Suicide; she throws herself down from a height). The usual pain seems intolerable; she would rather take her life. Very much inclined to violently reproach others for their faults. He quarrels, reproaches, scolds, insults from jealousy, mingled with unchaste expressions; soon afterwards howls and weeps aloud.
 Quarrelsome, even to violence. Pains not endured without loud cries and complaints, mingled with reproaches and quarrelling. He knits his brows and folds his arms. He obstinately resists what is desired by others (after one hour). He is fearful and frightened, and starts easily; therewith the head seems intoxicated and is dizzy. An intoxication mounting to the head.
 Intoxication (after half an hour). Intoxication. She cannot tolerate the slightest contradiction or the most gentle persuasions to do differently, which make her beside herself.
 Over-sensitive to impressions upon the senses; he cannot tolerate strong odors or bright light. He cannot tolerate a noise or talking; music and singing affect him. She cannot endure the slightest ailment. Great aversion to fluids, which were swallowed with great difficulty and often not at all. Taciturn, as if averse to everything. She moans and groans piteously without any assignable cause. She weeps aloud and sobs (after three hours).
 Extremely solicitous and inconsolable; breaks out into loud weeping, with complaints and reproaches that at times change to constant groaning, with very red, hot cheeks, without thirst. He weeps if the least thing is done contrary to his wishes. She wept occasionally. Extremely tender, gentle mood; music affects him to tears. While sad she is unable to weep). Silent grief and sadness. Sadness. Despondent and fretful. Apprehension, oppression, and a feeling of intoxication, in the evening, while walking. Uneasiness, with very easily dilated pupils (after fifty-six hours). Intolerable anxiety for an hour. Extraordinary anxiety. Extreme anxiety, with violent palpitation, that impels him to suicide, after midnight (after five hours). Extreme anxiety. An immediate precursor of death. HUGHES. Great anxiety; he had to rise from any place and wished rather to die.
 Great anxiety. Anxiety; an anxious solicitude, as though something serious were dreaded, in the morning and afternoon (during the fifth hour). Anxiety, with desire to commit suicide.
 Anxiety and apprehension, as if he had committed a crime.
 Anxiety; he could not remain quietly in any place. Anxiety, caused by a suspicious and apprehensive condition of mind, especially during the afternoon hours. Anxiety, with orgasm of blood and ill-humor, in the morning on waking; all of these disappearing on rising. Anxiety, that causes perspiration, at least on the forehead. Anxiety, causing only internal heat, followed by perspiration on the forehead (after a few hours).
 Anxious solicitude and irresolution. Anxiety; in sleep he threw off the covering. Anxiety, in the evening, after lying down, followed by sweat after midnight. Dreads death. She believes that she is near death. She was in great alarm, kept fast hold on her husband and refused to let him go. Easily startled. She is peevish and lachrymose. She is peevish, thoughtful, takes every thing ill-naturedly, and easily quarrels and scolds (after two, and three hours). Scornful, peevish, inclined to be angry (after one hour). She is very much inclined to quarrelsome vexation.
 Everything miscarries with him; it seems to go contrary (after six hours). Ill-humored, and very sad after eating. Hypochondriac mood after dinner, and still more after supper. Hypochondriac, sullen mood. Very hypochondriac, and affected by the slightest thing, after eating. Ennui; the time seems intolerably long, during the first hours. She seeks rest and quiet. Laughing and weeping alternately in quick succession. Irresolution; constant fickleness in his plans. Dawdles and is irresolute. Intellectual.
 He scarcely knows himself on account of excessive flow of ideas, in the morning after rising (after ten hours). She wishes to accomplish much, but thinks it will not succeed. The intellectual faculties apparently remained perfect to the last. Dread of that kind of literary work at which one must think and employ the ideas, whether to be elaborated by writing or delivered orally, in the morning; but he is not averse to reading or committing to memory (after sixteen hours). Inability for mental work; the blood mounts to the head till towards evening. The intellectual faculties appeared a little troubled. Unable to think correctly.
 He thinks that everything miscarries with him. He is especially hindered in scientific experiments; he does not himself know why.
 Indolent at every undertaking in business; she soon becomes weary. He has no patience for work. No desire for work. He is completely averse to work, though not to moving about (after two hours). He easily makes mistakes while talking and writing, omits syllables and even whole words (after six and twelve hours).
 Frequently makes mistakes while talking, has great trouble to find the words, and uses unsuitable expressions; he makes mistakes in weights and measures. Taciturn; slow flow of ideas.
 She remembers scarcely anything from the time of her fall to being brought home. He could with difficulty collect his ideas.
 Clear consciousness of his existence; fine, strong, correct feeling of right and wrong. Loss of consciousness. Stupefaction.

Head, face, and ears

 Eye.
 Objective. Glistening, staring eyes. Eyes staring from the head, frequently turned upward, so that one could not see the pupils.
 Eyes wild (after half an hour). Eyes sunken, and moved with a rapid motion. Swelling of the eyes, with red streaks in the whites and pressive-tensive pain. Inflammation of the eyes. The eyes run water, as in a moist inflammation of the eyes (lippitudo) or as in stopped coryza. вlood oozes from the eye.
 Dryness of the right eye (after one hour). Eyes wide open.
 Blinking of the eyes. Eyes closed;on opening them the eyes were found turned upward and rigid, pupils rather contracted, rather insensible to light. Painless injection of the whites of the eyes (after fourteen hours). Subjective. Sensitiveness of the eyes.
 Movements of the eyes difficult on account of stiffness of the muscles of the eyes. Pain in the left eye, as if beaten, with purulent mucus in the external canthus (after five days). (Pain, like needle stitches, in the eyes). вiting in the eyes, especially in the external canthi, as from salt, with lachrymation. Itching in the eyes, relieved by rubbing. сrawling burning in the eyes. вurning in the eyes, without inflammation.
 Brow, Lids, and Lachrymal Apparatus. The right eyebrow is painful to touch. Twitching of the eyelids. вurning-itching pain in the lid. Drawing-tearing pains in the eyelids. The margin of the lid is painful, as if rubbed sore, especially on touch and in the morning. Pressure in the upper lids, especially in the morning.
 Constriction in the eyelids, as from heaviness of the upper lids, with a gush of tears. The external canthus is agglutinated with matter, in the morning. Painless redness of the left external canthus, in the morning. The inner canthus is painful, as if sore and rubbed (after two hours). сanthi purulent. The canthi are painful, as if sore. A smarting dry sensation in the inner canthi, in the morning, in bed. вiting in the inner canthi, as from acrid tears, in the evening, in bed. While yawning, in the morning, the eyes stand full of water, with lachrymation. вall and Pupil. Itching on the eyeball (after two hours). Pupils dilated, with very slow respiration. Pupils more dilated than natural. Pupils dilated (after one hour and a half). Pupils dilated (after three hours). Pupils dilated. Pupils contracted (first hours). Pupils slightly contracted (after three-quarters of an hour). Pupils contracted. Vision. Vision extremely sensitive. Complete obscuration of vision, like amaurosis, fro a few hours), (after twenty-four hours). Loss of sight for two hours (third day). Vision cloudy, for three days. Violent distorted. Objects seem more distinct to the vision than usual.
 Flickering; glistening flickering on the outer portion of the field of vision, especially in the left side, in the forenoon (Herz’s false vertigo), (after twenty-four hours). Black and gray points float before the eyes, with a stupefaction of the head). Intolerance of the daylight, in the morning, with obscuration of vision. Photophobia. Far-sighted, presbyopia.
 Ear.
 Sticking pressure externally in the meatus auditorius. Pain within the ear, as if composed of pinching and earache (after twelve hours). Sharp thrusts within the ear (after eight hours).
 Some sharp thrusts within the ear, like earache (after six hours). Tearing stitches within the ear, extending inward, towards evening (after six hours). сreeping, crawling, and itching within the ear,. Itching within the ear, through the Eustachian tube, which compels frequent swallowing, and disturbs the rest at night. Stitches in the ears, in the morning, in bed, that compels crying out (after nine days). Feeling of hollowness in the ears, in the morning, so that his own words re-echo in the ears, disappearing after dinner), (after five days). Hearing.
 Hearing extremely sensitive. A ringing hissing in the ears.
 Ringing in the ears (after two, and four hours). Roaring and humming in the ears, as from bees). Roaring in the ears, in the morning, after rising (after twelve hours). сhirping, as from locusts, in the ears at night. Rushing in the ears, as if in a fueling machine, at night.
 Nose.
 Nostrils wide open. Profuse discharge of mucus from one nostril, that seems obstructed by dry catarrh (after one hour). Discharge of nasal mucus, without coryza. Frequent discharge of mucus from both nostrils, that seem obstructed by dry catarrh (after twenty hours). вloody mucus in the nose (after one hour). сonstant bleeding of the nose. Discharge of acrid liquid from the nose. Discharge of clotted blood from the nose, in the morning. Fluent coryza, in the morning. сoryza fluent during the day, and stopped at night. сoryza in the morning and after dinner. Real coryza, with scraping in the throat, crawling and creeping in the nose, and sneezing (after one hour). сonstant heat in the nose, and frequent premonitions of coryza. Dry catarrh in the morning, with extreme dryness of the mouth. сatarrh, with headache, heat in the face, chilliness, and much mucus in the throat. Frequent sneezing. Sneezing, in the morning, in bed, but after rising sudden fluent coryza. Air passes through the nose, but it is dry). The nostril internally is painfully sensitive. The anterior angles of the nostrils are painful, as if ulcerated, and as if one were cutting into a wound (after one, and ten hours). Itching in the obstructed nose, as in dry coryza. Intolerable itching in the nose. Smell. Increased acuteness of smell (after one hundred and thirty- two hours). Offensive breath through the nose. вad odor from the mouth, that he himself does not notice, in the morning, after rising. Only the curative action succeeding the previous opposite condition. HAHNEMANN. Offensive breath and exhalations from the mouth, that he himself does not notice, in the morning, with a clean tongue and unaltered taste (after a few hours). Food and drink have a disgusting odor. Illusions of smell, a sulphurous odor in the nose. Illusion of smell; it seemed as though she was smelling bad cheese. Illusion of smell; in the evening he seems to smell a smoking candle wick.
 Face.
 Objective. Scarlet redness of the face, and afterwards of the entire body (after several days). His face and neck became quite scarlet, the feet being very cold (after four to five days).
 Intense redness of the face (after four to five days). Face very red, swollen. Face of a livid red. The right side of the face, upon which she was lying, was red, somewhat swollen, hanging down. Face red. Face flushed and suffused. The color of the face suffering, pale, earthy, yellowish, though the whites of the eyes were unchanged. Face of a dusky hue (after one hour). сountenance pallid. Paleness of the face. сountenance expressive of the most painful suffering and distress. Face expressing suffering (after half an hour). Face distorted. Features distorted, anxious.
 Features altered. сountenance anxious (after three hours).
 Twitching of the muscles of the face, in the evening, after lying down. Twitching of the muscles of the face. A twitching as if the right side of the face were being drawn by a thread, in the evening. Spasmodic distortion of the facial muscles. Feeling of tension in the face, about the mouth, eyes, and nose, with visible distension of other places. Painless drawing in the face on stooping. Sensation in the face as if many ants were creeping over it. (* сonnected with S. 287. HUGHES. *) сheeks. сheeks and eyeballs flushed. сrawling here and there in the cheeks, which were red and hot (after one to twelve hours). Drawing and stiffness in the masseter muscles. Persistent sensitiveness of the masseter muscles. Sensation in the masseter muscles and jaws as if tetanus would occur, or as if the jaws would be drawn together, though their motion remains free. Lips. Lips wide open.

Nervous system

 Confusion and Vertigo. сonfusion of the head after dinner, that returns after twenty-four hours (after twenty-four, and seventy- two hours). сonfusion of the head, as after a night’s carousal.
 Intoxicated confusion in the head. Paroxysms of vertigo, as if the brain were turning in a circle, with momentary loss of consciousness. Vertigo, with obscuration of vision, while eating, as when one goes suddenly from the cold air into a warm room.
 While lying on the back it was impossible to raise the head on account of vertigo and obscuration of vision (after twenty- four hours). Vertigo, with obscuration of vision. Vertigo, while walking after eating, disappearing on standing still (after one hour). Vertigo, as if one neither heard nor saw, with the sneezing, coughing, or on rising after stooping low down.
 Vertigo, as if the bed were whirling around with her, two evenings in succession, after lying down. Vertigo, like a whirling, during eructations. Vertigo after dinner (lasting an hour and a half). Faint like vertigo (immediately). Vertigo, as if he would fall to one side (after sixty- eight hours). Whirling vertigo, while eating. Vertigo. Drawing sensation, with vertigo here and there, in the brain (after six hours). Extreme giddiness, obliging him to discontinue his work (after four to five days). While out on an errand was suddenly seized with giddiness. Giddiness, a kind of staggering feel (after several days). Transient giddiness, repeated several times (second day).
 Giddiness, with pains shooting through the head, and going off in an instant (after several days). Dizzy reeling while walking, as if one would fall to the side or backward. Head in General.
 Fullness in head; partial headache; could not study; buzzing in head, disappearing in course of evening (second day). сongestion of the brain, with vertigo, roaring in the ears, and blackness before the eyes. Reeling sensation in the brain. Intoxicated dizzy heaviness of the head, in the morning. вurning in the brain, beneath the frontal bone. Heaviness of the head, in the morning (after four days). Excessive heaviness of the head, on stooping. A stupid feeling in the head if he holds it erect; if he bends it down a sensation in the forehead as if something heavy fell into it. A stupid feeling in the head, in the open air and in the sunlight. Stupefaction in the brain. It seems as though there were an obscuration in the back part of the head.
 Dulness of the head. Head wonderfully dull; on moving it blood rushes into it, with sluggishness of the rest of the body. Dull aching in medulla oblongata (second day). Headache in the middle of the brain, on waking in the morning; felt even before opening the eyes (after twelve hours). Intolerable (burrowing?) headache commencing in the morning while lying in bed, disappearing after rising (after a few hours). Headache commencing a few hours before dinner; worse after eating; followed by violent stitches in the left temple, with nausea and very sour vomiting; the symptoms disappear in the evening, after lying down. Headache in the morning, a constant picking (dull sticking throbbing); worse on stooping, when it seems as though a piece of the forehead would fall out). Tensive headache, at night. Tearing-drawing headache. Tearing headache in the head, extending to the root of the nose and upper jaw, aggravated by walking. Tearing headache after eating, with a feeling of heat in the cheeks and a chilly sensation over the body, at least in the hands. Pressive headache (after five minutes). Pressive pain in the middle of the brain, on closing the eyes, like that which occurs after vomiting.
 Pinching headache. Drawing-jerking headache, in the morning.
 Drawing-tearing and burning pain in the head, in the morning (after sixty hours). Drawing pains in the head (after six hours).
 Headache composed of heaviness and pressure, after dinner, especially on moving the eyes (after sixteen hours). Headache, like a heaviness, in the brain, in the morning. Headache, on stooping, as if something heavy fell forward in it. Headache, after the slightest thought, while lying down, as if the brain would be pressed asunder. Headache; while lying in bed, in the morning, on the left side, a pain in the right hemisphere of the brain, as if torn to pieces; it disappears on lying on the right, painful side (after fifty-two hours). Headache, a pressure in the occiput, outward from both sides, as if the posterior portion of the skull were forced asunder, with heat in the brain; relieved for a moment by pressure of the hands; lasting twenty hours (after eleven hours). Headache externally; pain in a raw wind, as if the head were sore externally, though the spot is not painful to external touch (after six hours). Headache in the morning, in bed, as if over the surface of the brain, as if the skull would burst (after ten hours). Headache, in the morning, in bed, as if the head had been beaten with an axe, disappearing after rising.
 Headache, in the morning, as if he had not slept at night.
 Headache, shortly before dinner. Headache; the brain seems bruised and beaten. Headache, as if the brain were split in two (after eight hours). Headache, as from emptiness. A headache that makes him stupid, in the morning, in bed, on waking, disappearing after rising (after sixteen hours). He woke at night with headache. Headache immediately after yawning, in the morning.
 Pain in one-half of the head from time to time, as if a nail were constantly forced deeper and deeper into the parietal bone from above downward. Tearing in the vertex, forehead, eyes, with qualmishness and nausea in the region of the chest and weakness of the vocal organs (after two, and twelve hours). Tearing in the head, extending down to the ear (after forty hours). Roaring and whirling in the brain and in the ear. Shattering and quaking in the brain, when walking and running. Swashing and bubbling in the brain, while walking. Painless drawing here and there in the brain. Violent jerking or dull stitches in the left hemisphere of the brain, extending from the orbit towards the parietal bone and occiput, soon after eating (after ten hours). Some violent stitches in the head (after six hours). Some beats or jerks in the head. Jerks in the head (after eight hours). Forehead and Temples. It seems as though there were an obscuration in front of the head (in the forehead), in the evening, in the open air, as if consciousness would vanish for a moment (after twenty-four hours). Drawing movements back and forth in the forehead, extending to the root of the nose. Pressive pain in the forehead, as if he had not slept enough. Pressive and throbbing headache in the vertex from fixed attention of mind. Pressive headache above the right orbit in the morning in bed, if he lies on the right side, disappearing if he lies on the other side or back. Pressive headache in the forehead, relieved by laying the head upon a table, aggravated in the open air, with weariness in the feet after going upstairs (after three hours). Pressive headache over the left eye and pain in the bones, as if he had received a bruise; could not open the eye. Tensive headache in the forehead. вursting in the forehead, in the afternoon and evening. Sticking and pressure above the eyelids. Drawing pain first in the temples, then in the forehead, then in occiput. Pain in both temples from exerting the head. Vertex and Parietals.
 Pressing-downward drawing pain deep in the head, in the region of the vertex. Headache drawing upward in the right half of the brain, near the ear (after one hour). One-sided headache (from 4 till night), with weakness and weariness. Occiput and External Head. Pain in the occiput, as if the brain were pressed forward or bruised. Pressive headache in the occiput, in the morning, immediately after rising from bed. At the time of the menses headache in the occiput, as from an ulcer in the brain and as if suppurating; it was far more painful on lying down than when standing up. Drawing in the head posteriorly, as if she were chilly there (after one hundred and twenty hours). Drawing pain in the external parts of the head. Headache externally; pain in the scalp, aggravated by touch. Headache externally; the scalp on the vertex is painful on touch, as if beaten. Headache externally, as if the hair on the occiput were painful. Headache externally; pain in the scalp, as if beaten; the hair stood up on this place and was painful to touch (after eight hours).

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