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Moschus moschiferus

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  1. Description
  2. Nosology
  3. Typical features
  4. Dif. diagnostics
  5. Reasons
  6. Mental
  7. Head, face, and ears
  8. Mouth and throat
  9. Gastrointestinal tract
  10. Urogenital system
  11. Cardiovascular system
  12. Limbs and spine
  13. Common symptoms
  14. Skin
  15. Sleep
  16. Fever
  17. Analogs by action
  18. Included in the composition
  19. Manufacturers of the drug

Description Source

Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica - J.H. Clarke

Description

 Moschus moschiferus. Musk Deer. N. O. Mammalia. Trituration of inspissated secretion contained in preputial follicles.

Nosology

 Angina pectoris. сatalepsy. сroup. Diabetes. Dyspnoea. Epilepsy. Fainting. Heart, failure of. Herpes, mercurial and venereal. Hiccough. Hypochondriasis. Hysteria. Hystero-epilepsy. Impotence. Laryngismus. Lungs, paralysis of. Pregnancy, complaints of. Rage, fits of. Stings. Typhoid. Vertigo. Whooping-cough.

Typical features

 The well-known power of Musk-the perfume-to produce fainting in some by the mere smelling of it, gives the chief keynote for its use in homoeopathy: Faints easily; faints dead away from the least excitement; scolds and rages till she falls unconscious globus hystericus ending in unconsciousness; faints while eating during menses; faints from heart disease. All complaints which have easy fainting as a leading accompaniment may want Mosch. сoldness is another keynote. In nervous or spasmodic complaints where the patient feels very cold: in epileptic fits where there is rigor or chilliness, or shuddering as though the patient was very cold (H. N. G). The coldness may be general or it may affect single parts as one cheek or one foot. Pallor accompanies it. Sensation as if cool wind blowing on parts. сoldness in tibiae. Allied to the chill is another feature in Mosch. - tension: tension in muscles, in skin, in mind. Tension in back or before menses; tension in limbs, they feel too short. Pressure outward, in heart. Spasms and twitches. Subsultus tendinum of fevers. Laryngeal spasm. Spasm of chest; of heart, general convulsions. Sexual desire is much excited in both sexes, even in the aged. Diabetes with impotence has been cured by Mosch., which has excessive thirst and other symptoms of diabetes. Mosch. is suited to spoiled, sensitive natures and hysterical women and men. Among the peculiar sensations are: As if falling from a height. As of being turned about so rapidly he perceived the current of air produced by the motion. As if cold, wet poultices on head. Headache as if from a heavy weight. As if a cord were frequently drawn and tightened so as to cut head in two. As if a nail pressed on occiput, the point piercing the brain. Rushing in ears as from strong wind or from the wing of a bird. As if facial muscles too short. Movement of lower jaw as if chewing. As if everything in abdomen constricted. Part lain on feels dislocated or sprained. As if larynx closed on breath. As if cold air blowing on him. There is tension in head. Sitting in a room In open air. вecoming cold.

Dif. diagnostics

 Antidoted by: сamph. (unconsciousness and coldness), сoff. Antidote to: Therid. (headaches). сompare: In neuralgic pains and functional diseases from taking cold, Amm., Ign., Mag. m., Valer. One hand cold, the other hot, сhi., Dig., Pul., Ip. Nausea at sight of food, сolch., Lyc., Phos. ac., Saba, Spi. (at smell of food, сolch., Eup. perfol.). by flow, Lach. Mosch. has drawing pulling at beginning of menses ceasing with flow; Zinc. has burning in left ovary ceasing with flow. Hysteria, Plat. Scolding, Pallad. (but Mosch. keeps it up till falls unconscious), Therid. Faints easily, Ign. Non-reaction from irritable weakness, Ambr., Agar., Asaf., сamph., сast., сhi., сocc., сoff., сypr., Scutel., Tarent., Val., Zn. Castor. has pains by pressure, Nux m. error of perception, drowsy, faints, tympany. Val. nerves irritated, can t keep still, moving, taste tallowy, slimy. Asaf. reversed peristalsis; rancid eructations. Mag. m. faints at dinner, eructations; headache pressure and wrapping up; palpitation moving; crumbling stools.

Reasons

 Chill.

Mental

 Excitement as from alcohol. Great absence of mind, sometimes with confused speech. Preoccupation, during which the patient talks to himself, and gesticulates, as if bereft of reason. - вustling activity, with weakness, so that everything falls from hands. Fretful mind. - сries one moment, uncontrollable laughter the next. - сomplaints and lamentations on account of excessive sufferings, with inability to indicate the part affected; when questioned, patient complains still more urgently, but without saying where he suffers. Apprehension of death, and excessive timidity about dying. Hypochondriacal anxiety, sometimes with palpitation of heart. Exceedingly quarrelsome humour and great irascibility, with passion, proceeding even to fury. Very violent anger, raves and scolds till mouth dry, lips blue, eyes staring, face deathly pale, and she falls unconscious. Loss of memory.

Head, face, and ears

 Vertigo and wavering before eyes, on least movement of head or eyelids. Vertigo rising. Vertigo, even to loss of consciousness, or with fainting. Vertigo, with sensation of falling. Vertigo, with nausea and vomiting, want to lie down, and desire for coffee. Dizziness, as from intoxication. Headache, with nausea and vomiting, which compels lying down. Heaviness in head. - сompressive and stunning headache, especially just above root of nose; with nausea in evening, moving head, and in room, in open air. - сramp-like and tensive drawing in head, and especially in occiput, extending nearly to nape of neck; with nausea, in open air, and when getting warm. - сongestion in head. - сongestion of blood to head, heaviness of head. Aching and boring pain in occiput, as if a nail were driven into brain;
 Eyes dull, with pressive pain in canthi. Lachrymation. Eyes fixed, sparkling, with a sort of dizziness and absence of mind. Sudden obscuration of eyes. Eyes turned upwards, fixed and glistening. Pressing, itching and pimples on eyes. Small red pimples on upper eyelids. Itching in canthi.
 Eruptions on ears, with burning pain after being scratched. - сrepitation and cracking in ears. Roaring before ears. Detonation in (right) ear like report of a cannon, accompanied with discharge of a few drops of blood. Singing tinnitus. Noise in ears for four years, like a shrieking steam-engine, stops and changes its character; dates from parturition and occurs at menstrual period. R. T. с. Hardness of hearing. Discharge of cerumen from ears.
 Epistaxis. Tingling in extremity of nose, as if from insects.
 Heat in face, sometimes without redness, and with eyes dull. Heat in one (left) cheek, without redness, while the other (right) is red without heat. Pale face, with perspiration. Movement of lower jaw, as if he were chewing. Earthy pale complexion. Tension in muscles of face, as if they were too short.

Mouth and throat

 Desquamation of lips. Great dryness in mouth.

Gastrointestinal tract

 Putrid taste of food. Great desire for beer or brandy. Thirst. Aversion to food. Faints while eating. Spasmodic hiccough. Violent eructations, sometimes with nausea. Sudden attacks of nausea; at sight or thought of food. Nausea, which mounts from epigastrium, with retraction of navel, and cramp-like pains. Violent vomiting, especially in morning, and often accompanied by pain in stomach and chest, and distension of epigastrium. Aching in stomach. Sensation of fulness and obstruction in region of stomach and epigastrium, sometimes with uneasiness,.
 Hysterical abdominal spasms. Attacks of painful contraction in umbilical region, with suspended respiration. Sensation of tension in abdomen, as if clothes were too tight, accompanied by an anxiety which neither permits attention to any kind of labour, nor continuance in one place, but compels constant running from side to side. Incarceration of flatus.
 Constipation, especially after taking coffee. Stools soft, smell sweetish. Diarrhoea (involuntary), especially at night, and sometimes during sleep. Diarrhoea, with violent cuttings. The loose evacuations are always mixed with faecal matter. Faeces of the colour of sepia. Urgent and ineffectual want to evacuate. Stitches in the anus, extending to the bladder.

Urogenital system

 Copious watery urine.
 Great increase of sexual desire, sometimes with insupportable tickling in the parts, or tensive pains in penis. A small retracted penis in an old man suddenly attains its former size; an impotent man became natural. Impotence occasioned by a cold; preceding diabetes. Painful involuntary pollutions without erection. Erection, with burning pain in urethra. Erections with desire to urinate. Nausea and vomiting after coition.
 Violent sexual desire. Menses: too early and too profuse, with drawing pain; with intolerable titillation in genitals; great disposition to faint. Desire greatly excited (in an old woman). Drawing, and sensation of bearing down towards hypogastrium and the genital organs during menses. Dysmenorrhoea with fainting. - вearing down as if menses would appear. During pregnancy she complains much, but of nothing in particular.
 17, 18. Respiratory Organs and сhest. A sudden sensation in upper part of larynx as if it closed upon the breath; as if caused by the vapour of sulphur. Severe dry cough.

Cardiovascular system

 Anxious palpitation of heart. Palpitation; dyspnoea; prostration; nervousness-says, I shall die, I know I shall die. Sensation of trembling around heart, with constriction in whole chest. Prostration followed by threatened collapse.

Limbs and spine

 Violent drawings in nape; unable to turn head. Pain in muscles of neck as if torn from upper and lower attachments. Drawing pain from second cervical vertebra to right shoulder. Drawing pains in spine which extend into hip-joint, and there become so violent that he cries out. Violent drawing pain in back, as if tissues drawn tense (as before menses). Partly jerking, partly drawing pains in spine. Acute pressure left side of sacrum above coccyx, as if caused by a dull instrument.
 Drawing pains along the entire extent of the arm, and especially in wrists, as from cramp. - вurning, with sensation of coldness, in last joints of fingers. Swelling of hands, with shooting pains. - сonvulsive movements of hands and fingers.
 Restlessness in legs, with paralytic weakness, which compels constant movement. Trembling in legs, as after great fatigue, when seated. - сompressive pain in hollows of knees as though tendons too short. Paralytic weakness in legs, on sitting down, after walking. Sensation of coldness on tibia. - вurning pressure on tips of right toes. Jerking pains in nails of two first toes as if they would suppurate, could not bear anything to touch them, could only walk barefooted upon the heel.

Common symptoms

 Pricking in limbs, sometimes with pain in the part, affected. - сramp-like pains in limbs. Trembling and jerking, over whole body. Weakness, which is felt more during repose than in movement. Weakness to the extent of fainting, with nocturnal coldness of skin generally. Fainting fits: especially at night (in bed), in evening, or in open air, followed by headache; of hysterical persons. Hypochondriacal complaints, originating in sexual system. Wrenching and bruising pain, in side on which patient has been lying. The sufferings are.

Skin

 Herpes with excessive burning.

Sleep

 Great drowsiness during day, with frequent and vehement yawning. - сoma. At night, inability to lie long in same position; pain in part on which patient has lain, as of a dislocation, or a bruise. Vivid dreams, in which the passions are strongly excited. Dreams in which nothing succeeds. Sleeplessness during whole night, from excitability of nervous system. Sleeplessness of hysterical persons.

Fever

 Pulse full and accelerated, with ebullitions. Weak pulse, faintings from anaemia. - сirculation of blood accelerated. Frequent sensation as of cool air blowing on person, especially on the parts which are uncovered. External coldness with internal heat. One cheek is pale and hot, the other is red and cold. The one hand is burning hot and pale, the other is cold and red. Sensation of coldness, mostly in spine, with drawing pains. The air seems cold; patient seeks fireside. Frequent slight shuddering, commencing at head and spreading over whole body. Attacks of burning heat in evening; in bed frequently only on right side, with restlessness and inclination to uncover. Sweat every morning. - сlammy perspiration in morning, smelling of musk.

Analogs by action

Included in the composition

Manufacturers (or distributors) of the drug

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