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NUX VOMICA (nux-v.)

KEY

  • > - Better for
  • < - Worse for
  • CAPITALS = Frequent or intense symptoms
  • MIND:

  • Ambitious, COMPETITIVE to a pathological degree.
  • Self-reliant. Matter of fact.
  • Dictatorial. Arrogant.
  • Responsible. Efficient.
  • Fastidious.
  • Strong values to work. Becomes workaholic.
  • Gets overwhelmed by his work. Cannot accept a limitation. Fear of marriage.
  • Stimulates himself with coffee, alcohol, drugs, etc.
  • Over-stressed. Oversensitive.
  • IRRITABILITY. Sometimes kept inside. Weeping from anger.
  • Impatient. Hurried.
  • Cursing and scolding.
  • Can become real agressive. Violent impulses.
  • Malicious. Cruel.
  • Suicidal disposition (shooting or jumping), but lacks courage.
  • Mental disorder. Aversion to answer.

    GENERALITIES:

  • CHILLY.
  • < Cold, drafts.
  • < Uncovering a part.
  • < Morning.
  • < Dry weather.
  • < Eating.
  • > Warmth.
  • > Wet weather (Caust, Hep).
  • Anti-peristalsis (vomiting, urine, stool).
  • Convulsions, < anger.
  • Apoplexy, with sticking pains in affected limbs.
  • Fainting from odors, during labor.
  • Sensitive to all impressions: odors, light, noise, smells, etc.

    FOOD AND DRINKS:

  • Desire: SPICES, FAT, ALCOHOL, STIMULANTS.
  • Aversion: Meat.
  • < : Stimulants.

    VERTIGO:

  • Waking him from sleep at night.

    HEAD:

  • Headaches and migraines. < Cold, alcohol, mental exertion, anger, waking, before menses. > Heat.
  • Sensitive to draft (Chin, Hep, Sil).

    EYE:

  • Photophobia, < morning.

    EAR:

  • Itching in eustachian tube, compels to cough or swallow.

    NOSE:

  • HAYFEVER, ALLERGIES, CORYZA: with sneezing, < after eating, morning. Obstruction < night, outdoors.
  • Snuffles of newborns (Lyc, Samb).
  • Sensitive to odor of flowers.

    FACE:

  • Acne.
  • Lockjaw.
  • One-sided perspiration.

    TEETH:

  • Grinding.

    THROAT:

  • Choking, on falling asleep.

    STOMACH:

  • GASTRITIS. ULCERS.
  • Nausea and vomiting < anger, vexation, stimulants, abdominal pains.
  • Retching with inability of vomiting.
  • Pain < anger, vexation, tight clothes, > warmth, warm drinks.
  • Sensation of stone after (over-)eating.
  • Complaints from alcohol abuse.

    ABDOMEN:

  • Distention. Flatulence.
  • PAIN AND CRAMPING < after eating, before stool, cold; > after stool, warmth.
  • Colic in babies with irritability and arching of the back (Cham, Dios).
  • Crohn's disease. Hepatitis.
  • Hernia: Inguinal, umbilical.

    RECTUM:

  • CONSTIPATION, CONSTANT INEFFECTUAL URGING.
  • Diarrhea with constant urging; alternating with constipation.
  • Hemorrhoids. Prolapsus.
  • Urging for stool while urinating (Mur-ac); with every labor. pain; during menses.
  • Spasms during orgasm.

    BLADDER:

  • CYSTITIS, CONSTANT URGING, passes only a few drops. > Heat, warm bathing.
  • Retention of urine, > warm bathing.

    KIDNEYS:

  • Colic.

    MALE GENITALIA:

  • Increased desire. Promiscuous.
  • Seminal emissions during sleep, with dreams.
  • Impotency.

    FEMALE GENITALIA:

  • Increased desire. Promiscuous.
  • Dysmenorrhea > warmth; with urging for stool; ext. to whole body.
  • Uterine spasm during orgasm. Prolapsus.
  • Ineffective labor-pains, ext. to rectum, with urging for stool.

    RESPIRATION:

  • Asthmatic: < night, 3-4 a.m., cold, morning, after eating.

    COUGH:

  • > Warm drinks. < Morning in bed.

    CHEST:

  • Angina pectoris.
  • Palpitations < from stimulants, anger, vexation, excitement, after eating.

    BACK:

  • Pain, must sit up to turn over in bed (Kali-c, Kali-p); < fever, urging for stool.
  • Opisthotonos.

    EXTREMITIES:

  • Muscle spasms, cramps and contractures. Twitchings. Jerkings.

    SLEEP:

  • SLEEPLESSNESS. Wakes at 3-4 a.m., thinking about work, business. Falls asleep just before time he should get up.
  • Sleepiness during the day.
  • Unrefreshed (Lach, Mag-c, Mag-m, Nit-ac).

    DREAMS:

  • Quarrels.
  • Amorous.

    SKIN:

  • Urticaria with gastric derangements. Compl: Bry, Calc, Cham, Con, Kali-c, Phos, Puls, Sep, Sulph. DD: Asar, Aur, Bry, Cham, Coloc, Grat, Ign, Lil-t, Lyc, Med,Sep, Strych, Stram, Sulph.
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