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Sep 6, 2014

NUX MOSCHATA

 NUX MOSCHATA
(Nutmeg)

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. [Ign.] 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 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:- Excessively bloated. Flatulent dyspepsia. Hiccough, and craving for highly-seasoned food. Retrocession gout to stomach.

Abdomen:- 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:- Uterine hemorrhage. Menses too long, dark thick. Leucorrhea muddy and bloody. Suppression, with persistent fainting attacks and sleepiness. [Kali c.] Variableness of menstruation, irregularity of time and quantity.

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

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

Extremities:- 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.] Complaints cause sleepiness. Coma.

Fever:- Chill begins in left hand. [Carb-v.] Chilliness 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.

Better, warmth, dry weather.
     


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