The key-notes of nux moschata are drowsiness, sensitiveness to cold and damp, Thirstlessness, faintings and dryness, and some of these should be present in the case if it is to be prescribed.
Digestion.-It will be found to be valuable remedy for flatulent dyspepsia when “everything turns to wind,” when mental emotions bring on the flatulence; for hiccough occurring in nervous subjects, in hysterical and pregnant women; for indigestion accompanied by excessive flatulence, especially in the aged; for cholera infantum and for constipation when there is drowsiness (opium).
Sexual.-It is useful for menorrhagia when the blood is clotted and the menses come irregularly, and for dysmenorrhoea arising from such causes as exposure to cold, riding in the wind or living in damp houses; the pains are cramping and extend down the thighs, they come in paroxysms and the patient faints in them, the flow is dark and scanty and clotted, and just before the clots are expelled the severe cramping pain and the fainting occur.
Nux moschata is a remedy for suppressed menses, as from a bath or chill, with fainting and the other nervous symptoms of the drug. It has been used for uterine prolapse and to prevent abortion and, speaking generally, has an important place in affections connected with the female pelvic organs, when the characteristic nux moschata symptoms are present.
Nervous System.-It is useful in delirious and comatose states, such as may occur in typhoid fever, but is serviceable more often when those states are present in hysterical conditions. It may be indicated for epileptiform spasms when consciousness is retained.
The symptoms suggest that it may be of assistance in allergic stupor, in exhaustive psychosis, in the somnambulism of general paralysis of the insane, encephalitis lethargica and in confusional states.
Respiration.-It is a good remedy for nervous aphonia and for hoarseness brought on by walking against the wind.
Circulation.-For nervous palpitation of the heart, with fainting followed by sleep, nux moschata is often required. As with all other medicines when given according to the law of similars, nux moschata will give relief and effect cures in diseases, no matter how named or classified, if the correspondence between the drug and disease is sufficiently close.
LEADING INDICATIONS.
(1) Drowsiness, with closed eyes.
(2) Sensitiveness to damp and cold.
(3) Chilliness, especially from exposure to cold and damp; from excitement.
(4) Fainting fits; hysterical paroxysms.
(5) Pains wander from place to place, come in small areas, last but a few moments and return.
(6) Dryness of mouth and tongue, without thirst.
(7) Dryness of skin, lips, mouth, tongue, throat, larynx.
(8) Peculiar mental states; sensation of dual personality; time and distance exaggerated; objects seem too large; consciousness without memory; levitation.
(9) Nervous complaints during pregnancy.
(10) “Hydrogenoid constitution.”
(11) Persons with cool, dry skin who do not perspire.
(12) “Hysteria.”
AGGRAVATION:
From cold, damp, touch, rest (colic, backache, rheumatism), on side lain on (pain and soreness), heat of bed (cough), motion, heat (cholera infantum, cough), open air, wind wet weather, getting wet, living in damp houses, before a shower, washing, bathing, after eating and drinking, alcohol, night (diarrhoea).
AMELIORATION:
From warmth, walking (palpitation)(<) red (headache), pressure (colic, soreness of head), dry weather.
Edwin Awdas Neatby founded the Missionary School of Homeopathy and the London Homeopathic Hospital in 1903, and run by the British Homeopathic Association. He died in East Grinstead, Sussex, on the 1st December 1933. Edwin Awdas Neatby wrote The place of operation in the treatment of uterine fibroids, Modern developments in medicine, Pleural effusions in children, Manual of Homoeo Therapeutics,