Generalities
Musk root, as its name implies closely resembles in its odour to musk, therefore like Moschus it is the remedy for hysterical and nervous affections. It affects heart causing nervous palpitation. The patient is nervous, irritable and sleepless. Tendency to faint from slightest cause. Chorea; constant jerking of the head and limbs with protrusion of the tongue. As of a hot water flowing through part. Yellow tenacious discharges. Numbness; on becoming cold, on left side. Neuralgia. Early senility. Sclerosed arteries. Flushings, climacteric.
Worse
Motion. Climacteric. Music. Cold. Thinking of symptoms. Inspiration.
Better
Gentle motion. Warmth.
Mind
Emotional and fidgety. Weeps and laughs by turns. Faintness from hearing music. Fear of becoming insane.
Nose
Tenacious yellow mucous from nose.
Face
As of a hair or cobweb on face. Neuralgia. Idiotic expression.
Mouth
Tongue feels rough as if scraped.
Throat
Choking constriction; constant swallowing; hysterical.
Stomach
Burning waterbrash.
Abdomen
Full, distended and painful.
Urinary
Oily pellicle on urine.
Female
Sexual excitability. Ovarian neuralgia. Pulling like a string in breast (right). Climacteric flushes. Screwing pain in region of uterus (left side).
Respiratory
Short breath on any exertion. Asthma; cardiac; hysterical. Oppressed tightness in left chest, as if clogged.
Heart
Nervous palpitation; in hysterical subjects or at climaxis; worse least exertion and thinking of it. As if heart beating in water. Neuralgia around left breast simulating angina pectoris. Cardiac asthma. High blood pressure due to arteriosclerosis.
Back
Trickling along spine.
Extremities
Left arm, ache, heavy, numb, weary.
Sleep
Dreams of falling; of coitus; followed by profuse sudden emission.
Skin
Pale; cold. Internal itching.
Related
Asaf; Mosch.
Complementary
Lact-v.