Chill: evening and night in bed till morning; worse when moving and from drinking; with hot face; alternating with heat; mornings, with constipation (in nursing children); not relieved by heat.
Sleep after sleep.
Anticipating morning fever: chill with aching in the limbs, gasping; blue nails; no thirst; then thirst; long lasting fever with stitches in the temples; light sweat. Apyrexia marked by gastric and bilious symptoms; legs feel weak, paralytic.
Heat: at night without thirst; increase during least exertion or in the open air; averse to uncovering, or desire, but becomes chilled from uncovering, or is seized with colic; before the chill.
Congestive chills, with vertigo, anguish, delirium, vivid visions, distended abdomen; stitches in the sides and abdomen.
Sweat: after midnight and in morning; sour, offensive odor of musty straw; one sided, or only on upper part of body; cold, clammy on face; relieves pains in limbs; chill and again sweat.
Attacks
Periodical and intermittent affections.
Sides
Right :. Above downward :,, Below upward :,.
Tissues
Atrophy of infants, no appetite, or ravenous hunger; desire to eat, with frequent vomiting; constipation; sallow skin; face bloated.
Rheumatism especially of back or large joints: muscles palpitate and are cramped; parts feel torpid, paralytic.
Contact Injuries etc.
Touch :, Pressure :. Jar :, Straining or lifting : Must loosen clothing :.
Skin
Burning-itching all over; worse in the evening itching with icterus.
Urticaria, with gastric derangements.
Ecchymoses, blue.
Boils, especially if several small ones unite.
Abscesses; often disperses them.
Stages and States
Suits thin, irritable, choleric persons, with dark hair, who make great mental exertion, or lead sedentary life.
Debauchers who are irritable and thin.
Relationship
Follows well after: Arsen., Ipecac., Phosphor., Sulphur; is followed by Bryon., Pulsat., Sulphur.
Zincum does not agree with Nux-vom.
Complementary to Sulphur.
Antidotes to Nux-vom: wine, coffee (large doses); Chamom., Coccul., Pulsat.
Nux-vom is an antidote to : abuse of aromatics, drastics, “hot medicines,” narcotics, bad effects of coffee and alcoholic drinks, tremors caused by mercury.
Compare with: Graphit (gastralgia); Laches. (congestion of liver); Carbo-veg., Caustic. (catarrhal hoarseness.
