Nux Vomica



Skin

Pale or yellowish colour of skin. Yellowness, with dislike to food, and syncope. Jaundice, inflammation of mucous membranes, increased secretions of mucus, scurvy. Cold and bluish skin during shiverings. Pricking and burning itching, in morning or evening, when undressing, and also at night. Sensitiveness and pain as of excoriation over the whole skin, with sensation of numbness in any place that is touched. Eruptions with burning itching. Chilblains, with burning itching, bleeding fissures, and swelling of a pale redness. Furunculi. Bluish spots, like bruises. Ulcers with elevated margins of a pale red colour. Miliary and pimpled eruptions, with burning itching.

Sleep

Goes to sleep late from crowding of thoughts on him. Goes to sleep late, wakens at 3 a.m. and lies awake till break of day, when he falls into a dull sleep full of dreams, from which it is hard to rouse, and wakens late, feeling tired. Great disposition to sleep, principally when rising in morning, or after dinner, or early in evening, and often with sleeplessness at night. Gentle and prolonged sleep in morning, with difficult waking. Sleep too short, with difficulty in going to sleep again before midnight, and inability to remain in bed after three o’clock in morning (feels pretty well at that time, lies awake two or three hours, feels miserably, bad taste in the mouth, etc. Great flow of ideas in bed in evening, which often drive away sleep till morning. The morning sleep worse all complaints. Much yawning and sleepiness during day. Yawning in general, yawning with stretching of limbs. Sleeps mostly lying on the back. Loud snoring respiration during sleep _ Comatose state, with heavy and profound sleep during day. Light nocturnal sleep, with frequent waking, or like a kind a coma vigil, with reveries full of troubles and agitation, and a sort of weariness as if the night were too long. Sleeplessness from flatus. During sleep: frequent starts with fright, groans, lamentations, much talking, weeping, delirium, with an impulsive desire to run away from the bed, stertorous or whistling respiration, the patient lying on his back, with the arms raised over the head. Continual, fantastic, terrible, and anxious or voluptuous dreams, full of cruelties and horror, or of meditation and cares, dreams of vermin, mutilated bodies, teeth falling out, of the occupations of the day, and of urgent business. Uneasiness in thighs, anxiety and restlessness, heat and ebullition of blood at night. On waking in morning pain in limbs, as if they were bruised, great lassitude, with necessity to remain lying down, fits of stretching and of convulsive yawning. Nightmare.

Fever

Shivering, shuddering, and coldness, principally at night, or in evening after lying down, or in morning, or in open air, or on least movement, even during hot weather, also after drinking, after being angry, and on throwing off bedclothes. Chilliness and coldness, which cannot be relieved by external heat. After chill sleeps till hot stage sets in. General internal heat. Heat precedes chill. Heat of single parts while others are chilly.

Heat ascending from throat. Intermittent fever. Chill in evening, then one hour’s sleep, which is followed by heat, with headache, tingling in ears and nausea. Coldness, shiverings, and partial shudderings, principally in the back and extremities. Congestive intermittent fevers, with vertigo, anguish, chills, delirium, accompanied by vivid visions and distension of stomach, with stitches in sides and abdomen. Intermittent fever characterized by a sense of paralysis at beginning of fever. During shiverings, skin, hands and feet, face and nails, are cold and bluish, or pain, congestion of blood, and heat in head, with redness and heat of face, or (of one) of the cheeks, thirst for beer, cramp- like contraction of feet and toes, or shootings in side and abdomen, pains in back and loins, pulling in limbs, stretchings, spasmodic yawning, and want to lie down. Anticipating morning fever, first moderate chilliness, with blue nails without thirst, then thirst and long lasting violent fever and heat, with stitches in temples followed by light perspiration. Heat, principally at night or towards morning, or when walking in open air, and sometimes only in head or face, with redness of cheeks, or in feet and hands, with partial coldness or shudderings and shiverings in rest of body. Heat with aversion to be uncovered, and from it at once chilliness. Heat which is worse from the least exertion or motion, even in open air. During heat, vertigo, headache, shivering on making least movement or becoming in slightest degree uncovered, thirst or repugnance to drink, with dryness of mouth, nausea, vomiting, buzzing in ears, redness of urine, and pains in chest. Heat during night, without thirst. Febrile attacks, especially morning or evening, or at night, and composed for the most part of shivering, with partial heat (followed by sweat), or of heat, preceded or followed by or mixed with shivering, or heat alternately with shivering, with continued thirst for beer, sometimes, however, before the shivering and after the heat, type, quotidian or tertian. Compound fevers in general. Febrile attacks, with congestion and pains in head and gastrico-mucous or bilious sufferings (or with constipation), or with loss of consciousness, great weakness and prostration, even at very commencement of attack. Pulse full, hard, and frequent, or small, quick, feeble, or intermittent (every fourth or fifth beat intermits). Profuse sweat, sometimes fetid or acid, or of a mouldy smell, cold and clammy sweat, partial or semi-lateral sweat, principally in head and upper parts of body, nocturnal sweat, partial or semi-lateral sweat, principally in head and upper parts of body, nocturnal sweat, principally after midnight or towards the morning, sweat during movement in open air, sweat alternately with shivering or followed by heat and thirst for beer. Perspiration only on one (right) side of body, or only on upper part of body. Cold, clammy perspiration in face. During the sweat there is sometimes a remission of the pains or soreness of the parts which press the bed in lying down, shuddering or colic when in the least uncovered, inclination to vomit, heat in face and hands, dryness of lips and anterior portion of mouth.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica