Nux Vomica



Great heat and perspiration, worse in bed; a shivering on the slightest uncovering after very much chilliness, and then again sweat. Sensation of warmth here and there in the top of the shoulder and arm. Skin warm and moist. Body warm, but hands and feet rather cool (after one hour). The whole body hot, reeking with sweat. Some heat, with moist skin. Skin warm, and covered with a profuse clammy sweat. Sweat. Profuse perspiration (after three-quarters of an hour). Profuse perspiration. (* Bracket.- HUGHES. *) Abundant sweat. Copious perspiration, during and after great anxiety. Perspiration. Patient bathed in perspiration. Frequent attacks of perspiration, followed by dry heat. Perspiration, especially upon the upper parts of the body, in the morning, while waking and sleeping, followed by drawing pain in the left side (after sixteen hours). Slight general perspiration of the odor of musty straw (though not on the face), at night and in the morning. Broke out over the whole body with profuse warm sweat, while the lower extremities were moist, cold, and rigid; this perspiration was so profuse that his shirt had to be changed; he was constantly bathed in perspiration.

Perspiration, especially below the nose, on the forehead (scalp), nape of the neck, throat, pit of the stomach, and between the thighs, with an anxious sensation of heat and dryness of the tip of the tongue, anterior part of the palate and lips, without desire of drink, very early in the morning (during the third hours). General sweat, with internal heat of the face and head, without thirst, in the morning, on waking. Sweat for two days (after sixteen hours). While eating he perspires on the forehead and scalp (after two hours). Clammy sweat on the forehead, while walking in the open air. Sweat on the diseased side of the face, with one sided headache. Perspiration on one side of the head, scalp, and face (after ten hours). Face covered with profuse sweat. Offensive perspiration on the side. Profuse perspiration on the inner surface of the hands, on walking in the open air.

Cool perspiration on the inner surface of the hands. Perspiration on the inner surface of the hands. Sweat on the thighs and calves, after midnight. Sweat, in the morning. Profuse general perspiration, in the morning (though not on the heat or face), while in bed, after waking (after three days). She began to perspire about 5 A.M., after waking, for several mornings.

Offensive perspiration all night. Nightly perspiration of a sour odor. (Slight perspiration, while lying in bed and on walking rapidly). Sweat, after midnight. Sweat during sleep, after 2 A.M.; but while awake, from time to time, only slight perspiration all over. (Perspiration in the house, disappearing in the open air), (after seventy-two hours). Perspiration, on moving about the room. Cold perspiration. Offensive perspiration.

All the pains are relieved by cold perspiration. (* The immediate precursor of death.-HUGHES. *) Perspired between the spasms.

Conditions.-

Aggravation (Morning), On waking, anxiety, with orgasm of blood; ill-humor; after rising, excessive flow of ideas; on waking, headache in middle of brain; headache above right orbit; headache over brain; after rising, headache in occiput; drawing- burning pain in head; jerking headache; after yawning, headache, heaviness of head; while yawning, eye full of water; external canthus agglutinated; redness of left external canthus; yellow mucus in canthi; in bed, smarting dry sensation in inner canthus; intolerance of daylight; obscuration of vision; margins of lids painful; pressure in upper lid; after rising, face hot; on walking in open air, heat of face and whole body; on waking, redness of cheeks; in bed, sharp stitches in ears; feeling of hollowness in ears; after rising, roaring in ears; on waking, twisting screwing in ears; discharge of clotted blood from nose; fluent coryza; dry coryza; catarrh; stoppage of nose; dryness of mouth; mouth and fauces covered with mucus; before rising, stitches in lips; loose tooth; on waking, jerking toothache; bad taste in mouth; bad taste from hollow tooth; sour taste; bitter taste; slimy taste; no taste for milk; taste of milk disgusting; bad odor from mouth; offensive breath; accumulation of saliva; pressure in pit of stomach; burning in pit of stomach; great hunger; before rising, violent cough; expectoration of clotted blood; during sweat, qualmishness; nausea; cutting in abdomen; pain in abdominal muscles; incarceration of flatus in abdomen; rumbling and gurgling in abdomen; during morning sweat, colic; moving in abdomen; before stool, pressive pain in rectum; after rising, contraction in rectum and anus; diarrhoea; watery diarrhoea; after eating, stool of hard and soft faeces, with flatus; dark- colored diarrhoea; in bed, itching burning in neck of bladder; constrictive pain in forepart of urethra; in bed, forcing outward at the genitals; itching in glans penis; after rising, involuntary irritation of genitals and desire for emission; early, dry painful catarrh in larynx; on rising, mucus adhering to upper part of trachea; sore spot in trachea; in bed, dyspnoea; soreness in chest; catarrhal accumulation in chest; in bed, hoarseness and roughness in chest; drawing and burning in left side of chest; palpitation in chest; qualmishness about heart; early, orgasm of blood in heart, with palpitation; after rising, stitches in precordial region; drawing pain in nape of neck; pain in small of back; chilliness in back; early, heat in hands; falling asleep of forearm to hand; sensation of sudden loss of power in arm and lower extremities; heaviness and weariness of lower extremities; chilliness in limbs; while lying on back, sticking-jerking from hips to feet; pain in the limbs; pain in knee and joints; in bed, pain in joints and middle of long bones; pain in knees; itching in hollow of knee; on ascending steps, pain in patellae; in bed, on flexing legs, cramp in calves; calves and feet fall asleep; heat in soles of feet; feet cold; skin painful; whole body tremulous; sleepiness; aversion to rising; stretching and yawning; in bed, stretching; chilliness; shivering; increased warmth; while waking, perspiration on upper part of body; general sweat.

(Morning and afternoon), Anxiety.

(Forenoon), Flickering and glittering in left outer field of vision; itching and gnawing in scalp and nape of neck; vomiting of sour mucus; sticking in right side of abdomen; thin liquid stool, followed by hard faeces, with flatus.

(Noon), After lying down, stitches in tip of tongue.

(Afternoon), Buzzing in forehead; from 4 P.M., one-sided headache; stitches in upper part of throat; 3 P.M., tension across epigastric region; crawling in pit of stomach; periodic ravenous hunger; weakness, with loss of appetite; nausea in pit of stomach; rumbling in abdomen; tearing pain in abdomen; drawing in back; during chill, stitches in small of back; urging to urinate; pain, like small stitches, in sternum; heaviness and weariness of arms; while lying down, tearing in soles of feet; tearing in left leg to toe; fever; shivering; 6 P.M., fever; yawning and stretching. Aggravation, (Toward evening), Headache about lower portion of skull; stitches within ear; sick feeling in pit of stomach; vomiting of sour mucus; itching on inner surface of pudenda; soreness on margin of prepuce.

(Evening), Anxiety; in bed, fantasies; while walking, apprehension, depression, feeling of intoxication; in bed, obscuration in front of head; buzzing, buzzing in forehead; complaining mood; reproachful and despondent; twitching of right side of face; after lying down, twitching in muscles of face; redness of face; after lying down, heat of face; after lying down, vertigo; itching of lids; in bed, biting in inner canthi; illusions of smell; drawing toothache; loose tooth; after eating, red, hot spots in throat and cheeks; during menses, after lying down, crawling in pharynx; after lying down, stitches in pit of stomach; thirst; after lying down, flatulent colic in upper abdomen; after eating, pain in rectum; pain in rectum and anus; after stool, sore pain in anus; before going to sleep, dry painful catarrh in larynx; after lying down, paroxysms of cough; dyspnoea; oppression of chest; paroxysms of pain in nape of neck; in bed, jerking in limbs; coldness of limbs; in bed, pain in left shoulder-joint; after lying down, chilliness in arms; before going to bed, sticking in condyle of right wrist; after lying down, itching pain on thigh and knee; in bed, when stretching legs, cramp in calves; tearing and sticking pain about knees; before going to bed, drawing and sticking in right external malleolus; burning pain on sides of foot and toes; after lying down, heat in soles of feet; while undressing, itching in several parts of body; trembling; 9 P.M., faintness; exhaustion; 8 to 9 P.M., severe pains; sleepiness; chilliness.

(Night), Headache; itching in ear through Eustachian tube; chirping and swashing in ears; stopped coryza; burning in pit of stomach; burning in throat; eructations of a bitter sour liquid; crawling in anus; sudden diarrhoea; aching and heaviness in right testicle and spermatic cord; emissions, without erections, followed by relaxation of lower portion of body, with cold feet and lascivious dreams; chest oppressed; tension and pressure in external chest; in bed, compression of chest; dyspnoea, with roaring in ears, rapid pulse, and perspiration; pain in small of back; arms and fingers fall asleep; cramp in soles of feet, on movement of thighs; delirious ravings increased; febrile attack; offensive perspiration; perspiration.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.