COMMON NAME:
POISON NUT
Symptoms
Is the greatest of polychrests, because the bulk of its symptoms correspond in similarity with those of the COMMONest and most frequent diseases (Br).
One of the best remedies with which to commence treatment of cases that have been drugged by mixtures bitters, vegetable pills nostrums or quack remedies, especially aromatic or “:hot medicines,’ but if symptoms correspond (A.).
NUX is pre-eminently the remedy for many of the conditions incident to modern life. The typical Nux patient is other thin, spare, quick, active, nervous and irritable. He does a good deal of mental work; has mental strains and lead a sedentary life, found in prolonged office-work, over-study, and close application to business, with its cares and anxieties. This indoor life and mental strain seeks stimulants, coffee, wine, possibly in excess; or again, he hopes to quiet his excitement, by indulging in the sedative effects of tobacco if not really a victim to the seductive drugs, like Opium, etc. These things are associated with other indulgences; at table, he takes preferably rich and stimulating food; and wine and women play their part to make him forget the close application of the day. Late hours are a consequence; a thick head, dyspepsia, and irritable temper are the next day’s inheritance. Now he takes some cathartic, liver pills, r mineral water, and soon gets into the habit of taking these things, which still father complicate matters. Since these frailties are more yielded by by men than women Nux is pre- eminently a male remedy (Br._).
These conditions (just mentioned) produce an irritable nervous system, hyper-sensitive and over-impressionable. which Nux with do many to soothe and calm (Br).
Especially adapted to digestive disturbances, portal congestion, and hypochondriacal states depending thereon 9Br.).
NAUSEA AND VOMITING EVERY MORNING WITH DEPRESSION OF SPIRITS(a.,).
NAUSEA AND VOMITING AFTER EATING (Argentum, Bryonia, Cocc., puls.) (A).
CONSTANT NAUSEA (Ipecac.) (A).
The patient feels, “If I could only vomit, I would be so much better.”.” (A).
Pressure in the stomach an hour or two after eating (A,.O.
Pressure as from a stone in the stomach (Bryonia, Pulsatilla (A)
Feeling of tightness in the abdomen after a meal; must loosen clothing (A,.O.
Sleepy after dinner (A.).
Flatulent distention after eating or drinking (Hr.).
Cannot use the mid for two or three hours l after a meal (A).
PYROSIS (Arsenicum, bar-C., Bryonia, Calcarea, Carbo vegetabilis, lycopodium, Mezer., Par., Petroleum, Pulsatilla, Sabad., Sanguinaria, Silicea, Staphysagria, Sulphur, Veratrum) (A).
PAIN IN THE STOMACH (GASTRALGIA) TWO OR THREE HOURS AFTER EATING (Anacardium, Conium, Mag-M., Natrum phos., phosphorus, Pulsatilla) (K).
SOUR OR BITTER ERUCTATIONS (Bryonia, China, Pulsatilla, Sepia, Sulphur) (A).
RISING OF WATER AND BITTER FLUID FROM THE STOMACH (A..
Vertigo from excessive use of coffee or liquor (Bt.).
Vertigo with momentary loss of consciousness (Can-I., Kali-P., Sepia) (Br.).
Vertigo with momentary loss of consciousness (Cannabis indica, Kali-P., Sepia) (Bar).
Vertigo, with tendency to all sideways (Calcarea, Cocc., Conium, Pulsatilla, Silicea) (K).
Mouth and fauces full of fetid ulcers (Borax, Kali-am., Mercurius, Nat-Ac.) (G.).
Mouth dry and sore, with bloody saliva (G.).
Sour taste in the mouth (Calcarea, Lycopodium, Sulphur) (G).
Offensive odour from the mouth (Aurum, Baptisia, Carb-Ac., Kali- P., Lachesis) (K).
Tongue coated thick white (Ant-C., Kali-M., Pulsatilla) (C).
Gums scorbutic (Arsenicum, Natrum muriaticum,) (C).
Throat raw, sore, rough, as if scraped (Causticum, Mercurius) (C).
Stitches in the ear when swallowing. Hepatic troubles arising from drastic purgatives and allopathic dosing (Podophyllum, Sulphur)
Jaundice (China, Mercurius, Nat-S.) Z(B).
ENLARGEMENT OF THE LIVER FROM ALCOHOLIC EXCESSES (Aurum, China, Sulphur) (D).
Sticking pains and soreness in the live (Hepar, Lachesis, Mercurius, Sulphur) (D).
Gall-stone colic (Berberis, Chelidonium, China, Podophyllum, Sep). (B)].
Colic with pressure upwards towards the thorax (Argentum nitricum) (Ra ).
Flatulent colic with desire to stool (Aloe, Coloc., Pulsatilla) (D).
Sensation as if the intestines were squeezed between stones (Coloc.) (D).
CONSTIPATION, DUE TO IRREGULARITY OF THE PERISTALTIC ACTION (D).
CONSTANT INEFFECTUAL URGING TO STOOL (Sulph). (D).
Frequent, small, slimy, or bloody stools, with pain low down in the back and urging or tenesmus, relieved immediately after the stool (N.).
Incomplete and unsatisfactory motions (Alumina, Mag-M., Sepia) (D).
Sensation as if a part of stool remained behind (Ignatia) (D.).
Itching haemorrhoids, which keep the patient awake (Sulphur) (D).
BLEEDING PILES, WITH INEFFECTUAL URGING TO STOOL (lYC) (D).
Alternate constipation and diarrhoea (Aloe, Podophyllum, Sulphur, Veratrum) (A).
DYSENTERY (Aloe, Mercurius, Sulphur) (K).
Strangulated hernia (Coloc., Lycopodium) (A).
Painful, ineffectual effort to pass urine, with scanty discharge and burning (Cantharis, Mercurius, Terebintha) (D.).
Strangury (Belladonna,Cantharis, Clem., Conium, Equiset., Merc-C., Pulsatilla, Sepia) (D).
Dribbling of urine in old people from enlarged prostate (Conium, Hepar,. Lycopodium, Sepia) (D).
PAINFUL URGING FOR URINE WITH URGING TO STOOL (Alumina, Cantharis, Digitalis, Kreos, Natrum muriaticum, Prun., Staphysagria) (K).
Renal colic Berberis, Cantharis, Lycopodium, Magnesia phos., Ocim., Pulsatilla, Sepia,; pain extending to the genitals (Br.).
Urine passes in drops. with burning and tearing in he urethra and neck of he bladder (Cantharis, Pulsatilla) (N).
Cannot keep awake in. the evening falls asleep long before bed- time, and awake at e or 4 A.M. (Bl.).
Falls into a dreamy sleep at day-break,. from which he is hard to arouse, and then complains a great deal and feels tired and weak (Bl.).
Tendency to faint (Ignatia, Nux-M.). from odours, after eating, in the morning, and after every labour pain(A.)
WEAKNESS AND PARALYSIS (Conium, Kali-P., Plb., Silicea) (E).
LEFT-SIDED PARALYSIS (Lachesis, Rhus-t.) (K).
Paralysis after apoplexy (Bar-C., Phos (K.).
Paralysis with coldness of the paralyzed part (Causticum, Dulcamara, Plb.) (K).
Convulsions with consciousness (Cina, Stramonium) (K.)
SPASMS WITH TETANIC RIGIDITY OF NEARLY ALL MUSCLES, WITH INTERRUPTIONS OF A FEW MINUTES, DURING WHICH MUSCLES ARE RELAXED
(R)
Convulsions brought on by the slightest touch, or draught of air (R,.).
Opisthotonos, with inability to move, but wants to be held (R.).
Jaws snap shut, stiff (B.).
Trismus or lock-jaw or lock-jaw (Belladonna, Cicuta, Hypericum, Opium, Strych.) (K.).
Tired, worn out feeling in the morning on waking (D.).
Cannot tolerate noise, music, talking, strong odours, or bright light (Belladonna, Colchicum, Stram). (C).
VIOLENT (SUICIDAL) IMPULSES (Arsenicum, Mercurius, Acid nitricum) (B).
ANGRY AND IMPATIENT;CAN’T STAND PAIN (B).
Ailments after continual mental labour (N)
Oversensitiveness (Ignatia, Staphysagria) (N.).
Finds fault and scolds (Lycopodium, Sulphur) (C).
Gives surly answer (Chamomilla) (G).
Easily offended Ignatia, Pulsatilla, Staphysagria) (N).
Ill-humored (Belladonna, Ignatia, Pulsatilla) (C).
Disinclination to do or say anything (G).
SPITEFUL MALICIOUS DISPOSITION (Acid nitricum) (N).
QUARRELSOME, EVEN TO VIOLENCE (Anionic., Aurum, Bryonia, Sulphur) (C).
Disinclination to do or say anything (Bryonia, Ign, Sepia) (G.)
Even the least ailment affects her greatly (Aconite, Chamomilla, Ignatia) (Br.).
Cannot bear to be opposed (Aurum, Bryonia, bear to be opposed (Aurum, Bryonia Chamomilla, Hepar, Acid nitricum) (D).
IRRITABLE AND IRASCIBLE (Sulph) (D).
Great disinclination to mental work (D).
Catarrh, from sitting in cold places, or stone steps (A.)
Catarrh,. worse in a warm room, and better in the cold air (A.)O.
Headache: Worse in the morning, from mental exertion, exercising in the open air, a after eating, or from wine or coffee; better in the warm room and from sitting quietly or lying down (N.).
Sick headache, commences in the morning, increases through the day, growing milder in the evening;with dimness of vision and sour or bitter vomiting (Kali bichromicum) (G.)
SENSATION AS IF HIS HEAD WERE IMMENSELY LARGER THAN HIS BODY; AS LARGE AS A CHURCH (Arg-B.) (G).
Nose running through the day, at night stooped (N).
Snuffles of infants (Am-C., Lycopodium, Samb). (A).
Dry coryza; worse at night; nose completely filled up (Pulsatilla, Sticta) (Bt).
Dry, racking cough (Bryonia, Conium, Sticta) (Bt.)
Photophobia, much worse in the morning (C).
Cough brings on bursting headache (Bryonia) (Br.)
Spasmodic asthma; muscles of the chest become rigid; great anxiety and suffocation (Ar., Cuprum, Lobel.).
Dyspnoea, while coughing, after eating, on lying down and from walking: and relieved by eructations (Aurum, Carbo vegetabilis) (K).
Palpitation after eating, or on lying down after dinner (C.)
Pressure towards the genital organs early in the morning, in bed, or during a walk, with a sensation of contraction of abdomen(G.)
EVERY PAIN DURING LABOUR PRODUCES A DESIRE TO DEFAECATA, OR TO URINATE, PARTICULARLY THE FORMER (G).
Comparative Materia Medica (Philadelphia, 1854)
Text-Book of Materia Medica (1866)