Nux Vomica

Much pain in the lumbar region (Aesculus, Calcarea, Rhus toxicodendron) (Hm.).

Painless injection of the whites of the eye (ecchymoses) (N).

Blood-shot eyes (Belladonna, Stramonium) (B).

MUCH PAIN IN THE SMALL OF THE BACK, WHICH IS MADE WORSE BY TURNING IN BED (G.).

BACKACHE, MUST SIT UP TO TURN OVER IN BED (N).

Easily excited sexual desire (Phosphorus) (Br.).

NOCTURNAL EMISSION (China, Phosphorus, Sulphur) (Hm).

Troublesome erections (Cantharis, Phosphorus, Pic-Ac., Platina) (K).

Erections wanting (impotency) (Agn., Bar-C., Caladium, Calcarea, Calc- S., China, Conium, Lycopodium, Medorrhinum, Phosphorus, Selenium, Sepia, Sulphur) (K.).

Spermatorrhoea (Conium, Acid phosphoricum.) (Br.).

Gonorrhoea with thin or greenish-yellow discharge (Mercurius, N-S., Pulsatilla) (K.).

Soft sore or chancroid (Mercurius) (F.)

Smegma increased (Cantharis, Causticum, Sanguinaria, Sulphur, Sumb.) (K.).

Bad effects of sexual excesses (Acid phosphoricum.) (Br.).

Menstruation every irregular (Pulsatilla) (Bt.).

Menses too early and too profuse, with weak, faint spells (bt.).

Catamenia before the time, and rather too copious, or keeping on too long, with complaints at the onset and remaining after it it over (N.).

Fetid leucorrhoea, tinging the linen yellow (Arsenicum, Kali-P., Nit- Ac., Sepia), with pain in the uterus, as if bruised (G.).

Morning sickness during pregnancy (Pulsatilla, Sepia) (T).

Threatened abortion (Caulophyllum, Sepia) (G.)

Pain in the extremities during fever (Bryonia, Eup-P., Rhus toxicodendron) (K).

Repugnance to cod or to cold air (Hepar, Psorinum, Silicea) (A).

Chill at 10 or 11 A.M. (Natrum muriaticum, Sulphur) (K).

Chilly, on least movement, from being uncovered (Rhus toxicodendron) (A.).

MUST BE COVERED IN EVERY STAGE OF FEVER VIZ., CHILL, HEART OR SWEAT (A.).

Great heat, whole body burning hot (Aconite, Arsenicum, Belladonna, Sulphur),. yet must be covers, as the least uncovering or motion makes him chilly (N.).

The face be seems red and hot during fever (Belladonna, Stramonium (A).

Sweat after midnight and in the morning (C..

Sour perspiration, only on one side of the body 9Br.).

AGGRAVATION:

      In the morning; soon after awaking; after mental exertion; after eating; at 3 A,.M.; from touch; at 10 or 11 A.M.; from noise; in cold weather; from anger; from lying down; from uncovering; from liquors; after debauchery; from coffee; from over-eating; and use of purgatives.

AMELIORATION:

      In the evening; while at rest in dam., wet weather (Caust”); in a warm room; on covering; after stool; after discharging wind; from warmth; from free discharge; and from loosening the garments.

RELATIONSHIP:

      complementary: Kali-c., Mercurius, Phosphorus, Sepia and Sulph. (In nearly all diseases).

N.B. Nux vomica, acts best when given at night, during response of mind and; Sulph. in the morning.

Inimical to: Zincum met. (must not be used before or after).

Follows well after: Aloe, Arsenicum, Ipec, Phosphorus, Sepia and Sulph.

Is followed well by: Bryonia, Pulsatilla and Sulph.

Similar to Anacardium, Belladonna, Bryonia, Cantharis, Causticum, Cocc., Hydrastis, Ignatia, Lycopodium, Mercurius, Sepia, Sulphur, Thuja, and Zincum met.

ANTIDOTES: Cocc., Coffea and Ignatia

Adolph Lippe

Adolph Lippe (born near Goerlitz, Prussia, 11 May 1812; died in Philadelphia, 23 January 1888) was a homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. Adolph got a legal education at Berlin. After completing his legal studies, Lippe became interested in homeopathy, and emigrated to the United States in 1837 to further his study. In 1838, he enrolled in the North American Academy of Homeopathy at Allentown, Pennsylvania, from where he graduated in 1841. He settled in Philadelphia, where from 1863 until 1868 he was professor of materia medica in the Homeopathic College of Pennsylvania. Besides some essays and treatises from the French, German, and Italian which became standards, Lippe was the author of:
Comparative Materia Medica (Philadelphia, 1854)
Text-Book of Materia Medica (1866)