NUX VOMICA



MORAL SYMPTOMS.

Sadness. Melancholy. Inward grief and chagrin. Taciturn. Ill- humor, with lowness of spirits. Anxiety. Anxiety, followed by hurried breathing accompanied by nausea. Hypochondriac mood. Solicitous about one’s health. Apprehends death. Excessive sensitiveness to external impressions. Noise, talk, strong odors, and bright light are intolerable. Violent palpitation of the heart after midnight, with extreme anguish. He is apprehensive, and inclines to start, the head feeling dizzy and intoxicated. Disposed to quarrel and to feel vexed. No desire to do any kind of work. Hysteric mood.

SENSORIUM.

He is incapable of thinking correctly. He frequently makes mistakes in speaking. Insanity. Delirium and foolish actions. Disposition to escape from home. Runs about in the open air, like an insane man. Gives wrong absurd answers. Mental derangement, occasioned by mortification, by excessive study, by suppression of the haemorrhoidal flux, in the case of drunkards (delirium tremens). Muttering delirium. Illusions of the fancy and frightful visions. Loss of consciousness, stupefaction. Weariness of the head from mental exertions. Dullness of the head, with congestion of blood during motion, and indolence of the body. Confusion of the head, as from nightly revelling. Stupefaction of the head. Intoxication and cloudiness. Ailments from intoxication and nightly revelling. Chronic vertigo. Vertigo, with obscuration of sight and whizzing of the ears. Vertigo, with loss of consciousness, also with sensation as if the brain were turning in a circle. Vertigo, with balancing sensation in the brain. Vertigo, with staggering in walking, as if one would fall. Fainting sort of vertigo. Apoplexy, with loss of consciousness, soporous condition, and paralysis of the limbs, organs of deglutition, and lower jaw.

HEAD.

Headache every day. Headache early in the morning, as if he had not slept enough. Headache, excited or aggravated by stormy weather; from taking wine or coffee; when coughing or stooping; excited or aggravated by reflection; from excessive mental exertions; from piles; from leading a sedentary life. Catarrhal and rheumatic headache. Congestive headache. Hemicrania, particularly in the afternoon and evening, with languor and weariness, or as if from pressing a nail into the brain, and particularly from abuse of coffee, or in hypochondriac patients. Headache, with nausea and vomiting, also of sour and bitter substances. Headache, with heat and redness of the face. STupefying headache, early, in bed, going off after rising. Stupefying pain, particularly in the fore part of the head. Heaviness in the head, early in the morning. Tensive aching pain in the forehead, particularly above the eyes. Pressure and sticking, also particularly above the eyes, or aggravated in the open air, and by raising the head. Distractive sensation in the head, with pressure through the forehead and eyes. Tensive headache, particularly at night or in the forehead. Crampy headache. Drawing in the head. Lacerating in the forehead. Lacerating in the head, also particularly towards evening. Headache, as if the brain were cleft. Lacerating pain in the head, extending to the root of the nose, and the upper jaw, aggravated by walking. Congestion of blood to the head. Congestion of blood, with heat and redness of the face; also with violent pains in the forehead; with vertigo; with fainting. Groaning and swashing sensation in the brain when walking and running. Drawing-jerking headache, early in the morning. Headache n the outer parts of the head. The scalp on the top of the head feels bruised when touched. Red painful pimples or blotches on the hairy scalp and in the face. Painful small tumors on the forehead. Creeping in the forehead and vertex.

EYES.

Nightly lacerating in the eye. Pressure on the upper eye-lids, especially early in the morning. Pressure in the eyes, on opening them and looking at the light. Burning and twitching of the lids. The margin of the eye-lids is painful. Suppurating canthi. Nightly agglutination of the eyes. Burning in the eyes, without any inflammation. Painless suggillations in the sclerotica. Exudation of blood from the eye. Glistening staring eyes. Swelling of the eyes, the sclerotica being marked with red bands, and an aching tensive pain being experienced in the eye. Ophthalmia of various kinds. Photophobia, also of scrofulous persons. Intolerance of the light of day, early in the morning, with obscuration of sight. Complete obscuration of sight, for a few hours, like amaurosis. Luminous vibrations out of the visual ray. Black and gray motes before the eyes, with stupefaction of the head. Presbyopia.

EARS.

Pains in the ears, worse on entering the room or at night in bed. Lacerating in or behind the ear, extending to the face. Tingling hissing in the ears. Ringing in the ears. Roaring in the ears, early in the morning when rising. Otitis. Inflammatory swelling of the parotid glands.

NOSE.

Intolerable itching of the nose. Pain of the borders of the nostrils, as if sore and ulcerated. Ulceration of the anterior corners of the nostrils. Increased smell. Sanguineous nasal mucus. Continued bleeding at the nose. Discharge of an acrid humor from the nose. Stoppage of the nose, also of one nostril only. Fluent coryza in the daytime, and dry coryza at night. Contained heat in the nose and frequent incipient symptoms of catarrh. Frequent sneezing. Dry coryza, with inflammatory condition of the frontal cavities and headache. Dry coryza of infants. Almost a specific for the ordinary catarrh in the inflammatory period which precedes the usual catarrh, particularly when there is a violent dullness of the head.

FACE.

Earthy, yellowish complexion. Yellowish appearance around the nose and mouth. Pale, wretched look, also with blue margins around the eyes and with pointed nose. Sunken cheeks. Distorted gloomy features. Red, bloated face. Dark redness of the face. Alternate redness and paleness. Redness and heat of the cheeks, or of one cheek only, with paleness of the other. Swelling on the cheek particularly pale swelling. Swelling and redness of the face. Lacerating in the malar bones, on one side of the face, with swelling. Itching and creeping in the face. Formication. Dryness of the lips. Ulcerated corners of the lips. Painful peeling off of the lips.

JAWS AND TEETH.

Lock-jaw, with perfect consciousness. Drawing-lacerating pain in the jaws. Toothache early in the morning, as if the gums were sore. Continuous painful soreness in the teeth, aggravated by fatiguing the head, and by reflection. Constant toothache, when walking in the open air. Darting pain in the teeth, with sensation as if the gums were swollen. Darting pain in the teeth, pulsative, and accompanied with swelling of the gums. Toothache after dinner. Drawing toothache. Lacerating toothache, brought on again by cold water. Boring-gnawing toothache. Stitching toothache, in several teeth of either jaw. Sticking in a hollow tooth, with drawing boring. Looseness of the teeth. Swelling of the gums. Swelling of the gums, with pain, with a throbbing sensation in the swelling, as if an ulcer would burst. Swelling of the gums, with drawing pain. Putrid, bleeding swelling of the gums. Swelling of the gums, with toothache, commencing with pressure.

MOUTH.

Inflammation of the buccal cavity. Inflammatory swelling, particularly of the velum pendulum palati, and of the gums, with

difficulty of swallowing and opening the mouth. Aphthae. Fetid ulcers in the mouth and fauces. Stomacace. Putrid, cadaverous smell from the mouth. Dryness of the mouth. Accumulation of saliva in the mouth. Bloody saliva. Spitting of blackish, coagulated blood. Slimy mouth, the gums, tongue, and palate feeling raw and sore. Tongue black and cracked, with bright red edges. Dry tongue. White tongue. Brownish tongue. Tongue coated with yellow or white mucus. Painful vesicles on the tongue. Difficult speech, also with heaviness of the tongue. Swelling of the velum pendulum palati, also with pressure and biting. Painful feeling. Sore throat, as from a swelling in the region of the palate, not perceptible while drinking.

THROAT.

Sore throat, with sensation of swelling in the pharynx. Sore rawness of the fauces, only when inspiring cold air and during deglutition. Sore throat during deglutition, as if the throat were raw. Burning of the fauces, as if occasioned by heartburn. Burning in the throat at night. Burning in the oesophagus up to the mouth. Scraping sensation in the throat, and in the region of the orifice of the larynx, as from rancid heartburn. Sore throat, particularly after taking cold. Catarrhal sore throat. Swelling of the uvula, also inflammatory, with stinging and pressure during and between the acts of deglutition. Swelling of the tonsils. Choking and constrictive sensation of the pharynx.

TASTE AND APPETITE.

Sour taste in the mouth, especially early in the morning. Milk seems to sour upon his stomach. Disagreeable taste and smell in the mouth and nose, almost like sulphur. Putrid taste low down in the pharynx. Putrid or bitter taste early in the morning. Food has either little or no taste to him. Constant want of appetite, also with constant thirst. Aversion to the ordinary food and drink. Hunger, nevertheless aversion to food. Great appetite, with vomiting of the ingesta. During a meal; heat in the head. Sweat on the forehead and hairy scalp. A kind of fainting, with nausea and flush of heat, going off when lying. After a meal; sick feeling, and as if he had overloaded his stomach. Pressure at the stomach, with return of the herb-like and metallic taste. Dissatisfied and sad. Hypochondriac; the least cause affected him. Chilliness and coldness. Heat and redness of the cheeks, with dullness of the head. Drowsiness. Sudden qualmishness; afterwards attack of vertigo and fainting turns; lastly, eructations without taste or smell. Vomiting, with pressure in the pit of the stomach and burning in the throat. Ailments from tobacco. Nausea, and inclination to vomit, after a drinking, in the evening.

Charles Julius Hempel
Charles Julius Hempel (5 September 1811 Solingen, Prussia - 25 September 1879 Grand Rapids, Michigan) was a German-born translator and homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. While attending medical lectures at the University of New York, where he graduated in 1845, he became associated with several eminent homeopathic practitioners, and soon after his graduation he began to translate some of the more important works relating to homeopathy. He was appointed professor of materia medica and therapeutics in the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia in 1857.