NUX VOMICA



LARYNX AND TRACHEA.

Catarrh with headache, heat in the face, chilliness, and a good deal of mucus in the throat. Dry, painful catarrh in the larynx, in the evening before going to bed. Catarrhal affection of the chest early in the morning. Tightness of the chest. Dry, painful catarrh, early in the morning. Scraping sensation in the chest, inducing hawking. Grippe. Nux. v is a almost a specific remedy in the first stage of the ordinary bronchial catarrhs, with dry coryza and dry cough. Constrictive spasm of the larynx, Bronchitis. Roughness and scraping in the larynx, inducing cough. Cough when moving the body. Cough coming on while reading and reflecting. Cough, returning every other day with violence. Cough after a meal. Titillating cough, a light hacking in the daytime, worse in the evening, seldom at night, and most violent in the morning. Cough with roughness, during and after measles and rubeola. Short hacking, with soreness of the chest. Dry cough from midnight until daybreak. Dry, fatiguing, continuous cough, also with vomiturition and vomiting of mucus about midnight. Spasmodic cough with retching. Whooping cough. Cough, becoming loose in the open air. Acrid sensation in the throat, only while coughing, and causing a pain in the pit of the stomach. Sore stitching when coughing. Sore and raw feeling in the throat-pit during the cough. Cough, occasioning a headache as if the skull would burst. Cough, occasioning a pain as if bruised in the epigastrium. Cough inducing vomiting. Cough with danger of suffocation. Cough with discharge of blood from the nose and mouth. Rattling of mucus in the chest.

CHEST.

Fetid breath. Sour-smelling breath. Oppression breathing, occasioning a hacking. Soreness of breath. Asthmatic, constrictive sensation through the chest, when walking or going upstairs. Dyspnoea morning and evening. Anxious oppression of the chest. Suffocative fits after midnight. Dry spasmodic asthma of full-grown people. Asthma-millari. Congestive dyspnoea. Spasms of the chest. Painful pressure across the chest, arresting the breathing. Drawing below the left chest, with anxiety; a sort of oppression in the region of the heart, rendering breathing difficult. Drawing pain in the ribs. Burning in the chest, with anxiety. Congestion of blood to the chest. Painful pulsative shocks in the direction of the heart. Palpitation of the heart, when lying down after dinner. Seething of the blood, with palpitation of the heart early in the morning. Frequent small paroxysms of palpitation of the heart. Palpitation of the heart, with nausea, inclination to vomit, and heaviness in the chest. The whole sternum feels bruised when touched. Rheumatic sticking in the muscles, even in the intercostal muscles. Rheumatism of the muscles of the chest. Tension and pressure in the outer parts of the chest, as if oppressed by a load and as if the side were lame. Chilliness over the chest, with tensive pain.

BACK.

Beating pain in the small of the back, with eructations and chills. Contractive pain in the small of the back, afterwards extending to the side. The small of the back feels bruised, worse during motion than rest. Contusive and bruised pain in the small of the back and knees. Lacerating in the loins. Drawing pain, commencing in the loins, and ascending the back, accompanied with a paralytic stiffness. Drawing, extending to the shoulders. Rheumatic or haemorrhoidal pains in the loins, small of the back, and back. Drawing lacerating pain in the back. Lacerating in the back, also particularly in the evening. Burning lacerating in the back. Stiffness of the back. Haemorrhoidal stiffness in the back. Aching pain in the dorsal vertebrae. Bruised pain in the back, increasing by contact or pressure, as if ecchymozed. Pain in the scapulae as if sprained. Drawing and bruised pain between the scapulae, especially when stooping. Constrictive pain between the scapulae. Pain in the articulations of the cervical vertebrae. Drawing pain in the nape of the neck, and as if oppressed by a load. Paroxysms of lacerating pain in the nape of the neck.

ARMS.

Bruised pain in the shoulder-joint and scapula. Paralytic pain in the shoulder-joint, the whole arm feeling tired and heavy. Drawing pain in the head of the humerus. Rheumatic pain in the shoulder. Itching rash on the arms. Sensation as if the arm had gone to sleep. Pain in the arm, hindering motion. Sudden sensation of loss of strength in the arms, early in the morning. Paralysis of the arm, with tumult and shocks in the arm, as if the blood would start out of the vessels. Drawing pain in the arm, from below upwards, with paralytic stiffness, particularly at night. Rheumatic laming pain in the upper arm, increased by motion. Contractive aching pain in the elbow. Weariness of the fore-arms. Paralytic weakness of the fore-arms and hands. Drawing pain in the hand, and afterwards in the elbow-joint. Deadness of the hands. Cold hands. Pale swelling of the hands and fingers. Itching of the finger-joints. In a mild season of the year the fingers are red and swollen in various places, and affected with a burning itching. Pain of the finger-joints, as after violent labor.

LEGS.

Frequent dartings from the feet to the hips. Vacillation and unsteadiness of the lower limbs. Heaviness and weariness of the lower limbs, and aching when walking. Numbness and paralysis of the lower limbs. Coldness of the lower limbs. Frequent jerking and twitching in the flesh of the thigh. Drawing pain in the abdomen through the thighs. Paralytic drawing in the muscles of the thigh and calf, painful when walking. Painful tension in the thigh, as if too short. Pain as after great fatigue, in the flesh of the thigh, with bruised pain when touched. Boils on the thigh, causing a violent stinging pain. Sticking and drawing from the knee to the groin, aggravated by contact and motion. Burning-itching rash on both thighs, during the menses. Tottering and giving way of the knees. Excessive weakness of the knees. Sensation in the bends of the knees as if they were too short. Stiffness and tension in the bend of the knee. Pain in the knees, as if bruised, during rest and motion. Painful swellings above the knee. Arthritic inflammation and swelling of the knee, also with formation of nodosities. Burning-itching rash on the knee. Spasmodic drawing in the legs. Bright red swelling of the leg, with black, painful spots. Cramp-pain in the calves. Tensive pain in the calves. Lacerating in the ankle. The feet go to sleep. Painful cramp-like contraction of the soles, when bending the legs. Burning pain in the soles. Stitches in the soles of the feet. Itching burning of the toes as if frozen.

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.