NUX VOMICA



During the menses she becomes quite weak after every stool.

During the menses faintness (about 2 p.m.) and headache as if the eyes would fall out of the head; she could not hold up the head ; commenced to be chilly until she shivered, and an hour afterwards she had internal burning heat and dry lips.

At the term of the menses headache in the acciput, like an abscess in the brain and as, if festering ; when she lay it was much worse than when she rose up.

During the menses an out-pressing pain in the side of the abdomen (aft. 10 h.).

620. During the menses, after the noonday sleep, a tearing in the left arm and right thigh.

During the menses a crawling upward in the gullet, in the evening after lying down.

The inside of the nostrils is painfully sensitive.

The borders of the nostrils are painful round about as if sore and ulcerated, on moving the nose, especially in the evening.

The anterior angles of the nostrils are painful as if ulcerated, and as if a wound were cut into (aft. 1, 10 h.). and as if a wound were cut into (aft. 1, 10 h.).

625. Increased acuteness of smell (aft. 132 h.). (Merely the curative effect on a previous opposite condition.)

Deception of smell ; it seems to her as if there was a smell of rotten cheese about her.

Deception of smell; he has a sulphurous smell in the nose.

Deception of smell; in the evening he has a smell in the nose like the smoking wick of a candle.

Bloody nasal mucus (aft. 1 h.). (aft. 1 h.).

630. Prolonged epistaxis.

Discharge of coagulated blood from the nose; in the morning.

Discharge of an acrid fluid from the nose.

Discharge of nasal mucus without coryza.

(Can breathe freely through the nose, but it is dry inside.)

635. Frequent discharge of mucus from one nostril which is stopped up as from coryza (aft. 1 h.).

Frequent discharge of mucus from both nostrils which are stopped up as from coryza (aft. 20 h.).

By day fluent coryza, at night stuffed coryza.

In the morning stuffed coryza with extreme dryness of the mouth.

In the morning fluent coryza.

640. Hot in the head as from coryza, with one red cheek, and running of mucus from the nose (aft. 2, 3 h.).

Continual heat in the nose and frequent attacks of coryza.

True coryza, with scraping in the throat , crawling and , scratching in the nose and sneezing (aft. 1 h.).

Frequent sneezing.

Sneezing in the morning in bed, but after rising sudden flow of coryza.

645. Coryza in the morning and after dinner.

Itching is the stopped-up nose, as in coryza.

Foetid breath through the nose.

On stooping ill-smelling vapour out of the mouth and vertigo.

In the morning after rising he has a foetid odour from the mouth, not perceived by himself.

650. Ill-Smelling breath and exhalation from the mouth, which he does not perceive himself, in the morning, whilst the tongue is clean and the taste is perfect (aft. some h.).

Foetid breath after dinner (aft. 36 h.).

Sour smelling breath.

Hawking up of mucus from the windpipe without cough.

Catarrh with headache, heat of face, chilliness, and much mucus in the throat.

655. In the evening before going to sleep, dry, painful catarrh in the larynx (aft. 36 h.).

In the morning he has catarrh in the chest, so that he cannot cough up anythig without pain in the windpipe (aft. 14 h.).

Rough throat from catarrh.

Oppression on the chest; he cannot get up anything by coughing (aft. 16 h.).

Early in the morning dry, painful catarrh in the larynx, with increased warmth of hands and feet, which at first induces him to uncover, but an hour afterwards to cover himself; followed by general perspiration (and cessation of the catarrh) (aft. 20 h.).

660. In the morning, in bed, he has catarrh in the chest (like a fur); he is hoarse and rough in the chest, and on a spot in the windpipe, where the cough, detaches the mucus, it is painful; relieved by rising from bed (aft. 10 h.).

In the morning, on rising, he feels viscid mucus strongly adherent to the upper part of the windpipe; cheat oppressed.

Scraping on the chest so that he must cough.

He feels as if mucus constricted and squeezed the upper part of the larynx, which he must get rid of by voluntary short cough.

Mucus adheres to quite the upper part of the windpipe, causing cough.

665. Tickling in the region of the palate, that excites dry coughing (aft. 48 h .).

Roughness and scrapy feeling in the larynx exciting coughing.

Roughness in the throat compelling him to cough.

Scraping cough.

Itching in the larynx , which excites coughing.

670. An itching tickling in the windpipe, in the middle of the sternum, causing cough (aft. 3/4 h.).

Cough on bodily exertion (aft. 48 h.).

During expiration there occurs a tickling in the windpipe, which causes coughing.

Cough occurs while reading and reflecting.

Cough which returns with violence every other day.

675. After eating , cough.

Dry cough from midnight till day-dawn.

Violent attacks of dry cough, in the evening after lying down, and quite early in the morning (aft. 12 h.).

Violent cough, in the morning before getting up, with expectoration of coagulated blood and

pain in the chest (aft. 18 h.).

Cough at night ; at the same time oppression of the chest

680. Nocturnal cough.

Cough comes at night and prevents sleep.

She could not get properly to sleep on account of cough, and when she thought she would sleep the cough came and disturbed her till midnight; she then slept on tranquilly.

Dry, persistent, fatiguing cough about midnight, when lying on the back, which goes off when she lies on the side (aft. 5 h.).

Cough which becomes loose in the open air.( Loose cough is only curative action with this medicine.)

685. Cough and expectoration are increased when walking in the open air, and are followed by exhaustion.

Cough with sweetish expectoration.

Only during the cough so arcid in the throat, that it pains her in the pit of the throat (aft. 2 h.). (aft. 2 h.).

A sore shooting when coughing.

Cough which brings on headache as if the skull would burst.

690. Cough which causes bruised pain in the epigastric region.

Cough which causes heat.

(Cough which causes cracking in the ear.)

Tightness of the breath and then hacking (short) cough.

Shortness of breath; she cannot draw in air enough, not even when lying; at the same time quick pulse.

695. An asthmatic, constrictive tightness transversely through the chest, when walking and going up hill.

When going upstairs tight on the chest, just as if his clothes were too tight; after sitting down it was relieved.

When the clothes are tight under the ribs he cannot get breath when walking; he breathes more freely when they are loosened; but if he takes off his clothes entirely the breath becomes again more difficult.

The fastening of the clothes over the hips oppresses, and they always appear to be too tight.

Tightness of the chest in the evening and morning.

700. Oppression of the chest. [MATTHIOLUS, 1. c.]

Anxiety in the chest. [We. ]

Oppression of the chest in the evening.

Tightness of chest and anxiety increase gradually far some hours, so that the breath becomes ever shorter, and from time to time perspiration breaks out all over the body.

At night, on awaking from frightful dreams, tightness of the chest, she can hardly get breath, with roaring in the ears, quick pulse and perspiration.

705. In the morning in bed, when lying on the back tightness of the. chest, but when he turns on the right side, headache.

A somewhat painful weariness in the chest, which is not painful when touched, it is relieved by bending back the trunk (aft. 48 h.).

After dinner tightness of the chest; he must draw deep breaths slowly; some hours afterwards shortness of breath (rapid breathing) (aft. 26, 30 h.).

Along with very slow breathing dilated pupils.

At night in bed squeezing on the chest; it is as if contracted.

710. Immediately after dinner pain close under the navel, as if a stone lay there, which almost takes away his breath, so that he can only breathe with difficulty (aft. 70, 90 h.).

A disagreeable feeling in the scrobiculus cordis spreads upwards to the larynx and chokes and shuts off the breath.

As long as she remains up the breathing is difficult and tight, but on lying down in bed it is natural.

In the open air a pain on the chest, as if it were compressed by a weight.

A pressive pain transversely across the chest, which takes away the breath.

715. A pain extending transversely across the chest, with short breathing.

At night a tension and pressure in the external parts of the chest, as from a weight, and as if the side were paralysed.

Pain as if his sternum were pressed in.

A pain in the neighbourhood of the sternum, only by day, when breathing, as if the chest were too short.

Immediately after eating an aching (and cutting) pain in the chest.

720. Aching pain in the left side of the chest when she sits for a little while, but immediately going off when she eructates.

A constrictive pain in the chest.

An asthmatic constriction transversely through the chest, when walking and going up hill.

A pinching drawing pain near the sternum (aft. 1/2 h.).

A drawing under the left breast with anxiety, a kind of oppression of the heart, which makes breathing difficult (aft. 3 h.).

Dr. Manish Bhatia
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