NUX VOMICA uses / Nux vom uses [Nux-v uses]
Note: Wherever it is found, "<" denotes aggravation (worse by), ">" denotes amelioration (better by), "<->" denotes alternation (alternates with) and A/F is an abbreviation of, "Ailments from"
Impatient, competitive, ambitious, workaholic
Confident, arrogant
Compulsive, fastidious
Aggressive, irritable, violent anger
Stimulants attract the patient
Collapse, chronic fatigue
Spasms, cramps
Chilly
COMMON NAME
Poison Nut
A/F
| - | Anger, contradiction |
| - | Mental exertion |
| - | Loss of sleep [Cupr, Cocc] |
| - | Alcohol, drugs |
| - | Rich food, spices |
| - | Tea |
| - | Over-eating |
| - | Sexual excess, masturbation |
| - | Spraining or straining a single part, muscle or tendon |
MODALITIES
| < | Music |
| < | Purgatives |
| < | After dinner |
| < | Mental exertion |
| < | Wounded honour |
| < | Early morning |
| < | Cold open air (dry) |
| < | Uncovering |
| < | High living |
| < | Alcohol |
| < | Drugs |
| < | Sedentary habits |
| < | Pressure of clothes |
| < | Debauchery |
| < | Slight causes (anger; noise, touch) |
| > | Free discharges |
| > | Milk |
| > | Moist air (Hep) |
| > | Lying on either side |
| > | Resting |
| > | Hot drinks |
| > | Fats |
| > | Occupation |
| > | Wrapping head |
MIND
| - | Adapted to thin, irritable, persons with nervous,
melancholic temperament |
| - | Intellectual and over cautious in disposition, who do a lot of mental
overstudy, close application to business, etc |
| - | Angry and impatient. Violent, malicious |
| - | Anger when obliged to answer; from interruption, from contradiction |
| - | Overzealous, fiery temperament |
| - | Irritable, every harmless word offends |
| - | Nervous, excitable |
| - | Oversensitive to all impressions. Cannot bear noise, odours, light, touch
etc. [Cham, Val] |
| - | Fault finding, sullen people |
| - | Headstrong. Self willed. Cannot endure the slightest contradiction |
| - | Confusion after vexation, from spirits, or after a carousal |
| - | Concentration difficult while calculating |
| - | Abundant ideas, clearness of mind (especially in evening) |
| - | Unconsciousness from odours; during parturition |
| - | Fastidious, cannot rest till things are in proper place |
| - | Fears poverty |
| - | Suicidal, homicidal impulses from slight offense, but lacks courage |
| - | Impossible to weep though sad |
| - | Hypochondriac |
| - | Kleptomania |
| - | Delusions - sees mutilated bodies |
| - | Occupation > |
| - | Music > |
GUIDING INDICATIONS
| - | Patients who are chilly; always taking
cold |
| - | One of best remedy to commence treatment in cases who are drugged by strong
allopathic treatment. Oversensitive to all external impressions |
| - | Fainting tendency from odours, after eating, after labour, with pain |
| - | Convulsions with consciousness, by anger or emotion |
| - | Violent pains – lightning-like, twisting, jerking |
| - | Bruised soreness in abdomen, brain, larynx, throat |
| - | Head - Gastric headaches |
| - | Sensation as if nail were driven into head |
| - | Sensation as if head was beaten with axe > pressure |
| - | Drunken confusion in head |
| - | < Sun [Nat-c, Glon], < Morning, > Warm, > Rest |
| - | Vertigo with momentary loss of consciousness |
| - | Eyes |
|
- |
Infra-orbital neuralgia |
|
- |
Optic nerve atrophy because of use of intoxicants |
| - | Nose - Snuffles of infants < Night (Stict, Am-c,
Lyc, Samb) |
| - | Sneezing - violent and abortive |
| - | Coryza dry at night, fluent by day (Nat-c) |
| - | Colds < Warm > Open air |
| - | Mouth - Taste bitter in mouth |
| - | Bloody saliva at night |
| - | Accumulation of saliva in fauces |
| - | Sour odour of breath |
| - | Tongue posteriorly coated yellow |
| - | G.I.T. - Digestive disturbances with ineffectual desire for stools |
| - | Sour eructations. Sour vomitus |
| - | Nausea and vomiting constant. "If I could vomit, I would be
better" < Morning, with depression of spirits |
| - | Pressure on stomach, an hour after eating, must loosen clothings (Bry,
Puls) |
| - | Cannot use mind 2-3 hours after eating |
| - | Hiccough from over eating or after eating |
| - | Craves - pungent food, alcohol, beer, coffee, chalk, fat food, tobacco and
stimulants |
| - | Aversion to bread, water, coffee and tobacco |
| - | Weakness of abdominal ring as if hernia would occur, or pain as if a hernia
would be incarcerated |
| - | Sore bowels [Apis, Sulph] < coughing < stepping |
| - | Strangulated hernia (umbilical or inguinal) |
| - | Jaundice from anger |
| - | Constipation with constant, ineffectual urging for stool |
| - | Ineffectual urging for stools, as if part remained unexpelled (Caust) |
| - | Passes small quantities of stools at each attempt |
| - | [Absence of all desire for defecation is a contradiction] |
| - | Constipation alternates with diarrhoea |
| - | Itching, blind haemorrhoids > sitting in a tub of cold water |
| - | Dysentery - Stools > pains for a time. First part of stool soft, last
part hard |
| - | Sharp pains in rectum after a stool and after a meal, especially on exerting
mind or studying |
| - | Urinary system - Renal colic (right), extending to genitals and leg, with
dribbling of urine |
| - | Cystitis with constant urging for small amounts, > from heat or warm
bathing |
| - | Female genitalia – Menses irregular, never at right time, every two weeks
(Plat), stops and starts again, with nausea, chilliness, fainting, too early,
profuse, long lasting |
| - | Labour pains - violent, causes fainting, with urging to stools or urination
(Lil-t) |
| - | Nymphomania in head strong women |
| - | Morning sickness with retching, more than vomiting (Sep) |
| - | Prolapsus uteri from straining, lifting |
| - | Respiratory system - Scraping sensation in throat |
| - | Asthma in morning or after eating, of gastric origin |
| - | Shallow respiration, oppressed breathing |
| - | Back - Backache, must sit up to turn in bed |
| - | Chilliness of back and limbs, and pain of skin as from freezing cold, and
falling to sleep of limbs |
| - | C.N.S. - Epilepsy with fright, during sleep, with vertigo or drowsiness |
| - | Absence of sensations or reaction with consciousness |
| - | Spasms cease as soon as patient is tightly grasped |
| - | Sleep - Sleeps before bed time, awakes 3-4 a.m., falls into a dreamy sleep
at day break, from which is hard to arouse |
| - | Short sleep ameliorates |
| - | Fever - Chill - must be covered in every stage of fever |
| - | Chilliness on being uncovered, yet does not allow covering |
| - | Rigor with blueness of finger nails |
| - | Great heat, whole body burning hot, yet patient cannot move or uncover which brings on chills |
KEYNOTES
CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS
NUCLEUS OF REMEDY
| - | It is suited to persons who are quarrelsome,
spiteful, malicious, addicted to wine, narcotics, coffee, highly rich food,
living a sedentary life |
| - | Mentally overworked, over-sensitive individuals, suffering from gastric
complaints or have been drugged by allopathic or other non-homoeopathic
drugs |
| - | The nerves are in a state of irritation, with oversensitiveness, over-impressionability |
| - | This produces a tendency to twitching, cramps, convulsions, causing a constant urge for stool |
CLINICAL
| - | Alcoholism, Angina, Arrhythmia, Arthritis, Asthma,
Behaviour disorder, Chronic fatigue syndrome, Colds, Colic, Constipation,
Crohn's disease, Cystitis, Endometriosis, Fibrositis, Headaches,
Haemorrhoids, Hypertension, Inflammatory bowel disease, Influenza, Insomnia,
Irritable bowel syndrome, Lumbago, Multiple sclerosis, Neuralgia, Peptic
ulcer, Premenstrual syndrome, Prostatis, Pyelonephritis, Rectal fissure,
Renal calculi, Sciatica, Ulcerative colitis |
| - | Nux-v should be given on retiring or several hours before going to bed. It acts best during repose of mind and body |
REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS
Complements: Sulph
Follows Well: Ars, Bell, Bry, Calc, Cinch, Ipec, Lyc, Mag-m, Phos,
Puls, Rhus-t, Sep, Sulph
Inimical: Ign, Zinc
Compare: Acon, Aesc, Agn, Ambr, Apis, Ars, Asar, Bell, Bism, Calc,
Camph, Carb-an, Carb-v, Cast-eq, Cham, Chel, Chic, Cic, Cob, Cocc, Coloc,
Con, Cur, Dig, Hep, Hydr-ac, Ign, Kali-c, Kreos, Lyc, Mag-m, Mosch, Nat-m,
Nat-s, Nit-ac, Nux m, Nux-m, Oci, Op, Phys, Phyt, Pic-ac, Prun, Puls, Sep,
Sulph, Tab, Thuj, Zing
Similar: Aesc, Aloe, Alum, Ambr, Arn, Ars, Asar, Bell, Berb, Bism,
Bry, Calad, Calc, Canth, Carb-v, Card-m, Cast-eq, Caust, Cham, Cob, Cocc,
Collin, Graph, Hamm, Ign, Kreos, Lach, Led, Lyc, Merc, Op, Phos, Puls, Staph,
Sulph, Zing
Antidoted By: Acon, Bell, Camph, Cham, Cocc, Mez, Op, Pal, Plat, Puls,
Stram, Thuj
It Antidotes: Merc, Mez, Thuj
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