NUX MOSCHATA

Homeopathic Materia Medica & Symptoms

Boericke's Materia Medica

Marked tendency to fainting fits
Heart failure
Cold extremities
Extreme dryness of mucous membranes and skin
Strange feeling
Irresistible drowsiness
Indicanuria
General inclination to become unconscious during acute attacks
Lypothymia
Staggers on trying to walk
Changeable mind
Laughing and crying
Confused mind
Impaired memory
Bewildered sense
Feeling as in a dream
Thinks she has two heads
Vertigo when walking in open air
Headaches from eating a little too much
Feeling of expansion in head
Sleepiness
Pulsating in head
Cracking sensation in head
Sensitive to slightest touch in a draught of air
Bursting headache
Better with hard pressure on head
Objects look larger
Objects look very distant
Objects vanish
Motes before eyes
Mydriasis
Oversensitive to smell
Nosebleed, dark blood
Dry nose
Stopped up nose
Very dry mouth
Tongue adheres to roof of mouth
No desire for water
Saliva like cotton
Toothache in pregnancy
Tongue numb
Paralyzed tongue
Dryness of throat
Excessively bloated stomach
Flatulent dyspepsia
Hiccough
Craving for highly-seasoned food
Retrocession of gout to stomach
Paralytic weakness of intestines
Enormously distended abdomen
Soft stool with inability to expel
Long straining during stool
Faintness during or after stool
Protruding piles
Uterine hmorrhage
Menses too long, dark, thick
Leucorrha muddy and bloody
Suppression of menses
Persistent fainting attacks
Sleepiness during menses suppression
Variableness of menstruation
Irregularity of time and quantity of menstruation
Loss of voice from walking against the wind
Cough when getting warm in bed
Trembling heart
Fluttering heart
Sensation as if something grasped heart
Palpitation
Pulse intermits
Pain in right hip to knee
Worse pain with motion
Worse pain going upstairs
Rheumatism from getting feet wet
Rheumatism from exposure to draughts
Rheumatism relieved by dry, warm clothes
Fatigue on slight exertion
Great drowsiness
Complaints cause sleepiness
Coma
Chill begins in left hand
Chilliness and heat without thirst
Want of perspiration
Dry skin
Dryness of inner parts
Dry eyes
Dry nose
Dry lips
Dry mouth
Dry tongue
Dry throat

Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

Abortion
Apoplexy
Asthma, hysteric
Brain, softening of
Infantile affections of brain
Catalepsy
Chilblains
Cholerine
Clairaudience
Clairvoyance
Convulsions
Cough
Debility
Deltoid rheumatism
Dysmenia
Dyspepsia
Eructations
Eyes, sight weak
Fainting
Flatulence
Freckles
Frost-bite
Gastralgia
Hmorrhage
Headache
Head, convulsive movement of
Hiccough
Hoarseness
Hysteria
Intermittent fever
Locomotor ataxy
Lumbago
Marasmus
Menopause
Menorrhagia
Menses, suppressed
Metrorrhagia
Mind, affections of
Pelvis, congestion of
Perspiration, bloody
Hysterical perspiration
Pregnancy, complaints of
Ptosis
Puerperal convulsions
Renal colic
Rheumatism
Sleep, overpowering
Speech, defective
Stammering
Strangury
Toothache
Turpentine, effects of
Typhoid, hmorrhage in
Uterus, prolapse of
Worms
Weeping mood with burning in eyes and lachrymation
Fickleness
Great inclination to laugh
Jest of everything
Stupid look
Imbecile look
Incessant flow of facetious ideas
Ludicrous feelings
Humour grave and gay alternately
Mentally excited
Exhilarated feelings
Facility of arguing
Head felt strange as if in a dream
Seemed to be two persons
Transient loss of memory
Perfect consciousness
Surroundings seem changed
Fanciful images
Dreamy images
Does not recognise well-known streets
Weakness of memory
Loss of memory
Entirely lost memory of his past life
Hallucination that she has two heads
Sense of impending dissolution
Slowness of apprehension
Dizziness
Difficult conception
Want of ideas
Absence of mind
Vanishing of thoughts in reading
Disposition to go to sleep
Dulness of senses
Thoughtlessness
Slowly returning consciousness
Dementia
Mental alienation
Idiocy
Mania with odd speeches and ridiculous gestures
Delirium with violent vertigo
Improper talk
Loud tone and voice
Total sleeplessness
The least exertion or mental excitement = somnolence
Unable to use words properly
Confusion and pressive heaviness in head
Reeling
Head seemed whirling round
Eyes starting from head
Staggering
Anguish
Rigidity of body
Giddiness
Vertigo as from drunkenness
Delirium and mumbling
Insensibility
Emptiness and faint feeling
Head drops forward while sitting
Headache as from indigestion
Pressive headache
Heaviness and confusion of head
Affections of the temples
Headaches with very dry mouth and no desire for water
Pain in head
Internal heat
Sensation of wavering in brain on moving head
Sounds as if chains were in her head
Pains mostly in occiput
Sensation as if brain were striking against skull
Sleepiness after a meal
Sensitiveness of head as from soreness
Sensitive to slightest touch in a draught of air (wind)
Violent constricting burning stinging pains over r. eye
Red face
Compression of lips and jaws
Attacks are most intense
Unconsciousness
Immobility of l. leg
Face swelled
Speech lost
Continually moving his hand to painful place
Head convulsively drawn from one side to the other
Distorts his face
Headache and drowsiness with great debility
Pain in pericardium
Salt taste and indigestion
Head feels full, expanded
Headache from inward heat
Burning in the head
Head seemed bulky and rolled around uncontrollably
Head tends to fall to l.
Moves convulsively from side to side
Complaints < by shaking head
By raising head from pillow
Painful sensitiveness of temple to touch
Pressive and pulsative headache
Sensation as if all vessels pulsating
Throbbing pressing pain confined to small spots
Severe tearing in (l.) occiput towards nape of neck
Dryness of eyes
Sensation of dryness which impedes movements of lids
It is difficult to read by artificial light
Blindness then fainting
Profuse lachrymation
Burning pains in eyes
Tension round eyes and in lids
Sensation of fulness in eyes
Contraction of pupils
Illusions of vision
Objects appear too distant too large or too small
Sees two objects instead of one
Weakness of sight
Blue rings around eyes
Otalgia
Shooting pains
Pain in Eustachian tube as if caused by a rough body
Hearing for distant sounds increased
Over-sensitiveness of hearing
Buzzing in ears
Ears as if stopped
Sneezing
Over-sensitiveness to smell
Loss of smell
Catarrh
Nose-bleed
Blood usually dark black
Obstruction of nose
Paleness of face
Blue circle round eyes
Heat in face with slight redness of cheeks
Expression: agonised
Expression: hippocratic
Expression: singular
Expression: silly
Would give a diabolic grin
Lips: swollen
Lips sticking together
Lips burning
Drawing mouth awry
Pustules with hard red borders on chin
Compression of jaws
Cannot close jaws
Sensation of swelling throughout the l. side of the face
Burning pricking as from electric fluid
Freckles in face
Painfulness of teeth while eating (dry bread)
Shooting and tearing pains in teeth
Lancinations in teeth
Nightly tearing in teeth
Inability to close jaws
Shooting pains in teeth
Toothache produced by damp evening air
Compressive pains
Teeth feel as if loose
Shocks in molar teeth after drinking cold water
Teeth blunted
Bleeding of gums readily
Dryness and sensation of dryness in mouth (of the tongue and lips, extending to the throat), without thirst
Very dry mouth
Tongue may adhere to roof of mouth
Aversion to water
Sensation as if soft palate was rolling or curling up on itself from tip to base
Fetid breath
Saliva seems like cotton
Abundant accumulation of thick mucus and of saliva in mouth
Paralysis of the tongue
Speech difficult, indistinct
Sensation of torpor in tongue
Tongue coated white (with mucus)
Aphth
Swelling of mucous follicles under tongue
Great dryness and sensation of dryness in throat (without thirst) with scraping
Difficulty of deglutition as from paralysis of throat
Taste in mouth as after eating much salt
Clammy (pappy) taste
Taste of chalk in mouth
Hunger and immoderate appetite (thirst diminished), esp. towards noon
Thirst excessive, cannot drink enough
Diminution of appetite and prompt satiety
Absence of thirst
Dejection and uneasiness after a meal
Weak digestion and stomach (esp. in the aged)
Acrid risings (debility; scraping eructations) shortly after a meal
Nausea from motion of a carriage
Nausea from irritation of pessaries
Nausea and vomiting during pregnancy
Deathly nausea if her head were raised from pillow
Nausea and vomiting with inclination to sleep
Irritation of stomach from over-taxed mental powers
Sufferings esp. pains in head < after a meal (esp. breakfast)
Fulness of stomach with impeded respiration
Sensation of heat and of burning pain in stomach
Inflation of stomach
Crawling from pit of stomach to throat
Cramps in stomach with very weak digestion
Pressure in stomach as from incarceration of flatus
Pressure in liver as if caused by hard and pointed bodies
Swelling of liver
Heaviness in the region of liver
Swelling of spleen
Sensation of weight in hypochondria and upper abdomen
Rumbling in abdomen
Colic with tearing pains
Colic pain in abdomen immediately after eating and < after drinking only during day with dry mouth and thirstlessness
Inflation of abdomen with nausea and digging in umbilical region
Abdomen enormously distended
Sore pain and distension round abdomen
Aching and numbness round anus
Burning pain just above anus
Piles that discharge mucus only
Bearing-down of both anus and womb with vaginal cuttings
Much numbness of lower back
Palpitation of heart
Cutting pains (in abdomen and screwing pain around the navel)
Nocturnal sufferings from flatulence
Lump in hypogastrium (with uterine complaints)
Soft sluggish fces
Difficult to evacuate
Rectum inactive
Diarrha from weakness
Bloody putrid diarrha (in typhus fever)
Diarrha like fried eggs
Summer complaint
Diarrha with want of appetite and drowsiness (in summer) in children
Mucous diarrha as from worms
Burning and incisive pains when urinating
Renal colic and discharge of calculi
Painful strangury
Urine with a violet-like smell
Absence of sexual desire
Weakness of genital functions
Absence of erections
Desire with relaxed organs
Inclined to coitus but erections weak and of short duration
Flow of prostatic fluid
Catamenia irregular
Before catamenia: sacral pains and lassitude with pressure in the stomach water-brash and hepatic pains
During catamenia: sensation of a general bearing down towards the hypogastrium and drawing in limbs
During a hmorrhage from uterus or menstruation pressure in abdomen drawing down into the legs from navel
Spasmodic false labour pains
Threatening miscarriage
Pain of uterus from pessary
Flatulent distension of uterus
Leucorrha in place of menses
Flatus from vagina
Metrorrhagia
Menorrhagia
Blood thick and dark
Menses preceded by pain in small of back as if a piece of wood, stretched across there were pressing from within out
Suppressed catamenia
Breasts too small and without milk
Nipples retracted
Voice tremulous
Altered voice
Sudden hoarseness when walking against the wind
Cough with pain in chest as if raw
Cough with great soreness in the larynx or the chest
Dry cough with suspended respiration after a chill in the water
Cough with or without expectoration when becoming warm in bed in evening, or when becoming warm from working
Hmoptysis
Dyspna
Shortness of breath esp. after a meal
Obstructed respiration
Difficult inhalation
Hysteric asthma
Contraction of throat like strangulation
Oppression of chest generally coming from epigastrium
Fulness and distressing sensation of a load on chest
Burning in chest; peculiar dead feeling and swelling
Stitches in chest
Tightness spitting of blood
Palpitation of heart sometimes with attacks of fainting (followed by sleep)
Quivering of heart
Trembling fluttering of heart as from fright fear or sadness
Paroxysms of palpitation after midnight as if heart were stopping and then beating violently with loud belching
Oppression of heart extends to throat
Feeling of rush of blood to heart and thence to head and all over body
Hysteria cordis
Heart felt as if beating in a vacuum
Feels as if her head would burst and her heart would be squeezed off
Sensation as if something grasped heart
Pulse small slow and weak
Pulse accelerated
Drawing in muscles of nape caused by damp air
Neck so weak head drops forward on chest
Contusive pain in loins or back (as if broken or bruised)
Pain in small of back when riding in a carriage
Bruised pain at side of lumbar vertebr
Great pressure in back from within out during menses
Lassitude in loins and knees
Tabes dorsalis
Drawing in limbs esp. during repose as after a chill
Numbness in all limbs
Sensation as if limbs floating in the air
Pains in limbs and joints and other symptoms in cold (damp) weather
Bad smell under arms and between breasts of women
Rheumatism of l. shoulder
In arms creeping from below
Steady drawing from fingers to shoulders
As if a string tied round arms
Cold hands as if frozen with buzzing in hands on entering a room
Great lassitude esp. in loins and knees as after a long journey with inclination to sleep
Pain in r. knee as if sprained esp. when moving and going up stairs
Terrible pain in both legs as if bones smashed to pieces
Dull pain in periosteum of r. tibia
Feeling in calves as from a blow
Cramp: in calves before going to sleep
Cramp: in feet with inward burning
Feet cold with appearance of menses
Soles always wet
Buzzing sensation in all toes as if frost-bitten esp. metatarso-phalangeal joints
Digging and pressive pains which pass from place to place occupy only a small space continue but a few moments and soon return
Rheumatic pains (from cold damp air)
Loss of sensation in different parts
Apprehensive of paralysis (cured)
Creeping sensations down the limbs
Hysterical paroxysms
Convulsions (of children)
Epileptic convulsions with consciousness
Convulsions of children with diarrha
Anmia
Marasmus of children
Sensation of dryness in inner parts; buzzing humming or funny feeling in body
Excessively painful sensitiveness of whole body
Great agitation of muscular system
Cold and dry skin with but slight tendency to perspire
Cold skin over whole body
Skin very sensitive to cold moist air
Chilblains
Bluish spots on the skin
Acne
Affections accompanied by a desire to sleep and a tendency to faint away
Great sleepiness with all complaints particularly with pains
Starting in sleep but does not always awake
Starting in sleep like electric shocks with nightmare
Dreams: of falling from high places
Dreams: of being pursued
Coma somnolentum and heaviness
Complaints causing sleepiness
Pulse accelerated
Great sensibility to cold air which soon occasions shivering with paleness of face
Frequent shivering
State of chilliness as when suddenly cooled after perspiring with pain in nape of neck and in all the bones
Chilliness without thirst
Heat without thirst
Want of perspiration
No thirst
Heat in face and hands in morning with hypochondriac mood and thirstlessness and dryness of mouth and throat
Intermittent fever with sleepiness and dryness of mouth and throat with thirstlessness
Double tertian fever with inclination to sleep tongue white rattling in throat sanguineous expectoration and moderate thirst during heat
Malignant fever with putrid or colliquative diarrha
Perspiration scanty but at times red like blood

Allen's Keynotes

adapted especially to women and children of a nervous hysterical temperament
to people with a dry skin who rarely perspire
complaints of pregnancy
weakness of old age
dyspepsia of old people
oversensitive to light, hearing, smell, and touch
all ailments are accompanied by drowsiness and sleepiness
inclination to faint even from slight pain
stupor and insensibility
unconquerable sleep
absence of mind
cannot think
great indifference to everything
weakness or loss of memory
vanishing of thoughts while reading, talking, or writing
using wrong words
does not recognize well-known streets
changeable humor; one moment laughing, the next crying
sudden change from grave to gay, from lively to serene
dryness of eyes; too dry to close the lids
great dryness of the mouth
tongue so dry it adheres to the roof of the mouth
saliva seems like cotton
throat dry, stiffened, yet no thirst
sensation of great dryness without real thirst
eating a little too much causes headache
painfulness and distress in the stomach while eating or immediately after
abdomen enormously distended after every meal
diarrhoea in summer from cold drinks
diarrhoea epidemic in autumn with white stools
diarrhoea from boiled milk
diarrhoea during dentition or pregnancy
diarrhoea accompanied by sleepiness and fainting
at every menstrual nisus, the mouth, throat, and tongue become intolerably dry
leucorrhoea in place of menses
physometra
pain, nausea, and vomiting during pregnancy or from wearing pessaries
sudden hoarseness, worse from walking against the wind
cough caused by getting warm in bed, being overheated, during pregnancy, bathing, or living in cold, damp places
cough is loose after eating and dry after drinking
irresistibly drowsy
sleepy, muddled, as if intoxicated
coma, lies silent, immovable; eyes constantly closed
rheumatic affections from getting feet wet or exposure to drafts while heated
rheumatic affections worse in cold, wet weather
backache while riding in a carriage
fatigue; must lie down after the least exertion
great soreness of all parts upon which one lies
tendency to bedsores
worse from cold, wet, windy weather
worse from weather changes
worse from cold food, water, and cold washing
worse from carriage driving
worse from lying on the painful side
better in dry, warm weather
better in warm room
better from wrapping up warmly

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