NUX MOSCHATA
Nutmeg
Marked tendency to fainting fits, with coronary heart failure. Cold extremities, severe dryness of mucous membranes and skin. Strange feeling, with irresistible drowsiness. Indicanuria. General inclination to grow to be unconscious at some point of acute attacks. Lypothymia (Ignatia). Staggers on making an attempt to walk.
Mind.–Changeable; laughing and crying. Confused, impaired memory. Bewildered sense, as in a dream. Thinks she has two heads.
Head.–Vertigo when strolling in open air; aches from consuming a little too much. Feeling of expansion, with sleepiness. Pulsating in head. Cracking sensation in head. Sensitive to slightest contact in a draught of air. Bursting headache; higher challenging pressure.
Eyes.–Objects seem to be larger, very distant, or vanish. Motes earlier than eyes. Mydriasis.
Nose.–Oversensitive to smell; nosebleed, darkish blood; dry, stopped up.
Mouth.–Very dry. Tongue adheres to roof of mouth; however no want for water. Saliva like cotton (Berb). Toothache in pregnancy. Tongue numb, paralyzed. Dryness of throat.
Stomach.–Excessively bloated. Flatulent dyspepsia. Hiccough, and craving for highly-seasoned food. Retrocession of gout to stomach.
Abdomen.–Paralytic weak point of intestines. Enormously distended. Stool is soft, and but is unable to expel it, even with lengthy straining (Alum). Faintness at some stage in or after stool. Protruding piles.
Female.–Uterine haemorrhage. Menses too long, dark, thick. Leucorrhoea muddy and bloody. Suppression, with chronic fainting assaults and sleepiness (Kali c). Variableness of menstruation irregularity of time and quantity.
Respiratory.–Loss of voice from strolling in opposition to the wind (Hep). Cough when getting heat in bed.
Heart.–Trembling, fluttering. Sensation as if some thing grasped heart. Palpitation; pulse intermits.
Extremities.–Pain in proper hip to knee; worse, motion, particularly going upstairs. Rheumatism from getting ft wet, from publicity to draughts. Rheumatism relieved via dry, heat clothes. Fatigue on moderate exertion.
Sleep.–Great drowsiness (Indol). Complaints motive sleepiness. Coma.
Fever.–Chill starts in left hand (Carbo). Chilliness and warmness except thirst; favor of perspiration. Dry pores and skin and of internal parts, additionally of eyes, nose, lips, mouth, tongue, throat, etc.
Modalities.–Worse, bloodless moist wind, bloodless food, bloodless washing, mendacity on painful side, motion, jar. Better, warmth, dry weather.
Relationship.–Oleum myristicae-Oil of Nutmeg–(as a treatment for boils, felons, toxic ulcers, it has been used in the 2x potency); Ornithogalum (flatulence, swollen feeling throughout decrease chest; each time she turns in bed, feels as if a bag of water grew to become also; gastric ulcer and cancer). Myristica Sebifera (phlegmonous inflammations, speeds up suppuration; effective antiseptic. Ulcerative tendency in all tissues. Said to act extra powerfully than Hepar and Silica).
Compare: Nux v; Puls; Rhus; Ign; Asaf.
Antidotes: Camph; Gels; Valer.
Dose.–First to sixth potency.
