NUX MOSCHATA
(Nutmeg)
Marked
tendency to fainting fits, with heart failure. Cold extremities, extreme
dryness of mucous membranes and skin. Strange feeling, with irresistible drowsiness.
Indicanuria. General inclination to become unconscious during acute
attacks. Lypothymia. [Ign.] staggers on trying to walk.
Mind:-
Changeable;
laughing and crying. Confused, impaired memory. Bewildered sense, as in a
dream. Thinks she has two heads.
Head:-
Vertigo when
walking in open air; aches from eating a little too much. Feeling of expansion,
with sleepiness. Pulsating in head. Cracking sensation in head.
Sensitive to slightest touch, in a draught air. Bursting headache; better
hard pressure.
Eyes:-
Objects look
larger, very distant, or vanish. Motes before eyes. Mydriasis.
Nose:-
Oversensitive to
smell; nosebleed, dark blood; dry, stopped up.
Mouth:-
Very dry. Tongue
adheres to roof of mouth; but no desire 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 gout to stomach.
Abdomen:-
Paralytic
weakness of intestines. Enormously distended. Stool is soft, and yet is unable
to expel it, even with long straining.[Alum.] Faintness during or
after stool. Protruding piles.
Female:-
Uterine
hemorrhage. Menses too long, dark thick. Leucorrhea muddy and bloody.
Suppression, with persistent fainting attacks and sleepiness. [Kali c.] Variableness
of menstruation, irregularity of time and quantity.
Respiratory:-
Loss of voice
from walking against the wind [Hep.]. Cough when getting warm in bed.
Heart:-
Trembling,
fluttering. Sensation as if something grasped heart. Palpitation; pulse
intermits.
Extremities:-
Pain in right hip
to knee; worse, motion, especially going upstairs. Rheumatism from getting feet
wet, from exposure to draughts. Rheumatism relieved by dry, warm clothes.
Fatigue on slight exertion.
Sleep:-
Great drowsiness.
[Indol.] Complaints cause sleepiness. Coma.
Fever:-
Chill begins in
left hand. [Carb-v.] Chilliness and heat without thirst; want of
perspiration. Dry skin and of inner parts, also of eyes, nose, lips,
mouth, tongue, throat, etc.
Modalities:-
Worse,
cold moist wind,
cold food, cold washing, lying on painful side, motion, jar.
Better,
warmth, dry
weather.
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