NUX MOSCHATA
Source indications
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