NUX MOSCHATA
Source indications
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