NUX VOMICA
Source indications
Allen's Keynotes
- adapted to thin, irritable, careful, zealous persons with dark hair and bilious or sanguine temperament
- quarrelsome, spiteful, malicious
- nervous and melancholic
- debauchers of a thin, irritable, nervous disposition
- prone to indigestion and haemorrhoids
- ardent character; of an irritable, impatient temperament, disposed to anger, spite or deception
- anxiety with irritability and inclination to commit suicide, but is afraid to die
- hypochondriac: literary, studious persons who are too much at home, suffer from want of exercise
- gastric, abdominal complaints and costiveness
- oversensitive to external impressions; to noise, odors, light or music
- trifling ailments are unbearable
- every harmless word offends
- very particular, careful, but inclined to become easily excited or angered
- irascible and tenacious
- bad effects of coffee, tobacco, alcoholic stimulants; highly spiced or seasoned food; over-eating
- bad effects of long continued mental over-exertion; sedentary habits; loss of sleep
- bad effects of aromatic or patent medicines; sitting on cold stones, especially in warm weather
- convulsions with consciousness; worse from anger, emotion, touch, or moving
- tingling, sticking, hard, aching pains; worse from motion and contact
- tendency to faint from odors, in the morning, after eating, or after every labor pain
- cannot keep from falling asleep in the evening while sitting or reading hours before bedtime
- wakes at 3 or 4 a.m
- falls into a dreamy sleep at daybreak from which he is hard to arouse, and then feels tired and weak
- snuffles of infants
- coryza, dry at night, fluent by day
- coryza worse in a warm room, better in cold air
- coryza from sitting in cold places or on stone steps
- sour, bitter eructations
- nausea and vomiting every morning with depression of spirits; after eating
- constant nausea; after eating; in morning; from smoking
- nausea feels if i could only vomit i would be so much better
- stomach pressure an hour or two after eating as from a stone
- pyrosis, tightness, must loosen clothing
- cannot use the mind for two or three hours after a meal
- sleepy after dinner
- gastric complaints from anxiety, worry, brandy, coffee, drugs, night watching, high living
- constipation with frequent unsuccessful desire, passing small quantities of faeces
- sensation as if not finished after stool
- frequent anxious, ineffectual desire, better for a time after stool
- frequent desire in morning after rising; after mental exertion
- alternate constipation and diarrhoea in persons who have taken purgatives all their lives
- menses too early, profuse, lasts too long; every two weeks; irregular; stopping and starting again
- violent, spasmodic labor pains; cause urging to stool or urinate
- labor pains worse in back; prefers a warm room
- strangulated hernia, especially umbilical
- backache: must sit up to turn over in bed
- lumbago; from sexual weakness or masturbation
- repugnance to cold or cold air
- chilly on least movement; from being uncovered
- must be covered in every stage of fever (chill, heat, or sweat)
- great heat, whole body burning hot, face red and hot, yet patient cannot move or uncover without being chilly
- worse morning; waking at 4 a.m
- worse from mental exertion
- worse after eating or over-eating
- worse from touch, noise, anger, spices, narcotics, dry weather; in cold air
- better in evening, while at rest
- better lying down, and in damp, wet weather