NUX VOMICA
Source indications
Boericke's Materia Medica
- Thin
- Spare
- Quick
- Active
- Nervous
- Irritable
- Mental strain
- Sedentary life
- Indulgence in stimulants
- Coffee
- Wine
- Tobacco
- Digestive disturbances
- Portal congestion
- Hypochondrical states
- Convulsions with consciousness
- Zealous fiery temperament
- Easily chilled
- Avoids open air
- Irritable
- Sensitive to impressions
- Ugly
- Malicious
- Cannot bear noises
- Cannot bear odors
- Cannot bear light
- Does not want to be touched
- Time passes too slowly
- Disposed to reproach others
- Sullen
- Fault-finding
- Headache in occiput
- Headache over eyes
- Vertigo
- Brain feels turning in a circle
- Oversensitiveness
- Momentary loss of consciousness
- Intoxicated feeling
- Pressing pain on vertex
- Scalp sensitive
- Frontal headache
- Congestive headache
- Hemorrhoids
- Feels distended
- Feels sore within
- Photophobia
- Smarting dry sensation in inner canthi
- Infra-orbital neuralgia
- Watering of eyes
- Optic nerve atrophy
- Paresis of ocular muscles
- Orbital twitching radiating towards occiput
- Optic neuritis
- Itching in ear through Eustachian tube
- Auditory canal dry
- Auditory canal sensitive
- Otalgia
- Hyperesthesia of auditory nerves
- Loud sounds are painful
- Loud sounds cause anger
- Stuffed up nose
- Stuffy colds
- Snuffles
- Odors produce fainting
- Coryza
- Fluent in daytime
- Stuffed up at night and outdoors
- Alternating nostrils
- Bleeding in morning
- Acrid discharge
- Jaws contracted
- Small aphthous ulcers
- Bloody saliva
- Tongue clean in first half
- Posterior tongue covered with deep fur
- White tongue
- Yellow tongue
- Cracked edges of tongue
- Teeth ache
- Gums swollen
- Gums white
- Gums bleeding
- Rough throat
- Scraped feeling throat
- Tickling throat after waking
- Sensation of roughness in throat
- Sensation of tightness in throat
- Sensation of tension in throat
- Pharynx constricted
- Uvula swollen
- Stitches into ear
- Sour taste
- Nausea in the morning
- Nausea after eating
- Weight in stomach
- Pain in stomach
- Flatulence
- Pyrosis
- Sour eructations
- Bitter eructations
- Nausea
- Vomiting
- Much retching
- Ravenous hunger
- Sensitive stomach to pressure
- Epigastrium bloated
- Pressure as of a stone
- Desire for stimulants
- Dyspepsia from coffee
- Difficult belching of gas
- Wants to vomit but cannot
- Bruised soreness of abdominal walls
- Flatulent distension
- Spasmodic colic
- Colic from uncovering
- Liver engorged
- Stitches in liver
- Soreness in liver
- Colic with upward pressure
- Short breath
- Desire for stool with colic
- Weakness of abdominal ring region
- Strangulated hernia
- Forcing in lower abdomen towards genitals
- Umbilical hernia of infants
- Constipation
- Frequent ineffectual urging
- Incomplete stool
- Unsatisfactory stool
- Feeling as if part remained unexpelled
- Constriction of rectum
- Irregular peristaltic action
- Frequent ineffectual desire
- Small quantities of stool
- Alternate constipation and diarrhea
- Urging to stool felt throughout abdomen
- Itching hemorrhoids
- Blind hemorrhoids
- Painful hemorrhoids
- Diarrhea after a debauch
- Frequent small evacuations
- Scanty stool
- Dysentery
- Stools relieve pains temporarily
- Constant uneasiness in rectum
- Diarrhea with jaundice
- Irritable bladder
- Spasmodic sphincter
- Frequent calls to urinate
- Little urine
- Hematuria
- Ineffectual urging to urinate
- Spasmodic urination
- Strangury
- Renal colic extending to genitals
- Dribbling urine
- Itching in urethra
- Pain in neck of bladder
- Easily excited desire
- Emissions from high living
- Bad effects of sexual excesses
- Constrictive pain in testicles
- Orchitis
- Spermatorrhea
- Dreams
- Backache
- Burning in spine
- Weakness
- Irritability
- Menses too early
- Menses last too long
- Irregular menses
- Black blood
- Faint spells
- Prolapsus uteri
- Dysmenorrhea
- Pain in sacrum
- Constant urging to stool
- Inefficient labor-pains
- Pains extend to rectum
- Desire for stool during labor
- Frequent urination during labor
- Desire too strong
- Metrorrhagia
- Sensation as if bowels wanted to move
- Catarrhal hoarseness
- Scraping in throat
- Spasmodic constriction
- Asthma
- Fullness in stomach
- Cough
- Sensation as if something were torn loose in chest
- Shallow respiration
- Oppressed breathing
- Tight dry hacking cough
- Bloody expectoration
- Cough brings on bursting headache
- Cough brings on bruised pain in epigastric region
- Backache in lumbar region
- Burning in spine
- Cervico-brachial neuralgia
- Must situp in order to turn in bed
- Bruised pain below scapula
- Sitting is painful
- Arms and hands go to sleep
- Paresis of arms
- Shocks in arms
- Legs numb
- Legs feel paralyzed
- Cramps in calves
- Cramps in soles
- Partial paralysis
- Cracking in knee-joints during motion
- Drags feet when walking
- Sensation of sudden loss of power of arms and legs in the morning
- Cannot sleep after 3 am
- Awakes feeling wretchedly
- Drowsy after meals
- Drowsy in early evening
- Dreams full of bustle
- Dreams full of hurry
- Better after a short sleep
- Body burning hot
- Hot face
- Chilly
- Urticaria
- Gastric derangement
- Acne
- Skin red
- Skin blotchy
- Cold stage predominates
- Paroxysms anticipate in morning
- Excessive rigor
- Blueness of finger-nails
- Aching in limbs
- Aching in back
- Gastric symptoms
- Chilly
- Must be covered in every stage of fever
- Perspiration sour
- Perspiration only one side of body
- Chilliness on being uncovered
- Dry heat of the body