Nux vom 6 homeopathy instruction. In violation of the nervous system. Effect on the circulatory system

Nux vomica ***

(Nux vomica) Chilibuha Seeds

Main indications

General: “Hot, lively and active temperaments,” says Hahnemann, “prone to mockery, cunning and anger. Nux vomica has a very strong effect on women with copious and premature menstruation". Nux vomica should always be thought of when there is nervous and muscular excitement, convulsions and spasms. Nux vomic action on digestive tract so specifically, Espane says in turn, that it predominates in all the morbid disorders to which it corresponds. It can be called the "regulator of abdominal innervation." It has been observed that Nux vomica acts more or less directly on the whole group of gastric symptoms with excitatory phenomena, and that in all chronic diseases calling for this remedy, gastric disorders or functional disorders of the digestive system are observed on one side or another.

Nervous: tetanus; the action of strychnine is characterized by an increase and exacerbation of attacks from noise, the slightest movement, and even a simple touch; motor ataxia. Jusset prefers strychnine sulphate: this remedy is especially indicated for shooting pains, disorders of the sphincters anus and bladder, attacks of convulsions in the stomach and vomiting. Morning intermittent neuralgia with latent fever, often affecting the supraorbital branch of the trigeminal nerve, mainly the left; intercostal neuralgia, which decreases when lying on a healthy side; inflammation of the sciatic nerve, with very sharp shooting pains, numbness, goosebumps, worse from motion and touch; limbs, convulsions. Trembling of hands and other neuromuscular diseases in drunkards; hypochondria: especially with fear of death and suicidal tendencies. Accompanied by gastric disorders, hemorrhoids and irritability.

Digestive: Nux vomica gives a complete picture of slow digestion: heaviness and pain in the stomach during and after eating, in the first hours of digestion. The stomach area is very sensitive to pressure, indicating muscle pain (Bryonia in particular). Bloating of the upper part of the abdomen, like a stone, a few hours after eating. Desire for stimulants. Dyspepsia from strong coffee, alcohol and liquors. Heavy empty belching. Irresistible urge to vomit, nausea in the morning, nausea and vomiting with violent eructations. Heartburn, bitter, sour belching. Consequence of gluttony and other excesses (Cartier).

Convulsions of the stomach. At first glance it seems strange that the same remedy should be recommended for two such opposite conditions as slow digestion and stomach cramps. But it is definitely noted that Nux vomica acts on the neuromuscular apparatus of the stomach and regulates its motor functions. In any case, Nux vomica 6 is a heroic remedy if the convulsions are of purely neuromuscular origin, and not a secondary symptom, as in stomach ulcers; constipation, spasmodic constipation, unknown for a long time, but which is now well defined and much more common than atonic, even in old people. Allopaths in these cases use belladonna and bromine preparations, which reduce spasms, but do not cure constipation. Homeopaths do more good by administering Nux vomica, which, as we have seen in the study of physiological action, produces spasms in large doses. For determining intestinal spasms I do not attach much importance, like Espana, to palpation, which is very difficult in practice, since with this method of investigation, muscle contractions are often mistaken for intestinal contractions, and I am content with clinical symptoms. Usually spasms are observed in lean, nervous, bilious hemorrhoidal subjects, with empty urge to stool or frequent insufficient, sometimes even liquid stool. The sensation of spasm is very characteristic: painful tenesmus extends to bladder and are accompanied by gastric disorders.

Diseases of the liver in alcoholics, lovers of spices, or abused laxatives. The liver is enlarged, dense, sensitive to pressure. Colic is often observed, accompanying disorders of the stomach and liver.

Hemorrhoids or hemorrhoidal constitution in gouty people: constipation with tenesmus, pain more or less like fissures, hemorrhoids with painful and swollen bumps, hemorrhoids. Concomitant symptoms: hypochondria, dizziness, pain in the back of the head, nose and other bleeding, dyspepsia.

Circulatory system: palpitations: very violent, especially at night and in the morning in bed, with drowsiness and congestion of the chest. Constrictive pains in the chest, worse from motion, often from pressure, and even from touch. Angina pectoris: without objective data in still young people suffering from hemorrhoids, or associated with aortitis, when the attacks are extremely painful, with marked restlessness; promotion blood pressure often seen in nux vomica subjects who overload their nervous system and digestive tract.

Respiratory Organs: Nux vomica 3 often stops the coryza if it is given at the very beginning, when there is dryness and tickling in the nasal cavity. For hay coryza, Cartier recommends Nux vomica alternately with Allium cepa and Euphrasia, especially for gouty people; asthma. Attacks in the morning or after eating. Attacks of suffocation begin with sneezing and fluent coryza. Constriction in the lower part of the chest, short, shaking cough, with heavy expectoration of a small amount of mucus; cough dry, with or without coryza, early in the morning or in the evening, rough, short, radiating to the head or umbilical region. Hard to expectorate in the morning a small amount of sputum.

Miscellaneous: rheumatism of large joints; the swelling is rather pale and worse in the morning. Myalgia, lumbago, with violent constrictive and shooting pains, worse from motion and touch, in the morning, in bed. Migraine: begins in the morning on waking. Nausea and even vomiting during an attack, better at rest, in bed (12 and 30); nose bleed at night or in the morning, it is preceded by pain and heat in the head; inflammation of the uterus (metritis). Hartmann considers Nux vomica 30 a good remedy for this disease. It works better in metritis with sharp pains and tenesmus, in hemorrhoids. Jusset appoints her in these cases alternately with belladonna.

Chronic alcoholism. Consequences of alcoholism. Gallawarden-father prescribed 200 dilutions with great success. He also gave it to irritable, eternally dissatisfied subjects.

Hypochondria. According to Jusset, nux vomica is the main remedy.

Fever. Terrific chill with chattering of teeth, limbs and nails blue, twitching of muscles and thirst. An increase in temperature is not accompanied by thirst.

Summary. Acute phases of liver diseases. Alcohol poisoning, smoking. Since the liver provokes irritability and rage, the best remedy for vivid manifestations of the psyche with the desire to "tear and throw."

The main remedy for alcoholism in the acute phase (binge drinking), together with sulfur. However, it effectively removes long-term consequences, since the main symptom of developed alcoholism is a decrease in the level of responsibility, and Nuks vom. shown to enhance it. Like any homeopathy, nuks vom acts in a normalizing way, that is, it brings the sense of responsibility back to normal. With an excess of responsibility, when a person sets himself impossible tasks, reproaches himself and others for their unfulfillment for a long time, this is the main means.

When giving up alcohol, tobacco, drugs, it is the main remedy for the period of their illness.

Nux Vomica - homeopathic remedy based on chilibukha or emetic seeds.

Produced in the form of oral drops or granules, for the preparation of which finely dispersed seed powder is used.

Photo 1: In large doses, chilibukha seeds have a toxic effect on the body, causing symptoms of a progressive disease - hypersensitivity, nervous irritation, spasms and spasms of smooth muscles. Source: flickr (lydia.montenegro).

Features of the patient's psychotype

In homeopathy the properties of the drug correspond to the properties of the patient's personality. can easily recognize the typical patient for Nux vomica:

The patient is industrious and works hard. She is meticulous about order, constantly cleans the office and at home. A bit arrogant and confident.
Patient characterized by increased irritability, which unconsciously develops into uncontrollable anger, which manifests itself not only in relation to people, but also to inanimate objects.
The man is gambling, he has a constant desire to win in any business, which can lead to absurd acts - the use of drugs or alcohol on a bet.
Baby Nux vomica is aggressive and cruel. Disrespectful to peers and parents. He does not admit his mistakes, is distinguished by vindictiveness and envy. In children frequent complaints of fear of the dark.
External characteristic - lean build with yellowish skin tone.

The effect of the drug on the body

The drug affects the entire body as a whole. Active ingredients are most active on the circulatory, digestive and nervous systems.

Effect on the nervous system

When a large dose of the drug enters the body, seizures, clenching of the jaws and convulsive arching of the back are noted. However, at recommended doses, has a beneficial effect on the spinal cord, dramatically increasing reflex sensitivity.

Effect on the digestive system

In large doses, Nux vomica reduces appetite and causes burning pains in the epigastric region, which are accompanied by sour belching, flatulence and constant constipation. In the recommended amount of the drug "starts up" digestive system, accelerates the process of absorption of substances from the stomach, relieving spasms.

Effect on the circulatory system

The active substance strychnine, when ingested, causes vasospasm, significantly increasing blood pressure. Weak doses, on the other hand, help speed up the work of the heart muscle.

Indications for the use of the drug

Doctors assigned this drug another specific name - "regulator of abdominal innervation".

For adults

Photo 2: Nux vomica is prescribed for almost all diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, to alleviate functional digestive disorders. Source: flickr (Agencia ID).

In violation of the nervous system

tetanus;
violation of motor coordination, tremor - motor ataxia;
inflammation of the sciatic nerve;
, hypochondria;
neuromuscular pathologies in alcoholism;
intercostal neuralgia.

For disorders of the digestive system

heaviness in the stomach, pain after meal;
pain when pressing on the stomach;
flatulence;
morning vomiting;
rapid empty eructation;
chronic;
spasms of the walls of the stomach and intestines.

For disorders of the circulatory system

angina;
pain in the chest.

It is interesting! Nux vomica is also prescribed to get rid of hallucinations, restoring clear consciousness, concentration and the ability to express one's thoughts.

General indications for use in children

For children, the drug is prescribed in case of increased susceptibility to noise, odors and external stimuli. Also, the homeopathic doctor prescribes the drug in the following cases:

Nocturnal nasal congestion, accompanied by daytime profuse discharge.
Abdominal pain, cramps. The child refuses food due to a decrease in appetite.
Constant urge to empty the bowels, which are accompanied by constipation.
Headaches due to disorders of the digestive tract.

Nux vomica in oncology

Nux vomica can be prescribed in case of neoplasms on the walls of the stomach and intestines in combination with other drugs. The action of strychnine does not contribute to the destruction of cancer cells, however, the drug can reduce pain and prevent the spread of the pathological process.

Nux vomica for ulcerative colitis

Diluted strychnine reduces inflammatory process on the mucous membrane of the colon, eliminating swelling. Experts noted the fact accelerating the regeneration of affected tissues with ulcerative formations and reducing pain.

Dosage

To ensure a therapeutic effect, it is necessary to use the degree of dilution of medicinal raw materials indicated by the doctor.

The number of dilutions depends on the disease that requires treatment.

Degrees of dilution

In medical practice, the most commonly used such degrees of dilution of this drug:

D3- decimal dilution (1: 10), which is repeated 3 times;
C3- a hundredfold dilution (1: 100), which is repeated 3 times;
C6- 100-fold dilution, repeated 6 times;
C12- 100-fold dilution, repeated 12 times.

Application of the drug differs depending on who the drug is intended for: adults or children.

Admission rules for adults

In the treatment of mental illness use the 200th dilution of the drug. Assign 20-30 drops per day, depending on the degree of the disease.

To restore the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract use the 3rd, 6th or 12th dilution.

Number of drops depends on the type of pathological process and prescribed by a homeopath.

The drug should be taken at night. It is not recommended to combine taking the drug with food, as well as to use it on an empty stomach.

Photo 3: The drug is diluted in a teaspoon of water. The duration of treatment is up to 1 month.

from George Vithoulkas, The Essence of Materia Medica

Nux vomica is one of the most commonly prescribed remedies in the homeopathic Materia Medica, it is one of the remedies that every homeopath absolutely needs to know in depth. Let us first describe the type of people who are usually affected by Nux vomica, and then we will go deeper into the pathology of Nux vomica. The Nux vomica type usually has a strong, compact, muscular body and a strong constitution. They are ambitious, smart, quick, capable and competent. Often in their upbringing, the emphasis is on strong feeling debt and given great value work ethic. The Nux vomica is more self-reliant than dependent. Their mind is more pragmatic and efficient than philosophical or intellectual. When the Nux vomica person is not in a pathological state, he is an excellent, hard-working and efficient collaborator: their talents lead them to such professions as controllers, managers, businessmen, accountants, merchants.

However, as always in homeopathy, we must be careful not to prescribe Nux vomica on the basis of such positive and constructive personality traits. Unlike the methods of astrology, divination by hand, handwriting, physiognomy, etc., where both good and bad qualities of a person are described, homeopathy bases its prescriptions on the pathological state of a person. Our goal is not to provide a drug that can make a person less pragmatic and effective! Let us therefore consider the development of the pathological condition of a man in need of Nux vomica for a cure.

In the first stage, the Nux vomica type shows exaggeration, an excess of normally positive qualities such as ambition and conscientiousness. Instead of simply using his talents at work in the proper calm and balanced manner, the Nux vomica begins to obey them. Ambition begins to occupy him around the clock, becoming a driving force with an excessive emphasis on achievement and rivalry. Nux vomica is more competitive than any of the remedies in Materia Medica, to the point where it can ruin its own health, and it competes even with its colleagues. A Nux vomica person can become a workaholic subject to work. Because he is capable and efficient, he will be quickly promoted with more and more responsibility. He would welcome such promotions. Two other remedies with similar physical symptomatology, Arsenicum and Phosphorus, will take it differently. Arsenicum will tend to forego promotions that come with too much responsibility, partly because the Arsenicum self-centered person is more interested in personal comfort than achievement. The Phosphorus patient is just as smart and quick, but avoids the intense competition that is necessary to move forward.

In Nux vomica, the normal state of conscientiousness can be disproportionately exaggerated and lead to forced efficiency. Nux vomica is one of the few remedies listed under the heading "Pedantry," but Nux vomica's pedantry is due to the emphasis on effectiveness. In this sense, the pedantry of Nux vomica is more in line with reality and not as pathological as one might think from the fact that the Repertory lists this remedy in italics. On the other hand, the pedantry of Arsenicum is a typical example of the strong neurotic, syphilitic pedantry so classically described by psychiatrists. It is a compulsive neurotic preoccupation with cleanliness and order, driven by a deep-rooted, tormenting sense of insecurity. The Arsenicum patient is constantly fixing and cleaning, far more than is required for mere efficiency. Another well-known pedantic remedy is Natrum mur.; in this case, it's more of a preoccupation with punctuality and timing.

Gradually, the Nux vomica type can get over his head with work. As a rule, he reacts to this situation by working even harder and longer, expecting more from himself and others. The Nux vomica person is characterized by the implicit assumption that any difficulty, any problem, can be overcome by strenuous effort and ability. One of the most difficult things for the Nux vomica patient is to accept the limitation or accept the inevitable. In order to cope with stress, he resorts to various artificial means to stimulate himself: coffee, cigarettes, drugs (taken by prescription or social drugs such as marijuana), alcohol, and even sex. In spite of this abuse of stimulants, it is also true that Nux vomica patients are unusually sensitive to many of these substances, and therefore suffer the consequences of their abuse.

The Nux vomica person is known to be a hypersexual person. They experience a very strong sexual desire and can indulge their sexual impulses even beyond the bounds of traditional morality. Although bound by a work ethic, Nux vomica is not your typical banal moralist. In the use of stimulants and drugs, and especially in the sexual realm, their behavior is driven by impulses, and is therefore best described as "immoral." As with other aspects of the Nux vomica picture, excessive sex leads eventually to exhaustion; in the later stages, the Nux vomica patient suffers from impotence - usually loss of erection after insertion.

Abuse of stimulants may satisfy their needs for a while, but in the end, overstimulation and toxicity take their toll. Disorders of the stomach begin, the entire nervous system becomes hypersensitive. Even the slightest stress, such as a light, a small noise, someone's voice or singing, becomes unbearable. The state of an "overstimulated" nervous system is brilliantly described by Kent: "For example, a businessman sat at his desk until he was completely tired. He has received many letters, he has many worries, he is occupied with thousands of little things. His mind is constantly rushing from one subject to another until he becomes completely exhausted. It's not so much the hard stuff as the little things. He has to stimulate his memory to go into all the details; he comes home and thinks about work; he stays awake at night; his mind is entangled in the whirlwind of business and daily affairs that overwhelm him; eventually, nervous exhaustion sets in. When details pile up on him, he gets angry and wants to get rid of them, tears objects, swears, goes home and takes it all out on his family and children. Sleeps fitfully and shudders in sleep; wakes up at 3am with business on his mind so he can't go back to sleep until late in the morning when he falls into a weary sleep and wakes up tired and exhausted. He wants to sleep late in the morning."

It seems that the nervous system is tense and works against itself. Again, this is best described by Kent: “Another state of Nux vomica is action in the opposite direction. When the stomach hurts, it usually empties without much effort, but Nux vomica pushes and strains, as if the action was not done correctly, as if he had to forcefully open the stomach. It is a reverse action: pushing, straining, and after a long effort, he finally empties his stomach. The same condition is found in the bladder. To urinate, he has to strain. He experiences tenesmus, urges. The bladder is full and urine leaks out, but when the patient strains, it stops dripping. As for the intestines, despite the attempts, the patient has only skimpy chair. During diarrhoea, when the patient is sitting quite passively on the toilet seat, a little trickle of stool comes out, then tenesmus sets in, and the patient cannot stop pushing, and when pushing, he has a feeling that he is pushing the stool back. It seems that the stool comes back, it is something like anti-peristalsis. In constipation, the more he pushes, the more difficult it is for him to have a stool.

These patients complain of gastritis, ulcers, or "colon spasms." Eventually, they go to a doctor who declares their condition psychosomatic and prescribes antacids, anti-spastic drugs, tranquilizers, or even psychotherapy. All these remedies merely mask the symptom, usually ineffectively, and therefore sensitize the nervous system as a whole.

The Nux vomica patient is very irritable, but this kind of irritability is difficult for a homeopath to detect without due diligence. The Nux vomica patient usually keeps the irritability inside (at least in the early stages). You ask: "Are you irritable?" - The patient says: "Not at all, I never even raise my voice." - Skinny you ask: “And inside? Do you feel annoyed inside?" Patient: “Oh yes! Very strong!” - These people are extremely prone to gastritis and peptic ulcers. If such a person learned to express his thoughts better, he would get rid of the ulcer, but then the abuse of coffee, cigarettes and alcohol can lead to the same condition.

Eventually the tension becomes too great and the Nux vomica patient becomes impatient and irritable. He becomes impatient with himself, and especially with others, scolding and reproaching others for petty reasons. He reacts impulsively to small disturbances. Someone whistles softly, and he yells: "Can't you just sit still!" - He can not find a pencil, and with a crash pushing the drawer into the table. He hesitates for a second to button his shirt, and rips off a button. Someone objects to him and he runs out of the room, slamming the door loudly. He does not tolerate objections, but not so much out of arrogance or arrogance (like Lycopodium or Platinum), but because he is sure of his right and is impatient with others who have not considered the problem as quickly and carefully as he did. And, of course, he is most often right. His impulsiveness can create many personal difficulties for him: Nux vomica patients are straightforward and undiplomatic, and therefore by nature cannot become very good politicians.

In the next stage of development, Nux vomica becomes really vicious, violent and violent. Violence can start with talking behind other people's backs, especially on impulse, and beating animals (like Medorrhinum). Then Nux vomica can start behaving openly violently: most likely, many husbands who beat their wives and parents who abuse children would be helped by Nux vomica (of course, if the rest of the image matches). Violence is not necessarily always directed at others; Nux vomica may also have a suicidal tendency, especially to shoot oneself with a pistol or jump from a high place.

The last stage of Nux vomica is the psychotic state, the paranoid state. The Nux vomica patient is constantly tormented by the impulse to kill others, but he may not show real violence. A woman may be haunted by the desire to throw her child into the fire or kill her husband. Nux vomica is listed in the repertory for many kinds of delusions related to murder, victims of murder, injury and abuse, and failure. To an outside observer, however, the inner anguish of a Nux vomica patient may be completely invisible. At this stage, Nux vomica is disgusted with the company and refuses to answer questions. This is a state of mental disorder which is very similar to that described in the last stage of Arsenicum, although a careful study of the history of the stages of development of the pathology makes the distinction very clear. Nux vomica is self-reliant, independent, forced to work hard, overly efficient, irritable and impulsive, while Arsenicum is insecure, dependent, preoccupied with his personal health and comfort, meticulously strives for cleanliness and order, and is very anxious.

When looking at the physical level of the image of Nux vomica, the general impression is that Nux vomica causes mainly functional difficulties. It does not have the deep expression of, for example, Arsenicum, which has deeply spreading ulcers and gangrenous suppurations.

Nux vomica acts very strongly on the nervous system. At first there are many muscular twitches and spasms, like Hyoscyamus and Agaricus. He experiences severe neuralgic pains, especially in the head. Nux vomica is often needed in apoplexy, especially when the paralysis is accompanied by stabbing pains in the affected limbs. In more extreme disorders, convulsions, opisthotonus, epileptic seizures occur. Considering the abuse of stimulants like alcohol, it is not surprising that Nux vomica is a remedy that can be indicated for delirium tremens.

All beginner homeopathic students study the general symptoms of Nux vomica: chilliness, aggravation from drafts, aggravation in the morning. Nux vomica is one of the most chilly remedies, but it usually gets worse in a cold dry environment and better in wet weather (like Asarum, Causticum and Hepar sulph.). Nux vomica is very sensitive to drafts, which can easily bring on coryza if the patient sweats (as Nux vomica easily does on the slightest exertion). Special characteristic acute rhinitis Nux vomica is that the nose is stuffed up in the open air and runs profusely indoors; besides, the nose runs a lot during the day and is stuffed up at night.

Gastrointestinal intestinal tract especially sensitive to Nux vomica. As has been said, gastritis and peptic ulcers are common, causing spasms, eructations, retching, which do not bring satisfaction to the patient. There is great sensitivity to almost all kinds of food; in the ruined condition of the Nux vomica type the appetite will be especially weak and the patient will be particularly picky about food. He has an aversion to meat, but may desire fat, as well as stimulants, spicy foods, and spices, which he crave for their stimulating effect, but which can upset the stomach. The Nux vomica patient reports that he gets sick when the stomach is upset: colds, headaches or asthma. Abdominal pains are usually accompanied by desire for stool, which is very distressing to Nux vomica.

As usual in alcoholics, the Nux vomica system may be characterized by congestion in the portal system - esophageal varices and especially hemorrhoids. There is also a tendency to jaundice, corresponding in many cases to cirrhosis of the liver. Sometimes Nux vomica relieves the spasm of gallbladder colic by passing the stone into the intestinal tract; it can also relieve colic from a kidney stone.

In conclusion, it is important to recall that the symptoms described here are not exhaustive, but simply describe the image, point to the "essence". Any combination of these symptoms may occur in any particular patient, perhaps with the exception of some of the classic symptoms of Nux vomica, and yet such a patient will need this preparation. In most cases there will be preoccupation with work, irritability due to an overexcited nervous system, and chilliness. However, individual patients may, for example, avoid alcohol and dislike cigarettes and still need Nux vomica. In prescribing a homeopathic remedy, we are not comparing the symptoms per se, but rather the essence of the patient with the essence of the remedy.

Nux vomica has been known since 1540, when a certain Valerius Cordus gave a remarkably correct description of it. The fruit of this tree is about the size of an orange and contains a bitter, gelatinous pulp. This pulp is said to be eaten by some birds of India, although it is well known to contain strychnine. Nux is the actual kernel, de-pulped and shelled. It is disc-shaped, about an inch in diameter and 1/4 inch thick. Its surface is velvety due to densely covering it with appressed shiny hairs.

I have already said that Ignatia and Nux vomica contain, as active principles, two alkaloids, namely Strychninum and Brucine. Brucine is found in a much smaller quantity than Strychninum, and is found in greater quantities in the bark than in the nut itself. Its properties are somewhat similar to those of Strychninum. Both alkaloids are combined with igasuric acid (acidum igasuricum), which is identical to malic acid (ac. malicum) found in apples and pears. Strychninum, the chief alkaloid of Ignatia and Nux vomica, has a well-described symptomatology, being a poison often used for the purpose of suicide and poisoning others, as well as for the destruction of lower animals, cats, rats, etc. Strychninum produces restlessness, trembling of the limbs, numbness of the neck and limbs . The throat is constricted like Belladonna. Sometimes there are titanic convulsions and opisthotonus (back bending of the whole body). These titanic convulsions differ from those observed in real tetanus (tetanus) only in that in them the muscles relax between paroxysms. The body temperature is not as high as in true tetanus, and trismus (convulsive clenching of the jaws) appears late in Strychnine poisoning. Strychnine convulsions reappear from any external influence on the sense organs, especially from the lightest touch, while rubbing relieves the patient. In very large or frequently repeated doses, Strychninum causes paralysis of the centripetal nerves. Finally, there comes a complete decline in strength, as a result of the exhaustion of the motor centers. I bring you these symptoms of Strychninum for two purposes. In the first place, that you should be sufficiently familiar with them in order to recognize them if any of your patients had the misfortune of being poisoned by this poison, and, secondly, that you may better understand the action of Nux vomica, since Strychninum represents its main component, and so that you notice how this extreme impressionability runs through all its symptomatology; By this I mean that every impression acts sharply on the patient. External impressions, like sound, smell and noise, excite him, and this excessive irritability, I repeat, is characteristic of this remedy.

Similar to Strychnine in action are Picrotoxinum, Veratrinum, Cicuta virosa, Thebainum, Acid. hydrocyanicum, Belladonna, Stramonium, Aconite, Physostigma, Passiflora, Curare, Camphora and Phytolacca, but in particular its action is similar to traumatic tetanus.

Picrotoxinum, according to Bertholow, is a synergist * Strychninum, but only the respiration is accelerated not so much from the spasm of the respiratory muscles, but from the spasm of the glottis, and, moreover, the susceptibility to light touches is less. Guber states that Picrotoxin produces more choreic symptoms.

* From Greek, means “helping”, doing the same thing. I. L.

Veratrinum causes a disorder of coordination of movements, causing relaxation of some muscle fibers and contraction of others, i.e., after a prolonged contraction of the muscles, a state of partial relaxation occurs with contractions only individual fibers. In this respect it is somewhat similar to Strychninum, but it differs greatly from the latter in its diarrhoea, vomiting, and, above all, paralysis, which is not due to the exhaustion of the muscles, but to the loss of their vital energy.

Thebainum produces tetanus, but may be distinguished by its hypnotic symptoms. It is said to be the most poisonous of the active principles of opium.

Physostigma can only be mixed with Strychnine for a limited number of symptoms. It increases the irritability of the sensory nerves and produces titanic convulsions of the involuntary muscles. In general it differs greatly from Strychninum, causing paralysis of the spinal cord and lowering of the reflexes. Therefore, when such symptoms as constriction in the pharynx, convulsions in the stomach and intestines, straining of the rectum, numbness of the waist and lower extremities, a feeling of tightness in and around the eyeballs, suggest a similarity with Strychnine, then the corresponding phenomena will serve to distinguish spinal paralysis, such as the following: trembling, weak patient can hardly walk, can only with difficulty make the muscles obey their will (as in Gelsemium and Conium), unsteadiness when walking with closed eyes. In Strychninum, death is due to suffocation, which is due to a tonic spasm of the respiratory muscles, while in Physostigma it is due to paralysis. The pupils are also different: the former causes their dilation, the latter causes constriction with incomplete accommodation and twitching of the eyelids.

If, however, you have to take into account the remote effects of Strychninum, such as the consequences of severe poisoning with it, or such symptoms as are often produced by dilutions, you can always make sense of them, thanks to the characteristic irritability, which is more pronounced under Strychninum; every impression acts too abruptly; from the smell is fainting; irritation causes muscle trembling, sexual desire and rapid ejaculation.

Curare, even if containing Strychninum, acts quite differently from the latter. It destroys the excitability of the terminal nerve apparatus in the muscles, leaving the muscles themselves intact. Reflexes are reduced or destroyed and breathing is paralyzed. Feeling changed insignificantly. Due to paralysis of the vagus nerve endings, the activity of the heart is accelerated, but blood pressure is not increased, because due to paralysis of the vasomotor endings, the blood vessels dilate, thereby reducing the resistance to blood flow. The increase in peristalsis is due not to spasm, but to paralysis of the nerves that hold it back (nn. splanchnice).

We do not have particularly reliable trials of Curare. However, Baruch used it for so-called "liver spots", and Dr. Paul Pitet (Paul Pitet) reports some interesting cures for muscle weakness, oppression of breathing due to lack of muscle strength, immobility, fixed gaze on waking, and eczema in children, especially on the face and behind the ears; with scrofula in children (World "s Homoeop. Convention, vol. I).

It was also used, I think, by Baruch for catalepsy, with spasm of the lower jaw.

Phytolacca differs substantially from Strychninum in its sharply narcotic properties, and also in its late onset gastro-intestinal irritation and collapse. But convulsive symptoms somewhat similar: the limbs are motionless, the arms are tightly clenched, the legs are extended, and the toes are bent, the teeth are clenched, and the lips are twisted, the whole body is bent back (opisthotonus); the chin is drawn to the sternum.

Passiflora incarnata has not been tested, but it has cured cases of tetanus. Dr. Archibald Bayne, of Barbados, reports two cases of healing with the tincture and the first decimal dilution. (Hahn. Monthly, May, 1881).

Angustura is placed among the aromatic bitters and is considered tonic. But it is more than tonic. It produces contraction, tension and numbness of the muscles and joints, with a broken, sore sensation, as after a blow. This tension is so pronounced in the temporal chewing muscles ah, what can one think of trismus of the jaws. This remedy also affects the bones; there are points of similarity between Angustura and another plant of the family. Rutaceae, Ruta graveolens. Damage to the periosteum often indicates this latter, and damage to it with incipient contracture of the muscles may, in all likelihood, require the former.

Dr. Hering, who knew well that Angustura was mixed with Strychnine, nevertheless reports a cure for tetanus by the first remedy, and gives the symptoms of it in his "Guiding Symptoms." Dr. Hubbard also reports one case of healing of Angustura (Med. Investigator, April, 1870).

That Angustura vera acts on the bones has been fully confirmed. Aegidi used it for long bones (see Raue's Pathology). Dr. C. G. Raue writes to me that the remedy with which he healed podarthrocace (swelling of the leg joints) was undoubtedly Angustura vera and Angustura falsa, or else Nucis vomicae cortex seu Brucea antidysenterica.

Dr. Ang. Korndoerfer used Jenichen-a 2B° for necrosis of the lower jaw. One side of the jaw was successfully operated on, but the disease appeared on the other side of it; the cure was complete.

Among the symptoms characteristic of Angustura in general, we may include irritation from a slight injury (in carnivore). Craving for coffee clinical observation, which confirms Dunhan, Boenninghausen and Aegidi). Tenesmus of the rectum with soft stools; urge to urinate with copious amounts of urine (see the case of Dr. Edmundson, Hannemonnian Monthly, October, 1876). I cannot, therefore, entirely agree with Dr. Hughes, who states that Angustura has no recognized therapeutic site.

Aconite, in one of its manifestations, causes a general tension of the nerves and vessels, characterized by the well-known restlessness, fever, etc. (see Yuz., "Pharmacodynamics"). It also produces clenching of the jaws (trismus), torpor of the limbs, and even opisthotonus. From this we see why Reynol could use it with complete success in trismus in horses (Trousseaus "s Therapeutics, vol. II), and then why it was suggested at the beginning of traumatic tetanus.

However, it does not increase reflex excitability like Strychninum. With it, there is rather a decrease or perversion of sensitivity, expressed by ringing in the ears and numbness.

In impending tetanus we certainly have effective remedies to prevent full development diseases: Aconite - fever, restlessness, muscle tension, ringing in the ears and numbness; Veratrum viride, Hypericum, excruciating pain in wound; Belladonna, Cicuta, Silicea, and perhaps Angustura, if the wound suppurates, or suddenly ceases to pus.

Acidum hydrocyanicum was first recommended for tetanus by Begin, and Dr. Hughes, in his note on this acid, read at the meeting of the Wordl's Convention in 1876, cites cases of poisoning, proving its homeopathy for epilepsy and tetanus. of this last disease is more fully outlined in Dr. Hughes' Pharmacodiamics, where we read: "Prussic acid causes tetanus. There is no sign of increased reflex excitability, as from Strychninum, but a persistent tonic spasm, as from Aconite and Cicuta. This comes from a direct action on the spinal cord.

It seems to be chiefly useful in titanic symptoms, showing up most in the muscles of the face, jaws, and back; there is trismus, risus sardonicus, and difficulty in breathing, with blue face and foam at the mouth. Dr. Charles A. Barnard reports two cases of traumatic tetanus relieved by this acid. In each case, only spasms of the face, jaws, and chest were relieved, but other remedies were needed for the rest of the symptoms (see N. E. Med. Gazette, October, 1882). This affinity of hydrocyanic acid for the upper part of the body is not a contraindication for non-opisthotonus and general titanic rigidity, since both the trunk and limbs are subjected to spasm from its poisonous action. In one case, the spasm began in the toes and then spread throughout the body. Hydrocyanic acid undoubtedly acts most strongly on medulla, and from here successively through the vagus nerves (n. n. vagi) the lungs, heart and larynx are affected. It bears little resemblance to Strychninum, but is similar to Cicuta, Lachesis and Nicotinum.

Lachesis relieved when, together with trismus and spasm of the larynx, there is blue from asphyxia and the patient sleeps during the paroxysm.

Cicuta virosa contains the volatile alkaloid Cicutinum, which, however, has not yet been isolated. According to Boehm "y, this plant causes vomiting, diarrhea and titaioid convulsions, and in men also fainting (syncope, cardiac arrest) and strabismus. The volatile oil that it contains is said to be identical with cumin oil and is not poisonous. But alcohol resinous an extract containing, according to Troyanovsky, Cicutoxinum, causes intermittent tonic and clonic convulsions in frogs.Respiration is accelerated, the act of inhalation exceeds the act of exhalation so much that the animal swells with air.In mammals nerve effect expressed by profuse salivation, muscle trembling and then convulsions. Breathing is greatly accelerated, and then suddenly come convulsions. Respiration, like Strychninum, depends on the contraction of the respiratory muscles. When irritated, the convulsions return; after the cessation of the paroxysm, the animal lies completely exhausted.

The following course of action of Cicuta brings together all its characteristic features, which the homeopath must constantly be guided by in choosing this powerful remedy: sudden numbness, then tossing and violent writhing, followed by complete prostration. Tonic convulsions are renewed by touch. Great difficulty in breathing. Convulsive clenching of the jaws, dark red face; foam at the mouth. Opis thotonus. Loss of consciousness.

The attack in Cicuta is more like an epileptic fit than in Strychninum, and there is usually loss of consciousness. Reflex excitability is less pronounced in the first. The depletion of Cicuta is only equal to that of Chininum arsenicosum.

Tabacum and Nicotinum cause: throwing the head back, with stiffness of the muscles of the neck and back, contracture of the eyelids and masticatory muscles (mm. masseteres), wheezing due to spasm of the laryngeal and bronchial muscles; alternating tonic and clonic convulsions followed by general relaxation and trembling; reduction of the abdominal muscles; reduction of parts equipped involuntary muscles, like the intestines, ureters, etc., these contractions are accompanied by severe pain, nausea, cold sweat, rapid loss of strength and asphyxia (suffocation).

Tabacum also acts on the spinal cord, especially on the medulla oblongata and on the abdominal nerve ganglions. His titanic symptoms with asphyxia are more like those of Hydrocyanic Acid than Strychninum. The characteristic difference between Tabacum and Nux is well seen from their respective uses in renal colic; pain in right ureter descending into genitals and leg, nausea and vomiting, Nux; suffering along the ureter with deathly pain and cold sweat, Tabacum.

Veratrum album causes convulsions, with spasm of the glottis and constriction of the chest, almost to the point of suffocation; the arms and legs are pulled inward and the pupils are contracted. The difference between Veratrum and Strychninum is this: in Veratrum these convulsions are secondary to the wasting diseases, and never primary, as in Strychninum.

Stramonium, like Strychninum, causes titanic convulsions, worse from touch and light; the difference is chiefly this: with Stramonium there is almost always mania, while with Strychninum the brain remains clear until the last hour of life.

Camphora and Phytolacca are very similar to Strychninum in titanic convulsions. With both, teeth are shown due to the raised corners of the mouth. Camphora is given in titanic convulsions, which are always fatal. Phytolacca, on the other hand, is required if the hands are clenched into fists and the toes are bent, the lips are twisted and alternately contraction and relaxation are observed in the muscles of the face.

In studying Nux vomica, these introductory remarks must be remembered. Now I must tell you that Nux vomica is a complement to Sulfur. By this I mean that very often, after Nux vomica has been given, as far as its symptoms fit the case, the rest of the symptoms of the disease often require Sulfur to cure it completely.

Then I will describe to you the temperament of Nux vomica. It does not necessarily follow that you should not use Nux if the constitution of the patient is not such as I will describe; but this means that it works better if the constitution fits the one under consideration. Nux vomica is most suitable for rather thin, lean patients. It doesn't seem to work so well on portly ones. It is especially indicated if the patient is rather quick-tempered, quick and active in his movements. He has a nervous temperament. His face is rather pale or yellowish. In this case, there is a kind of false plethora, which is why the patient sometimes has ruddy cheeks, but with yellowness in the circumference. In general, you will find that the patient suffers from every kind of mental exertion, especially if this overexertion of the mental forces is aggravated or aggravated by a sedentary lifestyle. Therefore, you will find this remedy very valuable for those who are deprived of sleep and movement because of their occupations. The Nux patient often lies awake at night; his brain is so excited that he cannot sleep. His thoughts run through his brain in a confused order. He falls asleep long after midnight, and then early in the morning, maybe at 4-5 o'clock, he wakes up. He falls asleep again and, waking up again, feels terribly exhausted, as if he had been at a feast and therefore slept badly. He has a bitter taste in his mouth; tongue coated; he complains of a dull headache, and of every symptom that really points to the exhaustion of the organism from overwork. Here is the character of the patient in whom you will find Nux most effective.

In the Nux patient you will find the digestive organs often suffering. He suffers from a headache. This pain is concentrated either in the back of the head or over one or the other eye, usually over the left. If it is centered over the eye, it usually begins in the morning, increases all day until night, and is accompanied for the most part by a sour taste in the mouth (less often a bitter taste), an accumulation of flatus, and an unpleasant urge to vomit. This may be accompanied by vomiting of food and sour masses; but the outstanding feature of this vomiting is a strong urge to it, often more or less ineffectual, indicating to you an irritable condition of the stomach. He has the same feature of sleep - early awakening, at 3-4 o'clock in the morning, then falling asleep again and waking up again with a feeling of deterioration compared to the previous state. The intestines are subject to constipation, and this constipation, characteristically, consists of ineffectual urge to stool. From this you see that it does not depend on intestinal atony, but on its incorrect, seizure activity. The patient also suffers from pain in the stomach, usually aggravated by eating. Sometimes it worsens when the stomach is empty. The pains arise in the upper abdomen and then spread radially in various directions, to the back, etc. The attacks are very apt to return periodically every morning and are often accompanied by vomiting of sour masses and an unsuccessful urge to stool. The pains themselves are grasping, scratching in nature, as if the hand were scraping inner surface stomach; they are often relieved by hot drinks. Note that the symptoms I have given for Nux vomica may be summarized under the term "stomach irritability" in pathological terms. His nerves are in a state of such heightened irritability that food causes spasmodic activity of the stomach and the ejection of its contents. Note that the condition of the stomach is pathologically similar to that of the rectum.

In extreme irritability of the stomach we will find Nux vomica and 2 or 3 other remedies useful, without which we cannot make good progress. You take advantage of a sick person who has lost all his strength from illness; as soon as he swallows the food, it comes back again. One of the remedies here would be Nux, especially for children who are very excitable, and also for men when they indulge in excessive eating or debauchery.

In other cases, when there is great burning in the stomach, with great eruption of food, Vismuthum is the remedy. Vismuthum subnitricum is a remedy for a pure form of gastralgia, one that is not accompanied by any catarrh or any symptoms of indigestion. The pains in the upper abdomen may be of a burning, cutting, or stabbing character, and are accompanied by dull pain in the back and spasmodic vomiting.

Another form of stomach trouble for which Nux vomica is applicable is dyspepsia, which is markedly worse an hour or so after eating. The patient complains of severe hunger for 24 hours or so before the onset of the attack. In such cases, he has a strong greed for meat, meat sauces and fatty foods. He is very thirsty, but water upsets the stomach and causes that organ to expand; the patient, even after a light dinner, is sometimes forced to loosen his dress.

In other cases, we find Arsenicum useful if, in addition to burning pains, there is unbearable anxiety and fear, thirst, etc. It produces a complete picture of subacute gastritis (inflammation of the stomach).

The next remedy, which is of greater importance than some of those already mentioned, is Kreosotum. Kreosotum is a remedy for irritable stomach weakness. Food cannot be digested. But, in my opinion, its distinctive character lies in the fact that if the food stays in the stomach for even a few hours, it still ends up vomited undigested.

In gastric symptoms resulting from intemperance, Nux sometimes fails, and sometimes is temperamentally contraindicated. In the first case, Carbo vegetabilis will be a good remedy.

Pulsatilla is preferable to Nux vomica if these symptoms result from mixed foods, such as meat, cake, ice cream, etc., especially in the right temperament.

In constipation Nux is like many remedies.

Lycopodium is constipated with futile urging to stool, but under this remedy these futile urges are due to contraction of the rectum and anus.

Carbo vegetabilis has urges to stool similar to Nux vomica, but relieved by passing flatus, indicating the cause of the urge.

Under Opium, Bryonia and Alumina, the constipation is not accompanied by an urge to go down. Opium constipation comes from inactivity (atony) of the bowels; stools are hard, round, black clods.

Bryonia constipation is caused by dryness of the digestive tract. The stools are copious, dry and hard.

A marked atony of the rectum characterizes Alumina. Even soft stools require a lot of effort to pass.

Nux vomica has a marked effect on the liver. It is particularly indicated in those liver troubles which depend on the abuse of liquor, highly seasoned foods, and strong purgatives. Nux vomica is one of the best remedies we have for destroying the effects of allopathic treatment. When taking on a case previously treated in the old school system, you will often have to give Nux before we are able to deal with the case. In these cases the liver is often swollen, hard and sensitive to the pressure of the dress. These gastric and bilious disturbances are often accompanied by colic. Colic may come from the accumulation of winds that press towards the chest cavity, producing difficulty in breathing, or they press downward on the rectum and bladder, causing urging for stool and urine. There may also be hemorrhoidal colic. By this I mean the pains in the abdomen that accompany the sudden stop of hemorrhoidal bleeding. The patient for years is subject to hemorrhoids, losing blood during stool. If for any reason these bleedings suddenly stop and cause headache or colic, Nux will help the patient. If the liver is enlarged, you must give Nux in repeated doses and will often have the pleasure of finding the liver return to its normal size. If not, then you can turn to Sulfur, Sepia or Magnesia muriatica.

Nux vomica is also useful in jaundice caused by intense anger, abuse of quinine, and too luxurious a life. The patient has fainting spells, after which he feels very sick and weak.

Nux may also be indicated in enlargement of the liver in drunkards.

Chamomilla can be used for jaundice caused by a fit of anger.

Bryonia is useful in jaundice when it comes from the abuse of calomel.

Carduus marianus is indicated in jaundice with dull headache, bitter taste in the mouth, white tongue, especially in the middle, and with red margins and tip. This causes nausea and vomiting of an acidic green liquid. The stools are icteric and the urine is golden yellow. An unpleasant fullness is felt in the region of the liver.

In haemorrhoids, Nux may be useful if there is an itch that wakes the patient at night, and is often so severe as to compel the patient to sit down in a tub of cold water for relief. At the same time, frequent unsuccessful urge to stool; bleeding from hemorrhoidal cones. If Nux is not well indicated, then it should not be given, because in such cases, while you have cured the hemorrhoids, you will cause some other disorders, more intolerable than those which you have relieved.

There are many analogues of Nux for hemorrhoids: firstly, Aesculus hippocastanum. This is a wonderful remedy for abdominal plethora. You will find it indicated by throbbing deep in the abdomen, especially in the hypogastrium. Hemorrhoids, which may or may not bleed, are accompanied by a feeling of dryness in the rectum, as if small knots or splinters were stuck in the folds of the mucous membrane. This is the key for Aesculus. It also has a faint sensation in the sacroiliac joint, as if the legs would refuse to serve.

The next remedy I will mention in connection with Nux is Aloe. This remedy has abdominal plethora and flatulence like Nux and Sulfur and hemorrhoidal lumps like Nux, Sulfur and Aesculus. However, it differs from these remedies in that it acts almost exclusively on the rectum, causing catarrh of it. The stools are accompanied by the release of a huge amount of winds. The hemorrhoidal lumps protrude like clusters of grapes and are much relieved by cold water. At the same time, some indefinite sensation is noticed in the region of the rectum, a sensation as if the intestines were being moved. Aloe also cures headaches, which, like those of Nux vomica, center over the eyes. It is accompanied by a sensation as if a weight were pressing the eyelids down. Some relief comes from closing the eyelids.

Collinsonia is indicated in hemorrhoids when there is a prickly sensation in the rectum. Constipation is habitual. The chair happens more often in the evenings. It is also useful in uterine prolapse complicated by hemorrhoids. Under this condition, it is almost as often prescribed as Podophyllum for prolapse of the uterus, complicated by diarrhea and prolapse of the rectum. We find that Collinsonia has one symptom similar to that of Opium: the feces come out of the rectum in dry lumps, which differ from Opium lumps in that they are light colored.

Hamamelis is called for in haemorrhoids with great haemorrhage, with marked soreness of the affected parts. Feeling broken in the lower back.

Nux vomica may be used in diarrhea from excess. The patient is usually worse in the morning. The stools are soft or watery, characterized by their scantiness, and often accompanied by urging, retaining in this respect the character of Nux vomica. The patient in the morning tries to induce vomiting, spewing out only a little foam or sour liquid. He naturally feels a great need for fluids, but his stomach is irritable, which regurgitates the fluid as soon as it is swallowed. Such faces seem to be particularly intolerant of milk.

Nux may be given in dysentery when there is frequent downward urging, which stops as soon as the bowels move. The stools are bloody, slimy, watery, and scanty. The patient is worse in the morning.

Mercurius differs from Nux in dysentery in that the urge to go down does not stop with stool.

Another suitable (concordant) remedy for dysentery is Aloe. It is useful in dysentery when there are griping pains in the lower abdomen before stool, being in this respect very similar to Nux vomica. The stools consist of blood and mucus, which appears in the form of jelly-like masses. After a stool, contractions may or may not stop. In addition, the number of mucus eruptions can be unusually profuse.

Nux vomica is also used for strangulated hernia, both inguinal and umbilical, against those accompanying it. abdominal symptoms. Nux is indicated when the patient complains of a feeling of weakness in the abdomen when he gets up in the morning from bed.

Lycopodium may be used in right-sided inguinal hernia.

Cocculus indicus comes into play in umbilical hernia after Nux vomica has failed.

Let us now consider the action of Nux on various organs, for example, on the eyes. We will find it indicated in many eye diseases. Our first duty is to give it in ordinary inflammation of the conjunctivitis of the eye, especially if it is worse in the morning. This period of aggravation is so pronounced that it is characteristic of this remedy. In this case, in the morning there is gluing of the eyelids and photophobia. The same symptoms may show this remedy in scrofulous inflammation of the eyes and convulsive constriction of the eyelids (blepharospasmus).

For spasms of the eyelids Agaricus is generally the best remedy.

Nux vomica may also be indicated in disease of the deeper layers of the eye. So, for example, it can be prescribed for such a terrible disease as atrophy of the retina, whether it occurs from inflammation of the choroid and retina together (choroidoretinitis) or not.

Then we find it shown in another condition of the retina, namely, hyperesthesia of it. It is shown here by the intolerance of light and the aggravation in the morning; the slightest attempt to move the eyes is accompanied by severe pain and spasmodic contraction of various eye muscles; this may be joined by lacrimation, causing abrasions of the skin.

The next condition in which we find it indicated is bruising of the sclera (ecchymosis), when a certain amount of blood is poured under the conjunctiva. These bruises often appear after revelry, or late into the night, in persons predisposed to dyspepsia.

If these ecchymoses are of traumatic origin, then we should think of Ledum, Arnica, and Hamamelis.

We will now come to Nux vomica in catarrhs. Nux is suitable for the first stage of the common coryza. The disease is accompanied by sneezing and a sensation as if the nose were stuffed up. The nose seems dry, but there is no speech disorder; the eyes are slightly watery, in the throat there is a scraping, sore sensation. Sometimes these catarrhal symptoms seem to be worse in a warm room and better in the open air.

But this scraping sensation in the throat is different from that seen under Mercurius. It is not a painful raw sensation, as if the skin were torn off, but rather a sensation of roughness, not smoothness. Mercurius is therefore useful in coryza, with a feeling of roughness and soreness in the nose and throat, worse in damp weather.

Pulsatilla is a remedy for coryza already developed, when discharge Green colour and soft texture. If Pulsatilla is given first, it will usually only hurt in this case.

If, despite Nux being prescribed, the cold descends and attacks the chest, I have found Phosphorus to take the place of it with success.

There is epistaxis, which cures Nux vomica. It occurs in persons predisposed to hemorrhoids. It is usually preceded by a headache with reddening of the cheeks. It usually happens at night during sleep, but it can happen at any other time.

Nux can also be used in catarrh of the Eustachian tube. There is itching and ringing along the Eustachian tube, which causes a frequent desire to swallow.

Sometimes in the mouth you will find a symptom pointing to Nux as a remedy. Ulcers form on the lips, which burn and are accompanied by stitching pains. There are also ulcers in the mouth. Ulcerative inflammation of the mouth (stomacaeae) Nux vomica is of bilious origin.

The Nux cough is not very characteristic. It can also be used for coughs of gastric origin; after eating, the patient begins to cough. It is usually accompanied by pain in the lower abdomen.

In chest affections we do not find Nux very often indicated; so far it has been observed to be sometimes useful in asthma. This asthma is usually not of a purely nervous nature, but appears after gastric disorders and is accompanied by a feeling of fullness and pressure in the stomach, especially found after a heavy dinner, during which the patient must unravel his dress in the hypochondrium. The abdomen is distended with gases. This asthmatic condition is relieved by belching. All these symptoms are aggravated by cold air, or any exertion, especially going up stairs.

There is a remedy analogous to Nux vomica which is often looked over by the members of our school, and that is Zingiber. Zingiber or ginger has a tonic effect on the stomach if not abused. He does not represent a healthy food agent when it is eaten much by children, or by those who have some affection of the kidneys, as it rather favors the development of Bright's disease. As a medicine, Zingiber can be used for asthma of gastric origin. Attacks come at night, towards morning. The patient must sit up to breathe. Despite the severity of the seizures, anxiety does not seem to occur.

Carbo veg. and Lycopodium may be indicated in asthma resulting from irritation of the abdomen with marked tympanitis.

In haemoptys is (hemoptysis) Nux vomica is indicated when this disease occurs after excesses. An attack is detected after a drinking bout or after some strong excitement, for example, after anger. It can also appear due to delayed hemorrhoidal bleeding.

Nux is a useful remedy for diseases of the urinary organs. It is indicated in renal colic, if the site of the disease is one or the other kidney, but usually the right one. The pains extend to the genitals and down the leg. Usually they are accompanied by intense back pain. Here we must distinguish Nux from several other remedies: Lycopodium, Cantharis and Berberis.

One of the best remedies during these attacks will be Cantharis, which relieves the patient by lowering the intensity of the local irritation, and thus allows nature to get rid of the stone that causes this disease, with less suffering for the patient.

When passing gallstones very good, as I noticed, Aether, outside and inside. It works better here than Chloroformium.

Another remedy for gallstones is Belladonna. Pain of a stabbing, shooting nature; they appear suddenly and, like radii, diverge in different directions from the central point of irritation. The patient is feverish and agitated.

An excellent remedy for both gallstones and kidney stones is Berberis. The pains are of a shooting nature. The patient cannot make the slightest movement and must sit leaning over on the right side to numb the pain. Also, if he complains of pains as sharp as arrows along the way of the ureters and extending to the legs, then there is no remedy like Berberis. In the urine there is a reddish sediment, consisting of mucus, epithelium and uric acid salts.

Cinchona is the remedy for permanent cure of gallstones. It is highly recommended by Dr. Thayer, of Boston. If any symptom or symptoms do not require you to prescribe another, specific remedy, then subject your patient to a course of Cinchona for several months.

We find that Nux is indicated for bloody urine (haematuria) if it is from the same causes as in hemoptysis.

Nux vomica is also indicated in affections of the bladder, especially in constriction of the urethra, with painful urge to urinate, passing only a few drops at a time, with burning and other unpleasant sensations.

I have sometimes noticed that after the gonorrhea has been treated as long as there is a discharge, the patient complains of irritation far in the back of the urethra, probably in the region of the prostate, where that unpleasant sensation develops, which the patient refers to the root of the penis. With these urges to urinate there are also urges to stool. In gonorrhea Nux is useful after abuse of Cubeba or Copaia when the discharge is fluid.

Nux is useful in sexual excesses, especially against the bad effects of early onanism. It is one of a group of remedies used in these cases since the time of Hahnemann. This group consists of Nux vomica, Sulfur, Calcarea, and Lycopodium. Nux is to be given when the patient has a headache, frequent, involuntary ejaculations at night, especially in the morning; he complains of back pain and difficulty walking. Do not repeat your remedy too often, and if the amelioration stops under the influence of Nux, you will almost always find that the nearest remedy to relieve the patient is Sulfur.

Calcarea usually follows Nux and Sulphur, especially if every ejaculation is followed by night sweats.

Lycopodium is indicated still later when complete impotence develops, when erections are either absent or imperfect. The genitals are cold and somewhat wrinkled.

Staphysagria is required for the bad effects of masturbation, especially if it is. there is great exhaustion, with dark circles under the eyes, a pale complexion, and marked irritability and shyness.

There is another remedy which I would like to mention in this comparison, and that is Cobaltum. He serves excellent remedy with pain in the lumbar region, coming after the eruption of the seed, whether they are arbitrary or involuntary; the pains are especially worse while the patient is sitting.

Nux is indicated in quite a variety of diseases of the female genital organs.

Menstruation in Nux vomica is almost always profuse and usually dark in color. The patient often faints during menstruation, especially in a warm room.

During pregnancy Nux is a useful remedy for morning sickness. The patient gets up in the morning with nausea and discomfort in the stomach. The more the urge to vomit predominates over the vomiting itself, the more success we can expect from Nux vomica. Maybe even jaundice. Wrinkled skin, no appetite, constipation. Even later, the patient complains of a strong pressure upwards, as if restricting breathing.

During childbirth, Nux is a useful remedy when constipation requires it. Labor pains can be quite convulsive and severe; the woman in labor has a constant urge to go down and urinate. This symptom, when Nux is useful, does not depend on mechanical causes, like pressure on the head of a child, but is purely reflex in origin. Often you will observe fainting during the pains, or there are pains in the back and from here down to the sacrum and thighs. We can also give Nux when labor pains almost or completely cease, completely, as in Pulsatilla. The temperament of the patient gives you the opportunity to sort out between the two.

Next, the action of Nux vomica on the spinal cord. It produces, as we have seen in speaking of Strychninum, irritation of the motor centers and centrifugal nerves. The back pains cured by Nux vomica are placed in the lumbar region. They are usually worse at night, while lying in bed, and the patient cannot roll over without first getting up; it is useful in lumb ago. The longer the patient lies in bed in the morning, the stronger his lumbar pain.

It is also indicated in torticollis, which comes from a cold and depends on a disease of the spinal cord.

In spinal irritation, you can use Nux when the back pains just described are associated with the following symptoms: sudden loss of strength in the legs in the morning; hands and feet go numb easily; immobility and tension in the cavity of the knee joints; the dress around the waist seems too tight; feeling like a belt around the waist; desire to lie down; numbness and tingling along the spine and in the limbs. These symptoms show Nux also in inflammation of the spinal cord (myelitis) and in various stages of motor ataxia.

Physostigma has a symptomatology almost typical of spinal cord irritation. Under the influence of this remedy, every spinal nerve is irritated. Pressing a finger between the vertebrae makes the patient stamp his feet. Physostigma produces stiffness of the muscles due to irritation of the meninges. Finally, it causes spasms of the jaws and tetanus.

Belladonna is the best remedy for stiffness of the occiput of rheumatic or catarrhal origin.

Ambra grisea, like Nux vomica, is useful in lean, desiccated, nervous subjects. With it, numbness of the skin is expressed. Various parts of the body are easily numb. After sitting there is stiffness in the lower back and tension lumbar muscles worse on awakening. Even the scrotum and penis feel numb. Such patients who complain of these symptoms are usually extremely nervous and weak. In society, they are easily confused, speak and act hastily. Nervousness gives them an irresistible desire to speak, but they soon give up (as in Cocculus, Veratrum album, Calcarea ostrearum. Alumina, Sulphur, Kali card.). Conversation and exercises quickly tire the patient.

Castoreum is indicated when women are nervous and do not recover well from illness. Therefore it may be given after typhus, especially if the patient is subject to headaches which make the head very sensitive to touch. The pains are accompanied by ringing in the ears and crawling sensation, which is relieved by sleep.

Nux vomica is useful in rheumatism when it affects the large joints and muscles. It is especially useful in rheumatism of the trunk. Tumors of the joints are usually rather pale in color. The symptoms almost always worsen in the morning.

There is one new remedy which I would like to mention here, and that is Acidum picricum. This is a strong poison. It must be remembered if, after every great mental exertion, the patient suffers from a severe headache of a throbbing nature, felt chiefly at the base of the brain. There is often a congestion of the spinal cord, with increased sexual excitability, so that the erections become so violent that they can almost be called priapism.

Then consider Nux vomica in typhoid fevers. In choosing Nux vomica in such cases, you should be guided by gastric and bilious symptoms, bitter taste in the mouth, especially in the morning, nausea, bilious vomiting and constipation characteristic of this remedy. The weakness that inevitably accompanies the typhoid condition is expressed in Nux vomica by a great inclination to lie down. The nights are spent in nervous, excited sleep; the slightest noise makes the patient start. At night he sees many dreams. Maybe even nonsense.

One feature of Nux vomica is worth mentioning, namely, that it seems to enhance the action of Sepia. The same relationship exists between Sepia and Lilium tigrinum, and between Sulfur and Mercurius, Nux vomica is hostile to Zinc.

Nux works best when given in the evening. Likewise, it should not be taken immediately before or after dinner, or when the brain is in tension.

Nux vomica (according to Vithoulkas)

Nux vomica is one of the most commonly prescribed remedies in the homeopathic Materia Medica, it is one of the remedies that every homeopath absolutely needs to know in depth. Let us first describe the type of people who are usually affected by Nux vomica, and then we will go deeper into the pathology of Nux vomica. The Nux vomica type usually has a strong, compact, muscular body and a strong constitution. They are ambitious, smart, quick, capable and competent. Often, their upbringing emphasizes a strong sense of duty and places great value on a work ethic. The Nux vomica is more self-reliant than dependent. Their mind is more pragmatic and efficient than philosophical or intellectual. When the Nux vomica person is not in a pathological state, he is an excellent, hard-working and efficient collaborator: their talents lead them to such professions as controllers, managers, businessmen, accountants, merchants.

In the first stage, the Nux vomica type shows exaggeration, an excess of normally positive qualities such as ambition and conscientiousness. Instead of simply using his talents at work in the proper calm and balanced manner, the Nux vomica begins to obey them. Ambition begins to occupy him around the clock, becoming a driving force with an excessive emphasis on achievement and rivalry. Nux vomica is more competitive than any of the Materia Medica remedies, to the point where it can ruin its own health, and it competes even with its colleagues. A Nux vomica person can become a workaholic subject to work. Because he is capable and efficient, he will be quickly promoted with more and more responsibility. He would welcome such promotions. Two other remedies with similar physical symptomatology, Arsenicum and Phosphorus, will take it differently. Arsenicum will tend to forego promotions that come with too much responsibility, partly because the Arsenicum self-centered person is more interested in personal comfort than achievement. The Phosphorus patient is just as smart and quick, but avoids the intense competition that is necessary to move forward.

The Nux vomica person is known to be a hypersexual person. They experience a very strong sexual desire and can indulge their sexual impulses even beyond the bounds of traditional morality. Although bound by a work ethic, Nux vomica is not your typical banal moralist. In the use of stimulants and drugs, and especially in the sexual realm, their behavior is driven by impulses and is therefore best described as "immoral". As with other aspects of the Nux vomica picture, excessive sex leads eventually to exhaustion; in the later stages, the Nux vomica patient suffers from impotence - usually loss of erection after insertion.

Abuse of stimulants may satisfy their needs for a while, but in the end, overstimulation and toxicity take their toll. Disorders of the stomach begin, the entire nervous system becomes hypersensitive. Even the slightest stress, such as a light, a small noise, someone's voice or singing, becomes unbearable. The state of the "over-stimulated" nervous system is brilliantly described by Kent: "For example, a businessman sat at his desk until he was completely tired. He received many letters, he had many worries, he was occupied with thousands of little things. His mind is constantly rushing from one subject to another, until he doesn't get completely exhausted It's not so much the hard things as the little things He has to stimulate his memory to go into all the details he comes home and thinks about work he stays awake at night his mind is tangled up with the whirlwind of business and daytime activities that pile on exhaustion sets in. When details pile up on him, he gets angry and wants to get rid of them, tears things, swears, goes home and takes it all out on his family and children. It's 3 a.m. and business is running through his head so he can't go back to sleep until late in the morning when he falls into a weary sleep and wakes up tired and exhausted. He wants to sleep late in the morning."

It seems that the nervous system is tense and works against itself. Again, this is best described by Kent: “Another state of Nux vomica is action in the opposite direction. he has to forcibly open his stomach. It is an action in the opposite direction: straining, straining, and after prolonged effort he finally empties the stomach. The same condition is found in the bladder. To urinate, he has to strain. He experiences tenesmus, urge. The bladder is full and urine leaks out, but when the patient strains, it stops dripping. As for the bowels, despite the efforts, the patient has only a scanty stool. During diarrhea, when the patient is completely passively sitting on the toilet seat, a small trickle of stool comes out, then tenesmus sets in, and the patient cannot stop pushing, and when pushing, he has a feeling that he is pushing chair back. It seems that the stool comes back, it is something like anti-peristalsis. In constipation, the more he pushes, the more difficult it is for him to have a stool.

These patients complain of gastritis, ulcers, or "colon spasms." Eventually, they go to a doctor who declares their condition to be psychosomatic and prescribes antacids, anti-spastic drugs, tranquilizers, or even psychotherapy. All these remedies merely mask the symptom, usually ineffectively, and therefore sensitize the nervous system as a whole.

The Nux vomica patient is very irritable, but this kind of irritability is difficult for a homeopath to detect without due diligence. The Nux vomica patient usually keeps the irritability inside (at least in the early stages). You ask: "Are you irritable?" - The patient says: "Not at all, I never even raise my voice." - Then you ask: "And inside? Do you feel irritation inside?" - Patient: "Oh yes! Very strong!" - These people are extremely prone to gastritis and peptic ulcers. If such a person learned to express his thoughts better, he would get rid of the ulcer, but then the abuse of coffee, cigarettes and alcohol can lead to the same condition.

Eventually the tension becomes too great and the Nux vomica patient becomes impatient and irritable. He becomes impatient with himself, and especially with others, scolding and reproaching others for petty reasons. He reacts impulsively to small disturbances. Someone whistles softly, and he yells, "Can't you just sit still!" - He can not find a pencil, and with a crash pushing the drawer into the table. He hesitates for a second to button his shirt, and rips off a button. Someone objects to him and he runs out of the room, slamming the door loudly. He does not tolerate objections, but not so much out of arrogance or arrogance (like Lycopodium or Platinum), but because he is sure of his right and is impatient with others who have not considered the problem as quickly and carefully as he did. And, of course, he is most often right. His impulsiveness can create many personal difficulties for him: Nux vomica patients are straightforward and undiplomatic, and therefore by nature cannot become very good politicians.

All beginner homeopathic students study the general symptoms of Nux vomica: chilliness, aggravation from drafts, aggravation in the morning.

Nux vomica is one of the most chilly remedies, but it usually gets worse in a cold dry environment and better in wet weather (like Asarum, Causticum and Hepar sulph.). Nux vomica is very sensitive to drafts, which can easily bring on coryza if the patient sweats (as Nux vomica easily does on the slightest exertion). The particular characteristic of Nux vomica acute coryza is that the nose is stuffed up in the open air and runs profusely indoors; besides, the nose runs a lot during the day and is stuffed up at night.

The gastrointestinal tract is especially sensitive to Nux vomica. As said, gastritis and peptic ulcers are common, causing spasms, eructations, retching, which do not bring satisfaction to the patient. There is great sensitivity to almost all kinds of food; in the ruined condition of the Nux vomica type the appetite will be especially weak and the patient will be particularly picky about food. He has an aversion to meat, but may desire fat, as well as stimulants, spicy foods, and spices, which he crave for their stimulating effect, but which can upset the stomach. The Nux vomica patient reports that he gets sick when the stomach is upset: colds, headaches or asthma. Abdominal pains are usually accompanied by desire for stool, which is very distressing to Nux vomica.

In conclusion, it is important to recall that the symptoms described here are not exhaustive, but simply describe the image, point to the "essence". Any combination of these symptoms may occur in any particular patient, except perhaps for some of the classic symptoms of Nux vomica, and yet such a patient will need this remedy. In most cases there will be preoccupation with work, irritability due to an overexcited nervous system, and chilliness. However, individual patients may, for example, avoid alcohol and dislike cigarettes and still need Nux vomica. In prescribing a homeopathic remedy, we are not comparing the symptoms per se, but rather the essence of the patient with the essence of the remedy.

Nux vomica (according to Berike)

Nux vomica

The greatest of the homeopathic polychrests, since the totality of its symptoms is more or less similar to the symptoms of the most various most common diseases. It is often the first remedy indicated after the abuse of various remedies: in such cases, Nux vomica helps to restore the balance of the forces of the body and counteracts the transition of the disease to a chronic state.

Nux vomica is an outstanding, excellent remedy for many of the undesirable conditions that come up in the conditions of modern life. The typical Nux vomica patient is lean, thin, mobile, active, nervous and irritable. He does a lot of mental work, experiences mental stress and leads a sedentary lifestyle: he stays at work for a long time, constantly improves his skills, is absorbed in his work with all its worries and anxieties. Such "life in a closed room" with mental stress encourages the use of various kinds of stimulants - coffee, wine, etc. - often in excess, but on the other hand, Nux vomica also seeks solace - well, if only in tobacco, without resorting to such seductive substances as opium, etc. drugs. All this is usually associated with other errors: at the table he eats a lot and, moreover, delicious food; wine and sexual intemperance also give rise to a departure from the normal daily routine. All this often induces to sit up for a long time in the evenings, and the next day there is heaviness in the head, dyspepsia, irritability. Under such circumstances, he willingly resorts to various drugs - laxatives, "liver" pills, mineral waters - and gradually gets used to their use, thereby worsening his condition even more. And since men are more prone to these "weaknesses" than women, Nux vomica is predominantly a "male" remedy.

These conditions form irritability, hypersensitivity and excitability of the nervous system, which Nux vomica greatly alleviates and soothes.

Especially indicated in digestive disorders, congestion in the portal venous system and related hypochondriacal conditions. Convulsions while remaining conscious, worse from motion and touch. Zealous, hot temperament.

The Nux vomica patient is easily chilled, avoids fresh air, etc. He always seems to be "out of shape": an inharmonious spasmodic action has an effect.

Psyche. Very irritable; sensitive to all impressions. Nasty, vicious creatures. They do not tolerate noise, smells, light, etc. They do not tolerate touch. Time passes slowly for them. Even a minor illness or disease unbalances. Tend to blame others. Closed, picky.

Head. Headaches in the occiput or above the eyes, with vertigo, as if "the brain were moving in circles." Increased sensitivity. Vertigo with instant loss of consciousness. A state of intoxication, worse in the morning, from mental exertion, from tobacco, alcohol, coffee, fresh air. Pressing pains in vertex, as if a nail were driven in. Vertigo in the morning and after dinner. Sensitivity of the scalp. Frontal headaches with desire to lean head against something.

Combination of congestive headaches and hemorrhoids. Headaches in the sun (Glon.; Nat. carb.). After drinking, the head seems enlarged and hurts from the inside.

Eyes. Photophobia, worse in the morning. Burning pains; sensation of dryness in the inner corner of the eye. Infraorbital neuralgia with watery eyes. Atrophy optic nerve because of the habit of toxic substances. Paresis of the oculomotor muscles, aggravated by tobacco and stimulants. Twitching of the orbital muscles radiating towards the occiput. Optic neuritis.

Ears. Itching in the region of the Eustachian tubes. Dryness and sensitivity of the auditory canal.

Otalgia worse in bed. Hyperesthesia of the auditory nerves: loud sounds irritate and cause pain.

Nose. Closed, especially at night. Colds with stuffy nose, nasal after exposure to dry cold, worse in a warm room. From strong odors can faint. Coryza: fluent during the day and stuffy at night and outdoors, or alternating, now in one nostril, then in the other. Morning nosebleeds (Bry).

Fluid discharge, but with a stuffy feeling.

Mouth. Reduction of the jaws. Small aphthae with bloody saliva. The front half of the tongue is clean, the back is covered with a dense coating: white or yellow; cracks along the edges of the tongue.

toothache; worse from cold food or drinks. Gums swollen, white, bleeding.

Throat. Feeling of roughness, scratching. Tickling in the morning on waking.

Feeling of roughness, constraint, tension of tissues. Throat constriction. Swelling of the palatine uvula. Tingling in the ear.

Stomach. Sour taste and nausea in the morning, after eating. Heaviness and pain in the stomach; worse during eating and some time after. Flatulence and heartburn.

Eructations: sour, bitter. Nausea with violent inclination to vomit and vomit. Insatiable hunger, especially on the eve of an attack of dyspepsia. Region of stomach very sensitive to pressure (Bry; Ars). Bloating and pressure, as if from a stone, in the epigastrium, a few hours after eating. Desire for stimulants. Likes fat and tolerates it well (Puls. - vice versa). Dyspepsia from strong coffee. It is difficult to burp gases. Pulls to vomit, but cannot vomit.

Stomach. Soreness of the abdominal wall (Apis; Sulph.). Flatulence with spasmodic colic. Colic when open. Congestion of the liver with blood and stabbing pains. Colic with upward pressure, causing dyspnea and urging to stool. Weakness in the region of the inguinal rings. Incarcerated hernia (Op.), with worse pain in lower abdomen towards genitals. Umbilical hernia in infants.

Chair. Constipation, with frequent and ineffectual urging, with feeling that the ampulla was not empty. Compression of the rectum. Impaired peristalsis, hence frequent ineffective craving or passing only small amounts of feces on each attempt. (Absence of urge to defecate is a contraindication for Nux.) Alternating diarrhea and constipation after abuse of laxatives.

The urge to defecate is felt all over the abdomen. Itching, protruding haemorrhoids, with ineffectual, very painful urge to stool after taking a laxative. Diarrhea after drinking, worse in the morning. Frequent loose stools. The chair is scanty, and the urge is very persistent. Dysentery: stool relieves pains only temporarily.

Constant discomfort in the rectum. Diarrhea with jaundice (Digit.).

Urinary system. Irritability of the bladder; sphincter spasms. Frequent urge, urination frequent and not abundant. Hematuria (Ipec.; Tereb.).

Ineffectual urging, spasmodic, with strangury. Renal colic extending to the genitals, with dripping urine. During urination, itching in the urethra and pain in the neck of the bladder.

Male reproductive organs. Desire comes easily. Emissions "from a luxurious life."

Consequences of sexual excesses. Contractive pains in testicles. Orchitis (Hamam.; Puls.).

Spermatorrhea with dreams, headaches, burning in spine, weakness and irritability.

Female reproductive organs. Menstruation premature, prolonged, always irregular, black discharge (Cycl.; Lach.; Puls.), with fainting. Uterine prolapse. Dysmenorrhea with pain in the sacrum and constant urge to stool. Inefficiency of labor pains, extending to rectum with desire to stool and frequent urination (Lilium). The desire is too strong.

Metrorrhagia, with sensation as if intestines would come out.

Respiratory organs. Catarrhal hoarseness with scratching in the throat. Spasmodic contractions. Asthma with fullness in stomach in the morning or after eating. Cough with sensation as if something were loose in the chest. Shallow breathing.

Shortness of breath. Dry cough and cough; sometimes with bloody sputum.

Cough causes "explosive" headaches and pains, as from beatings, in the epigastric region.

Back. Pain in the back and lower back. Burning in region of spine, worse from 3 to 4 am. Cervical-brachial neuralgia, worse from touch. Forced to sit up in bed to roll over. Pain, as from a beating, under the shoulder blades, it hurts to sit.

Limbs. The whole hands or only the hands become numb. Paresis upper limbs in a state of shock. Numbness of the legs; feeling of paralysis; cramps in calves and soles.

Partial paralysis from overwork or getting wet (Rhus). Crunch in knee joints when moving. Dragging legs when walking. Feeling sudden loss strength in arms and legs in the morning.

Dream. Cannot sleep after 3 am until morning; then wakes up with a feeling of unhappiness. Sleepiness after eating and early in the evening. Dreams are full of turmoil and haste.

Better after a short sleep if not awakened.

Leather. The whole body burns, glows, especially the face, but cannot open without a feeling of chill. Urticaria with gastric disturbances. Acne, skin red and with small spots.

Fever. The chill stage predominates. Paroxysms begin in the morning. Extreme rigidity with bluish nails on the hands. Pain in limbs and back and stomach symptoms. Chilling : in any stage of fever must take cover. The sweat is sour and only on one side of the body. Chill as soon as it is uncovered, but does not allow itself to be covered. Dry heat all over body.

MODALITIES. Worse, morning; with mental effort; after meal; from touch; from spices; from stimulants; from drugs; in dry weather; by cold. Better from short sleep, if not awakened; in the evenings; at rest; in damp, damp weather (Caust.); from intense pressure.

RELATIONSHIPS. Nux seeds contain Cuprum (note the tendency of both of these remedies to cause convulsions). Antidotes: Coff.; Ignat.; Cocc.

Additionally: Sulph.; Sepia.

Incompatible: Zinc.

Similar: Strychnia; Kali carb.; Hydro; Bry.; Lyc.; graph.

BREEDINGS. From the first to the thirtieth and above. It is believed to work best when taken in the evening.

Nux vomica (according to Kent)

Nux vomica / Nux vomica - emetic nut, chilibuha

Main dosage forms. Homeopathic granules D3, C3, C6, C12 and above. Drops D3, C3, C6, C12 and above.

Indications for use. Indigestion after too much and heavy food. Spasmodic constipation with false urging. Hangover after drinking too much alcohol. For those who rage in a state of intoxication. Digestive disorders associated with the use of poor-quality food. General infectious diseases occurring with inflammation of the stomach. For people who like to eat well in the evening. Gastric disorders due to the abuse of drugs (especially anti-neuralgic and laxatives). Tobacco abuse. Vomiting of pregnant women. Renal colic. Eye diseases (diseases of the retina).

Nux vomica is a broad spectrum deep acting remedy. A classic remedy for intolerance to allopathic drugs.

characteristic signs. Hahnemann writes that persons in need of Nux vomica are either very preoccupied, jealous, with an ardent, hot temperament, or treacherous, malicious, angry. As a rule, irritable, easily injured, draft-sensitive patients. Morning vomiting, hand tremors and gastritis in alcohol abusers.

Worse, morning; with mental effort; after meal; from touch; from spices; from stimulants; from drugs; in dry weather; by cold.

Better from a short sleep, if not awakened; in the evenings; at rest; in damp, damp weather, from strong pressure.

In every part of the body, wherever we observe the action of this remedy, the oversensitivity of the patient is conspicuous; it manifests itself in all symptoms. Irritability; hypersensitivity to noise, light, the slightest breath of air, to others; extreme intelligibility in food; many types of food are poorly digested, including heavy food, meat; strong desire for strong drinks, spicy, bitter, juicy foods, any stimulants. Hypersensitivity to drugs. One of the reasons we see so many Nux vomica patients is because people are overwhelmed with allopathic medicines. If you come across a person who has been treated by an allopath, has received the wrong treatment, is overloaded with stimulants and tonics, has abused wine, then sometimes it is impossible to get reliable symptoms and one should "purify" the patient by giving him Nux vomica as an antidote.

This medicine is necessary for the abuse of tea, coffee, wine. Those who have been abusing coffee for a long time become hypersensitive to noise, their symptoms change like in a kaleidoscope, they can hardly articulate them themselves. Such patients get better a few days after giving Nux vomica; some symptoms go away and the picture clears up.

The mental state varies, but there is always hypersensitivity; irritability, resentment, painful reaction. The patient is never satisfied, calm; everyone annoys him, he gets so angry that he wants to break something, yell at someone. At times impulsiveness is expressed. A woman has an impulse to kill her husband or throw her child into the fireplace; impulsiveness combined with malice, the patient does not tolerate contradictions or objections; if he gets in the way of a chair, he can break it; if a button is not unbuttoned on his shirt, he will tear it off in a rage (like Nitricum acidum). The state of uncontrolled irritability is a manifestation of weakness and is accompanied by physical weakness; inability to control himself. It can be a businessman, sitting at work to exhaustion: he looks through a bunch of papers, is constantly busy with something; keeps a thousand little things in mind; his mind constantly jumps from one to another until he stops thinking. And it's not the complexity of the work, but the abundance of little things. He must constantly strain his memory so as not to miss anything; he continues to think about this at home; at night he cannot sleep; thoughts about daily problems swirl in my head; eventually neurasthenia develops. When he is forced to delve into the details, he becomes furious, he does not want to hear about them, tears things up, scandals, and when he returns home, he takes out his anger on his family and children. Sleeps badly, shudders; wakes up at 3 a.m., and thoughts about business again begin to swarm in his head, preventing him from falling asleep, and only in the late morning he is forgotten by a heavy sleep, waking up tired and exhausted. Sleepiness in the late morning.

Anguish, sadness, a constant feeling that it could break into pieces; pulls, tears things; wants everything to be the way he likes it. Under the influence of impulses, he performs almost abnormal acts, aggressive towards other people. Natrum sulphuricum is characterized by suicidal impulses; Argentum nitricum also has a particularly strong desire to throw himself down from a height, so this patient avoids high places.

The patient is hypersensitive to fresh air, drafts; constantly chilly, constantly picking up colds, which settle in the nose and then descend into the bronchi.

The skin is hypersensitive to touch, draft. Lots of aching and sharp pains. Sweats from the slightest effort. Neurasthenia, fatigue, neuralgia; the patient is on the verge of insanity, and convulsions begin. Spasms of individual muscles and the whole body; muscle twitches; weakness, trembling, paralysis. Paralytic weakness and dysfunction of the muscles and nerves are very pronounced.

Another feature that runs through the whole remedy is the perverted direction of the organism's actions. When a person has a stomach ache, he usually empties without difficulty, but a Nux vomica patient will tense up and gag with retching, as if the muscles were working in the wrong direction, as if they were pushing the contents of the stomach through the stomach; perverted work; urge to vomit, belching, straining; after prolonged effort, the patient finally empties the stomach. We find a similar state in the activity of the bladder. The patient has to push to urinate. Tenesmus, urge to urinate. The bladder is full, urine is excreted drop by drop, but when straining, it stops dripping. The intestines work in the same way: although the patient is pushing with all his might, the stool is very scanty. With diarrhoea, if the patient does not strain, the stool passes in a thin stream; then there is tenesmus, when the patient can no longer push, and at the same time there is a feeling that the stool is moving backward; there is something like antiperistalsis. With constipation, the more the patient pushes, the more difficult the stool is separated. In diarrhea and dysentery, straining does not bring relief; but it comes on after passing a small amount of stool. Constant urge to stool in dysentery corresponds to Mercurius vivus; and tenesmus with violent urge to urinate, Mercurius corrosivus. The perverted activity of the various organs is a reflection of the spasmodic nature of this remedy. Shooting pains upward from the rectum; burning.

Neuralgic pains in eyes, face and head; piercing, tearing pains; the patient cries in pain, faints; burning, stinging pain. Pain in the head, face and limbs, stinging and tearing, but the pains of a drawing nature are most characteristic. Feeling of tension in the muscles. Drawing pain in the back, as if the muscles were drawn and tense. The pain is felt as tension, spasm in the muscles; drawing pain in the back, in the back of the neck, causing the patient to throw back his head; lumbago. Pain in the back worse as soon as the patient lies down (during pregnancy), as if the back would break (Bryonia, Phosphorus - as if the back were broken. Kali carbonicum), the patient has to get up and walk. Neuritis with great soreness of the skin. Pain in the region of the kidneys and liver. Drawing pains so strong that they do not allow to turn in bed, the patient can only rise on his hands, turn around and lie back down. Drawing pains in the sacrum and hip joints; in the sacrum, with dysentery. Tearing pains in the intestines, every time the pain causes the urge to stool. This is typical for any pain in the abdomen. Drawing pains in the limbs, causing spasms in calves, feet and toes. Cramps in the abdomen cause the urge to empty the bowels; postpartum contractions in the form of spasmodic urge to defecate; menstrual cramps, pain in stomach after eating with urge to stool. After a strong straining, the stool does not go away, but when, after prolonged effort, a little fecal matter, there is relief. Stool scanty, reverse peristalsis.

Hypersensitivity to strong drinks. It is a routine remedy for people trying to stop drinking; shown even in delirium tremens. Patients who have undermined their health by years of drunkenness, sexual excesses, worries and overwork; they work for half an hour, and then they take a bottle and so on several times, until they completely stop thinking and are forced to go home and go to bed. Borderline with insanity, irritability, fatigue, perspiration, worse from open air, sensitive to noise and light; undermined health. Such patients should be given Nux vomica, advised to rest and give up alcohol.

Those who abuse tea, coffee, and strong drinks may not sleep around the clock, but in the end the nerves are stretched to the limit; it seems to the patient that he is flying away somewhere and cannot restrain himself; his muscles and hands tremble; twitching of limbs on falling asleep and during sleep.

The patient is consumed by anxiety, despair, hypochondria; he has "hypersensitivity to impressions", all the senses are in a state of hypersensitivity; “cannot stand reading or talking; irritable, wants to be alone. Everyone does everything wrong, they annoy him. Attempts to calm down only increase anger. The patient in horror thinks about the upcoming affairs. In the end, an explosion occurs: “he scandals, accuses, swears, attacks of jealousy arise, swearing is heard; and shortly thereafter he groans and wails loudly.

Due to the unlimited satisfaction of his own lust, the patient's sexual power is completely undermined, to the point of complete impotence; sexual exhaustion, impotence. The patient is excited, but the genitals remain relaxed. Because of this - the desire for suicide.

The Nux vomica patient has chronic stomach troubles - he is a lean, hungry, emaciated, stooping, prematurely aged subject; he is very fastidious about food, but his stomach can hardly digest anything; aversion to meat, which causes nausea; desire for spicy, bitter, tonic food. Weak stomach; pain in the stomach after eating, nausea, vomiting; feeling of weakness in the stomach; exhaustion, weight loss.

Tendency to constant colds, runny nose. The cold settles in the nose, throat, chest and ears. Takes a cold from the slightest provocation; sweats easily, and the slightest breath of air causes headache and coryza. If the patient is in a hot room and feels uncomfortable, he catches a runny nose. In Allium cepa the coryza is also worse in a warm room. severe congestion nose indoors at night; the nose is completely stuffed up, especially in the street, but in the room the nose flows; liquid, watery discharge during the day. Sensitivity to the slightest draft; sneezing due to itching in the nose. Itching goes to the throat and trachea. Cough; burning in respiratory tract; mucosal irritation; speaks through the nose loss of voice sore throat; tickling cough. Dry, agonizing cough, with great soreness in chest, like Bryonia, head feels as if it would burst. Coryza descends into the chest. Influenza with fever and bone pains; the patient tends to put on more clothes; he is better only in a very hot room, although the coryza worsened in a warm room before the fever; but when the fever has already begun, the patient longs for warmth; he is worse from the slightest movement of air under the covers; lifting the blanket increases pain, coughing, etc.

Acute fever with perspiration or hot sweat like Opium (but the Opium patient with hot sweat wants to throw off the covers, while Nux vomica cannot even lift it). Intermittent chill, heat and sweat. With chills, the hands and fingers are cold, purple; coldness from head to feet; the chill begins in the limbs or back, spreads over the whole body, and the patient wants to take cover. Soon there is a reaction, there is heat and sweat, but in all stages the patient wants to be covered. Thirst is not expressed; sometimes it is observed during a fever.

Tendency to jaundice during febrile states. Icteric sclera. Intense jaundice of the skin. Chronic patients with intermittent fever with jaundice. It is closely related to Bryonia for gastrointestinal complaints with jaundice.

Nux vomica patients suffer greatly from indigestion. There is stagnation in the portal system, portal congestion; congestion in the hemorrhoidal veins with enlarged hemorrhoids; constipation; dysentery; paralysis of the rectum. Gastric symptoms like Pulsatilla: worse in the morning; unpleasant taste in the mouth in the morning, like Pulsatilla. After an upset stomach, the head splits, as if the top of the head were broken with a stone.

The remedy is full of paralytic conditions. At first, the intestine is in an excited state, after some time it is replaced by a complete absence of the urge to defecate and the accumulation of feces in the rectum. The same is true of the bladder: it is full of urine that cannot be excreted; it leaks in drops in older men with an enlarged prostate or in gonorrhea. Facial paralysis; limbs; one hand; brushes; individual muscles; Nux vomica often cures paralysis of the facial nerve. With paralysis, the presence of piercing pains is important.

At times there is a false plethora, with a rush of blood to the face; redness of the face; blush; great weakness and emaciation, with irritability and mental symptoms. While the patient is resting, doing nothing and thinking about nothing, he seems to be feeling fine; but one thought that something needs to be done instantly takes away all the strength.

Headache : from perspiration; drunkards; from night vigils. Complete rest is best for relieving headaches. Headaches, as if a stone were pressing on the vertex. Most of the symptoms are better from warmth, but the head symptoms are worse from warmth. Acne from eating cheese.

Extremely violent convulsions with opisthotonos; convulsions of all the muscles of the body, with purplish face and absence of respiration during convulsions; conscious or semi-conscious state during a general spasm, the patient is aware of his suffering and convulsions, which are terrible; worse from least draft; tingling in the soles; a slight touch to the throat causes the urge to vomit.

Vomit is usually prescribed for loss of appetite. It really increases appetite, but harms the patient. "Aversion to meat, habitual food and drink, tobacco and coffee, water, ale, food recently eaten."

Pain, especially in the abdomen; cutting pains that make the patient double over, with nausea from overeating; pulling down feeling; spasmodic pains in the abdomen, often extending to the limbs, but more often to the rectum; spasmodic pain causing urge to stool and urination; renal colic, especially if the pain shoots every time into the rectum and causes the urge to defecate. Renal colic due to a stone in the ureter, which irritates the mucous membrane and causes spasmodic contraction of the circular fibers; the right medicine relaxes these fibers, and under the action of expelling forces the stone immediately comes out. The same thing happens with biliary colic. A drug that relieves spasm, or one of its closest "relatives", overcomes the tendency to form stones. Healthy bile dissolves stones in gallbladder; healthy urine does the same with kidney stones. In the abdominal symptoms, with great jaundice of the skin, Nux vomica is very similar to Bryonia. Bryonia is aggravated by motion and not typically ameliorated by warmth - like Nux vomica, Nux vomica being more suitable for portal congestion, neuralgias, etc.; worse from slightest pressure (Colocynth is better from slightest pressure. Magnesia phosphorica is better from pressure and heat). Bryonia is more indicated for peritonitis, when the patient lies with outstretched limbs. Hemorrhoids, portal congestion, cutting pains extending to the rectum, causing urging to stool. In Cuprum metallicum the cutting pains radiate from front to back, as if they were piercing the patient. In Nux vomica, the belly is sunken, while in Calcarea carbonica and Sepia it is bloated. Similar symptoms to Nux vomica are found in Inula helenium - the same colic with urging to stool and urinate.

"Milk turns sour in the stomach." "Heat in head while eating." Bad effects of drinking coffee, alcohol, revelry. Feeling of mucus in throat; worse after eating. Aloe gets diarrhea when he stops drinking beer. Nux vomica has diarrhea after stopping the use of alcoholic beverages. There is often a sensation of a stone in the stomach (Bryonia). In chronic cases, Nux vomica seems to be best followed by Sepia rather than Bryonia; if you add pressure at the vertex, you get the typical state of Nux vomica. The sensation of a stone occurs an hour after eating, i.e. the stomach is still trying to digest something, while in Abies nigra this sensation occurs immediately. The pains of Kreosotum do not begin until three hours after eating, and then there is vomiting of food.

Nux vomica is closely related to Sulfur and is often used as an antidote for overreaction to Sulfur. Nux vomica can seldom reach deep and interfere with the constitutional effects of Sulfur, but will eliminate superficial reactions.

Menses too early; too long; their duration is conspicuous; the discharge ends, and only a few drops stain the laundry, then it starts again, with clots. One period leads to the next. At the same time, there is a characteristic mental state; excitability; drug hypersensitivity. “Menstruation too early and too profuse; come prematurely and last too long; dark highlights. Sometimes menstruation is combined with severe pains, cramps in the uterus, extending to the whole body; better from heat and pressure; worse from least draft or cold; pains and spasms are relieved by hot water bottles, wrappings and warmth. Painful labor pains like Arnica montana, with urge to stool, etc. Pressing downwards as if the viscera would come out, with urge to stool and urinate. Menstrual flow may be scanty and intermittent. Great itching of the vulva.

The remedy is full of hysterical manifestations. In Europeans, hysterical symptoms more often require Nux vomica, while Americans more often need Ignatia.

Persistent asthma. It is suitable for those patients in whom every attack begins after an upset stomach. Nux vomica can make them free from attacks for a whole year, but after a new indigestion there may be another attack for the whole night. Then Nux vomica must be repeated. Asthma associated with cough; wheezing in the chest; bubbling of mucus in the chest; cough with urge to vomit; it seems that the patient has just caught a cold.

Coryza after every upset stomach. I had a patient who got a runny nose every time she ate sausage; it was out of the question to cure her, since for her coffee, wine and parties were more important than health. She ate fried meat; then it would be better for her not to eat it at all, as others do. After indigestion, she began to have a runny nose, descending into the chest, and then asthma developed.

Palpitation, overexcitation of the cardiovascular system. Strong pulsation.

sick worse in the morning- both mentally and physically. Coryza and some head symptoms are worse from warmth of bed, like Mercurius vivus, though worse from uncovering; worse from eating and motion; head symptoms are aggravated by heat.

Pressure and feeling of weakness in left inguinal ring, hence Nux vomica cures hernia in young children (Lycopodium, right). Arnica montana reduces the soreness, etc. Conium also competes with Nux vomica in "dip" sensations in the groin.

The chill does not decrease, no matter how the patient takes cover; in Ignatia the chilliness is ameliorated by uncovering. In intermittent fever, chill and heat alternate; short period of dry heat, then hot sweat and intense heat; worse in the morning, although the chill may come on at any time.

Nux vomica (according to Grangeorge)

Nux vomica (overworked)

Vomiting nut (chilibuha) contains strychnine. Recent studies by neurophysiologists show that strychnine is a neurotransmitter that acts on our brain, stimulating the pyramidal system responsible for motor activity (glycine, on the contrary, calms this system). This absolutely confirms the observation of homeopaths that Nux vomica is an agitated individual with an exhausted nervous system due to all sorts of excesses (heavy food, skewers, intellectual labor ...) without adequate physical compensation Nux vomica is irritable, he enters your office, comes in front of everyone, and grumbles about the previous treatment, which has not yet yielded results.

He is a maniac and can't stand it when something is wrong. He shudders from noise, he is hypersensitive to everything (light, smell). Sometimes this arousal ceases for the duration of a short afternoon nap, which has a calming effect, but he combats this effect by regularly taking stimulants such as coffee, alcohol, tobacco, various drugs, etc. The Nux vomica infant is overtired from active digestive activity, which always presents problems. He eats too much, digests badly, he cannot burp, he is worried. He has an umbilical or inguinal hernia (with the risk of strangulation). The nose is stuffed up, especially at night, which makes it difficult to sleep. Nux vomica is one of the best remedies for nasal congestion at night. In addition, we note the frequent urge to stool, but the child, like the adult, has a very small amount of feces at a time. In adults there are back pains that cause the Nux vomica person to sit up to turn over in bed. This same person suffers from insomnia after 3 am. What causes Nux vomica to overwork? This is the fear of lack, the fear of poverty in an adult, the fear of starving to death in an infant.

Three-year-old Remy suffers from recurrent otitis media. One day he is hospitalized in a state of febrile convulsions. A clinical examination revealed a scar after surgery for an inguinal hernia, transferred at the age of 2 months, marbling of the skin (peripheral circulation insufficiency), a small inguinal hernia, nasal congestion. After taking Nux vomica 15 and then 30 CH, the otitis disappears and is replaced by a general eczema with slight itching, which also disappears 6 months later.

Several medications to remember febrile seizures: Cicuta virosa, Cina, Hyoscyamus, Nux vomica, Opium, Stramonium.

Chilibuha seeds.

Dilutions and rubbing are made from the seeds, ground into powder.

The pathogenesis of nux vomica is found in Hahnemann's Pure Medicine.

PHYSIOLOGICAL ACTION

Nux vomica and its alkaloid act on the whole body, but most of all on the nervous system, digestive tract and circulatory system.

Action on the nervous system. - In those poisoned with strychnine, after a little vomiting, there are real attacks of tetanic convulsions, with convulsive clenching of the jaws, opisthotonus, etc., of which Tardieu has vividly described. These attacks may appear spontaneously, but usually they are caused by the slightest irritation: noise, light, light touch, arbitrary movement of the patient. Attacks last for three, four minutes, with various intervals from a few seconds to fifteen minutes, there are four, five attacks. Before death, the attacks become more and more frequent, almost without interruption. Not found at autopsy characteristic lesions. There is only passive stagnation in the abdominal viscera, normal, with asphyxia. Sometimes they find a slight softening of the brain and spinal cord and small hemorrhagic foci in the frontal lobes.

When using non-toxic doses, the same phenomena are observed, but less pronounced. Although the brain is irritated and the sense organs become very susceptible, strychnine mainly acts on the spinal cord, where this action is expressed in sharp rise reflex sensitivity. At usual doses symptoms of strychnism appear only with peripheral irritation, even the lightest.

Action on the digestive tract. Nux vomica, in large doses, reduces the appetite and produces painful, sour, sometimes bitter eructations, especially after eating. Pains in a stomach are sharply expressed; they are burning, constrictive and very often convulsive, may appear after eating or in the morning, worse from pressure.

Pain in the abdomen is intense, of a different nature. Strong Development gas with pain, resulting in bloating and rumbling; gases seem to be infringed.

The characteristic symptom of Nux vomica is constipation; diarrhea occurs only by chance or in case of poisoning. Tenesmus was clearly expressed in two cases. A very constant symptom is false, painful and ineffectual urge to stool.

Nux vomica causes spasms and constrictions in all the intestines and especially in the anus.

Its action on the liver is expressed in throbbing, shooting pains and the appearance of jaundice.

Action on the circulatory system. Strychnine causes a significant increase in arterial blood pressure, which can rise twice as high as normal; this is the result of constriction of the blood vessels due to the action of the poison on the vasomotor centers.

In humans, weak doses of strychnine accelerate the activity of the heart. The excitability of smooth muscles also increases; often there is a reflex contraction of the muscles of the iris, dilation of the pupils (intestines, bladder, etc.).

The muscles of the male and female genital organs are affected by Nux vomica in the same way as all the others. Trousseau and Pidou note, under the influence of strychnine, persistent erections, day and night, in men, and similar symptoms in women.

At lower doses, there is a general stiffness of the muscles of the whole body and from time to time convulsive twitches. Seizures are one of the most persistent symptoms of Nux vomica.

Nux vomica is best suited to skinny people with lean muscles. Face fat, yellowish; some are deceptively plump, with flushed cheeks showing yellowish skin.

They have an increase in physical and nervous sensitivity; they are irritated on every occasion, suffer from spasms, convulsions at the slightest touch; they are hypochondriacs suffering from constipation.

The nux vomica "business man" type is American. This is a person overloaded with mental work, worries about business; He leads a sedentary life of limited mobility. Eternally busy, he eats too much and too fast, resulting in heaviness after eating, bloating, heartburn, constipation, irritability, insomnia; he falls asleep earlier than usual in the evening, but then works until 3-4 o'clock in the morning, then falls asleep in the morning and wakes up tired, and feels all his illnesses more strongly in the morning.

Let us add that the subject of nux vomica is subject to all sorts of excesses: alcohol, sleepless nights and takes a lot of drugs. Mentally, in the subject of nux vomics, in addition to, as already mentioned, impressionability, irascibility, anxiety, haste in work, mental anguish, longing (always with anxiety) and disgust for life, leading to suicide, are often observed. Mental restlessness, accompanied by fever, sweat, palpitations, shortness of breath, sometimes nausea and vomiting, is especially felt after midnight and occasionally after eating.

PECULIARITIES

Worse: in the morning, immediately after waking up, after mental work, after eating.

Better: in the evening, after interrupted sleep.

Dominant side: right.

CHARACTERISTIC

Strong irritability.

Hyperesthesia of all senses.

Constipation with ineffectual urging.

Waking about 3 am with insomnia until 6 am.

Discontinuity of diseases (in this respect nux vomica is equal to arsenicum and quinine).

Fatigue on waking more severe than before going to bed.

The tongue is lined only from the back.

Always better after uninterrupted sleep.

The patient cannot bear any clothing around the chest (due to hyperesthesia, it always seems tight to him).

Pain. Of a different nature, but more often compressive, convulsive and tearing. A feeling of constriction followed by numbness is very characteristic; it often appears after midnight and in the morning, which is also an essential characteristic.

Chair. Constipation with urgent and ineffectual urging, insufficient and unsatisfactory stools. Small stools after great exertion; feeling like it will never end. The same symptoms may be observed in dysentery; stools frequent, in small quantities, mixed with mucus and blood, with pressing pains, intolerable urges and tenesmus, better immediately after stool; last in these cases, nux vomica differs from mercury.

Menses. Nux vomica corresponds to strong women with a hot temperament. The menstruation is premature, stops, then reappears, and finally too profuse, too long, and accompanied by various disturbances from beginning to end.

MAIN INDICATIONS

GENERAL: “Hot, lively and active temperaments, says Hahnemann, prone to mockery, cunning and anger; Nux vomica has a very strong effect on women who have profuse and premature menstruation."

Nux vomica should always be thought of when there is nervous and muscular excitement, convulsions and spasms.

The action of nux vomic on the digestive tract is so special, Espana says in turn, that it predominates in all the morbid disorders to which it corresponds; it can be called the "regulator of abdominal innervation." It has been observed that nux vomica acts more or less directly on the whole group of gastric symptoms with excitatory phenomena, and that in all chronic diseases requiring this remedy, gastric disorders or functional disorders of digestion are observed on one side or another.

NERVOUS. Tetanus. The action of strychnine is characterized by the return and exacerbation of seizures from noise, the slightest movement, and even a simple touch.

motor ataxia. Jusset prefers strychnine sulphate: this remedy is especially indicated for shooting pains, disorders of the sphincters of the anus and bladder, attacks of convulsions in the stomach and vomiting. Morning intermittent neuralgia with latent fever, often affecting the supraorbital branch of the trigeminal nerve, mainly the left.

Intercostal neuralgia, which is relieved by lying on sound side.

Inflammation of the sciatic nerve, with very sharp shooting pains, numbness, goosebumps, worse from motion and touch.

Adduction of limbs, convulsions. Trembling of the hands and other neuromuscular disorders in drunkards.

Hypochondria: especially with fear of death and suicidal tendencies. Accompanied by gastric disorders, hemorrhoids and irritability.

DIGESTIVE. Nux vomica gives a complete picture of slow digestion: heaviness and pain in the stomach during and after eating, in the first hours of digestion. The stomach area is very sensitive to pressure, indicating muscle pain (Bryonia in particular). Bloating of the upper abdomen, with sensation of pressure as of a stone, a few hours after eating. Desire for stimulants. Dyspepsia from strong coffee, alcohol and liquors. Heavy empty belching. Irresistible urge to vomit, nausea in the morning; nausea and vomiting with violent belching. Heartburn and bitter and sour eructations. Consequences of gluttony and other excesses (Cartier). Convulsions of the stomach. At first glance, it seems strange that the same remedy should be recommended for two such opposite conditions as slow digestion and stomach cramps. But it is definitely noted that Nux vomica acts on the neuromuscular apparatus of the stomach and regulates its motor functions. In any case, Nux vomica 6 is a heroic remedy if the convulsions are of purely neuromuscular origin, and not a secondary symptom, as in gastric ulcers.

Constipation. Spasmodic constipation, unknown for a long time, which is now precisely defined and occurs much more often than atonic, even in old people. Allopaths in these cases use belladon and bromine preparations, which reduce spasms, but do not cure constipation. Homeopaths do more good by prescribing Nux vomica, which, as we have seen, when studied physiologically, produces spasms in large doses. To determine intestinal spasms, I do not attach much importance, like Espina, to palpation, which is very difficult in practice, since with this method of studying muscle contraction, I am often content with clinical symptoms. Usually spasms are observed in lean, nervous, bilious hemorrhoidal subjects with empty urge to stool or frequent insufficient, sometimes even loose, stools. The sensation of spasm is very characteristic; painful teneses extend to the bladder and are accompanied by gastric disturbances.

Beware of giving low dilutions of nux vomica, which will cause bitterness; 30's are most commonly used.

Diseases of the liver, in alcoholics, lovers of spices, or in abusers of laxatives. The liver is enlarged, dense, sensitive to pressure. Colic is often observed, accompanying disorders of the stomach and liver.

CIRCULATORY SYSTEM. Palpitation: very violent, especially at night and in the morning in bed, with melancholy and congestion of blood to the chest. Constrictive pains in the chest, worse from motion, often from pressure, and even from touch. Angina pectoris: no objective data in still young people suffering from hemorrhoids, or associated with aortitis, when the attacks are extremely painful, with marked restlessness.

An increase in blood pressure is often seen in nux vomica subjects who overload their nervous system and digestive tract.

RESPIRATORY ORGANS. Nux vomica 3 often stops a runny nose if it is given at the very beginning, when there is dryness and tickling in the nasal cavity. For hay rhinitis, Cartier recommends Nux vomica alternately with Allium cepa and Euphrasia, especially for gouty people.

Asthma. Attacks in the morning or after eating. Attacks of suffocation begin with sneezing and fluent coryza. Constriction in the lower part of the chest, short, shaking cough, with heavy expectoration of a small amount of mucus.

Cough dry, with or without coryza, early in the morning or in the evening, rough, short, radiating to the head or umbilical region. In the morning, a small amount of sputum is hardly expectorated.

VARIOUS. Rheumatism of large joints; the swelling is rather pale and worse in the morning. Myalgia, lumbago, with severe constrictive and shooting pains, they are worse from motion and touch, worse in the morning, in bed. Migraine: begins in the morning, on waking; nausea and even vomiting during an attack, better at rest, in bed (12 and 30).

Epistaxis at night or in the morning, preceded by pain and heat in the head.

Inflammation of the uterus (metritis). Hartmann considers Nux vomica 30 a good remedy for this disease; it works better in metritis with sharp pains and tenesmus in hemorrhoids. Jusset appoints her in these cases alternately with belladonna.

Chronic alcoholism. Consequences of alcoholism;

Gallawarden-father with great success prescribed 200 dilutions; he also gave it to irritable, eternally dissatisfied subjects.

Hypochondria. According to Jusset, nux vomica is the main remedy. Fever. Terrific chill with chattering of teeth, limbs and nails blue, twitching of muscles and thirst. An increase in temperature is not accompanied by thirst.

In mental disorders Nux vomica is useful in all doses from 20-30 drops of the tincture to the 200th dilution. The 3rd, 6th and 12th seem to work better on the stomach, and the 30th on the intestines. Neuralgias, migraines, intermittent fevers, and stomach troubles are much better cured by high dilutions of 12 and 30. Nux vomica is best taken at night, as it can cause embitterment in the morning. You should also avoid prescribing it after eating for those suffering from stomach diseases, since their pains may intensify or appear if they were not there before.

Nux vomica is one of our most important polychrests. Twenty years ago this question was discussed in the homeopathic journals of the United States: "If you were to discard our medicines one by one, what would be the last one that you could not lose?" It is the nux vomica that connects the most big number symptoms. This explains why nux vomica corresponds to most of the disorders that are the result of modern life, which requires a lot of stress on the nervous system: under such conditions, a pathological type of "business man" is formed.

From the book Practical Homeopathic Medicine by Gilbert Charette

Nux vomica Chilibukha seeds. Dilutions and rubbing are made from the seeds, ground into powder. The pathogenesis of nux vomica is found in Hahnemann's Pure Pharmacy.

From the book Practical Homeopathic Medicine. Add-ons by Gilbert Charette

NUX VOMICA Case history SUPERORIVAL NEURALGIA February 15, 1882, I was invited to treat Mr. N., a man of sixty-four, very fat, with a very red face and a very many-sided and many-sided activity; he has old gouty arthritis

From the book Practical Homeopathy author Viktor Iosifovich Varshavsky

NUX VOMICA, NUX VOMICA - CHILIBUKHA (VOKE NUT) Specific action. On the central nervous system. One of the main psychosomatic agents. Symptoms. Increased sensitivity of the nervous system to external stimuli, a tendency to spasms and convulsions. Drowsiness

From the book Portraits of Homeopathic Remedies, (Part 2) author Katherine R. Coulter

NUX VOMICA NUX VOMICA This homeopathic medicine, prepared from the seeds of the plant Strychnos nux-vomica (poison nut), is, in fact, potent poison strychnine in homeopathic potencies, as well as Arsenicum album, and the venom of the snake Lachesis, Phosphorus, Belladonna and other poisonous substances,

From the book Homeopathy Classic Encyclopedia of Home Medicine by J Laurie

NUX VOMICA This homeopathic remedy, prepared from the seeds of the Strychnos nux-vomica (poison nut) plant, is in fact the potent poison strychnine in homeopathic potencies, as is Arsenicum album, and the venom of the snake Lachesis, Phosphorus, Belladonna, and other poisonous substances. ,

From the book Homeopathy for General Practitioners author A. A. Krylov

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE - A NUX VOMICA TYPE COMMANDER AND RULER The type of military leader and ruler of a country is also characteristic of Nux vomica. Such, for example, was none other than Napoleon Bonaparte himself. The inconsistency of his nature, his greatness and his conspicuous weaknesses are very

From the book Lectures on Homeopathic Materia Medica author James Tyler Kent

CHIBULIKHA (NUX VOMICA) Related medicines. Cocculus, Aesculus, Aloes, Bryonia, Chamomilla, Hydrastis, Pulsatilla, Collinsonia, Ignatia. Specific action. On the nerves of the stomach; mucous surface of the stomach and intestines; on the entire nervous and spinal system; on the brain, liver and other significant glands, kidneys and

From the book Predictive Homeopathy Part II Theory of Acute Diseases author Prafull Vijaykar

Nux vomica Chilibucha (vomit) One of the most characteristic homeopathic types. This is an American “business man” eternally busy, overloaded with worries about business and mental work ... In our time, a “business woman” can also correspond to this type (“physiognomically

From the book Materia Medica of homeopathic remedies by William Berike

Nux vomica Nux vomica / Nux vomica - emetic nut, chilibuha The main dosage forms. Homeopathic granules D3, C3, C6, C12 and above. Drops D3, C3, C6, C12 and above. Indications for use. Indigestion after too much and heavy food. Spasmodic constipation with false urging.

From the book Course of Clinical Homeopathy by Leon Vanier

12. Nux vomica AXIS: STOPPED + CHILLY + THIRST INDICATIONS FOR THE PURPOSE: - Anger when disturbed or compelled to respond - Anger at noise, light - Ineffectual urge to stool OPTIONAL: - Angry at self - Angry or irritated when disturbed or when his

From the author's book

42. Nux vomica AXIS: MENTAL ANXIETY/ANXIETY + CHILLY + Thirsty INDICATIONS FOR PURPOSE: - Fastidious - Irritable; angry when asked - Worse from light and noise OPTIONAL: - Scandalous, spiteful, malevolent - Diseases from "beautiful life",

From the author's book

Nux vomica The emetic nut The greatest of the homeopathic polychrests, since the totality of its symptoms is more or less similar to the symptoms of the most various most common diseases. Often the first remedy indicated after

From the author's book

Ignatia and Nux vomica In Ignatia everything is paradoxical and nothing is based on reality. In Nux vomica, there are real functional disturbances, expressed by precise symptoms, such as insomnia, when the patient cannot fall asleep in the evening, wakes up at 3 o'clock in the morning and then does not sleep,

From the author's book

Zincum and Nux vomica Zincum cannot stand even a sip of wine. Nux vomica drinks wine, he loves it. He generally loves stimulants, he needs them, because he is in a state of constant fatigue. He is hypersensitive to noise, light, smells, the slightest objection. He constantly

From the author's book

Nux vomica - Sepia The connection between Nux vomica and Sepia is well explained. Both remedies cause portal congestion, intermittent in Nux vomica and constant in Sepia. Sepia also has congestion of the pelvic organs; everything is fixed. Moreover, in Sepia this hyperemia is constant, while in Nux vomica