Nux Vomica nux-v.

Defective memory; manner shy and awkward.
Can't read or calculate, for she looses the connection of ideas; thinks she will lose her reason.
Time passes too slowly.
Delirium tremens, with oversensitiveness, nervous excitability and malicious vehemence.
Desire to talk about one's condition, with anxious reflections about it.
Inclined to find fault and scold; morose; stubborn; an insane desire when alone with her husband, whom she adores, to kill him.
Disinclination to work and great lassitude or weakness in the morning.
Cannot bear reading or conversation; irritable and wishes to be alone.
Anxiety, with irritability and inclination to commit suicide, but is afraid to die.
Despondent and buoyant alternately.
Hypochondriac mood of persons of sedentary habits, and of those who dissipate at night, with abdominal suffering and constipation; also when worse after eating, with sensitiveness.
Loss of energy.
Careful, zealous persons, inclined to get excited and angry, or of a spiteful, malicious disposition.
Irritable, morose, sullen; apt to become quarrelsome if disturbed.
Anger with habitual malicious, spiteful disposition.
Fiery, excited temperament.
Oversensitiveness to external impressions; noise; smells; light and music; or the most trifling ailments are unbearable and affect him much.
Oversensitiveness, every harmless word offends, every little noise frightens, anxious and beside themselves, cannot bear the least, even suitable medicine.
Ailments after continued mental labor.
Worse after mental exertion.
After anger, chilliness alternating with heat, vomiting of bile, and thirst; great laziness and aversion to occupy oneself.

Stupefaction, confusion as from nightly reveling.
Vertigo: with loss of consciousness; falls forward; when stooping; as if the bed was turning in a circle; reeling in morning and after dinner; with pains in forehead, heat and redness of face.
Intoxication from drunkenness of previous day, with vanishing of sight and hearing; worse after dinner and in the sun.
Apoplexy, with stertorous breathing; dropping of the jaw, paralysis; attack preceded by vertigo, buzzing in ears, nausea and urging to vomit.

Congestion to the head with burning in it, and with heat and redness of the bloated face.
Burning in the forehead on awaking and after eating.
Stunning headache in morning after eating and in sunshine.
Bruised sensation of the brain, generally one (right) sided; better when lying on the painless side.
Pressive, boring pains in head, beginning in morning, less by evening; with dim sight, sour vomiting and palpitation; worse from mental exertion, light, noise, coffee, after eating.
Periodical headache in the forehead, sore as from ulceration, with constipation.
Semilateral headache from excessive use of coffee.
Pressing on vertex, as from a nail; as if the skull were pressed asunder.
Pressing as if something heavy were sinking down into head.
Tension in the forehead, as if it were pressed in, at night and in the morning, worse on exposing the head to the cold air.
Intense occipital headache; dizziness; pains in the eyes; stomach deranged.
Sensation as from bruise in the back part of the head.
The brain seems to shake when walking or running in open air; better when wrapping head up, in warm room, and when at rest.
Head symptoms are worse from mental exertion, exercising open air and after eating; better after rising in morning (except sick headache) in warm room; lying down or sitting quietly.

Scalp sensitive to touch, or to the wind; better from being warmly covered.
Liable to take cold on the head, mostly from dry wind, or from a draught.
Fetid sweat of one-half of the head and face which is cold, with anxiety, and dread of uncovering head; sweat relieves pain.

Sight blurred by overheating.
Vision impaired by dissipation.
Photophobia, worse in the morning.
Atrophy of the optic nerve.
Hyperæsthesia of the retina; pains to the top of the head; sleepless; awakens irritable in the morning.
Exudation of blood from the eyes.
Ecchymoses.
Burning and smarting as from salt; canthi reddened.
Eyeballs (lower part) yellow.
Lids burn and itch, especially their margins; worse mornings.
Blepharospasmus.
Paresis of ocular muscles, worse from stimulants or tobacco.

Strong reverberation of sounds in the ear.
Tearing, stitching pains in the ears extending to forehead and temples: worse mornings, evening in bed, and on entering a warm room.
External meatus dry and sensitive.
On swallowing, pushing out pain in the ear.

Oversensitive to strong odor -even fainting.
Smell before the nose like old cheese, or brimstone.
Snuffles, especially of the newborn.
Nosebleed during sleep, when preceded by headache and red cheeks, or in the morning; from suppressed hæmorrhoidal flow.
Coryza, dry at night, fluent by day; worse in warm room, better in cold air; sneezing early in bed; scraping in nose and throat.
Acrid discharge from the obstructed nose.
Internal nose inflamed.

Face: yellow; florid, with a yellow ground; pale; distressed; yellow around mouth, eyes or nose.
Tearing in the infraorbital branch of the trigeminus; clear water from the eye and nostril of affected side; face numb; after abuse of coffee, liquors or quinine.
Intermittent neuralgia, worse in the infraorbital branch of trifacial, always markedly exacerbated in the morning; better sometimes when lying in bed.
Swelling of one cheek, faceache and pain in cheekbone.
Pimples on the face, from dissipation.
Twitching of the muscles in the evening on lying down.

Painful peeling off of the lips, after excesses; crusts on the lips, or ulcers that burn and stick.
Lower jaw hangs down.
Submaxillary glands swollen, with stinging on swallowing.

Toothache, with swollen face; worse from reading or thinking; tearing is worse from cold or cold things; better from warm drinks; worse from coffee or wine.
Stinging in decayed teeth; burning-stinging in a row of teeth.
Gum-boils, which seem about to burst.
Gums white, putrid, bleeding.

Taste: bitter; sour; putrid in the morning, must rinse the mouth.
Tongue: heavily coated white or yellow; black and dark red, cracked on the edges; heavy with difficult speech.
First half of tongue clean, sometimes red and shining; posterior, covered with deep fur.

Roof of mouth, throat and gums inflamed and swollen.
Small aphthous ulcers in the mouth and throat with putrid smell; bloody saliva runs out at night; gums scorbutic; coagulated blood is spit out; voice altered, as if speaking with a full mouth.
Mouth dry, parched, without much thirst.

Raw, sore, rough, as if scraped, causing hawking.
Pain as if the pharynx was constricted, or as if a plug was sticking in throat, during empty swallowing.
Swelling of the uvula, stinging pains, with sensation of a plug when swallowing saliva only.
Stitches into the ear, when swallowing; small fetid ulcers in the throat; even in cases of a "nervous" character.
Throat worse while eating and still more afterward.
Allays irritation caused by topical applications; especially if rawness and scraping are present.

Ravenous hunger, after drinking beer.
Canine hunger, with aversion to bread, water, coffee and tobacco.
Longing for brandy, beer, fat food or chalk.
Very hungry twenty-four hours or so before a spell of dyspepsia.

Milk sours on the stomach.
Bad effects of coffee; alcoholic drinks; debauchery.
After eating: sour taste; pressure in stomach an hour or two after a meal, with hypochondriacal mood; pyrosis; tightness about the waist, must loosen the clothing; confused, cannot use the mind.
Two or three hours after a meal, epigastrium bloated with pressure as from a stone in the stomach.
After eating: 2, 3, 16, 17, 19, 26, 27, 29. Warm food or drinks: 10, 17, 27. Cold food or drinks: 10, 16.

Eructations: sour or bitter; putrid in the morning.
Hiccough from overeating, or from cold drinks.
Heart-burn; water-brash; worse before breakfast; also with drunkards.
Nausea: early in the morning; with fainting; after eating; from tobacco.
Vomiting: food; drink; bile; black substances; slime; sour mucus; blood; after suppressed hæmorrhoidal flow.
Vomiting of food that was taken a day or two before; contraction of the pylorus.

Region of stomach sensitive to pressure.
Indigestion after abuse of drugs; business anxiety; sedentary habits; long watching or debauchery, after too high living.
Burning in the stomach; at the pylorus.
Clawing, cramping pains in stomach, with pressure and tension between the scapulæ; pains extend to the chest or down the back to the anus, with urging to stool. θ Gastralgia.
Gastralgia worse from food, better from hot drinks; worse in the morning before breakfast.
Pressure in epigastrium, as from a stone; worse mornings and after meals.

Stitches in region of liver, worse from contact or motion.
Throbbing as from hepatic abscess.
Liver swollen, indurated, sensitive, with pressure and stinging; cannot bear the clothing tight; caused by high living; abdominal plethora, debauchery.
Jaundice, aversion to food, fainting turns; gall-stones; constipation nearly always present.

Pressure under the short ribs, as from incarcerated flatulence; worse mornings and after meals.
Colic from indigestion, with water-brash; worse after coffee, brandy or overeating.
Flatulent colic, with pressure upward, causing dyspnœa; and with pressure downward, causing urging to stool and urination.
Periodical colic before breakfast or after meals.
Colic from suppressed hemorrhoidal flow.
Hernia; sensitive, bitter vomit; labored breathing.
Tension and fulness in loins, abdominal and renal region; hæmaturia, abdominal plethora.

Stools: small, slimy, bloody, with urging, ceasing after stool; mucous or watery, from indigestion or cold; like pitch, with blood.
Alternate constipation and diarrhœa.
Constipation, with rush of blood to the head; obstructed portal circulation; frequent, ineffectual urging; stools may be in hard masses.
Hemorrhoids, blind or flowing; abdominal plethora; congestion to the head; worse from high living or sedentary habits; with burning and sticking in rectum; anus burning, smarting and feels as if cut, some hours after stool.
Tearing in anus; constriction after mental exertion, after eating.

Renal colic, especially in the right kidney, extending to genitals and right leg; worse lying on that side, better on the back.
Painful ineffectual urging to urinate; urine passes in drops, with burning and tearing; spasmodic strangury.
Before urinating, pressure on the bladder.
Urine: pale, later thick, whitish, purulent; reddish, with brick-dust sediment.
Hæmaturia, from suppressed hemorrhoidal flow or menses.
Spasmodic urethral stricture; paralysis of the bladder; urine dribbles.

Easily excited desire, painful erections, especially in the morning; often excitable but power is weak.
During an embrace, the penis becomes relaxed.
Emissions during sleep; especially after from onanism or from too high living.
Bad effects of sexual excesses.
Chancroid often relieved.
Orchitis, with stinging and spasmodic contraction, extending into the cords; the testicles being hard and retracted.
Increase of smegma.
Gonorrhœa: after abuse of Copaiva and Cubebs; thin discharge, with burning on urinating and frequent urging to stool.

Crampy, stitching pains in pelvis; soreness across pubes.
Congestion of blood to the uterus.
Contractive, uterine spasms, colic, with discharge of coagula.
Pressure toward the genitals in the morning; prolapsus uteri, from straining or lifting; bearing down toward the sacrum, with ineffectual urging to stool, or pressing on the bladder with urging to urinate.
Burning, heaviness, sticking in the uterus.
Metrorrhagia, especially at the climaxis, or from high living.
Hardness and swelling of the os tincæ.
Menses too early and profuse; flow dark, oversensitiveness to nervous impressions; faints easily.
Leucorrhœa fetid, staining yellow.
Tingling and itching of the vulva, causing onanism.

During pregnancy: morning sickness; jaundice; colic; difficult breathing from upward pressure.
Abortion (especially for precursory symptoms).
Labor-pains: spasmodic, cause urging to stool or to urination; cause fainting; are worse in back; are too violent.
After-pains violent and protracted.
Lochia scanty and offensive.

Hoarseness, with roughness and scraping in throat.
Spasmodic constriction of the larynx after midnight, suffocating spells.

Spasms of chest from vapor of copper or arsenic.
Asthma, with fulness in the stomach; better after belching; oppression mornings or after eating; spasmodic contraction of the lower part of the chest, worse from cold air or exercise.
Short, slow, stridulous breathing.

Dry, fatiguing, from titillation in the larynx; worse after midnight and in the morning; causing pains in the stomach and soreness in the abdominal walls; worse after eating.
Cough worse from mental effort; ascending; cold; exertion; on awakening; from tobacco; drinking; eating; from beer; better from warm drinks.
Whooping-cough worse in the morning; with vomiturition; splitting headache, the child hold its head; face blue; bleeding from eyes, nose and mouth.
Sputa yellow, grey, cold mucus, sour or sweetish, or bright red blood.

Roughness and rawness in the chest.
Pressing in the chest, as from a heavy load.
Sensation as if something was torn loose in the chest.
Intercostal neuralgia, better when lying on the well side.
Congestion to the chest, with heat and burning.
Hæmoptysis; from anger; suppressed hemorrhoidal flow; debauchery; especially in drunkards.

Heart feels tired; palpitation on lying down; frequent belching.
Palpitation: with orgasm of blood; from mental emotions; from protracted study; after eating, especially after spices or coffee.
Pulse: hard, full, accelerated; small, rapid; intermits every four or five beats.

Neck stiff, with heaviness; from cold.
Tension, burning, pressing as from a stone between scapulæ.
Cervico-bracial neuralgia, neck stiff, worse in the morning or after eating and from touch.
Burning or tearing in back.
Sudden stitches in back when turning, with dull pain while sitting.
Backache, must sit up to turn over in bed.
Pains in small of back, if bruised or broken; worse 3 or 4 A.M.
Spine affected by sexual excesses.

Shoulder pain, as if bruised.
Drawing pain, from shoulder to fingers.
Paralytic heaviness in shoulders, with weak arms.
Paresis of the arms, with shocks as if the blood would start from vessels; worse at night, or early in morning.
Arms go to sleep, numb, stiff feeling.
Veins in the hands, enlarged.
Hands cold and sweaty, with cold nose.

Darting pains from toes to hip, or from trochanter to hollow of knee; worse at stool, from motion or lifting, and at night.
Numbness and deadness of the legs.
Paralysis of the lower limbs: from overexertion, getting wet, sexual excesses, or after apoplexy; limbs cold, bluish, emaciated; jerks, tension of muscles, formication.
Sensation of paralysis, feeling as of a painful stripe down the inside of the thigh.
Knee-joints feels dry, with cracking when moved.
Arthritic inflammation of the knees, also with nodosities.
Bright red swelling of the legs, with black, painful spots.
Cramps in calves at night, also in soles, must stretch foot.
When walking, legs tremble; unsteady gait; drags feet.

Sick feeling through all the limbs.
Bruised pains in limbs; in joints; worse during motion and at night.
Rheumatism, attaching mostly the muscles of the trunk, and the large joints; pale, tensive swellings; numbness or twitching, worse from the least jar or from cold.
Fingers and toes red with burning and itching, as if frozen.

Motion or exertion: 18, 26, 27, 33, 34, 40. Walking: 3, 33. Running: 3. Ascending: 27. Must stretch the foot: 33. Turning: 31. Must sit up to turn over: 31. Sitting: 3, 31, 36. Stooping: 2. Lying: 3, 8, 21, 29, 36.
Worse in a horizontal position; better with the head high.
Rest: 3, 6.

Stitches through the body in jerks, feels sore all over, worse mornings.
Sudden failing of strength.
Trembling all over; mostly of the hands; in drunkards.
Great debility with over-sensitiveness of all the senses.
Wants to sit or lie down.
Tendency to faint: from odors; in the morning; or after eating.
Paralysis: parts cold, numb, emaciated; caused by apoplexy or cerebral softening, with vertigo and weak memory; from sexual excesses; from the abuse of alcohol; after spasms; after poisoning with arsenic; after diphtheria.
Great reflex excitability, etc.
Convulsions: from emotions, as anger; from indigestion; preceded by constipation, jaundice, etc.; begin with an aura from the epigastrium; opisthotonos with consciousness; limbs, rigid and go to sleep; choreic, with numbness; renewed by bright light, sudden jar, noise, or the least touch; deep sleep follows.

Yawning, stretching; chilliness.
Sleepy in the early evening, but sleeplessness at night.
Drowsy all day, worse after meals.
Stupor, lower jaw dropped; deep sleep.
Night seems long; dreams full of bustle and hurry; springs up delirious, has frightful visions; awakens in fright from the least noise.
During sleep, blowing, snoring expiration.
Goes to sleep late from crowding of the thoughts.
Awakens at 3 A.M. (with many complaints).
Awakens 3 A.M.; falls into a dreamy sleep at daybreak, from which he is hard to arouse, and feels then tired and weak.
Better after a short sleep, unless aroused.

Morning: 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 11, 16, 17, 19, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 32, 36, 40. Evening: 3, 6, 8, 37, 40, 46.
Remission evening until midnight.
Night: 3, 7, 12, 32, 33, 34, 37, 40. After midnight: 25, 27, 31, 37, 40. Day: 7, 37.

Warmth of sun: 2, 3. Warm room: 3, 7. Warmth: 3, 4, 5, 6, 10. Cold, or cold air: 3, 4, 7, 10, 26, 27, 34, 40.
Worse in dry, generally better in wet weather.
Bad effects from sitting on cold stones.
Dry wind: 4. Getting wet: 33.

Chill: evening and night in bed till morning; worse when moving and from drinking; with hot face; alternating with heat; mornings, with constipation (in nursing children); not relieved by heat.
Sleep after sleep.
Anticipating morning fever: chill with aching in the limbs, gasping; blue nails; no thirst; then thirst; long-lasting fever with stitches in the temples; light sweat.
Apyrexia marked by gastric and bilious symptoms; legs feel weak, paralytic.
Heat: at night without thirst; increase during least exertion or in the open air; averse to uncovering, or desire, but becomes chilled from uncovering, or is seized with colic; before the chill.
Congestive chills, with vertigo, anguish, delirium, vivid visions, distended abdomen; stitches in the sides and abdomen.
Sweat: after midnight and in morning; sour, offensive odor of musty straw; one sided, or only on upper part of body; cold, clammy on face; relieves pains in limbs; chill and again sweat.

Periodical and intermittent affections.

Right: 3, 18. Above downward: 17, 33. Below upward: 33.

Atrophy of infants, no appetite, or ravenous hunger; desire to eat, with frequent vomiting; constipation; sallow skin; face bloated.
Rheumatism especially of back or large joints; muscles palpitate and are cramped; parts feel torpid, paralytic.

Touch: 4, 18, 36. Pressure: 17. Jar: 34. Straining or lifting: 23, 33. Must loosen clothing: 15, 18.

Burning-itching all over; worse in the evening; itching with icterus.
Urticaria, with gastric derangements.
Ecchymoses, blue.
Boils, especially if several small ones unite.
Abscesses; often disperses them.

Suits thin, irritable, choleric persons, with dark hair, who make great mental exertion, or lead sedentary life.
Debauchers who are irritable and thin.

Follows well after: Arsen., Ipec., Phosphor., Sulphur; is followed by Bryon., Pulsat., Sulphur.
Zincum does not agree with Nux vom.
Complementary to Sulphur.
Antidotes to Nux vom.: wine, coffee (large doses); Chamom., Coccul., Pulsat.
Nux vom. is an antidote to: abuse of aromatics, drastics, "hot medicines", narcotics, bad effects of coffee and alcoholic drinks, tremors caused by mercury.
Compare with: Graphit. (gastralgia); Laches. (congestion of liver); Carbo veg., Caustic. (catarrhal hoarseness).