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Common Name: Poison Nut Family: Loganiaceae Constitution.-- Adapted to thin, irritable, careful and very keen persons with dark hair and bilious or sanguine temperament. Persons who are quarrelsome, nervous, depressed and spiteful. "Nux is chiefly successful with persons of an ardent character; of an irritable, impatient temperament, disposed to anger, spite or deception." - HAHNEMANN. Hypochondriac subjects who are very studious, but due to lack of physical acitivity suffer from gastric or abdominal complaints. Indications.-- Bad effects; of coffee, tobacco, alcoholic stimulants, highly spiced or seasoned food; of over-eating; of long-continued mental over-exertion; of sedentary habits; of loss of sleep; of aromatic or patent medicine; of sitting on cold places, especially in warm weather. Indigestion and haemorrhoids of debauchers. It is one of the best remedies to commence treatment of cases which have been over drugged by mixtures of drugs either bitters, aromatic, vegetable or quack remedies, but only if symptoms correspond. Generalities.--Pains are tingling, ticking hard, aching, worse from motion and contact. Mind.-- Anxious and irritabile. Inclination to commit suicide, but is afraid to die. Very sensitive to external impressions, especially to noise, odors, light or music. Easily offended even by harmless words. Very particular, careful, but easily angered. Nose.-- Catarrh: snuffles of infants; dry coryza at night, fluent by day; worse in warm room, better in cold air; from sitting in cold places. Stomach.-- Eructation after eating. Sour and bitter eructations. Nausea and vomiting every morning with depression of spirits. Constant nausea after eating, in morning and from smoking. Feels "If I could only vomit I would be so much better." Pressure in stomach as from a stone an hour or two after eating. Heartburn and tightness sensation, loosens clothing for ease. Mental activity difficult for two or three hours after a meal. Gastric complaints from anxiety, worry, brandy, coffee, drugs, night watching and high standard of living. Abdomen.-- Strangulated hernia, especially umbilical. Stool.-- Constipation: with frequent unsuccessful desire, passing small quantities of faeces; sensation as if not finished. Frequent desire for stool; anxious, ineffectual, better for a time after stool; in morning after rising; after mental exertion. Alternate constipation and diarrhoea, in persons who have taken purgatives all their lives. Female.-- Menses: too early, profuse, lasts too long; or keeping on several days longer, with complaints at onset and remaining after; every two weeks; irregular, never at right time; stopping and starting again; during and after, worsening of old symptoms. Labor pains: violent, spasmodic; cause urging to stool or to urinate; worse in back; prefers a warm room during pains. Back.-- Backache: must sit up or turn over in bed; lumbago; from sexual weakness and masturbation. Sleep.-- Falls asleep in the evening while sitting or during reading hours before bedtime, and awakes at 3 or 4 A.M. Hard to arouse him when in dreamy sleep during day time. Feels tired and weak on awake. Sleepy after dinner. Fever.-- Aversion to cold or to cold air. Chilly on least movement or from being uncovered. Must be covered in every stage of fever - chill, heat or sweat. Great heat during fever, whole body burning hot, face red and hot. Even then patient cannot move or uncover without being chilly. Nervous System.-- Convulsions with consciousness, worse from anger, emotion, touch and motion. Tendency to faint in morning, from odors, after eating, after labor pain. Aggravation.-- Morning; waking at 4 a.m.; mental exertion; after eating or over-eating; touch, noise, anger, spices, narcotics, dry weather; in cold air. Amelioration.-- In evenig, while at rest; lying down, and in damp wet weather. Relationship.-- Complementary: Sulphur. Inimical: to, Zinc., should not be used before or after. Follows well: after,Ars., Ipec., Phos., Sep., Sulph. Is followed well: by, Bry., Puls., Sulph. Nux acts better during repose of mind and body. It should be given on retiring or several hours before going to bed. |
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