Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

there is great weakness, sliding down in bed, and nervous trembling, is a better remedy.Nux-mos. does not relate so completely to the general image of a typhoid as does .The sleepiness and the dazed state are two things combined, and when combined are difficult tocover by a remedy. This state is somewhat like .Faintness and even fainting when standing long, such as occurs in a nervous woman standing tohave a dress fitted.There is a dry mouth, the tongue cleaves to the roof of the mouth in all complaints. There isgreat sleepiness and automatic conduct, especially in nervous women. It has cured petit mal.The haemorrhages stand out in bold relief; haemorrhages from the nose, uterus and bowels.There is vomiting of blood.The patient is sensitive to wind, to a draft, to damp air. She has a headache < walking againstthe wind; hoarseness from waking against the wind; she is so sensitive to cold weather that she comeshome dazed and sleepy from walking against the wind; her mouth is dry but there is no thirst, shedoesn't desire water (sometimes thirst is present). The patient may hold water in the mouth withoutdesire to swallow it. Nux-mos. holds ice water and succulent fruits in the mouth to relieve the sensationof dryness. Often there is a sensation of dryness when the mouth is moist.In the extremities there is numbness, tingling, prickling, paralytic weakness; there is threatenedparalysis; momentary hysterical paralysis; coming for a short time and then going away. Aphonia witha dry mouth, in hysterical patients; when walking out of doors. This aphonia passes away on going intothe house.The whole back is sensitive to pressure; the vertebrae are sensitive.The remedy has prolonged and inveterate constipation; prolonged urging to stool followed by asoft stool. The stool is difficult but soft. He wonders why he has to urge for asoft stool.In woman there are many troubles; menorrhagia lasting ten or fifteen days; the blood is clotted;the menses are too often, last too long, are irregular. The abdomen is full of colic; cramping painsextending to the broad ligaments and down the limbs; most distressing dysmenorrhoea from exposureto cold, riding in the wind or living in damp houses. With this there is a dry mouth and thirstlessness;she wakes at night with a dry mouth; it seems as if the tongue cleaved to the roof of the mouth.This remedy is especially suitable for lean women, those who have lost flesh. The breasts areflat. I remember a case of a woman thirty-five years old whose breasts which were once well roundedbecame perfectly flat Nux mos. restored the breasts.This is a little remedy, but when wanted nothing will take its place.NUX VOMICA [nux-v] [Kent’s]Everywhere in this remedy we observe the striking oversensitiveness of the patient; it is broughtout in all the symptoms. Irritable; oversensitive to noise, to light, to the least current of air, to hissurrounding; extremely touchy in regard to his food; many kind of food disturb, strong food disturb;disturb; he is aggravated by meat; craves stimulants, pungent, bitter, succulent things, something tobrace him up.Oversensitive to medicines. One reason why there are so many Nux patients is because peoplehave been overdrugged by the old school. When a patient comes from the old school and badprescribing, having had stimulants and tonics to brace him up, wine, and stimulants of all sorts, it issometimes impossible to get reliable symptoms, to get the patient settled down, until we give Nux as anantidote.It is useful in those overdrugged by tea, coffee, wine. Old coffee drinkers become sensitive,oversensitive to noise, their symptoms are flitting; they do not give their symptoms well. Such patientswill do well for a few days on Nux; some of their symptoms will drop out and they will settle down.The mental state is varied, but they all show oversensitiveness; irritable, touchy, sensitiveconditions. They are never contented, never satisfied; disturbed by their surroundings, and they becomeirritable, so that they want to tear things, to scold. Impulses are strongly marked at times. The womanhas impulses to destroy her husband or to throw her child into the fire; the impulse is intermingled withviolent temper, cannot be contradicted or opposed, if a chair is in the way he kicks it over, if, whileundressing, a part of his clothing should catch on a button he would pull it off because he is so mad atit. (Like . An uncontrollable state of irritability; it is a weakness and is accompanied byphysical weakness; a lack of balance. For example, a business man has been at his desk until he is tiredout, he receives many letters, he has a great many irons in the fire; he is troubled with a thousand littlethings; his mind is constantly hurried from one thing to another until he is tortured. It is not so muchthe heavy affairs but the little things. He is compelled to stimulate his memory to attend to all the