Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

details; he goes home and thinks about it; he lies awake at night; his mind is confused with the whirl ofbusiness and the affairs of the day crowd upon him; finally brain-fag comes on. When the details cometo him he gets angry and wants to get away, tears things up, scolds, goes home and takes it out of hisfamily and children. Sleeps by fits and starts; wakens at 3 A.M., and his business affairs crowd on himso that he cannot sleep again until late in the morning when he falls into a fatiguing sleep and wakensup tired and exhausted.He wants to sleep late in the morning.Melancholy, sadness, but all the time he feels as if he could fly to pieces, jerks things about,tears things up; want to force things his own way. Driven by impulses to commit acts that verge uponinsanity--the destruction of others. has a strong impulse to destroy himself: also, particularly by jumping from a height, but he avoids placing himself in such a position.He is oversensitive to the open air, to a draft of air; always chilly, always taking cold and itsettles in the nose and extends to the chest.Skin oversensitive to touch, to draft. Full of pains and aches. He sweats easily on the slightestprovocation. Brain- fag, fatigue, neuralgias; on the verge of insanity and this goes on to convulsions.Convulsions of single muscles and those of the whole body; muscular twitchings; weakness, trembling,and paralysis. This paralytic weakness and disordered state of the activity of the muscles and nerves areprominent.Another state running through Nux is that actions are turned in opposite directions. When thestomach is sick, it will empty its contents with no great effort ordinarily, but in Nux there is retchingand straining as if the action were going the wrong way, as if it would force the abdomen open; areversed action; retches, gags, and strains and after a prolonged effort he finally empties the stomach.The same condition is found in the bladder. He must strain to urinate. There is tenesmus, urging.The bladder is full and the urine dribbles away, yet when he strains it ceases to dribble. Inregard to the bowels, though the patient strains much, he passes but a scanty stool. In the diarrhea attimes when he sits on the commode in a perfectly passive way, there will be a little squirt of stool, andthen comes on tenesmus so that he cannot stop straining, and when he does strain there comes on thesensation of forcing back; the stool seems to go back; a kind of anti-peristalsis. In constipation the morehe strains the harder it is to pass a stool. In diarrhea and dysentery there is straining without relief, butas soon as he passes a little stool there is relief.In dysentery, has the constant urging: tenesmus with great desire tourinate. The reversed action of the various functions shows the spasmodic nature of this remedy.Pains shoot from the rectum up; burning.Neuralgias about the eyes, face, and head; neuralgic headaches; the pains stick, and tear; theycause weeping, fainting; they burn and sting. Pains in the head and face and in the extremities, thatsting and tear, but especially draw.Sensation of tension in the muscles. A drawing in the back like a pulling or tension in themuscles. The pain feels as if drawing, a spasm of the muscles; a drawing pain in the back; drawing painin the back of the neck, forcing the patient to let the head go back; drawing pain down the spin;lumbago. Backache worse as soon as she lies down (pregnancy) as if it would break( --as if broken, ) must get up and walk. Neuritis with great soreness of skin. Pains in the regionsof the kidneys and liver. Pains draw so that he cannot turn over in bed, and the only way he can getover is to lift himself up by his hands and then turn over and lie down. Drawing pains in the sacrumhips; drawing pains in the sacrum in connection with dysentery. Rending pains in the bowels and even. Such is the characteristic of all the abdominal pains. Drawing pains inthe extremities, causing spasms in the calves, feet, and toes. Cramps in the abdomen ; after pains in the form of cramps urge to stool; menstrual colic, with urging to stool; pains inthe stomach, after eating, urge to stool. After much straining no stool passes, but after going severaltimes a small stool passes with relief. It is scanty and with reversed peristaltic action.Oversensitive to stimulants. It is a routine remedy in men trying to sober up; even in deliriumtremens. Old debauchees, broken down with stimulants, sexual excesses and the worry and fret ofbusiness; they work half an hour and then go out and get a drink, and this goes on until finally theymust give up, go home and go to bed. He is on the verge of insanity, irritable, fatigued, sweats much, isaggravated from the air, sensitive to noise and light; broken down. He must have Nux, rest and nostimulants.In those drinking too much tea, coffee and stimulants, they stay awake day and night until theend must come; there is tension in all the nerves; he feels as if he must fly, as if he could no longer holdtogether; his muscles and hands tremble; there is jerking of the limbs on going to sleep and in sleep.