Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

Full of anxiety, despair, and hypochondriasis; "oversensitive to impressions"; all the senses arein this condition; "cannot bear reading or conversation; irritable, and wishes to be alone".Everybody displeases or does something to annoy him. Everybody that attempts to soothe onlyangers him. He dreads the business affairs of the day. Finally this state comes on--"he quarrels,reproaches, scolds, insults from jealousy, mingled with unchaste expressions; soon afterwards howlsand weeps aloud".Patient is broken down sexually because he is unusually endowed with sexual desires and heindulges until broken down; sexually exhausted, impotent. Mental erethism but relaxation onintromission. Driven to suicide.Nux is an old dyspeptic, lean, hungry, withered; bent forward; premature age; always selectinghis food and digesting almost none; aversion to meat, it makes him sick; craves pungent, bitter things,tonics. Weak stomach; after meals pain in the stomach, nausea, retching; stomach sinks in; withers andloses flesh.Tendency to take cold; gets coryza. Colds settle in the nose, throat, chest and ears. Takes coldfrom the least provocation; perspires easily and the least current of air causes headache with coryza. Ifhe is in a heated room and is disturbed in his equilibrium he gets a coryza. coryza is also worsein a warm room. Much stuffing up of the nose in the house at night; nose feels completely filled up,particularly out of doors, but fluent in doors; thin, watery discharge during the day.Sensitive to the least draft; sneezing caused by itching in the nose. This itching goes to thethroat and trachea. Cough; burning in the air passages; all the mucous membranes in a state ofirritation; nasal tone to voice; loss of voice; sore throat; tickling cough. Dry, teasing cough with greatsoreness of the chest, like , the head feels as if it would split. Coryza goes to the chest. Grippewith fever and bone pains; must pile on clothing; the only relief is by keeping unusually hot, yet awarm room aggravates the coryza before the fever comes on; but after the fever comes on he must haveheat; aggravated even from the movement of air under the bed clothes; lifting the covers aggravates thepains, cough, etc.Sharp fever and sweat, or a hot sweat like (but in a hot sweat wants thecovers off, while Nux cannot raise the covers). Chills and fever; heat and sweat intermingled. In chillsthe fingers and hands are cold, and purple; cold from head to foot; the chill begins in the extremities orback, and extends over the whole body and the patient must be covered up. Shortly there is a reactionand heat and sweat come on, but he must be covered through all the stages.Thirst is not a marked feature; sometimes it is found in the heat.Tendency to jaundice in all the febrile states. Sclerotics become yellow. Skin becomes veryyellow. Old intermittents with yellow skin. Runs close to in abdominal complaints withjaundice.Nux suffers from a disordered stomach. A stasis of the portal system is present, portalcongestion; stasis in the haemorrhoidal veins with haemorrhoids; constipation; dysentery; paralysis ofthe rectum. Stomach symptoms like worse in the morning; foul mouth in the morning also like Bursting sensation in the head as if a stone crushed the vertex after disordered stomach.Full of paralytic conditions. The bowels are in a state of excitement but this passes away and thetime comes when the feces remain in the rectum with no warning. This extends to the bladder, so that itbecomes full of urine which cannot be voided; dribbling of urine in old men with large prostate, or ingonorrhea. Paralysis of the extremities; of the face; one arm, one hand; single muscles, facial paralysisnot uncommonly cured by Nux. The sticking pains in paralysis are important.At times false plethora, with flushed face; excitement of face; blushing; great weakness andexhaustion, with irritability and the mental condition. When under no exertion with nothing to think of,patient appears to be well, but the thought of doing something exhausts him in a moment.Headache from sweating; in wine drinkers; in those staying out at night; from night watching.The greatest relief in headaches is from perfect quiet. Headaches as if a stone pressed upon the vertex.Most symptoms better from heat, but the head is worse from heat. Acne from eating cheese.It has most violent convulsions with opisthotonos; convulsions of all the muscles of the body,with purple face and loss of breath from the movements; conscious or semi-conscious during the wholespasm, aware of the sufferings and contortions which are horrible; worse from the slightest draft of air;tickling of the feet, the merest touch of the throat causes gagging.It is given as a routine remedy for loss of appetite. It will increase the appetite but do dangerouswork to the patient."Aversion to meat, usual food and drink, and customary tobacco and coffee, to water, ale, foodjust eaten".