Nux Vomica Homeopathic Materia Medica

Guiding symptoms of Materia Medica

Nux vomica

Common name: Poison nut

Founder: Hahnemann 

Family: Loganiaceae

Introduction: 

• Nux vomica is the male counterpart of pulsatilla and Ignatia
• It is the most frequently look before medicine in the box of every homoeopath
• The first remedy indicated after much dosing with allopathic drugs
• The best remedy with which to commence treatment of cases
• That has been drugged by various schools. Hahnemann's greatest polycrest remedy
• Applicable to both acute and chronic case
• The remedy for any of the conditions incidental to and arising from the so-called modern civilized life
• A suitable remedy for people of every age sex and temperament
• The remedy which is capable of working wonders for people of all walks of life from the lowest to the highest standard in both civilized and uncivilized classes
• It is a unique gift from the vegetable kingdom
• The tree is grown as a wild plant found in the equatorial region
• This crude from there may not be anything more bitter than its seed
• It is also very poisonous
• After undergoing the process of potentisation bitterness and the poisonous effect of the Seetha transformed into a marvellous curative power
• Affecting each and every organ and system
• The historic invention of Hahnemann of this Wild seed millions of suffering Perl could not have been redeemed of there various ailments
• Just as the nux vomica seed is bitter most poisonous and wild so also are the nux vomica patients the drug itself difficult to study

Clinical: 

• Anger
• Alcoholism
• Asthma 
• Bilious attack
• Bronchial trouble
• Bladder affection
• Constipation
• Colic
• Convulsion
• Cough
• Croup 
• Diarrhoea 
• Delirium
• Dysentery
• Dyspepsia
• Fever
• Gout
• Gall stone
• Gastrointestinal disorder
• Headache
• Heart attraction
• Haemorrhoids 
• Hernia 
• Liver affection
• Locomotor ataxia
• Labour
• Lumbago
• Menstrual disorder
• Pregnancy disorders
• Paralysis
• Sleep
• Tenesmus
• Throat and lung infection
• Urinary disorder
• Vertigo

Sphere of action: 

• Every organ is susceptible to the action of Nux vomica
• It predominant acts on the spinal cord, motor and sensory centres, gastrointestinal tract, brain, respiratory organ, cardiovascular system, genitourinary organ

Constitution: 

• Nux vomica is ideally suited to the thin spare subject with dark hair and a dark complexion. 
• Who leads a sedentary life
• Nervous 
• Extremely susceptible to external impression
• Habituated to over study. Zealous and hypochondriac
• People of all walks of life from the highest to the lower standard richest to poorest civilized or uncivilized

Temperament: Bilious, Sanguine, Irritable and impatient temperament

Relation with heat and cold: Very chilly patient

Miasm: Psora

Mind: 

• Very irritable
• Sensitive to all impression
• Careful
• Fastidious
• Jealous 
• Despondent and quarrelsome 
• Spiteful and malicious
• Ugly
• Cannot bear order, light and noise 
• Does not want to touch
• Melancholic
• Disposed to anger
• Egoism prevails supreme in him
• Anxiety and irritability with inclination to commit suicide prevail through the patient is afraid to die
• Want to be alone
• Easily become angry at the very silly matters
• Trifling ailments are unbearable every harmless word offends
• Time passes to slowly
• Disposed to the reproach other
• ill-humoured
• Find fault with everybody and scold them
• Mental derangement in drunkards. Low muttering delirium

Head: 

• Headache in the occiput all over the eyes with vertigo
• Gastric headache
• Congestive headache
• The heaviness of head especially in the morning
• The patient feels the head would burst
• Pressure in the head
• The scalp is very sensitive to touch
• Vertigo with momentary loss of consciousness
• Oversensitiveness
• Brain feels as if turning in a circle
• Frontal headache
• Pressing pain in the vertex as if the nail was one driving in
• Vertigo in the morning and after dinner
• Desire to press the head against something 
• Headache associated with haemorrhoids
• Headache in the sunshine
• Sunstroke

Eye: 

• Smarting dry sensation in the inner canthi
• Photophobia worse in the morning
• Optic nerve atrophy from the habitual use of intoxicants paresis of ocular muscles
• Worse by tobacco and stimulants
• Intra orbital neuralgia with watering of the eye
• Orbital twitching radiating towards the occiput
• Optic neuritis.

Ears: 

• Auditory canal dry and sensitive
• Itching in ear throughout the eustachian tube
• Hyperesthesia of the auditory nerve
• Otalgia was in bed
• Loud sound is painful and angers him

Nose: 

• Orders tend to produce fainting
• Coryza fluent at daytime
• Stuffed up especially at night
• Stuffy colds
• Snuffles after exposure to a dry cold atmosphere
• Worse in a warm room
• Stuffed up at night and outdoors
• Epistaxis in the morning
• Acrid discharge but with a stuffed
• Stuffed up feeling

Mouth: 

• Foetid ulceration in the mouth
• Jaw contracted
• Foetid and Sour taste in mouth in the morning
• Anterior half of the tongue clean and the posterior coated white, furred, cracked on edges
• Sometimes the tongue is yellow, thick and ulcerated and cracked
• Toothache worse from cold and better from the warmth
• Small aphthous ulcers with bloody saliva also called stomatitis
• Gums white and bleeding

Throat:

• Stitching pain in the throat radiating to ears on swallowing
• Ulceration extends to throat from mouth
• Tingling sensation in the uvula
• Rough, scrap feeling in throat
• Tickling after waking up in the morning
• A sensation of tightness and tension 
• Pharynx constricted
• Uvula swollen
• Stitches extend to the ear

Stomach: 

• Stomach troubles are caused by coffee, tobacco, alcohol, spice, seasonal food, irregular diet, overeating, aromatic patent, medicines, purgatives 
• A sensation of weight and pain in the stomach
• Flatulence
• Nausea and vomiting
• Pyrosis 
• Tightness
• Sour bitter eructation
• Constant nausea after eating especially in the morning
• It feels that if I could only vomit I would be so much better 
• Very hungry yet there is an aversion to food
• Gastritis
• Gastralgia and dyspepsia
• The stomach is very sensitive to touch and pressure
• Intolerance of tight bandage around the waist
• Abdomen is bloated
• Pressure an hour or two after eating as from a stone
• Cannot use the mind for 2 to 3 hours after food
• Vomiting of bile
• Vomiting in pregnancy
• Constrictive cramp-like pain in the stomach
• Flatulent
• Distension with spasmodic colic
• Which is aggravated by uncovering
• Sour taste and nausea in the morning after eating
• Nausea and vomiting with much retching
• Ravenous hunger especially about a day before an attack of dyspepsia. 
• Desire for stimulants
• Loves fats and tolerate them well
• Dyspepsia from drinking strong coffee
• Difficult belching of gas
• Wants to vomit but cannot

Liver: 

• Enlarged liver in drunkards 
• Stitching pain and soreness in liver
• Shortness of breath caused by upward pressure of the gas with an ineffectual urge for stool and urine
• Stabbing pain from a hepatic abscess
• Gallstone with Jaundice

Abdomen: 

• Flatulence
• Distension with spasmodic colic
• Colic from uncovering
• Bruised sore of abdominal walls
• Weakness in the region of abdominal ring
• Strangulated hernia
• Forcing in of lower abdomen towards the genitals
• Umbilical hernia in the infants

Rectum: 

• Great tenesmus and mucus with stool
• Frequently ineffectual urging with griping pain and soft stool
• Passes small quantity of stool with mucus and blood at a time 
• Heat sensation of not finished
• Constipation with ineffectual desire for stool and urine
• Constrictive sensation in rectum and anus
• Protruding by blind piles after stool
• There are temporary relief and satisfaction only again to renew the urge suddenly. 
• Sensation as if more stool remains to be evacuated 
• Obstinate constipation and diarrhoea alternate in a person who has taken purgatives during all though there previous years
• Diarrhoea alternate with constipation in a person
• Frequent desire for stool
• The stool is watery and offensive
• Urge for stool in the morning after rising or after mental exertion
• Feeling like a part remained unexpelled
• Absence of all Desire for defecation is a contraindication
• Urge for a stool if felt throughout the abdomen
• Itching, blind haemorrhoids
• Dysentery
• Diarrhoea with Jaundice
• Constant uneasiness in the rectum

Urinary organ: 

• Ineffectual urging for urination
• Micturation is very painful
• The pain extended to genital organs and leg
• Urine passes in drops with burning, tearing pain in urethra
• Urine may be mixed with blood due to renal stone
• Irritable bladder
• From spasmodic sphincter frequent calls little and often hematuria
• Renal colic spending two genitals with dribbling urine while micturation
• Itching in the urethra pain in the neck of the bladder

Male: 

• Emission from high leaving
• Easily excited. Desire
• Constrictive pain in the testicles 
• Bad effect of sexual excesses
• Orchitis
• Hydrocele
• Spermatorrhoea with dreams
• Backache
• Burning in the spine
• Weakness and irritability

Female: 

• Menses too early, long-lasting keeping on for several days
• Irregular menses
• Dark and offensive blood
• Prolapsus uteri
• Menses never in time
• Stopping and starting again menses in two weeks
• Dysmenorrhea with pain in the sacrum and constant urging to stool
• Violent spasmodic labour pain-causing sudden urge to pass stool and urine
• The tendency to faint after every labour pain
• Labour pain extends to the rectum
• Metrorrhagia with sensation as if the bowels wanted to move

Respiratory: 

• Spasmodic constriction
• Asthama with fullness in the stomach in the morning or after eating
• Cough with Shallow respiration
• Oppressed breathing
• Violent cough
• Cough with sensation as if something had been torn loose in the chest
• Dry hacking cough at times with hemoptysis
• Cough brings a bursting headache and bruised pain in the epigastric region

Back: 

• Backache in the lumbar region
• Sitting is very painful
• Back is very sensitive to touch
• Numbness of the back as if paralysed
• Backache from sitting on a cold stone, sexual excess and from masturbation
• Must sit up and turn the body in bed before he can look around
• Backache worse 3 to 4 A.M
• Cervical branchial neuralgia
• Burning in the spine.
• Bruised pain below the scapula

Extremities: 

• Partial paralysis
• From overexertion or getting shocked arms and hands
• Go to sleep paresis of arms with shocks
• Legs numb feel
• Paralysed cramp in calves and soles
• A sensation of sudden loss in power of arms and legs in the morning
• Crackling in the knee joint during motion
• Drags his feet when walking also called locomotor ataxia

Sleep:

• Drowsy after meals and in every evening
• Cannot sleep after 3 a.m. till towards the morning
• Wake up feeling wretched better after a short sleep 
• Dreams full of bustle and hurry

Fever: 

• During fever, the patient must be covered from head to foot in every stage chill, heat and sweat
• Intermittent fever
• Cold stage predominates
• Very chilly on list movement or being uncovered
• Chill not relieved by external heat during chill stage
• There is excessive Rigor and shuddering
• Excessive Rigor with blueness of fingernails
• Aching in Limbs and back and gastric symptoms
• Chilly must be covered in every stage of fever
• The dry heat of the body
• The whole body burns hot with red and hot face until the patient cannot move or uncover without being chilly
• Perspiration sour only one side of the body

Skin: 

• Urticaria with gastric derangement
• Acne
• Skin red and blotchy body
• Burning hot especially the face yet cannot move or uncover without filling Chilly

General modalities: 

Aggravation:

• Morning
• Waking at 4 AM
• By mental exertion
• Touch
• Noise
• Light
• Dry weather
• Cold
• After eating
• Overeating
• Anger
• Spices
• Narcotics 
• Stimulants

Amelioration: 

• In the evening
• Lying down
• In damp wet weather
• Rest
• Hard strong pressure

Relationship: 

• Complementary to Sulphur in all disease, Sepia
• Inimical to Zincum metallicum must not be used before or after
• Follows well after Arsenic album, Ipecac, phosphorus Sulphur, Sepia is followed by Bryonia Alba, Pulsatilla Sulphur
• Compare with Kali carb, Lycopodium, Graphites
• Antidotes with Coffea, Ignacia, Cocculus

Dose: 

• First to 13th potency
• Higher potency note Nux vomica is said to act best when giving in the evening