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Nux moschata

Nutmeg

12 health issues Boericke 1927

Main symptoms

  • Cold extremities, extreme dryness of mucous membranes and skin.
  • Strange feeling, with irresistible drowsiness.
  • Indicanuria.
  • General inclination to become unconscious during acute attacks.
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  • Lypothymia.
  • Staggers on trying to walk.

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Mind & mood

  • Changeable; laughing and crying.
  • Confused, impaired memory.
  • Bewildered sense, as in a dream.
  • Thinks she has two heads.

What makes it better or worse

Worse

Cold moist windCold foodCold washingLying on painful sideMotionJar

Better

WarmthDry weather

Symptoms by body part

Head

Dizziness when walking in open air; aches from eating a little too much. Feeling of expansion, with sleepiness. Pulsating in head. Cracking sensation in head. Sensitive to slightest touch in a draught of air. Bursting headache; better hard pressure.

Eyes

Objects look larger, very distant, or vanish. Motes before eyes. Mydriasis.

Nose

Oversensitive to smell; nosebleed, dark blood; dry, stopped up.

Mouth

Very dry. Tongue adheres to roof of mouth; but no desire for water. Saliva like cotton. Toothache in pregnancy. Tongue numb, paralyzed. Dryness of throat.

Stomach

Excessively bloated. Flatulent indigestion. Hiccough, and craving for highly-seasoned food. Retrocession of gout to stomach.

Abdomen

Paralytic weakness of intestines. Enormously distended. Stool is soft, and yet is unable to expel it, even with long straining. Faintness during or after stool.

Female

Uterine haemorrhage. Menses too long, dark, thick. White vaginal discharge muddy and bloody. Suppression, with persistent fainting attacks and sleepiness. Variableness of menstruation irregularity of time and quantity.

Respiratory

Loss of voice from walking against the wind. Cough when getting warm in bed.

Heart

Trembling, fluttering. Sensation as if something grasped heart. Palpitation; pulse intermits.

Extremities

Pain in right hip to knee; worse, motion, especially going upstairs. Joint and muscle pain from getting feet wet, from exposure to draughts. Joint and muscle pain relieved by dry, warm clothes. Fatigue on slight exertion.

Sleep

Great drowsiness. (Indol.) Complaints cause sleepiness. Coma.

Fever

Chill begins in left hand. (Carbo.) feeling cold and heat without thirst; want of perspiration. Dry skin and of inner parts, also of eyes, nose, lips, mouth, tongue, throat, etc.

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