NUX VOMICA.
Strychnos nux vomica, Linn.
Natural order
, Loganiaceæ.
Common names
, Poison-nut; Kuchila
(Bengal); (G.), Kræhenaugen; (Fr.), Noix vomique; (also known as false
angustura bark).
Preparation
, Tincture or trituration of
the seed.
Authorities.
(Nos. 1 to 18,
from Hahnemann, R. A. M. L., 1, fourth ed.). 1,
Hahnemann; 2, Flaeming; 3, Fried. Hahnemann; 4,
Stapf; 5, Wahle; 6, Bergius, Mat. Med. (“from 10-grain
doses in a woman suffering from dysentery,” -Hughes); 7, Consbruch, Hufel. Journ., IV, p. 443
(“from 2 drachms of powder in a man,” -Hughes); 8, Hartmann, Diss. Spicileg. ad nucis vom.
usum. Trag. ad Viadr., 1785, p. 20 (“not accessible,”
-Hughes); 9, Hoffmann, Med. rat.
Lyst., II, p. 283 (“from 15 grains in a girl of ten,”
-Hughes); 10, Hufel. Journ., d. p.
Arz., I, p. 125 (“from 9 grains, in two doses, given to a woman in
dysentery,” -Hughes); 11,
Jungnans, Diss. de nuce vomica, Hal., 1770, p. 13 (“general
statement of effect of N. v. on patients,” -Hughes); 12, Matthiolus, Comment. in Diosc. libr., IV,
Cap. 23 (“no such observation found in work mentioned, but other
authors mention his case as that of an old woman killed by a small
quantity,” -Hughes); 13,
Rademacher, in Hufel. Journ., IV, p. 573 (“from 8 grains given to a
man in dysentery,” -Hughes); 14,
Seutter, Diss. de nuce vom., L. B., 1691 (“from a mixture of N. v.
and Gentian, given to a girl in fever,” -Hughes); 15, Strandberg, in Kiernander’s Med. lac., p.
269 (“not accessible,” -Hughes); 16,
Thomas a Theussink, Waarnemingen, XXXIII (“not accessible,”
-Hughes); 17, Veckoskrift för
Läkase, II, p. 169 (“not accessible,” -Hughes); 18, J. P. Wiel, obs. de usu interne nucis
vom. et vitr. alb., Viteb., 1771 (” not accessible,” -Hughes);
19, Kind, Hufel. Journ., 1827 (from
Hartlaub and Trinks, Reine Arznm., 3), effects of an indefinite quantity
in a young girl who took it with suicidal intent; 20, Basedow, Hufel. Journ., 1828 (from H. and
T.), effects of a spoonful of the powdered nut in a girl aged twenty; 21, Kopp, Denkwordigkeiten, I, 121, effects
observed in a woman who had suffered for eleven years with vertigo (from
H. and T.); 22, Gerson and Julius,
Mag. de ausl. Lit. (from H. and T.), case of poisoning of a man aged
fifty-six; 23, Robinson, Br. J. of
Hom., 25, 325, effects of the 30th dil., three doses, at intervals of
half an hour, in an old “male” (man?); 24, same, effects of 30th dil., every
morning, in a young “female” (woman?); 25, same, effects of the 1000th dil., one
dose, in an old “male;” 26,
same, effects of 30th dil., night and morning, in a middle-aged
“female;” 27, same,
similar to last; 28, same, similar
doses in a “male;” 29,
same, similar to last; 30, same, one
dose of 30th, in a “male;” 31,
same, 30th dil., night and morning, in a “female;” 32, Cockburn, Month. Hom. Rev., 2, p. 49,
effects of two pills, each containing 1 1/2 grain of N. v., in a man
suffering from a slight nervous affection, “cramps began ten
minutes after second pill,” that was taken several hours after the
first one; 33, Berridge, N. Am. J.
of Hom., N. S., Vol. III, p. 500, effects of four doses of the 94m
(Fincke); 34, Berridge, N. E. Med.
Gaz., 9, p. 401, effects of the DM dil. (Bœricke), taken three times a
day, for three days, for a cough (which it removed); 35, same, effects of the 3d dil., “only
when taken in the morning;” 36,
same, N. Am. J. of Hom., N. S., 4, p. 192, effects of the MM dil.
(Bœricke), taken in the evening; 37,
same, effects of 200th. dil. (Lehrmann), in a man; 38, same, Vol. V, p. 576, proving by Dr.
Wilson, with one globule of 200th dil. (Lehrmann), taken in the evening;
39, same, effects of 3d dil., taken
three times, at intervals of twelve hours, in a man; 40, same, effects of one globule of 200th
dil. (Lehrmann), taken at 10.30 P.M.; 41,
same, effect of 2m dil. (Jenichen), repeated doses, in self; 42, same, effect of 12th dil. in a man; 43, Ollier, Lond. Med. Repos., 1823, p. 448,
a woman took nearly 1/2 ounce of the powder; 44,
Tacheron, Lond. Med. Repos., 1823, p. 456, a woman took a drachm, in
some wine; 45, Levie, Schmidt
Jahrb., 30, 296, (1830), a man took part of a powdered nut; 46, Baynham, Lond. Med. Gaz., 1829, p. 445, a
young woman took 1/2 ounce of the powdered nuts; 47, Bouillaud, Frank’s Mag., 4, 649, a man,
aged forty-five, took a considerable amount of the powdered nuts on his
bread and butter; 48, Adelmann,
Hygeia, 13, 3, 67, 1840, effects of a powdered nut in a pregnant girl,
taken to cause abortion; 49,
Leonhardt, Med. Zeit. yet Preuss., 1842, Frank’s Mag., 1, 109, a woman
suffering from various abdominal troubles, took a teaspoonful of a
solution of 2 drachms of the alcoholic extract in 2 drachms of water; 50, Wardleworth, Prov. Med. Journ., 1844, p.
447, a woman, aged twenty-six, took an indefinite quantity; 51, Iliff, Lancet, 1849, p. 630, a woman,
aged twenty-three, took about 1/4 of an ounce; 52,
Lembke, N. Zeit. f. H. Kl., 13, 153 (1850), a man took a spoonful of the
tincture, repeated after eight hours; 53,
Hassall, Lancet, 1853, p. 385, a man, aged twenty, took about 1 1/2
drachm of the powdered nut; 54,
Garre, Med. Times and Gaz., N. S., 7, p. 199 (1853), effect of
“fifteen pills of the extract of N. v.;” 55, Pharm. Journ., 1853-4, p. 482, effects of
about 1/4 of an ounce in a woman; 56,
Parker, Lancet, 1856, a girl, aged eighteen, took about 1/2 ounce; 57, Davies, Med. Times and Gaz., 1856, p.
148, a girl, aged sixteen, took about 1/2 an ounce of N. v.; 58, Horn’s Archiv, 1816, effects of 1 1/2
drachm of powdered Nux in a girl aged eighteen; 59,
O’Reilly, Dubl. Med. Press, 1858, poisoning of a man by 6 grains of N.
v.; 60, Ley, Med. Times and Gaz.,
1858, a man (partly paralyzed and suffering from constipation and
vertigo), took 5 grains of the extract, his wife took the same; 61, Harris, a man aged twenty-eight, took 6
or 8 grains, Am. Med. Times, 1860; 62,
Danvin, Ann. d’Hyg., Jan. 1861 (Br. and For. Med.-Chir. Rev., 1861), a
girl, aged seven, took 5 centigrams; 63,
Chevers, a girl, aged eleven, took 3 grains, but spit some out, Br. and
For. Med.-Chir. Rev. Jan. 1867; 64,
Stevenson, Guy’s Hosp. Rep., 1869, p. 264, effects of about 8 grains of
extract in a boy aged twelve; 65,
Baker, Trans. Med. and Phys. Soc. of Calcutta, 1825 (from Husemann),
effects of a nut taken by a man on account of commencing leprosy; 66, Horn’s Archiv, 1810, Vol. XX, effects of
50 to 60 drops of tincture in three women suffering from pains in the
limbs; 67, same, effects of a
solution of the extract injected into the veins of an hysterical girl; 68, Chauffard, Recueil period, 1824, effects
of 4 grains in a woman of fifty-five (from Husemann); 69, Hecker’s Annals, 7, 193, from Sobernheim
and Simon, Toxicologie, effects of 1/2 an ounce of powdered Nux in a
young man.
The following effects of “Angusturia
spuria” bark are here included. The bark was obtained
from Strychnos Nux vomica, L. 70,
Emmert, Hufeland’s Journ., Jan. 1815, effects of three spoonfuls of a
decoction of 6 drachms in 6 ounces of water, in a boy five years old
(from Husemann); 71, Marc, Journ. de
Pharm., 2, 507, 1816, effects of an infusion for tertian fever
(Husemann); 72, Nombur, Journ. de Méd.,
13, p. 133, 1807, effects when taken for intermittent fever (Husemann); 73, Regnault, Journ. Univers. de Sc. Méd.,
1818, vol. ix, effects of four doses taken for an intermittent neuralgia
(Husemann); 74, Wurzner, Hahnemann’s
R. A. M. L., 6, p. 30, effect of 10 or 12 grains of the extract on four
persons.
MIND.
►
Emotional. ► (Anxious,
delirious fantasies, in the evening in bed, in the ninth hour, as if
some one would get into his bed, and there was no room in it; or as if
some one had sold his bed, etc.), [1].
► Slight delirium, a kind of coma
vigil, [68]. ►
Rushed into the room, exclaiming that her mother had been murdered
(after one hour and a half), [57].
► He is hasty; looked angrily at any
one who asked him a question without answering, as though he was obliged
to restrain himself to avoid being insulting; he was in such an
irritable and unrestrained mood that it seemed as though he would like
to strike any one in the face who spoke a work to him, [1]. ►
(Suicide; she throws herself down from a height), [1]. ► The
usual pain seems intolerable; she would rather take her life, [1]. ►
*Very much inclined to violently reproach others for their faults,
[1]. ►
*He quarrels, reproaches, scolds, insults from jealousy, mingled with
unchaste expressions, soon afterwards howls and weeps aloud, [1]. ►►
*Quarrelsome, even to violence, [1]. [10.] ► Pains not endured without loud cries and
complaints, mingled with reproaches and quarrelling, [1]. ► He
knits his brows and folds his arms, [1].
► He obstinately resists what is
desired by others (after one hour), [1].
► He is fearful and frightened, and
starts easily; therewith the head seems intoxicated and is dizzy, [1]. ►
An intoxication mounting to the head, [1].
► Intoxication (after half an hour), [17]. ►
Intoxication, [1]. ► *She cannot tolerate the slightest contradiction
or the most gentle persuasions to do differently, which make her beside
herself, [1]. ►► *Oversensitive to impressions upon the
senses; he cannot tolerate strong odors or bright light, [1]. ►►
*He cannot tolerate a noise or talking; music and singing affect him,
[1]. [20.]
► *She cannot endure the slightest
ailment, [1]. ► Great aversion to fluids, which were
swallowed with great difficulty and often not at all, [49]. ► *Taciturn,
as if averse to everything, [1].
► She moans and groans piteously
without any assignable cause, [1].
► She weeps aloud and sobs (after
three hours), [1]. ► Extremely solicitous and inconsolable;
breaks out into loud weeping, with complaints and reproaches that at
times change to constant groaning, with very red, hot cheeks, without
thirst, [1]. ►
He weeps if the least thing is done contrary to his wishes, [1]. ►
She wept occasionally, [44]. ► Extremely tender, gentle mood; music
affects him to tears, [1]. ► (While sad she is unable to weep), [1]. [30.]
► Silent grief and sadness, [1]. ►
Sadness, [1]. ► Despondent and fretful, [1]. ►
Apprehension, oppression, and a feeling of intoxication, in the evening,
while walking, [1]. ► Uneasiness, with very easily dilated
pupils (after fifty-six hours), [1].
► *Intolerable anxiety for an hour,
[7]. ►
*Extraordinary anxiety, [1].
► Extreme anxiety, with violent
palpitation, that impels him to suicide, after midnight (after five
hours), [1]. ►
Extreme anxiety, [9]. [An
immediate precursor of death. -Hughes.] ►
Great anxiety; he had to rise from any place and wished rather to die, [1]. [40.]
► Great anxiety, [15]. ►
Anxiety; an anxious solicitude, as though something serious were
dreaded, in the morning and afternoon (during the fifth hour), [1]. ►
Anxiety, with desire to commit suicide, [1].
► Anxiety and apprehension, as if he
had committed a crime, [1]. ► Anxiety; he could not remain quietly in
any place, [3]. ► Anxiety, caused by a suspicious and
apprehensive condition of mind, especially during the afternoon hours, [1]. ►
Anxiety, with orgasm of blood and ill-humor, in the morning on waking;
all of these disappearing on rising, [1].
► Anxiety, that causes perspiration,
at least on the forehead, [1]. ► Anxiety, causing only internal heat,
followed by perspiration on the forehead (after a few hours), [1]. ►
Anxious solicitude and irresolution, [1].
[50.] ►
Anxiety; in sleep he threw off the covering, [2]. ►
Anxiety, in the evening, after lying down, followed by sweat after
midnight, [3]. ► Dreads death, [1]. ► She
believes that she is near death, [1].
► She was in great alarm, kept fast
hold on her husband and refused to let him go, [43]. ► Easily
startled, [21]. ► She is peevish and lachrymose, [1]. ►
She is peevish, thoughtful, takes everything ill-naturedly, and easily
quarrels and scolds (after two, and three hours), [1]. ► *Scornful,
peevish, inclined to be angry (after one hour), [1]. ►►
*She is very much inclined to quarrelsome vexation, [1]. [60.]
► Everything miscarries with him; it
seems to go contrary (after six hours), [1].
►► *Ill-humored, and
very sad after eating, [1]. ► Hypochondriac mood after dinner, and
still more after supper, [1]. ► *Hypochondriac, sullen mood, [1]. ►►
*Very hypochondriac, and affected by the slightest thing, after eating,
[1]. ►
*Ennui; the time seems intolerably long, during the first
hours, [1]. ►
She seeks rest and quiet, [1]. ► Laughing and weeping alternately in quick
succession, [20]. ► Irresolution; constant fickleness in his
plans, [1]. ►
Dawdles and is irresolute, [1]. ► Intellectual. [70.] ► He
is scarcely knows himself on account of excessive flow of ideas, in the
morning after rising (after ten hours), [1].
► She wishes to accomplish much, but
thinks it will not succeed, [1]. ► The intellectual faculties apparently
remained perfect to the last, [56].
►► *Dread of that kind of literary
work at which one must think and employ the ideas, whether to be
elaborated by writing or delivered orally, in the morning;
but he is not averse to reading or committing to memory (after sixteen
hours), [1]. ► *Inability for mental work; the blood
mounts to the head till towards evening, [1].
► The intellectual faculties appeared
a little troubled, [44]. ► *Unable to think correctly, [1]. ►
He thinks that everything miscarries with him, [1]. ► He is
especially hindered in scientific experiments; he does not himself know
why, [1]. ►
Indolent at every undertaking in business; she soon becomes weary, [1]. [80.]
► *He has no patience for work,
[2]. ►
No desire for work, [1]. ► He is completely averse to work, though
not to moving about (after two hours), [1].
► He easily makes mistakes while
talking and writing, omits syllables and even whole words (after six and
twelve hours), [1]. ► Frequently makes mistakes while talking,
has great trouble to find the words, and uses unsuitable expressions; he
makes mistakes in weights and measures, [2].
► Taciturn; slow flow of ideas, [1]. ►
She remembers scarcely anything from the time of her fall to being
brought home, [51]. ► He could with difficulty collect his
ideas, [1]. ►
Clear consciousness of his existence; fine, strong, correct feeling of
right and wrong, [1]. ► Loss of consciousness, [48]. [90.] ► Stupefaction, [58].
HEAD.
►
Confusion and Vertigo. ►
*Confusion of the head after dinner, that returns after twenty-four
hours (after twenty-four, and seventy-two hours), [1]. ►
Confusion of the head, as after a night’s carousal, [1]. ►►
*Intoxicated confusion in the head, [1]. ► *Paroxysms
of vertigo, as if the brain were turning in a circle, with momentary
loss of consciousness, [1].
► Vertigo, with obscuration of
vision, while eating, as when one goes suddenly from the cold air into a
warm room, [1]. ► While lying on the back it was impossible
to raise the head on account of vertigo and obscuration of vision (after
twenty-four hours), [1]. ► Vertigo, with obscuration of vision, [1]. ►
Vertigo, while walking after eating, disappearing on standing still
(after one hour), [1]. ► Vertigo, as if one neither heard nor saw,
with the sneezing, coughing, or on rising after stooping low down, [1]. [100.] ►
Vertigo as if the bed were whirling around with her, two evenings in
succession, after lying down, [1].
► Vertigo, like a whirling, during
eructations, [1]. ►► *Vertigo after dinner (lasting
an hour and a half), [1]. ► Faintlike vertigo (immediately), [1]. ►
*Vertigo, as if he would fall to one side (after sixty-eight
hours), [1]. ►
Whirling vertigo, while eating, [1].
► Vertigo, [6], [10], [18]. ►
Drawing sensation, with vertigo here and there, in the brain (after six
hours), [1]. ► Extreme giddiness, obliging him to
discontinue his work (after four to five days), [26]. ► While
out on an errand was suddenly seized with giddiness, [51]. [110.] ► Giddiness, a
kind of staggering feel (after several days), [21]. ►
Transient giddiness, repeated several times (second day), [38]. ► Giddiness,
with pains shooting through the head,
and going off in an instant (after
several days), [27]. ► *Dizzy reeling while walking, as if one would
fall to the side or backward, [1].
► Head in General. ► Fulness in head; partial headache;
could not study; buzzing in head, disappearing in course of evening
(second day), [39]. ► Congestion of the brain, with vertigo,
roaring in the ears, and blackness before the eyes, [71]. ►
Reeling sensation in the brain, [1].
►► *Intoxicated dizzy heaviness of
the head, in the morning, [1].
► Burning in the brain, beneath the
frontal bone, [1]. ►► *Heaviness of the head, in the morning
(after four days), [1]. [120.] ►
Excessive heaviness of the head, on stooping, [5]. ► *A stupid
feeling in the head if he holds it erect; if he bends it down a
sensation in the forehead as if something heavy fell into it,
[1]. ►
A stupid feeling in the head, in the open air and in the sunlight, [1]. ►
*Stupefaction in the brain, [10].
► It seems as though there were an
obscuration in the back part of the head, [1].
►► *Dulness of the head,
[58]. ►
Head wonderfully dull; on moving it blood rushes into it, with
sluggishness of the rest of the body, [1].
► Dull aching in medulla oblongata
(second day), [38]. ► *Headache in the middle of the brain,
on waking in the morning; felt even before
opening the eyes (after twelve hours), [1]. ►
*Intolerable (burrowing?) headache
commencing in the morning while lying in bed, disappearing after rising
(after a few hours), [1]. [130.] ►
*Headache commencing a few hours before dinner; worse after eating; followed
by violent stitches in the left temple, with nausea and very sour vomiting; the symptoms disappear in the evening, after lying, down,
[1]. ►
*(Headache in the morning, a constant picking (dull sticking throbbing);
worse on stooping, when it seems as though a piece of the forehead would
fall out), [1]. ► Tensive headache, at night, [1]. ►
*Tearing-drawing headache, [1].
► Tearing headache in the head,
extending to the root of the nose and upper jaw, aggravated by walking, [1]. ►
*Tearing headache after eating, with a feeling of heat in the cheeks and
a chilly sensation over the body, at least in the hands, [1]. ►
Pressive headache (after five minutes), [5].
► Pressive pain in the middle of the
brain, on closing the eyes, like that which occurs after vomiting, [1]. ►
*Pinching headache, [1].
► *Drawing-jerking headache, in the
morning, [1]. [140.] ►
*Drawing-tearing and burning pain in the head, in the morning
(after sixty hours), [1]. ► Drawing pains in the head (after six
hours), [1]. ►► *Headache composed of heaviness and
pressure, after dinner, especially on moving the eyes (after
sixteen hours), [1]. ► *Headache, like a heaviness, in the brain, in
the morning, [1]. ► *Headache, on stooping, as if something heavy
fell forward in it, [1].
► *Headache, after the slightest thought,
while lying down, as if the brain would be pressed asunder, [1]. ►
Headache; while lying in bed, in the morning, on the left side, a pain
in the right hemisphere of the brain, as if torn to pieces; it
disappears on lying on the right painful side (after fifty-two hours), [1]. ►
Headache, a pressure in the occiput, outward from both sides, as if the
posterior portion of the skull were forced asunder, with heat in the
brain; relieved for a moment by pressure of the hands; lasting twenty
hours (after eleven hours), [2]. ► Headache externally; pain in a raw wind,
as if the head were sore externally, though the spot is not painful to
external touch (after six hours), [1].
► *Headache in the morning, in bed, as if
over the surface of the brain, as if the skull would burst
(after ten hours), [1]. [150.] ►►
*Headache, in the morning, in bed, as if the head had been beaten with
an axe, disappearing after rising,
[1]. ►►
*Headache, in the morning, as if he had not slept at night, [1]. ►
*Headache, shortly before dinner, [1].
► *Headache; the brain seems bruised and
beaten, [1]. ► Headache, as if the brain were split in
two (after eight hours), [1]. ► Headache, as from emptiness, [1]. ►►
*A headache that makes him stupid, in the morning, in bed, on waking,
disappearing after rising (after sixteen hours), [1]. ►
He woke at night with headache, [2].
► Headache immediately after yawning,
in the morning, [1]. ► *Pain in one-half of the head from time to time,
as if a nail were constantly forced deeper and deeper into the parietal
bone from above downward, [1].
[160.] ►
Tearing in the vertex, forehead, eyes, with qualmishness and nausea in
the region of the chest and weakness of the vocal organs (after two, and
twelve hours), [2]. ► Tearing in the head, extending down to
the ear (after forty hours), [1]. ► Roaring and whirling in the brain and in
the ear, [1]. ► Shattering and quaking in the brain, when
walking and running, [1]. ► Swashing and bubbling in the brain, while
walking, [1]. ► Painless drawing here and there in the
brain, [1]. ► *Violent jerking or dull stitches in the left
hemisphere of the brain, extending from the orbit towards the parietal
bone and occiput, soon after eating (after ten hours), [1]. ►
Some violent stitches in the head (after six hours), [1]. ► Some
beats or jerks in the head, [1]. ► Jerks in the head (after eight hours), [1]. ►
Forehead and Temples. [170.]
► It seems as though there were an
obscuration in front of the head (in the forehead), in the evening, in
the open air, as if consciousness would vanish for a moment (after
twenty-four hours), [1]. ► Drawing movements back and forth in the
forehead, extending to the root of the nose, [1]. ►►
*Pressive pain in the forehead, as if he had not slept enough,
[5]. ►
*Pressive and throbbing headache in the vertex from fixed attention of
mind, [1]. ► Pressive headache above the right orbit
in the morning in bed, if he lies on the right side, disappearing if he
lies on the other side or back, [1].
► Pressive headache in the forehead,
relieved by laying the head upon a table, aggravated in the open air,
with weariness in the feet after going upstairs (after three hours), [1]. ►
*Pressive headache over the left eye and pain in the bones, as if he had
received a bruise; could not open the eye, [5]. ►►
*Tensive headache in the forehead, [1]. ► Buzzing
in the forehead, in the afternoon and evening, [1]. ►
Sticking and pressure above the eyelids, [1].
[180.] ►
*Drawing pain first in the temples, then in the forehead, then in the
occiput, [1]. ► Pain in both temples from exerting the
head, [1]. ► Vertex and Parietals. ► Pressing-downward drawing pain deep in
the head, in the region of the vertex, [1].
► Headache drawing upward in the
right half of the brain, near the ear (after one hour), [1]. ►
One-sided headache (from 4 P.M. till night), with weakness and
weariness, [1]. ► Occiput and External Head. ► Pain in the occiput, as if the brain were
pressed forward or bruised, [1]. ► *Pressive headache in the occiput, in the
morning, immediately after rising from bed, [1]. ► At the
time of the menses headache in the occiput, as from an ulcer in the
brain and as if suppurating; it was far more painful on lying down than
when standing up, [1]. ► Drawing in the head posteriorly, as if
she were chilly there (after one hundred and twenty hours), [6]. ►
Drawing pain in the external parts of the head, [1]. [190.] ► *Headache externally; pain in the scalp,
aggravated by touch, [1].
► Headache externally; the scalp on
the vertex is painful on touch, as if beaten, [1]. ►
Headache externally, as if the hair on the occiput were painful, [1]. ►
Headache externally; pain in the scalp, as if beaten; the hair stood up
on this place and was painful to touch (after eight hours), [1].® 2000
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