NUX VOMICA.
EYE.
►
Objective. ► Glistening,
staring eyes, [7]. ► Eyes staring from the head, frequently
turned upward, so that one could not see the pupils, [49]. ► Eyes
wild (after half an hour), [54]. ► Eyes sunken, and moved with a rapid
motion, [59]. ► *Swelling of the eyes, with red streaks in the
whites and pressive-tensive pain, [1]. ►
*Inflammation of the eyes, [1].
[200.] ► *The eyes run water, as in a moist inflammation
of the eyes (lippitudo) or as in
stopped coryza, [1]. ► Blood oozes from the eye, [1]. ► Dryness
of the right eye (after one hour), [1].
► Eyes wide open, [20]. ► *Blinking
of the eyes, [21]. ► Eyes closed; on opening them the eyes
were found turned upward and rigid pupils rather contracted, rather
insensible to light, [48]. ► *Painless injection of the whites of the eyes
(after fourteen hours), [1]. ► Subjective. ►
Sensitiveness of the eyes, [21]. ► Movements of the eyes difficult on
account of stiffness of the muscles of the eyes, [32]. ► Pain
in the left eye, as if beaten, with purulent mucus in the external
canthus (after five days), [1]. [210.] ►
(Pain, like needle stitches, in the eyes), [1]. ► *Biting in
the eyes, especially in the external canthi, as from salt, with
lachrymation, [1]. ► *Itching in the eyes, relieved by rubbing,
[1]. ►
Crawling burning in the eyes, [1].
► Burning in the eyes, without
inflammation, [1]. ► Brow, Lids, and Lachrymal Apparatus. ► The right eyebrow is painful to touch, [1]. ►
Twitching of the eyelids, [1]. ► Burning-itching pain in the lid, [1]. ►
Drawing-tearing pains in the eyelids, [1].
► *The margin of the lid is painful, as
if rubbed sore, especially on touch and
in the morning, [1]. [220.] ►
*Pressure in the upper lids, especially in the morning, [1]. ►
Constriction in the eyelids, as from heaviness of the upper lids, with a
gush of tears, [1]. ► The external canthus is agglutinated with
matter, in the morning, [1]. ► Painless redness of the left external
canthus, in the morning, [1]. ► *The inner canthus is painful, as if sore and
rubbed (after two hours), [1].
► *Canthi purulent, [1]. ►
*The canthi are painful, as if sore, [1]. ►► *A
smarting dry sensation in the inner canthi, in the morning, in bed,
[1]. ►
Biting in the inner canthi, as from acrid tears, in the evening, in bed,
[1]. ►
*While yawning, in the morning, the eyes stand full of water, with
lachrymation, [1]. ► Ball and Pupil. [230.] ►
Itching on the eyeball (after two hours), [1].
► Pupils dilated, with very slow
respiration, [1]. ► Pupils more dilated than natural, [51]. ►
Pupils dilated (after one hour and a half), [64]. ► Pupils
dilated (after three hours), [63].
► Pupils dilated, [21], [58].
► Pupils contracted (first hours), [1]. ►
Pupils slightly contracted (after three-quarters of an hour), [53]. ►
Pupils contracted, [20]. ► Vision. ►
*Vision extremely sensitive, [47].
[240.] ►
(Complete obscuration of vision, like amaurosis, for a few hours),
(after twenty-four hours), [1]. ► Loss of sight for two hours (third day), [44]. ►
Vision cloudy, for three days, [20].
► Vision distorted, [19]. ►
Objects seem more distinct to the vision than usual, [13]. ►
Flickering; glistening flickering on the outer portion of the field of
vision, especially in the left side, in the forenoon (Herz’s false
vertigo), (after twenty-four hours), [1].
► (Black and gray points float before
the eyes, with a stupefaction of the head), [1]. ►►
*Intolerance of the daylight, in the morning, with obscuration of vision, [1]. ►►
*Photophobia, [1]. ► Far-sighted, presbyopia, [1].
EAR.
[250.]
► Sticking pressure externally in the
meatus auditorius, [1]. ► Pain within the ear, as if composed of
pinching and earache (after twelve hours), [1]. ► Sharp
thrusts within the ear (after eight hours), [1]. ► Some
sharp thrusts within the ear, like earache (after six hours), [1]. ►
Tearing stitches within the ear, extending inward, towards evening
(after six hours), [1]. ► Creeping, crawling, and itching within
the ear, [1]. ► *Itching within the ear, through the Eustachian
tube, which compels frequent swallowing, and disturbs the rest at night,
[1]. ►
Stitches in the ears, in the morning, in bed, that compel crying out
(after nine days), [1]. ► (Feeling of hollowness in the ears, in
the morning, so that his own words re-echo in the ears, disappearing
after dinner), (after five days), [1].
► Hearing. ► Hearing extremely sensitive, [47]. [260.]
► *A ringing hissing in the ears,
[1]. ►
*Ringing in the ears (after two, and four hours), [1]. ►
(Roaring and humming in the ears, as from bees), [1]. ► *Roaring in
the ears, in the morning, after rising (after twelve hours), [1]. ►
Chirping, as from locusts, in the ears, at night, [1]. ► Rushing
in the ears, as if in a fulling machine, at night, [1].
NOSE.
►
Nostrils wide open, [48]. ►► *Profuse discharge of mucus from one
nostril, that seems obstructed by dry catarrh (after one
hour), [1]. ► *Discharge of nasal mucus, without coryza,
[1]. ►►
*Frequent discharge of mucus from both nostrils, that seem obstructed by
dry catarrh (after twenty hours), [1]. [270.] ► *Bloody mucus in the nose (after one
hour), [1]. ►
Constant bleeding of the nose, [1].
► *Discharge of acrid liquid from the
nose, [1]. ► Discharge of clotted blood from the nose,
in the morning, [1]. ►► *Fluent coryza in the morning,
[1]. ►►
*Coryza fluent during the day, and stopped at night, [1]. ►►
*Coryza in the morning and after dinner, [1]. ►►
*Real coryza, with scraping in the throat, crawling and creeping in the
nose, and sneezing (after one hour), [1]. ► *Constant
heat in the nose, and frequent premonitions of coryza, [1]. ►
Dry catarrh in the morning, with extreme dryness of the mouth, [1]. [280.]
►► *Catarrh, with headache, heat in
the face, chilliness, and much mucus
in the throat, [1]. ►► *Frequent sneezing, [1]. ►►
*Sneezing, in the morning, in bed, but after rising sudden fluent coryza,
[1]. ►
(Air passes through the nose, but it is dry), [1]. ► *The
nostril internally is painfully sensitive, [1]. ► *The
anterior angles of the nostrils are painful, as if ulcerated, and as if
one were cutting into a wound (after one, and ten hours), [1]. ►
*Itching in the obstructed nose, as in dry coryza, [1]. ►
*Intolerable itching in the nose, [13].
► Smell. ►
Increased acuteness of smell (after one hundred and thirty-two hours), [1]. [Only the curative action
succeeding the previous opposite condition. -Hahnemann.] ► Offensive breath through the nose, [1]. [290.]
► Bad odor from the mouth, that he
himself does not notice, in the morning, after rising, [1]. ►
Offensive breath and exhalations from the mouth, that he himself does
not notice in the morning, with a clean tongue and unaltered taste
(after a few hours), [1]. ► Food and drink have a disgusting odor, [1]. ►
Illusions of smell, a sulphurous odor in the nose, [1]. ►
Illusion of smell; it seemed as though she was smelling bad cheese, [1]. ►
Illusion of smell; in the evening he seems to smell a smoking
candlewick, [1].
FACE.
►
Objective. ► Scarlet redness
of the face, and afterwards of the entire body (after several days), [28]. ►
His face and neck became quite scarlet,
the feet being very cold (after four to five days), [26]. ►
Intense redness of the face
(after four to five days), [31]. ► Face very red, swollen, [7]. [300.]
► Face of a livid red, [59]. ► The
right side of the face, upon which she was lying, was red, somewhat
swollen, hanging down, [48]. ► Face red, [21].
► Face flushed and suffused, [51]. ►
The color of the face suffering, pale, earthy, yellowish, though the
whites of the eyes were unchanged, [1].
► Face of a dusky hue (after one
hour), [61]. ►
Countenance pallid, [57]. ► *Paleness of the face, [20]. ►
Countenance expressive of the most painful suffering and distress, [59]. ►
Face expressing suffering (after half an hour), [54]. [310.] ► Face distorted, [49]. ►
Features distorted, anxious, [45].
► Features altered, [47]. ►
Countenance anxious (after three hours), [63].
► Twitching of the muscles of the
face, in the evening, after lying down, [1].
► *Twitching of the muscles of the face,
[66]. ►
A twitching as if the right side of the face were being drawn by a
thread, in the evening, [1]. ► *Spasmodic distortion of the facial muscles,
[67]. ►
Feeling of tension in the face, about the mouth, eyes, and nose, with
visible distension of other places, [4].
► Painless drawing in the face on
stooping, [1]. [320.] ►
Sensation in the face as if many ants were creeping over it, [12]. [Connected with S. 287. -Hughes.] ► Cheeks. ►
Cheeks and eyeballs flushed, [44].
► Crawling here and there in the
cheeks, which were red and hot (after one to twelve hours), [1]. ►
*Drawing and stiffness in the masseter muscles, [52]. ►
Persistent sensitiveness of the masseter muscles, [21]. ►
Sensation in the masseter muscles and jaws as if tetanus would occur, or
as if the jaws would be drawn together, though their motion remains
free, [1]. ► Lips. ►
Lips wide open, [48]. ► Lips drawn a part, [74]. ► *An ulcer
on the inner surface of the lower lip, painful to touch, [1]. ►
A single hair of the beard on the lip is painful to touch, as if a
splinter were sticking in (after five hours), [1]. [330.] ► Stitches in the upper and lower lips, in
the morning, [1]. ► *Sensation of soreness on the inner surface of
the lower lip, [1]. ► Jaws. ►
*Tetanic rigidity of the jaw set in and the teeth became so
firmly closed together as to render all attempts to introduce the
stomach-pump unavailing, [56]. ► *Closure of the jaws, with complete
consciousness, [13]. ► *Drawing pain in the muscles of the jaws,
[1]. ►
*Drawing-tearing pain in the jaws, [1]. ► *Lower jaw
tetanically pressed against the upper, [48]. ► *Real
trismus, so that he was unable to speak, [71]. ►►
*Contraction of the jaws, like lockjaw (after several days), [29]. [He thought he was taking Strychnine, this medicine, prescribed many
years ago by his allopathic physician, having caused much the same
symptoms.]
MOUTH.
►
Teeth. ► Looseness of the
teeth, [1]. [340.] ►
Looseness of a sound tooth, that is only painful when knocked against, [1]. ►
A sound tooth, that had never been loose, fell out, [1]. ► A loose
tooth, with a dull pain caused by chewing, late in the evening and in
the morning, before rising (after twelve hours), [1]. ► Several
jerks in various teeth, always ending with a stitch, in the open air, [1]. ►
*Pain in a hollow-tooth, extending to the head, if air enters the mouth,
[1]. ►
*Constant sore pain in the teeth, aggravated by exerting the mind and by
reflecting, [1]. ► Pain as if air were entering a hollow
tooth, on taking a deep breath (in the open air), [1]. ► Drawing
pain in a hollow tooth, if sucked with the tongue, [1]. ► *Drawing
toothache, with stitches in an indefinite tooth, [1]. ►
Drawing toothache, caused by warm drinks and soup, [1]. [350.] ► *Drawing toothache, with stitches in one row of
teeth, especially on drawing in the air with open mouth
(after a quarter of an hour), [1].
► *Drawing toothache, now in an upper,
now in a lower back tooth, then drawing in other teeth toward the front,
especially just after eating, at night and in the evening, with red
spots on the cheeks and throat, with a complaining mood, full of
reproaches and despondency, [1].
► *Burrowing toothache on exerting the
mind and reflecting, followed by painfulness of a gland below
the angle of the lower jaw, towards evening (after nine hours), [1]. ►
Boring-gnawing toothache, that is neither aggravated nor relieved by
touch or chewing, but relieved by drawing in cold air, and aggravated by
going into a warm room, [1]. ► Tearing toothache, that at first attacks
a hollow tooth, then soon all the upper jaw, then all the lower, then
extending through the bones of the face into the head and temple of the
same side, returning by paroxysms, relieved for a time by sleep, renewed
by cold water or a crumb of food getting into the hollow tooth (after
two hours), [1]. ► Jerking toothache, rhythmical with the
pulse, with swelling of the gum, [1].
► Jerking toothache, with jerking in
the ear, with twisting screwing in the ear, in the morning, immediately
on waking, and in the evening, [1].
► Jerking toothache, as if caused by
the swelling of the gum, [1]. ► Sticking toothache in several teeth in
both jaws, [5]. ► Dull sticking toothache in an upper
incisor, [5]. [360.] ►
Constant toothache while walking in the open air, like a quiet sore
sensation, especially on opening the mouth, [1]. ►
Toothache in the morning, as from soreness of the gum, [1]. ►
Toothache after dinner, at first a sensation of beating or sticking,
afterwards a tingling like a painful buzzing, that extends to the eyes,
and is aggravated on walking in the open air, that also from time to
time lasts into the night, when it is relieved if she wraps up the
cheeks very warmly; when it reappears it always commences with
needle-like stitches, [1]. ► Toothache, as if a tooth were out of
place and were loose, with some coarse stitches, only noticed on drawing
in the open air with the open mouth, [1].
► Taking cold, and toothache like
fire or fine burning stitches on the slightest exposure to the open air,
[1]. ►
Gums. ► Gums red, [44]. ►
Ulcer on the gum of the incisors, with drawing-burning pain, [1]. ►
Swelling of the gums, [1].
► Gum swollen as thick as the finger,
with bubbling pain, as in an ulcer, on account of which she could not
eat for five days, [1]. ► Swelling of the gum, with toothache,
commencing with pressure (after one hour), [1]. [370.] ► Swelling of the gum, with a pain like a
bubbling, as if an ulcer would break, [1].
► Gum swollen, with drawing pain, [1]. ►
Painful swelling of the gum, with painful pimples on the inner surface
of the lips and on the tongue, as in mercurial salivation, [1]. ►
Swelling of the gum, with toothache, before dinner, [1]. ► Tongue.
► Tongue coated, white protruded only
with difficulty, [43]. ► *Tongue white (after twenty hours), [1]. ►
Tongue inflamed and contracted, [44].
► *Painful blisters on the tongue
(after six hours), [1]. ► *Tongue heavy, noticed in talking, [21]. ►
Such great heaviness of the tongue that she was unable to speak
distinctly, [21]. [380.] ►
Tongue inclined to be dry, [51]. ► Tongue rather dry (second day), [53]. ►
Stitches in the tip of the tongue, after lying down for the midday nap
(after two hours), [1]. ► Itching on the left side of the root of
the tongue, [5]. ► General Mouth. ►
The mouth is drawn to one side, [13].
[The original is “Zurück-gezogen,” drawn backwards. -Hughes.]
► Mouth tightly closed, [49]. ►
The mouth and fauces are covered with mucus in the morning, with yellow
hardened mucus in the canthi (after sixteen hours), [1]. ►
Spitting of blackish, almost clotted blood, at first at 2 A.M., then
about 2 P.M., with a peculiar taste in the mouth and an odor of blood in
the nose, and at the same time a little blood is always blown from the
nose, [1]. ►
Swelling of the roof of the palate and uvula, as from adherent mucus,
especially noticed on swallowing (after eight hours), [1]. ►
Swelling of the palate, with pressive pain, even when not swallowing,
and a biting sensation in the palate posteriorly (after thirty-two
hours), [1]. [390.] ►
Painful pimples on the palate anteriorly behind the upper incisors
(after forty hours), [1]. ► *The internal mouth, gum, tongue, and palate are
slimy, and feel raw and sore, as from something acrid, [1]. ►
Dryness of the forepart of the mouth, especially on the tip of the
tongue, [1]. ► *Dryness of the mouth, in the morning, without
thirst, as if he had taken alcoholic stimulants the previous evening,
[1]. ►
*Dryness of the mouth after midnight, as if the tongue stuck to the
palate, without thirst, though with
much accumulation of saliva in the fauces (after five hours),
[1]. ►
Sticking-drawing pain extending to the inner ear, almost like a cramp,
on chewing and compressing the jaws (after four hours), [1]. ►
Offensive exhalations seem to him to come from the mouth, after
eructations, [1]. ► *Bad odor from the mouth (second
day), [45]. ► *Offensive breath after dinner (after
thirty-six hours), [1]. ► *Sour-smelling breath, [1]. ► Saliva.
[400.] ► Frequent accumulation of saliva in the mouth
(first twelve hours), [1]. ► Frequent accumulation of watery saliva is
discharged from the mouth (after waterbrash), [1]. ► Profuse
discharge of water from the mouth, on stooping, without nausea, [1]. ►
Mouth covered with saliva, which he ejected by spasmodic jerks, strongly
reminding me of a case of hydrophobia I had seen some time before, [59]. ►
Discharge of saliva from the mouth while asleep (after twenty hours), [1]. ►
Bloody saliva, [1]. ► Taste. ►►
*Bad taste in the mouth in the morning, though food and drink have a
natural taste, [1]. ► *Bad taste in the mouth in the morning, before
eating, disappearing after eating, [1]. ► *A bad
taste low down in the throat, on hawking (after two hours), [1]. ►
Bad taste, as from hollow teeth, in the morning, [1]. [410.] ► *Bad taste in the mouth, [1]. ►►
*Sour taste in the mouth, [1].
► Food and drink have a sour taste in
the mouth, [1]. ► *Sour taste, especially in the morning,
[1]. ►
Sour taste and sour odor from the mouth, [1].
► Sour taste after drinking milk, [1]. ►
*Bitter taste in the mouth in the morning, though food and drink have a
natural taste, [1]. ► *Sour taste in the mouth, immediately after
swallowing food that had a natural taste, [1]. ► Bitter
taste on spitting out saliva, [1].
► The mouth has a bitter taste, but
not the food, [1]. [420.] ►
*Bitter taste low down in the throat, on expectorating the mucus from
the chest, [1]. ► (Salty taste in the mouth), [1]. ►
Hawking up salty mucus from the fauces, [1].
► Coppery taste (after several days),
[27]. ►
(He notices a sweetish offensive taste and odor about himself), [1]. ►
Beer has an herby taste, [1]. ► A nauseous herby taste in the throat,
almost like that of carrots (after one hour), [1]. ► A
putrid taste in the mouth, [1]. ► A disagreeable, almost sulphurous, odor
and taste in the mouth and nose, [1].
► A bad, slimy taste, composed of an
herby and metallic taste, with ill-humor laxity, in the morning, [1]. [430.]
► Taste in mouth as from a disordered
stomach, [1]. ► Bread has a smoky taste, [1]. ► Bread
or rolls have a sour taste, but not other food, [1]. ► *The taste
of milk in the morning is disgusting, as if spoiled, [1]. ►
He has but little or no taste from eating; food seems to have no taste
at all, [1]. ►
She has no taste for milk, in the morning, [1]. ► He has
no taste for coffee (after three hours), [1].
► He has no taste for meat, [1]. ►
Speech. ► Speech is
difficult, [1]. ► *Speech difficult, lisping with the tongue,
[21]. [440.]
► *Unable to articulate any sound
(after half an hour), [54]. ► Speech constantly interrupted by sighs,
weak, monosyllabic, often quite unintelligible, [49]. ► Speech
very much interrupted by the frequent spasms of the extremities and
spine (opisthotonos), [45].® 2000
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