Hand Book of Materia Medica and
Homśopathic Therapeutics.By T. F. Allen.
Presented by .
Moschus.
A tincture is made of the dried preputial secretion of
the musk ox, Moschus moschiferus, L.
General Action :- ►
A general
stimulant to the nervous system, especially of the sexual organs.
Allies :- ►
Asaf.,
Nux mos., Ambra, Castor.
Generalities :- ►
►
Trembling of whole body ; with general sticky sweat ;
with bruised sensation and rapid pulse. ► Convulsions. ►
Equilibrium lost. ► Circulation accelerated. ► Hćmorrhage. ►
Pricking in body and “fidgets,” preventing sleep.
► Prickling in all muscles. ► Pain over whole body with
shivering, but he was warm to touch ; complained of intense P., and
when asked where complained more violently than ever, but did not answer
the question ; bruised P. over whole body ; jerking P. in all
parts, agg. night, waking him. ► Nervous.
► Discomfort. ► Weakness ; with pain over whole body,
agg. joints. ► She became busy, but had scarcely begun to put things
in order when they fell from her hands from weakness. ►
Faintness.
Clinical :- ►
Hysteria, with easy fainting, faints dead away from the least
excitement, even from eating (Asaf.,
Nux mos.). ► Hysterical spasm ushered in
by contraction of throat and suffocation. ► Globus hystericus.
► Frequently recurring syncope.
Mind :- ►
Raved, spoke low, as if
afraid of disturbing some one, saying “pst, pst, pst,” then
sighed deeply and played with the buttons of his waistcoat as if he would
open and close it. ► Rage, agg. striking a vessel hear him. ►
Anger and raving till her mouth was dry, lips blue, eyes staring, face
pale, when she fell to the ground. ► Excitement as from wine, with
rapid, full, soft pulse. ► Anxiety ; and starting in fright and
trembling if any one opened the door ; about death, and fell down in
a faint. ► Said nothing but that she must die. ►
Fretful ; and weeping mood. ► Low spirits. ► Listlessness
alternating with restlessness and quarrelsome mood. ► Sits in
thought, talks indistinctly to himself, strikes with his hands and then
suddenly cries “ah, ah ;” sits in thought and makes various
gestures, so that others fear that she will lose her reason.►
Stupefaction ; with vertigo ;
and all objects in the room seemed like large black figures, which would
spring upon him ; half stupefied, amel. open air. ► Dullness,
and memory diminished. ► Distraction. ► Answers confused, as
if thinking of something else. ► Mind lost. ► Senses lost so
that he could not answer questions though he heard everything, and eyes
staring, glistening, prominent ; senses lost suddenly, he thought
that his fingers and toes were cut off, against which he remonstrated with
such rapid and confused speech that nothing could be gathered from it.
► Memory lost ; suddenly, with pressure upon vertex. ►
Coma.
Head :- ►
Aching ; deep in
brain ; on violent motion, as, for example, ascending steps ;
agg. evening ; with coldness as from cold applications to head ;
with nausea and vomiting ; with drawing in right ear ; extending
deep into brain ; raging, amel. camphor ; as if brain would fall
out ; as if tightly laced ; tensive, with sensation as if
something in brain were moving ; as if half of skull were cut
through, amel. open air ; pressive and boring, at one time in whole
head, at another behind ears, at another in forehead, at another in
vertex, and then in occiput ; stupefying, that made him close his
eyes ; as a sore, agg. touch ; externally as if scalp were sore,
agg. touch.►
Drawing here and there as far as nape,
where it is a tension, amel. open air ; spasmodic D. through the
whole. ► Heaviness ; amounting to pain, agg. forehead. ►
Pressure on H. and upper part of forehead ; P. motion. ►
Confusion ; with stupefying pressure in brain ; with tension in
upper part, without pain ; as if intoxicated. ► Stupefying
compression of brain, with feeling as if senses would vanish. ►
Stupefaction ; like vertigo, with pressure upon vertex. ► Rush
of blood ; with staring eyes, cramp in mouth so that he could not
speak, afterwards he talked rapidly and confusedly, then deathly pallor
and sweat dripping from face and hair.►
Vertigo ; on stooping, amel.
rising ; on moving lids, amel. open air ; with sudden
faintness ; with nausea and vomiting ; with nausea and desire
for black coffee ; with nausea and throbbing pain posteriorly in
head, with drawings as from a thread (extending into spine as far as first
lumbar vertebra), sudden, with dim vision ; even to
unconsciousness ; so that he thought he fell from a height ; as
if she stool very high and would fall ; as if whirling violently, so
that he even felt the air on his face ; as if everything turned in a
circle, at first very slowly, then faster and faster, at last it seemed as
if she floated in the air, then stupefaction, in which it seemed as if she
fell from a great height, and she lost consciousness.
Forehead :- ►
Sticking. ►
Aching ; in afternoon, with sleepiness ; agg. moving
about ; with a red spot upon it ; extending into eyes and
nose ; extending between brows to nose and into bones of
cheeks ; alternately in F. and occiput ; compressive, above root
of nose, causing dullness. ► Sensation above orbits as if a dull
instrument were pressed into brain. ► Stupid feeling. ►
Turning in F. and before eyes, agg. stooping.►
Pain in right temple ; drawing P.
in right. ► Sudden drawing in temple. ► Pain as from a weight
on whole upper part of head, amel. moving about in open air. ►
Creeping on top of brain. ► Tearing in right half of head. ►
Pain in cerebellum. ► Throbbing pain in occiput. ► Pain as if
something had been driven into occiput, thence the pain extended to
forehead. ► Painful drawing from occiput to ears and from ears into
teeth, agg. right side. ► Itching here and there on scalp, amel.
scratching.
Clinical :- ►
Violent
neuralgic headache, with feeling of coldness, the pain amel. open air,
agg. warmth of the room.
Eyes :- ►
Distorted upward.
► Dim, and pupils dilated ; D. and pain in inner canthus.
► Pressure as forms and. ► Stiff ; and protruding.
► Biting as from smoke, with lachrymation of left ; with pressure.
► Upper lid swollen and painful. ► Pinching in external
canthus, amel. rubbing. ► Stupefying pressure on left brow. ►
Vision dim ; suddenly. ► Dizzy unsteadiness of V. on least
motion of head. ► V. of black points. ► V. lost and pupils
contracted.
Ears :- ►
Discharge of much wax
from left ; from right at night. ► Pain in cartilage of left as if
ear had been pressed into head. ► Sensation of a wind blowing into
left. ► Rushing, as in faintness ; as of a violent wind ;
sudden R., as from the fluttering of a large bird, now in right, now in
left. ► Flapping and sensation as if a flea were in left. ►
Explosive sounds. ► Sounds like the firing of a cannon ; in
right, with dropping of blood from ear. ► Creaking in right, with a
disagreeable sensation. ► Difficult hearing.
Nose :- ►
Tickling in nose,
changing to burning. ► Sneezing, with tickling, then burning ;
S., with pain in middle of nasal bones ; severe S. ► Stopped by
dry catarrh, became suddenly free after a copious clearing out. ►
Fluent coryza, with peculiar burning, alternately in right and left
nostril. ► Bleeding ; of a few drops always on violent
sneezing.
Face :- ►
Pallor ; and
sweat ; earthy. ► Redness ; of right cheek, without heat,
and pallor of left, with sensation of heat in it. ► Muscles drawn,
so that he was not recognized. ► Tension in muscles as if too short.
► Frequent pressure on left zygoma. ► Motion of jaw as if
chewing. ► Scaling of lips. ► Upper lip swollen.
Mouth :- ►
Half open, and quite
mucus running from it. ► Dryness ; with little thirst. ►
Taste bitter in morning on waking ; nasty, bitter ; bad to
everything that he ate except milk ; little to food ;
flat ; lost.
Throat :- ►
Dryness ; in
śsophagus ; in śsophagus, without thirst. ► Burning in
pharynx.
Stomach :- ►
Appetite great for
dinner ; lost for dinner. ► Aversion to food, with nausea at
sight of it and vomiting if it is not taken away. ► Longing for
brandy. ► Thirst for beer. ► Eructations ; with hot
saliva in mouth ; leaving a taste of garlic ; of air and
uprisings of tasteless fluid ; violent, of air ; violent, with
nausea and also with vomiting of food that had just been eaten.►
Nausea ; all day ; in
morning ; in afternoon, with headache, so that she must lie in
bed ; in evening ; after eating ; with inability to
vomit ; coming from pit of stomach, wherewith navel was retracted,
with cramplike sensation ; in paroxysms ; as in waterbrash, with
scraping rising up śsophagus like heartburn. ► Retching in morning
on rising. ► Vomiting in morning on rising, he vomits everything
that he has eaten ; V. for several days at 11 A.M.,
whether he has taken anything or not ; V., with constant pressure in
stomach and distention of epigastric region ; with burning extending
upward on sternum ; with heaviness upon chest, but respiration
free ; with tensive pain across chest, agg. pressing together ;
violent ; of mucus.►
Cramplike pain. ► Pain in
epigastric region ; in pit ; near left side of pit ; in and
above pit (in chest), agg. inspiration, with anxiety in chest ; below
pit, amel. stooping ; in epigastric region, amel. eructations ;
as from something hard in it, agg. drinking. ► Pressure in
epigastric region towards spine, with nausea. ► Oppression above S.
► Everything seemed too tight about pit after dinner ; with
biting, burning, sore sensation. ► Tension in epigastric region as
if he had eaten too much. ► Tension in region, involving whole
abdomen, with pain in abdomen. ► Fulness and pressure ; F. in
epigastric region, agg. moderate meal. ► Throbbing in epigastric
region.
Abdomen :- ►
Rumbling, with
sticking in it and anxiety through whole body ; R., with urging to
stool, which was at first hard, then soft, at last natural ; with
emission of flatus ; without flatulent symptoms, amel. eating.
► Distention, with ineffectual urging to stool. ► Flatus of
the odor of garlic. ► Trembling, with general clammy sweat. ►
Griping, amel. crouching together ; G., amel. pressure, with dragging
and pressure upon bladder. ► Dragging causing ineffectual desire for
stool. ► Pressure as before menstruation. ► Tensive pain as if
everything would burst out. ► Tightness without pain, with anxiety
so that she must run about.►
Swollen tension in hypochondria, with
jerking. ► Sticking in liver region, agg. every inspiration ;
itching S. beneath right short ribs, the I. continued after the S. ;
S. deep in umbilical region, agg. inspiration. ► Jerklike clawing
above umbilicus, taking away her breath. ► Pain in U., with burning
on chest ; P. in right side below umbilicus. ► Constriction in
umbilical region so that it formed a deep fossa. ► Forcing downward
in left side, with constipation.
Rectum and Stool :- ►
Sticking in
anus ; extending to bladder. ► Crawling in anus, amel. rubbing.
► Urging, then emission of flatus, then natural stool. ►
Diarrhśa at night in sleep ; agg. night, with urging and pain in
anus ; D., with violent colic ; profuse, with retraction of
stomach ; frequent thin stools mixed with fćces. ►
Constipation ; amel. drinking coffee. ► Stool looks
as if he had taken Sepia.
Urinary Organs :- ►
Burning in
urethra, especially with erections. ► Urine
as clear as water and copious. ► Urine scanty and as
thick as yeast. ► Urine smelled of musk.
Sexual Organs :- ►
Painful
emissions without erections. ► Desire ; in both sexes, with
tickling ; with involuntary emissions ; with tensive pain in
penis ; then great relaxation ; and after satisfaction nausea
and vomiting. ► Dragging towards genitals
as if menses would appear. ► Menses brought on ; too
early and profuse ; too early, with drawing pain low down in
abdomen ; with unusual drawing pains ; M. irregular.
Clinical :- ►
Suppression of menses, with hysterical spasms, choking in throat,
fainting.
Respiratory Organs :- ►
►
Sudden sensation in upper part of larynx as if it closed upon the breath,
almost as from sulphur fumes. ► Feeling in larynx as of sulphur
vapor, with constriction in trachea. ► On inspiration, which was
free, sensation as if he had previously inspired S. vapor. ► Dry
cough, agg. morning, and pain under left breast on coughing. ►
Breathing oppressed ; and she
must take a deep breath. ►
Difficult respiration, with sticking in chest so that he could take only
very short breaths. ► Short R., amel. during rest, with sticking in
right side.
Clinical :- ►
Laryngismus stridulous, crowing inspiration, attacks excited by eating
or laughing. ► A large proportion of the cases requiring Mosch.
are associated with spasmodic constriction of the larynx and chest and
sense of impending suffocation. ► Spasmodic asthma. ►
Attacks of sudden dyspnśa, with violent cough, the chest filled with
mucus, with great rattling and with cramplike, suffocative constriction
of chest. ► Threatening paralysis of the lungs, with great
collection of mucus and great difficulty in expectorating it. ►
Angina pectoris, with extreme tightness of the chest and constant desire
to take a long breath. ► Whooping cough, with extreme suffocation
and rattling of mucus. ► Extreme palpitation, with dyspnśa and
deathly anxiety. ► Dyspnśa.
Chest :- ►
Tenacious mucus
without cough, which took away the breath, amel. drinking. ►
Stitches, with red, puffy face, dilated pupils, dry, bright red tongue and
great thirst ; S. in right side extending into hepatic region ;
almost like fine pinchings, in right side beneath short ribs, that oblige
rubbing ; intermittent S. in left half ; intermittent S. in left
side under short ribs. ► Cramp in lung,
beginning with inclination to cough, gradually increasing and making him
desperate. ► Gnawing, with sensation of suffocation.
► Pinching in left side beneath short ribs on deep
inspiration ; itching P. in side by short ribs.►
Pain, with violent dry cough ; P.,
now in left, now in right, extending into spine ; in left as if the
pain would force itself out through nipple. ►
Tightness so that he must breathe deeper and more frequently than usual.
► Suffocative constriction ; so that he could not lie down and
gasped for air. ► Pressure frequently stopping his
breath. ► Compression and fulness.
Heart and Pulse :- ►
►
Palpitation as from anxious expectation. ► Pulse
rapid ; and large, full ; but less full. ► Pulse slow,
full.
Neck :- ►
Sticking now in neck,
now in shoulders. ► Pain in nape ; in neck as if muscles were
torn from their attachments ; in nape so that he could not turn
head ; drawing, in one muscle in nape ; drawing P. from second
cervical vertebra to right shoulder.
Back :- ►
Intermittent sticking
in left side of spine, in middle of trunk. ► Drawing pain, with
tense feeling as before menstruation ; D. pain extending from spine
into hip-joint. ► Pains in spine, partly jerking, partly drawing,
becoming firmly seated, agg. upper part of thighs, and so impeding
walking. ► Pressure as from a dull instrument in left side of
sacrum, above coccyx.
Extremities :- ►
Involuntary
throwing about of hands and feet, which pain violently. ►
Aching. ► Stiffness, with desire to urinate ; S. of
hands and feet.
Upper Extremities :- ►
Tearing
sticking in left shoulder, causing heaviness of upper part of arm. ►
Jerking pain from right shoulder-joint to thumb. ► Jerking of right
arm, with cramplike pain and falling asleep of fingers. ► Pain in
muscles of arms from shoulder-joints to elbows. ► Cutting in right
forearm, then burning. ► Pinching on inferior surface of left
forearm near elbow. ► Paralytic drawing just above right wrist.
► Drawing from left wrist into elbow in evening in bed, with
sticking, preventing sleep, with necessity to put it out of bed and move
it up and down.►
Swelling of hands and stinging in them.
► Stitches in left hand. ► Cramplike drawing in hands and
fingers as before a rigid spasm ; in left thumb. ► Right hand,
in which she held the pestle, became stiff and right fingers outstretched.
► Paralytic jerking in left thumb. ► Involuntary motions of
fingers as if he picked up something or counted with them. ►
Sticking in joints of fingers. ► Internal pain in last phalanx of
left index, making index tremble. ► Stiffness of right fingers.
Lower Extremities :- ►
Uneasiness
when sitting, amel. moving them, with weakness of them. ► Numb pain
in joints. ► Tingling as if they would fall asleep, if he keeps them
still when sitting.
Thigh :- ►
Paralytic jerking in
inner side of left. ► Sticking here and there in T. and legs as if
he had been beaten. ► Pinching in muscles of hips ; posteriorly
in flesh of right thigh, agg. towards outer part ; sharp P. above
right knee. ► Pain as if dislocated, so that she could not get out
of bed. ► Pain in T. and legs somewhat amel. motion, not at all by
walking ; P. in hips so that he must lie down ; P. from gluteals
into groins, with drawing ; on outer side, above left knee, with
weakness ; in right as if flesh were beaten to a jelly. ►
Sudden pressure on inner side of left.
Knee :- ►
Pain in right so that
he could not tolerate the bed ; P. extending to hip and great toe,
only in bones, agg. lying on painful side. ► Drawing pain from
hollow to calf. ► Compressive pain in hollow as if tendons were too
short. ► Paralytic weakness on sitting down.
Leg :- ►
Cramplike pain extending
downward in tibia, with general sweat. ► Pain in calves so that he
could not touch them hard, with external coldness on outer side. ►
Paralytic pain (painful weakness) down through left leg, as if it would
become rigid, when sitting. ► Uneasiness in left, a paralytic
sensation that obliged him to move the leg at intervals. ► Tingling
in legs and somewhat in thighs as after a long journey, or as if they
would fall asleep, if he draws the feet backward when sitting.►
Sticking outward in ankles, with dread
of walking. ► Sprained pain in ankles, with sticking in four first
left toes. ► Drawing pain in all joints of feet, with sensation as
if muscles pressed strongly against bones. ► Pinching in right
little toe, as if it had been stepped upon. ► Sprained pain in right
great toe, agg. pressure. ► Jerking pain in nails of two first toes
as if they would suppurate, so that he could only walk barefoot upon the
heel. ► Burning pressure in tips of right toes. ► Pain like a
burning in toes or as if squeezed by short boots.
Skin :- ►
Blue spots on abdomen
and thighs. ► Red spots like flea-bites above eyebrows. ►
Eruption within cartilage of right ear, with pinching itching, and after
scratching burning. ► Pimples, with burning
in face ; itching P. in various parts ; itching P. on
back of right foot, burning after scratching ; red P. tipped with pus
on upper lids. ► (Burning in a venereal tetter, which is usually
quiet.). ► Itching sticking anteriorly on thigh. ► Itching,
twinging S. in various parts. ► Tingling over whole body. ►
Crawling on tip of nose, not amel. wiping. ► Itching posteriorly on
ears ; between shoulders ; between toes ; on outer side of
left tibia, towards calf, amel. rubbing ; on left upper arm, amel.
scratching till the blood came, then burning, then itching pimples here
and there, amel. scratching.
Sleep :- ►
Yawning and
sleepiness ; when not actively employed ; deep and frequent Y.
► Sleepiness, with inability to sleep, when walking in open air he
could scarcely keep his eyes open on account of sleepiness. ►
Feeling as if she had not slept enough. ► Sound sleep ; and
when awakened he spoke connectedly, with open eyes, but in the morning he
remembered nothing of it.►
Sleepless ; all night, but there
were moments in which she lost consciousness and on recovering from this
condition, which was neither waking nor sleep, she was exhausted. ►
Uneasy sleep, with waking every half hour and dry heat. ► Night full
of vivid, slanderous dreams, wherein everything conspired against him, and
from which he woke excited. ► Dreamed incessantly of strife and
effort, unable to lie long in one spot because the spot on which he lay
felt as if sprained or broken.
Fever :- ►
►
Coldness ; on going into open air, not cold air ; in
paroxysms ; sudden, as from a wind, agg. uncovered parts, chiefly
hands ; sensation of external C., with sensation of internal burning
in the same spot ; agg. spine, with drawing pain. ► Shivering
from slightest contact of air, amel. in bed ; S. amel. open air, with
flushes of heat in the house ; alternations of S. and heat all day,
with weakness ; S. on scalp, extending over whole body. ►
Coldness from soles to knees ; suddenly on left tibia ; of
thighs and legs, rather external than internal, but not perceptible to
fingers. ► While the hands seemed to him naturally warm, the left
felt hot, the right cold, to the face they both seemed cold.►
Heat ; with sweat and increased
liveliness ; agg. right side, at 9 P.M., on
getting into bed, with heat, dryness and scraping in mouth and throat and
moderate thirst, necessity to lie uncovered, sticking in forehead,
dizziness before eyes, general bruised sensation, sleeplessness,
restlessness, tossing about, jerklike grasping above umbilicus, dragging
towards genitals and ill humor. ► Hot head, with sweat on it
posteriorly. ► Heat of face, with dim, vision ; of face without
redness. ► Cooling burning on right zygoma ; in last joint of
right index.►
Sweat ; every morning ;
without heat ; on forehead. ► Exhalations of skin smelled of
musk.
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