Nux moschata
as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927
Nutmeg
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Mind
Changeable; laughing and crying. Confused, impaired memory. Bewildered sense, as in a dream. Thinks she has two heads.
General
Marked tendency to fainting fits, with heart failure. Cold extremities, extreme dryness of mucous membranes and skin. Strange feeling, with irresistible drowsiness. Indicanuria. General inclination to become unconscious during acute attacks. Lypothymia (Ignatia). Staggers on trying to walk.
Modalities
Worse, cold moist wind, cold food, cold washing, lying on painful side, motion, jar. Better, warmth, dry weather.
Head
Vertigo 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 (Berb). Toothache in pregnancy. Tongue numb, paralyzed. Dryness of throat.
Stomach
Excessively bloated. Flatulent dyspepsia. 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 (Alum). Faintness
during or after stool. Protruding piles.
Female
Uterine hæmorrhage. Menses too long, dark, thick. Leucorrhœa muddy and bloody. Suppression, with persistent fainting attacks and sleepiness (Kali c). Variableness of menstruation irregularity of time and quantity.
Respiratory
Loss of voice from walking against the wind (Hep). 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. Rheumatism from getting feet wet, from exposure to draughts. Rheumatism relieved by dry, warm clothes. Fatigue on slight exertion.
Sleep
Great drowsiness (Indol). Complaints cause sleepiness. Coma.
Fever
Chill begins in left hand (Carbo). Chilliness and heat without thirst; want of perspiration. Dry skin and of inner parts, also of eyes, nose, lips, mouth, tongue, throat, etc.
Relationships
Oleum myristicae-Oil of Nutmeg––(as a remedy for boils, felons, poisonous ulcers, it has been used in the 2x potency); Ornithogalum (flatulence, swollen feeling across lower chest; whenever she turns in bed, feels as if a bag of water turned also; gastric ulcer and cancer). Myristica Sebifera (phlegmonous inflammations, hastens suppuration; powerful antiseptic. Ulcerative tendency in all tissues. Said to act more powerfully than Hepar and Silica). Compare: Nux v; Puls; Rhus; Ign; Asaf. Antidotes: Camph; Gels; Valer.
Dose
First to sixth potency.
What the other books say about Nux moschata
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Nux moschata in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
- Nux moschata in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
- Nux moschata in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.
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Create a free accountCite this page. William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Nux moschata — Mind. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/nux-moschata. Published 1927: public domain in the US (since 2023) and in India (author died 1929). Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.