Nux Vomica - General symptoms - Boger

GENERAL

General

VIOLENT ACTION; often irregularly fitful or inefficient

Increased reflexes

Irritable and hypersensitive, mentally and physically

Firm fibred brunette

Twistings Jerks Spasms; with consciousness

Tense, contracted feeling

Lightning-like pains

Neuralgia; prodromal

Sensation as of a rough body internally

Bruised soreness; OF ABDOMEN, brain, etc

INTERNAL scrapy RAWNESS; throat, larynx, etc

Takes colds

Biliousness

Faintings after vomiting, after stool, after labor pains, etc

Sensitive and critical

Active, ANGRY AND IMPATIENT; can't stand pain; so mad, he cries

Zealous, nervous and excitable

Nagging

Spiteful

Irritable hypochondriasis

Sullen

Fears poverty

Violent, ugly (suicidal) impulses

Vertigo; on an empty stomach; with blank spells

Sensitive scalp

Swelled forehead

Lachrymation; on affected side

Migraine

Blood-shot eyes

Sore nostrils

Nose stopped, but runs water; on one side

Sneezing; violent; abortive; from intense crawling in [left] nostril

Coryza; fluent by day and in open air, dry at night

Epistaxis on coughing

Acute smell

Red, turgid or yelowish face, worse about nose and mouth

Left angle of mouth droops

Jaws snap shut; stiff

Teeth chatter

Fetor oris

TASTE, biter-sour; bad in AM

Itching palate; Eustachian tube

Rough, scratchy throat; putrid taste in, on coughing

Craves piquant foods or stimulants

HICCOUGH

Violent retching, worse hawking

Eructations; sour

Heart-burn

Water-brash Nausea; better if he can only vomit VIOLENT VOMITING; bilious-sour

Food lies like a heavy knot in stomach

Gastric pains, into back; chest; better vomiting, etc

As of a band about waist; clothes oppress it Indigestion

Liver sore; sticking; enlarged

Gall-stone colic

Bowels gripe here and there

SORE BOWELS, worse COUGHING OR STEPPING

Hernia; infantile

Flatulent colic

UNEASY, fitful and FRUITLESS URGING FOR BOWELS TO ACT, better STOOL

Strains hard at stool

Inactive peristalsis

In rectum; retained flatus; as if more stool remained; spasm of

Obstipation

PILES; itching; better cool bathing

Sexual erethism

Onanism

Premature ejaculation

Menses profuse, early and prolonged or intermittent; of dark, lumpy blood

Dysmenorrhoeal cramps; spread over whole body

Cough violent, throwing the patient down; paroxysmal; whooping

Painfully stiff neck; pains down [right] shoulder

Lumbar ache, as if breaking; must raise up to turn over Acute lumbago

Crawling along spine

Shooting from toes to thighs, worse after stool

Tense cramps in calves and soles

Feet feel clubby and raw

Goose-skin

Jaundice

Yawning Sleepy in evening or sleepless from rush of ideas

Awakes too early; can't sleep again Finally sleeps, but on waking feels miserable

Night-mare

Chill with thirst and heat without thirst

EASILY CHILLED; CAN'T UNCOVER, worse motion; worse drinking even during the heat

Sour sweat

Region

Cerebro-spinal axis

NERVES

DIGESTIVE ORGANS STOMACH

LIVER

Bowels

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

Male brunettes