Plant (Loganiaceae)Materia Medica Keynotes
Nux Vomica
Common Name: Poison Nut / Strychnos Nux-vomica · Miasm: Psora & Sycosis
Nux Vomica corresponds to modern sedentary lifestyle diseases: intellectual strain, excessive stimulants (coffee, alcohol, spices), high irritability, digestive sluggishness, and chronic insomnia.
Guiding Mental & Emotional Keynotes
- •Extremely ambitious, competitive, quarrelsome, fault-finding, and impatient.
- •Cannot tolerate noise, strong odors, light, or contradiction.
- •Hypochondriacal, anxiety about health and business affairs.
Characteristic Physical Keynotes
- •Frequent, ineffectual urging for stool; passes small amounts with temporary relief.
- •Sour, bitter eructations, heartburn, fullness 1–2 hours after meals.
- •Extremely chilly, cannot turn in bed without feeling cold drafts.
- •Wakes at 3 AM with crowding thoughts, falls into heavy sleep at dawn.
Aggravations (<)
- • Early morning (3–4 AM)
- • Mental exertion
- • Cold dry wind
- • Coffee, alcohol, rich spicy food
Ameliorations (>)
- • Warmth and wrapping up head
- • Hot drinks
- • Uninterrupted evening rest
Remedy Relationships (Concordances)
Complementary
Sulphur, Sepia
Follows Well
Bryonia, Lycopodium, Pulsatilla
Antidoted By
Coffea Cruda, Ignatia, Chamomilla
Inimical
Zincum Metallicum
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