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u This medicine, like some others, has symptoms that seem 

 partly or totally opposed to each other, although both are 

 primitive. These alternating effects render it applicable to a 

 great variety of morbid conditions. 



H When Nux is followed by too powerful an effect, either 

 from the dose being large or because it is not homoeopathic to 

 the disease, it is readily removed by a little wine, Camphor, or 

 brandy. Also coffee is proper to dispel the headache and want 

 of appetite caused by it ; Aconite for excessive sensitiveness 

 and asthma ; Cocculus for paralytic symptoms ; and Chamomilla 

 for moroseness and a disposition to anger." 



Clinical Observations. — For the various diseases to which 

 Nux Vomica has been applicable under homoeopathy, the reader 

 is referred to the article " Nux Vomica, 55 in Noack and Trinks 5 

 Handbuch fur Horn . Arzn. Mittel, of which the following enume- 

 ration is only an abstract. Apoplexia, with loss of consciousness. 

 Delirium tremens. Catarrhal headache. Daily headache in the 

 forenoon. Aching sensation at the root of the nose. Periodical 

 headache, commencing after rising from bed, increasing till 

 noon. Headache from abuse of coffee. Paroxysms of hysteric 

 headache every ten days, commencing with dull, oppressive 

 pain over the whole head. Hemicrania, with inclination to 

 vomit. Clavus hystericus. Headache of hysterical females. 

 Megrim. Neuralgia capitis. Melancholia. Apoplexia nervosa. 

 Nervous vertigo. Slight degrees of paralysis. Nervous 

 periodic headache. Photophobia. Weakness of vision. Am- 

 blyopia amaurotica. Amaurosis. Hardness of hearing, deaf- 

 ness. Prosopalgia nervosa. Rheumatic nervous pains in sound 

 teeth. Heartburn. Pyrosis. Nausea and vomiting of preg- 

 nant women. Periodic vomiting. Spasmodic vomiting. Ten- 

 sive, tearing, spasmodic pains in the stomach. Gastrodynia. 

 Cardialgia. Hepatalgia. Icterus. Constipation from torpor and 

 paralysis of the peristaltic action. Torpidity of the colon. 

 Haemorrhoids of different kinds. Discharge of blood from the 

 rectum. Proctalgia. Different affections of the bladder ; of 



