(Nutmeg)
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.
Mind
Changeable; laughing and crying. Confused, impaired memory. Bewildered sense, as in a dream. Thinks she has two heads.
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 haemorrhage. Menses too long, dark, thick. Leucorrhoea 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.
Modalities
WORSE, cold moist wind, cold food, cold washing, lying on painful side, motion, jar. BETTER, warmth, dry weather.
Relationship
OLEUM MYRISTICX-Oil of Nutmeg-(as a remedy for boils, felons, poisonous ulcers, it has been used in the 2x potency); OMITHOGALUM (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.