Nux-v w/o irritability? -slightly aside to topic

[Ananda Ruchira]

Hi all.

A bit off the line of topic but....
Reading the discussion on Nux it triggered my memory for a small rx I'd like to share. What strikes me about it is that its nicknamed the "Nux for females". Sometimes the small rx's which resemble the polychrests elude us.

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GRATIOLA

PHARMACY - Grat. Gratiola officinalis. Hedge Hyssop. Herb of Grace. N. O. Scrophulariacae. Grows in moist places. Tincture of fresh plant before flowering. Historical dose: Tincture and all potencies, second to third potency. Planets: Moon, Venus.
HERBAL - Gratiola"the Herb of Grace" is one of the most important members of the great Scrophularian group: Dig., Euphr., Tab., Scroph. and should be carefully studied with these. Cooper has used it with great success in a case of gouty acidity with great constipation and in the constipation of cancer. He regards it as "the vegetable antacid." ...[abridged parts]

HOMEOPATHIC -- Though Gratiola officinalis acts especially on the gastro-intestinal tract, it has some mental and sexual symptoms also. It especially useful in females. Nux-v. like symptoms in females are often met by Gratiola. Chronic catarrhal conditions, leucorrhea and gonorrhea. Obstinate ulcers.
Indications are: Constant sinking but cannot eat, bitter taste. The affection of the solar plexus is very marked. Cramps beginning at pit of stomach and pains radiating therefrom.
Anxiety, gnawing, empty feeling, rolling about in epigastric region. Urine is diminished, reddish, turbid. Mental effects from overweening pride. Nervous prostration. Neuralgia due to abuse of coffee. Paralytic pains and feeling of coldness especially in the abdomen are marked symptoms. Cerebral disorders without fever. Trembling in limbs, convulsions, cramps, excitement and disordered condition of the sexual powers.
CLINICAL - Brain disorders. Cholera. Coccyx, pain. Colic. Constipation. Cramps, Diarrhea. Dropsy. Eye disorders. Gout. Headaches. Hemorrhoids. Hydrocephalus. Hysteria. Mania. Masturbation. Mesenteric glands. Nausea. Neuralgias. Nymphomania. Palpitations. Rheumatic pain. Stomach pains. Tetanus. Vision, disordered.
Causations - Coffee causes neuralgia.
Modalities - Better from open air, rest. Worse from eating, drinking too much water hot or cold. Worse from summer, abuse of coffee, dinner. Worse motion. Worse in warm room.
MIND - Peevishness, ill-humor, irresolute, hysterical. It is useful in mental troubles from overweening pride. Weak will. Ill humor, tired of life, want of perseverance. Apprehensive about the future. Hysteria. Nymphomania. Hypochondriasis.
Abdomen - Shooting pains in the abdomen. Inflation of the abdomen. Rumbling with nausea, eructation and vertigo. Flatulent and pressive colic with nausea and disagreeable risings. Feeling of coldness in abdomen, lasting half an hour.
Back - Pain in coccyx after stool. Neck as if seized by hands.
Breasts - Darting pain in breasts. Shootings in right breast, worse on rising during menses.
Chest - Heat in the chest, then the head and hands with redness of the face. Pressure on the chest. Shootings in the chest on breathing. Pimples on the chest, which burn after having been scratched.
Eyes - Dry, burn. Myopia. All objects seem white, even green trees.
Face - Burning heat and redness of the face. Tingling, burning in malar bones. Sensation of tension in the face, it feels swollen. Swelling of upper lip. Tearing on one side of face. Painful crack in left side of chin.
Female - Irritable condition of sexual organs with congestions. Menses too profuse, premature and too long. Nymphomania. Leucorrhea, persistent. Tendency to masturbation.
Food - Hunger after a meal with feeling of emptiness. Craves nothing but bread. Worse during and after eating, vertigo during and after a meal.
Head - Sick headache. Rush of blood with vanishing of sight. Tightness in forehead with wrinkles in skin. Sensation as if brain was contracting and head became smaller.
Heart - Palpitations after stools with oppression of the chest. Pulse small intermittent.
Kidneys - Diminished secretion of urine. Scanty and reddish urine, which becomes turbid on standing with cloudy sediment. Burning in the urethra during and after urination.
Limbs - Limb gives way with sciatic pain. Rheumatic pains in the shoulders, arms, fingers, particularly in elbow and wrist-joint. Itching in the palm of the hand.
Lungs - Dry cough, excited by a sensation of roughness in the chest in the morning or at night. Nocturnal cough with pain as from excoriation in trachea, oppression of the chest and shivering.
Male - Painful rigidity of the penis after seminal emission, nightly. Stitches in left spermatic cord, ascending though the abdomen up to the chest. Drawing pain in glans.
Mouth - Nocturnal tearing or piercing in the molars. Sensation of cold in the teeth. Accumulation of much saliva in the mouth. Mouth bitter or clammy. Tongue rough, covered with mucus. Fetid breath in the morning after waking.
Nose - Frequent sneezing. Stoppage of the nose. Smarting, itching in left nostril. Pressure at upper part of nose.
Rectum - Diarrhea, green, frothy water, followed by anal burning, forcibly evacuated without pain. Summer diarrhea from drinking of excess of water. Hemorrhoids with hypochondriasis. Rectum constricted. Constipation with gouty acidity.
Sensations - As if brain contracted, as if head grew smaller, as if brain would fall forward, as if sand in eyes, as if throat contracted, as if a stone rolling from side to side in stomach.
Skin - Itching with burning after scratching. Running and corrosive eruptions, which resemble scabies.
Sleep - Insomnia.
Stomach - Dyspepsia with much distention of the stomach. Emptiness after eating. Cramps and colic after supper and during night with swelling of abdomen and constipation. Dysphagia for liquids. As of a cold water or loose heavy load in stomach.
Temperature - Tendency to chilliness. Chilliness in a warm room during sleep after an evacuation with the hair standing on end. Heat ascending to the face with redness and increased external warmth. Constant vaporous exhalation from the body.
Throat - Pressure in throat, as form thick mucus. Accumulation of mucus in throat. Pain in throat obliging one to swallow constantly. Stinging in throat. Tingling, roughness and scraping in throat. Phlegm in throat with inability to throw it off.
Vertigo - Vertigo during and after meals, hunger and feeling of emptiness after meals.
[source: Murphy's]
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