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Nux Moschata

30CNux Mosch

Nutmeg · "The Drowsy Fainting Nutmeg Remedy"

nux-m.PolychrestPlantCommonPsoric

🎯 Acts primarily on the nervous system to produce extreme drowsiness, fainting, and a profound dryness of the mucous membranes.

📖 Boericke writes:

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.

👤 Constitution

•Typically indicated for individuals who are prone to fainting, have a confused mental state, and suffer from extreme dryness of the skin and mouth without thirst.

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Cold extremities, extreme dryness of mucous membranes and skin.

introduction

Bursting headache; better hard pressure.

head

Excessively bloated.

stomach

Flatulent dyspepsia.

stomach

Enormously distended.

abdomen

Faintness during or after stool.

abdomen

Variableness of menstruation irregularity of time and quantity.

female

Complaints cause sleepiness.

sleep

🩺 Systems & Indications

🧠Mind

Useful for mental confusion, dream-like states, and emotional instability.

Changeable; laughing and crying.

Confused, impaired memory.

Bewildered sense, as in a dream.

Thinks she has two heads.

🔑 Modalities

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💊 Dosage & Potency

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

First to sixth potency

Decimal

Primary Dosage

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🚫 Antidotes

Camphora →Gelsemium Sempervirens →Valeriana Officinalis →

🔄 Compare With

Ignatia Amara →Nux Vomica →Pulsatilla Pratensis →Ornithogalum Umbellatum →Myristica Sebifera →Rhus Toxicodendron →Asa Foetida →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Nux Moschata is listed in 212 rubrics across 22 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 57 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Mind30 Stomach20 Abdomen20 Female Sexual System20 Modalities20 Nervous System15 Respiratory System12 Locomotor System11 Fever10 Circulatory System10 Head9 Eyes7 Mouth5 Throat5 Generalities4 Tongue4 Skin4 Urinary System2 Teeth1 Taste1 Ears1 Nose1

See all 212 rubrics for Nux Moschata →