discomfort of haemorrhoids.
Nux Vomica is also useful in the treatment of different allergies. Some people develop an allergy to rice or meat and develop hyperacidity. By the grace of God, with the use of Nux Vomica, the patients find instant relief. Nux Vomica has not been mentioned in any of the literatures as a specific treatment for rice allergies but based on its symptoms; I have tried Nux Vomica on such patients. In spite of the fact that Nux Vomica is of a hot nature and the rice allergy is related to a humid climate, it relieves the symptoms of allergy to rice.
Indigestion produces hyperacidity in the stomach. The patient becomes peevish and easily enraged. Such patients are usually thin and skinny. However, sometimes even fat people can develop hyperacidity in the stomach. For them, there are many other remedies available. Nux Vomica is the ideal homoeopathic remedy for the patients have certain habits that make their symptoms worse. For example they remain awake late at night, they work for a long time in a sedentary state and they do not exercise regularly. Excessive drinking in the western culture or eating too much oily food in the eastern culture produces hyperacidity. All such patients benefit from Nux Vomica.
Apart from the digestive system,
Nux Vomica does not have any profound effect on other major
internal organs. However, it does affect the external musculature,
mucous membranes and the skin. A backache developing from sitting
for too long can be cured with Nux Vomica. The Nux Vomica
backache is usually localised at one particular area. If other symptoms of Nux
Vomica were present, including gastric
hyperacidity, then the profound weakness which appears suddenly in
such patients would also be cured with Nux Vomica. During this weakness, the
person may not even be able to move his hands. The patient feels instantly
rejuvenated with Nux Vomica. It should be given in potency 30 to be repeated
every few minutes.
The Nux Vomica poison slows
down the peristaltic movement of the intestines. In healthy people, after
taking food, the peristalsis beginning at the stomach must continue to the end
of the intestines, so that the semi-digested food may be passed on. Normally
this cycle should complete in fourteen hours. After fourteen hours, the
contents remain inside the large gut to allow for the absorption of excess
secretions. Thus a healthy person normally has one motion in twentyfour hours.
If the system of peristalsis slows down the person becomes constipated, and if it
becomes too speedy then diarrhoea
develops, or sometimes the patient may have frequent solid motions,
one after the other. Nux Vomica is an effective treatment specific for this
condition.
Gastric
dysfunction can often aggravate asthma.
So asthmatics should avoid eating food that may
upset their stomach and also food causing irritation of throat.
Such foods would always precipitate their asthma. Extremely cold or sour
things like pickles can also be very dangerous to asthma patients. Nux
Vomica is very beneficial in the treatment of asthma due to hyperacidity. To prevent against the asthma related to the nasal cold,
one should keep taking prophylactic remedies, so that the patient
neither catches cold nor develops asthma since prevention is better than cure. Nux Vomica is also useful in
the treatment of leg cramps.
Given at the outset it offers instant relief. If the cramps are associated with
symptoms like Belladonna, even then Nux Vomica, by itself proves to be
curative. Regarding the cramps associated with Nux Vomica, there is some
contradiction in that the backache becomes worse in the cold and the
stomachache becomes worse from heat. The reason for this is that Nux Vomica
contains many chemical compounds which behave differently on different
occasions. Nux Vomica contains Belladonna and Cuprum, so some of the symptoms
of Nux Vomica may aggravate from heat.
Nux Vomica has proven to be the best general remedy for the
treatment of common day-to-day
leg cramps. It is also very effective in the treatment of sleeplessness.
For example, Nux Vomica is the best
alternative for drug addicts and people with the habit of taking
sleeping pills. I often start the treatment of drug addicts with Nux Vomica.
With some exceptions, all the patients have benefited from the treatment. Once,
a young drug addict was brought to me by his parents. Obviously, they were very
worried and dismayed. The patient was being treated for drug addiction with
sleeping pills, yet he could not sleep even with heavy doses of hypnotic
medicines. I advised him to take Nux Vomica 30 three times a day, and kept his
sleeping pills with me. I assured him that if he could not go to sleep during
the night, he could come and take the sleeping pills back from me in the
morning. That night, for the first time in a long time, the patient enjoyed sound
sleep. In the morning he told me that with sleeping pills, he could never have
comfortable sleep, whereas with Nux Vomica, he had slept comfortably. His
sleeping pills remained with me for a long time as a souvenir. Thus, Nux Vomica
has proven to be a very useful medicine for treating
the side effects of drug addiction and also for getting rid of the
habit of using sleeping pills. If Nux Vomica alone is not fully effective,
Chamomilla should also be given along with it. Together, besides acting as
sedatives, they also dispel the ill effects of the addictive drugs.
Nux Vomica is the best remedy
for sleeplessness resulting
from a heavy workload, lengthy talking
or some sort of mental anguish. Nux Vomica is also an excellent
antidote for the ill effects of coffee. By the grace of God, the people who
lose sleep due to drinking coffee can instantly go to sleep with just one dose
of Nux Vomica. The patient goes to sleep right away without a feeling of
preliminary drowsiness. Morning dizziness is a
symptom of Nux Vomica. Probably, the patient did not get a good night’s sleep
and the mind was not properly rested, resulting in dizziness. In some sensitive
individuals Nux Vomica 200 can cause sleeplessness. Generally nux vom 20 is
more effective for sleep than Nux Vomica 200. One learns the proper use of the
potencies from keen observations and long experience. If the nasal
discharge solidifies clogging both nostrils, it produces severe
headache. The pain becomes worse on bending forward. The patient feels pressure
inside the head. The nose
remains blocked all the time. This condition is called a sinus
problem. Nux Vomica 1000 given at night proves to be extraordinarily effective.
By the morning, the patient sneezes a lot, expelling the liquefied nasal
discharge and clearing the nose. There are some other possible remedies too for
this condition. However, one should always start the treatment with Nux Vomica.
One symptom of Nux Vomica is
that in women, menstruation
becomes irregular. If the periods start earlier than the usual time,
they become prolonged. However, if the periods start delayed, they stop
relatively earlier. Bryonia also has a similar symptom, with the difference
that in Bryonia, the menstrual irregularities become worse on movement. In Nux
Vomica, the symptoms are not affected by movement.
In Nux Vomica, there is a
feeling that the uterus is
prolapsing downwards. There is a feeling of uneasiness in the
bladder and one feels like passing urine frequently, but in small quantity. The
patient develops constipation,
which keeps alternating with diarrhoea. In Nux Vomica, the haemorrhoids itch a lot.
The stools are rather small though frequent. The peristaltic movements of the
intestines become slow. The stomach secretes an excessive amount of acid.
However (unlike Pulsatilla), a Nux Vomica patient can digest oily food. Nux Vomica is an excellent appetizer and an equally
well appetite suppressant. Patients getting
hunger pangs should be treated with Nux Vomica. Many such patients can
get an asthma attack
due to hunger. Once they are treated with Nux
Vomica, they do not get asthma. In Nux Vomica, the headache begins mostly in
the area above the eyes, getting worse on moving the
eyeball. It feels like a stabbing pain. On going into sunlight or
on opening the eyes in the sunlight, the headache intensifies. The
headache aggravates in the morning and after eating food. Sometimes
during the headache, the patient may also bleed from the nose. Severe
constipation is common. The headache is also related to
haemorrhoids. The patient cannot tolerate noise or touch. The mouth tastes
bad. In the morning, the
patient feels
nauseated but does not vomit. After eating food, the patient feels pressure and pain in the
stomach. The patient cannot tolerate even light pressure on the stomach.
The lower part of the stomach appears swollen and heavy like a
stone. At the onset of an
asthma attack, the cough begins a day
before the stomach upset. The chest
rattles with the accumulation
of secretions in the lungs. Other symptoms of Nux Vomica are a dry or
suffocating type of cough associated with blood in the sputum, the onset of headache and backache on
coughing, a burning sensation in the backbone which becomes worse at
three or four o’ clock in the morning, and relief of suffering on resting at
noon time and on sweating. In Nux Vomica, small
sores develop inside the mouth. The margins of the tongue become
yellowish-white and fissured. The gums
become swollen, are white and bleed. There is a feeling of being
choked and pinching in the throat, which appears to be spreading to the
ears. There is an interesting symptom
of Nux Vomica. Some bad-natured
and malicious persons always backbite and keep finding faults in
other people. Treatment with high potency Nux Vomica restores their normal
thinking. They do not remain jealous of others either. However, it is not essential that every Nux
Vomica patient be of jealous nature. A Nux Vomica patient wakes up in
the later part of the night and cannot go back to sleep again. He
feels drowsy in the morning. He may
feel sudden weakness in the arms and legs.
The symptoms become worse after eating food,
mental overwork, eating oily spicy food and in dry cold weather. The patient
feels better in the evening, on taking rest, on being pressed locally, and in
humid climate.