Nux Vomica.pptx

Nux vomica is the common name for a homeopathic medication that comes from the Strychnos nux-vomica tree, which is also called the vomiting nut or the poison nut tree.

1. Nux vomica Dr Saroj Ranjit Sawant M.D.(HOM.)

2. introduction Nux vomica is a plant sourced from an evergreen tree named  Strychnos nux - vomica . It is the greatest of polychrests , because the bulk of its symptoms correspond in similarity with those of the commonest and most frequent of diseases. It is frequently the first remedy, indicated after much dosing , establishing a sort of equilibrium of forces and counteracting chronic effects. Nux is pre-eminently the remedy for many of the conditions incident to modern life. Dr Saroj Sawant

3. Common name   Nux Vomica , Poison Nut, Quaker buttons, Semen strychnos , Snake-wood, Strychnine tree Dr Saroj Sawant

4. family Loganiaceae Family Dr Saroj Sawant

5. habitat Native to  India  and to southeast Asia . Strychnos nux vomica is a moderate-sized tree native of the Coromandel Coast and Cochin China Dr Saroj Sawant

6. Part used Homoeopathic dilution prepared from the seeds of the strychnine tree Dr Saroj Sawant

7. preparation The fruit is a berry about the size of a small orange. When ripe it has a rather hard orange-yellow epicarp and a white, pulpy, interior in which 1–5 seeds are embedded. The seeds are washed free from pulp and dried.  Dr Saroj Sawant

8. constituents It is a major source of the highly poisonous, intensely bitter alkaloids  strychnine  and  brucine  derived from the seeds  Dr Saroj Sawant

9. Prover Dr Saroj Sawant

10. Sphere of action It acts on spinal cord, motor and sensory centres , brain, gastro-intestinal tract, respiratory organs, cardiovascular system and genito -urinary system. Dr Saroj Sawant

11. The fruit is very like an orange in appearance and contains numerous seeds of flattened circular outline, about the size of a halfpenny, ash-grey in colour , covered with fine silky hairs. The seeds are intensely bitter, owing to the presence of Strychnia and Brucia It is used in India in cases of intermittent fever and snake-bites. A decoction of the leaves is used externally in rheumatism  Dr Saroj Sawant

12. Plant image Dr Saroj Sawant

13. quotes " Nux is chiefly successful with persons of an ardent character; of an irritable, impatient temperament, disposed to anger, spite or deception." - Hahnemann. Dr Saroj Sawant

14. quotes Nash says, “ Frequent and ineffectual desire to defecate, or passing but small quantities at each attempt.”  NASH says, “Spasm, sensitiveness (nervous), and chilliness are three general characteristics of this remedy.” Dr Saroj Sawant

15. quotes KENT says: “Another state running through Nux is that actions are turned in opposite directions. When the stomach is sick, it will empty its contents with no great effort ordinarily, but in Nux there is retching and straining as if the action were going the wrong way, as if it would force the abdomen open; a reversed action; retches, gags and strains, and after a prolonged effort he finally empties the stomach.” Dr Saroj Sawant

16. aetiopathogenesis  Bad effects of: coffee, tobacco, alcoholic stimulants; highly spiced or seasoned food; over-eating (Ant. c.); long continued mental over- exertion; sedentary habits; loss of sleep ( Coc ., Colch ., Nit. ac.); aromatic or patent medicines; sitting on cold stones; specially in warm weather. Dr Saroj Sawant

17. characters Adapted to thin, irritable, careful, zealous persons with dark hair and bilious or sanguine temperament .  Dr Saroj Sawant

18. characters Disposed to be quarrelsome, spiteful, malicious; nervous and melancholic . Dr Saroj Sawant

19. characters Debauchers of a thin, irritable, nervous disposition; prone to indigestion and hemorrhoids (persons with light hair, blue eyes, Lob.).  Dr Saroj Sawant

20. characters   Anxiety with irritability and inclination to commit suicide, but is afraid to die. Dr Saroj Sawant

21. characters Hypochondriac: literary, studious persons, who are too much at home, suffer from want of exercise, with gastric, abdominal complaints and costiveness; especially in drunkards. Dr Saroj Sawant

22. characters Oversensitive; to external impressions; to noise, odors, light or music ( Nux m.); trifling ailments are unbearable (Cham.); every harmless word offends (Ign .). Dr Saroj Sawant

23. characters Persons who are very particular, careful, but inclined to become easily excited or angered; irascible and tenacious. Dr Saroj Sawant

24. characters Universal Antidote- One of the best remedies with which to commence treatment of cases that have been drugged by mixtures, bitters, vegetable pills, nostrums or quack remedies, especially aromatic or "hot medicines." but only if symptoms correspond.  Dr Saroj Sawant

25. characters Convulsions, with consciousness ( Strych .); < anger, emotion, touch, moving.  Dr Saroj Sawant

26. characters Pains are tingling, sticking, hard, aching, worse from motion and contact. Dr Saroj Sawant

27. characters Tendency to faint ( Nux m., Sulph .); from odors; in morning; after eating; after every labor pain.  Dr Saroj Sawant

28. characters Cannot keep from falling asleep in the evening while sitting or reading hours before bedtime, and wakes at 3 or 4 a. m.; falls into a dreamy sleep at daybreak from which he is hard to arouse, and then feels tired and weak (reverse of, Puls .).  Dr Saroj Sawant

29. characters Catarrh: snuffles of infants (Am. c., Samb .); Coryza , dry at night, fluent by day; < in warm room, > in cold air; from sitting in cold places, on stone steps .  Dr Saroj Sawant

30. characters Eructation: sour, bitter, nausea and vomiting every morning with depression of spirits; after eating. Dr Saroj Sawant

31. characters Nausea: constant; after eating; in morning; from smoking; and feels "If I could only vomit I would be so much better.".   Dr Saroj Sawant

32. characters Stomach: pressure an hour or two after eating as from a stone (immediately after, Kali bi., Nux m.); pyrosis , tightness, must loosen clothing; cannot use the mind for two or three hours after a meal; sleepy after dinner; from anxiety, worry, brandy, coffee, drugs, night watching, high living, etc. Dr Saroj Sawant

33. characters Constipation; with frequent unsuccessful desire, passing small quantities of stool, sensation as if not finished.  Dr Saroj Sawant

34. characters Frequent desire fro stool; anxious, ineffectual, > for a time after stool; in morning after rising; after mental exertion (inactive, no desire, Bry ., Op., Sulph .). Dr Saroj Sawant

35. characters Alternate constipation and diarrhoea ( Sulph ., Ver.), in persons who have taken purgatives all their lives. Dr Saroj Sawant

36. characters Menses: too early, profuse, lasts too long; or keeping on several days longer, with complaints at onset and remaining after; every two weeks; irregular, never at right time; stopping and starting again ( Sulph .); during and after, < of old symptoms. Dr Saroj Sawant

37. characters Labor pains: violent, spasmodic; cause urging to stool or urinate; < in back; prefers a warm room. Dr Saroj Sawant

38. characters Strangulated hernia, especially umbilical . Dr Saroj Sawant

39. characters Backache: must sit up to turn over in bed; lumbago; from sexual weakness, from masturbation. Dr Saroj Sawant

40. characters Repugnance to cold or to cold air; chilly, on least movement; from being uncovered; must be covered in every stage of fever - chill, heat or sweat. Dr Saroj Sawant

41. characters Fever: great heat, whole body burning hot ( Acon .), face red and hot (Bell.), yet patient cannot move or uncover without being chilly. Dr Saroj Sawant

42. Modality < Morning: waking at 4 a. m.; mental exertion; after eating or over-eating; touch, < noise, anger, spices, narcotics, dry weather; in cold air. Dr Saroj Sawant

43. Modality > In evening, while at rest; lying down, and in damp, wet weather ( Caust .). Dr Saroj Sawant

44. Relationship ·Complementary : Sulphur , Sepia · Inimical to: Zinc must not be used before or after · Follows well: After, Ars.a ., Ipec ., Phos ., Sep, Sulph · Is followed well: by, Bry , Puls ., Sulph Antidotes: hot medicines, tea, coffee, narcotics, alcoholic preparations and most of the Homoeopathic remedies Dr Saroj Sawant

45. Thank you Dr Saroj Sawant