NUX VOMICA BMM Update.pptx

1. NUX VOMICA
Behavioural
Materia Medica
Dr. Subrata K. Banerjea, GOLD MEDALIST
B.H.M.S. (Honours In Nine Subjects Of Calcutta University)
Fellow: Society of Homoeopaths, U.K.
Fellow: Homoeopathic Medical Association of the United Kingdom
Fellow: Association of Natural Medicine, U.K
Fellow: Akademie Homoopathischer Deutscher Zentralverein (Germany)
Director: Bengal Allen Medical Institute
Principal: Allen College of Homoeopathy, Essex, England
“SAPIENS”, 382, BADDOW ROAD, GREAT BADDOW,
CHELMSFORD, ESSEX CM2 9RA, ENGLAND
Tel & Fax No. 44 (0) 1245 505859
E. Mail: allencollege@btconnect.com
Web: https://allencollege.co.uk www.homoeopathy-course.com
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2. NUX VOMICA
Plant Kingdom
Remedy
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3. FACE
• Smart
• Bossy
• Intoxicated expression
• Formication
• Heat
• Anxious
• Distressed
• Sickly
Anxious facial expression – Intoxicated
(a) Ambitious achiever
(b)Cannot tolerate fools
(c) From drink
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4. TONGUE
• Posterior yellow coating
• Large and flabby
• Small, apthous ulcers with bloody
saliva
• First half of tongue clean
• Posterior cover with deep fur
• White-yellow cracked edges
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5. NAILS
Dry, harsh (psoric).
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Thick and ridges (sycotic)
Twitching sensations
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6. VOICE
• Strong
• Dictatorial
• Decisive
• Confused
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7. BEHAVIOUR
• Ambitious
• Arrogant
• Charismatic – inspiring enthusiasm
• Confident and courteous
• Workaholic
• Perfectionist
• Aggressive
• Independent
• Impatient
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8. DRESS
• Charismatic
• Attractive/matching
• Fussy
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9. Heat/Cold
Relationship
Nux Vomica =
Extremely chilly
medicine
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10. ARCHETYPE
Nux Vomica is ideally suited to:
• Thin, spare subjects with dark hair and a dark
complexion, who lead a sedentary life.
• Nervous
• Extremely susceptible to external impressions
• Habituated to over-study/overwork and
debauches
• Thin, irritable, choleric
• Make excessive mental exertion
• Patients deprive themselves of food and exercise
in pursuit of studies
(Farrington)
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11. FEATURES
• Smart, dapper
• Neat and tidy- formal, suit and tie
• Chilly
• Thin, sparse, trim
• Quick, active, nervous
• Prefers fine dining to barbeques
• ‘Night owl’ type – catnaps as sun sets.
• Then can be awake late into the night
with coffee, wine and women.
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12. MAKING
APPOINTMENT
• Bossy and impatient about
holding the phone for long, and
your inability to fit “Mr Boss”
according to his suitable time to
visit you.
• Appears on time on the day of the
appointment
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13. PERSONALITY
• Ambitious
• Arrogant and charismatic
• Confident and courteous
• Sincere
• Aggressive
• Competitive
• Independent
• Impatient
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14. GESTURE
• Spiteful
• Irritable
• Fault-finding
• Never contented
• Competitive
• Strong feeling of right and
wrong
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15. GESTURE/
BEHAVIOUR:
Irritable and
impatient
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16. SIT AND
BEHAVE
• Impatient
• Fault-finding
• Aggressive
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17. GAIT
When walking,
drags feet
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18. BEHAVIOUR
• Independent
• Sensitive (physical and emotional)
• Jealous (abusive)
• Fastidious – especially at work. Precise,
everything has to have its appointed place.
Infuriated by slow and careless workers.
• Obsessive.
• Workaholic – competitive, ambitious, career and
work-oriented.
• Impatient – wishes to be cured quickly.
• Aggressive – breaks, hits, throws.
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19. LOOK AND
DIAGNOSE
• Charismatic
• Aggressive
• Impatient
• Fastidious
• Mr Boss
• Chilly
• Confident
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20. REACTION TO
EMOTIONS
• Grieving or sad mood – deception causes
grief leading to mortification
• Anxious mood – fear of misfortune and
future money shortage
• Aggressive mood – desire to break things
• Personality – charismatic
• Envious mood, jealous and quarrelsome
about qualities of others
• Miserable nature – desire to kill loved
ones
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Abuse
Fright
Aggressive
Fault
finding
Impatient
Workaholic
MENTAL AETIOLOGIES PSYCHIC MANIFESTATIONS
Competitiv
e
Fastidious
Anger
Mental Aetiologies
Marry
Destructive Independent
Loss
Failure
Academic,
Project, etc.
Complaint
s related to
business
affairs
Indignatio
n
Humiliation
Jealousy
Profession
al jealousy
(Repertory
to jealousy,
professional
)
Deception
Discords Wounded
honour
Work-focused
Overrules
restrictions
Urge to
achieve
Confident &
arrogant

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Neatness
Efficiency Order
Essential for
Peace of
Mind

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Focused
competitive &
ambitious
Workaholic
(career &
work
oriented)
Fastidious
& fault-
finding
(infuriated
by careless
& slow
workers)
Confident
& arrogant
Urge: to
achieve (the
conqueror,
dictatorial);
need for
power
Overrules
restrictions
Work
Focused

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Unresolved anger
Compulsive
neurosis
behaviour &
disorders
Destructive
& violent
(breaks, hits,
throws)
Impatient
Easily
offended
Anger & violent
rage, from
contradiction
Aggressive
Personality

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Sensitive
Independent
 Fear of
marriage
Jealous 
Abusive
Fastidious 
Especially at
work (fussy,
precise,
everything has
its appointed
place)
Impatient  Hurried
 Wishes to be cured
quickly
Order
Efficiency

26. Impatient –
leading to
bossiness
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Pomp
Rage Anger
Compare
Platina

28. Arrogant
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29. Hahnemann Says:
“Nux is chiefly successful
with the persons of an
ardent character; of an
irritable, impatient
temperament, disposed to
anger, spite or deception”
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Anxiety
Solitude:
prefers
Alone
ameliorate
s

31. Suppresses
symptoms of
ailments with all
kinds of
medications
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Bossy
Arrogant Confident

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Competitiv
e
Apexian Workaholi
c

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Malicious
Quarrelsome

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Fault-finding
Abusive

36. NUX VOMICA:
Presented through
its common name:
POISON NUT
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37. P =
Paralytic
Conditions
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38. O =
Oversensitivenes
s
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39. I =
Ineffectual desire
(stool and urine)
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40. S =
Sleep:
Catnap
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41. O =
Oversensitive to
cold
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42. N =
Nausea
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43. N =
Nash’s sum-up
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44. U =
Universal Antidote
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45. T =
Trembling ->
Spasm
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46. Nux is adapted
to…
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47. Appearance
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48. Fault-finding
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49. Constitution
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Rich and
stimulating
food
Drugs
(pharmaceutic
al and
recreational)
Parties
Debaucher
y
Stimulating
experiences
Wine and
women
Work
Desires

51. Alcoholism
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52. Desires and
Aversions
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53. Ailments from
overstimulating,
workaholic
habits and
lifestyle
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54. Typical health
complaints
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Hypersensitive
Spasmodic
Constrictive
Dyspeptic
Haemorrhagi
c
Love for sex,
wine and
Work
Aetiologie
s

56. NUX VOMICA
Head-to-foot
approach
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57. Head
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58. Nose
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59. Nose: catarrh
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60. Breath
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61. Mouth
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62. Stomach
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63. Constipation
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64. Extremities
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65. Nap
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66. Sleep
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67. SLEEP HABIT
• Cannot sleep from 3am until morning,
then wakes unrefreshed
• Sun sets, Nux sleeps.
• Amel cat nap/power nap
• Drowsy after meals and in early evening
• Drowsy after short sleep – irritable if
roused
POSITION DURING SLEEP:
One or both arms under; on back, hand
flat under occiput; head backwards
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68. Best time to
dispense
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69. Thank You!
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