Nux Vomica: Symptoms, Benefits and Side Effects

Nux Vomica is a common homeopathic remedy. Well-known homeopathic Physician, Dr. Boric stated that "if you do not know what is to give-give Nux Vomica". After all, it has various symptoms in our whole body. It helps to remove most of the symptoms at the initial time. Nux Vomica has been used to treat various problems including nausea, bloating a number of hours following consuming, indigestion, sour burping, heartburn, and digestion immediately after effects after eating rich meals, hot meals or overeating

Symptoms of Nux Vomica

Mental:

01. Does not want to be touched 

02. Sedentary life style 

03. Impatient 

04. Disposed to reproach others 

05. Irritable 

06. Oversensitive to noise light 

07. For poor effects of over-indulgence in perform 

Coughs:

01. A dry and tickling cough 

02. Feeling that coughs tears something loose in chest 

03. Coughing spells end in retching 

04. A cough with a sore throat and chest 

05. A cough brings on bursting headache 

Influenza:

01. Nausea 

02. Cannot get warm 

03. Shivering, especially after drinking 

04. Weak urge to vomit 

05. Chilly from least movement under covers 

06. Cramping pains causing urge to stool 

Insomnia:

01. After mental strain 

02. Unable to sleep after 3 a.m 

03. Cannot sleep for thoughts of day's work 

04. Wakes to feel miserable 

Colds:

01. Nose stopped at night 

02. Nose runs during day 

03. Attacks of sneezing 

04. Sniffles of infant 

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Nausea:

01. Dizziness 

02. Nausea of pregnancy 

03. Feels there would be relief from vomiting 

04. Sour vomiting 

Asthma:

01. Browbeaten breathing with shallow respiration 

02. Attack often follows stomach upset with much belching 

Head:

01. Over sensitiveness 

02. A congestive headache, related with hemorrhoids 

03. A headache in occiput or over eyes 

04. Pressing pain on vertex 

05. Frontal headache 

06. Vertigo in morning and after dinner 

Eyes:

01. Photophobia 

02. Optic neuritis 

03. Much worse in morning 

04. Burning dry sensation in inner canthi 

05. Optic nerve atrophy, from usual use of intoxicants 

06. Paresis of ocular muscles 

07. Infra-orbital neuralgia, with the watering of eyes 

08. Orbital twitching scorching towards the occiput 

09. Loud sounds anger him 

Nose:

01. Stuffed up, especially at night 

02. Odors tend to produce fainting 

03. Airless colds, snuffles, after exposure to dry 

04. Coryza: fluent in daytime 

05. Bleeding in morning 

06. Worse in hot room 

07. Acrid discharge, but with stuffed up emotion 

Ears:

01. Itching in ear through Eustachian tube 

02. Hyperesthesia of auditory nerves 

03. Hearing canal dry and sensitive 

04. Loud sounds are painful 

05. Otalgia; worse in bed 

Mouth:

01. Ulcers, with bloody saliva 

02. First half of tongue cleans 

03. Jaws contracted 

04. Teeth ache 

05. Worse; cold things 

06. White, yellow and cracked edges 

07. Gums swollen and bleeding 

Stool:

01. Incomplete and unsatisfactory 

02. Constriction of rectum 

03. Sense as if part remained unexcelled 

04. Constipation, with frequent feeble urging 

05. Irregular and peristaltic action 

06. Alternate constipation and diarrhea 

07. Diarrhea after a debauch; worse in the morning 

08. Influence to stool felt throughout abdomen 

09. Itching Blind hemorrhoids 

10. The stool is very painful; after drastic drugs. 

11. Frequent small evacuations 

12. Dysentery 

13. Stools relieve pains for a time 

14. Diarrhea, with jaundice 

15. Very little stool, with much urging 

Stomach:

01. Nausea after eating 

02. Sour taste and nausea in the morning, 

03. Weight and pain in stomach 

04. Flatulence and pyrosis 

05. Wants to vomit, but cannot 

06. Sour and bitter eructation 

07. Nausea and vomiting, with much retching 

08. Acid stomach from drinking coffee 

09. Very hungry hunger, about a day before an attack of dyspepsia 

10. Area of stomach very sensitive to pressure 

11. Desire for drinks 

12. Complicated belching of gas 

Female:

01. Menses too early lasts too long 

02. Menses always irregular 

03. Blood black with faint spells 

04. Desire too strong 

05. Prolapsus uteri 

06. Dysmenorrhœa with pain in sacrum, 

07. Inefficient labor-pains; 

08. Extend to rectum 

09. Constant urging to stool 

10. Metrorrhagia 

Male:

01. Weakness and irritability 

02. Easily excited desire 

03. Spermatorrhœa, with dreams 

04. Bad effects of male function excesses 

05. Pain in testicles 

06. Emissions from high living 

07. Orchitis 

08. A backache and burning in spine 

Urine:

01. Hæmaturia 

02. While urinating, itching in urethra 

03. Ineffectual urging, spasmodic 

04. Irritable bladder; from irregular sphincter 

05. Renal colic extending to genitals, with dribbling urine 

06. Pain in neck of bladder 

Benefits of Nux Vomica

Nux Vomica is very helpful for

• Nerve disorders 
• Erectile dysfunction (ED) 
• Disorders of the heart and blood system 
• Anemia 
• Impotence 
• Diseases of the eye 
• Depression 
• Migraine problem 
• Chronic dysentery 
• Various problems of the stomach and intestines 
• Lung problems 
• Stimulating the appetite 
• Dyspepsia 

Side Effects of Nux Vomica

The mother tincture of Nux vomica can be used to remove chronic dysentery for a long time. But taking its high potency for more than a week can cause side effects including anxiety, neck and back stiffness, restlessness, spasms of jaw and neck muscles, dizziness, breathing problems, convulsions, liver failure, and seizures. This homeopathic remedy can harm both mother and child during the period of pregnancy.