Nux Vomica
11/10/2005
This is a remedy for patients who tend to carry actions to extremes.

They over work, indulge in food, alcohol, coffee and stimulants generally (it’s the number one hangover remedy). They cannot sleep owing to nervous exhaustion or business anxieties. They are over sensitive to noise, smells and light; they may be irritated and quarrelsome. Neat and tidy themselves they expect the same of others. They are at their worst in the mornings and respond badly to cold weather and well to warmth. Their pains are cramping and spasmodic and made worse by sedentary habits.
COLDS • Nose runs during the day, blocked up and stuffy at night • Better for fresh air • Sneezing on waking
HEADACHES • Worse in mornings after overindulgence, loss of sleep or mental strain • Bilious and oversensitive to noise and light FLU • Sore, bruised pains in joints and bones • High fever with violent chills, backache extreme chilliness, shivering and sweating • Worse from draughts, being uncovered – even the slightest movement of the bed clorthes
DIGESTIVE PROBLEMS • From alcohol, rich food, coffee or mental strain • Belches bitter, sour • Cramping pains in stomach are better from warmth or warm drinks • Flatulence after eating is worse wearing tight clothing • Constipation with ineffectual urging • Diarrhoea after too much alcohol • Constipation worse from overeating, or in pregnancy, sedentary habits or travelling
SLEEPLESSNESS • From alcohol and worrying or too much coffee • Wakes between 3 and 4am, wakes tired • Falls asleep when should be getting up

Prescribing notes
1. The remedy addresses all the above symptoms individually or collectively. The patient doesn’t have to have all the symptoms to need the remedy.
2. From the health shop remedies are available in 6c or 30c potency, either is very effective so long as you get your symptom match right.
3. Take one tablet every two hours until you get relief of your symptoms then stop. With 30c potency every 4 hours may be more appropriate. Each remedy and each patient’s reaction is different.
4. Where possible place the remedy under your tongue in a clean mouth i.e. don’t eat drink or smoke for 15 minutes before and after taking the remedy. This is to give it a chance to be absorbed. Put your tablet under your tongue for five minutes then chew and swallow it. The round pills dissolve quicker than the flat hard ones; in both the medicine is on the surface of the pill.
5. In an emergency situation just take or give the remedy.

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