Homoeopathy — Page 535
Nux Vomica 535 NUX VOMICA (Poison Nut) Nux Vomica is prepared from the seeds of an evergreen plant. The scent of its flowers is rather unpleasant. Its fruit is of orange colour. The seeds of the plant remain wrapped under soft hair. The remedy is prepared by grinding the seeds. In traditional medicines, it has been used in the treatment of extremely serious conditions, like plague, hysteria, rheumatism and rabies. Since Nux Vomica seeds contain many poisonous substances, therefore the homoeopathic medicine produced from the seeds is extensively used as an antidote to many poisons. Patients who have used different medicines in large quantities should be treated with Nux Vomica in order to dispel their ill effects and to give the patient’s body a fresh start. Nux Vomica is very intimately related to Sulphur. While restoring the natural body responses, Sulphur produces painful skin diseases. Nux Vomica cleanses the body of these skin diseases without suppressing the diseases back inside the body. Thus, Nux Vomica works as an extremely potent adjuvant of Sulphur. It ameliorates the skin diseases without impeding the useful functions of Sulphur. If haemorrhoids need to be treated with Sulphur, then Nux Vomica should also be used with it. Nux Vomica proves to be the best adjuvant in abating the 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