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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LEADERS IN Homoeopathic Therapeutics. NUX VOMICA. Among the symptoms called characteristic, as given by Constantine Hering, are these : After aromatics in food or as medicine, particularly ginger, pepper, etc., and after almost any kind of so-called hot medicines (Goullon). Also, will also benefit persons who have been drugged by mixtures, bitters, herbs and so-called vegetable pills, etc.(B.). This is putting it in too wholesale a fashion. It would be true if said that Nux vomica will often benefit such cases. The fact is that it will benefit those cases in which the use of such drugs, aromatics, pills, etc., has brought about a condition that simulates the symptoms produced in the provings of Nux vomica, or in cases to which it is homoeopathic, and no others. Another fact is that these things often do produce such a condition, and that is one reason why so many physicians are almost invariably prescribing Nux vomica the first thing, in cases coming from allopathic hands, without even examining the case. But it is unscientific. We have a law of cure, and there are cases in which the Nux vomica condition is not present but another more similar remedy must be given. It doesnot alter the case to say, Well, I did not know what had been given, for Nux vomica will neither antidote the effects of the drug poison nor cure the disease condition unless it is homoeopathically indicated, especially if given in the dynamic form. Here are two more of Hering's card symptoms, in which are given the temperaments that are most susceptible to the action of Nux : Over-sensitiveness, every harmless word offends, every little noise frightens, anxious and beside themselves, they cannot bear the least, even suitable medicines.(B.). And, For very particular, caref...
