Moschus Moschiferus | Homeopathic Materia Medica | HDS

Moschus is a remedy for hysteria and nervous paroxysms , Fainting fits and convulsions, catalepsy, etc. The characteristic condition begin worse by cold; there is great sensitiveness to air. The well-known power of Musk-the perfume-to produce fainting in some by the mere smelling of it, gives the chief keynote for its use in homoeopathy.

Common Name : 

Deer musk, Musk, Moschus.

Family :

Mammalia

Preparation :

Trituration of inspissated secretion contained in preputial follicles.

Constitution : 

It is suited to spoiled, sensitive natures and hysterical women and men. Girls are selfish, obstinate, self-willed, pampered.

Thermal Relationship : 

Chilly Patient.

Ailments From :

Chill.

Clinical Conditions :

1. Angina pectoris.
2. Catalepsy. Croup.
3. Diabetes.
4. Dyspnoea.
5. Epilepsy.
6. Fainting.
7. Heart, failure of. Herpes, mercurial and venereal.
8. Hiccough.
9. Hypochondriasis.
10. Hysteria.
11. Hystero-epilepsy.
12. Impotence.
13. Laryngismus.
14. Lungs, paralysis of.
15. Pregnancy, complaints of.
16. Rage, fits of.
17.  Typhoid.
18. Vertigo.
19. Whooping-cough.

Mental Symptoms :

•  Sexual hypochondriasis.
• They are self-willed, obstinate and selfish.
• Dread of death, and talks only of death when there is no serious complaint.
• Anguish and palpitation.
• Peevishness and quarrelsomeness.
• In a constant hurry, and lets things fall from her hands.
• Foolish gestures and complaint of pain.
• Apprehension, trembling and palpitation.
• Fear of lying down lest she die.
• Sensation of falling from a height, or as if rapidly turned around.
• Great absence of mind, sometimes with confused speech.
• Cries one moment, uncontrollable laughter the next.
• Sudden loss of memory.
• Emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition; rage, fury.

Characteristic Physical Guiding Symptoms :

• A remedy for hysteria and nervous paroxysms, fainting fits and convulsions, catalepsy, etc.
• Much nervous trembling and frequent fainting.
• Faints easily; faints dead away from the least excitement.
• In nervous or spasmodic complaints where the patient feels very cold & in epileptic fits where there is rigor or chilliness, or shuddering as though the patient was very cold.
• Sexual desire is much excited in both sexes, even in the aged.
• Headache as if from a heavy weight. As if a cord were frequently drawn and tightened so as to cut head in two.
• Rushing in ears as from strong wind or from the wing of a bird.
• Burning heat in bed.
• The characteristic condition begin worse by cold; there is great sensitiveness to air.

Particulars :

1. Head :

• Hysterical headaches, with copious colorless urine.
• Vertigo and wavering before eyes, on least movement of head or eyelids. < stooping, > rising.
• Heaviness in head.
• Compressive and stunning headache, esp. just above root of nose; with nausea in evening, > moving head, and in room, > in open air.
• Congestion in head.
• Congestion of blood to head, heaviness of head.
• Compressive pain over root of nose.
• Pressure on top of head.

2. Ears :

• Rushing sounds in ears as from wind, or fluttering as the wing of a bird.
• Eruptions on ears, with burning pain after being scratched.
• Hardness of hearing.
• Discharge of cerumen from ears.

3. Stomach:

• Craves beer or brandy.
• Desire for black coffee, stimulants.
• Aversion to food. The sight of it makes her sick. Vomiting.
• Pressive, burning pain and distension of stomach.
• Sensation of fulness and obstruction in region of stomach and epigastrium, sometimes with uneasiness, < after a moderate meal.
• Faints while eating.
• With stomach symptoms, anxiety in chest.

4. Respiration:

• Laryngismus stridulous in self-willed girls when they fail to have their own way.
• Tightness of chest, is obliged to take a deeper breath.
• Sudden constriction of larynx and trachea.
• Asthma, with intense anxiety, fear, and smothering sensation.
• Cramp-like and suffocating constriction in chest, esp. after taking cold.
• Angina, tightness of chest, obliged to breathe forcibly.
• Spasmodic croup in nervous children after punishment.
• Dyspnea and oppression of chest and heart.
• Spasmodic asthma in extremely nervous women and children.
• Paralysis of chest, rattling, cannot expectorate; fainting.
• Cough ceases, mucus cannot be expectorated.

5. Limbs : 

• Restlessness in legs, and tibia cold.
• One hand hot and pale, the other cold and red.
• Trembling in legs, as after great fatigue, when seated.
• Sensation of coldness on tibia.
• Drawing pains along the entire extent of the arm, and esp. in wrists, as from cramp.
• Convulsive movements of hands and fingers.
• Swelling of hands, with shooting pains.
• Limbs; tense, feel too short.

General Modalities :

< in open air, rubbing.

>  cold. The open air is felt very, very cold.

Relationship :

Compare : Nux mosch; Asaf; Valer; Sumbul; Ign; Castor.

Compatible : Ambra.

Antidotes : Camph; Coff.

Worked By : Sunitha Asir (Final BHMS)