Loganiaceae Family - Lecture 4

Question 1

What are six common remedies of the loganiaceae family?

Answer 1

Curare (arrow poison)
Gelsemium (yellow jasmine)
Ignatia amara (St. Ignatius Bean)
Nux vomica (poison nut)
Spigelia (annual worm grass)
Strychnine (strychnine alkaloid)

Question 2

What is the common sensation of remedies in the loganiaceae family?

Answer 2

As if shocked, shattered, torn to pieces, ruined

Let down and disappointed

Question 3

What words will the loganiaceae family use to describe how they feel in passive reaction?

Answer 3

Paralyzed - I cannot move

• *Faint
• *Cannot weep

Question 4

What words will the loganiaceae family use to describe how they feel in active reaction?

Answer 4

Beside oneself
Excitable
**Convulsions

Question 5

What words will the loganiaceae family use to describe how they feel in compensation? (Adults - rarely in children)

Answer 5

Composed

**Calm

Question 6

What is IMBEGRIFF?

Answer 6

The underlying motivation of that person’s state

Question 7

What is the common name of Nux Vomica?

Answer 7

Poison nut

Question 8

Give 2 physical features of Nux Vomica

Answer 8

wiry with tendency to be lean
tendency for bluish circles under eye
yellowish discoloration around nose and mouth
distension of veins especially forearms and hands
stooped shoulders
well dressed
professional dress/manner and impatient

Question 9

Give 3 character qualities of Nux Vomica

Answer 9

anxious, zealous, intense fiery character, hot tempered, or malicious disposition, vindictive
very particular, careful,
type A personality with a fast paced life
inclined to be easily excited or angered
quick in action, impatient, violent
sedentary habits and overindulgence
depressed, burned out from over work
burned out but easily aroused by a little annoyance
always nervous temperament (rarely use Nux-v. if not nervous or irritable)

Question 10

What are the main tissue affinities of Nux Vomica?

Answer 10

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Question 11

What is the time of aggravation of Nux vomica?

Answer 11

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Question 12

What is the time of amelioration of Nux vomica?

Answer 12

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Question 13

Give 2 physical qualities of the plant substance of Nux Vomica (poison nut)

Answer 13

Comes from a fruit in India
TOXIC - person needing this remedy has something toxic
Contains 2 alkaloids: strychnine>brucine

Question 14

What are the themes for nux vomica?

Answer 14

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Question 15

What miasm is Nux vomica associated with?

Answer 15

Typhoid Miasm (between Acute and Psoric)

Sudden loss, danger, risky involving an intense effort for a short period of time reaching a position of comfort (problem - struggle - succeed)

Question 16

What is Nux vomica’s imbegriff?

Answer 16

“Shattered and torn to pieces and must make rapid efforts to recover from shock very fast”