• Easy fainting, while eating, during menses, due to emotional disturbances
• Violent anger, scolds till mouth becomes dry and lips blue
• Uncontrollable laughter
• Coldness – general or of single parts
• Tension in muscles, skin and mind

Source: Animal kingdom
Synonyms: Musk, Deer musk, Moschus
Family: Mammalia
Thermal Relationship: Chilly patient

Introduction and History: Musk is a well known perfume, which produces fainting in some by its mere smell, hence easy fainting in any condition is its chief indication. Faints easily; faints from least excitement, scolds and rages until she falls unconscious; globus hystericus ending in unconsciousness; faints while eating, during menses, from heart disease.

Habit and Habitat: East Asia.

Preparation and Parts Used: It is prepared by the trituration of inspissated secretion contained in preputial follicles.

Constitution and Physiognomy: It is suited to spoiled, sensitive natures and hysterical women and men. Girls are selfish, obstinate, self-willed, pampered. They resort to all kinds of cunning measures to have their whims gratified.

Ailments From: Chill.

Physio-pathological Changes (Pathology)

1. Through the cerebrospinal system, it especially affects the sexual organs and nerves of motion.
2. It acts on the cerebrospinal nervous system producing excitement of the excito-motor system.
3. Acts on female sexual organs producing excessive venereal excitement.
4. Acts on circulation producing increased vasomotor capillary spasm.

Characteristics Mental Symptoms

1. Patient is hurried, tremulous and awkward; bursting activity with weakness, so that everything falls from the hand.
2. Violent anger, talks excitedly, raves, scolds until the mouth becomes dry, lips blue, eyes staring and she falls unconscious.
3. Fears noise, dying; fears to lie down, lest one dies.
4. Sudden loss of memory. Imaginary sufferings.
5. Uncontrollable laughter. Sexual hypochondriasis.
6. Feels as if being rapidly turned around.
7. Talks to himself and gesticulates.

Characteristic Physical Guiding Symptoms

Vertigo: Vertigo on moving the head or eyelids, ameliorated in open air with nausea, vomiting and fainting.

Headache: Tension at the back of the head and nape; aching in head with a cold feeling. Pressive, stupefying headache, mostly in forehead with nausea; aggravated on motion, ameliorated in fresh air.

Sensation: Sensation as if constricted with a cord. Pain as if there was a nail in the occiput; worse in a room, better in fresh air.

Craves: Beer or brandy.

Aversions: To food.

Menses: Menses are too early and profuse with drawing pains; tingling in genitalia and fainting.

Respiratory: Dyspnoea and oppression of chest and heart.

Spasmodic asthma: A useful medicine for spasmodic asthma in nervous women and children.

Laryngismus stridulus: It occurs in self-willed girls when they fail to have their own way. Constriction and spasm of larynx as from vapours of sulphur and becoming cold.

Perspiration: Perspiration smelling like musk in the morning.

Palpitation: Cold skin, trembling, fainting and palpitation.

Nymphomania: Violent sexual desire and sexual excitement.

Important Characteristic Features

Female uterine affections: It is a very useful medicine for menstrual irregularities in which menses are too early, too profuse with a disposition to faint. Sexual desire with intolerable titillation of parts. Drawing and pushing in the direction of genitals; sensation as if menses wound appears. Dysmenorrhoea with fainting. Worse from pressure, motion, after sex, side lain on.

General Modalities

Aggravation: From cold, excitement, suppression, open air, from pressure, motion, after sex, after a meal, during a meal, on side lain on.

Amelioration: In open air, from rubbing, cold.

Remedy Relationships

Antidotes: Camph, Coff.

Compatible: Ambr.

Therapeutic Value: Angina pectoris, Catalepsy, Croup, Diabetes, Epilepsy, Fainting, Heart failure, Hypochondriasis, Hysteria, Laryngismus, Lung paralysis, Rage fits, Stings, Typhoid, Vertigo, Whooping cough.