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Moschus moschiferus (Mosch.)

Moschus moschiferus (Mosch.) appears in 459 rubrics in the Repertory. Of these, 42 are single-remedy rubrics in which only this remedy is listed, and 27 are small rubrics with at most two other remedies. The emphasis lies on Delusions, Anxiety, Fear, Complaining, Activity, Scolding, and Gestures. The picture is that of a person who is seized by anxiety and fear, falls into fits of scolding to the point of fainting, remains busy in spite of weakness, and feels threatened by mutilation and falls.

Scolding to the Point of Fainting

The most striking feature is the scolding. A single-remedy rubric describes that the person scolds "until the lips are blue and the eyes fixed" and faints. The rubrics repeat this under Insulting and Abusive and add that the person scolds to exhaustion and weakness follows. Related is quarrelsomeness: with tearful vexation, with pale face, or with fixed eyes, heat of the face, blue lips, and dry mouth. Impatience appears before convulsions, and there is the feeling as if one should be angry.

Anxiety, Complaining, and Hysteria

The anxiety is groundless and agonizing and leads to fainting. With the anxiety the person complains of palpitation and cannot say what is wrong; the person also complains during pregnancy. The anxiety prevents work, appears with whooping cough, also during the paroxysms. Fear exists of dying in bed when lying, of death with a pale face, and of disturbing someone; to this is added the fear of being exposed. Hysteria, Laughing, and Weeping are frequent. The laughing is spasmodic and uncontrollable, the person talks of death, and catalepsy occurs before and during menses.

Weakness and Busyness

A peculiar contradiction lies in the activity: mental activity with physical exhaustion, creative mental activity with physical weakness, desire for activity with weakness, and busy in spite of lassitude. Speech is hasty, hurried, and loud; after congestion to the head the person speaks confusedly and hurriedly. The person talks to himself gesticulating, fights with the hands, involuntarily lays the hands one over the other, and plays with the buttons of the clothing. The person begs earnestly for silence.

Delusions

The delusions concern falls and mutilation. The person believes he is being lifted into the air and will fall, that he is so exalted that he will fall, that he is whirling rapidly until he feels a draft, and sees large black figures that want to attack him. Fingers and toes are cut off, he has two heads, cannot hear, is blind, is hindered by everyone, and everyone is against him. The rubric for schizophrenia describes a greenish-yellow color of the tongue.

Sensitivity and Body

Sensitiveness to odors is ameliorated by Moschus. Disgust exists with vertigo, restlessness with digestive complaints and with asthma, sexual hypochondriasis with abstinence. At noon the person is absent-minded, in the open air unconscious.

Summary

The picture of Moschus moschiferus is that of a person whose anxiety, anger, and fear escalate to fainting, who remains busy and gesticulating in spite of weakness, and who feels threatened by falls and mutilation. The large number of single-remedy rubrics on scolding, anxiety, and delusions makes this peculiarity distinguishable. A king-pin symptom is not identified in the available data.

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