MOSCHUS

The common name is Musk and zoological name is Moschus Moschiferous. It is dried secretion from the preputial follicle of the Musk Deer (Moschus Moschiferous) class: mammalian, habitat: Asia. It comes in irregular crummy and unctuous grains. It is dark reddish brown in colour. Tincture, triturations and dilution are prepared from grains. This medicine was proved by Hahnemann, Gross, and Staph. Moschus is indicated in cases of hysteria and hysterical nervous excitement. There is nervous palpitation of the heart with copious urination. There is violent sexual desire amounting to priapism in the males and nymphomania in the females with intolerable titillaton in the genital organs of the both. It is also recommended in polyuria or glycouria and other inflammatory diseases.