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.
