Thursday, 5 May 2011

AGARICUS MUSCARIUS



Synonym: Toadstool, Fly agaric, Bug Agaric

Source: Tincture is prepared from fresh fungus.

Habitat: Parts of Europe, America and Asia.

Proved by: Dr. Stapf, a disciple of Hahnemann and two years later by Hahnemann himself

Description:
Agaricus mascarius is very much suited to nervous affection of old people, drunkards who often become delirious and get epileptiform fit. Agaricus finds a respectable place in material medica as an excellent remedy for nervous affection.

  • Agaricus acts as an intoxicant to the brain, producing more vertigo and delirium than alcohol, followed by profound sopor with lowered reflexes.
  • Neurological  remedy with twitching spasm and even convulsions
  • Various forms of neuralgia and spasmodic affections, and neurotic skin troubles are pictured in the symptomatology of this remedy.
  • It corresponds to various forms of cerebral excitement rather than congestion.
  • Jerking, twitching, trembling, and itching are strong indications.
  • Painfulness and violent burning, shooting pains in spinal column. 
  • Spinal column sensitive to touch. Sensation as if ants were creeping along the spine. 
  • Violent muscular twitching and jumping, as if caused by a galvanic current. 
  • Burning, Itching and redness of various parts as if frostbitten. 
  • Sensation in various parts as if ice touched or as if ice-cold needles were piercing the skin.
  • Symptoms appear diagonally as right arm and left leg.
  • Pains are accompanied by sensation of cold, numbness and tingling.

Mind

  • Sings talks incoherently changes rapidly from subject to subject but does not answer.
  • Loquacity
  • Aversion to work.
  • Fearlessness.
  • Delirium characterized by singing, shouting, and muttering; rhymes and prophesies. Begins with paroxysm of yawning.

  • Indisposed to perform any kind of work especially mental.
  • Makes verses.
  • Hilarious, Embraces and kisses hands, Selfish, Indifferent.
  • Dull and dizzy as if drunk.
  • Morose self willed stubborn; slow in learning to walk and talk.
  • Awkward clumsy.
  • Knows no one; throws things.
  • Pressure on spine causes in voluntary laughter.
  • Can not do anything new can not do his routine work or does the opposite.

Head

  • Vertigo from sunlight, and on walking.
  • Head in constant motion.
  • Falling backward, as if a weight in occiput. Lateral headache, as if from a nail (Coff; Ignat).
  • Dull headache from prolonged desk-work. Icy coldness, like icy needles, or splinters.
  • Neuralgia with icy cold head.
  • Desire to cover head warmly (Silica). Headache with nose-bleed or thick mucous discharge.
  • Causation of headache: Headache may be caused by defective circulation, alcohol or sexual cases.

Eyes
  • Reading difficult, as type seems to move, to swim.
  • Vibrating specters.
  • Double vision (Gels), dim and flickering.
  • Asthenopia from prolonged strain, spasm of accommodation.
  • Twitching of lids and eyeballs (Codein).
  • Margins of lids red; itch and burn and agglutinate.
  • Inner angles very red.

Ears
  • Burn and itch, as if frozen.
  • Twitching of muscles about the ear and noises.

Nose
  • Nervous nasal disturbances.
  • Itching internally and externally.
  • Spasmodic sneezing after coughing; sensitiveness; watery non-inflammatory discharge.
  • Inner angles very red. Fetid, dark, bloody discharge.
  • Nosebleed in old people. Sensation of soreness in nose and mouth.

Face
  • Facial muscles feel stiff; twitch; face itches and burns.
  • Lancinating, tearing pain in cheeks, as of splinters.
  • Neuralgia, as if cold needles ran through nerves or sharp ice touched them.

Mouth
  • Burning and smarting on lips.
  • Herpes on lips. Twitching. Taste sweet.
  • Aphthæ on roof of mouth. Splinter like pains in tongue.
  • Thirsty all the time. Tremulous tongue (Lach). Tongue white.

Throat
  • Stitches along eustachian tube to ear.
  • Feels contracted. Small solid balls of phlegm thrown up.
  • Dryness of pharynx, swallowing difficult.
  • Scratching in throat; cannot sing a note.

Stomach
  • Empty eructations, tasting of apples.
  • Nervous disturbances, with spasmodic contractions, hiccough.
  • Unnatural hunger.
  • Flatulent distention of stomach and abdomen.
  • Profuse inodorous flatus.
  • Burning in stomach about three hours after a meal, changing into a dull pressure. Gastric disturbance with sharp pains in liver region.

Abdomen
  • Stitching pains in liver, spleen (Ceanothus) and abdomen.
  • Stitches under short ribs, left side. Diarrhœa with much fetid flatus.
  • Fetid stools.

Urinary
  • Stitches in urethra.
  • Sudden and violent urging to urinate.
  • Frequent urination.

Female
  • Menses, increased, earlier. Itching and tearing, pressive pains of genitals and back. Spasmodic dysmenorrhœa. Severe bearing-down pains, especially after menopause. Sexual excitement. Nipples itch, burn. Complaints following parturition and coitus. Leucorrhœa, with much itching.

Respiratory Organs
  • Violent attacks of coughing that can be suppressed by effort of will, worse eating, pain in head while cough lasts.
  • Spasmodic cough at night after falling asleep, with expectoration of little balls of mucus.
  • Labored, oppressed breathing.
  • Cough ends in a sneeze.

Heart
  • Irregular, tumultuous palpitation, after tobacco.
  • Pulse intermittent and irregular. Cardiac region oppressed, as if thorax were narrowed. Palpitation with redness of face.

Back
  • Pain, with sensitiveness of spine to touch; worse in dorsal region.
  • Lumbago; worse in open air.
  • Crick in back.
  • Twitching of cervical muscles.

Extremities
  • Stiff all over. Pain over hips.
  • Rheumatism better motion.
  • Weakness in loins. Uncertain gait.
  • Trembling. Itching of toes and feet as if frozen.
  • Cramp in soles of feet. Pain in shin-bone.
  • Neuralgia in locomotor ataxia.
  • Paralysis of lower limbs, with spasmodic condition of arms.
  • Numbness of legs on crossing them. Paralytic pain in left arm followed by palpitation.
  • Tearing painful contractions in the calves.

Skin
  • Burning, itching, redness, and swelling, as from frostbites.
  • Pimples, hard, like flea-bites.
  • Miliary eruption, with intolerable itching and burning.
  • Chilblains.
  • Angioneurotic œdema; rosacea.
  • Swollen veins with cold skin.
  • Circumscribed erythematous, papular and pustular and œdematous lesions.

Sleep
  • Paroxysms of yawning. Restless from violent itching and burning.
  • On falling asleep, starts, twitches, and awakes often.
  • Vivid dreams.
  • Drowsy in daytime.
  • Yawning, followed by involuntary laughter.

Fever
  • Very sensitive to cool air. Violent attacks of heat in evening. Copious sweat. Burning spots.

Modalities
  • Worse, open cold air, after eating, after coitus. In cold weather, before a thunder-storm. Worse, pressure on dorsal spine, which causes involuntary laughter.
  • Better, moving about slowly.

Relationship
  • Phys; Tub.

Antidotes:
  • Calcarea carbonica
  • Pulsatilla nigricans
  • Rhus toxicodendron
  • Wine.

Dose
  • Third to thirtieth and two hundredth potency.
  • In skin affections and brain exhaustions give the lower attenuations.

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