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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